Light Novel Volume 1 (Spin-off)/Synopsis

Prologue: Before Traveling to Another World
The story starts with Motoyasu reminiscing about his old life in Japan. At the time he was a womanizer - dating two girls who were jealous of each other while also going on dates with other girls. As he was about to leave his apartment for a date with another girl, he runs into the two girls he is already dating. They both act cruelly to each other but Motoyasu doesn't fault them for their actions. When they ask who is his actual girlfriend, Motoyasu explains how he isn't ready for a monogamous relationship. With intense jealousy, one of the girls he is dating stabs him with a kitchen knife. Even as he is dying, Motoyasu doesn't blame the girls for what happened.

Chapter 1: The Reprise of the Spear Hero
Motoyasu wakes up after being killed for the second time - this time as a hero. He finds himself back in time to where he, Ren, Itsuki, and Naofumi were summoned for the first time as Heroes. However, this time Motoyasu has a special time-reversing spear in his hands. While Motoyasu starts reenacting his first moments in Melromarc, he finds that the other heroes do not have knowledge of their previous timeline.

Despite his foggy memories of the previous timeline, Motoyasu did his best to protect Naofumi from persecution from the king but alienates himself in the process. As a result of his mind breaking from Malty's betrayal in the original timeline, Motoyasu sees all women as literal pigs. After companions are selected for the heroes, Motoyasu immediately abandons his. He bought a filolial egg in hopes that he bought Filo. That night he had a nightmare of the original timeline where Malty framed Naofumi of raping her. That morning, Motoyasu storms to the castle to prevent Malty doing the same thing again. By the time he got there, it was too late. This time, Malty had gone to Itsuki and framed Naofumi. Motoyasu threatens King Aultcray, Malty and the other heroes and then intends to save Naofumi by force.

Chapter 2: Repaying Kindness
After Motoyasu saved Naofumi from the castle, Naofumi expresses his thanks and admits him discomfort with Motoyasu's eccentric attitude. Motoyasu gives Naofumi half of his money and they then head to Erhard's shop to stock up on equipment. Erhard is initially stern due to the rumours but after talking to Naofumi, he is more than willing to help. While there, Motoyasu's egg hatches with a black filolial whom Motoyasu calls Kuro.

Chapter 3: Leveling
The two heroes start to level up. Motoyasu mentions how in the original timeline Naofumi had a slave called Raphtalia to help him level up. Naofumi is horrified that he even owned slaves in the first place. Motoyasu decides to power-level Kuro who will then help Naofumi level-up. In one day, Motoyasu slayed a bunch of dragons and leveled Kuro up to level 32. The next day, Naofumi leveled-up with Kuro.

At the same time, Motoyasu went to the Adventurer's guild to try to get some jobs. King Aultcray had apparently banned them from doing so but a shadow interfered which allows Motoyasu to receive a job. On the way out, Motoyasu is attacked by adventurers aligned with The Church of the Three Heroes but they are quickly incapacitated. He then goes to the Slave Trader a second time to buy many more filolials. Later that day, Naofumi arrives after making good progress. It turns out that while he was leveling, emissaries from Siltvelt had asked Naofumi to join them. Upon receiving permission from Motoyasu, Naofumi joins the emissaries and heads for Siltvelt.

Chapter 4: Time Reversal
Two days later, Kuro had gain the ability to transform into his Filolial King form and was helping Motoyasu raise more filolials. Suddenly, Motoyasu gets a warning that the wielder of the Legendary Shield had died and is again sent back in time to where the heroes were originally summoned. Realizing that time resets whenever a hero dies, Motoyasu immediately kills Itsuki and time resets again. He then tries it again on Ren with the same effect. Motoyasu realizes that Naofumi must have died in the first loop while on his way to Siltvelt.

Chapter 5: Trap
Now on his fourth loop, Motoyasu tries to tell everyone about his situation. He uses information about Ren and Itsuki's worlds which gives him some credibility with the other heroes despite his crazy personality. Upon warning the heroes about Naofumi's persecution, King Aultcray and Malty agree to send him to Siltvelt and The heroes are all sent to separate rooms to rest before dinner. When Motoyasu is summoned, all the other heroes have already left for the meal. As he ran through a hallway, he was caught in a pit trap set in the middle of the castle floor and falls down.

Chapter 6: Dungeon
As Motoyasu falls down, he uses his spear to stop his descent. As he slowly climbs up the chasm, he finds a wall with a room behind it. Bursting through, he finds himself in a dungeon. In the dungeon he finds Eclair chained up. For some reason, she didn't look like a pig to Motoyasu unlike all the other women. Motoyasu explains his situation. Despite his eccentric attitude, Eclair believes him and convinces Motoyasu to free her. Together, the two escape the dungeon.

Chapter 7: Gerontocracy
Escaping out the back of the dungeon, Motoyasu and Eclair meet Ren and Itsuki. Motoyasu tries to explain the situation but Trash shows up with a dead demi-human soldier. He blames Motoyasu's experience on the solider. Motoyasu almost kill Aultcray but Eclair convinces him to stand down. Together, they decide to go search for Naofumi who is on the way to Siltvelt with fake Siltveltian emissaries.

Chapter 8: Aiming
Just as the fake Siltvelt emissaries are about the kill Naofumi, Motoyasu and Eclair swoop in to save him. Seeing that what Motoyasu was saying was true, Naofumi decides to believe what the spear hero is saying. The group then travel together and a bounty was then placed on the group which labels them as outlaws. While on the road they are met by true emissaries of Siltvelt. The group decide to rush out of the country with the delegates' aid instead of levelling up like last time.

Upon reaching the border, it is decided that Motoyasu will cross the border by himself and later use his portal ability to bring everyone else across. He is immediately attacked by soldiers using ceremonial magic. Motoyasu easily absorbs the attack magic and uses it to level to entire area. Seeing that the border is clear, the group then move their way towards Siltvelt.

Chapter 9: Filolial Farmer
Two days pass as the group make their way towards Siltvelt. The group decide to rest at a village and Motoyasu immediately goes towards a filolial farmer to buy some eggs. Motoyasu impresses the farmer with his filolial knowledge and ends up buy 1 premium egg and 2 cheap eggs. The group then decides to rest for the night in an inn.

While there, Naofumi confesses his anxiety to go to Siltvelt since there will be many women who will want to seduce him. However, Motoyasu promises to protect him. Around this time, the three filolials hatch. Motoyasu names them Yuki, Kou, and Sakura. Motoyasu and Naofumi hear about some ruckus outside so Motoyasu goes out to investigate.

Chapter 10: Hallucination
As Motoyasu is walking down the street, he is confronted by another Church of the Three Heroes assassin. Motoyasu paralyzes the man and then heads off to level-up his filolials. Within two days he is able to level them up to the level 40 limit. Returning back to the village the group is staying at, he learns that The Church of the Three Heroes has been terrorizing the town for protecting Naofumi. Some assassins arrive to Naofumi's Inn but Motoyasu quickly stops with. He gives Naofumi and Eclair equipment and materials from his power leveling and the group then continues on their journey.

Chapter 11: Camping Out
Half a day later, the group decide to stop for the day due to motion sickness. Naofumi uses his cooking skills to create a meal for everyone using some of Motoyasu's monster parts. The next morning, Yuki, Sakur, Eclair, Naofumi and one of the Siltvelt emissaries go out to power-level. Motoyasu also goes with one of the Siltvelt emissaries to get equipment to make clothing for the three filolials. They are successful just in time as Kou completes his transformation into a Filolial King. As Naofumi and the others come back, Motoyasu is warned about Melromarc acting suspiciously. However, it seems like the power-leveling was successful. Naofumi was much stronger and could power-up his shield further. Finally, that night the three filolials transformed into their"angel" forms. With that, the group start making material for the filolial's clothing.

Chapter 12: Finesse
Naofumi, Motoyasu and the filolials head downstairs from their room and re-introduce them to Eclair and the emissaries in their new form. They then go to a market to buy some supplies since the filolials are heavy eaters. Motoyasu mentions how Naofumi "farmed" bandits which terrifies both Naofumi and Eclair. While Naofumi and the others went out to power-level for another day, Motoyasu used the material they created the night before to create clothing for the three filolials. While he is doing so, The Church of the Three Heroes cast a spell which summons a meteor towards their inn but Motoyasu disintegrates the massage rock. He then kills the members who cast the spell.

Worried about Naofumi, Motoyasu tries to track him down. It seems like he was attacked but escaped. Following the tracks, Motoyasu meets them in the next town. The group then go to the bathes to relax and clean up.

Chapter 13: Peeping
While in the bath, Motoyasu and Naofumi catch up. By this time, Naofumi is level 38 and has powered up his shield significantly. With some shenanigan, Sakura jumps over to the men's side and then carries Naofumi to the women's side. After he is returned, Motoyasu declares that he will try to peep however Eclair had made her self and the girl filolials cover themselves up beforehand.

As the bathing was finished, the group continues their nearly-complete journey Siltvelt. However, they are ambushed by a group of assassins. Naofumi is hit with a poison dart while Motoyasu and Kou attacks the assassins. One of the enemies strike Naofumi with a sword. Thankfully, due to his increased, level both attacks just bounced off his skin. The rest of the assassins were taken care of. It turns out that the Church of the Three Heroes aren't the only ones wanting to kill Naofumi.

Chapter 14: Fitoria-tan
Checking in at the nearest town, the emissary reports that the recent attackers had demi-human informants from Shieldfreeden. Naofumi reaffirms his promise to be a hero and the group continues to Siltvelt. They receive regular attacks but those are easily fought off. Suddenly, their carriage is surrounded by a horde of filolials and they are met with one massive filolial. Getting excited, Motoyasu nearly runs out of control and blacks out. When he wakes up, he finds himself blindfolded and restrained by Naofumi.

The (now terrified) massive filolial introduces herself as the true filolial queen - Fitoria. After reaffirming the heroes' intentions to unite and fight in the waves, Fitoria challenges Yuki, Kou and Sakura to a fight. Motoyasu is forced to remained blindfolded due to his erratic behaviour and the filolials fight. In the end, Fitoria approves all three to be her potential successor. Fitoria also gives each hero one of her feathers to unlock the entire filolial weapon seasons, but instead Motoyasu attaches it to his spear as a treasured memento.

Chapter 15: Church of the Faux Heroes
The journey continues to Siltvelt. However, while the group is in the next town they find the town gates closed around by the "Church of the Four Heroes". The group quickly guess that these are actually Church of the Three Heroes extremists who are spreading false rumours about the group. These extremist had set up guillotines for executing townspeople they had framed for helping Motoyasu and Naofumi. The two heroes show up to the execution area where the townspeople try to stone them. As they reach the execution scaffold, they are both targeted by the ceremonial magic spell Last Judgement. Naofumi tries to negotiate with the extremist's leader but there is no reasoning. Naofumi is forced to save a boy which is about to be executed and then uses his shield to defend against the ceremonial spell.

Seeing Naofumi save the boy and defend against the spell, the villagers suddenly start supporting him. With that, the two Heroes annihilate the false Church of the Four Heroes.

Epilogue: Arrival at Siltvelt
Naofumi and Motoyasu spend the next few hours treating those who have been injured and repairing the town. Delegates from Siltvelt arrive and then offer to escort them the rest of the way to Siltvelt. Naofumi and Motoyasu compare the trouble Naofumi has caused this timeline and the original timeline when they finally reach Siltvelt.