Twenty minutes later.

My Q&A session with Natsuna was completed. And there were several pieces of information that I managed to gain.

First, we never hoped for being transported into another world, we weren't a long lost child one friends that made a promise to met each other. She didn't play any game. We never went or hang out in the same spot. We didn't have any tragic backstory; both of our parents still alive and kicking, I had two little sisters, she had one big sister and one big brother, and all of them still alive. As far as we knew, both of our parents weren't working in some kind of shady society or joining a cult. In fact, our life was a normal and boring, student life.

Then second, just like me, she got transported into this world four days ago, she was sure as she counted the number of times she felt the coldness of the night and the hotness of the sun. In her case, she was sitting in her class, studying as her usual day when she suddenly sank into the ground and the next that she felt was the grassy texture.

Presumably, I was arriving a few hours after her. At least I knew we weren't dead, so there might be a chance to get back.

But a high school girl suddenly disappeared in the middle of her class. Yep, that was 100% a big news, I wondered why I hadn't heard any of that news.

Leaving that aside, second. She said she was aimlessly walking forward until the hunger was eating her stomach from the inside. Just before she wanted to give up, she smelled my roasted goat meat, and that was how she got here.

Though the important most important point from her story, she walked forward and I was facing the east when she arrived behind my back.

That meant she came from the west. With a side note, if she truly walked forward without messing her direction. But I would just assume she did it right.

And she hadn't met any monsters, or hearing or noticing something like a monster on her way.

That meant the monster population on the west was small or zero > small population of monster meant a safe place > a safe place meant there must be some kind of a human settlement.

And if that was wrong, that meant we were in some kind of a dungeon and the only way to leave was the entrance, the last floor, or defeating the boss.

Then which one was the boss? That tentacles thingy? If it was the boss, well we were doomed. I was aimlessly running away, not to mention the amount of time I took to circle and searched the slime camp.

Well, at the very least I knew it was on the south.

Anyway, the goatherd was running to the east, if we went to the west and if there was no monster on the west, who knew just how many...

Wait a minute...

If there was no monster on the west, then why did the goat run to the east? I meant that might be because I stood on the west, but would they risk their own life just so they could run away from me?

Then again, they were a friggin goat, maybe they'd just wildly running away.

As a side note, there might be some kind of semi-boss of the boss itself on the west. If that was the case, Natsuna must be a very lucky one.

Or there was no single monster on the west. But then, if that was the case, shouldn't I went south? The more I went to the north the merrier the monster was, so the danger level was raised, right?

....

The more I thought about this, the more I wanted to rip my hair out. I absolutely clueless about what I was doing, on the other hand, just when I thought Natsuna had a better understanding of our current situation, she expected the same from me.

Speaking of her, that was the first time I held hand with a girl other than my mother or my sisters.

Yes, I did it once when I was in the middle school, yup,on the sports festival but this probably wasn't the time to do a nostalgia.

Anyhow, I took a deep long breath, breathing in, breathing out.

Yes, this felt good.

Now I should calm down and arrange my thoughts again.

Five seconds later I already gave up. I lay on my back, grunting while watching the sky. My poor brain just couldn't take any complicated thought anymore.

This time, I turned around, using my head as a pillow and silently watched Natsuna petting her prodigious beast.

The supposedly 'dog' stood almost reached one meter, and it was easily twice as long from snout to snub tail. Its blood-red eyes locked onto me as its muscular body relaxingly resting on her lap and enjoying her rub.

Well... I knew a big and strong dog would be reliable as the bodyguard, but why didn't you chose a cuter or fluffier one? like Tibetan mastiff or that dog that looked like a mop.

By the way, I didn't know why but I suddenly remembered she was here a few hours longer than me.

"...Natsuna." While I was calling her, the dog did a deep-throated rumbling growl, announced its presence.

She turned her head, with a straight back she directed her face toward me, completely unaware that I was laying on the ground. "Yes? Do you need something?" She said.

"Do you want to take a bath?"

I still had one unused slime, completely trapped in my white shirt, and considering she was covered in sweat and mud, while sometimes using the dirt filled finger to scratched her neck and her back, I guessed she might be wanted to take one.

But she only sniffed her own body, with a dropped head she wryly smiled.

"Sorry... I must be smell really bad, right?" She said. "Can you hold on? if Tsukasa wants, maybe I can move a few meters away until you can't smell me."

"...What the hell with that optimism?" I said to her while trying to hold my laughter. "Anyway, we still have one slime left, if you want you can use it to clean up. The water is insanely cold though."

Though, much to my surprise, she seemed hesitant. I thought she would be glad to accept my offer, but she only gave me this bitter smile.

Well, I guessed that was normal. The water was icy cold, I guessed she just didn't want to fall sick.

....

"Ah!" I shouted when I realized what I just offer to her, yes... basically a stranger she just met for a few hours casually offering her to take her clothes off in the middle of nowhere. The truth was, if our positions were reversed and if I was a girl. I would probably have the same hesitation as her.

"Erm... should I close my eyes? No... what the hell am I saying, of course, I need to close it!" I sat up as I fell into the panic mode.

Natsuna let a small and weird chuckle flying out from her mouth.

"Hm~ nope~ I am not bothered by that."

"...Huh? wait a minute?! you're okay with that?!"

"Not until Tsukasa say it though." Natsuna said with a happy smile. "I'm more bothered by the fact that you already giving me too much."

"Oh... is that wrong?"

"Hm~ the way I said it sounds wrong, right?" Said Natsuna. "What I mean by that, is that I feel bad to only receive those things."

"Nah, you don't need to. I mean I get them for free, so why not sharing it?" I replied to her and sat up. "And it is pretty easy to catch the slime. Anyway, I'm going to capture another batch of the slimes, feel free to use that last slime."

But somehow I felt she wouldn't even use it either.

"Speaking of what you said, yes you kinda stink. Just go clean your body."

But just as I finished my word, she sniffed her own body with a vein popped out on her forehead. "Hm~" Natsuna said.

Then I heard a low growling and chattering teeth coming from the dog's mouth. So the dog was kinda reacted into her emotion huh, then was the dog hostile because it was her order? or the dog itself was a hostile creature?!

Anyhow, I turned around and dashed without saying any words.

An hour later, more or less, by the time I got back with a total capture of seven slimes, with 23 of them were killed accidentally.

Natsuna welcomed me with a cleaned body and wet hair, however, I still could see the vein from her forehead.

iIn the end, she gave me a long mouthful lecture about handling woman feeling. "Even though you were the one that said it first." I muttered in a low voice.

"Hm~?" But somehow she heard me, and gave another lecture, long enough to make my ear hot and it kept going on until the sun set down.