"Gah!"

The pope screamed as his arm holding the sword was cut off. He never saw it coming...

"you.... HERETIC!!!" He shouted at me. Blood splattered over my body as I grinned wickedly as I took his other arm.

"You've no one to blame but yourself, priest. If you're wondering why no shadows have come to your rescue... hehe, take a wild guess!"

"You......" he grows as I smirk.

"And now for my killer poem!

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

In the name of the queen....

I bring my sword down into his neck and hold his head in my hands as every one looks on in horror.

"Here you go fucking bitch." I toss the head at malty who reflexively grabs it before dropping it screaming.

"Enough is enough. This time the church has gone too far this time and I've had ENOUGH! The king, the church, and the 1st princess need to go. So, here's the deal. We're going to annihilate the old church and bring all their sins to light, and I will take over and rebuild a new religion where all are treated equally. And you two, will help me!"

Beloukas speaks first. "Why should I do that?"

I sneer. "Cause you're in my house, I can kill you and take what I want, and not only is your business not legal, but you're merchandise is in a trash condition and I can fix that so they can be sold at a higher price, plus you're business will fall through at the start of the final wave. And if you want better business you'll do as I say."

He had a mixture of fear and excitement at my threats and the thought of better business.

"As for you queen, this is the best option. As the shield hero proves stronger and more resilient, the church will go after all his allies including you and your people. It's only going to get worse. I need your go ahead and assistance your majesty."

"Very well. What do you need?"

"First off, I need your most experienced and trustworthy shadow. Beloukas round up all your slaves, even the ones near death, and pack up shop. You're coming to stay here with me till it all blows over. I'll treat your slaves with my magic free of charge, but I need some for my personal use. We're going to annihilate the church, we need a army."

"Certainly... but why must I Move my shop?" Beloukas asks.

"Because, you sold the shield hero his slave and filofial queen. Obviously if he can't catch the shield, he'll take it out on you and you're business! And the nobles will say nothing because it's the princess we're talking about..."

"And why do you need one of my shadows?" Queen Mirelia said.

"I'm going to make my own shadow guard. I've made a machine that can transfer experience and knowledge to another. You're guards are good but not enough to accomplish the goal. All the churches shadows need to die or else we'll have trouble in the future. But shadow guards are a necessity to keep order for us."

"I see. I'm intrigued by this machine..."

"Yes well, we'll use it more in the future. Now then, after we round all of them up and heal them we'll prepare them properly. I'll let your shadow guard choose ones most appropriate for the position, as for the rest... we'll see."

"What happens next? Well once the slaves are treated I'll mark some of them as slaves. The ones that my partner and the shadow gaurd the queen appoints chooses will stay as my first employees. I also would like the shadow guard you gave me to act as my new head guard. In addition I'd like some human slaves from Stilvelt. Preferably ones that know business and are maids... I need some people to manage the shops and facilities here. I'm not sure demihumans would be well received after all. Next, we need someone to keep an eye on the pope and his shadows. KILL the shadows one by one. I'll play an active role in this with the strays I picked up. We'll kill the devotees that are causing naofumi trouble. I will go 'alone' and draw out the shadows attention... And we kill them. On the day the priest goes to the border with the spear we'll ambush the church with our numbers and kill all of them, and the pope as well. I'll leave the rest of the planning and deals to my bunny, for now I gotta go buy my friend some time."

I poof out of there.

...

"Sup retards! I see you got smart and decided to heed an innocent mans words for once."

The guys and their parties draw their weapons when they notice me.

"Chill out! I'm here gathering more evidence for the queen..."

"So? That doesn't excuse what you did!"

"Shut up! You aren't one to talk. You 3 bitches have done nothing for the people. Naofumi has made high quality medicine, naofumi made magical accessories that protect people to help the powerless, naofumi solved the problems YOU GUYS created! You're not only weak, but naive as well. Only when foul play is placed square in your face do you get suspicious. Do you not understand? This isn't a game! People's lives are at stake. You couldn't protect the town and you couldn't agree on how to fight the boss. Only when naofumi came did the fight end. Listen, if us five can't cooperate we won't over come the final wave. In any case I didn't come to fight, I came to gather Intel and protect you guys. This is the churches archives after all. If worse comes to worse they'll end your life for finding out the truth. I've read everything here, but I will watch over you for now... it's almost time..."

I sit and stare off with a sad look. Ren and itsuki share a look before looking around. About half an hour passes before I perk up.

"REN! ITSUKI! GET OVER HERE!" I shout as a powerful magic blows up the place.

Rens POV

The white haired man guides us to where Alyss is. He was skipping with a crazed look on his face. We soon arrived at a dining room. Alyss was eating food when we entered.

"Aly-chaaaan~!" The white haired man said. "I brought the guests!"

She wiped her mouth before putting the napkin down.l and directed us to sit.

"Come and eat! I'm sure you have questions, so sit and eat. We'll talk later."

"Aly-chan~ I want some too!" I regaled back when she shot a fireball at him and laughed.

"Not on you're life! GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Haaah, not interesting at all."

We sit down awkwardly and she begins to explain what she's been up to and answered our questions as if she could read our minds.

"Anyways, it's almost time we go back! I've got a religion to punish and all."

"Wait! What happened to you and Naofumi? You're personalities are different and that shield he had..." I said. Itsuki nods in agreement.

"That's the power of the curse series. Naofumi got it after me in cheated in the duel... but it was already close to activating after her betrayal! He became unhinged and resentful to you guys, women, and this world, ESPECIALLY his shield... he lost his sense of taste after the accusation, but he didn't quite succumb to despair and anger. But after the duel it activated. It's called the wrath shield. It's of the 7 deadly sins series of weapons and it's very dangerous. It gives a person power yes, but at the cost of your soul. It's an unholy weapon driven by strong emotions and in the case of the wrath shield, it's anger and hatred. The sins series eats away at your soul causing a decay in personality and morals the more you use it... eventually if you use it too much you could indeed become a demon... and thanks to you he has a good boost to it! The dragon you left to rot that became a dragon zombie? They killed it. It was a dragon emperor named Gaelion, a descendant of the apocalyptic dragon god Bahamut zero, and an object of worship of the aotatsu from Stilvelt. It was badly injured during a wave protecting it's daughter who was a dog demihuman named Wyndia,

One of your party members sold her for a high price you know? I made a deal with the slaver recently and got her. She's currently training and can't see you but when she does I'm sure she'll give you a piece of her mind. Anyway, Gaelions nucleus holds his hatred and rage and it enhances all the effects of the shield of wrath including the negative ones. As for me, mine activated the day of the trial, I just never used it..." I don't know what to say anymore. Hearing that all I've done as a hero was bad from multiple people more powerful then me angers me. But at whom am I more angry?

"Aly-chan~ did you already do your transfers? And are you ready to go~?"

"Yes you idiot! I did the transfers and stuff." She said.

"Anyway, soon there will be a large battle and all of us will need to decide. For what will we fight: for life's sake, or the world's sake? If you choose for life's sake, you will lose people's trust in you as heroes and lots of people will die. If you choose the world's sake, the path will be thorny, but we all may have a fighting chance. Once the trial ends I will be training you guys about how to behave properly as guild masters, which is what you'll need to become in order to fight the waves. I've already started my path, but what about you?"

She says as she walks out. We sit in silence thinking. What about us? For what will we fight?

The sword and bow hero watched the whole thing, from the moment the spear hero was confronted. When the pope brought out the sword I stepped in.

"That is QUITE ENOUGH TRASH POPE CUNT!" they watch as from the center of the crowd of apostles I tear off my robe revealing a terrifying form.

"Ah, so the vulgar heretic has come to die as well? Good!"

"No. I came here to kill you! And I'll start with your damn mana supply! Hey naofumi, help me kill this son of a bitch! Rrrrrrrraaaaaaaahggg!!!!"

I turn into intoner mode. And kill the mages.

I hear itsuki and ren say the queen was coming and the pope give some half assed speech about faith.

"Give it a break already! Cut the trap and die! You think your damn faith will save you, think your god will protect You? What a fucking joke! Guys, KILL THEM ALL!" I say as I bathe in the blood of the shitheads. Zeroes form is truly appropriate for the job! But I fear her vulgarity is getting to me. I think as my main party appears at all sides and work in.

"What a delight it is to feel your lives fade away for your fake god! Why don't you pray for your own salvation?!" I say as I crush a apostles head under my heel.

The pope was now frantic. "Do not fear! Give me your mana as much as possible so that I may kill the devils and false heroes! Trust in god!"

I laugh at that."God shmaud! When has god ever done anything for You? Have you assholes ever seen a miracle? Has god stopped the waves for you? Saved your loved ones? If we're such devils then guess you're god is worse then us! Whose fortified your villages and killed dangerous monsters? ME! who do you think went around cleaning up the messes the sword and spear made? The shield hero! Whose been making high quality medicines and selling them at low prices? The shield hero! Whose been making and selling protective jewelry as a merchant? THE SHIELD NOT THE SPEAR, NOT THE SWORD, NOT THE BOW, AND NOT ME! But the only reason I haven't helped people is because of You! You and you're fucking conspiracies make the commonfolk so scared to come take a look at my classes because they're afraid of your divine retribution! I've been fortifying villages, passing out safety manuals, killing dangerous monsters, setting up barriers, all in secret because of You fuckers! You go on and on about how we're devils and false heroes but the only thing evil and faker than you around here is that whore named Malty who the queen will probably disown at the very least when she gets home! Churches aren't just supposed to be corrupt fannaticals like You! They spread their faith by performing good deeds, performing funeral rights, hosting weddings under the house of god, helping relieve disasters like the wave by passing out food and medicine and helping them rebuild their homes! You bastards do none of those things and you dare call yourself apostles of god?! You will receive no invitation to the pearly Gates! You've got yourself a one way ticket to he'll and I'm gonna send you off myself!"

As I spoke the apostles got more and more shaken as I spoke. But it was too late for them to regret as they were already dead. And the pope was next.

The pope tried to stand against me with the fake weapon bravely but his shaking gave him away. Every one looked on in horror as I cleanly dismembered him and took the weapon crushing it in my hands as it turned to dust and it was scattered to the winds. I tossed the head at malty who reflexively grabs it before dropping it and screaming. Everyone is pale and uneasy as the queen arrives.

"And now, let us sing a song of the world's end." I say looking off into the distant as my party stands at my side.