
It was in The Records of the Four Holy Weapons. Wait a second… The princess was… a bitch?īut from where? I know I’d seen it before. The king was a jerk, and the princess was even worse! Throughout history, they’d be remembered as the heroes that took care of the fallen Shield Hero and saved a little girl. The more evil you were, the better you’d be remembered. If they ended up getting married, then saving a slave girl from the disgraced Shield Hero was the perfect end to their heroic story. It was a perfect opportunity to make herself look good to her chosen future husband. “That girl with the Shield Hero is a slave. All that woman needed to do was whisper in his ear: They’d known that he would win, and they’d known that the princess could interfere on Motoyasu’s behalf if the duel ever seemed to be in question. That was why they’d set up this one-sided duel in the first place. It was proof of the princess’s involvement. It was a perfect trap.Īnd while it hadn’t damaged me directly, the Wing Blow was strong enough to knock me off balance, which suggests that the caster had been well educated. They’d planned it all from the beginning. In the end it was the word of the disgraced and useless Shield Hero versus the word of the >Spear Hero who had saved the princess.

But considering how far they would go, I didn’t have a good reason to think they would not have covered their tracks. They’d thought it all out, and there was no other recourse but to ask them directly. When I’d seen, at the very beginning, that Motoyasu had better equipment than the others, I should have been smarter and kept my distance. She’d wanted the good equipment for herself, and then she would attach herself to the best hero. Now it all made sense, even why I’d been given more money at the start. Then, because Motoyasu had saved her, she used that as an excuse to get closer to him than the other women were able to. The sneaky princess, in order to get the hero she wanted, she sacrificed the weakest hero, myself, stole my money, then ran to her father and got him to denounce me. I’d thought it was strange that she was able to have me branded a criminal without a single shred of evidence. “Oh, yes, but naturally it was all for the peace of the kingdom.” To think that the princess would use a fake name and infiltrate us!” … Said the king, and placed his hand on Myne’s shoulder.

A castle magician ran over and healed only Motoyasu’s wounds. The root of all evil, that woman, was smiling innocently. He probably would have had them killed for speaking out. Their eyes were looking us both over, but none of them had the courage to speak out against the king. It looked like the crowd had their doubts as well. Just when I had been about to win, he was looking down on me, vulgar-like. The jerk! The king ignored all the evidence, all the doubts, and proclaimed Motoyasu the winner. “Why would we believe the words of a criminal! Spear Hero! The victory is yours!” There was no way to tell if they believed him or me. He ignored me, and kept acting victorious.īut… But she really had cheated! And this… ARGH! “Ha! So disappointed that you have to make up lies?!” “Your little friend there interfered! That’s why I lost my balance!” What kind of hero would be proud of winning a duel against someone who only had a shield?! “What are you talking about? You weren’t strong enough to hold me down, and now you’ve lost!” Shunned by everyone from king to peasants, Naofumi’s thoughts were filled with nothing but vengeance and hatred.“You didn’t win anything, you coward! Someone interfered with our one-on-one fight!” Unfortunately, on his second day Naofumi was betrayed, falsely accused, and robbed by the said teammate. Naofumi happened to receive the Legendary Shield, the sole defensive equipment, while the others received weapons capable of attacking.ĭue to Naofumi’s lack of charisma and experience, he ended up with only a single teammate, a beautiful woman, while others had several. Each of the heroes were respectively equipped with their own legendary equipment when summoned. Iwatani Naofumi was summoned into a parallel world along with 3 other people to become the world’s Heroes.

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An anime adaptation has been announced, and the anime television series adaptation will be produced by Kinema Citrus and directed by Takao Abo. Both the novel and manga series were licensed by One Peace Books and were published in North American starting in September 2015. The novel series was adapted into a manga series by Aiya Kyū and published by Media Factory, with six volumes released as of July 23, 2016.

As of January 25th, 2017, 16 volumes have been published. Originally published as a web novel, the series has since been published by Media Factory with illustrations by Minami Seira. The Rising of the Shield Hero (盾の勇者の成り上がり Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari) is a Japanese light novel series written by Aneko Yusagi.
