135 A Different Princess(Shield Hero)-1

"It seems that there are some rumors about the Hero of the Shield not knowing enough about this world, making people unsure about following after you." The king declared but Naofumi was not able to appreciate his rather valid sounding reasons since nobody was joining him!

He could admit that he had been unnecessarily excited when the book he was reading transported him to this world of heroes and magic, who wouldn't be, but he had thought that he was prepared for the possible bad situations after the other three summoned heroes pretty much told him his legendary weapon, a shield, was useless.

Even so he had decided that even if he could not be the strongest, he still would do his utmost for the people of this world. That he would learn everything he could in order to support his comrades like a true tank!

Except he didn't get any comrades!

The other three heroes on the other hand had three comrades each. Ren actually had four! Why the hell did the one hero who could not fight by himself was left with no comrades while the most famous weapon got four?!

"Come on guys, throw me a bone here." Naofumi said with a defeated look while really hoping that he didn't sound like a whiny brat. And still ended up being alone as none of the people with the other heroes seemed willing to change their decision.

Naofumi's future Isekai adventure did not look very good.

"It can't be helped." The king said with a sigh before motioning to one of the people by his side and then turned back to Naofumi. "Since no one has volunteered to follow after the Hero of the Shield, we will offer him forty five gold coins instead of thirty like the other heroes. In exchange, he will have to find companions by himself." The king declared and Naofumi felt a small amount of his worries fade away.

Obviously just having money would not save him from monsters, but having some extra cash would allow him to get resources to help himself. Especially if gold coins were supposed to be super valuable like in light novels he used to read.

"Now then." The king cleared his throat as his aide gave Naofumi a sack of coins that was noticeably bigger than the sacks the other three heroes were given. "Go forth o' great heroes and remember..." The king's words were cut short as the doors behind the heroes suddenly opened up with a bang and the king's face turned ashen.

"Father, you think that I actually would let this go!?" Someone shouted from the door and Naofumi's eyes landed on basically the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life.

She had wavy long hair red like blood and a figure that most people would try to mutilate themselves in order to achieve, both women and men going by the muscles he could see on her arms.

Her looks, combined with the fierce look in her eyes and the sword at her waist made her look akin to a goddess. A goddess of war.

"Eris!" The king yelled before leaping from his throne and clearing the whole distance between himself and this 'Eris' in a single leap. It made Naofumi shudder about the waves since they required summoned heroes to stop them while having an old man that could move like that!

"My sweet daughter…" Oh, Eris was a princess. Cool. "I have told you to stay in your room for a reason and…" The king's words were once more left unfinished as the now revealed princess grabbed the king by his beard and slammed his face to the ground, causing spider cracks to appear where the old king's face encountered the floor.

"Fucking old fool." The very violent princess scoffed as she left her father on the ground and looked at the four heroes. "Like hell I would miss this." She said with a grin as she walked towards.

"Okay, let's decide which one of you I will be going with." She asked and Motoyasu walked towards her with a gentlemanly smile on his face.

"I believe that would be me, my lady. My name is Motoyasu Kitamura and I have to thank you for being such a beautiful sight to the eyes." And with each word coming out of his mouth, Naofumi understood better why the girlfriend of this guy stabbed him to death.

Though obviously Naofumi was not the only one who was bemused by the Spear Hero's act, a fact that the princess made very clear as she suddenly raised her leg and landed a devastating blow on the Spear Hero's 'legendary spear'.

And then as Motoyasu was going down with pain, he went back up as the princess delivered an uppercut to the Spear Hero.

"Like hell I would go with a pansy like this." She scoffed at the downed hero before looking at the remaining three heroes, two of which immediately took a few steps back and left Naofumi face to face with the very very violent princess.

"You're the Shield Hero?" She asked and Naofumi nodded, afraid that any other response might invite violence upon him. "So you are meant to protect your companions and support them?" Naofumi nodded again and then felt a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm taking this one!" She declared to the hall and no one tried to deny her.

"I want to fight the waves but old man said he won't let me go out defenseless." The redheaded princess said as she dragged Naofumi with her. "But you are the Hero of Shield, meaning you can do all the stupid defense shit while I fight!" She declared with a bloodthirsty smile and Naofumi suddenly started to fear for his isekai adventure now that he was with a princess like this.

…he also had the strangest boner of his life but he did not want to contemplate about it for the sake of his sanity.

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