Chapter 5: I am not a Hero, just a Human with a Sword

Reinhard's sword swing caused a hurricane across the square, the wind even moving the corpses of the Wyvern in the air. Quinn had trouble keeping her feet on the ground, surprised by the strength of the red-haired swordsman in front of her. But the surprise does not end there, since, at the moment when the young knight swung his sword, he managed to make the space form many copies of it at the same time, there were more than 200 sword blows which immediately impacted with the Wyvern.

The blows were strong enough to instantly kill each of the attacking Wyvern, Reinhard sighed as he saw the blood fall from the sky, strangely no drop of blood stained his white uniform, it is as if he was protected by a barrier. Even so, he didn't care much since he didn't want to walk around in his uniform full of blood.

Reinhard sighed a little before looking around the place and seeing that his blows had caused damage to the buildings. Reinhard cringed a bit at the thought of paying the damages, he didn't want to lose money without having a stable source of income and a nice home.

"I'm afraid if he sold a lot of beast carcasses I'll make them lose their nerve ..." Reinhard said as he scratched the back of his neck nervously and thought that he could take the hunters' jobs away.

Quinn couldn't believe her eyes, she had seen a lot in the summoner's rift but someone who could do more than 150 hits with a single swing was something new to her.

"Can not be..."

The woman in the tight suit heard a voice next to her, for the surprise she had, she could not recognize whose voice it was, so she turned her head to see the origin of the voice.

She was surprised to see who the person who had spoken was, looking equally surprised that she was by what just happened, Liliana Crownguad was looking at Reinhard's back with total admiration, the same case was for the two women next to her. Lady Spiritmight and Poppy were looking totally enthralled by Reinhard's display of power a couple of seconds ago.

"He could be the ... Hero"

Quinn shook her head as she was exasperated by what her partner just said, she really didn't have time to deal with Poppy's fantasies, but it seemed like she had no choice but to hang on for a while until the Yordle makes the swordsman. in front of him, test to see if he could hold the hammer without repercussions

"They don't pay me enough for this," Quinn whispered as she rubbed her forehead with her hand, indeed sometimes Poppy could be a completely excruciating headache, but that didn't matter much to Quinn at this point, ever since the League of Legends had started, she had discovered how to work as a team.

And so before Quinn, Liliana and Lady Spiritmight came out of their thoughts, Poppy happily went towards Reinhard's back, as she had no ill intentions towards him, the young knight did not realize what was happening.

As Reinhard admired his work, he felt someone tug at his sleeves hard, causing him to almost fall to the ground. Since he wasn't prepared to have so much force pulling it down, he was also grateful that the uniform was sturdy.

"Why did you pull my sleeve soooooooo ..."

Reinhard's words died as the young knight turned around, the first thing he saw was a large hammer, then he looked down a bit and saw soft blond hair before he lowered his gaze further and managed to see with who was chatting.

'Damn she's the first champion I've ever come across' Reinhard thought as he took a closer look at the facial features of the girl in front of him, although it was a bit strange, he could tell that Poppy was undoubtedly beautiful and for some strange reason activated a feeling of wanting to protect her from harm

"Excuse me, Miss. But ...May I know what you need from me?" Reinhard said as she made his knight salute, placing a hand on his chest and bowing slightly to show respect to the girl in front of him.

Poppy did not expect this from the young knight in front of her, most of the times she threw people that way, but always, they ended up getting angry with her, yelling at her and challenging her to a battle. It was kind of refreshing to see someone who didn't seem to care the way she was, with a smile she decided to answer Reinhard's question.

"I need you to hold this ..." Poppy said as she took the hammer from her back and with one hand placed it in front of Reinhard, the young knight looked at the hammer a bit before he hesitantly decided to hold it.

"* Sigh * Okay, let me hold it"

After saying that, Reinhard returned his sword to his waist. When he made sure that the sword was securely held, he decided to slowly extend his hand to grasp the hammer, with a nervous smile seeing how Poppy's expression was full of hope and happiness. Seeing such an expression on her face, she didn't want to see what it would look like when she was sad and disappointed, so with all her will, she decided to make the hammer accept it.

When his hand touched the handle of the hammer, he felt as if the weapon had accepted him. Upon realizing that, he raised his hand to the side of the hammer, as he did so he realized that it was lighter than it seemed. Maybe it was because the hammer had accepted him or maybe it was because he was very strong. Reinhard didn't care, he knew that even if the hammer would accept it. There was no one more worthy of carrying his legendary weight than Poppy.

"Hm, it certainly is a beautiful hammer ..."

But before Reinhard could continue praising the hammer, he heard a crying sound, coming from the front.

"* Sniff * ... At last ... * Sniff * ... At last, I found you ... Hero!"

After Poppy said that she lunged at Reinhard, jumping towards his chest causing the young knight to fall backward, Reinhard could not process anything that was happening at the moment, showing a confused face. But after feeling Poppy tightens his uniform tightly, he could feel the tears wetting his shirt, he seemed to realize something.

Reinhard did not know what to do, this was the first time that a girl lunged at him like that. After a few seconds of hard thinking, Reinhard came up with a single solution, remembering the Re: Zero anime, especially chapter 8. Reinhard decided to sit down while placing Poppy's head on his lap.

'What do I do now?!' It was Reinhard's thoughts as he realized that he didn't know what else to do, he needed something fast, or else he would look stupid. So swallowing all his nerves, Reinhard decided to stroke the Yordle's head.

That caused Poppy to be a bit embarrassed, it was the first time anyone had done this for her. Besides the fact that it was the hero himself who was doing it, that made it a thousand times better for her. Then she realized that she could feel the heat of his body through his clothes, the heat of his body was doing wonders to comfort Poppy. But before she started crying again, she felt a hand caress her head, calming her entire mind, as if telling her that everything was fine now.

"Hero? ..." Poppy said as she turned her head to see the face of the person she has searched for many years, it was like a dream come true for her. She had found the Hero and he was calming her heart that was being invaded by growing emotions that she had kept for so many years.

The beautiful face of the Hero burned in her memory, that smile and warm look that he was giving, reminded her of Grandpa Orlon, in his last moments when he told him about the history of the hammer, the Hero's hand touched her cheek gently wiping the tears that had fallen from her eyes.

"Miss ... You didn't need to find any Hero, after all, you are the real Hero"

Those words resonated in Poppy's mind, the hammer had been grasped by the Hero's hands, that meant that the person in front of it was the Hero. It had to be, there was no doubt. But...

"Even though the hammer has accepted me, it still seems to prefer you. So don't sell yourself short, Miss."

But before Poppy could answer him, Reinhard spoke again thus ending any attempt by Poppy to belittle herself.

"I am not a Hero, just a Human with a Sword"

Those words brought a memory to Poppy, a memory from 3 years ago when the League of Legends was just getting started. That memory was on a distant winter day.

(Flashback Begins)

"So you're going to be a Champion for the League of Legends, and you're going to represent your nation, right?" The elder summoner said while talking to Poppy who was standing in the center of the room, while in front of them were 5 elder summoners, and the tallest one was speaking.

"Yes, that is my duty"

"So you are a Hero?" A summoner who stood next to the first asked.

"I am no Heroine, just a Yordle with a Hammer"

(Flashback Ends)

"Your..."

That was the last thing Poppy said before she fell asleep holding his hand, the champion seemed to be tired after letting out all the suppressed feelings.

'I hope she has more self-esteem now' Reinhard thought carefully putting Poppy on the ground and getting up, the young knight turned around to look at the whole square before realizing that there were more people, besides "The Guardian of the Hammer".

There were Liliana, the female knight, and a woman he related to Quinn. Seeing that they seemed lost in thought, Reinhard decided to leave before they could question him or something like that, the damage that he caused although it was not much, it would still cost a considerable amount to fix, that made Reinhard decide to leave and avoid problems, taking two corpses of Wyvern that appeared intact.

Seconds after Reinhard disappeared, the girls seemed to wake up from their trance and realized that Poppy was on the ground. Quinn rushed over to see her partner's condition, so she quickly took her vitals and checked her body.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with Poppy, the woman in the tight suit sighed in relief and decided to look around for the figure of the red-haired swordsman, only to find the square empty, in addition to Liliana and Lady Spiritmight.

At that moment Quinn realized that the Yordle was hugging a black glove, which she was able to associate with Reinhard. Seeing how Poppy hugged the glove with so much affection she realized that whatever happened, Reinhard did not do anything wrong with her partner.

"Excuse me, Lady Quinn" Liliana said from behind her back, causing her attention to shift from Poppy to the girl belonging to the nobility. Quinn knew that she knew more about Reinhard so after this she would ask her a few questions.

"Is something the matter, Lady Crownguard?" Quinn said completely forgetting that Liliana and Lady Spiritmight had followed her despite the danger, she was too busy to notice some things.

"Do you know where Lord Reinhard went?"

That question was asked by Lady Spiritmight, who had spoken for the first time in 6 hours. The truth is that Miss Spiritmight is very shy, she may be one of the most talented members of the Demacian army, but she has had 0 experience talking to men in addition to work.

"Melissa, you should calm down a bit ..." Liliana said as she felt the sweat falling down her forehead, the name of the female knight was, Melissa Spiritmight. She was the niece of the Prince's Mother, Lady Catherine. That meant she was a woman of high status, one much higher than Liliana's.

"I can't, Liliana. I need Lord Reinhard to be my teacher, he could teach me to improve, he could help me become a Hero I always wanted to be, and maybe become a League of Legends Champion."

Quinn who overheard the conversation between the two rich girls decided to disconnect from everything. She sighed, even more exasperated. Noticing that she couldn't find any trace of the red-haired swordsman, not even a miserable clue. It's like everything about her is clean and pure, which caused even more headaches for Quinn, who had a lot of questions to ask Reinhard.

"Lady Crownguard"

"Yes?"

"I need you to tell me all the information you know about Reinhard, everything you remember will do" Quinn said as she gave Valor, one of Wyvern's eyes on the ground, she knew that her partner had a special taste for Wyvern's eyes so with a calm smile she gave him the eye he had found

"Hmmmmm, let's see ... He said his name was Reinhard van Astrea, besides he called himself the Sword Saint of this generation" Liliana said giving the woman in the tight suit all the information she knew about Reinhard, also telling her how their first meeting was and that she had the idea of ​​joking a bit with him, because he seemed very nervous.

Quinn listened carefully keeping every word Liliana said in her mind, she would have to conduct a massive investigation later ...

'What a bummer'

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A/N: Well, first I wanted to tell you that I've had a problem lately. So I may upload chapters later than normal. But don't worry the chapters will keep coming. I hope you are having a good time, and that you are all healthy.

See you later.

-KOTOMINE