6. Here we go again (3)
Two days have passed since the trap was activated.
In the meantime, I’ve helped Karina recover, on the one hand, I’ve been collecting and stocking up on food, and I’ve made several things in case of an unexpected situation.
“What is this?”
“Paralytic poison.”
“This one?”
“A sachet made of things bears hate.”
Bears are animals with a very developed sense of smell. He has a much better sense of smell than a dog’s, so a scented sachet that bears don’t like can be quite useful. The problem is that humans suffer from bad smells too…
Is that important?
If you don’t have something like this, it’s only a matter of time before you can have a meal.
“Have it.”
“Yes?”
I silently passed her sachet to her. The smell of her incense stick on her hand made even her saintess frown. Is restlessness due to instinctive rejection? I’m sure you’ll do that once you get used to it, but until then, it smelled a bit too stinky.
It was natural. The contents of this sachet were mixed with snake excrement and grass with a smell that monsters hate. Although the smell of excrement was originally a bit disgusting, it had its own use on an uninhabited island as it had such a strong smell. The bear’s sense of smell could be dug up to drive it away, or it could be dried and used as fuel.
There is absolutely no place to use human poop, but…
“Don’t keep it away from your body.”
The smell that stings your nose will serve as a shield to block the approach of other beasts. At least the middle-aged guys won’t even come close. On this island, the smell of snakes was in many ways an object of caution and fear.
“Thank you.”
Karina straightened her face and smiled at me. She is a face that makes her feel at ease whenever she sees it. She would have been better off if she hadn’t been on an uninhabited island. No, since it’s an uninhabited island, can I see a smile like that?
If you leave the uninhabited island…
“Asshole…”
“Yes?”
“Nothing.”
She inadvertently spat a curse out of her mouth, but fortunately she didn’t seem to understand.
It was fortunate for me. She spat out curse words out of nowhere, and there’s nothing more troublesome than explaining them. I got up in front of the fire with a bearskin homemade pouch slung over my shoulder before I got out of the slightly awkward atmosphere.
“I’m going to scout. Let’s rest.”
“Yes! I’ll be looking after the house, so please come back safely!”
A cute voice filled with enthusiasm tickled my ears. It seemed that he was going to tidy up the house while I was out today.
I love it.
Isn’t that what people get married for? Of course, I wasn’t really married, but I was living in a slightly awkward relationship… I left behind Karina’s gentle farewell and walked into the forest. Today was the day we decided to go into bear territory and do some reconnaissance.
The goal is to find out what happened to the head of the bear.
I had to check if the boss had changed, or if I ate something wrong and the taste went crazy, so I could decide my future course of action.
Because what I do will be decided according to the leader’s disposition.
For example, if the group becomes warlike due to a change of leader, a fight cannot be avoided, so we must start preparing for a full-scale war. There are only two of us at most, but we can’t let that happen.
“I don’t know if I can come back today…”
The island isn’t that big, but there are no cars and you can’t just move around without thinking, so you’ll have to scout it out to the point of being breathless. I chewed on the dried meat and took in the scenery of the quiet forest.
“It’s quiet.”
It’s still my domain, so it’s natural. There was almost no other life in my territory, except for the endless rabbits, birds, and miscellaneous animals. So there is no need to be noisy. At most, it is the peaceful chirping of birds.
Even such a peaceful forest was like hell at first.
It’s no different, it was an area where bears and snakes divided each other until I built the territory. Even thinking about it now, it was a miracle that I survived. Back then, I didn’t know how to use any skills, and I was struggling to light a fire for half a day.
There was a time when I was so hungry that I ate mushrooms and mushrooms and suffered from hallucinations. Now that I think about it, it was strange that he hadn’t died. When I came to my senses, they were scattered around the dungeon.
More than that, the scariest memory was sleeping on top of a tree for a week after being possessed and waking up to see a bear clinging to a tree and looking at me like a strange creature.
That was the moment when I peed for the first time in my life.
Maybe the smell of human urine was strong or it seemed tasteless. I’m glad the bear went away.
“I’ll have to catch some rabbits soon.”
I need to catch some harmful assistants, or rather, rabbits, and make some smoked meat so that I can stock up on food to survive when something happens. If nothing else, meat is very important in life on an uninhabited island. After all, I have to use my body no matter what I do, but without meat, I have no strength.
An hour of walking while thinking about this and that. I finally reached the borderline. The traps installed on the perimeter have not changed since they were repaired two days ago. There doesn’t seem to be any fuss or anything since then.
I carefully crossed the border and entered the territory of the bears. Upon entering the bears’ territory, a disarray of bear footprints caught my eye. Probably the footprints of those who died in the trap. Carefully looking in the direction of the footprints, I could see that the bears had come running straight from inside the territory.
It’s natural if it’s natural, but abnormalities reveal themselves in very minor differences. So I had to pay close attention to even the seemingly obvious things.
Because it’s wild that cases where you get used to it and then get choked up often happen. It is not uncommon for the slightest change to become a fatal mistake in the wild.
“…There’s nothing special about the outskirts.”
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Spitting out a muttering to myself that no one answered, I quietly advanced into the forest. The target is a small hill in the bear territory. If I remember right, the trees on the top of the hill gave me a glimpse of the area where the bears congregate.
I diligently moved my feet and arrived at the entrance of the hill. The hill surrounded by trees was quiet.
But the condition of the hill was not.
“Did a bulldozer push through?”
Or did the bears go crazy as a group and possess X Fight?
Why are there so many fallen trees? I clicked my tongue as I looked at the trees cluttering the hill. There is blood on the tree. There were also several corpses of gruesome bears under the trees.
Maybe it’s a group of bears that have escaped into my territory. Some died here, others fled and fell into traps in my realm…A speculation that seems quite probable.
Looking around, the tree examines the stump. The intention was to check the broken marks. Examining the broken part closely, I could see the irregularly torn cross-section. As expected, it seemed to be broken with a big impact.
However, in the middle, I saw a cross-section that was cut out too neatly. It was as if it had been cut at once with a sword. Why are there these signs?
It’s not thin, and the thickness of the wood that doesn’t seem to reach even if you hold it with both arms is neatly cut?
Is that possible?
At least the bears couldn’t do this.
I don’t think even the boss the size of a rhinoceros could do something like this. What the hell happened? It’s like cutting with a sword…
A sword?
Could that be what I think?
I couldn’t quite figure out whether I should like it or hate it. If I’m right, it could be a bad thing.
Because there was no law that someone strong enough to hunt the boss was friendly to me. Even if that opponent is a character I know, or even a person. It’s a position that I know one-sidedly, because the other person doesn’t know me.
Because there was enough possibility of being regarded as a suspicious person and hostile, you should move while being alert to the newly appeared possibility.
Maybe a monster with a sword came out of the dungeon, but I’ve never seen a monster come out of a dungeon fighting with a weapon.
So, these traces are probably left by people.
I raised my guard as much as I could, stepping on a tree and climbing up the hill. Since the hill was not very tall, it took about 10 minutes to get to the top of the hill.
“Crazy.”
Did a tsunami sweep through me without my knowledge? I couldn’t keep my mouth shut at the sight over the hill.
A forest full of trees has become a plain where only tree trunks remain, as if loggers had swept through it. Originally, the invisible beach was visible at first glance.
What the hell happened? All the familiar corpses seen in the gruesome scene were those of bears.
As I was scrutinizing such a gruesome scene, a terrifying sensation ran through my body.
It’s dangerous.
Run away.
I can’t stay here any longer.
Instinct sounds the alarm. It was a loud alarm that made my head spin. I was just scouting and tried to turn around to escape.
“…Damn it.”
Blood gushed from the bitten lip and flowed down the chin. Even while the wet, sticky texture stained my chin, I didn’t think of wiping it.
To live recklessly.
A gaze so full of intent to kill that the whole body stiffens.
Whoever was looking at me was sure of one thing.
“This uninhabited island is just the beginning.”
A being with a vicious intent to kill began to approach me.