The Reimagining of the Bow Hero

Chapter 26 - Regaining Consciousness

Chapter 26 – Regaining Consciousness

Author's Note: How will Satoshi react to the Glass fight when he wasn't there?

I struggled to gather my senses as I attempted to survey my surroundings.

Where was I?

Last thing I remember was that I unleashed "Hypercharged Shot" which destroyed the soul eater, I saw a beautiful Japanese girl with a fan, and then I got knocked out. Did we win the fight?

As I swept my eyes across the room, I noticed Ren, Motoyasu and some of their party members still lying unconscious on the beds. They must have been knocked out by my powerful attack.

Struggling to get on my feet, I wobbled my way outside of the makeshift hospital and out into the village square. I realized that I was back in Granny's village.

Before I knew what was going on, Indigo ran up to me and bear hugged me, knocking me to the floor.

"Ouch! If you do that again, I'll lose consciousness!"

"Satoshi!" Tears streamed from his eyes. "You're still alive!"

"Wait," I stopped him. "What happened after I got knocked out?"

Indigo told me that the Japanese-looking girl, who introduced herself as Glass, fought a long and grueling battle with Naofumi, eviscerating the other heroes in the process, and Indigo himself was barely left standing. It was due to Naofumi using his "Iron Maiden" attack and Rishia's helpful advice that Glass was forced to retreat due to the wave timer running out.

Damn, I sure did miss a lot. At least the problems were dealt with though.

As I turned towards Naofumi to see what he was doing, the knight that he had been bickering with had ushed him into Filo's cart and they all started heading towards Castle town, followed by a large entourage of lesser-ranked knights. I was positive that they wouldn't do anything to him, since if they did, Siltvelt, the demi-human kingdom that Rishia had told me about, would resume the long and grueling war that had recently ended.

I hurriedly gathered the rest of my party.

"Let's all return to Arcium. We should take a break, and head out to grind levels in the neighboring countries."

No one had any objections, so we hastily made our way there. I checked the pigeons that had patiently been waiting outside the makeshift hospital. Arcium had a lot of paperwork for me that I had to do.

"And Rishia. You're going to have a lot more paperwork to fill out."

"Fueeeeeehhhh!"

Upon our arrival to Messeblick a few days later, I handed over much of the paperwork that Rishia had painstakingly filled out for me and handed it to the national council. Then, I spent much of the afternoon greeting the citizens, who had just recently began receiving small shipments of food from the countryside. They were all paeaning me for my heroic deeds to the republic.

According to everyone, the monster issue had largely been dealt with, since all the lower leveled monsters were easily defeated by passersby and local police forces. At this rate, with the farmers replanting the BioSeed and receiving large harvests from the first planting, Arcium would have so much food that we would even begin exporting it to neighboring kingdoms.

Once I arrived, though, I received some news that positively stunned me.

Naofumi was wanted in all of Melromarc for the kidnapping of the second princess, Melty Q. Melromarc, and murder of some royal knights.