Watched the Hermit Crab

Natsuki Subaru. Or perhaps simply Subaru. He had not encountered anyone with anything other than a mononym as their names. 17. Kingdom of Lugnica.

That is such a strange thing to say. His identity card would be weird now. Not Nihon but Lugnica. He at least knew that Japan meant "the sun's origin" but Lugnica sounds like a very cliche game name.

When one is lost the sensible thing to do is to ask for directions. Subaru wasn't like his mother who would be very embarrassed over admitting the painfully normal mistake of not recognizing where you are at the moment.

The monarchy was located in the east side of the continent - though what the continent's name was he hadn't found out yet, because the couple of people whom he has asked looked at him weirdly before bursting out in laughter and then walking off. The geography of the capital city which he was currently at was painfully simple - like any RPG game to be honest. Divided into 5 districts: the highest being where the royalty lived - all of which have been dead apparently. He was at the third layer, where shops and stalls and everything economic and commercial runs. He guessed the second would be where rich people live, and the fourth layer would be where normal people live, and the fifth could either be an uninhabited land or where the homeless live.

Also, anthropomorphic crocodiles (intimidating), sloths (they're not slow), lizards (their eyes are creepy), dogs (seriously), dragonflies (damn), etcetera including humans could understand Japanese. But then he saw the banners, the stand advertisement boards, the price tags, and Subaru realized he couldn't read the language.

Out of 7 billion human in planet Earth, Natsuki Subaru was chosen or perhaps was fated to be the main character of a parallel real life RPG fantasy world, and he was being quest cock-blocked by language barrier.

He swiped the air in front of him with his forefinger and thumb. No menu appeared for him to change the language. He tried summoning it verbally.

"That is the stupidest attempt at thievery I have ever witnessed."

"I wasn't stealing," Subaru replied automatically, just like how he would whenever his parents asked if he had stolen a chocolate or juice box from the fridge. "Do you take these?" Subaru fished some yen out of his pocket and showed it to the man.

"Foreigner with no actual money? Get lost, kid!"