Shotaro: journey of a hero that kept moving forward

Running through the ruins of his creation, Shotaro exits the barrier he ripped a hole in off, he feels bad for blowing the green tower like that tho, but Paliv reassures him that she can have someone else use time magic to undo his destruction, but Shotaro, knowing Alakshmi's properties isn't sure if magic can redo its destruction, whatever he says as the trio makes their way to the other side of Olive dale, as Granny P. informs "The dark elves are blended into the crowd, try to find them with your supposed sharp eyes".

"I never fucking met one, I wouldn't know" Shotaro replies.

"Just how most elves have blonde hair & green eyes with bright skin" Paliv explains

"Dark elves have darker skin tone, reddish-purplish hair & golden eyes".

"So they are basically Isekai Ni---Sorry I didn't say anything" Shotaro clenches his mouth shut.

Granny P decided to investigate the area near the eastern bank river, while Paliv & Shotaro were ordered by the former military general to find the intruders in the western, basically olive dale is a riverine island type of city with only the Moss bridge connecting it to main land, so they got separated.

As they were running here & there, Shotaro bumped into a familiar face.

"Sho-dono?" Kazam said in surprised.

"You're that dude I met some hours ago, that ass seller" Shotaro replied, "& what with that nickname".

"Hey" the fem boy smacked his chest lightly in an offended way. "I have a name, you know".

"Who is this girl, hero?" Paliv asked, not knowing the pole between Kazam's legs.

Kazam looked at her, his eye widened in shock "The princess!!!" he exclaimed in shock followed by a bow, so fast he accidentally hit his forehead.

"This is giving.....suppressed civilian" Shotaro commented into confusion before he got an idea, "if you live here, & sell your ass, you may know most of these people right?" he said with a smirk before picking him up, "he may help us sort them out".

"Who...exactly?" the ass seller asked.

"The dark elves" Paliv answered followed by a shocked gasp.

"The dark elves?, why would they break the treaty & intrude beyond the Evening glory valley?" he asked, "this would only cause a war".

Shotaro had a face of obliviousness, "umm..am I missing something?".

"Oh I forgot" Kazam "you're a foreigner right?, actually that's an understatement".

"After the first Elf war1, the resources were fucking depleted so it caused the first elven civil war2 , the light elves got the favour of the great wolves somehow & won the fight & enslaved their dark counterparts, made them work in the fields, inhumane behaviour & all, treating them like dirt" Paliv explained.

"Great..wolves" Shotaro had a moment of recollection, "Garm....her people helped defeated the elves?".

"& what was the treaty?" Shotaro continued.

This time, Kazam answered, "Basically the dark elves had enough & had the that time king, Bardwin I killed & boom, the second elven civil war".

Suddenly, a certain familiar old man's face came into Shotaro's mind, "Halasar, he was in the second elven civil war, wasn't he? So it was his father that was killed all those ages ago?" he monologued to himself, feeling a bit of pity, even tho he finds that guru kind of annoying.

"But this time, the wolves decided to be just the observers & boom, it was a draw". Paliv stated, "Both races were almost finished so Bardwin II Ellarion decided to sign a treaty & announced the Dark elf tribe, consisting of the remaining dark elves & gave them the evening Glory valley to themselves while he ruled the remains of Olive dale".

"That sister fucking bastard?" Shotaro replied.

"Why would they intrude now?" Kazam wondered.

That made Shotaro think to himself, "Why would'n they, it was once their land too & after all these years their population have grown too much for one valley to sustain, if I was them I would be crashing the fuck out too" but he thought to himself again, "But he is right?, why now? That's a mystery I am eager to find out".

Kazam joins them, out of respect for the princess, as they sprinted across masses.

"There are millions here1, Where could they be amongst all these rotting life & filth?".

"Think about it" Shotaro said, "If you are able to be pointed out by your skin colour or bodily features, you would be covering from head to toe".

"That makes sense" Paliv said.

Shotaro saw a woman, wearing a full white gown, he thought it was weird for such a warm-humid climate, he smirks, "You think you're slick huh" he grabs the woman by her hand.

The woman exclaimed in horror, suspicious to him, said some foreign language but Shotaro didn't have time to listen, so he pulled the white veil off her body, "found YA--HUH?" he exclaimed at it was just a woman, not even an elf let alone a dark one, just a woman with a nose pin, & ear lobes pierced of gold...the woman screamed & ran off, Shotaro looked here & there, people were looking at him with horror. "Shotaro" Paliv informed him, "She was from the desert cult, probably a trader's wife, They follow the deserted god, their own religion" her eye saddened by grief "You soiled her by seeing her face"

"She will get killed by them, that veil was her honour".

"You got her killed" She said

suddenly, Shotaro felt the moons & stars shattering over his head as he realised his deeds, he got that poor woman killed, no he can't just let it happen, "I will try to save".

"You can kill a person, maybe even a god" Paliv said, "Shotaro Mugyiwara, but how will you kill an ages old believe?".

Shotaro gulped in shock as the star of people, in his mind became big red eyeballs in an abyss like room, he literally caused an innocent woman to lose her life.

"Sho-dono" Kazam tried to make him listen, "Let's focus on finding the queen".

But Shotaro could feel his soul getting stabbed again & again by his own ribcage, that was the amount of realisation he was feeling, "Do I even deserve the prophecy written for me?" he wondered, "Am I really the supposed messiah, or just an asshole who does stuff out of over-confidence & fucks up the already fucked-situation?".

"Snap out of it, brat" an elderly angry voice ranged from behind him, Granny P entered the scene, "I didn't find shit at the east bank, so I decided to come here & you are already tweaking like that".

"But I" he gets cut off mid-sentence.

"You're prophesised to be the great saviour, that doesn't mean you ALREADY are" Granny P said "You lack knowledge, self-control, decision-making & look that caused that poor woman her life".

"But all you can do" She said

"All you can do" Paliv repeated

"All you can do" Kazam added.

"Is keep moving forward" Shotaro finished the line as an idea came across his mind.

"I get it" he said to himself, "Dark elves Can't eat lemons, oranges & amlas right?".

"Yeah" Paliv said, "I wonder why?".

"One set of pattern is there" Shotaro added, as he scribbled something on a wall next to them.

 C6H8O7.

"What is this?" The ass seller asked.

"Some kind of spell" Paliv added, "or a mantra perhaps?".

"Some kind of seal maybe?" Granny P put a hand on her chin.

"I present you" Shotaro said, "Citric acid".

"umm...what?" Granny P asked.

Shotaro rubber the bridge of his nose by his finger in pride, "I remembered I was quite good at chemistry".

They all cringed at his usual over-confidence, but wasn't that what was charming about Shotaro Mugyiwara, out of his convential attractiveness?.

"Ok brat" Granny P asked with a knowing smirk, "How is this Kemastry of yours going to help us".

"I need lemon & orange juice, SHIT TON OF THEM" Shotaro replied, "your time starts now".

"But how are we gonn---" Kazam gets cut off by Shotaro, "Paliv have botanical spells".

Paliv instantly realised what was he on about, "On it".

After cultivating a shit ton of lemon juice, processing it with fragrance & itras with his earthly knowledge, Shotaro creates a perfume, the one that expands instantly in contact with heat.

Shotaro just goes in the middle of Olive Dale, where the tall statue of Luthor Ellarion was, kinda poetic even after his death, he still sorts his kingdom's problem out, sets the giant torch its hand on fire, despite the angry chants of the citizens, throws in the barrel of the liquid he processed, as a citrus filled, pleasant, fresh fragrance spread across the land, despite how big it was.

Shotaro can see some people, covered in head to toes, coughing.

He unveils all of them, & the dark elves intruders, after 12 hours of constant search, were caught.

So he beats them up & had them lead them to where they kept the court members.

It was a secret cabin, in the sewage system.

"Not a good place to keep a queen" Paliv commented, knowing she's going to find her mother soon, but unveils it to the usual sight of Queen Merrial just laying on the ground not caring if she dies or not, not even while her daughter stands right there.

"As drunk as always" Paliv said in mock frustration.

But Shotaro had other plans, he had Kazam take the court members to safety.

He walked towards the queen, "Hey you're the queen, right?, I wanted to meet you so badly".

She looked at him, not recognizing the hero, "Huh?".

But before she could say anything, Shotaro smashed his fist into her face, "GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER" he punched her again & again, forcing her out of her drunken state out of sheer pain.

Everyone was shocked as Shotaro kneed their queen in the face, Paliv tried to stop him by blowing him away but Granny P stopped her from saving her mother, as she noticed the return of life in those eyes that were apathetic to all existence after her love died.

"SHOTARO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" Paliv screamed & shouted, trying to get out of her grip.

The queen vomited blood, looked back at him with shock, "Do you even know what you're going, you dumb brute".

"Who is the dumb brute here?" Shotaro asked with rage, "Me or the failure of a queen, even bigger failure of a wife & a mother who let her masses eat each other out in filth while she drowns herself in pathetic drunken apathy, trying to run from her duty" He said as a gust of wing sliced his ear off, but he didn't cared.

"you bastard" the queen said, her life returned to her mind, the vessel of return being rage & realisation, "WHAT DO YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT PAIN".

"YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WENT THROUGH SUCH LOSS & YOU WILL NOT BE THE LAST" Shotaro shouted back, "Your pain just matters more cause you're the queen ain't it???" he said with sarcasm.

The queen held her bloodied body, with self realisation, he literally punched some senses into her, she can't die like this, not as failure, she has to live, just as Luthor would like her too, for Paliv, for the kingdom.

Seeing Shotaro's point, she asked, "You're right, what I was living was'nt what Luthor died for".

"Even if you gonna live for eternity, you have to live as you won't".

Shotaro sighed to himself, knowing he may have finnaly don him something that earns him his title, or if not, it was closer than ever, so that's also a win.

Paliv ran & hugged her mother, who hugged her back as she kissed her on forehead, "I am sorry, dear, for everything" She said between tears, "I will compensate all those ears where I could'nt be your mother from now on by being 4 times the mother I am".

"That didn't maked sense but thank you mother" Paliv replied.

Shotaro & Granny P was looking from far away, with smiles on his face due to the wholesomness, Shotaro wraps around his big arm, as Granny P looked at his red eyes with deep fondness..............WAIT.

They snapped out of it as Shotaro gagged, "What was that shit?? FUCKING FOSSIL".

Granny P did the same do, "Don't do that again kid, that was actually disgusting".

"I am not Grandma-fucker" Shotaro replied.

"& I don't like man" Granny P said.

Suddenly hearing this commotion, Merrial looked at the duo & asked, "I forgot, who are you, so audacious to hit me? yet understanding enough to know the importance of such action".

"Me?" Shotaro repeated, he smirks, Paliv said, "Mother, he's the great savi--" gets cut off by Shotaro.

 "I am Shotaro Mugyiwara"1.