The Guest

Sunrise came and illuminated the forest with golden lights, birds chirping, fishes and swan playing in the lake, nobody will believe that this forest was a deadly trap filled with countless monsters. Arthur woke up with pain all over his body, "It will take some time to adapt sleeping in the forest " he mumbled while stretching

He took out a water bottle from his inventory and lightly washed his face.

After that he went to check on his 'guest' who was still tied up to the branch.

'Looks like he is sleeping, his wounds have completely healed too !' Arthur checked his health and was surprised by the healing speed of this world's inhabitants, just as he was about to turn around, he heard a slight groan, "run away.. " the man mumbled.

"Run away... " Arthur had a bad feeling about this, ever since he came to this forest, he always felt that someone or something was watching him. Arthur didn't want to admit it but he was scared, he was just a normal teenager till yesterday and even if the system changed his mindset gradually, he still felt a chill in his spine, 'Calm down.. ' Arthur inhaled and exhaled slowly to calm his mental turmoil. 'I am stronger now. I can handle this' he motivated himself.

'Looks like he will be waking any moment now. ' Arthur thought to himself

....

The man's pov:

"Run!"

"Monster! "

"Why are you doing this ! "

I heard multiple screams in my dream, a blurry figure was slaughtering them while laughing maniacally, he grab someone's neck and puts his sword near the man's throat while smiling evilly

"Please, no, please! " The figure pleaded but that caused the man to smile even wider. The figure raised his sword ready to cut the poor man's neck

"NOOOOO! "

POV ends

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Arthur tied the man on the tree trunk and was about to turn around when he heard a shout that almost startled him

"Noooooo! "

'Shit he's awake! ' Arthur quickly went into action.

The man woke up in a cold sweat and the first thing that greets him were a pair of crimson eyes with single commas slowly rotating inside them.

"Who are you? " Arthur asked while putting the man in a genjutsu.

"Eeek monster! " the man shouted with teary eyes while trying to get up and run "Why am I tied up!? oh no I am gonna die! " and then he fainted.

"Genjutsu didn't work...? " Arthur was trying to put the man into a simple genjutsu and interrogate him but seeing that the man was not effected, it surprised him a bit. "Well it was a OT sharingan genjutsu and I am not a master of genjutsu either. " Arthur checked his condition with his sharingan and found out that the man had fainted from shocked. "What the hell? he was fighting pretty bravely back then! " Seeing that the man was out cold, Arthur have no choice but to saty in gaurd and protect this unconscious man in case of monster attacks.

2 hours passed and Arthur was getting impatient, 'Should I wake him up? ' just as Arthur was debating on whether to wake this man up or not, he heard the sound of snoring

"OK that's it ! " a tick mark appeared on Arthur's face and he lost his patience

*Splash* Arthur threw the bottle's water into the man's face prompting the man to wake up in a start.

"Where? " the man mumbled

Arthur learned from his previous experience and deactivated his sharingan.

"You were injured fighting a grey wolf, I saved you " Arthur replied

"Grey wolf? I don't remember Agh! My head! "

the man tried to grab his head with his hands but seeing that it was tied up, made him more confused

"Why am I tied up? " the man asked

"What if you are a convict or a bandit? shouldn't I take precautions? " Arthur look death in his eyes

"Bullshit! I am not a criminal! " the man tried to yell

"That's for me to decide, for now you will be tied up. " Arthur started to tie another rope around the man.

"Guilty unless proven innocent huh...You got your priorities wrong" the man sighed and resign to his fate.

"What's your name? " Arthur asked

"My name agh! these headaches are killing me! " the man yelled in pain. "I don't.. remember my own name? " the man replied in confusion.

Arthur observed the man silently for a few seconds, seeing if he was lying or not, feeling his gaze, the man gulped.

"It looks like you are still suffering from headache so I won't be asking any further questions, so you should better rest first" Arthur instructed

"How am I supposed to rest like this? can't you at least untie me? " the man smiled wryly

Arthur remained quiet.

"Geez really? " the man complained

"You are quite lively for a sick man" Arthur was suspicious

The man sighed, "Why would I lie to my savior? I really don't know anything" the man answered seriously

"You...don't know the way to leave this forest? " Arthur asked while feeling a bit nervous.

"I... I don't.. " the man replied

Arthur was depressed, ' He was my only hope to get out of this forest alive, if I only rely on system's mini map then it will atleast take a month to navigate out of this forest, can I survive that long? ' Arthur was having a small panick attack, his power level was equivalent to a genin and there were countless monsters more powerful than him in this forest, hell ! even a pack of grey wolfs were too much for him , even if he has the sharingan's powers to avoid encountering them , how long can he keep hiding? his chances of survival was slim and Arthur was racking his brain to come up with a plan but the next words of the man restored his hopes

"Ah! I remember now, my right pant's pocket had a map in it! If we use it, we can escape from this place! " the man happily blurted out

Arthur was somewhat relieved but he still had his suspicions

"How did you remember that when only a moment ago you weren't even able to remember your own name! " Arthur asked sternly while staring into his eyes

"Geez like I told you, why would I lie to my savior? I really don't know my name and the map part, I just remembered it now! " the man helplessly said but Arthur still wasn't buying it.

"Fair enough, I will swear upon my dao heart that I am really not lying to you! " the man looked up towards the sky in an exaggerated manner and somehow the sky lit up in blue thunder

*Ding*Swearing upon dao heart, a prohibited practice of cultivators were they swear upon their dao hearts in the name of heaven, if they failed to uphold whatever they swear then heavenly punishment will be descended upon them, stronger tribulations,inner demons, regression of cultivation, soul extinction are some of the heavenly punishments* Arthur searched it in his encyclopedia

'That's really too extreme.. ' Arthur decided to trust the man and untie him, after being free, the man looked at Arthur intensely. Arthur unconsciously send chakra in his eyes ready to battle.

The man came up to Arthur and said "I am really hungry . "