They had asked him, gently but repeatedly, whether he had suffered anything painful wherever he had been before, and whether he really wanted to return to his supposed acquaintance.
Not all of it was a lie, but he knew there were plenty of unnatural parts to his story.
I'm sorry, Agares. If you end up suffering from bad rumors because of me, I'll get down on my knees and apologize. That's all I can do. I really am sorry, Agares.
But then another problem began to weigh on his mind.
That's, travel expenses.
In his original world, if something happened to a citizen abroad, they could run to an embassy under "protection of nationals abroad," and somehow it would be handled. But in this world, even though they treated unknown people with care, there was no such system in place.
For Li Shen, the plan going forward was this: he would move to the nearest town and continue to be sheltered by Cinniuint's family while they waited for contact from the Empire.
