The Hero of the Lance (The Rising of the Shield Hero Fan Fiction)

empire ¦ part twenty four.

there will be many references from other animes, movies, comics, shows and games

in glass' world, the ancient hero that resides there is the ancient gun hero that is possessed by an angel instead, and similar to baskiel, bertrand was the very first gun hero and fukushima yureina is the second. the first hero of the gun was just going to be someone random, because I didn't put any thought into who was going to be the previous gun hero and only in the angel, but than I thought, I could simply make it baskiel's brother.

that is all.

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"third person pov"

"So," Queen Mirellia felt a bead of sweat form on the side of her cheek as she looked at the group of Heroes nervously. The Three Useless idiots had indifferent expressions on their faces, Naofumi and Vidalia were the most visibly irritated and frustrated out of the bunch, Vidalia going so far as to slouching in her seat while tapping her nail against the armrest of her chair. Mirellia understands Vidalia's anger so she cleared her throat, Vidalia heard this and halted in her tapping, she let out a huff before nodding her head apologetically, Mirellia smiles at that before turning her attention back to the other Four "a few days ago back in the wave, the person who helped us in the background is undeniably her." Naofumi nodded his head.

"Yeah, we were really waved by that." Vidalia hummed at that, leaning her cheek on her knuckles as she recalled what happened, from what Naofumi told her, some girl in a squirrel costume sent barrels full of lucol fruit over to the group, knowing that it would have no effect of Naofumi and leave the otherworldly invaders intoxicated, she hummed again, smart.

"She's called Rishia-chan, right? It's a shame such a cute girl wears a squirrel costume all the time."

"That set provides a good stats boost after all." Vidalia's head perked up slightly at the mention of the girl's name.

"Rishia?" she questioned, they all then look over at her and watch her set up straight "Wait, does she had green eyes and hair that's styled in two low plaited pigtails?" Itsuki, who had her in his party, nodded his head, she then lit up slightly in remembrance "I remember that girl! This was during my time when I was still hiding from Trash after he tried to kill me! I bumped into her, she was so scared of me, but I reassured her that I wasn't going to kill her. She dropped her books and forget to pick up one of them and so I kept it, it was the same book that led me to find these pretty jewels~" she cooed, grabbing Red's chain and lifting it up to get a good look at her.

"It is all thanks to that Rishia girl that we were able to meet our master!" Red cheered, which earned her a round of cheers from the other jewels.

"Right, right! If it weren't for her, we wouldn't have been able to meet our master and we'd still be rotting in those Godforsaken dungeons! How unsanitary..." Purple complained, Vidalia giggled and pats White softly.

"Maybe next we see her, we'll give her our thanks." this earned her a round of agreements from the six, she grins to herself before turning her attention back to the Heroes and Mirellia, to which the Queen hums softly.

"Our hands were tied at the moment because it would have been careless to use magic or weapons in that situation. Then, she advised us to launch a barrel bomb filled with the lucol fruit near Sir Iwatani-sama... and because of that, we were successfully able to provide support. You have good comrades, Sir Kawasumi-sama." Vidalia claps her hands softly at the information, such a smart idea. However, Itsuki let out a sigh.

"Thank you for the compliment, your Majesty, but... you're overestimating her a bit. It was just a coincidence that she was there at the time. It hasn't been long since she joined my party and she makes me worry quite a lot. I'm just glad of the miracle that she was of any use at all." both Vidalia and Naofumi look at Itsuki, that wasn't concern at all, he was belittling the poor girl, Naofumi let out a sigh himself as he crossed his arms and leaned back in his seat.