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.

show you where you need to

you," Alex said, happy

outside, kid," one of the guards said with

you too," Alex

unused to talking to

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

such a long time, Alex became a

the guards' weaknesses and

like Alex was ready to break out into a

of the guards left the camp behind as they followed

two minutes, the guard in front of Alex stopped, and

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

what?" Alex

pointed

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

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

looked away from the guard with

was exactly what he had been

course, Alex hadn't truly planned on attacking the guard. It was simply a reflex born out of being around nothing

know how it feels to

or bandit vibe. Honestly, I'm fairly sure that you will find plenty of women

acclimated to human society again," the guard

like what he was hearing, but he had to

had to get used to being

the advice. I'll try to

work on that right now," the

an eyebrow in

the guard said as he walked to the side. "Walk

Alex immediately became nervous.

a

the guard tried to attack Alex from behind, there

Alex's mind, this was

hesitation and silently

that is your name,

Alex nodded.

been walking in front of you this entire time. How do you think I feel?" he

was surprised by

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

problem with it? No! Not every human

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

"I would be executed."

"For what?"

sword and some

Silence.

like he was being

to turn his back to the

mind also realized that everything the guard had said

he still passed the guard