Light Novel Volume 11/Synopsis

Prologue: To Market
Naofumi, along with Sadeena, Raphtalia, Rishia, Filo, and Raph-chan went to the zeltoble underground slave market to purchase additional slaves. The Slave Traders shows a rather beautiful slave that turned out to be a combat-proficient demi-human types known as a Kiki. Naofumi passes on the offer because she reminds him of Malty.

Chapter 1: Sacred Tree Elixir
The Slave Traders shows a few other slaves, but Naofumi noticed that something is odd. The offered slaves aren't real slaves, instead, they are children of wealthy and noble families from Siltvelt sent to set up an arranged marriage. Naofumi proceeds to the next slave offer and recognize it is belong to the same type to Imiya and turned out to be her relative. Naofumi then bought other slaves whose origin was the same with the Imiya's relative. Slave Traders bring Naofumi to the next offers, a pair of young demi-humans. The first one, Fohl, is Sadeena's acquaintance. The other one, Atla, as told by the Slave Trader, has a genetic disorder and doesn't have much longer to live. Both are Hakuko type of demi-humans and turned out to be siblings. Naofumi gives Atla a medicine and she gradually feels better. They then proceed to perform the slave registration.

Chapter 2: Return of the Village
After the shopping, Naofumi sends the slaves to the village with his portal skill, but due to its limitation, the teleport is divided in batches. Atla and Fohl belong to the second batch, and before they depart, Naofumi gives Atla another dose of medicine. Arrived at the village, Naofumi treats the slaves for extra motivation.

Chapter 3: Alps
A few days later, Atla complained about itchiness, so Naofumi tries to check her condition. He removes Atla's bandages and finds out that she is in a significantly better condition now. They then talk about the village and Atla decided to learn how to fight. Fohl and Sadeena decided to reset their level to get Naofumi's heroic growth boost.

Chapter 4: A Shield to Protect the Shield
Later at night, Atla came to Naofumi to sleep with him. They have a conversation about Naofumi's persona and Atla offered herself to be his shield, parallels to Raphtalia being his sword. Atla then fell asleep and Naofumi carry her to the house where Fohl is sleeping. Naofumi wake Fohl up and they talk briefly.

Chapter 5: Trash and the Hakuko
The next morning, Naofumi is making breakfast for the village and he noticed a human stranger among them. The stranger turned out to be Murder Pierrot he fought at Zeltoble, without her mask. Naofumi give her food and they talk after the meal. Murder Pierrot asked Naofumi for a job and he quickly stated that he doesn't need a mercenary. She then asking Naofumi to be friends, but their conversation didn't go well and Naofumi asked her to leave the village. As planned, Naofumi bring Sadeena and Fohl to the Melromarc castle to reset their level, with Raphtalia and Atla tagging along. When Naofumi and co. trying to find the Queen, Trash appears and enraged as usual. Strangely, the blind Atla notices that there are two of Fohl, mistaken Trash for the other one. Equally strange, after he sees Atla, Trash stopped his rage and walked away. A moment later, the Queen appears, and after analyzing what just happened, she explains it to Naofumi. She tells how the king's life has been destroyed more than once by Hakuko and how Atla reminds him of his thought-to-be dead sister. Before they went to the Dragon Hourglass to reset their level, the Queen asked Naofumi to capture Motoyasu by using his former companion later when they have done the level reset.

Chapter 6: The Fruits of Training
The level reset ceremony went smoothly, and they went back to the village using portal shield. Naofumi ordered Sadeena, Fohl, and Atla to start leveling up. After gathering Raphtalia and Filo as party members in the mission to lure Motoyasu out, Naofumi went to get Motoyasu's companion the Queen mentioned before.

Chapter 7: The Plan to Capture the Spear Hero
At the designated location, Naofumi see Motoyasu himself talking to Elena, his companion. He observes them from a distance, and see Motoyasu is treated poorly by Elena. Naofumi then greets Motoyasu and complaining about how he carried the Legendary Heroes' job. Motoyasu ignoring Naofumi's words and prepares to retaliate. Just as they want to capture him, Motoyasu teleported using portal spear. Naofumi talk with Elena regarding what happened in the Spirit Tortoise accident.

Chapter 8: The Day the Game Ended
Naofumi stopping by in a commotion involving Ren, some familiar bandits, and vigilante corps. He quickly sort things out and managed to take Ren to a tavern to talk. Raphtalia and Filo are sent to retrieve other bandits so Naofumi can talk without Ren getting cautious. Ren tells how his party got obliterated by Spirit Tortoise and became the sole survivor. Naofumi offers Ren to stay at his village to keep a low profile, and he accepted it. After the talk, Naofumi exits the tavern and tells Ren to wait for him. Naofumi then rushing off in pursuit of a figure he just caught a glimpse of.

Chapter 9: I Dub Thee Witch
The mark turned to be Motoyasu who tails Bitch and Girl 2, his former companions who currently talking with Ren. Naofumi continues to observe while Motoyasu doesn't seems to notice him. Bitch frames Motoyasu, the Queen and Naofumi for being evil while trying to win Ren over. Irritated by the lies, Motoyasu and Naofumi shows up and talk to Bitch, but Ren sided with her and starts a fight. Naofumi and Ren banters about how Ren is the one at fault in getting his party members killed. Bitch joins the conversation but Naofumi swiftly trapped her in shield prison. Ren relentlessly attacks Naofumi, but noticing the enormous gap in their strength, Naofumi didn't even bother the block. Naofumi orders the confused Motoyasu to capture her. Unfortunately, Ren stopped his pointless assault and prioritize to run away with Bitch. Heartbroken by the truth and his companions' attitude toward him, Motoyasu now resigned himself to Naofumi. Raphtalia and Filo arrived and Naofumi told them what just happened. To avoid further problem if he brings the unstable Motoyasu to the village, Naofumi decided to get a room for the night.

Chapter 10: New Awakening
At the same night, Naofumi and co. brings Motoyasu to a tavern to have a meal. After recent tragedies that befell him, Motoyasu no longer shows interest in woman. Filo tries to cheer him up, only to get a cold response. After Filo offers her food to cheer him up, Motoyasu suddenly embrace her and crying. Even after Filo transformed to filolial form, Motoyasu doesn't let her go. Filo get out of the tavern and threw Motoyasu off some cliff. The next day, Motoyasu shows up and starts to call Naofumi as father. Annoyed by Motoyasu's new condition, Naofumi ran away using portal skill to Melromarc castle and meet the Queen to report the situation regarding other heroes and Malty (now called Witch). In response to the report, and after some discussion with Naofumi, the Queen decided to put a bounty on Witch.

Chapter 11: Loincloth Pup
Naofumi heads back to the village. Keel shows her recently discovered therianthrope form taught by Sadeena. Most of villagers who have interest in fighting are about to reach level 40 and ready for class up ceremony. Naofumi picked someone to learn blacksmithing from the Melromarc weapon shop guy. He also plans to employ a slave to work in the coal mines in near future.

Chapter 12: The Decision
Naofumi splits the class up in batches between those who don't mind interfered by Filo's cowlick and those who do. They dropped by Melromarc weapon shop to discuss about Spirit Tortoise equipment and submit a slave for apprenticeship. It turned out that the weapon shop guy and the slave knew each other. The guy called him Tollynemiya, so Naofumi named him Tolly in his mind to remember it easier.