-Its...ehm its pretty good thank you...

The short brown haired girl replied trying to make a smile,but failing at it,instead showing me a crook with her quivering lips which indicated that she was in fact nervous being around me.

-...

The others were evenly quiet and just nodded their heads towards me trying to be polite,seeing this I was a bit unsure what to do next...socializing isn't my best suit alright !

I can do negotiations I can take care of children or people younger then me,but talking with people the same age and trying to hold a conversation is something complete different its something I suck in actually...I wonder how the female hobgoblins make it so easy to talk to them sometimes...was it because I felt more at ease when with them,because right now I am really not comfortable.

As I was thinking like that blondie who was sitting to the front right suddenly popped her head out and looked at me with a smile on her lips starting to talk to me.

-On the topic of food thank you for those slimes actually...without them I am sure that we would have starved already !

The others hearing this looked at blondie confused momentarily they started thinking about it and realized that I was in fact the person who had been in control of the slimes becoming speechless,they looked at me for a few seconds one of the guys even felt ashamed for some reason while blondies former friend brunette was just looking the other way already finished with her bowl placing it down next to her she had a pretty grumpy expression on her face while curling into a ball she didn't want to talk thats for sure.

-...

Damn,it was quiet again ! what do I even do about this ?!

I started thinking about it more appraisingly trying to think of a topic to talk about,but no there was nothing not even a shred of trivia inside my head coupled with this situation this silence was very fitting with the sound of painful moans surrounding us...

Alright if normal talking doesn't work why do I even need to use it ? Why not go straight to the point ? Isn't that the reason I was here the first place ? Maybe I was expecting a bit too much...

Feeling that it was useless I also finished my bowl pretty quickly with that done I stored the bowl into my space which basically got the attention of everyone towards me which was convenient letting me talk.

-I am going to go straight to the point,you must know by now that this world is a complete different world then ours meaning the people and animals in this world and have complete different shapes,history and mannerisms close to our former world,but also meaning that no one is going to go out and help us who knows even the language in this place seems to be completely different other then us I don't think anyone speaks english even the humans in question...

When I revealed my point the people around me made all kinds of expressions be it nervousness or plain fear they had all something in common...helplessness...it was inevitable of course they knew very well what kind of situation they were in,but getting reminded is something that stings and also something that begs the question which is...what do you do next,which I also asked.

-What I want to know is...what will you do next ?

There was a small moment of silence surroundings us for a moment after my question it took them a bit to digest what I meant by that.

-eh ?

-what are we going to do ?...even if you say it like that...

-I am not really sure..

-Maybe those humans ? Or even better you could help us...uhh ?

When he said that I quickly raised my finger to tell him to shut up he took the cue and stopped talking confused as I talked my mind out.

-You are misunderstanding here something...I am not here to help you nor am I here to give you a ride even though I most likely could do that if you want me to...no the reason I here is because I came for the rescue because of these 2 over here !

I pointed at both blondie and glasses girl getting these people to look at them with a gaze of amazement and small gratitude they only stared without a second word lasting for about a few seconds until they looked back at me,wanting to hear what I had to say.

Glasses girl and blondie both looked a bit awkward getting called out like that,but they didn't voice it and just listened to me.

-Previously I made a deal with these 2 I promised them that I would help them if needed that I would converse with them as allies so to speak I imagine that you don't know anything about this since you didn't seem to believe that I was real in the first place which is your fault not theirs

That statement got multiple expression of hurt and regret followed by annoyance some even wanted to just leave,but my icy demeanor wouldn't let that happen they stayed even if they liked it or not since I needed to get something straight to these thick heads.

-So what are you telling us to do you smart ass...

Brunette suddenly asked her voice with a tone of underlying contempt the others also heard that and looked at her a bit scared of what might happen now they probably expected me to go violent because of offense,but I wasn't that petty insults meant nothing to me if they didn't have any objection or contradiction to my point.

Which was why I smiled turning to her,who was looking the other way with a hard face not wanting to meet my gaze out of fear.

-Its easy you have pretty much a lot of options right now one of them being going with human civilization actually !

This got me a lot of stares all of a sudden they were wide eyed and wanted to ask the same question.

-How ?!

I smiled and started explaining them about the human troops that were about to come to this place that they were going to exterminate a orc settlement and that their arrival would be in 2 or 3 days from now on I explained them that they could just confront that group and ask for help or just follow them towards civilization and start living their new lives here,but at the moment I mentioned "New lives" to them it got out a multiple reactions of either flinching or narrowed eyes looking down...they didn't like that thats for sure,but I didn't know a way out and I didn't want to find one either way.

-So its really like this...we can't go home ever again I didn't even say bye to my mom...

Brunette frowned muttering to herself sadly the others were doing that too mourning and pitying themselves which I really disliked,but let slide since it wasn't something to joke about this was something they needed to know before they waste their time that the exit to this place was pretty much unknown that it could take a full decade for them to finally get back to their world or even more,because I don't think crossing worlds is a easy job even though we got here pretty easily ourselves.

-This can't be this easy...meeting those troops has some kind of hook doesn't it ?

Glasses girl asked pretty wary about my answer...she was sharp and also right she was also a person who accepted that she couldn't do anything about her situation now making her chose her decision pretty quickly in which I replied.

-Yes,of course there is a hook there are multiple things that could go wrong in this plan such as plainly confronting them or following them...one of them being the obvious such as the language barrier !

-What do you mean by that ?!

Brunette asked...I felt momentarily annoyed by how she didn't seem to have listened to the first part of my question and is now asking the problem...fortunately glasses girl came to rescue.

-He had just mentioned that chrissy remember ? He said that the history and mannerism of this world is completely different then ours meaning that when we confront the human soldiers it may be that they aren't going to understand us the first time making it hard to communicate in the first place...this would also lead to even more problems since even if we are able to find civilization our lack of common knowledge and lack of speech will make us outcasts of this world...

The word "Outcast" had a pretty heavy ring to it since everyone knew what that meant...for normal teenage kids this term would be used for people who are basically anti-social or plain loners the people who can't make friends easily and are subjected to all kinds of things...but the meaning in this situation was completely different and far out shadowed the meaning we knew in our world.

It basically meant that without proper education you wouldn't be able to establish a common ground with someone which would lead to more problems such as deception and not being able to make your own living gather food and live your daily life...of course you could learn these skills in about a year or so,but that would take a lot of time and it wasn't certain even since there is so much in this world that you probably need more then a year to actually feel slightly comforted with staying here...simply put you would immediately become something close to a homeless person the moment reaching civilization you wouldn't know the market price of items or how much you get paid for a job not even sure what you have to do in such job that would need higher grade education giving you only a few options such as physical labor and prostitution...even then you wouldn't know what pay you would get which can be really scary if you think about it.

Glasses girl simply put explained everyone what the situation was if they wouldn't be able to understand the language without the obvious labor and prostitution of course...

-But...but thats only if they don't understand us right ? we are working on a assumption here and we don't even know if they do understand us...

Brunette said trying to be hopeful about the situation...the other also immediately jumped into the bandwagon trying to convince themselves that brunette was right and that they wouldn't end up as outcasts trying to at least partially comfort themselves.

This is one of the reasons why they are going wrong about their situation assuming something is good it gives you a basic layout of what you are working with,but believing in that assumption blindly can cost you heavily this isn't even the first problem of how things could go wrong if they confront the troops no there were much more ways this could end up half of them being violent of course...

I wasn't going to say that though,call me mean,but they probably wouldn't even consider that option with the way they were acting now.

-Everyone stop that we don't even know if they can or can not understand us talking further about this doesn't help us rather this doesn't seem to be the only problem with the confrontation...am I right sorron ?

Glasses girl's deduction immediately stopped their idle chatter getting pulled into the conversation they once again turned their heads towards me expecting me to lay it out to them like a shop vendor...good god.

Without any other option I started to explain them how else things could go wrong the next topic being thinking that they were spies if confronted.

-Wait that doesn't even make sense...

Brunette replied she was pretty much completely distrusting towards me,but glasses girl narrowed her eyes and said.

-No,what he says is true...like look at us chrissy we are wearing jeans and t-shirts and from what I understand this world seems to be set in a pretty medieval era meaning that technology hadn't been advanced in this era yet making the design and use of these items a bit alien to these people coupled with our speech problem here they could assume that we came from a different country...kingdom...I assume..

That question was directed towards me which I answered explaining them the setting of this world in particular that there were 5 major races being Dwarven,Elven,Human,Dragonmen and Beastman all 5 reigning of their 5 kingdoms I also explained that looking at the current state of equipment and other few pieces of information I had acquired that it was most likely a medieval world without a doubt...

-I see...

Glasses girl said pondering about my newly revealed information she didn't ask me from where I got that info and even if she asked I wouldn't be able to tell her since I couldn't just say that I asked a rabbit in the middle of a forest...that would be just weird...another reason for that was because I didn't want to reveal to them about my unique skill "Tongue Of The World" who knows what they would ask me if I tell them i have such ability it also wouldn't change the situation whatsoever.

-Alright lets say he is right then what would make it a difference then tell me ?

Brunette asked annoyed of how she didn't understand the flow of the conversation and I could tell that she was more of a aggressor kind of type of person who leads a conversation and makes out of it whatever she wants,but now that she doesn't have that control she had no other choice,but to listen and try to understand...you should have listened to history a bit more would have helped in this topic pretty well.

-Chrissy if those troops misunderstand us as foreign spies then what they are going to do is most probably torture and kill us to make us confess of where we came from and what our goals are remember that this is a medieval world with kingdoms and other things in our history it is documented that these times were the most insecure moments of human kind paranoid that other countries are suddenly going to declare war on them which could happen in any given moment because wars in the past had broken out of multiple petty reasons the people would obviously want to hinder that to keep a peaceful ground and let the country grow...

With that glasses girl started to take the lead of the conversation explaining brunette about history and comparing it to this world and over all this spy topic was pretty accurate since we were foreigners in this worlds meeting military officials wouldn't be very good even if they didn't recognize us as spies at first they would still be cautious and who said they are nice in the first place ? They could be barbaric which was the least probable answer,but also something to consider nonetheless...

-My lord...one of the injured has woken up...she is crying in pain and I don't know what to do !

Out of the blue Hasumi came next to me and told me about the problem she was a bit worried about what she should do not about the patient,but about her task since she didn't want to disappoint me thats why she immediately asked me instead of trying to do it herself it was the most sensible thing to do.

-Really..alright I come right now...

Hasumi nodded focused,but also very excited for some reason...having been notified about the problem I started to stand up from my seat about to go towards the patient,but as I did so I noticed that everyone was staring at me for some reason...even glasses girl.

-what..?

-Its...just that you were talking really weird with that...female...

Everyone else agreed to her statement making me understand what she meant by that...sometimes I wouldn't realize that I had switched languages with my skill and to be honest goblins speech was more comforting to me lately since I never had a real use to english...feeling that it was unneccesery to explain I just clapped my hands putting off the dust and said.

-shouldn't you continue with your lead...

I muttered quietly just for glasses girl to hear she at first didn't understand what I meant by that,but after a few seconds she understood and and looked towards the others again starting to talk once more and explain her how way of doing things...you have to take a step first to be able to reach your goal sometimes people need someone to push you for you to able to take that step in particular later on you won't need that person...glasses girl.

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