An encounter

The next day

Waking up slowly the first thing Lorien did is to check the barrier

Seeing that it still remains he stretched lazily and got out of bed and went to the table to eat breakfast

An hour later Lorien walked out of the house and closed the door behind, this time wearing different clothes from the ones he had yesterday

A white hoodie, black sweatpants, and sports shoes, he just created a couple of minutes ago, the reason he chose them is simply because they are comfy

Just as Lorien was about to continue on his way he heard someone walking his way from the direction he came from yesterday

No, it wasn't the sound of normal footsteps, it was the sound of feet dragging desperately on the ground

Looking back Lorien could see a young girl walking in his direction, she is clearly in a disheveled state, her body swaying from side to side, her red eyes out of focus, desperately dragging her weak body

After taking a couple more steps it appears she couldn't hold on any longer as she fell down face-first into the ground

Seeing this Lorien felt a bit hesitant

'Should I save her?'

After contemplating for a moment he decided to help, first of all, he needs information anyways, moreover, Lorien could easily help her it's not like he needs to work hard or anything

Moreover, as he thought about his experience in the past couple of days he ran towards her and held her up as he walked back to the house

'I got my chance yesterday, let me give you yours... This may be fate'

...

Putting her on the sofa, Lorien didn't hesitate any longer, holding her hand he then used his ability, this is the first time he used his ability for such a thing so he doesn't know how effective it would be

[Dream/Reality]: Recover

In an instant, the result became apparent as her malnourished body started recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye

Her pale face quickly became rosy and her skinny body that is caused by a long time of malnourishment and tiredness seemed to have gained some weight making it recover to the level of a normal person

Seeing her finally recovering Lorien took back his hand as he breathed heavily

'Using my ability on a living being takes too much energy, To destroy is easier than to create, if I wanted to simply erase her from existence I wouldn't need to spend any energy, heck I'll earn some, but now that I wanted to heal her my energy almost bottomed out'

Shaking his head lightly he closed his eyes to rest a bit as he waited for her to wake up, after helping her recover it shouldn't take long, approximately 15minutes or so

And indeed as he expected after a quarter of an hour passed the girl woke disoriented, looking around her with worry she quickly noticed Lorien sitting on another couch with his eyes closed

A bit worried she then checked her state, seeing that nothing happened and her clothes didn't change she heaved a sigh of relief

'Huhh?'

But then she noticed something weird as she looked at her hands in shock and exclaimed out loud in shock as her current state could be called the best she had ever been since she was born

"This...."

This exclamation caused Lorien who had his eyes closed to finally notice her awakening

Seeing Lorien looking at her the girl reacted as she held her mouth tightly and shrank back like a hamster

Seeing this Lorien's mouth twitched as he asked her with a helpless look on his face

"Am I scary?"

But in response, he just got a look full of mixed confusion and insecurity

Seeing this Lorien continued as he spoke with the most gentle voice he could muster

"Hi, my name is Lorien, I saw you falling unconscious on the road there and helped you, are you okay?"

But the response was the same, just a confused look, Seeing this Lorien really didn't know what to do feeling completely frustrated

'Is this girl deaf?'

But thankfully just as he was contemplating whether he should give up and leave or not the girl finally reacted seemingly feeling his goodwill

"Umm..who are you"

This time it was Lorien's turn to respond with a confused look, but then it quickly clicked

'FUCK!! I forgot about language! no wonder she couldn't understand me earlier'

Lorien's experience in those couple of days could be called a fantasy novel like experience, and as someone who read so many web novels he unconsciously got affected by what he read before

He thought that everyone is basically speaking the same language and completely neglected the fact that he came to a real-world, not a novel, this is a world with a complete history, culture, and language

But thankfully this time it appears that he is somewhat in luck, he could recognize the language she spoke easily from the phrase she just spoke

'This is Japanese, I can recognize this (anata wa dare desu ka) even across worlds, thank god it's not some weird language unique to this world, or else I need to start from zero'

As someone who watched soo many animes, and took the initiative to learn some Japanese he could at least get his idea across to a Japanese speaker and somewhat understand what they are saying if they don't speak fast

With the issue finally getting resolved Lorien racked his brain for a couple of moments before speaking in broken Japanese trying to get his message across

"Language...Save you...are you okay?"

It seems that this worked as it appears that she finally understood what was happening

Quickly reacting she jumped to her feet and made a 90-degree bow and said

"Thank you...Thank you..."

Her voice was filled with gratitude, Lorien could even see some mist accumulate in her eyes, it appears she is about to cry

This caused Lorien to panic a bit, and just as he was about to stop her, the girl's stomach suddenly growled loudly in hunger causing the scene to immediately become silent and awkward, which caused the girl's face to instantly turn red like a tomato

Finally, with an opportunity to get out of this weird situation Lorien quickly said as he signaled her to follow him not allowing her time to refuse

"Want...Food?"

After hesitating for a second she still followed him as she couldn't resist the allure of food after being hungry for so long

Watching her eat the food he just made delightfully Lorien was finally able to communicate well with her, of course, he didn't create it in front of her, he pretended to get it from another room

From what he was able to understand from her with his abysmal Japanese is that she ran away trying to find somewhere else to live away from the hell she lived in before, looking for hope

It's just that she was starved for days barely eating anything and combined with the abuse she wasn't able to go far, and the result was her falling unconscious in front of Lorien

She was actually pretty lucky, if Lorien wasn't there at that time, she would have died soon after

He tried asking her the reason why she was treated badly by her parents and everyone else, but because of his bad Japanese he was only able to understand some of what she said but not all

From what he understood, she was treated this badly because apparently, she brought bad luck and calamity to everyone around her

After understanding her situation he Looked at this 18-year-old girl who was eating with relish, and he finally asked

"Saigai Akaguro....Want...Follow...Me?"

There are a couple of reasons as to why he chose to do so, first of all, he needs a translator who can communicate easily with natives as not everyone will speak with him so slowly so he can understand

He also felt pity for this pitiful beautiful girl when he heard her experience and having a companion isn't bad, all alone in a different world is bad for mental health

And finally, there is an experiment he wants to try later on, but before trying it he has to make her loyalty higher

'Okay! Okay! I Admit it, it's mostly because she is beautiful, if it was an ugly woman or a man i would have indeed saved them, but that's it, at most if I liked their personality I would give them some gold so they can start a new life'

But hearing what Lorien said the girl called Saigai quickly shook her head and refused as revealed a timid look

"I bring bad luck, I don't want to hurt you"

Seeing this Lorien knew that it would take some energy to make her follow him and so he directly started trying to convince her

This took him almost a full 20 minutes, but at least it finally worked after all she was indeed very grateful that he saved her and gave her food, the only reason she refused was that she didn't want to hurt him

But seeing him not giving up she finally agreed, but what Lorien didn't notice was the remorseful look in her eyes

'He'll probably kick me away soon anyway, I'll try my best to help him until then, As long as he doesn't kick me I'll stay and pay him back'

Not noticing her strangeness he smiled and said while pointing at the bedroom, he had already prepared some clothes for her

"Clothes....in....room"

Looking at her going into the room Lorien finally gave a long sigh full of exhaustion

'Things never go as planned do they, after she comes out we should go look for a town...'

---Author---

Remember! --> '...' Is inner thoughts While "..." Is talking out loud

Also, I won't be using the -San -Kun thingy, I simply find it hard to write that way, and focusing on which one to use is very annoying for me

Btw, I put a foreshadowing in this chapter, let's see who finds it later on~~