Chapter 167 - Acceptance

After hearing Randy's words, the old man's eyes widen in slight surprise, and then realized that what the young man just said was indeed the case. Since they had been prepared to attack a monster instead of a human, they were all ready with their weapons in their hands to engage the opposition. However, that was no longer needed. 

Although he had tried to explain things briefly to his people, they did not listen to him and were instead on their guards against someone that had evidently saved his granddaughter.

Even if he had acknowledged the young man's words, there was no guarantee that his people would do the same, considering their actions from before. 

With that in mind, he turned around and then went to discuss something with the people behind him as he displayed a serious expression, seemingly convincing them to drop down their guards.

Randy calmly observed this situation for a few moments and then he let out a sigh of relief before wondering to himself. 

'Why was the old man speaking like that, though? More importantly, why does he know the language from my world? Well, whatever. As long as he understands me then there's no need to shed any unnecessary blood. Besides, they all look like normal people, so they won't be able to do anything to me anyway. I Just need to get them to trust me enough for them to show me out of here. Hopefully to a city rather than this place near the forest.'

As he was thinking this, the old man had already finished his discussion with the people behind and then gestured in his direction before saying: "Yo… ung man. Co… me."

After hearing these words, Randy did not bother to think about the other party's request and took a step forward as he headed toward the old man with the crowd behind him, although they seemed to have calmed down compared to before. 

Even though there was a possibility of them attacking him, Randy was very confident that he would be able to defeat these people by himself. Unless there was someone powerful than these people here right now in this village, he could easily take care of them all. 

Even so, it was more beneficial for him to get along with them rather than be hostile against them, and thus after reaching them, the old man led the way as he followed right behind him. The bulky men also parted ways for them to pass through while displaying strange expressions on their faces.

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Inside the forest.

At this time, the two armored men had returned to the location where Randy had killed that blonde man a while ago. These two people who just arrived on the scene had received a task from the blonde man with the intention of looking out and making sure that no one interrupts him.

However, as they were doing their job, they suddenly heard a loud hoarse screaming noise, seemingly belonging to a human male and they immediately rushed over to the location of the said human's voice.

After arriving at the source of the voice, they were instantly shocked to find that it was coming from the place where their leader was having fun with that civilian pretty girl that they met in the forest earlier. 

Though when they came back, there was no one here, only a residue of blood on the ground. Even the young girl that they had captured was nowhere to be found.

This situation shocked them senseless. Because, besides the blood on the ground, there does not seem to be any battle prints on the ground, meaning that the person or thing that dealt with their leader was so strong that their leader could not retaliate against the opposition, not to mention that civilian girl.

"Shit! What happened here? What could have dealt with the captain?" One of them spoke out loud.

At this moment, this person gripped tightly on the hilt of his sword as he gazed at the fresh blood on the ground with a frown on his expression.

"Hell if I would know. Why did the captain have to go crazy over every pretty girl that he sets his eyes on? Tsk!" The other person seemed peeved by their captain's unbridled actions that led to their current situation.

This person carried a shield and broad sword on his back, indicating that his job was to protect his team members. Since he had the mindset of a protector, he did not like it when their leader took advantage of his position to do whatever he wanted with all the pretty girls that he had met so far.

"Forget that. How are we going to explain this to the cardinal? I am sure that he would kill us if we said that the captain had died when he was having fun with a civilian girl." The armored man carrying a shield continued.

"Now that you mention it, what do we do now? There doesn't seem to be any trace of the captain, and this is the Meistic forest, so it is hard to track whatever did this." The armored man carrying his sword realized their current situation and then asked right away.

"What else? Let us search the forest. Maybe the captain is still alive somewhere. If that happens to be the case, we can help him fight off whatever it is that attacked him. Even if we end up dying in the process, it is still better than going back and losing our lives helplessly because of our negligence." The armored man carrying the shield suggested.

And thus, the two of them decided to search the surroundings to see if there was any magical beast or someone nearby whom they assumed would be the one that had attacked their leader in the forest just now. 

However, they found nothing of the sort after a while. There were not even any magical beasts at the edge of the forest. Unless they headed deeper into the forest, they would not be able to find anything that could have attacked their captain. 

Feeling frustrated by their meaningless search, they ended up giving up on going further into the forest and proceeded to head back to the nearby city. 

For the time being, they planned on delaying their report in hopes of finding their leader within the next few days with the help of the scouts from the nearby city. That was because, even if their leader had died, they need to bring back his corpse to prove their words. Otherwise, if they reported right away, they would be made to take the blame and killed for their misconduct during a mission.

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Meanwhile, back in the village. 

Randy had been warmly accepted by the old man and his family members into their house. They even told him to stay for a few days and gave him his own room. 

At the time, Randy was going to refuse their proposal, but after contemplating about how he did not understand their language, and also the fact that the old man could understand his words despite it being a language from his world, he decided to stay for a bit to learn the truth about these things. 

Furthermore, he wanted to ask them to teach him their common language directly, so he decided to stay.

In actuality, he had originally planned to learn this world's common language directly from the old man who seemed to understand his language before setting out anyway. 

But there was another method to explore, it was either through this method of directly learning from them or if they had books or something similar that held all their languages within, in which case, he could use those to comprehend their languages by expending some knowledge points.