I stepped through the gate and immediately rolled away from the place I came out from. I turned around while standing up and simultaneously took a few more steps backwards. At first I didn't notice anything, so I was a bit relieved but I still didn't dare to lower my guard.
I looked to my left and then to my right. Then I immediately leaned myself backwards, not a single moment too late. An arrow was shot by the man I just saw about 10 meters away, that arrow could have easily hit me in the head but now it only graced my cheek.
"I guess I'm going to have to do it the hard way then, boy."
The man approached me while unsheathing his sword, it had a curved blade, so I guess it was a katana. While he was approaching me the gravel under his feet began to scatter in every direction.
"Don't resist and let's just get it over with boy!"
There was no point in trying to get him to not kill me, if that wasn't his intention from the start he wouldn't have shot an arrow at me that would've gone right into my head, so I just thought about a possibility to somehow defeat him.
I picked up a stone with my left hand from the floor and approached him.
"Oh you're approaching me, huh!"
I tried to make it seem like I was frightened and tried to get his whole focus on my left hand, with which I was still holding the stone I had just picked up, my plan was to get him by surprise and using the knife in a situation, where he would let his guard down, even if it's just for a second.
That was the only way I could think of to actually have the chance to live.
Running away wasn't really an option, because he seems to be a strong man in his 30's not an opponent I could face with my body, not in strength and neither in speed. On top of that I have to face him, while he has a sword which makes it almost impossible to win a head on fight.
"I... I'm not scared of you."
I once again tried to make myself look frightened by trying look like my hands were uncontrollably shaking.
Now that he was only about 3 meters away from me we both stopped and when looking at his face I saw something, which surprised me. His eyes, they weren't of any natural colour, they were completely white.
Even in a world, I don't really know anything about it wouldn't be normal to have eyes without pupils, that would also probably really restrict the eyesight, although that's just a guess because I don't really know anything about eyes after all, but It just didn't seem natural.
After a second of staring at each other he stepped forward and swung his sword at my neck, I could tell that he wasn't being completely serious, because he would definitely be able to swing his sword faster if he wanted to.
I threw the stone at him with my left hand, but he easily evaded, which wasn't really that big of a surprise.
"So you don't want to surrender, do you? Well then I don't want to waste any more time with you."
He wanted to approach me with his sword but then...suddenly he opened his hand and his sword dropped!
From his expression I could tell that he was surprised by that himself.
"What how dare this-"
I didn't think much, but I used this opportunity to step forward and tried to punch him. He of course easily evaded and wanted to grab my arm, but then I stepped aside and quickly ducked myself under his attempt at grabbing me.
Then I used my whole strength and both of my arms to try and bring him down by pulling him under his left arm and using my leg to at the same time flip his leg so that he would fall.
"You little shit think you can actually survive this do you?!"
I didn't succeed, I underestimated his weight and now he was trying to hit me with his elbow. I quickly got out to his side to not get hit, now I only had to get his attention on my left side again, so that I could maybe pull my knife and stab him.
He wanted to turn to me, but I once again rammed against him using all my strength.
"You seriously think that this would work? Didn't you learn anything?!"
Now I lifted my left arm to punch him, making it look like a last struggle before dying.
He easily evaded to my right but while swinging my left fist at him I simultaneously grabbed my knife from my right pocket and swung it at his neck. His attention shifted to my right hand, but he was a little bit too late.
"NO you don't-!"
Then he couldn't say anything anymore. My knife fully entered his neck and I quickly jumped backwards while he fell onto the ground.
After a few more seconds of struggle he finally stopped to move. His eyes were also changing.
He got his pupils back, now he looked just like a normal man, not even like someone who just tried to kill me. I realized something from that.
He was probably not doing this on his own accord. Maybe he was controlled by this world trying to get me killed, or rather by someone maybe, someone who didn't want me in this world.
I am a singularity or maybe just one of an incredible minority, who actually got the chance to come to another world and because of that I may be seen as a natural enemy.
"Huh, no point in thinking too much about this I have to find a place to rest first, then I can think about everything."
I then unconsciously smiled with somehow overflowing joy and slowly realizing what had actually happened.
"To get such a chance, who could've ever known that something like this was possible."
I pulled the bloody knife out of the body of the lifeless enemy, who I had fought with till now and and blood began to shoot out of his neck.
Now I had fully realized that I really did it, I achieved my goal!
Now I could actually turn my life into something more fitting for me.
I took all of the man's weapons and even found a bag with a bit of food and other various things in it. It was pretty heavy for me, but I have to get everything I can possibly get right now.
"Oh almost forgot it!"
I took the man's clothes. At the least his Shirt, his pants and his shoes as to not be seen as weird by wearing foreign, unknown clothes, which would almost surely happen if I were to run around in my current clothes.
Then I set ablaze and continued on the way that the man came from. Hopefully I would be able to find a city in this direction.
-Now the journey has truly began for this young boy who came from another world, well he is going to have to get strong to survive in a world like this. But now that he is at the starting point he will be able to do what he wanted on a journey that will eventually lead him to encounter all kinds of mystical things, how will he continue his path?-