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Naofumi is a hero too, at least he was supposed to be. He was so excited to be there, he was going to be the *Shield Hero* it sounded kinda weak but that doesn’t change anything. Cause Naofumi is going to help people, even if he doesn’t fully understand this world, he can learn.
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Nobody has chosen to be on his team, why? Like yeah he understands that his weapon may not be the strongest but seriously, and what is up with the king-no everyone. Why was everyone treating him like this? Like he wasn’t even worth to look at. How was he supposed to get better with no part- “Excuse me, but I am willing to join Sir Hero’s group” a female with red hair called out, stepping in front of all the heroes. Naofumi looked at her with shock and bewilderment.
The king nodded allowing the female to switch teams to the shield hero’s group, after the king finished explaining everything that they needed to do and giving their monthly wages, Naofumi and the red-headed female walked out of the castle. Naofumi turns to the female, “You probably already know my name but I would like to introduce myself, i’m Naofumi Iwatani” he introduces himself reaching his hand out for a hand shake. The female blushed at him before reaching her hand out to respond to the handshake. “My name is Myne, nice to meet you Sir Hero”
As the day went by the duo trained, went to get armor and more, after the sun started to set so did their energy. Deciding that they were going to go eat and then head in for the night Myne lead him to a Inn after ordering food, they started to talk “this is really good, like the food back at the kingdom was good but this is like something i haven’t really had before” Naofumi smiled before taking another bite.
Myne smiled at Naofumi before lifting up a bottle “why don’t you have something to drink? Sir Hero” she whispered the last part blush appearing on her face. Naofumi shook his head not even noticing what the red head was hinting at, denying the drink “I don’t drink alcohol, sorry” he apologized going back to eating once again but the female didn’t give up asking one two three more times. Finally Naofumi finished eating, putting down the fork “are you sure you don’t want at least one drink” she asked almost angrily.
Naofumi, annoyed and upset at the attempted peer pressure, starts to get up. “No, thank you. I’m going to head up for tonight. Goodnight” He took his leave. Myne watched him leave scowling, it slightly puts a dent into her plan but not enough to the point she has to change it. Myne turns, putting her cup down before heading to her room, time to start her plan.
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Naofumi was sleeping, snoring away as the sun shined through the window waking up the hero. He sat up rubbing his eyes before taking in the room he was in. ‘It is real, I'm in another world’ smiling brightly before sitting up, reaching to grab his clothes, which are missing? Looking around Naofumi realized everything was missing, running out of the room yelling for anyone to tell them that he got robbed before turning toward his party's room. Knocking on it, calling out to the female, but nobody answered, getting worried he started to bang on the door.
Hands grabbed Naofumi pulling him away from the door, he turned to see who was man handing him ‘the kings knights?!’ “Hey wait, I have been robbed and I can't find Myne!” Naofumi tried to explain but it seemed like nobody heard a word he said. Motoyasu walks out with Myne hiding behind him “Myne? Motoyasu? What's going on?” Naofumi calls out to them “shut up” Motoyasu spits out, Naofumi flinches back at the acid spit being spat at him. Naofumi was going to ask them what's wrong but got dragged away before he could say anything.
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Kneeling before the king with multiple spears pointed at him, the other three heroes in the corner with the red head hiding behind the spear hero. Naofumi didn’t understand what was going on one second he was trying to tell people he was robbed, the next he was on a trial? For what? He doesn’t know.
“Shield here, you have committed a grave crime, an unforgivable crime. That would be punishable by death. But since you are a hero, we have decided that that shall not be your punishment” The king started speaking not that Naofumi understood anything that was happening “wait! What crime did I commit?” Naofumi had no idea what he did, not that he knew all the rules of this world. Maybe he said something or did something he shouldn’t have?
“Are you kidding me? You criminal, you raped Myne” Motoyasu screamed at him, Naofumi froze looking at bewildered. “What?” Naofumi looked at Myne, begging her to tell them the truth, tell them what actually happened. The king turned to Myne “Myne please repeat what you told us” the king spoke gently, Naofumi looked at Myne expectedly “we went into the Inn to eat and go to sleep” Naofumi nodded along feeling relief that the truth was coming out.
Then Myne started to cry, clenching onto the spear heroes shirt “he started drinking a lot, after helping him into bed I went into my room to sleep. But after a few minutes I heard banging on my door. It was the shield hero, he was trying to get into my room. He broke down the door, and started saying that the night was still young” as Myne continued explaining Naofumi was lost in his head.
‘What? What. What! He didn’t do that, he didn’t even touch her, or drink. He doesn't like alcohol. How did this happen? How? Why? Wh-’ Naofumi made eye contact with Myne, she looked back at him. Smiling, sticking her tongue out at him, he realized right there that this whole thing was a setup all the way to the beginning.