Sword God in a World of Magic

After the gate opened, Alex stepped through it.

Society!

Finally, he was back amongst humans!

"Did you get a good harvest?" the guard from earlier asked Alex with a smirk.

Alex immediately became nervous.

Would they confiscate his belongings?

When the guards saw Alex's reaction, they laughed. Obviously, after confirming the authenticity of Alex's document, they had all relaxed.

"You don't need to worry. If the Duke wanted us to inspect your belongings, he would have written it down on your document," one of the guards said. The guard walked closer and put his hand on Alex's shoulder.

At least, he tried to.

Alex stepped away from the hand out of reflex.

After living in the wilderness for such a long time, Alex became careful of any physical contact.

The guard blinked in confusion as he saw Alex step away, and he awkwardly lowered his hand.

"Man, you're a suspicious one," the guard said with a bitter smile.

Alex became a bit embarrassed. "Sorry. I've been in the wilderness for six whole months. I'm not used to talking with other humans."

The guard smiled and nodded. "That's understandable. We also have to live in the wilderness as part of our training, but we have our team with us. I can't imagine how lonely it must have been to be all alone in a forest."

The entire feeling and atmosphere the guards gave off had changed.

The guards had appeared stalwart, careful, and aggressive when Alex had come.

But now, the guards didn't feel any different than the police on Earth.

They simply talked to Alex casually.

"That's a nice sword," one of the guards said as he looked at Alex's sword. "Who made that?"

Alex subconsciously protected his sword. "I don't remember," he said.

Surprisingly, the guard nodded understandingly. Apparently, Duke Whirlwind had written about Alex's memory loss in the document he had handed Alex.

"Too bad. Hey, you really don't need to be that careful. Our equipment is good enough, and if it gets out that we are trying to steal from one of the Duke's guests, our heads will roll," the guard said.

Alex wasn't sure how he should respond to that.

He had already said sorry earlier, and saying sorry again would sound awkward.

Instead, an awkward silence came down on the camp of guards.

you need to go," another guard said, pointing towards

said, happy

kid," one of the

you too,"

unused

He loved going out with his friends, and he had had

wilderness for such a long time, Alex became a bit uncertain

to the guards'

break out into

guards left the camp behind

the guard in front of Alex

guard turned around and threw Alex a concerned look. "You really need to stop looking at other

what?" Alex asked

pointed at

me in total silence. Your footsteps even copy my footsteps! Then, you constantly inspect my body all over. You don't act

it is to walk in front of you? Every five seconds, I need to turn around since I can't hear you, and I always think that you vanished or something. On top of that, whenever I turn around, I see how you're inspecting my body with narrowed eyes. It's like you're trying to find the

away from the guard with an uncomfortable

exactly what

hadn't truly planned on attacking the guard. It was

know how it feels to be among normal humans again after a long period of

or city will think that you are a shady creep. You give off this thief or bandit vibe. Honestly, I'm fairly sure

get acclimated to human society again,"

he had to

to get used

and thank you for the advice. I'll try to

on that right now," the

eyebrow in uncertainty.

he walked to the side. "Walk in front of me for

Alex immediately became nervous.

was probably a bit

attack Alex from behind, there was a high likelihood that

Alex's mind, this was

guard saw Alex's hesitation and

your name, right?"

Alex nodded.

been walking in front of you this entire time. How do you

surprised by the

constantly eyes your back like you're a piece

problem with it? No! Not every

honestly think I would even dare to do anything against you? If I did,

"I would be executed."

"For what?"

and some

Silence.

was being led into a

definitely didn't want to turn his back to

Alex's logical mind also realized that everything the guard had said was

in the end, even if Alex didn't want to, he still passed the guard and walked in