I gasped as i almost fainted after pulling out the spear the demon lord put into my stomach. I then stabbed his spear to his heart while my allies held him down. "WE DID IT?!" Screamed one of my allies. I cried. Finally... An end to this journey. The people around me hugged me as my vision blurred.
"Hero we did it! Isn't this great?!" An arch mage said. I breathed heavily as I struggled to hold my shield, and his spear properly. At last....
Suddenly the demon lord laughed before telling me something. "Your nothing but a pawn to the God that summoned you.... This is all entertainment for him. The.... Humans lied... This... Was... Not.... A..." The demon lord said ominously before he sneered, and laughed at me as I dug his spear deeper into his heart. "You wouldn't be...live me anyways..." He said, and laughed before dying.
"Yes... Finally.... I can... Go... Home..." I collapsed after that, crying happily as I finally get to run away from this nightmare. I've had to see hundreds if not thousands of allies die in front of my eyes. I've seen the love of my life vanish before my eyes, the friends that I cherished turned to ash by the guardian beast's that we had released to stop the demon lord's army, and seen half of the world burn. Finally after all those sacrifices... This nightmare is over....
When I finally came to my senses beside me was a beautiful woman with spikey black hair the same as mine and had wolf like features like wolf ears, and a wolf tail. The saintess of this world. Her name Naomi. "Hero! You've finally woken up!" The saintess hugged me. "Finally we've won against the demon lord!" She said cheery that we killed the person that wrecked havok to her world. I looked at the shield attached to my arm. The shield that I couldn't take off. The heavenly shield.
It saved me. Multiple times... Yet this thing summoned me here without any of my consent. I hate it yet I felt grateful that it saved my life. Because of this thing I was plucked out of my world where I felt comfortable, and had a good life. Yet also it had me meet the love of my life... That I had to see die....
If only.... I could turn back time.... I cried in misery as I remembered the day my love... No... The angel died. The angel that summoned me here...
I gritted my teeth. It's... Time I had to move on... I can't just keep living like this... I sighed.
"Hero are you okay?" The saintess said. I smiled. "I'm fine.... I'm just glad this was all done..." I stood up, and the moment I stood up I collapsed to the ground still reeling from the fight with the demon lord.
"Hero!" Naomi screamed. Suddenly knights entered the room, and picked me up. Worried about me. I sighed, and laughed in the bed given to me.
"I.. shouldn't have done that..." I chuckled painfully as the pain kicked in. God it hurts... It's hurts.... I felt my bones shake the whole time I stood. Then mages came into the room, and started chanting healing magic along with the saintess.
"[The way of the dragon vein oh magic of the world come, and heed our call. Help the heavenly hero of the shield recover. **Recovery**.]" Suddenly my body slowly began to feel a lot better. I tried to walk but the people around me advised me to not move, and just rest. I sighed, and followed their instructions.
A month later....
I was smiling at my allies who were weeping at my choice. I decided to leave this world, and go back home. "Please.. rethink this sir Hero! You have people who care, and worship you! Why don't you just stay here and be treated like a god?" Naomi said and I just laughed.
"I have people who I care about at home. Plus this world is at peace already. I just want to see my family. The people that raised me, and loved me. I want to see them again.. especially mom. God I hope she's okay..." My allies sighed, and decided to accept my wish. We then said our heart felt goodbyes, and the return ritual magic started. Multiple mages started chanting, and some of the knights brought out some materials needed for the ritual. A wyrm's heart, the weapon of the demon lord, the brain of a wyvern, the magic glands of the dragon king, and.... the blood of an angel? Where did they get that?
Then it hit me... Did they desecrate her body?! No that can't be... I sighed, and just stop thinking about her. I need to move on. Kazuhira just stop thinking about her. You need to move on. She's dead, and you couldn't change that.
A bright flash appeared, and suddenly I was back in New York again. I shed a tear as I was finally back home. I cried and looked at my hands. I didn't see the shield anymore. Instead there was some sort of jewelry on my hand. A ring. I sighed, and looked at the sky. Relieved that I was back home. I continued to cry. Because of my cries there was a lot of people concerned about me. A few officers appeared, and took me away for questioning. About why I stirred up a ruckus by crying in public like that.
I was then interrogated but when I told them the truth they didn't believe me, and told me I was lying. "That couldn't have happen. Those types of things only happen in those fantasy light novels the japanese creates. Why don't you tell us the real truth?" An officer said while interrogating me. Suddenly another cop appeared.
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"Sir... I believe this is the kid that went missing a year ago." The cop said, and gave the officer interrogating me a file. Then they told me something that broke me.
"Kid. I'm sorry to tell you this but during your disappearance.... Your parents died... During your disappearance they tried finding you, and your disappearance became a nationwide story. During that a drunk driver ran over your parents while trying to attach posters about your disappearance, and they died on impact. I'm sorry to tell you this kid." The officer said, and I was brought down to my knees crying. The officers left, and left me there to cry.
"Why?! WHY?! WHY DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN?! WHEN I FINALLY GOT BACK OF ALL THINGS?! DAMN YOU GOD, AND DAMN THIS STUPID SHIELD OF YOURS! AFTER THAT STRUGGLE YOU PUT ME IN BY SENDING ME TO KILL THE DEMON LORD! THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY IT!?" I screamed, and wailed. I continued to do this for an hour, and the officers tried to comfort me. But I just rejected it.
"This couldn't be happening... Right? After all that effort...." I said still in denial of things.
"I know your grieving kid but it's all your fault. If only you hadn't run away from your home." Those words made me snap. I didn't run away from home. I was pushed into a street by someone, got hit by a speeding truck, and brought to a magical world without my consent to fight a demon lord just to get back here. "I DIDN'T RUN AWAY DAMNIT! WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!"
I punched the officer, and ran away. This couldn't be happening! I continued to run, and headed towards my parent's home. When I finally got there I saw that someone else was living in there. Someone I didn't know. When I tried to tell them that I was the son of the couple that used to live here they called the police, and I was back in police custody once again.
That's when they put me in an asylum. When I told them the truth they still weren't satisfied, and called in psychiatrists. When they checked me, and I told them what happened they said that I was mentally ill. They told the officers that I had Major PTSD, I was a Bipolar depressive type, and a schizophrenic. I was then held in an insane asylum for a whole year.
Three months in I stopped thinking about my time in the other world, and had slowly began to recover as the psychiatrists say's. But I wasn't. I just didn't react anymore. I didn't give a damn about anything anymore after losing my family, and my home. I didn't react because I wanted to be free, and go see my friends again, and maybe see if they accept me after being gone that long.
A year later I was discharged as the symptoms disappeared in their perspective. When I was finally free I headed towards the homes of my friends. When I arrived there they didn't react as I was expecting, and instead hated me. Because they blamed me for my parents death. Everyone hated me. I tried to run to my grandparents, my uncle's, and aunts but they also hated me. Because I so called 'ran away, and caused my parent's deaths'. After that... I tried to reapply to my old university at Columbia university but got rejected because of what happened. When I tried telling them the truth I was called a lier, and said I was just running away from home, and to avoid school. I tried to appeal it with my old professors but to no avail. Like my relatives, and my friends they didn't believe me. And just like that. My world ended. I sank into a deep depression, and misery. Becoming overly cynical, and hateful of the world.
A week later I was on the New York streets begging for money, and food. Everyone tried to shoo me away, and called the cops but I just ran when they did that. People on the streets reviled me, and called me names two weeks in. Calling me a drug addict, and a failure as a member of society. Four weeks in I was finally captured at the police, and put me into jail for two months. Two months.
When I finally got out of that uneventful sentence I went back to the streets begging.
"Sheesh. Just get a job."
"Get away from me. Stupid beggar. Probably never finished school."
"That's what you get for being a druggy."
"This is why you shouldn't skip school kids."
"Get away from me filth!"
1 year, and 5 months in I snapped. I couldn't take the demeaning comments anymore.
"AGGGHHH! WHY COULDN'T YOU JUST BELIEVE ME! IM NOT A FUCKING DRUG ADDICT! I DIDN'T RUN AWAY FROM HOME, AND I CERTAINLY DID NOT LIKE SKIPPING CLASSES! I WAS FORCEFULLY PUSHED INTO A THE STREETS AND GOT HIT BY A FUCKING TRUCK! A FEW MOMENTS LATER I FOUND MYSELF IN ANOTHER WORLD FORCED TO FIGHT A FUCKING DEMON LORD! I HAD TO FUCKING SEE MY FRIENDS DIE, MY LOVER DIE, AND SEE HALF OF THAT FUCKING WORLD BURN!" I screamed which attracted a lot of officers to my location. They then tried to drag me away again. To be locked up in a mental asylum again.
I couldn't let that happen again. After all the effort, and the times I almost died. I couldn't let that.
Suddenly a pop up appeared in my vision similar to the times I unlocked something in the other world. Then something inside me snapped.
[CONDITIONS MET!
CURSE SERIES UNLOCKED!
SHIELD OF FURY UNLOCKED!
Shield of fury
Equip effects:
+Cursed Flames
+Cursed Frost
+Defense Up (low)
-Unable to receive EXP while the shield is equipped
Skills:
Eternal Frost
Immolation]
Suddenly the ring I wore turned into a black and white shield, and began to both burn, and freeze everything around me. Everyone screamed as the everything around me froze or burned. People kept screaming, and saying I was a monster but their cries fell into deaf ears. I laughed as I heard their sweet screams of suffering, and pleas for help.
Suddenly the skies turned blood red, and a timer appeared.
9:59
9:58
9:57
9:56
I continued on my rampage, and people begged me to let them go. But after how they treated me. I wouldn't let go. And thus began the great catastrophe. The hero of the shield snapped, and after the timer elapsed the world changed.
I continued on my rampage not caring about the people I slaughtered. They called me a lot of things during the slaughter.
“Monster!”
“Demon!”
“Murderer!”
“Your fucking psychotic!”
I couldn't care less about how they called me. After all those years of suffering, and how they treated me this was only fair. I went through hell and back just to get back here, and this is how I get treated? Absurd…
When the timer elapsed the world began to change. To change into a similar world where I was summoned to. The people around me who were alive screamed in confusion as some started convulsing, and turned into humanoid monsters, or demi-humans. People started to attack each as they saw the people around them turn into something unfamiliar.
Some of the humans who turned fully into monsters unlike their demi human counterparts who still had their humanity intact attacked me. I just smiled, and watched as they burned, and freeze. The things let out howls of pain as they made contact with me. Gunshots rang through the air as people shot at me, and their turned counterparts. Suddenly my shield's ability wore off, and I saw the shield turn back to normal. I then checked my status to see if my levels got reset.
[Name: Kazuhira Miller
Job, and Class: Shield hero
Race: Human
Divine blessing: None
De-buffs:
Lv: 1
VIT = 125/125 <- 150/150
P.DEF = 25 <- 45
M. DEF = 15 <- 35
STR = 25
P., And M.ATK = 10
DEX= 35
AGI = 30
STA= 25/25
SP = 0/10
MANA: 100/100
Gifts:
None
Weapon skills:
Shield Bash
Immolation
Eternal Frost
Magic learned:
Way of the dragon vein
Thus begins The Cruel Creators sick, and twisted game.