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2. Adaptation (3)

The first battle after returning went by easier than I expected.

Of course, it doesn’t mean ‘I won easily’, but it means that the losses were small.

To be honest, after becoming this soft and delicate girl, I felt awkward moving around and almost fell over sometimes.

Maybe it’s because I’ve gotten shorter, but the viewpoint has changed and it feels a bit awkward.

Anyway, after fighting like that, I dragged my tired body up the 10-story stairs and got tired halfway through.

After stretching out on the stairs several times, sitting down to rest, and climbing back up again, I finally arrived!

” Sigh, I’m tired, I’m tired… ”

Even opening the slightly rusty front door was considerably more difficult than usual.

I threw my shoes off and headed to the bathroom to wash my sticky face covered in sweat and dried blood.

I opened the faucet and turned on the water. I took a moment to catch my breath and looked at my reflection in the mirror.

His hair was stuck to his face, soaked in blood and sweat, and his white short-sleeved T-shirt was stained with blood and dust of unknown origin.

But more than that, he must have been sweating so much that his T-shirt was soaking wet that you could almost see his underwear through it.

So what I’m trying to say is

” What a really lewd sight. Are you a slut for walking around with your eyes closed? ”

Her clothes looked as if she had been exercising for hours and were soaked in sweat, and her eyes, half-tired and relaxed, had a decadent charm.

Yes, it looks like someone could tell she’s a tempting female.

” A female? Huh… Why are you thinking of something like this again? Why on earth are you like this… ”

I immersed my head in running water, cooling my heated face and washing away the dust and blood.

” Let me wash up first. I should just soak in the bathtub today. ”

As I was about to turn on the water in the bathtub and head over to the washing machine to take off my clothes, my legs gave out.

I fell down with a ‘thud’ sound and was so dumbfounded that I just lay there.

” What the heck! What the heck! Seriously! Ha, nothing works… ”

The feeling of the cold floor welcoming me felt like it was healing my tired body, and my eyes gradually closed.

*****

I blinked as I heard the sound of water overflowing, and felt the warm heat behind me.

” Oh my, when did you fall asleep… Oh, right! The bathtub! ”

So I bounced off the floor, went to the bathroom, turned off the water in the bathtub, and sat down.

The feeling of your dolphin pants getting wet and sticking to your thighs and buttocks as you hear a ‘slap’ sound…

” Let’s just soak our bodies first… ”

I put the bloody clothes in the sink, threw the clean clothes and underwear into the washing machine, and laid down in the warm bathtub.

” Oh my! When you’re tired, there’s nothing better than soaking in warm water like this! ”

I stretched and covered myself with the warm water blanket, letting my body completely submerge from the neck down, and laid my head back.

The first combat I experienced was quite enjoyable.

Although there were some shortcomings, I think I was able to fight well because I still had the experiences I had in this other world.

” First, I need to build up my basic physical strength and learn how to handle the sword to fit my body… ”

No matter how much divine power is used to strengthen it, it is still lacking, so it cannot be left as is.

” And that stone. I think I need to look into that too, and explore the surroundings a bit more. ”

If there had been no fighting, I would have walked around the area around the residence a bit more, but my body was too exhausted to do that.

If we ever meet a new enemy, we’ll be eaten up in one sitting.

If it’s not that, but a ‘lawless gang’, then things will probably turn out badly.

” At least it was fortunate that there were no people or monsters around, otherwise I wonder what would have happened by now… ”

Well, it’s only five, one captain and four, so it might be different from five ordinary monsters.

But if you’re already so tired, there will be many monsters you’ll encounter in the future that are similar or stronger.

At that moment, I decided that I would definitely have to train to improve my physical abilities along with exploring my surroundings.

A ‘gurgling’ sound resonates.

” Yeah, I’m more than hungry after moving around like this. What should I eat today? ”

I have fresh pork, vegetables, and mushrooms in the fridge, so I think I should eat them to get more energy since I’m moving my body so vigorously today.

I got up from my somewhat relaxed state and started washing up.

*****

I quickly came out of the bathroom and dried myself with a towel, but I still felt unfamiliar with my body.

I turn my head ‘swish, swish’ to avoid thinking of anything else, and take out the clothes I’m going to wear along with my underwear from the closet and put them on.

I headed to the kitchen.

” Phew, it feels good to be able to sweat and soak in a warm bath after such a long time, it feels good ”

I don’t know what kind of life people live these days, but it’s probably not the life I live now.

The world is on the verge of destruction, so infrastructure will have almost collapsed and there will be shortages of food and other necessities.

” So, I should enjoy it while I can! Alright~ Let’s grill some meat~! ”

The moment I took the pork out of the refrigerator, unwrapped it, and was about to put it in the frying pan

I was going to take out as much as I usually eat, but I thought about my body not being able to eat much, so I cut it in half.

Instead, I decided to add more vegetables and made a stir-fried dish of pork, carrots, mushrooms, etc. I put it on a plate and brought it to the table with warm rice.

The moment I sat down on the chair and picked up my chopsticks, I heard a ‘gurgling’ sound and for some reason I felt embarrassed and immediately put meat on my rice and started eating.

With my other hand, I manipulated the ‘watch’ to search for stones.

” So that stone is called ‘Ma-seok’? I don’t know whose idea it was, but it’s a decent name. Have you read any novels? ”

Since existing currency can no longer be produced, it is said that only people who collect it are left with it.

Dinner disappeared in an instant as I ate a piece of meat, a spoonful of rice, and then another piece of vegetables, covering it with meat.

I left the water in the sink and continued to look up information while drinking the water.

I didn’t know this before, but it looks like there’s a community site or something.

Of course, I only intended to look at it and I wasn’t even going to sign up and leave a comment.

Well, it felt more like information exchange between settlements rather than the old gallery site or Blue Bird.

There were also trades and requests for items that each other needed, and even posts recruiting people to conquer the tower.

” What? Isn’t it a cliche that when you conquer a tower, you try to do it among yourself? ”

But here, you can often see people helping each other to conquer the tower.

At the top, they seemed to be calling the monsters by the name of ‘Demon’ or ‘Monster’.

I don’t know who said it first, but it was a decent name if anything.

I climbed into bed, lay down, hugged my pillow, and decided to search some more.

I looked for a monster encyclopedia and found that it had images of monsters that looked like they were from games or novels, to the point where I was like, “Oh, that’s right.”

” Hmm~ The ones I caught are called ‘Demon Wolves’? The little ones are still pups and the one that looked like the leader is fully grown? ”

‘Demon Wolf’ is listed as intermediate, as I fought it

It is said to be considered intermediate because it often has several small chicks and one or two large adults moving around together.

In the case of small pups, they are treated as inferior, but it is said that this is because the adults are quite strong.

In the case of adult males, there are horns on their heads (the shape of the horns is said to vary from individual to individual).

The individual with sharper fangs protruding like the one I fought with is said to be a female.

In particular, if there are two adults and some small ones together, they seem to be classified as superior.

” Huh… Thank goodness at least it was marked as intermediate level. Well, in my current state, two adults would be too much for me… ”

It was quite interesting, and I thought I would know how to deal with it anyway, so I looked it up and found that it was categorized under a category called the Pokedex.

In the lower level

There were many small creatures such as goblins, kobolds, lone fires (a walking plant in the shape of a rose), and horn rabbits.

Of course, these guys tend to move in groups and can be tricky depending on the terrain, so the additional text indicates that they are intermediate level only for that area.

In the intermediate level

There were many of them, such as Demon Wolves, Skeleton series (there are many types, so they are shown together), Ghouls, Orcs, Ogres, etc., which were quite large and knew how to use different weapons.

It is said that undead types such as skeletons and ghouls will still move even if their heads are cut off.

They say that you have to destroy the fallen head to get rid of it and then pick it up and reattach it.

In particular, if there are two, it is said that if one head remains, the remaining one with the missing head will also move randomly, so you must be careful.

Perhaps the story is that if a group of even numbers has an odd number of heads, it moves as a group of even numbers.

” Well, it says that there is no problem for people like me who use divine powers, so I guess there is no need to be too careful. ”

At the upper level

There were some that only appeared in fairly specific terrain or were difficult to deal with, such as Volcanic Vipers, Wraiths, Harpies, Sirens, Vampires, Gargoyles, and Golems.

In the case of Harpies and Sirens, they are weak but they are made up of a huge number of swarms, and when they come out, they are only present in advantageous places such as towers or outside, so they seem to be quite difficult to deal with.

” Wow, there are so many types. It seems like there are some that haven’t been studied yet, and there are also some that are marked as ‘out of grade’ ”

As I was trying to put away the unfolded hologram, I clicked on the place where it said LIVE, and a screen like ‘Audio Frequency’ appeared.

” Huh? Is this really a radio? ”

I thought that the internet wouldn’t work in this apocalyptic era, but with the help of God, things like watches have become widespread, so I thought the internet problem was solved.

I didn’t know that entertainment like radio was also possible.

” Then~ the story would be different~ I would be able to sleep quite happily, right? ”

While flipping through the channels, I heard a woman’s soft voice, so I decided to listen to it and laid down on my bed in a comfortable position.

[Is everyone who listens to Noddle Radio doing well today? I worked hard today, too.]

[ What, do it properly? It doesn’t matter anyway since the adjutant will do it well even if I don’t do it. And aren’t you doing the radio regularly like this? ]

[ Rather, it is better to praise this body. ]

When I heard her voice, I thought she was a fairly young woman, but when I actually listened to her content, I got the feeling that she was someone of a much older age with high self-esteem.

” Well, still… it’s really… nice… to hear someone’s voice like this… ”

Tonight was an unusually bright moonless night, with the wind blowing at just the right temperature.