Shield Hero With Barrier Magic

Hiro: Now that the planning and everything else is done, time to get some fighting experience and learn the language of this world. And we also need to do some experiments with this shield.

Eclair: Uncle Erhard. Show us some weapons for Hiro-dono and keep it under 200 silvers.

Erhard: Hahaha! You need not pay, Eclair.

Eclair: But Uncle Erhard! You are helping us this much. At least accept some payment as gratitude.

Erhard: Nah, I would feel bad to take money from you with the situation you are in.

Eclair: That won't do.

Erhard: Alright, if you really want to pay me, you can pay me after all this mess is over. Okay?

Eclair: Fine. I guess.

Hiro: By the way, Uncle Erhard, show the weapons for beginners.

Erhard took some swords and put them on the table.

Erhard: From left to right, iron, magic iron, magic steel and silver iron. Well, I can guarantee its quality. I am the one who made them after all.

I try to pick up one of them and it gives me a jerk.

Hiro: Huh?

I try to hold another one of them and it flies out of my hands.

Eclair: What is that?

Erhard: I don't get it either.

Eclair: It looked like it just flew out of your hand, Hiro-dono.

And I see a warning sign.

Hiro: It looks like there is this rule. "A hero may not hold, with intent to fight, any weapon other than their assigned legendary weapon".

Eclair: How are you supposed to fight with only a shield ?!!

Erhard uses his magical magnifier to have a look at the orb of the shield.

Erhard: It looks like any other small shield at first glance. Does this thing come off?

Hiro: It has to stay attached to the body. I can take it off if I wish.

I took the shield and put it on the table. It appears back on my arm after a few seconds.

Hiro: That is the result. It won't stay for a long time.

Erhard: That's so weird but I sense a great amount of power from this thing.

He says while pointing the orb.

Erhard: But even my appraisal magic isn't telling me much.

I take a sword in my hand while sighing. It didn't fly. Woah. The barrier can do anything.

Hiro: I don't have any intention to fight with it now. I think it will jump out of my hands the moment I think of using it as a weapon. Like this.

At the end of my sentence, the sword flies out of my hand.

Eclair: This is going to be a problem. I think I have to earn all the experience as your companion, Hiro-dono.

I smile at Eclair.

Hiro: Damn, I feel like a parasite now.

Eclair: That's wrong, Hiro-dono. If anyone is a parasite here, that would be me. I am currently a wanted criminal. I am the one who is relying on you more. And I feel bad about it. In fact, I would be glad to be of some use to you. It makes me feel a little bit better.

Hiro: Thanks, Eclair. But don't feel bad. What I did are my choices alone. I will be relying on you from now on. Eclair.

Eclair: Hiro-dono...

Hiro: And also. I got some 'rewards' from you too.

I say while grinning and imitating the groping with my hands. Eclair immediately understood what 'rewards' meant and she started blushing.

Eclair: Hiro-dono!

Hiro: Hahaha...

Erhard: Alright, lovebirds. If your flirting is over, can we get some armor for the kiddo?

Eclair: L... L... Lovebirds ?!! U... Uncle Erhard, You are w... wrong! W... We are nothing like that!

Erhard: Yeah... Yeah... Whatever you say. Anyway, shall we look at some armor instead?

Hiro: Yeah.

I go and pick up an iron shield nearby while smiling naturally.

Hiro: Man, I wish my shield is at least like this one. I could at least beat others harder with this type. Huh?

Immediately my shield changed like the iron shield I held and the only difference is the red orb in the duplicated shield.

This is the power of the Legendary Weapons. They can duplicate a weapon if they are of the same type. Naofumi didn't know this at the start.

Iron Shield +1 defense.

Eclair: The shield got copied?

Hiro: Hahaha... It looks like I can copy as long as it's the same kind.

Erhard: Hahaha! I guess it isn't a legendary weapon for nothing. What are you waiting for ?!! Go on, kiddo! Copy every shield in this shop!

Hiro: But Uncle Erhard. It is more or less stealing, right? So, promise me that you would ask for money for these too in the end.

Eclair: That's what I am thinking too.

Erhard: Man. Both of you are too good for this world. Anyway, I have a special shield. Let me bring that out too.

Uncle Erhard goes and brings a shield that I have been waiting for, The Meteor Shield or The Siderite shield or The Shooting Star Shield. The names are different because the anime and manga and LN have different names.

Damn, can't the anime and manga adapt the LN as it is ?!! Changing names as they wish and adding whatever stuff they like. Now, I can't even be sure if I am in the anime or Manga or the LN world.

Anyway, let's call this Meteor Shield. The meteor shield has a special effect that creates a Shooting Star barrier. And that barrier can be easy to cover my Barrier Magic.

Anyway, I copied every shield in the shop.

Hiro: Uncle, I have a request for you. I want you to make the shields that can be used as weapons. Let's see. You can make the edges sharper and maybe put some spikes on the shield. Of course, I will pay for it.

Erhard: Hahaha! That's a great idea. Shields that can be used as a weapon.

Hiro: Ah, about the one shield I said with shaper edge, I want it like this. It should be a concavo-convex metal disc with this design.

I draw the design on paper. Red then white and then red and then blue and a white star in the blue region.

Erhard: What the hell is this?

Hiro: just do it, I will pay extra for this and also make it with the strongest metal you got. I will pay for it.

Eclair: Why do you like this design, Hiro-dono?

Hiro: It makes me feel like 'Captain' of the team.

Eclair: Huh?

Erhard: Alright, I will make it. But it will take about a week.

Hiro: No problem. Anyway, we will go to training now. Give us some armors that cover our heads, Uncle.

Erhard: Alright.

Both Eclair and I put on the armors and head out to our first training.