Out the window

Although most of their faces were hidden, their mouths were not so Yu noticed this but decided to ignore it as he waited for the wood to cool down.

A few minutes later, he picked it up and slowly began writing all that Kai had already searched in the dictionary. Plus, he found a faster way for this. He simply gave the sentence to the system and told it to convert it into this new language which was named #2 language, while the one that Kai spoke and wrote was named the #1 Language. The system then converted it and Kai read it in his mind, while Yu slowly and rather oddly wrote it down.

It was not easy to perfectly copy symbols onto such a crumbled piece of paper with such a bad excuse of a pen.

A few seconds later, Yu smiled under his mask as he passed the paper to the first lady who was stunned, ignoring the second one who clearly had attitude issues.

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I cannot understand your language in speaking or listening. But I can read and write it.

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Seeing this, the stunned lady was even more stunned, and along with that came a strange perplexing feeling towards Yu. A few seconds of hesitation later, she passed the letter to the second lady in the cloak who also read it but had a completely different reaction.

She began laughing hysterically, and by now Yu was sure that she had some mental illness, or was just under too much stress recently. Either way, he did not want to be near her any longer.

The first lady passed him another cloak, similar to the one she had given to the lady, only for it to turn out to be too long for him. However, he still kept it on despite the rather peaceful temperature here, assuming that it was likely some sort of heating mechanism for the auction house.

There was also the possibility that it was actually just that hot here during winters, similar to equatorial counties back on earth. And Yu hoped it was like that because this cloak would simply be too thin to protect him from a harsh winter.

Yu kept the clothing on even if it was a warm country simply because he needed clothes, just like the brown-haired and red-eyed slave who was by now standing next to him, sharing a sense of comradery in their perilous situation.

A few seconds later, the laughing crazy woman stopped laughing and took out a proper notebook as well as a fountain pen of rather luxurious standards. A bottle of ink soon followed as she began furiously writing down before handing it to Yu.

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If you can understand this, then nod your head, stand up, and then sit back down.

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Yu followed through and the crazy woman's smirk slowly vanished. She gave Yu quite the stink-eye before grabbing the paper and began writing once more

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Who are you, and where are you from? Also, how do you know how to read and write Ancient Santok?

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Yu took the pen and fumbled around a bit to fill it with ink before he too began writing.

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I am Yu. That was the name given to me by a boy I was travelling with before I was kidnapped. None of my family is alive, and my home was burnt down not too long ago.

Where I am from… I think it was called the Hephish Dynasty. I am not sure how to name it in your language.

As for how I know your language? Simple. The guy who was keeping us prisoners in the underground area was writing down a lot, and he also wrote down my name, as well as the names of a lot of people. I had a lot of time to think, so I slowly got down to decoding all the letters of my name, then went on to decode all the other letters and compared them with letters of my own language.

There was also the contract, and I roughly remembered all the words on it so I simply used trial and error until a decent contract in my own language was formed using this contract to convert it. And boom, I can now write your language.

In fact, it should not take too long before I can speak this language as well.

Anyways, can you at least tell me where we are?

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While Yu was writing, he suddenly recalled a function that the system had. Immediately, Kai made the system do it, and somehow it worked! While Kai was travelling East, his mind was being flooded with a brand new language, at least in terms of being able to write it.

At the same time, Yu was also getting this information, and his speed of writing went from writing a single word every few seconds to writing a few words per second as both he and Kai understood more and more about how to write Ancient Santok as the ladies called it.

The second lady took a hold of the paper and began reading, her expressionless face gradually turned into a frown as she finished reading it.

She took up the pen and wrote down a single line and handed it to Yu, while handing the entire paper Yu had written to the other cloaked woman.

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We leave now.

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That was all that was written on the paper he was handed as he was dragged away using his collar. The crazy lady who had held his collar since the beginning was surprisingly stronger than Yu had expected, as his body was dragged along the ground effortlessly, choking Yu in the process.

After struggling for a bit, Yu was able to get up and he started walking behind the woman, sighing in his mind. He knew full well what this inhuman level of strength meant. She had been strengthened by mana.

And not just a bit like the chestnut-haired Rachel who had been taking care of Kai, but a lot more than even Morgan Dread. At least, based on how effortlessly she was dragging Yu, she must be at least twice as strong as Morgan while he was fighting the enemies in the forest.

Plus, he did not have the system to check how much mana he had. He might be Kai's clone, but that did not mean that all the mana Kai had had also been transferred to him. It could be that since he was just born, he might not even have as much mana as a normal child who was just born.

Therefore, the option to escape was once more thrown out of the window.