The first night was an okay one, I did feel hungry but most likely it was because I was bored. It was a very hard temptation to not using my phone either than using it as the flashlight. God... I really wanted to hear some music, even watching youtube commercial was an okay entertainment.

I started the second day by using Direction, speaking the gibberish words for a few seconds, and an arrow appeared right under my feet, pointing toward the north. I wasn't sure what I supposed to do or which way I should go, so I just following the arrow, walking to the north.

Thankfully nothing happened, and what I meant by that I didn't meet any monster or human. This made me wondered, maybe... just maybe I was already dead? and this place was the purgatory or something similar?

With that mindset, the second day ended with my stomach making too many noises, enough to keep my eyes wide opened the whole night. Not to mention, my phone finally died.

And three days had passed.

"So hot!!! Last night weather is that damn cold!!! yes, I knew it, there must be a leak from hell!!!"

I had been walking for so long, and yet I couldn't find any sign of living things, except the first day tentacles!!

It was all savanna, grass, sand, dirt, a sky without a single cloud, and the blazing sun ray.

I wondered what happened to the other people in the cafe.

Were my parent searching for me? I hoped Tsukiko didn't check the forbidden folder on my pc.

And I hadn't met anyone for three days, forgot about food, right now I really wanted to see something alive, except the tentacles.

"Don't tell me?!"

The sudden realization made me jolted, my leg suddenly went weak, either because of the realization or because of the hunger, anyway I let the gravity to do its work, pushing me into the ground.

"Do I need to kill that tentacle to get out?!"

I shivered just as I remembered the number of its tentacles, not to mention the length. No matter what, it was an impossible task.

"Sigh, I guess I need to do some kind of levelling huh." I said with a rumbling stomach as the background music.

But before I could do some levelling I needed to fill my stomach, not to mention my body odour, my throat was sore, and the last time I peed it turned into dark yellow.

With a deep long sigh, I laid on my back, clenching on the grass, pulling it up and curiously looking at it, wondering whether or not it was an edible grass.

"...Detect Poison." This was the first time I used detect poison so I didn't know what was the standard for poisonous one looked like, but nothing seemed unusual so I guessed this wasn't poisonous.

With complicated face, I kept repeating to myself that human was omnivorous, it should be fine, nothing would go wrong.

Sitting up, full of hesitation I opened my mouth and slowly putting the grass.

But just an inch before it entered my mouth, I heard a rustling sound coming from the grasses behind me.

I turned my head, the rustling was small, so I guessed this wasn't a big animal.

I sat up and clenching my fist, preparing myself. Just as I started concentrating, I faintly heard the popping sound, no more like a splashing sound, a squishy one.

And then from under the grasses, a small, round, blue jelly-like transparent monster bouncing out.

It didn't take long for me to realize that it was a slime.

I stared into those black eyes and mouth that looked like a car sticker, and the slime was curiously looking at me with a big cheerful smile on its mouth.

I didn't really know what the slime was thinking beneath its cheerful smile, but I did know what I thought about right now. I knew there was no other way, and truthfully I didn't want to do it but...

Slime > Jelly > Blue jelly. Blue > water > drink. Yeah, that must be it. The equation was crystal clear. It was perfect!!

"Detect Poison!"

Yep, nothing unusual either.

With shining eyes, I hopped into the slime, hugging it, clenching its body as it was trying to break away.

Drolls fell from my dry mouth, and I could see the tears fell from the slime's eyes.

A dozen seconds later, with a satisfying smile, I threw away the slime outer skin.

"Ah! that's refreshing!" Surprisingly, not only that the water on its body was cold, there was no weird smell, shame it didn't have any taste.

With this discovery, seemed like the water problem would be fine as long as I kept hunting the slime.

Then again, was this slime a stray one? or there was a camp of slime near here?

I stood up, rocking my head, squinting my eyes, circling around, searching for another sign of slime. Thirty minutes later I found their camp, with a dozen different coloured slimes happily bouncing around, completely unaware of my presence.

Having decided to capture some of the slimes before I continued my way. I chose my sleeping spot exactly 100 steps away from the slime camp.

Laying back, the sun was still high, and my stomach was rumbling like crazy, but somehow I managed to fell asleep.

Thump...

"Hm?"

When I awoke because of the sudden jolt, the sky had just shifted its colour into a blazing orange.

Rubbing my eyes, sitting up. I casually yawned and stretched my body, until I realized all of the grass was shaking wildly. At first, I didn't move a single muscle, my brains unable to make sense of the input from my ears and feet. The ground was moving and the noise was like an extended thunder only worse because the vibrations were coming from below.

Then like a switch had been flicked the slimes bounced away for safety, all of them on the autopilot mode rushing toward my direction with tears flowing out from their eyes.

I lazily scratched my head while looking to the slimes, thinking maybe it was normal for an animal, monster or not to be panicked when an earthquake happened.

But right they no we were in the middle of the savanna, there was no danger of the rubbles nor explosion.

Though, what a bad luck. And here I thought I should waiting for tomorrow to capture the slimes, but it seemed like they already ran away.

THUMP!

I meant, I knew the earthquake was a scary phenomenon but did the slimes really need to cry?

THUMPP!!

"But damn, it still continuing huh, I guess this's what they called the second wave."

"GROAAAAR!!!!" Groar was the sound that the otherworld earthquake created.

....

"Groar?" I muttered the roaring sound as I tilted my head, wondering about what the hell was the roaring sound I'd just heard while felling the vibration was coming closer.

With a sudden realization, I twitched my eyes and slowly looked behind back. Less then twenty meters away from me, ran a barbaric primitive looking humanoid, it wore a ragged wooden club and tattered leather armour in sullen colours. It had coarse body hair and a big posture like twice of my size but it had a greyish-green skin tone and pig looking facial features. It had burning red eyes peered below a low, sloping brow, just above its flattened nose, and prominent tusk-like teeth.

"Ha?!" I made a dumbfounded voice when I realized it was running in my direction.