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.

where you need to go," another

you," Alex said, happy that the awkwardness

one of the guards

too," Alex

was really unused to talking to

had been a very extroverted person. He loved going out with his friends, and he

long time, Alex

the guards'

was like Alex was ready to break

and one of the guards left the camp behind as they followed

front of

look. "You really need to stop looking at other people like this,"

Alex

guard pointed

that!" he said. "You're following behind me in total silence. Your footsteps even copy my footsteps! Then, you constantly inspect my body all over. You don't

you know how awkward 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

from the guard

was exactly what he had

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

can deal with that. We know how it feels to be among normal humans again after a long

I'm fairly sure that you will find plenty of women pushing their child away from you and plenty of men that will put a hand over

get acclimated to human

he was hearing, but he had to admit that the

get used to being amongst humans

for the advice. I'll try to

work on that right now," the

lifted an eyebrow in uncertainty.

walked to the side. "Walk in front of

Alex immediately became nervous.

was probably a bit more powerful

behind, there was

mind,

guard saw Alex's hesitation

that is your name, right?" he

Alex nodded.

this entire time. How do you think I feel?" he

was surprised by the

guy that copies your footsteps and constantly eyes your back like you're a piece of meat. You think that's fun?" the guard

a problem with it? No! Not every human wants to kill

Do you honestly think I would even dare to do anything against you? If I did, chances are high that the Duke would find out very quickly.

"I would be executed."

"For what?"

and some scraps

Silence.

felt like he was being led

want to turn his back to the

realized that everything

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