Let’s NTL the Heroine of the Hero 20

Chapter 20 – 2-Shine Family (1)

Lost.
Completely defeated.
This fact weighed on my heart.

That day was an extremely ordinary day, just like me.
People made a living doing business on the streets or doing their own jobs, and mercenaries were preparing to move after receiving a request.
And he was also in that castle.

I was called a genius female knight and had excellent skills, so I was full of confidence.
No matter how strong the enemy appeared, I was confident that I would not be defeated in an instant, and I was confident that I would endure it.
That’s why, as soon as he became an adult, he went on a knight’s journey by himself.
In order to be recognized as a knight and properly become the vice-captain of the Silver Knights, I took only the armor and sword to prove that I was a member of the Silver Knights and went on a knightly journey.

The knight’s journey went off alone, but so far it’s been very smooth.
If there was an evil person blocking his way, he cut it down with his sword, and he was able to get enough money while working as a mercenary.
After traveling around like that, this time I stopped by Hetzel Castle.
It didn’t make any sense.

I only stopped by once because it belonged to the Shine family, which was disliked by Bubbletio Aris, the first princess who is the head of our silver knights, and I was somehow related to the Shine family, and the minor lord of the Shine family descended from the castle.
And I stayed at the castle for a day, and it was surprisingly good, so I decided to stay here for the winter, settled the request as usual, stopped by the inn, and went to bed.

The room I chose was on the second floor, so I went up the stairs, cleaned up and had a meal, and went to bed after organizing my to-dos for the next day.
But I soon woke up.
When I woke up, everything in the ordinary castle had suddenly changed.

“Kyaaaaa!!”
“Help me!!”
“Kuaaa!!”
“Kekekeke”

People’s screams echoed from all directions, and the cries of the evil monsters reached my ears.
So, feeling that something had happened, I immediately put on my armor, grabbed my sword, and rushed to the window.

I heard the cries of the monsters, and I immediately jumped down, breaking the window, judging that there were monsters below.
And as I expected, there was an orc trying to catch and eat people below, and I immediately put my sword into the head of the orc below.

Fu-wook!

My sword pierced the orc’s head very lightly, and the orc died in a single blow.
So I pulled out the sword stuck in the orc’s head and tried to deal with the monsters approaching me.

“Ugh!?”

Suddenly, my whole body felt tingly, so I panicked and immediately put magic on my body and sword, pulled the sword from the orc’s head, and landed on the ground.
The orc with the sword drawn fell to the ground as it was, and I was taken aback when I saw the orc’s corpse.

“I’m not a normal Orc…”

No matter how you look at it, the appearance of yellow lines engraved on the blue skin was not a normal orc.
That’s why at first, I thought it was a subspecies and passed on it, and first of all, I swung my sword and tore the demon beasts that approached me to pieces.
Then he went around and cut down the monsters.

And in the process, I realized that I was wrong.

“Everything is in the same condition. That means it’s not a subspecies, but this is…”

All of the monsters looked the same as the orcs from before and used elemental magic, so I judged that this situation was not normal and found the culprit.
It was because he judged that if he only cut the culprit, the witches would retreat.
As I looked around, I found the cause of the strange reaction around me.

Suddenly, weapons rose into the sky and aimed at the lord’s mansion. Beneath those weapons, there was a being in strange armor covering the whole body surrounded by monsters.

“It looks like a demon.”

From that appearance, I judged it to be a demon that has been appearing lately, and immediately approached him while slaughtering demon beasts to slash his head.
And the moment I swung my sword at him, my sword was blocked by something invisible.

Caang!

I was perplexed by this.
However, at the gaze of the demon looking at me indifferently and the screams of pain and fear resonating around me, I gathered my heart and rushed at him.
Even if the opponent was a demon, I was confident that I would win, so I planned to cut down the demon and save the people.

Kwajik!

But I couldn’t even brush by his side and was defeated terribly.

———

“Uuuuu… Here?”

How much time has passed
In the cave with stalactites, I woke up feeling the cold sword in my arms.
When I woke up, my arms were covered with the skin of a beast, and a bonfire was burning in the center.

“This is… A cave.”

Watching the bonfire light up the dark cave, I woke up and thought about why I was here, and soon I gritted my teeth.

Got hit
I got hit very perfectly.
Against an enemy who didn’t even have a sword, I, a knight with a sword, couldn’t carve a single scratch on him and fell out in one shot.

“Damn it!”

I gritted my teeth at this fact and tried to get up.
However, soon I fell again.

“Ugh…”

Perhaps because of the strong blow to the head, I could hardly keep my balance and fell over every time I got up.
How many times did I try to get up like that? When I was able to stand up and stand, I felt someone approaching me.

“Who are you!”

Without any hesitation, I drew my sword and aimed it at it, and when I realized who it was, I dropped the sword.

“Lain-L!?”

What was in front of my eyes was Rain-L, the only eldest daughter of the Shin family, whom I had met when I was 5 years old, when I had just joined the Silver Knights.
At that time, I couldn’t stand the knight’s training and was wandering around, and Lord Raine-L approached me.
Rein-L-sama was kind to me during my wandering days, and thanks to him, I was able to come to my senses and grow properly as a knight.

“How did you get here!? I heard that you escaped from the Shin family!!”

When I spoke in a shocked tone, Rein-L-sama smiled kindly and said,

“It’s been a long time since I saw Bernage when I was 5 years old! And now I’m on my way back to the Shine family. I ran away, but I thought it would be better for my son, Artel, to stay with the Shine family.”
“Ah… My son!?”

I was shocked to hear that he was Rein-L’s son, and Rein-L-sama laughed and said,

“Yes, he is a very precious son.”

When Raine-L said that, he made an ecstatic expression on his face. I was taken aback at this, but then I remembered Hetzel Castle and hurriedly asked him.

“Rain-L-sama! Hechel Castle!?”

At my question, Rein-L made a gloomy expression, and I felt ominous and cold sweat began to break out on my back.

“Hechel Castle… Has collapsed. At least the Witchbeasts have moved to another area, but there are only 5 survivors including me.”

Line L’s words made me cry! I felt like doing it.
Of course, the destruction itself is not a problem because it is not a village that has been around for a long time, but the real problem lies elsewhere.

“That demon guy!”

The demon who defeated me in one blow was the real problem.

“If we meet again someday, I will definitely kill you!”

I was defeated this time, but I stood up from my seat, vowing to slit my head next time, and someone ran up to me and stood next to Mr. Rein-L.

“Mom!”
“Hey, are you awake Artel?”

The young man standing next to him had blonde hair like melted gold and blue eyes like the sea. His childlike childlike face was really cute, and he had a ring worn by Rein-El in the past as if to prove that he was a member of the Shine family.
The child looked very much like Rein-L, and he called Rein-L his mother, so I asked Rein-L just in case.

“Lin-L, is this the child?”

Seeing that beautiful young man, I inadvertently asked Rein-L-sama. At this, Lin L laughed and said.

“That’s right, this child is my son Artel Shine Artel!”

After Rein-L-sama’s introduction continued, the child named Artel stuck out his head from behind Rein-L-sama, looked at me with a twinkling gaze, and then approached me in an instant.

“Are you awake, sister?”

The child who approached looked at me and called her noona, and she called me noona and looked up at me. Although he is an adult, his heart was moved by his extremely child-like appearance.

‘Ear… Cute! Inexhaustibly cute!”

It was so good that I almost hugged her for a moment without realizing it.

‘Hot! What am I saying? No, it’s definitely good, but… Ahhh! It’s cute to see you with twinkling eyes!!’

In particular, looking at me with sparkling eyes seemed to stimulate something in me.

“Hey… Bernage?”

I, who had been staring at Artel in such a daze, was able to come to my senses at the words of Rain-L.

“Hot! Rain L! Why are you like that?”

When I said this in bewilderment, Rain-L-sama laughed and said.

“Actually, we’re going to go to our parents’ house. Would you like to go with us?”

Seeing that benevolent smile, I nodded vigorously.
If it was Rain-L-sama’s request, I wanted to do as much as possible, and moving with a young man named Artell would be difficult.
Thinking so, I decided to accompany Mr. Rain-L, and Mr. Line-L smiled and said thank you.
That’s how I came to accompany Rain-L.