18 Left with no choice (1/2)

Waking up again in the cave, Harrison had no clue how his impromptu jump back from Earth's plane dissipated the lives of several cultivators. They were trying to communicate with the Earth's plane when it was in temporal lockdown and when the communication finally went through; they started their journeys. Some were lucky and were fast enough. The unlucky ones arrived as the Earth's was back in the temporal lockdown and dissipated. Luckily the number of dead this time was small since the alliance was monitoring the plane continuously.

What angered the alliance leaders the most was that the travel became unpredictable and the window of opportunity jumped from the usual several hours to mere minutes.

Harrison was of course oblivious to the trouble he caused. Looking at the sleeping girl and the burning fire, he stretched his arms and let out a yawn. His yawn must have startled the girl as she suddenly raised her upper body and breathed in heavily, gasping for air.

Her back was facing Harrison, and he was looking at her quietly as she tried to make sense of her surroundings. Looking at the fire and uncovering herself from the clothes he piled on her and remembering what happened before she blacked out, she slowly turned around as if she was expecting to see a monster behind her.

To her surprise, behind her was a boy looking even younger than she was. He was likewise covering himself with a pile of clothes. She swallowed her saliva and looked at him with anxiety. Harrison was looking back at her and was awaiting her reaction before he did anything. The silence continued for a few minutes before he decided to break it.

”Aka sha!”, Harrison said in an indistinct voice.

The girl's body twitched when she heard him greeting her, but she soon responded with a gentle voice that showed just how frightened she was. Harrison liked the tone of her voice and he could finally see the colour of her eyes. They were blue like sapphires, but they gained a violet hue from the fire.

He did not want to startle her, and he just waited for her to come to grips with what happened before and her current situation. Harrison hoped she would not overreact and understand he had no choice but see her naked body if he wanted to help her.

She soon figured out she was not wearing her clothes or even any of her underwear. The clothes he put on her were obviously oversized for her body. One of her shoulders was poking out from the collar as it turned sideways and if Harrison was a Japanese male anime character, he would surely get a nosebleed from the sexy vibe she exuded even now. She touched the wound on her head and bitterly smiled while blushing.

She knew she would be dead without his help but still having a stranger looking at your naked unconscious body was uncomfortable to say the least.

She took a deep breath and then asked a few questions of which Harrison only understood horse and even that only because the system subtitled her.

”Aka sha!”, Harrison said with a smile and she looked at him like as if she was looking at an idiot.

He pointed outside the cave and gestured in the direction the horse ran off since that was probably what she was asking about.

He turned around and pretended to take something from the corner as he materialized a pair of leather boots from his inventory.

He stood up, holding them while the girl crawled back while sitting wearily. Showing the boots in front of himself and pointing at her bare feet, she understood his intention. Tossing them towards her she grabbed them and put them on.

He opened the hatch and gestured to her to follow him. She could hear the waterfall and she knew it was not far. She blushed, thinking he must have been peeping at her while she bathed. They climbed down the rope and walked to where the horse was being tied to a branch before the attack.

There was nothing there except her shoes and socks, which were neatly tucked in them. She sat down and took off the ones Harrison gave her, which were obviously too big for her. He looked at her toes as she put on her socks and turned away, blushing.

'I am not a pedo. I don't have a foot fetish.' he muttered in his head.

The girl was oblivious of his thoughts and quickly wore her shoes. She gave back his shoes, which he tossed by the tree and gestured towards the woods. He didn't want to expose the existence of his inventory to her and carrying the shoes would inconvenience him.

They followed the markings towards the road. They found some of her clothes on the ground that fell off the horse and she went behind a tree and changed into them. She was wearing a green shirt and brown pants which obviously fit her figure a lot better than what she had on before and looked lovely making Harrison blush again. She noticed him blushing and smiled at him which made him blush even more.

'I am not a pedo. Definitely not a pedo. Don't look at me that way!' he muttered in his head.

As they reached the road Harrison turned around and wanted to go back.

The girl suddenly grabbed his hand and tugged at him, unwilling to let him go.

He looked at her beautiful face and she blushed and pointed towards the town. He nodded and let her lead the way. After a while she noticed she was still holding his hand, and she blushed again before letting go of his hand.

Walking through the town's main-street, people greeted the girl politely, and some even bowed. As she passed them they gave dirty looks to Harrison as if he didn't deserve to walk with her.

'She must be a daughter of someone influential,' Harrison thought as he looked at the unpleasant faces of people passing by.

They soon came in front of a tall wall with a guard posted in front of it. A huge closed double wooden door that could accommodate even carriages was in front of them. They made a small door within the one in the right wing of the big one so they didn't have to open the whole door for individual people.