-the next day-
After doing my training in bow- and swordsmanship in the morning after waking up I departed from my resting place and was ready to head back to the path on the way to Raiken. A few hours after walking on the path I noticed people, who were walking in front of me. They seemed to all be coming from another path connected to the one I had been walking on the whole time. Well it only makes sense if you consider that on the path I was walking on there was only the village as the destination, so naturally not many people would go into or outside of the village, after all there wasn't really anything special. I tried not to catch up to the people in front of me too quickly, so I walked a bit slower but it was also a good opportunity to let my muscles rest a bit more before reaching Raiken. I had been walking pretty fast for the last few days, because I wanted to reach Raiken as quickly as possible, together with my training in the morning after waking up and the evening before sleeping my muscles got tired quite fast. But it was worth it, after all a bit of pain is nothing compared to actually steadily improving and getting stronger. Well after walking for maybe half an hour longer I was noticing something. I was so in thought about different fighting styles, techniques or possible training methods that I noticed it just now, but in the distance I saw a grey point that was gradually getting bigger. The landscape was so flat that you could actually see Raiken from this distance. After walking farther and farther in the direction of the grey point that would gradually turn more and more into the outline of a city that was Raiken more and more people would come and eventually I would be in between a lot of people, some of them looked like adventurers, some like soldiers and some like traders, who were driving a horsedriven carriage, with goods in them.
"Finally."
I was finally in front of the gate of Raiken, the place I would hopefully finally be able to acquire a lot of the things I would need to know or have in this world. The guards in front of the gate didn't seem to bother and were just standing there not even looking at the people, who were going inside of the city. Seems like this world really is in a peaceful state right now.
"Leather of Young moonshine rabbits for only 2 silver..."
There seem to be a lot of shops around here. Merchants trying to sell all kinds of things from herbs to body parts of animals. The animals seem to have the same original names as in my previous world. But they can look very differently. For example the moonshine rabbit normally look almost like normal rabbits. They have a bit darker fur than normal rabbits, but when the moon shines onto them, their fur starts to shine like the moonlight in a cloudless night. They can also only be born in a night with a full moon. Well I basically know nothing about this world and the different creatures living in it. Daisuke only told me about the big races, who actually are on par with the human kingdom, if I had asked him to tell me about all the races he would have maybe gotten suspicious, I mean even if I lived in a village away from the normal world I would have to know at least a certain extend of things. Well maybe I am too wary, but until I am strong enough I don't want to be suspected and I don't want anyone to look at my past. Well I guess the best place to acquire knowledge would be the library. Well I am just gonna walk around and search for an opportunity to get information, maybe I will just go into a bar like in the village? After walking around in the city for a while I somehow managed to find myself in front of a place with hundreds if not thousands of people standing there and seemingly waiting for something.
"Well this is quite interesting."
I walked up to a few kids, who seemed to be around 10 years old.
"Hey Kids. Would you mind telling me why everyone is standing here waiting for something?"
"Hm, you don't know?"
"No I just entered the city a few minutes ago and I come from a village about five days away."
"Oh, well The royal family is going to appear in front of the palace anytime."
What? the royal family?!
"Oh, thank you for telling me, kids."
Well this is really truly unexpected. I was a bit anxious, the royal family could mean trouble if I get involved with them. How could the timing be this unfortunate?! I went behind a corner and was standing there. I am not really interested in them, but it is important to know what the royal family looks like, it should be common knowledge for humans. Well maybe they are not the only royal family, but taking a glance shouldn't hur-
"King Raiken, prince, princess..."
The crowd was cheering so loud that it was actually hurting a bit in my ears, well I always felt like I had a good sense of hearing, but how can they be that loud. Well let's just look at this royal family for now. Looking into the direction everyone was facing I saw them. A king, who seemed like he was really young for his age, but extremely powerful. I could actually feel his power until here, although he was so far away it was actually putting pressure on my body.
"Citizens of Raiken. I am very grateful for everyone who came here today. For the 8th time I will now tell you that the combat tournament will commence in a week. This time my oldest son Kori will participate in this years festival. I wish the best of luck to everyone who will be participating in this year's festival."
The pressure from the king stopped and everyone was able to move normally now.
"Long live King Raiken..."
I was not that impressed by the kings speech and I wouldn't participate in this festival he spoke of. Firstly I am way too weak for a festival, where even the crown prince of this country is taking part in. And secondly I wouldn't want to make a name for myself so early in this world. But the king's strength is really extraordinary.
"Well I guess there's nothing really special to see here and I have a lot of things to do."
I wanted to leave, but then for just a moment my eyes met the eyes of the princess.
I didn't know why, but I felt something indescribable at that moment.
The princess, who had the same shining white hair as her family, also seemed a bit confused as her expression changed just for a second.
She was no doubt the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, a white dress, which complimented her shining blue eyes perfectly and her hair that had a perfect length and expressed the same perfect contrast to her blue eyes. Her skin seemed like it was the sole work of a god solely creating it for the purpose of finding true perfection.
I could feel my heart jumping as I saw her and it was the first time such strong feelings had overcome me in this world. It seemed like it was straight out of a story and I was linked to her, unable to escape my feelings in that sole moment.
It was something, which seemed impossible, something which was beautiful, but also extremely dangerous.
I didn't know if my feelings in that moment were good or bad. But what I knew was that they were different and they were absolutely unexpected and unfamiliar...
And that is dangerous, so the reactions in my body were extremely confused. For one part I didn't want to set my eyes off of her for even a second, but one the other hand there were stronger emotions that told me that it was too dangerous and so a feeling of danger immediately also appeared.
And following these emotions I decided that I should leave at that exact moment, before my other feelings would get even stronger and capture me in her calm gaze, which had just been shook by different emotions.
I felt like I could just see her although we were in the middle of a huge crowd, hundreds of meters apart and I felt like I could tell what she felt just from taking a glance at her beautiful blue eyes that were suddenly like diamonds glowing up and finally being polished, blending everyone looking at them.
"Well let's just go."
That definitely was a weird encounter, but I shouldn't think too much about this. After all I don't want to pursue any relationships if possible and the feeling of danger I could feel aside my other emotions was something I already knew and trusted, something I could rely on, something that tried to let me see the dangers confronting me.
And what could be more dangerous than the unknown?