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Although they killed about 20 of them that came, this was not the end.

When I climbed back to the top of the mountain, I opened my eyes and searched for Sahagin’s den.

“Uhm…”

However, I just realized once again that it was difficult to find it this way.

“This is not good…”

I don’t know the enemy’s location, but isn’t it too much of a disadvantage that the enemy can come to me through unknown means, whether it’s a spell or something else?

I sighed, thought for a moment, and decided to go down the mountain.

First, they had to build a shelter near the river and find a way to secure water and food.

“Whoa, let’s hurry.”

When viewed from the top of the mountain, the distance to the river was quite far.

It seemed like it would be impossible to get there before the sun set at a normal pace, so I descended almost as if I was running.

And then, a few hours later.

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I couldn’t help but realize that I had been underestimating this forest.

***

“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa…!?”

When I came to, I was rolling on a familiar coastal cliff.

“Huh, huh…?”

I quickly looked at my body with my eyes wide open, but there were no injuries.

“…Ha, is he dead again?”

Only after looking at the hologram window that showed the remaining opportunities did I realize that I was dead, so I sat down and stared blankly at the sea.

Thoroughly!

Sahagin could be seen in the distance, doing physical work, but his intensely exhausted mind was refusing to think or move.

“……”

Burrr!

When I try to stay still, my body trembles as I remember the things that were bothering me just a few minutes ago.

The arm that had been stung by an unknown poisonous insect was slowly rotting away and giving off a foul odor.

The rodents that came out of nowhere ate the belly skin with their sharp teeth and then ran away.

There was a tree that was glowing, so I looked at it without thinking, and I struggled for a long time in the hallucination of being cut by a knife and being burned in a fire.

One of his legs was even eaten away by a sharp tentacle while he was hallucinating.

An unknown flying insect that came after smelling blood entered through the hole in the stomach, and within a few minutes, maggots began to gnaw away at the stomach.

A swarm of mosquitoes as big as fists swarmed around, boring holes all over my body.

A strange-looking, frighteningly fast monster ate my eyeballs.

I couldn’t confirm it, but there were many other things that happened to me.

He died in such terrible pain, and was unable to even see the river he had targeted.

“ha…”

To be honest, I am now more scared of the jungle ecosystem than the Sahagin.

No, Sahagi, how on earth do they live in a place like this?

Aren’t they really great guys?

“……”

As I stared blankly into the dark jungle interior, I trembled with creeping fear.

Until now, I had been blindly going in without knowing anything about it, but now that I knew how scary the forest was, I couldn’t bear to go back in.

“Fuck…Sivaaaal!”

Chimi was so angry that she cursed at the top of her voice.

A thought crossed my mind that a wild beast or Sahagin might come after hearing the sound, but it didn’t matter at this moment.

To begin with, Sahagin are those damn things that come to you even if you are quiet.

“Whoa…”

After shouting out loud, I felt a little relieved, so I stared blankly at the sea.

“……”

Then, suddenly, my eyes turned to the beach beyond the coastal cliffs.

Now that I think about it, is there really a need to go into the forest?

No matter what, you just have to survive on a deserted island for a month, right? So wouldn’t it be possible to somehow survive on the beach?

If you’re going to eat it, you can get it from the sea, and I think distilling sea water will do the trick… Those Sahagin guys have already been defeated once, so there’s no need to say they can’t do it a second time.

“uh…”

To be honest, I couldn’t shake the thought of escapism, but even so, seeing the possibility made my mind brighten.

I understand why people clinging to vain hope often appear in novels and movies.

When humans find hope in despair, they only look at it blindly.

“Okay. Whatever it is, let’s give it a try. Whoa…”

With difficulty, I got up and started walking down the cliff.

I didn’t even look towards the forest.

***

“Huh, huh! Huh…!”

Running with a harpoon stuck at an angle to the side of your back is truly a terrible thing.

Because every time you move, you can clearly feel the blade of the harpoon cutting into your flesh.

The pain that felt as if the nerves leading to my brain were being electrically charged filled me with anger and hatred, but my priority was to survive, so I desperately moved my legs.

“Kkeeek!”

“Keee!”

“Damn it…!”

bang! Taang!

I pulled the trigger like crazy towards the Sahagin seen through the dense trees.

“Kwiik!?”

“Kkeek!”

Although he couldn’t inflict fatal wounds, he moved his legs without even looking at the guys who were falling down with deep enough wounds.

“Whoop! Whoop…!”

How on earth did this happen?

I settled down at a corner of the beach, caught sea fish with a gun, gave them shells, and made a crude shelter by tying together large leaves and branches from tropical trees.

It was so simple and easy that even I was surprised.

He successfully started a fire using gunpowder from a bullet and even distilled seawater using a pot clumsily made from leaves.

From that moment on, I began to smile at the growing hope.

can do.

Here, I can easily last a month.

That’s what I thought.

However, it only took a few hours for those hopes to be shattered.

Sure enough, Sahagin came to visit.

I had already expected it, so I responded right away… but the danger of the Sahagin attacking from both the forest and the sea was far beyond my imagination.

In particular, guns were not very effective against the Sahagin who used the sea as a shield, and the barrage of harpoons they threw with their entire weight, breaking the surface of the sea with their amazing swimming skills, was tantamount to disaster on a beach without cover.

Even though the attack unfolded from both the forest and the sea, it is a miracle that we are still alive.

“Damn it…!”

“Kwiik!”

“Keeek!”

“Shut up! You bastards!”

Now that I knew the danger of the forest, I had to muster up a lot of courage to even take a single step and run away.

Ta-ta-tang! Ta-ta-ta-tang!

Still, is it because I have experience defeating them once?

Even though I was running recklessly through the scary forest, I was able to eliminate them one by one.

“Whoa…!”

The number of them, which had been almost thirty, could now be counted on one hand.

“I will kill you all…!”

Clinching and gritting my teeth, I stopped on the spot and went around the trees and bushes to engage in active combat with the guys.

He was never pushed back in the middle or long distances.

Even if I unexpectedly engaged in close combat, my attacks were overwhelmingly fast, so I was able to fire five or six shots before they even swung the harpoon, inflicting serious injuries in an instant.

“Haha, haha…!”

“Kkieeee…Kkiii…”

“Die. Just…”

Taang! Taang! Ta-ta-ta-tang!

After confirming and killing the last remaining Sahagin, I sat down on the spot with a short gasp.

“Hey, hey…”

Throbbing!

There was constant pain where the harpoon was stuck.

When I touch it, blood comes out so much that my hand gets soaked.

“……”

Shall we start again?

“…!!”

I was shocked and couldn’t believe I had thought of such a thing.

“I’m going crazy…”

They say humans are creatures of adaptation, but isn’t this too fast?

When I first died, I made a big fuss about it being traumatized and all, but now I can’t believe I’m thinking about dying just because I got a single wound…

“…Fuck.”

After muttering a curse that came out of my mouth, I gritted my teeth and stood up.

“We will survive. Even if we die in the end, let’s persevere through this episode together…!”

With that decision in mind, I staggered through the dark forest.

***

If there are bad things, there are also good things.

As I was walking aimlessly towards the river, I was able to find a hole in a tree where a huge snake, almost 20 meters long, was coiled.

“Whoa, whoo…”

Although blood poured out as I rolled around to kill the snake, I intuitively felt that I was not going to die, so I was surprisingly calm inside.

“Kkkk. Now I know how much it will take before I die. It’s rotten…”

The tree hole was wide enough for me to stretch out and lie down, and it was much more comfortable than I expected.

“Whoop, whoop…huh?”

As I was panting in pain, I saw the shape of a large bug attached to the ceiling of the hole, and for a moment my whole body trembled, but then I realized that it was the fruit of a certain plant and stared at it blankly.

“This world is so amazing. There are fruits that look like that… huh?”

Suddenly, 088’s comment came to mind.

“…a bug berry that lives on trees.”

As if possessed, I stretched out my hand and grabbed the fruit, and it fell surprisingly easily.

I stared at it, saw its shape in my eyes, and muttered softly.

“…Summon Bug Berry.”

Immediately after, another bug-shaped fruit was held in my hand.

“ha ha ha…”

When I found a way out, I put it in my mouth without hesitation.

I didn’t even worry about poison.

Because it was an edible plant guaranteed by 088.

Wow!

“Wow, it’s delicious…!”

Contrary to its bug-like appearance, the bug berry’s skin was thin and its flesh had a deep sweetness and rich flavor, like a mixture of orange and mango in perfect proportion.

The taste is so amazing that you even forget the pain caused by the harpoon.

“Munch! Gulp! Puhaaa…!”

After mindlessly killing a bug berry, I absent-mindedly enjoyed the afterglow, then took off the clothes I was wearing, tore them long, tied them together in a knot, and held on tightly to the harpoon.

I was conscious of it because I wasn’t confident, but I kept putting it off, but I felt like I could do it now.

Humans are creatures that can gain confidence just by eating delicious food.

“Big…!”

Tsk tsk!

“Whoa, ugh!”

Wow!

When the harpoon was pulled out, chunks of flesh came out.

“Kwaaah…!”

I immediately regretted pulling out the harpoon, but there was nothing I could do about what had already been done.

“Ugh, huh…!”

The entire torso was wrapped with long pieces of cloth and tied as tightly as possible.

“Huh, huh…”

It was difficult to breathe, but the pain seemed to subside a little.

“……”

Oh, does this mean that instead of the pain subsiding, I will die?

I lost too much blood…

After thinking that far, I lost my mind and fainted.

***

I survived by eating bug berries in a tree hole for about three days.

During that time, Sahagin did not come to visit.

Has the damage been so great that they have given up hunting me?

“…That can’t be possible. Those damn bastards.”

“Kwiik! Kwiik!”

“Keeek!”

I burst out laughing at the sight of the fish’s head for the first time in three days.

What on earth do these guys want and why do they come so persistently?

“hmm…”

All I could guess was the ceremonial altar.

Is offering myself as a sacrifice that important? It’s unknown.

“…Okay, this is it.”

Although the wound was not healed yet, I endured the pain and forced myself to stand up.

Taaaang!

“Kkieek!?”

“It’s war, you little fish.”

Whatever their goals, the situation does not change.

If I want to survive here for a month, I have to eliminate all the Sahagins who are targeting me.

You have to achieve that first before you can survive or do anything else.

Ta-ta-ta-tang! Taaaang!

I held out my hand from the tree hole and fired indiscriminately for several tens of minutes. After seeing that more than half of the dead people had retreated, I slowly got out of the hole.

“Whoa…”

If I tried to move even a little, my muscles were pulled and the pain was intense, but now I had to move.

We must move and be ready to meet the Sahagin.

If you force yourself to move and the wound spreads, you may hasten your death, and perhaps the Sahagins who scolded you harshly may no longer come to you…

“……”

I learned a lesson from what happened at the beach.

If you want to survive here, you shouldn’t cling to hope.

The moment groundless hope colors your mind, objective and cool-headed analysis becomes buried beneath your consciousness and cannot be found.

So, you have to look at everything negatively and doubt and doubt again.

“Whoa…”

Now is the time to move and prepare for all the worst possibilities.

However, I have no intention of exploring long distances.

To begin with, even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t be able to do that with my body right now.

So, for now, let’s use this tree hole as a base and slowly expand the area.

By checking the direction from which the Sahagins were coming and setting up traps.