Basking in light, the city shone with a gentle wave. The wide and long stone roads allowed for the carriages, the travelers, and the citizens to walk peacefully, without care for danger. The tall and sturdy houses stood strong with their red or dark-brown roofs, showing a weird yet interesting contrast. Some were made of stone, some made of bricks, some made of wood, yet despite the difference, they all were clean, as if it was recently built.

What shocked him the most though, was that within his sights strange creatures wandered through the street. In one direction, there was a woman with a human body at the top, yet below her waist, instead of legs she had a serpent-like body with some weird scales slightly poking out. In another direction, there was a trio of humans but they had a fluffy tail like a fox and ears like one, and a few other small details that weren't human-like.

To the left of him, he saw a tall ox-like creature, yet despite looking like one, it was standing on its two legs as a human would. Noticing the gaze, the ox looked at him, “May I help you, little boy?”

“Ah, apologies Dunert, this one is new here and came from an isolated place. He was just curious,” the captain quickly apologized.

“No worries. It happens, especially from the small ones.” the ox gave a nod and walked away. Seeing how nice the captain was to it, Yuu started to worry, “Ah, did I accidentally offend someone important?”

“No no, he’s just a merchant, no worries. It’s just that he has a decently high reputation both in and outside the city, so while he isn’t all-powerful, I would try to be nice to him. Anyways, let’s turn right and enter the nearby station.”

Within a building placed next to the wall’s outpost, he stared at the weapons stapled on the wall or those that laid on the tables. There were some classic common ones that he knew of like swords, axes, spears, and more, but there were a few oddities like a wooden stick with two pointy ends, like a barbeque fork, but it didn’t look dangerous at all.

Settling down on a stool, the captain and the female guard joined him while the deep-voiced guard grabbed two books and quills, giving one to the captain.

Grabbing the book and quill, the captain decided to start the conversation, “I guess we can start with introductions since it wouldn’t be good to leave you hanging. As you can tell from the others, I am the captain, Chrisel.”

The deep-voiced guard spoke next, “Bedgard, Captain's assistant.”

As the female guard was next, unlike Bedgard who kept his helmet on, not showing his face or body at all, she took hers off. Her hair weirdly had many strands of a hot bright red shade mixing with another shade of a dark, almost black color. He could also see that while she had slightly darker skin, more on the lighter side, she had small yet red scales slightly poking out on her neck.

“Eh, what are you looking at me so intensely for!” she said in a harsh tone.

“Uh, I thought you looked kinda cute with the way your hair blended,” he spoke honestly, not intending for it to be a flirtatious comment, but just a general one since he usually saw these crazy colors on those younger than him, which he found cute and interesting.

Almost turning red as her hair, she stuttered in her words, “W-what did you say dumbass!” “Kebfa, introductions.” Bedgard glared at her through his helmet.

Taking a good second to breathe, she kept it short like Bedgard, “K-kebfa, the youngest of the group.”

Hearing a slight giggle, Yuu looked towards Chrisel, noticing that he was laughing quietly, “Ah, if you couldn’t tell, Kebfa has a weakness to compliments. She rarely gets them but when she does she just explodes in embarrassment, haha.”

“Captain!” Kebfa’s face was like a volcano, changing from a slightly dark face to a burning red hue. This didn’t help when she saw Yuu giving her a gentle smile, she could tell that he was sort of laughing but found it enjoyable to look at.

The reason why Yuu gave a warm smile after seeing how she acted was that it reminded him of someone back on Earth, but he quickly blocked that away since he didn’t want to be reminiscent of that now. “I’m Yuu, I don’t know where I am or anything about this world so please excuse me for my ignorance,” he took a slight bow while speaking.

“Haha, don’t bow Yuu, no need, no need. That’s actually not a good thing to do. At least here, You’d only do it to your Master or just anyone higherup beyond your status, like a commoner and a noble. Anyway, I guess I should explain to you this world before asking you any questions.

“Starting off with locations, the world is called Remshal, as for the kingdom that you are currently in is called Temploran, a place under the rule of Queen Elizen. As for here, this is a medium-sized city named Blarchx, it sounds weird but that’s a historical naming since this city is pretty old spanning hundreds of years.

“There are many other kingdoms, nations, countries, and even continents out there but I will spare you a history lesson. Though if there is one thing that this world, or at least this kingdom has, it’s that it's very diverse in terms of the creatures.

“I could tell from your face that you have rarely seen this type of diversity? Or were there creatures and magic in your world?”

“No, there is evidence of some creatures being intelligent, like a few birds or felines but it only extends to a certain limit, it has only been humans that have been able to achieve a high level of intelligence and civilization. Well at least, for millions of years we know for sure that it has just been us. As for magic, uh, I don’t think we do. There has never been an actual occurrence, at least that we know of where magic was being used. Though, what do you mean by magic?”

“I think it might be better to actually show you magic then explain it,” snapping his fingers, a flame appeared out of nowhere. “Magic is a vague term, but for you think of it like defying nature. For simple magic, a flame can be created out of nowhere, what most students or recent graduates are at, they can summon a spike of ice, more advanced magic can change the gravity in a certain radius, and even the legendary magicians are able to go through space, though obviously, that is limited.

As for how exactly, it works, again, I’d just spare you from the lesson. Though we don’t have an exact idea of how it actually works, just theories.

As for you. There is a rare occurrence where people from another world suddenly appear in ours. We call them Crossers. They appear at random, but sometimes we will have one appear in a year, maybe none in a couple of years, or maybe a handful in a few months, it really depends on fate I guess.

As for how they cross, it is a complete mystery, the best guess that the best researchers have is that a small crack appears in time and space, extremely quick that an average person’s eyes wouldn’t see it, but enough to absorb someone your size in. But that’s just a theory, we really are puzzled as to why you came, so do you mind explaining as to the events that lead up to it?”

As Yuu began explaining what happened, beginning from when he was about to leave work, when he saw the goblin, to when he entered the cave, everyone’s face slowly tensed up, no longer being relaxed.

Despite Bedgard being the quietest in the room, he dropped his quill before speaking with haste, “Are you sure it was a goblin? And this stone, can you describe it in more detail.”

“Yea, at least it looked similar to those goblins who wandered in the cave in this world. And for the stone… it was mixed with a blue and yellow glow, and when I touched it I woke up in a random cave.”

The captain looked at the notebook and hesitated to write anything, “This… and you are one hundred percent sure that goblins and the like don’t exist in your world?” after getting a nod and an explanation of how they existed in fantasies and fiction, and how they were just urban legends with no proof, the captain sighed.

“This will be a huge discovery… I need to make a report immediately after this. Let me ask you a few more questions, it may take a long time but I'll accommodate for your housing and help you get started after.”

Not knowing how severe this situation was, Yuu complied with their questions. Without realizing it, the sun had already started to set before they even finished the talk.