Prologue-Irashime Shinta

“This marks a whole new day in my life.” I said as I got up from my bed and headed towards the window, as I let my dark cheek length crimson hair and ebony eyes bask in the summer sun.

My name is Irashime Shinta, I am a nineteen-year-old college student. I live away from my parents and K-pop obsessed sisters, I work-part time in a retail manga store, and just on the weekends and today happens to be the day I get a twenty percent salary increment. As I got changed I headed out of my apartment and downstairs. my schedule is a very busy one, either filled with my college lessons, my jujitsu and taekwondo lessons, my work life or my otaku life, but I usually make time to play sports usually football, basketball, baseball and badminton.

Other than that, I usually just sleep or watch sports. Either way the manga store I work in is where I get most of my manga and other fictional books I read, my boss is an old guy, pretty neat with his work his close to a hundred or was it seventy either way the guy says he has watched a lot of anime and read a lot of manga, manhua, manhwa and light novels. He said he has seen the first anime series that came out in the 80’s, and I decided to read a lot of manga to occupy time and reach his place as the max otaku. That is why I like working there, but I will do anything to get out of school, to focus on other stuff in my life.

“Vrrr…Vroom”

Either way enough about my life what is there a glowing pink magic circle under me. I’m I getting isekai’d, that is the last thing I want in my life. Getting sent to another world, being overpowered at ninety percent chance, having a harem at a ninety percent chance, encountering demon lords, using magic, no technology.

“I need to move.”

So, with that I start to run, from the coffee chop I was in front of run a few blocks away I decide to stop, I pant a bit…before I notice the same circle but it started glowing darker. I repeating run ten more time by the time I was done I was few blocks away from the store. I was tired of this so I decided maybe it was time I accepted fate, the circle was already dark red by this point and by the next second a white light appeared around me from the circle, also I forgot to mention I was the only one who saw the circle.

*****

“““Hero? Hero! Hero!! Hero!!!”””

By the time the light disappeared, I was hearing just in English and luckily for me I learnt enough English to understand since I didn’t have a translator and I was surrounded by a lot of people of dressed in dark brown cloaks with golden hem, the cloaks where covering their faces and not their mouths, they were saying the same hero before somebody, probably the leader since he was not wearing the brown cloak but a white one that did not cover his face he was bald and his black eyes were like one who had just seen hope.

“Good morning Sir Hero, my name is Juan Julius, I am the Chief Summoner of the Kingdom of Ranzia. My lord, you have been summoned…”

“To defeat the demon lord”

“No sir,” Juan continued “yes defeating the demon lord is key but there are eight of them sir. It is a rite we do every 50-100 years.”

“Not just one, but eight of them. Guess my luck ran out, either way you said this is a kingdom.”

“Yes sir. One of the five main nations on this continent. Actually, our kingdom is…”

“No not that, but where is your King or Queen.”

“I see, straight to the point, nothing less expected of our hero. He should be in the throne room, I am sure he would like to meet you.”

“Yeah, let’s go.”

*****

After that I was led to the throne room, it was a long yet short walk. Not surprising we were in the basement and we had to climb the stairs, astonishingly the stairs and hallway where very fanciful, afterwards the basement was bricks on bricks and wood upon wood. It did not take long before we got to the throne room it seemed the Juan guy needed to speak with the king first before I met him.

The hall way full of nobles who looked at my white tracksuit as some weird clothing but shoved it off because I was the “hero”, can't blame them this is there era. Many of them just came to greet me some for a long while, even the maids and guards tried to get in contact with me, here is a quick rundown of what happened.

“Sir Hero, how do you do, my name is-?” said a noble

“Sir Hero, are you going to speaking with the king?” said a nearby maid

“Go back to your work, the hero has other important people to talk with.”

“Yeah, the hero does not spend time with commoners.”

“Sorry.”

“Sir Hero, I am Gorge Julius the Command of the Ranzia Armed Forces I am very sure you have seen my elder brother, I will be very glad to join your party.”

“Yes, Sir Hero, my son will also be a perfect fit for your party. Of course, I will supply donations if needed.”

“A small domain leader should be better of just thinking of how to provide providing the manpower for his domain, Sir Hero I will provide the finances and anything else needed.”

For the next few hours that is how things went, people trying to join my party, supply me, most likely for protection also the single women tried to start a harem with me. Only later did the king get ready and I entered the throne room to meet with him.