Me? Well. [He straightens up.] I wasn't lying when I said I wanted to be an adventurer fighting all sorts of beasties. And I did learn a lot once I joined a team. It's just that I couldn't say that it's a widespread job in my world or that I fought a Kraken and demons.
[Despite the vast differences in technology and history, the similarities between Exandria and Earth made it easier when Tary's cover story stumbled: there was a disastrous calamity many years ago, the world is full of humans, and monsters roamed the wilds while professionals hunted them down. Magic is replaced by nanotech and cybernetic enhancements.]
But everything else is true. I grew up in a small city. I left for the wider world, and I learned how to fight. The details are different, but overall, I was telling the truth.
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[Despite the vast differences in technology and history, the similarities between Exandria and Earth made it easier when Tary's cover story stumbled: there was a disastrous calamity many years ago, the world is full of humans, and monsters roamed the wilds while professionals hunted them down. Magic is replaced by nanotech and cybernetic enhancements.]
But everything else is true. I grew up in a small city. I left for the wider world, and I learned how to fight. The details are different, but overall, I was telling the truth.