On that day, an emergency family meeting was called to order at the residence of the Kenzaki family, an ordinary family living in Tokorozawa City. A blonde beauty named Dianaze Krone, Diana for short, had appeared from a different world, in the living room of the Kenzaki family. “I, an envoy, have come to summon the Hero of Salvation, Kenzaki Hideo.”
Wait, Hideo is my dad! To think such a game-like situation would fall upon me, Kenzaki Yasuo, an ordinary high school student.
My father is a hero, and he saved a different world in his younger days!? There’s no way I can believe that this ordinary, middle-aged father of mine is a “Hero.” Diana looks at me, “The Son of the Hero” with a gaze filled with longing. My sister who saw that looks at me with a cold gaze… Before bringing back peace to the other world, the peace of our family is in big trouble! What is going to happen to my peaceful everyday life!?
The Son of the Hero (Yuusha no Segare), is a Light Novel series written by Satoshi Wagahara and illustrated by 029 (Oniku), the same author-artist team behind The Devil is a Part-Timer!. The novels were published from 2017 to 2019 for four volumes.
Tropes in the series
- Another Dimension: The world of Ante Lande is a Magical Land that is a Medieval European Fantasy with magitek.
- Heroic Lineage:
- The Kenzaki siblings', Yasuo's and Nodoka's, parents were heroes that saved another world called Ante Lande when they were kids.
- Diana's parents were the companions of Hideo and Madoka Kenzaki.
- Magitek: Ante Lande has this. They have things like escalators and "anti-aircraft guns" powered by magic.
- The Undead/Our Ghosts Are Different: The Shii are some sort of spirits of the deceased.
- What Are Records?: In volume 1, Diana presents Madoka a video letter made in a format that was new from when the latter and Hideo were in Ante Lande 30 years ago that they were now able to make in the present, an 8mm videotapenote . Nodoka doesn't know what video letters and 8mm are while Madoka was worried that they don't have a player compatible with the format.
