The useless hero

I placed my hand on the awakening glass hour, but the bright light I was expecting didn't happen.

"Eh! Why is nothing happening?" everyone started questioning, the whole place got rowdy.

"It seems our dear hero here, does not have any class or ability" the old man said with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Then why is he summoned then"

"So he is weak, how will he help us in defeating the demon lord?".

"Yeah!" Everyone started complaining and making jest of me for being a hero without any special powers.

"Even though I don't care about this world or anything, at least give me a good damn power to survive here before returning home" I said to myself.

The King quickly stood up and said, "that's all for today everyone, the heroes, I mean the real heroes have been introduced to the world and awakened their powers".

I can tell obviously that the way this king will treat me in the future will be different.

After the end of introduction, every citizen went back to their various homes and jobs.

Inside the castle….

We stood in front of the king, while the dukes, viscount and many more important personals with important titles and the representatives from other kingdoms all sat down.

The king spoke, "Today is a good day, as you all, well, most of you awakened with special class and powerful skills". 

He continued "Heroes these are the various kingdoms that are here to pick you up today, you can choose which kingdom you want to represent".

Each representative of the kingdoms stood up, while their knights held their flag up.

"When you all pick the kingdom that you want to represent, you will be nurtured by that kingdom and provided for your teammates," the king said again.

Later that day different heroes picked their kingdoms to represent and were taken away with glamorous chariots with numerous knights protecting them.

I was left only in the castle, the king looked at me with a disgusted eye and changed the way he talks to me.

"What are you still doing here, begone?" The king said.

I'm not even concerned with the way he addressed me and said, "Old man in case you have forgotten you summoned me into your world, and you just want to kick me out just because I don't have any class or skills".

"Is that how to talk to the king?" one of the guards yelled at me.

"He is right, leave him alone" he said and hand signaled one of his maids.

The maid came with a bag full of coins

He threw the bag at me and said, "Here, take, that bag is full of hundred royal gold coins as it will be enough to last your entire generation"

He continued "When the real heroes are done defeating the demon lord then you can come back to return to your earth".

On my way outside the castle, Mary the ever serious maid stood in my way.

I said, "Are you here to make fun of me also".

"I have no intentions of doing such, I only want to give you this map, it's the map of our world" she said.

"Well thank you" I said without changing my expression.

"It's nothing, I just felt like helping you as much as I can, it might be the last time we might see".

I just nodded instead of answering.

She nodded also.

Then I left her without taking much step, I stopped and said," Thank you for your help, but it might not be the last time we will meet, see you later third princess"

"I see! So, you knew" she said.

I smiled "pretty obvious" as I said, and I walked away.

(Mary POV)

In the castle...

"So princess how did it go" my maid asked me as I changed from the maid clothes to my royal clothes.

I smiled and said, "it went pretty well, although he did find out that I am a princess, but I wonder how".

"Well he is truly calm and rational as you said, so it's not surprising that he found out, but I am also curious as to how he found out ".

"He is a strange man indeed, but he was close to being a princess but not of this kingdom" Mary said.

"I see that we are done with your mission and found the perfect man, shall we head home for now dragon princess?

"Yes let's go, As he said I believe that we will meet one day" Mary said.

Both Mary and maid left the palace without alerting anyone just as how they came and became maids without letting anyone know.

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After walking for a while, I got to a nearby town and checked the map Mary gave me. This town is called Silver City, and it's the nearest sub city to the main city where the castle is located.

I noticed that while walking in the town, many people were looking at me with disgusted and mockery expressions.

"Ah! It seems the matter has spread to this place as well".

I got to an inn called big mama, when I entered countless eyes were staring at me when they realized the person who came in, they all started laughing at me.

"Haha, haha! Look guys it's the so-called hero, I bet he won't last a second when facing a slime" said a short drunk man.

When he said that word, everyone laughed even more.

A man said"I heard that he was summoned mistakenly as a hero, he even looks weak"

"Looking at him makes me puke," a female said.

I didn't pay attention to them, I walked towards the man in charge of the inn cleaning his cups.

"How much is a room?"

"Ten silver coins, that is, if you are not ordering food," said the old man.

Damn! This old king purposely gave me those royal coins knowing it would be useless.

"Hey old man, can I talk to you in private?" I asked the old man.

He looked at him and sighed "what do you want kid".

"It involves money and all," I told him

"Alright kid, come this way" the old man told me and led me to the kitchen.

"Spit it out kid, am all ears" the told man said as he rested his at the wall and closed his eyes.

I pulled out two royal gold coins out of my spatial ring that Mary gave me with the map.

The man opened his eyes and stared at the two shiny coins.

*Cough!* 

"What do you want me to do for you, fine sir?"

I grinned and said in my mind "classic Isekai plot and I can't believe it worked, I bet he will be boot licking me now, but who won't be in face of money that could probably be feed him and his two next generations".

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