"Oh no!"
The female demi-human panicked. She got off the wagon and ran to help the downed stranger..
"Why didn't you stop!" she scolded the large white bird that pulled the wagon.
"I did stop, didn't I? But I guess he should look both ways before crossing." said Filo, who doesn't seem to care about the well being of the person she just accidently injured.
Hearing the commotion, Naofumi got out of the wagon to see what's stopping the wagon and saw Raphtalia near a person lying on the ground. So he stepped out to help.
"What happened to him?", he asked Raphtalia.
"He just came out of the bushes all the sudden and he got hit by Filo!" she explained everything to the shield hero.
"It was an accident!" yelled Filo.
Naofumi observed the unconscious man in front of him. His interface displayed the stranger's vital signs, which reads critical.
"Take off his helmet!" he said as he pulled out a healing elixir from his pouch.
"Okay!" she tried taking off the whole helmet but it was secured to his head. She remove the mask and it opened up from the hinges.
Underneath the cold steel face, is a face of a man with a stubble and a long scar on his left cheeks.
For Naofumi, the stranger looked very mediterranean. Something he never thought he would see in this world.
Raphtalia then untied the leather straps that kept the helmet secured to the head. After the helmet was removed, they can see the man's short and messy hair.
Seeing this man, it reminded Naofumi of that movie about gladiators, but he forgot what title it was.
Not letting his mind off astray, he poured the elixir into the strangers mouth and the vital sign no longer reads critical.
The interface then tried to scan more about the stranger but it came out blank, then an error message appeared.
[LOCKED]
"Is he going to be okay?", Raphtalia said to Naofumi.
"His vitals are okay now, but it'll be awhile before he wakes up. He just needs more rest. Now help me get him on the wagon." Naofumi said as he readies himself to lifted the stranger.
"We're bringing him to town as well?
That's so kind of you, master!" praised Raphtalia.
"Once he wakes up, I'm gonna ask him to pay a price for helping him. That elixir I gave gim wasn't cheap one." as he said that, Raphtalia took back her previous compliment.
"Geez, you still think about money right now?" said Raphtalia.
But that wasn't just the only reason he wants Marius onboard.
Something about him made the shield hero curious.
By his looks, he's probably not around here. Even his armor looked foreign. Looked very Roman, or Greek.
Is he from another world aswell? But from a different time period?
Or is he from a different country?
He figured if you keep around for awhile, maybe he can give him answers.
"I helped you. So you owe me some answers, stranger."
After they laid Marius inside the wagon, the group then leave the area and headed to the Capital City.