“Coward!”
“If he says he wants to leave, let him. It’s his right.”
“How can you be so cowardly as to run away? This is a Quest! A QUEST!!
You know what that mean don’t you?”
“A man’s dream.”
“Even if it is dangerous they are asking us earnestly.”
“If you think it is dangerous, what is wrong with not wanting to go on it? Huh?”
“Yeah. At least he is man enough to say it upfront.”
“Though I am not fond of danger, we would still be together, won’t we?”
“Yeah. So, Z-Zen-kun… how about you s-stay?”
Yeah, umm… I can’t make heads or tails of what is going on right now.
For some reason, the previously quite group of schoolmates has started to clamour around quite loudly.
And being the reason or topic of the discussion, I don’t understand why though.
…
It’s troubling.
Their conversation sounds ludicrous, I know.
They themselves add the ‘danger’ tag in their arguments.
…
This is cumbersome.
The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
And this all started, because the hero summoning ceremony that happened just an hour earlier.
Yup. You heard me right.
A ‘Hero Summoning’ ceremony.
This is not a joke.
That is what I was dragged into.
The ceremony was conducted in a country called the Forman Kingdom, obviously in another world.
It was supposed to have summoned only 3 people, but somehow or another, ended up with 30.
Yep, 30, in like 3 x 10, 30 people.
We were all from the same place, Japan. From Museino High in Tokyo.
Not all of us are from the same class though. I don’t even know half of the people here and the rest that I do know of are just people I am acquainted with. None that I am close with.
The only thing was that we were in the same place, near the sports activity building at the time when a flash of light surrounded us and brought us to here.
And ‘here’ is a large and luxurious ballroom like hall and in the middle of a double encirclement.
A ring of those who seemed like heavy knights in full armour with spears at hand stood closest to us at a few steps away, with another larger encirclement of old dudes in baggy white and grey robes with walking sticks.
I assume that these old fogies, plus a pig... I mean potbellied, gaudy king, who sat on a throne at the front of the hall, behind another 3 layers of knights and fogies were all the highest of highest heads of this country and responsible for our situation.
These highest heads of the country made a mix of faces, from confused to gleaming shrewdness. Some elated others exasperated.
I am sure that most of them were delighted at having more and not less.
In the thick of it all, the ones who was the most confused was us who were suddenly summoned to a different world.
And although it was like that, it’s suddenly like ‘Hero-sama!’. You know?
But, being someone who fancies reading web novels in my spare time, I immediately realized it was a different world summoning.
There were a few others beside myself, who realized it as well, but they kept quite from the rest. Most likely not wanting to parade their WN or LN reading hobbies.
It not what you expect to happen in real life and can’t explain it very well. Scratch that, you couldn’t explain it in any logical way.
It is also one where you would be split between laughing and crying, depending on the situation.
But, since we were all addressed as “Hero-sama”, I expected just a little bit, you know.
Despite the fact that it turned out to be a disappointment quite soon after.
It came after one of the oldies came forward with an amicable (despicable) smile and explained that a status identification process was done on us who were summoned.
He said he waited to speak until we had slowly come to, and calmed down.
According to him, they did it using an identification magic item or something. It looked like an oracle ball you would see with a fortune teller.
Many of the guys in the group had dubious faces when they saw it being placed in front of them and asked to place their right hand on top of it.
Remarkably, once we do as instructed by the oldie, a hologram like projection floats over the oracle ball and some details pop up inside of it.
With the identification done, all of us uniformly received the [Person from another world] title. This is uniform for everyone summoned, even in the past, according to the old fogy.
In addition to that, each of us received other titles as well. Some among them received [Grand Knight], [Magic Knight], [Wizard], [Healer], your typical professions for a fantasy RPG. Few other received [Diviner], [Smith] and even [Holy Maiden].
But to top it all, was the actual existence of the [Hero]. And not surprising that it was the Ikemen from in the crowd.
But, I was the only one with a unique, title. [*] was my additional title.
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WHAT THE HELL????