A NEET’s Guide to the Parallel World: Healer, the Strongest Cheat? Chapter 2: The hero summoning

My eyes flickered open as my consciousness returned. I was already standing, an old man visible in front of . He wore a clean brown robe with a white beard. Opposite him, was a beautiful girl with glossy blonde hair and porcelain like skin, who stood in a pure white dress. They seed to almost bounce in excitent, repeating the sa word over and over.

Success.

Set further back between the two, was a throne. A red cloth, embroidered with a golden fringe adorned where an arrogant looking man sat, his golden beard matched the hair on his head as he looked in my direction.

Albert, your efforts have been rewarded.

Guu~, I am unworthy of such words.

The old man bowed as he wiped away tears.

Well done, Albert.

Thats when I heard a voice seething with anger.

What are you talking about!?

Looking behind , it was none other than Saeki standing there. But it wasnt just him, my entire year two class was gathered there.

What are you talking about? Demons, war, youre ruining our lunch break, no as a matter of fact, this is kidnapping. Do you understand what youve done?

This place seems to be an RPG like throne room.

Supporting struts lined the room, in front of each stood a guard dressed in silver armor equipped with a spear. It looked quite fancy.

Hero summoning? Dont ss with , let us go now!

Saiki was yelling at the man seated in the throne. It seems there had been so kind of talk while my mind was wondering but, why is he mad?

You dare be rude to the king?

A number of guards surrounded Saeki lowering their spears at him. Seeing this Saekis face cramped in fear as Kida trembled behind him.

Its fine.

At the kings command the guards raised their spears and returned to their original positions.

We have been throwing ourselves into the war for a long ti now, however the war still continues as the demons magic is incredibly strong. Fortunately, until now weve had the power to hold them off, but our numbers are continuing to fall. As such, we perford the hero summoning; for has been written, that those summoned receive Gods blessing and through grace receive powerful abilities. So I ask you, will you lend us your strength?

.Send us ho.

I regret to inform you, that it is not possible to send back those that have been summoned. Your only choice is to begin a new life here.

Its not that we cant go ho right, youre just trying to make a fool out of .

According to Saeki, it seems weve all been kidnapped. Furthermore, weve been brought to a parallel world.

Towards Saeki who glared at him angrily the king quietly raised his palm. In response to such a strange action Saeki wrinkled his eyebrows continuing to glare at the king. The king spoke softly however his words were drowned out by Saeki.

Ill say it more clearly-

A blue light shine out from the kings palm. In the next instant the air vibrated as a blue sphere flew from the kings palm. One mont it was flying towards us, in the next there was a small explosion at Saekis feet.

Saeki stared down in fear, there was a torch mark there the sll of sothing burning radiating out from it.

My apologies this, is magic. Its difficult to explain to those who dont believe, so please forgive such a forward display.

The king spoke quietly with a gentle expression.

By the way, what is your na?

Saeki

Saeki gave his na in fear. The king began to talking about his kingdom as tho addressing Saeki. Listening to the story excited , a parallel world, magic, other races-.

What are you talking about? Just say it already!

That doesnt however seem to be the case for Saeki. Although cowed before the kings magic, he seems to have returned to normal.

Youre story is too long!

At those words one of the other students intervened.

Saeki

What?

I apologise uhmyour majesty. Let talk with him for a mont.

Ichijo Yukimura.

A handso guy with a rose colored school life, always surrounded by girls. What does soone with such a satisfying life intend to do?

Saeki, we are surrounded by guards with pointy objects. The king could have them kill us at any mont. So in other words, shut up.

Girls clung to Ichijos arms on either side of him. Their nas were Majima and Kihara, each of them making goo-goo eyes in Ichijos direction.

Right~, Saeki, you cant read the air at all.

Clinging to arm on the right side was Majima Kyouka, she had sunkissed skin with brown hair gathered behind her head and a pink sweater tied around her waist.

Yeah, why dont you shut up for a bit.

On the left, Kihara Madoka. White skin and bleached blonde hair with the sa pink sweater tied around her waist.

Have you finished?

My apologies Ichijo said bowing as Saeki turned away sulking.

It may be wrong of but I ask that you save us from the demons. We have everything you may need here, food, clothes, a place to sleep, etc. However if you leave the country, its unknown territory. Youre not ready for that.

Its possible to enjoy a safe, fun and relaxing life in another world here. The king just said as much.

According to the literature, the summoned heros will have no knowledge of this world. If thats true, then there is no safer place than here.

At that the beautiful golden haired girl, the white haired old man, and the king all turned to us.

Heros, we ask that you help this world.

With a sorrowful expression the king lowered his head to us.

You must be joking, were highschoolers.

Not able to keep his mouth shut for more than a few monts, Saeki scoffed at their words.

This is no joke. What we perford was no ordinary summoning magic.

A hero summoning?

The king nodded at Saekis question.

Although angry Saeki seed to be listening to the king.

Although Ive said it before, those called by the hero summoning are blessed with great abilities and advanced jobs. Furthermore, should you possess the job of you will have even greater abilities.

I will explain from here.

The beautiful girl standing to the left of the king stepped forward. Her na seed to be Aries, she began to explain in place of the king. For a mont her beautiful plump body nearly stole my heart, but I averted my gaze barely managing to keep my thoughts from wandering.

First lets check your status and take a look at the [occupation] column.

Right, how do we check our status exactly?

Ichigo asks this as the girls on either side turn their heads to look at each other.

First, please say status then it should appear in front of you.

With such a simple explanation, everyones voices rang out at the sa ti.

Their status appeared before then and the moved to check their [occupation].

Aries, would you mind taking a look at this?

A voice called out separate from the others. It was of course Saeki.

Oddly, instead of the arrogant attitude he had earlier, Saeki was being quite polite. Although he did have a large smile on face.

As Aries moved to look at the status, the look on her face said shed rather be doing anything else.

This, this is-

Her voice rose gleefully.

Your majesty! Saekis occupation is Wiseman! Hes also got the advanced fire magic [Crushing Blaze].

Saeki Kenya

1 Sage Human

70 60

15 17 25 20

15 13 17

Hero

Crushing Blaze

Both the king and Albert beca excited at this news.

Hero! Its a hero!

Excitent spread through the hall and at the center of it all, was Ichijo.

His status is incredible! Hes got unique magic, not to ntion unique skills!

Ichijo Yukimura

1 Hero Human

100 100

20 20 20

20

20 20 20

Hero

Excalibur

Fireball, waterflow, thunderbolt, windblade, sand spear.

explosion

The strength slowly leaves my body. The blessed have received even more blessings, this world is cruel and unreasonable.

But, even if Im jealous theres no helping it. The hero has been decided as Ichijo. Its my turn next. Even if Im not a hero I hope to be either a safe like Saeki or so other strong occupation.

Status

If I say that, everyone else seed to understand it fairly normally. I shouldnt have any issues understanding it. I thought it might be possible that I wouldnt be able to read it. However, when the status appeared, the reality was projected before .

I began to feel nauseous. The blessing that was given to , was .