What's Wrong with Only Having a Shield? My Summoner Hates Me

Chapter 1.2

"Wait, am I getting reincarnated because of my status of a hero or because of the unfair death?" I ask out of pure curiosity.

To my surprise, the goddess angrily gets up from her throne and delivers a smack to the back of the head of the god.

"I told you that reincarnations only happen for those with the status of heroes!" The goddess puffs her cheeks.

"That's old-school, wouldn't it be better to let them get reincarnated after an unfair death?" The god argues back, grabbing at the puffed cheeks of the goddess.

The goddess grabs and pulls on the ears of the god, "You dimwit, we're supposed to follow the proper order with these things!"

Yikes, have I accidentally started a fight between gods?

The goddess sighs and finally releases the god, "Apologies, human. Despite being gods, we're only around 25 years old."

So, they're amateurs?

"Uhm, it's fine really, I'm just glad I get another chance at life," I say, attempting to calm down the tense atmosphere.

"You seem to already understand, you used to be an otaku after all," the god strokes his beard with his eyes closed, "You see, in this other world of ours, there are battles among people who call themselves "Summoners". Each Summoner has one to five Spirits that they summon and control to battle other Summoners and their Spirits with.

This scenario sounded very familiar to me. Almost too familiar.

Then it hit me, this other world was almost like the game of Fate Confusing Order!

The god points at me and my vision is suddenly narrowed by a heavy object covering my head. I felt something heavy covering my body and quickly noticed that something was adding some extra weight to my right arm.

Was I in armor?

I would have checked, but with the pure size and weight of the armor, I couldn't even move a muscle.

From my limited vision, I saw the goddess stand up.

"O, young one, you have been chosen by the legendary "Shield of Two Opposites", a weapon suitable for a hero who died protecting a loved one." She theatrically swings her arms wide apart, "Now, you'll go on an adventure of your own! As a parting gift, you may be granted one wish!" The goddess said.

"Uhm, well you see..."

"What is it, o, young one?"

"I can't move or even see much with this armor."

"...Oh, I see."

I couldn't see the goddess's face, but I pray to her that she wasn't giggling at me.

In an instant, light begins to surround me. I felt a large weight jump right off my body, and most importantly, off my head. I opened my eyes to find that I was left with a cool-looking black chest plate, however, the greatest difference I noticed was a large white medieval shield on my arm.

The shield was in the circular shape of a Parma shield. I clearly remembered the name of the shield because of my favorite history teacher who enjoyed dressing up in fake medieval armor when I was in the 7th grade. I noticed that engraved in the center of my shield was a single type of purple jewel that I couldn't quite distinguish what type of jewel it was.

I looked up to the goddess with gratitude.

"Thanks, I can see and move much, much better now."

"It suits you kid" The god nods in approval with his thumbs up.

I analyze myself, and to be honest, I'm not sure if the red sweater and jeans matched the dark chest plate and white shield. Surely if a god said it looked good, that means it should, right?

Dragging me out of my fashion thoughts, a red summoning circle suddenly appears directly below me. My body started to feel lighter and lighter as parts of it began to disappear into the red light. I looked around me and the room started to spin.

"Oh, that was rather quick. Usually, it takes a couple of days, but it would seem that you're about to be summoned." The goddess says with a slightly surprised expression, "I wish you the very best on your journeys with your new Summoner."

I nodded and closed my eyes as my body slowly drifted away into the other world. I wasn't really ready to leave Earth and my university life, but right now, I knew what I had to do. I was given a chance at life with powers and a shield, protecting my new Summoner is my duty.

Goodbye Lisa, goodbye part-time job, goodbye budget gaming pc, and goodbye to my university life!

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I opened my eyes and found myself face to face with a girl who had a look of disgust on her face. Not the first time I've come to face a girl that looked at me with disgust.

Grade 6 was a cursed grade for me, and no, I will not elaborate on it.