Chapter 1 - Arrival
My name is Akio Shintaro, I'm a high school student living in Kanagawa. I'm in my 2-year of high school and I live a quiet life. I have a few friends I know since childhood who are Elaina, Kana and Kamisato. Kana and Kamsisato are very joyful people who are always playing around in class and elsewhere, Elaina is a quiet and collected student who gets good grades and is very good looking. After being friends for a while I know that kana likes Kamisato while he likes Elaina like me. We never expressed our personal feelings to each other and kept them hidden away.
One day when we were walking to school, we saw something like a summoning circle under us and we were confused, by the time we understood what happened we were somewhere in an open field with nothing in sight. We were confused and checked if we all were fine and after we gathered our stuff we started looking for anyone while walking in 1 direction, after going at it for about 6 hours we took a break near a forest we found and ate some fruits and decided to camp out since we had no idea if anyone even lived here. The next day I woke up early and took a walk near a river which I saw the previous day and decided to get some fresh water for my friends. I picked up some fresh water and while walking back I noticed a few houses across the river, I went near them and saw a few people walking around. I went back to my friends and decided to take them with me, so after waking them up I told them about the village and we went there together and greeted them. They introduced their village and its villagers who are living there.
We explained to everyone living there how we arrived here and they told us that we can stay with them for as long as we want, we got our stuff and decided to stay there until we find out more about where we are. We started asking around about the village and the capital of the country, we were told that the country name is Fropul and the village we were living in was Reroil which was south of the Kingdom. The capital was home to the Kingdom Sacfred and it had 1 King, 3 princes and 1 queen. We asked the direction of where it was and decided we would set out after we gathered some supplies like clothes, food, water and other provisions. After 1 week of helping around the village and gathering supplies, we started to head out for the kingdom. On the way, we encountered many villages and lots of different types of animals and creatures and we all got attacked but worked together and got to the capital after 1 month of travelling. While travelling we all got closer as friends as we never had time for each other because of school in our world. After arriving at the kingdom, we started asking around about how to meet the king and about magic circles.
We found an inn to stay at and booked two rooms and decided the people in each by playing short stick loses and it was decided that Elaina and I are in 1 room and Kana and Kamisato are in the other, we later sold the meat we found on the way here and got enough money to last us about 2 months without any trouble but we worried and decided that 1 of us had to work and Kana volunteered to work to earn us extra money to last us longer. We had decided that we had to return to our world no matter what.
Chapter 2 - Reason
After asking around for a bit, we found out that we can sign a letter to the king stating our name, address and reason to meet the king, we all decided to write my name and our Inn as our address, the reason we stated was that we had been summoned from another world and wanted to know about the summoning and why we were brought here. After sending the letter we waited for 2 days and we had received no response, we had decided that our letter was not read by the king and were getting ready to leave for Reroil, we were ready to leave the next day and went to get some rest for our journey back.
The next day we were in a room filled with big chandlers and big windows, I thought I was still dreaming until I noticed that I was in bed with Elaina beside me. I grabbed some fresh clothes which were hung on some holders and woke Elaina up, she was surprised. After she got dressed we went out of the room and noticed a butler and asked where we were. He told us that we were in the Kingdom and our friends were down the hall in another room. We quickly ran and woke them up and were looking around the kingdom for the Royal Chamber to meet the king, on our way we saw a soldier who took us to the Royal Chamber and then we met the king and the queen. They explained what happened when we fell asleep. The king sent a few soldiers to bring us but in fear of the resistance they gave us sleeping gas and brought us to the kingdom in the night.
The king explained to us about the summoning and how we were the saviours of the world and we're supposed to save the world from the demon king who lived to the north of the kingdom. The Demon King was called Arzanek and he told us that he would invade and destroy the kingdom, the king also specified that we had 11 months till he invades the kingdom and we are supposed to save the kingdom from his wrath. We were told that we had to fight in pairs and the king chose that I and Elaina were 1 pair while Kana and Kamisato were the other pair, we were told to make bonds and live together, train together and learn more about magic together. Kamisato was confused about why we had to do everything together and not separately, the king told us that in the summoning ritual the 2 pairs had to stay together at all times as it increases the power. The basic explanation we got was that we need to live as adventurers and the stronger our bond, the stronger we become.
After discussing with my friends we decided that I and Elaina would go east and Kamisato and Kana would go west to train and meet again after 10 months to prepare for the attack of the demon king. We were taught how to use basic magic and were told that the stronger the bond, the more types of magic we unlock and the more powerful we become. After learning for 4 days we all said goodbye and left on our journey…
Chapter 3 - Preparations Part 1
2 Days after learning magic from the kingdom, we left towards the East of the kingdom. At first, it was awkward because we were supposed to deepen our bond but we were only friends before so it was very quiet in between us in the start but as we started to go into our journey we started to become closer as something more than friends. The first month was mostly us just roaming around killing orcs and slimes while getting to know more about each other, Elaina was half Japanese half American and she moved to Japan 1 year before we arrived in this world so I didnt know much and I got to find out a lot like favourite food, interests and disinterests and other things, we had a lot of common interests like anime, hentai, food and tv shows. 3 months after leaving the kingdom we both got very close and got to know a lot about our magic and how to strengthen our bond. While clearing out a domain we had found a girl who had gotten lost from her village, we helped from the domain and helped her return to her village. We were greeted by the villagers and they offered us to stay for a few days by the village chief for saving her daughter. We accepted and decided to stay for five days and took a rest from killing monsters and instead helped villagers with daily tasks and enjoyed some time there. On the fourth day we had noticed something weird with the villagers, they were are super friendly offering us food while they were malnourished, we went and asked the village but he denied anything about it and told us to leave the next day. We had suspected that the village was either trying to poison the food or any other unknown reason. We asked the village chief's daughter and she told us everything. She would go into the domain and act scared and weak to bring adventurers to have a feast for saving her and poison the food to loot them and buy more food to fool more and more people. We had learned poison resistance a few weeks ago while clearing a domain and so the village chief was scared we would find out. We decided to play an act to see what they what do and after eating dinner, we pretended to pass out and they all celebrated and took us to a basement and started going through our stuff. Before they came near us to strip us, we came became conscious and broke the chain on our hands and caught all the members in the act. We called some of the king's guards and arrested the villagers involved in the act. The village chief was sentenced to death for killing adventurers. I and Elaina set out and started to go towards the big uncharted domain the village chief daughter had told us about. We had entered the domain and were ambushed by a hoard of huge centipedes and Elaina got hurt very badly on her leg, we both got out of the domain and I started healing her and we decided that we needed to train a lot more before going in there, we spent 2 more months training near the domain. I had decided to tell my feelings to Elaina and she accepted, that boosted our magic by a lot and I unlocked a new skill called "Eye of perception" which let me see into the future by 20 seconds, after telling Elaina about it, we both decided to go into the domain the next day.
Chapter 3 - Preparations Part 2
As we entered the domain we already knew what to expect and beat the lower level monsters without problem, as we approached the boss room the atmosphere got a lot more intense and as we opened the door to the boss room, it was pitch black. We lit a torch and went in, we found a huge Centipede the size of a building with rock hard skin. We were shaken by the sudden appearance of the monster but after gaining our conscious we went for its weakness near its head. After striking it down onto the ground we went for the head and killed it. We looted it and went to the nearest adventurers guild, which was located near the domain. We had reached max level on our magic and decided to go back to the kingdom for our final preparation before the war. After 4 months of travelling back to the kingdom, we arrived at the kingdom and we were welcomed by the king and queen. After explaining our adventures to the king we were told that Kami and Kana had arrived a few days before us.
Chapter 4 - Calm before the storm
Kana and Kami were in their room waiting for us, when we arrived, we all gave each other a big hug and told them about our journey while they followed up by telling us their journey. The king ordered us to take a 1-week break before preparing for the Demon King's assault. I and Elaina decided to go shopping in the city for clothes and weapons, while Kana and Kami went to the mountains to enjoy the view. 1 week later after we got our rest, we were called by the King to prepare to fight at the Frontline. 2 hours waiting for the demon king's attack but nothing had happened. We were chatting with the troops about their lifestyle in the city and suddenly a Kings informant rushed towards us, in a haste he arrived close to us and started panting heavily. After gathering his breath and getting the scrool in his hands, he read," The Demon Lord has sent all his troops to the east, west and south of the kingdom and only a handful of weak soldiers to the north." Upon hearing this, we all started setting out in different directions, me and Elaina set out to the south since we were the fastest and Kana and Kamisato set out to the west while the strongest knights of the kingdom went to the east to help protect the small villages. After a few minutes we finally arrived at the south side of the kingdom where we saw the Demon King attacking any humans or animals in his way.