“Awtch!!! My face is bleeding! It hurts!”

When the bunny-like creature hopped from the bush to my face, it scratched my cheeks and brows causing it to bleed continuously. I laid both of my hands to my face to stop my blood from coming out.

But honestly, the eyes of that creature sure is beautiful.

It was like a sapphire that when I looked at them, it feels like I am seeing the beauty of the blue nightsky. The radiance coming from the moon reflects on them.

After it hopped to my face, it ran somewhere behind the trees. I cannot find that creature since this forest is too vast to explore, therefore, chances of me getting lost from where I am is high.

--

Several minutes later…

Swert returned.

“I’m ba--…”.

He appeared close in front of me and stopped uttering when he saw my face covered with reddish liquid.

“Uhh?? What happened to you?”, he asked.

“Well, some kind of wild bunny-like creature hopped into my face and scratch it.”, I responded.

His body reacted for a second as if he was surprised, but then replied.

“Sigh, come here…”

Swert asked me to come closer, then suddenly, he extended his arms and aimed his hand to me. His palm is slowly scorching in a bluish green light, the white glittering particles spread out from his hand and stirring itself around, and then as its radiance goes brighter… Whoosh!

“Pain, pain go away!”, Swert’s childish magic words.

The bluish green light and the glittering particles have let off to my face.

My wounds were glowing. The glittering particles attaching to my skin and dazzle as if it fixes my face, my wound slowly closing up.

Few seconds later…

A chantless magic casted by Swert healed my wounded face.

Just like before, I saw it again. The floating characters appearing in his palm. This time, it was very clear.

I saw those programming codes clearly!

--

“a.. Amazing!!.. you healed my face!!” I said.

Swert constantly stares at me and making me uncomfortable as I jumped from amazement.

“Wa… what?”

I am curious why is he staring at me.

“You said… a bunny-like creature, hopped into your face?” He asked.

“Yeah… that’s what I saw, I can clearly remember it.” I responded.

Then he asked about its appearance.

“May I ask what that creature looks like in detail.”

“Uhh.. It has white soft looking fur, adorable ears… But the first thing I notice was its eyes beautiful as sapphire gem, reflecting from light of the moon from the sky.” I said.

“Eyes as beautiful as sapphire gem? You sure likes to talk non-familiar words, huh?”

“Ehh???”

Must be because the word sapphire isn’t a thing in this world, maybe it has different name.

“We.. well, it… it.. it was blue! Haha.”

Wait… why am I acting like this? Well, I know I am hiding the fact that I was reincarnated. But wasn’t he supposed to know about my previous life? He performed his psychometric ability on me, after all…

Perhaps, he can only see my past in this world? If it was not, then he should have mention or asked about it before. I’ve been training for almost a week… oh well.

Well, going back to the topic, why did he asked for the appearance of that adorable looking creature?

Looking at him, I can assume he is figuring something out. Visualizing the appearance of that creature just like how I describe it.

But why is he not using that psychometric ability on me to know the detail?

“Umm… Swert, you can use that ability of yours by touching my head..” I said.

“No… you know what… let’s forget about that..”

Eh??? Then what’s the point of asking the detail?

Swert happily smiled when he said that, then he went to the shelter to prepare cooking for my dinner.

--

During dinner, he asked me about the sword. The sword that the governor gave to me.

I haven’t take my sword out of my magic bag, but I can still remember how that sword looks.

It’s a high-class weapon, with an Enchanted Gem attached to it.

“Oooh… Interesting, may I appraise your sword?”

“Hmm? Why? Well, okay after I eat… This sword is actually very very heavy, If I remember correctly.”

“Huh? But your strength had already improved a lot, actually it was beyond my expectation that you were able to enhance your strength and stamina within six days. You were very frail from the start, but now, I have nothing to say.”

Is he… flattering me?

But… right, I realize… Why didn’t I took out the sword that the governor gave me?

Right, the sword that I used for training was the ordinary one.

If I lift that high-class sword now…

“May, I am going to find something..”

He uttered while I am deep thinking.

“Find what exactly, you haven’t seen my sword personally…”

“That’s fine, I’ll see your sword later.”

--

An hour later…

Ugh… ughmph…

Dark sky, moonless night… Is that…?

“Wait!?? When did I get here? Where am I?”

Baffled, when I woke up, I found myself lying in the middle of the road facing up looking to the starless sky. The chilling wind blows my skin, the atmosphere here is somehow a bit tense.

I stood up while I’m still mystified, there are fog around. Even with the moonless and starless night sky, mass number of shining fragments lit up the land fairly.

But how and when did I get here?

Oh yeah, I remember… I was having a dinner while talking about the high-class sword with Swert. And then he left at a time because he wanted to find something.

- two cerulean lights illuminate the fog around. It was bright as the moon before…

Somehow, I still don’t get it… Where’s the moon? I saw the moon shines the land brightly about an hour ago.

The two cerulean lights move at the same time, getting closer and closer.

For some reason those lights were familiar.

As that lights get closer, I can see it clearly… The white… -Is that… ??

Right!!! It’s the adorable bunny-like creature that scratched my face before! I knew I’ve seen those eyes before.

But when I saw those eyes again, I feel calm, the atmosphere around changed instantly. The surrounding is soothing, I’ve never felt this pleasuring sensation before.

I can breathe conformtably and I can rest without any problems.

“Come here…”

I sit to the ground and give my hands.

­- but then, the bunny-like creature… its beautiful cerulean eyes burst into me and changed its color.

The pleasant ambiance of those eyes immediately turned into extreme discomforting bloody-red eyes.

I can’t control myself, my anxiety… My body suddenly tensed up…

--

Howling, hissing… every wild monsters are making noise. I hear them. They give off hostility.

The trees are withering, the plants are dying… and the sky…

- and the sky… the sky… is turning red like a blood.

My body shivers from extreme fear… I can’t get out of this nightmare…

--

- the ground is tremoring, I can feel it… from afar, I see many red eyes glaring at me, they were charging towards me…

Few seconds later, an unknown voice whispers to me. It was not Swert’s voice, it’s different, the voice is also discomforting and ominous.

It goes saying “You-are-going-to-die”

- the fog around turned into black, I turn around saw someone…

While extremely shivering, unable to move my body so I dropped myself to the ground, as seeing that person when I turn around…

That man, I’ve seen him before… That symbol(logo), that coat, that pants, those shoes, and that mask. They’re all black.

He’s holding a knife…

“u, u,u,u, you you.. ar….are” I am unable to speak properly.

But I know, I know that man…

Then again he repeated those words “You-are-going-to-die”

--

The shaking ground is getting stronger and stronger as those mosters are running towards me. I can’t move my body, this always happen when I am encountering fearsome incident.

- the monsters glaring with pure bloody-eyes jumped and falling above me. The man suddenly vanished… but appeared instantaneously near me.

He teleported. How… I am going to…

The man raised his left hand clenched holding his knife and aiming at me, at the same time when those monsters are about to …

This… this can’t be happening…

a..a…a I don’t wanna…. No, I don’t wanna die….

No…

No…

No…

NO…

NO NO NO!

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[---------]

“NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!”

Eyes snapped open, lifted my chest, profusely sweating, heart pounding, shivering extremely, paranoid. I looked around to see my surrounding. I was in my bed when I woke up.

The sun beams through the window as it rises up from east horizon. Twirping bird, butterflies around the flowers outside, fresh air with the wind coming here inside this shelter.

I looked at my palm and still shivering, that fear from my nightmare might have followed me. It’s like everything happened realistically.

For a moment I can’t speak properly, I can’t do it but to shiver, cuddling myself, and crying with brimming tears.

..

.This is fear