Shield Hero With Barrier Magic

(Author Note - Alright, today's topic is Rino... This info will be long... You have been warned...

Anyway, Rino is a minor character in the LN appearing in a side story of volume 1 and reappears in volume 19 of the LN... Now, there will be spoilers... But they are required for the fanfic, so read it...

In the LN volume 1, Rino joins Motoyasu's party after he flirts with and invites her, however, she is quickly shocked by the other girl's disposition, as in they'd rather be Motoyasu's cheerleaders than his comrades. Finally, Malty tricked her and sold her to a slave shop at the end of the day and told Motoyasu that Rino left because she felt that she didn't fit in.

Sometime later as Motoyasu is walking through an alleyway he hears her voice but fails to accept it due to his delusions preventing him from noticing things that would be bad for the image of his surroundings (refusing to believe his comrades would've sold her as a slave), even when she calls out for help Motoyasu simply assumes it's a professional p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.e acting out someone's fantasy because of the sounds coming from the room and the nature of the shop it's coming from.

Yeah, she calls for help while being r.a.p.ed... But Motoyasu thinks that is just role-playing... In my fanfic, I took out the r.a.p.e-part and Elena chose to stay out of it instead of helping and I also added a little more and made her call out Motoyasu's name too instead of just 'Help' and Motoyasu hears it and thinks that it is some p.r.o.s.t.i.t.u.t.e who recognized him and trying to seduce him to completely destroy Rino's trust in heroes...

Anyway, this is a major spoiler completely different to WN but Rino reappears in LN Volume 19 and she brutally kills Bitch by healing and stabbing her over and over... Well, in that volume, she joins Bitch's side by changing her appearance and once she gets the chance, she backstabs Bitch and kills her for revenge... Well, that might not be the end of Bitch in the LN (as her soul and body were collected by villains in the end...)

By the way, for WN readers, Bitch in LN escapes before she is killed along with Takt's group and her being sent to Faubley as s.e.x toy never happens in the LN... That's why Rino gets a chance for revenge...

Alright, now about the appearance of Rino... There has been a lot of discussion about this topic and it's still not clear... Most believe that Rino is the loli witch wearing a green witch's hat with short brown hair and green eyes that appeared in Motoyasu's party in the anime... But it isn't official... The Rino in volume 19 has a different appearance but she was using illusion magic at that time so that's not her true appearance... So, in my fanfic, her appearance will be the flat-c.h.e.s.ted loli witch... and I will put this link to her appearance in the comments...

anime-planet.com/images/characters/rino-the-rising-of-the-shield-hero-164907.jpg?t=1558687102

Anyway, that ends Rino's story... more or less... If you have any other doubts, ask them in the comments and I will answer them... And today's chapter will just be what happened at Hiro's side that led him to meet Rino...)

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(Two days ago...)

(Hiro's POV)

Hiro - "Alright, do you know some dungeon or any high-level monsters nearby ??"

Rose - "I know a dungeon but it's not completely explored, so I would advise you to not go there, degozaru..."

Raphtalia - "But I want to kill more monsters !! Therefore, we will explore the unexplored part !!"

Eclair - "Raphtalia, I know that you want to level up quickly but dungeon monsters can be very dangerous sometimes..."

Rose - "Exactly, degozaru... We can't afford to lose you as per her Majesty's orders, so I can't allow you to go there, degozaru... "

Eclair, Raphtalia and I are currently discussing with Rose in her shadow form about where to find high-level monsters suitable for us to hunt... Raphtalia is currently making a cute pout because we dismissed the idea of exploring the dungeon...

Rose - "That's why I would advise you to hunt in the area which is at a half a day distance northeast from us... It's the area between Castle town and Riyute... It has a type of monsters called Sky Blue Wing... They are bird-like monsters but they are not as fast as Filorials..."

Immediately Raphtalia became cheerful...

Raphtalia - "Yay !! Let's go !!"

She really wants to level up fast huh...

Hiro - "Hold on, my dear daughter... We have other things to decide too... Rose, if it's a half a day distance from here, our time will be wasted just in traveling... Where should we stay ??"

Rose - "There is a town near that area to our North... The town is rather large compared to Riyute but just a little smaller than Castle town... It also has a Guild of its own... I think you should leave Riyute and find an inn there, degozaru..."

Hiro - "Hmm... That sounds like a plan... Alright, we are changing our location again..."

Hiro - "Alright, Alright... We will be going today... By the way, Rose, what is the situation of other heroes ??"

Rose - "Both the Bow Hero and the Sword Hero are not going back to Castle town anytime now... But it seems that the Sword Hero might be returning in about four to five days... And we didn't collect information about the Spear Hero as you asked to ignore him..."

Hiro - "Motoyasu won't be useful anyway... Bitch is with Motoyasu... So, she will definitely try to stop us from the class up ceremony if she knew... Ren is the best choice for that role... Although that idiot is overconfident about being able to do everything alone, he would at least listen... Anyway, let's go to that town and book an inn by tonight..."

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(next day)

(Hiro's POV)

We came to the town and booked a room at an inn and just now, we cleared a lot of Sky Blue Wing monsters in the area that Rose told us about... And now we are going back to the inn... And suddenly, Eclair stopped me and showed me a person and wanted to follow him... We did and found out his slave shop among the brothels... Good thing that it's still daytime... There weren't many people...

Anyway, we went back to the inn and Rose was waiting there for us...

Rose - "I got bad news... It seems that the spear hero will be in this town by tomorrow morning... degozaru..."

Talk about timing... Wait for a second... It's been three weeks... There is a guild here... Sky Blue Wing monsters... famine at southwest... Ah, if this follows LN, tomorrow will be Rino's plot...

I will save this girl... Why save this particular girl when I abandoned all the others to their fate ?? The reason's simple... I won't allow Bitch to do all the things she did in the LN... So, Rino will lose her chance for revenge like the LN... As someone who knows how it feels to have revenge, I don't want to be guilty of taking that feeling from her... So, her fate will be my responsibility from now... The only problem is, I don't even know what she looks like... Is that loli witch in the anime, Rino ?? And if the loli witch is Rino, does this follow anime or the LN ?? I mean, in anime, this event doesn't take place now after all...

Hiro - "Rose, I want you to keep tabs on Bitch and Motoyasu... I don't want them to come across us... especially, Bitch..."

Rose - "Why won't you get out of the town, degozaru ??"

Eclair - "We found a guy... He's one of the slave hunters that I tried to stop during the First Wave... I want to kill him..."

Hiro - "But there is a catch, once we kill him, it will be a problem to deal with his slaves... So, I need Beloukas to help me deal with them... Well, he will agree once he thinks he is being benefited... I want one of your shadows to contact him..."

Rose - "You are acting like our leader, degozaru..."

Hiro - "What ?? You won't agree ??"

Rose - "Her Majesty ordered us to help you with anything if its good... So, we will follow, degozaru..."

Hiro - "That's good... I want Beloukas in this town by tomorrow... Tell him that I will pay a lot... And we will be staying low tomorrow and make sure we don't cross paths with Motoyasu..."

I don't even know if tomorrow's plot is going to take place or not... So, the best choice is to observe...

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(next day)

(Hiro's POV)

Rose - "She sold her comrade to s.e.x slavery... The same shop whose owner you want to kill... degozaru..."

Talk about coincidence... My luck is something else... It seems that it's the loli witch after all...

Eclair - "That Bitch... Even her own comrades..."

Raphtalia - "We should expose this !!"

Hiro - "Nope, we can't... Even if we did, she won't be punished accordingly as Trash is on the throne... We have to wait for the Queen... We will be saving her tonight anyway... And Raphtalia will be staying at the inn..."

Raphtalia - "I want to come too !!"

Eclair - "No !! That's not a place for children !!"

Raphtalia - "But I will be doing those things after I grow up with Daddy anyway !!"

Eclair - "No means no !!"

And Raphtalia went to her cute pouty mode... Even in a situation like this, the mother-daughter pair won't stop their usual drama... And I like that about them...

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(That night)

We were about to barge in but we found Motoyasu roaming around... It will be a problem if he finds us here... I can hear Rino shouting for help but I asked Eclair to lay low for now... It's better to wait until Motoyasu went away... And even if Rino called his name, that delusional bastard walked away... Haa... How delusional can he be ??

And we went inside and Eclair made sure to cut down the slave trader and I cut the d.i.c.k of the second guy... I don't like people who treat others like toys meant to break... They remind me of my world's Bitch... So, I tortured him along with the slave trader to death... I already cut the connection between him and his slaves using a barrier so that he won't order them...

Well, I cut his tongue and his hands so that it would look like he is unable to give orders and after that, we took our time torturing... And there was a n.a.k.e.d girl beside us covered in their blood laughing crazily... Rino... Other slaves were terrified by the way we are torturing them but this girl...

Rino - "Hahaha !! Serves you right, assholes !! Hahaha !!"

If I leave her like this, she will make the same mistake that I did... I don't want that to happen...