The Heroes(1).

While Riot is experiencing an inner conflict in Seihul Village which is far away from the borders of the empire, the other five heroes are currently undergoing basic training in magic, martial arts, knowledge of this world, and so on. They even sometimes explore a Dungeon, an example is... This girl who has long black hair and sharp eyes, 'Natasha'.

At this time, Natasha is doing a solo Dungeon exploration without any other heroes. Well, but of course, the imperial side wouldn't let their hero explore a Dungeon that has a lot of monsters and deadly traps inside just like that, 'is it? Therefore, although she is not currently with the heroes, Natasha is accompanied by 2 soldiers, 1 wizard, and 1 Healer.

When they were walking on the tenth floor of the Dungeon, Natasha suddenly stopped walking.

"... Stop."

"Is there anything, Lady Natasha?" Curious about the reason why Natasha stopped her steps, one of the soldiers also asked her about it.

"..." However, instead of answering the soldier's question, Natasha just fell silent as she stared intently at a part of the Dungeon on that floor.

*Swing!*

Suddenly, Natasha also took out the sword that looked very unusual in the world from the scabbard on her waist, and finally launched forward and slashed something with it.

"... Tch. Late, huh?"

*Slice!*

Along with the moment Natasha muttered about it with an annoyed face, a black figure suddenly appeared directly behind all of them, and finally succeeded in slashing the wizard's head very easily.

*Fall* *Thud*

After losing her head and removing the blood fountain, the wizard's body also fell helplessly, on top of her blood pool.

Seeing the death of one of their friends, they finally realized the existence of a terrible monster that was currently right behind them. A huge hideous black monster that has a skull face and a black robe, with a giant scythe in its hand, the 'Soul Reaper'.

"... S-soul Reaper?! Si-since when-" One of the soldiers hurriedly tried to pull out his weapon after realizing the existence of the Soul Reaper.

But...

*Slice!*

"... Ah..."

... In just less than a blink of an eye, the soldier's head was also cut off and finally spewed a blood fountain as well, before finally falling helplessly.

However, the attack from the Soul Reaper is not over there.

After shaking off the blood left on its beloved scythe, the Soul Reaper began to lift his giant scythe back, intending to kill two more people in front of it at this time.

"Ah... We're over." Seeing the horrible sight of the scythe having such sharpness looming right before them, the thought also flashed through their heads.

However, the Soul Reaper forgot someone.

*Clink!*

Just before the giant blade of its scythe touched the necks of the two remaining people, the sound of clinking metal was heard, along with the appearance of a figure of a long black-haired girl in front of it.

"What... What do you think you've done to my people?!" Natasha shouted.

"...!!" Feeling the extremely inhuman power behind the small body of the girl in front of it at this time, the Soul Reaper also jumped back quite far back.

However, the moment it looked back in the direction where the girl should be, it couldn't find the girl anywhere else.

*Tap*

"... I'm here."

"...!!"

Unexpectedly, the girl's voice, 'Natasha', also suddenly appeared directly behind the place where the Soul Reaper was currently located.

However, the Soul Reaper didn't have even the slightest time to process how Natasha way to be able to get behind it so quickly or even counterattack her.

Although... It would be destroyed soon.

With a very extraordinary speed and not even being able to be followed by the Soul Reaper who was feared because of its extraordinary speed, Natasha also prepared a sword that had a slender blade and only had one sharp side, 'Katana'.

"... Ancient Martial arts «Slashing spirits»!" Just after Natasha muttered about it, a stormy wind immediately filled every Dungeon room on that floor.

"... Uwah!"

"... Gahak!"

That wind was strong, so strong that it even caused one soldier and healer left there to bounce and fall, as a result of how strong the waves from the wind were.

However, it wasn't created because Natasha had used wind magic or anything like that.

It was created... Because of the slash.

Yes, countless slashes.

Because of how fast and powerful the slashes Natasha did to the Soul Reaper, the waves of energy and magic that were there also clashed, creating a very violent storm wind.

Soon, the wind also subsided, making Natasha's figure look again. However, the remaining two people couldn't find the Soul Reaper anywhere.

There, all they could see was the figure of Natasha holding her Katana tightly while breathing heavily probably from exhaustion, and a giant scythe that appeared to have suffered great damage, which was currently in the middle of a small crater full of slash marks.

'Is this the power of a hero...?' At that moment, the two of them finally realized how big the difference in strength between them and the girl(hero) who was currently right in front of them was.

***

While it's all going on in an A-Rank Dungeon near the imperial capital, let's move on to a room specially reserved by the Emperor for one of the heroes.

Inside the high-end luxury room full of expensive things, there is the figure of a disheveled black-haired man who is currently straddling a maid girl.

"Ah... Mph... Ahn..." In the room, which was currently quite dark, only the sound of sighing from the maid girl and the sound of body collision could be heard in there.

*Knock* *Knock*

At least, until a knocking sound came from behind the door of the room.

"Ha? Who dares to bother me when I'm busy like this? F*ck..." Muttering it with an annoyed face, the man removed his body from the maid girl's body and finally started putting his clothes back on even though it was just his pants, before starting to walk towards the door of the room.

"... Ah... Sob... Sob..." After finally being let go by the man who had forced her to do this almost every day, the maid girl could only cry silently, while shedding tears.

*Tap* *tap*

After walking for a while, the disheveled black-haired man, 'Farna', also began to open the door of his room.

There, Farna also confronts a little blonde maid girl who may only be 10 years old with an angry face.

"... Ha? You're again? What's the matter? I'm busy at this time. So, if you don't have something important to say, get away!"

However, even though Farna who was a hero said that to her, the girl still stood there, with a hateful face aimed directly at Farna.

"Stop doing that weird thing to My sister and let her go!" The little maid girl shouted.

Hearing this, Farna instead began to widen her smile.

"... Of course it can't, 'isn't it?"

"H-hah? W-why?" The girl retorted while furrowing her eyebrows for not understanding the reason why Farna couldn't let go of her Big sister.

"Because... I like that your sister's body so much, she is so delicious!"

After saying that, Farna also began to laugh with a weird smile, before continuing.

"... Or do you want to replace your sister?"

"...!!"

Looking at Farna who began to stretch out his hand towards her with a hideous smile, the little maid girl's face began to wrinkle full of disgust, until it even began to look as if she would shed tears at any time.

However, before his hand finally reached the little maid girl's body, Farna also stopped his hand, and finally began to turn around to return to his room.

"... But unfortunately, I don't like a little girl like you."

Leaving the words behind, Farna re-entered his room.

Left in the hallway alone, even the little maid girl could only lower her head, shedding tears.

"... N-no... S-sister... Aaaah~!" While crying in the spacious but deserted aisle of the castle, the little maid girl could only cry over the fate of her elder sister, without being able to do anything.

*Tap* *Tap* *Tap*

However, soon, a sound of footsteps also sounded from a distance.

"... Eh?" Turning her gaze towards the origin of the sound of footsteps coming from, the little maid girl also saw a figure of a short red-haired man who was wearing clothes that were very strange to herself and the people of this world but were truly quite cool.

The man just walked towards her with a haggard face and full of laziness, to the point of even munching a few times there.

"..."

"...?"

Until the end, the gazes of the two of them also met.

Curious about the reason why the little maid girl like this girl made a face that looked very sad like that, the man, 'Merguion', also began to approach her.

"... Hey, little girl," Merguion called the girl.

"Y-yes?" The girl retorted while putting away the tears that were in her eyes.

Instead of directly saying something more, Merguion began to look at the girl from top to bottom for a few moments, before continuing.

"You don't look like you just got hurt or something... Has something happened?"

Hearing Merguion's question, the little maid girl also began to try to tell what honestly happened. But halfway through, she also began to feel doubtful. After all, the man in front of her at the moment is a 'Hero' as well. Not much different from a man who did something strange to her elder sister.

'Ah, this girl...' Realizing something strange to the girl, Merguion began to move his right hand towards the girl's ship.

At first, the girl was afraid of what the Merguion was doing because of Farna's actions before her. However, after she saw the gentle smile that was on Merguion's face, the girl calmed down a bit and finally accepted the soft head pat that Merguion gave.

"Em... Honestly-" Feeling that the man in front of her at this time was different from the creepy man who had before, the girl also decided to tell everything that had happened.

"I see..." Listening to all that, Merguion began to take out some tools from his trouser pocket.

'Ball?' Looking at the small metal balls that Merguion had just taken out, the girl could only tilt her head, questioning what this man would honestly do with all that balls.

Well, of course, he wouldn't use those balls to play or something like that.

Grasping all the small balls inside his right fist, Merguion also muttered.

"Atomic change «Weapon 9»."

Shortly after Merguion had said the words, an electric spark began to grow from inside his fist, before being followed by the appearance of a sword that looked quite similar to Natasha's, but Merguion's at this time was absolutely filled with metal and also had electricity flowing on each side of the sword.

'Magic...?' Watching what the Merguion did, of course, that's all that the girl thought would be able to produce what merguion had done.

After staring smugly at the sword in his hand at this time, Merguion also turned his gaze back towards the little maid girl.

"... By the way, what's your name?"

"M-my name is Lea..." The maid's little girl replied.

"Lea, yes? In that case, Lea..." Cutting off his words there, Merguion also began to prepare his sword.

"Let's start saving your Big Sister from this pervert guy!"