Rise of the Bow Heroine

The next day we returned to the castle again to get the "legal money" from the king, I wonder if he realized that his money was missing?

And it seems that the church, like the "pope", were not happy about the death of their "punitive squad" and are trying to portray me as a demon and a heretic, but what good will that do them? I have already shown my powers, but they don't care and are trying to anger me. I wouldn't mind destroying the entire church, as well as the "pope", since they are asking for it!

We were taken back to that ill-fated hall, which already makes me sick, and of course the blond pedophile and the emo goth were there too, how could we live without them...

If I could not change the story much, I would have killed them long ago, but that loli in the anime would not like it, who threatened to kill all the heroes if they were not together.

But now everything is different, she won't have enough strength to kill me, and also Naofumi, who will be under my protection! I wonder what she will do?

"As a reward for the actions during the wave, as well as for fulfilling my order, the hero Motoyasu will receive 4000 silver!" - said the king, and then added.

"And the heroes Ganyu and Ren, will receive 3800 silver each." - said the king, but I clearly saw the fear written on his face when he looked at me.

"And for the shield, I allocated 500 silver." - said the king, but unlike the anime, Raphtalia did not have a slave seal, for removing which he wanted to take money in the anime.

"Is that all? If so, then we will go, we have more important things to do!" - I said in a dismissive tone and waving my hand, I turned around and began to leave.

Naofumi and Raphtalia immediately followed me, but I bet I heard the king gnash his teeth in anger that he couldn't do anything to me. It made me smile involuntarily.

"Let's go find that slave trader!" I said.

They looked at me strangely and the shield hero looked at me strangely.

"Why?" he asked me!

"We have to!" I answered briefly, and how should I answer him "hey, we're looking for him to buy an egg from which a loli bird will hatch, how do I know that? Well, I watched anime in my world!" I would be considered sick for such a statement, although I'm not normal, after so many murders, all I feel is indifference to them.

We found it pretty quickly, and also quickly bought the egg, then we went on to walk around the city, where Naofmu went into some shop, while Raphtalia and I waited for him on the street.

"Okay, let's go, we need to look into a magic shop." - said the shield hero, and we followed him.

Entering the shop, we saw a woman with a crystal ball in front of her.

This ball shows a person's predisposition to some kind of magic.

"Shield hero, you have a predisposition to healing and supportive magic," - said the woman to the shield hero.

Then she looked at Raphtalia and said.

"And you, young lady, have a predisposition to light and darkness."

Then she looked at me, and I went up to her ball, which at first showed nothing, but then lit up with a bright blue light.

"You have… I don't even know… It's like a predisposition to ice magic, but… it's hard to explain, as if such magic doesn't exist, and the ball only displays the general outlines!" - well, I expected this, since it's not exactly ice magic, especially from this world, but my cryo element.

Having left this woman's shop, we decided to pump up Raphtalia's level a little more, leaving the city, and went for a walk in the forest, where along the way the tanuki girl killed everything she saw, and Naofumi, as always, collected skins to sell them, although we already had a lot of money.

By evening, we arrived at some village, where we rented two rooms and went to sleep.

The next morning, there was a knock on the door of Raphtalia's and my room. I lazily got out of bed, since it was still early morning and I wouldn't mind sleeping if no one needed me.

"Naofumi? Have you seen what time it is?" I asked the shield hero while yawning.

"It's about 6am! But it doesn't matter the egg is hatching!" He said, to which I widened my eyes, as a cute girl would soon be joining our team.

I quickly woke up Raphtalia, who wasn't very happy about waking up early, and tried to pull the blanket over herself, but I insisted on my way and pulled the blanket off and picked Raphtalia up, causing her to squeak!

I laughed at her reaction, and carried her to Naofumi's room.

We walked in just as the egg cracked and a small bird emerged, which immediately jumped onto Naofumi's head.

"Oh my god, it's so cute!" I said, then added with a grin.

"Naofumi is now a mother?"

I saw his eyebrow twitch at my joke, but he remained silent.

The next two days, we were busy leveling up Raphtalia, and a bird named Filo, who grew up very quickly, and I couldn't stop laughing when Naofumi rode on her for the first time, when she came back to us, the shield hero's whole face was pale, as if he had seen death itself.

The bird was not picky about food at all, but we tried to feed it only the best we could buy.

After we left the pen where Filo was being held, we saw people gathering in the center of town, and of course we became curious.

I wish we hadn't come here! I saw that black-haired slut and her pedophile boyfriend again.

"For his exploits during the wave, the spear hero Motoyasu has been appointed ruler of this land! To help with the restoration, we have decided to set a fee! 50 silver to enter the village and the same to leave!" the red-haired girl said.

And of course, the locals didn't like this at all, they started to complain, but in fact, they couldn't do anything.

"You want to challenge the order of your ruler!" the red-haired girl asked.

"Of course I do!" a voice rang out next to me, and of course it was Naofumi.

"The shield hero? Have you been here before? This is Motoyasu's domain now, you have no right to doubt him! Come to think of it, get out of here, you criminal scum!" the red-haired girl screamed, but then I came out from behind the shield hero, and the slut turned pale, just like the spear hero himself.

I just smirked at their reaction.

"I can leave! But the villagers won't agree with you!"

Of course, she and the shield hero then started bickering with each other, until the slut was surrounded by figures in black and handed some kind of scroll.

After reading it, she looked at the shield hero and screamed!

"Shield hero, fight with us for the rule of this village!"

And of course, they agreed on a mount race, just like in an anime!

And of course, Filo punched the pedophile for mocking her.

As a result, Naofumi easily won this race, but a whore will not be a whore if she does not want to cause problems for the shield hero again, and again people in black cloaks appeared and she had to leave.

My God, what is the queen playing at, it was not easier to raise her daughter correctly from the very beginning, so that she would not behave like a complete whore.

The villagers thanked us, and gave us a whole cart for traveling, which was pulled by Filo!

Towards evening, we stopped for the night, where we lit a fire and fried the meat of the rabbits that Raphtalia killed.

Naofumi was on duty again, and Raphtalia and I went to bed, as always, I mechanically hugged her, pressing her to me and kissed her forehead before going to bed, and you could hear a soft purr from her.

Raphtalia, are you a tanuki or a cat? I laughed to myself and fell asleep with these thoughts.

"Where am I?" I couldn't ask myself.

I was in some room, the architecture of which resembled Japan or China.

But I couldn't interact with the outside world, since I was intangible and completely transparent.

"Is this a dream?"

I decided not to stay and went through the door that adjoined this room. The next room was much larger, in the center of which there was a table on which there were many papers.

On the left wall, I saw…

Ganyu? Is this the original? Why am I dreaming about her?

My thoughts were interrupted by a new figure who suddenly approached Ganyu and hugged her.

"Keqing? What are you doing here?" she asked the girl who was about 8 years old and was hugging her, her height only reached Ganyu's chest. And indeed, if you look closely, this girl is the spitting image of Keqing, only younger

"Ganyu, I'm bored! Play with me!" the girl said in a sad tone.

"Keqing, I can't I…" she stopped when she saw the sad face of the younger girl, strangely, when I also saw her face, I clearly felt Ganyu's emotions, because I felt the same way.

Ganyu sighed and replied.

"Okay! Just not for long, I still have a lot of work to do!" she said to the girl.

"Hurray!" she shouted and grabbed Ganyu's hand and dragged her out of the room.

After they left the door, the scene changed again, I was still in the same room, only Ganyu was sitting at the table, on which there was still a mountain of papers.

Another person entered the room, judging by the fact that I heard footsteps and turned around, I saw an already grown-up Keqing, who was no different from the character in the game.

When she approached the table, Ganyu looked up and looked at her, and sighed.

"Why?" Keqing asked quietly

"Keqing I…" Ganyu began to answer, but fell silent after looking at the girl's face.

"What? Maybe I'm not perfect for you? Or is it because of our age? Why do you refuse to go on a date with me at least once? Or am I unworthy of you!" she screamed, while Ganyu looked at her sadly, and I felt the same sadness, I don't know why.

"I… I'm sorry!" Ganyu said and fell silent.

Keqing took a breath and said to her.

"I don't understand you Ganyu, you're always so immersed in work that you forget to sleep, although both I and Miss Ningguang always told you to take a day off, but you still exhaust yourself! What are you running away from? You know what you can tell me!" Keqing said, with a pleading voice.

Ganyu looked at the table and couldn't look up.

"I'm sorry!" was all she could say.

"Okay!" Keqing said and turned to leave, I felt the reluctance to let her go rising in me, but I couldn't stop her, just like the original, she silently stood up from behind the chair, stretching out her hand, but still couldn't utter a single word.

When Keqing left, I heard Ganyu speaking.

"Forgive me Keqing! I'm not worthy of loving and being loved! I couldn't even protect the one I loved with all my heart!" she said in a sad voice, and I felt my heart squeeze in my chest and was ready to burst from sadness, sorrow and longing.

Ganyu looked out the window and added.

"I miss you, my love! And I will always love you, my precious wife!" she said and I saw a tear running down her cheek.

The world around me has changed, now I watch Ganyu standing on the balcony at night and looking into the distance, and Li Yue stretching out below her.

"Everything changes! People, houses, the era! But not me! I don't know who I am anymore, a woman who always wanted to love her wife, but couldn't protect her! I know that you don't want to see me like this Xi Er, but I can't stop blaming myself, and I never will!" Ganyu said in a sad voice, and I saw tears rolling down her cheeks, just like mine.

What for?

Am I crying?

But…

"You want to change your life." I heard a voice addressing Ganyu, I couldn't tell if it was a woman's voice or a man's.

"Who are you and where are you?" Ganyu said, looking around the entire room, but couldn't find the owner of this voice.

"I am the one who wants to help you!" the voice replied.

"Help? Nothing can help me, I killed my wife, and it can't be fixed!" Ganyu said

"You don't believe it yourself, just like everyone else! It wasn't you!"

"YES! BUT I SHOULD HAVE PROTECTED HER, BUT I DIDN'T, HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT FROM KILLING HER!" Ganyu screamed angrily and couldn't hold it in and fell to her knees in tears.

A woman with ears and a tail appeared in front of her, she crouched down and hugged Ganyu

"Hush, baby, I know you're in pain! But you forget the most important thing, your wife would not want you to blame yourself, and for your guilt to kill you." - said the woman, hugging Ganyu tightly

Ganyu began to cry harder, and I noticed how the woman's gaze was directed at me, but this should not be possible, I cannot manifest myself in the real world.

The scene changed again and I was standing in some dark space, and in front of me stood the same woman.

"How do you like the new world?" - she asked.

"What, but is it…" - I wanted to ask, but I could not.

"I know what you wanted to ask and no, you were not summoned to that world, you died in your first world, and I reincarnated you in the world of Teyvat, as Ganyu, you are not a double or a fake, you are the real Ganyu!" - she said

"But…"

"I took your memories because they were slowly destroying you. Even though it was your wish to be reborn without your memories, this world brought you pain. You already realized this, right? Yes, in that world, you found the love of your life, who was taken away from you during the "Archon War" And it killed many feelings in you. You constantly blamed only yourself for this, although others and your wife would never think so, and you deep in your heart did not think so either." - after her words, I could not hold back my tears, although I do not remember my wife, I felt the connection I created with her, as well as with Keqing, to whom I caused a lot of pain

"I… am terrible!" - I cried, falling to the floor, I do not remember any of this, but I clearly feel all of this in my heart.

"You know… In fact, your wife was also reborn." - these words made me stop crying and look at her.

"You are just an idiot! Your wife was reborn as the girl you call Keqing, after you disappeared into another world, she regained all her memories, and quickly went to look for you because she saw you killing yourself! And what kind of wife wouldn't be hurt if their loved one kills himself and blames only himself for everything."

"Please help me reunite with her! Even though I lost those memories, I feel love for her through our connection!" I said, hoping to reunite with the one I lost a long time ago!

"First, you have to finish this world you got into!"

"But why?" I asked.

"Because it was a deal, you and I made a contract, and you yourself know how important contracts are, you live in a city of contracts, well, you lived before! You help me, me with this world, and I return your wife to you, without me you would never have returned your memories, and you would have continued to kill yourself! "

"Okay! But will she be okay?" I asked this "goddess"?

"Don't worry, I'm looking after her, and now it's time for you to wake up, and your companions saw that you were crying, and they couldn't wake you up." I heard her words, and felt like something was tearing me out of this world.

I closed my eyes and surrendered to the darkness!