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5.

The moment Seonghyeon fainted and fell into a deep sleep. Hayato was gazing up at the night sky.

Next to Hayato, Sasaki was looking at the night sky and said, “There are two moons.”

“Yeah.”

“You’re supposed to be a hero.”

“So it seems.”

Sasaki furrowed his eyebrows. He seemed somewhat puzzled.

“We were just ordinary high school students, I’m sure that was the case until this morning. But suddenly, we’re heroes or something, honestly, I don’t really understand.”

That was the beginning. Sasaki gently grabbed Hayato’s wrist, as if he had a lot to say.

Was the emotion he originally had amplified in this other world?

But, in his excitement, Sasaki didn’t realize and continued speaking.

“Earlier, the palace mage explained to us all about magic. However, by the end of today, no one has realized their magic yet.”

Sasaki continued with a sad look in his eyes.

“Can we do it? Can we really defeat the Demon King? We haven’t even been able to use the most basic magic yet.”

Hmm.

Hayato looked Sasaki straight in the eyes and said, “I haven’t felt alive until now. It wasn’t fun, maybe that’s why. I always just laughed it off, that was my way of tormenting myself.”

Hayato’s eyes sparkled as he bared his soul.

“But the moment I heard that I was a hero, I inwardly cheered. Finally, finally, something exciting that I wanted happened.”

Hayato placed Sasaki’s hand on his chest.

“In this pressure, I finally feel alive.”

Hayato smiled brightly.

And at that moment, a faint golden magic appeared in his eyes.

***

“…!”

Seonghyeon ran back into the forest.

“This place is strange!”

He thought he had become stronger, but this place defied common sense.

At first, there was a snake that seemed over 20 meters long.

The sense of danger he felt from the snake was more than that of a tiger. So, he thought the snake was the strongest.

But it wasn’t.

A gorilla appeared from somewhere. The sense of danger from the gorilla was judged to be more dangerous. However, it still seemed possible to escape.

As the gorilla approached the snake, the snake hissed and leaped, spitting out a venom-like substance that emitted smoke every time it hit the ground.

But the venom did not touch the gorilla. The gorilla dodged the snake’s head and grabbed its tail. And swung it.

Seeing this scene, Seonghyeon naturally thought, “Ah! Now that gorilla is the strongest!”

But as the gorilla enjoyed its victory, a roar came from the sky.

Krrrrra!

“What the hell is that now.”

Something with red scales was flying towards him with flames at its mouth.

The red dot grew larger.

As it began to approach, his gut instinct screamed like crazy.

Run.

When he saw a snake or gorilla, it wasn’t like this.

He felt like he could fight and maybe escape.

But not this time.

If he faces it, he dies. He will definitely die.

Seonghyeon immediately held his breath and left his spot.

At some point, something that sounded like the gorilla’s scream echoed through the forest, and Seonghyeon looked back at the path he had come from.

“This place is insane…”

Having gone a whole day without food, Seonghyeon felt hunger.

“Is there anything to eat?”

Seonghyeon cautiously noticed a tree with fruits nearby.

“Oh? Fruits?”

But something was off.

His senses were sending a signal not to get too close.

“I don’t know, let’s fill our stomach first.”

It was careless. It was an irresponsible act.

As soon as he reached out for the fruit on the tree, vibrations occurred in the tree.

Thud thud thud thud thud-.

The tree moved.

Due to the vibrations, Seonghyun picked up a fruit and came down from the tree.

Seonghyun blinked in surprise.

“What is this again!”

The giant stuck in the tree slowly began to rise.

Without looking back, Seonghyun immediately ran.

“…!”

Seonghyun frantically channeled his magic to escape from the giant.

Whoosh- Whoosh-.

The giant seemed to follow Seonghyun for a moment, but then backed off and did not pursue him.

As the giant stopped, Seonghyun also stopped and took a deep breath.

“Phew! What a crazy situation! You guys, I’ll see you later!”

Seonghyun walked towards the forest, flicking his middle finger.

This time, he decided to fully trust his intuition.

“When I approached the fruit earlier, I wondered why my intuition was ringing… I should have known.”

Seonghyun thought as he swallowed the fruit he had picked.

His intuition was quiet about the fruit being safe.

“From now on, I will actively use my intuition.”

On Earth, his intuition did not ring unless it was a big deal.

But since he came here, his intuition has always been ringing.

And it was quite accurate.

“Now… where should I go to encounter opponents I can handle?”

Seonghyun began to rely on his intuition.

“Over there? No. Then, over there? Ugh! Just looking at it gives me the creeps. How about… Hmm, it’s a bit ambiguous but it looks okay.”

Seonghyun led himself to a relatively safe place.

“Since my intuition has never been wrong so far, let’s trust and go. Anyway, I don’t even know where is where.”

Seonghyun chuckled to himself, saying that he kept talking to himself because he was alone.

He arrived at a place that looked like a pure forest with not too dense grass.

“Oh, this place feels nice. Oh? Found a rabbit.”

Seonghyun approached the rabbit hopping in front of him.

His senses were quiet.

“Today’s meal is this.”

Seonghyun reached out to the rabbit with magic in his hand.

Bow down.

At that moment, his senses rang.

At the same time.

The rabbit’s teeth sharpened and elongated, and it lunged at Seonghyun.

Having decided to actively use his intuition, Seonghyun immediately twisted his body backward.

Whoosh!

The rabbit, who missed Seonghyun, let out a disappointed cry.

“Ha! Even the rabbit is not ordinary, huh?”

However.

“If it’s just you, I can handle it. My intuition is not ringing loudly for you.”

Whether the rabbit understood Seonghyun’s words or not, it frowned.

The rabbit extended its teeth again and thrust its face forward.

His senses even indicated where to attack.

The moment of the last moment shown when following the tiger.

It showed the way.

His posture was simply instinctively adjusted as he wanted.

‘Balance.’

Left foot as the center. Right foot to my radius.

Swoosh.

Seonghyun stretched his right foot with his left foot as the center.

His eyes on the opponent’s body, right hand towards the opponent, left hand behind.

His right hand approached the opponent.

At that moment! Seonghyun twisted his wrist slightly.

He expelled the magic firmly anchored in his wrist throughout his body and regulated his breathing.

Hoo…

The moment the rabbit’s sharp teeth met Seonghyun’s right hand, he twisted his wrist fiercely.

Thud.

Seonghyun grabbed the rabbit’s teeth and immediately pulled down.

As the teeth were caught, the rabbit struggled.

But Seonghyun, who did not leave it alone, raised his palm and slashed the rabbit’s neck.

Thud!

The moment the rabbit’s neck met Seonghyun’s palm, he fiercely rotated the magic.

With the rotation of magic, Seonghyun’s attack became even more powerful, completely destroying the rabbit’s neck.

The rabbit, with its neck destroyed, lay limp with its teeth still clamped onto Seonghyun’s arm.

Seonghyun grabbed the rabbit and pulled out its teeth.

Puhwaah!

As a result, a considerable amount of blood poured out from the rabbit’s body.

The blood covered Seonghyun’s body.

“Sigh… now I have to wash up again. Anyway, finally got some meat, and a weapon as a bonus.”

Seonghyun smiled as he lifted the rabbit’s ear.

Then, he infused magic into his teeth and snapped the rabbit’s neck.

Crack.

Perhaps due to already spilling a lot of blood from its mouth, not much blood came out from the rabbit’s neck.

Seonghyun calmly began the butchering process of the rabbit.

Slice.

He first cut open the rabbit’s belly and removed the innards. Then he separated the skin and fur, using the fur to wrap the meat.

After finishing the butchering, Seonghyun listened carefully to find a stream nearby.

“Let’s see… oh, the sound of water.”

Seonghyun moved towards the sound of water.

With the rabbit skin tied around his waist, holding rabbit meat in his left hand and rabbit teeth in his right, Seonghyun looked like a true primitive man.

Seonghyun pondered for a moment.

“Oh darn. How do I make fire? Hmm… oh, that should work.”

Seonghyun used a skill.

-Skill: Dimensional Shop [EX] activated.

Zing.

Seonghyun’s vision was filled with an interface, and he grumbled, “Ugh, shrink it a bit.”

The interface shrank and settled in the bottom right corner of Seonghyun’s vision.

“Let’s see… the new coins in the dimensional account… 20 points? Less than I thought…”

Seonghyun looked at the rabbit meat in his left hand.

“Anyway, this isn’t important. Shop, shop.”

Humming to himself, Seonghyun carefully checked the items in the shop.

“Oh, found it. Fire.”

-Skill: Fire [F] (20C), would you like to purchase?

“Yes, fire is essential, so I have to buy it even if it’s regrettable.”

With that, Seonghyun’s coins became 0 again.

Arriving at the valley, Seonghyun washed the rabbit meat in the stream.

Excited to eat the meat, he even hummed a tune.

“Hmm~.”

He gathered some rocks lying around to create a cylindrical shape and filled it with branches to make a makeshift stove.

Seonghyun raised his magic and used the skill.

-Skill: Fire [F] activated.

Whoosh.

A small flame appeared on Seonghyun’s fingertip.

As he invested more magic, the flame grew larger.

When the flame reached the size of a soccer ball, its growth slowed down.

“Huh? This should be usable in actual combat, right?”

Seonghyun said such pointless things and lit the stove.

Crackle.

As the fairly large flame touched the branches, the wood began to burn vigorously.

Seonghyun placed the rabbit meat on the stove to prevent it from falling.

Watching the rabbit meat cook to a crispy brown, Seonghyun drooled.

“First meal in this world… It’s a scene I’ve only seen in cartoons, but experiencing it for real feels strange.”

Turning the rabbit meat on the branch gently to cook it evenly, the meat turned into a tempting brown color.

Seonghyun then skillfully tore apart the rabbit’s legs and lifted the meat.

“Let’s dig in.”

Taking a bite of the rabbit’s leg, Seonghyun’s eyes sparkled as he began to eat eagerly.

“What? I thought it would be bland and gamey without seasoning, but what is this? It tastes better than most chicken dishes!”

Seonghyun had barely eaten two legs of the rabbit when it happened.

“By the way, sadly, the sky doesn’t even give me a break.”

Seonghyun’s senses tingled.

Even without intuition.

The danger was already close.

Grrrr-.

A white fur wolf revealed its teeth and glared at Seonghyun.

“Did you come because of the smell of grilling meat? Hm, seems like a decent fellow for a post-meal exercise.”

As Seonghyun arrogantly stared at the wolf, it stretched its neck out and howled.

Awooooo-

Along with that sound, the same howl echoed from the forest.

Awooooo-

“Huh? Something seems off?”

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud-

It wasn’t just one or two.

The sound of dozens of footsteps and howls came from the direction where the howls were heard.

Seonghyun, sweating cold, muttered.

“This is screwed up.”