****Whimsical Forest****

****Vlad POV****

I looked towards the 4 people in front of me "Can you tell me the direction towards Tosa?"

The black-robed youth looked at me with a shocked expression "You don't have any weapons and yet you want to go through this forest!? Are you not afraid of death!?"

I looked towards him and said. "What's there to be afraid of; If I die, then I die, and if I live, I live. So, can you tell me the direction towards Tosa?"

The white-robed youth looked towards me "You do understand that in this forest monsters are everywhere and you won't have a chance to leave here without a scratch if not death, you know?"

I started to frown "Listen, I have been in this forest for 3 hours already and I haven't met any monster except for that!" I pointed at the dead lion.

"That's impossible. With your level and your items, you will definitely die in this forest in just 10 minutes let alone for 3 hours" The girl said and the rest agreed with her.

"Why don't you follow us? we were just on our way back anyway" The black-robed youth said with a smile.

"Young master, you can't be serious, right!? He will just slow us down!" The white-robed yelled in panic

The black-robed youth looked towards the white-robed youth "Well, I don't think that will happen" The white-robed youth looked towards my direction "So, what is your answer? Will you join us?"

"As long as you can get me to Tosa, I am fine!" I said with a smile which made the 3 people with the black-robed youth look at me with disdain.

"Good, let's go before it gets dark" The black-robed took the lead and we followed.

1 hour passed!

2 hours passed!

3 hours passed!

4 hours passed!

We haven't met a single monster on the way which made the group shocked. Looking at their expressions made me certain of my theory.

After knowing that this forest is the home to so many monsters, I knew it was not right for me not to meet any of them, which means that something about me is making the other monsters stay away. Of course, I was not sure, but now that I look at their shocked faces, I know that it is true.

Question: What is making the monsters stay away from me?

The only thing that's different about me is that I have red hair and yellow eyes which no one else has. That means that my body is different from normal humans.

Now that I think about it, ever since I came here, my personality changed.

Unlike the me from my previous world who would faint at the sight of blood, I don't feel anything when I look at blood anymore, even worse I feel like it's normal.

I am also not scared despite the fact that I know I am in a world far more dangerous than my previous one.

‘Looks like this world messed up with my mentality when I came here’ I thought

"How come we haven't met any monster for so long!? This is unbelievable! Something must be wrong!" The white-robed youth said which made all of us look at him.

I started laughing which made the white-robed youth frown "What are you laughing at?"

"Well, you said that something must be wrong because we haven't met any monsters. If we didn’t meet one, we’re lucky, right? So, why are you so angry about it?"

Everyone became silent.

I looked towards the black-robed youth "How far are we from Tosa?"

"We are very close" He said with a smile.

****Estra, Tosa****

****Vlad POV****

"We are here!" The black-robed youth said while pointing towards the huge metallic gate which had 2 bare-chested guards on each side of it. Looking at the people who had cold gazes, they were about 2m tall and had muscular bodies with huge swords on their backs which were about 1m long. They stood there like statues.

We moved towards the gate and stopped in front of it and the guards moved "Young master!"

They both said in union looking towards the black-robed youth who nodded.

"Open the gate!" One of the guards yelled and the huge gate opened and we entered.

The houses here reminded me of how houses looked like in the 1600 China.

[Like this: http://pronko1.wikispaces.com/file/view/chinese-architecture.jpg/138449345/486x432/chinese-architecture.jpg but not the exact same].

"Do you have anywhere to stay?" I looked towards the black-robed youth who asked.

"Are you offering?" I said with a smile and he started laughing while the other got red due to their anger.

"If you are willing, you can stay at my house. We’ve got too many rooms; Might as well let you stay at one of them!"

"But, young master!" The girl said looking towards the black-robed youth.

"No buts. I said he can stay, so he can!" The black-robed youth said which made the girl go silent.

"Let's go!" The black-robed youth said and led us through the masses and we came in front of a house with a gate and walls surrounding it.

[Looks like this: http://arts.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/upload/standard/2010-06/10/china_red_sandalwood_museumbb333d0b5963e40add4a.jpg]

‘How come these people has these kinds of houses? They resemble the Chinese homes too much!’ I thought

"Young master is here, open the gate!" We heard the yell of someone and the gate opened. Four women came out with similar clothes with their heads down "Welcome back, young master!"

The black-robed youth pointed at me. "Take him and prepare one of guest rooms for him!" He said and the women looked at me with confused expressions before they got back to reality "Yes, young master!"

They escorted me to a room which had a bed. This surprised me because I thought they would also have the same beds that the Chinese used.