chapter 6
6 – Department Integrated Combat Practice (2)
Plop!!!
It fell with a huge spray of water and disappeared into the current of the waterfall.
Fortunately, there was no pain thanks to the timely protection.
I was holding one love in one hand and swimming with the other hand and two feet, and I could see a cave whose entrance was covered by a waterfall under the surface of the water.
Let’s go over there first.
“Whoa… Whoa…”
After setting her down on the floor of her cave, she caught her rough breath. It seemed that the urgent situation had passed.
After I calmed down for a while and explained the current situation, she asked cautiously.
“What shall we do in the future…”
“What should I do? I have to survive to the end of the void body wave and get a high survival score. As originally intended.”
“That makes sense!”
“It is not difficult to derive results.”
“Confidence without grounds is arrogance.”
Yes, I cannot use magical powers and powers, and Hansarang is a supporter.
It’s a natural reaction based on general thoughts and judgment.
“Do you want to bet?”
“A bet? Ha, okay, if you do what you say, I will grant you a wish.”
“Yes.”
“If you fail instead, do you have to grant my wish?”
So the wish bet came true, and I moved my body right away.
First, I poked my head out to the side of the pouring waterfall and checked the top of the cliff.
Fortunately, the enemies disappeared as if they had given up the pursuit.
“For now, let’s make this cave a temporary base. First of all, I have to pass tonight, so I’ll get dry branches for firewood and simple food.”
Then, Han Sarang also got up, got up, and followed me.
“…You go too?”
“Don’t treat me as baggage! It’s just that I can’t see my eyes, but everything else is fine, right?”
“If you are afraid of a bear coming out, don’t worry and just stay.”
“I… What do you see me as! You can just beat a bear, right?”
Okay. If you see a bear that has been eroded by the void and has become a void, you won’t be able to say that.
He showed his will to do whatever he wanted and took the lead, but he grabbed his collar from behind.
“Hee hee, come with the staff. You have to catch me.”
“Are you treating me as an object by telling me not to treat it as baggage?”
“For a blind man like me, a cane is not a simple object, is it?”
“Sure.”
When asked a question, he bowed his head.
“I won’t… tell you.”
“It’s bland.”
After getting out of the cave, we first prepared firewood.
It hasn’t rained in a while. No need to look for anything dry, just pick up what’s fallen on the ground.
After we piled up the firewood we had obtained in the cave, we went deeper into the forest. It was to find the fruits of trees or animals to be food.
Of course, leaving traces on the way we came, and making sure the boundaries of the four weeks.
I wonder if we searched together for about an hour.
I found a tree about 5 to 7 meters tall with familiar fruits hanging from it. That was enough to fill my stomach tonight.
“I found the fruit.”
“Really! Great.”
“But it’s a little higher up, so I guess I’ll have to ride a wooden horse.”
“You mean me?”
“No.”
“Then I want you? Do you want to break your neck!”
I laughed and climbed the tree to pick her fruit.
“What, I thought I was able to pick it myself.”
“It’s okay, ah ha, ah.
“Ah…”
I removed the pulp from the peeled fruit and put it in Han Sarang’s mouth.
He chewed and savored the taste for a while.
“Phhhhh, it’s not tasty!”
“Of course, what I gave you is the part that I throw away.”
“Do you want to die? Hurry up and serve me the delicious part!”
It’s only when you put the right thing in your mouth that it smiles and hums.
Something sweet melts in your mouth.
I went back the way I came and went back to the cave with fruits in both hands.
*
When we arrived, the sun was already setting.
“We’re all here, let’s light a fire and dry ourselves off.”
“Do you know how to light a fire?”
“Well, I learned it when I was in the midst of cleaning up dungeons.”
After stacking the piled firewood neatly, I made an ember by rubbing two tree branches together.
Then he moved it to a straw for kindling and threw it among the dry branches, and it became a bonfire with a roaring roar.
Tadak. Tadak.
As I dried my clothes and body, which were soaked in the warmth, the fatigue of the day came flooding back.
Perhaps it was the same, Han Sarang, who stretched her body all the way, opened her mouth.
“Isn’t it like camping?”
“Camping? I’m not sure. I’ve never been there.”
Maybe it was full of pleasant memories, he tilted his head back and smiled.
“I… Went a lot when I had my family. My dad loved camping. I could see it then.”
“Looks like it was fun.”
“Very much! I was excited from the moment I packed my things and got into the car… Resting at a rest area and eating delicious food… Gathering strength and setting up a tent together… In the evening, I had pork belly and ramen with the sounds of nature… “
I listened to her memories for a while.
The story ended by saying that if I could, I would like to go back to that time and go camping.
It was always subtle to hear about things I had never experienced by others.
“…Am I too excited? It’s a situation like this…”
“I know.”
“Mr. Woo, if you were a cool guy at a time like this, he would have comforted you by saying, ‘No, rather, you should be more positive in situations like this.'”
“Sorry for not being a nice guy.”
Hmm, she coughed and changed the topic.
“What if, if you won the bet and got the right to wish, what would you wish for?”
I had something in mind.
“It’s a secret.”
“If you ask me to go out with you, I will refuse even your wish.”
“Why? Isn’t it a wish to become anything?
“That’s true, but… are you really going to wish for that?”
Her face was redder than the campfire.
“No, why do I wish for a loss?”
“What are you talking about! I am much more precious.”
You wouldn’t say such a thing if you knew how much property I’ve hoarded.
To all the surviving students, thank you for your hard work.
– As of the current time, there are 17 hours left until Void Erosion. So, good luck with the rest of your time.
“It’s 17 hours… Let’s talk constructively.”
He put the fruit he had saved into his mouth and began to tell him about his plans for the future.
Summarizing the achievements so far.
Void Body Killed 0 Student Killed 0.
The group’s combined score has already crossed the water at the point where there are 2 people left, and the survival score starts to be set high after the void erosion.
In other words, we only have the lowest point requirements among the lowest points. A means of reversal was needed.
“Tomorrow morning, I will wake up as soon as dawn and find the already occupied defense base.”
“It would be unreasonable for the two of us to fight against an opponent with a defensive base at that…”
“I don’t intend to fight back.”
“So what?”
“I disappear immediately and you join the team alone.”
The woman sitting across from her jumped up and raised her voice.
“That… What is that!”
I didn’t care and continued talking.
“I believe that with your popularity and image, you can do that much. You are a supporter who shines when you have a strong teammate, so the opponent will have no reason to refuse.”
“No, that’s not the problem! What do you do?”
“Me? Look for an empty defense zone and hold on until you can hold out.”
There is absolutely nothing to lose from her point of view, and it must be a way to get the maximum test score in the current situation.
Why is my body shaking?
“You… Said you were on the verge of expulsion.”
“Isn’t it?”
“Ha, right? Are you kidding me now? If that’s the case, why did you say you’re confident and let’s bet?”
“I didn’t say either could survive. If you survive and clear the void body wave…”
“So, what do you win the bet on? Yes I hope you like it And again, will the group dividend score increase? Even if you do that, you will get a few points!”
Even after her words had been fired like her rapid-fire cannon, she sighed and glared at me for a long time.
She gave me a moment to cool down.
Tadak, tadak.
Even in the midst of this, the bonfire burned quietly, fulfilling its calling.
“… I didn’t expect you to think of me that much, but the saintess.”
“That… Well, you can’t swear in the face anymore after you leave the academy! So… yes, that’s right.”
For a while, an awkward silence hung over the night air.
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a scenario where I could survive with one love.
I’m a little sorry, but I have no choice but to take a hard line…
While I was thinking that, Sarang Han suddenly got up and moved her steps.
“There is a fire ahead, so be careful.”
“I know that much, too, right?”
After a while, warmth began to permeate from the seat next to me.
Her body heat came from her shoulder and her side.
Ha, her long sigh seeped through the smoke and she opened her mouth softly.
“Just because I am blind doesn’t mean I can’t see anything. At least I know better than anyone else the expression and feelings of the person facing me.”
“…Yes.”
“But now your face is… Yes. It’s like a bird in an open cage. It looks like it will fly away if left alone.”
As he finished, he wrapped his arms around my forearms with both hands. Like you’ll never miss it. Like her I held her when she fell off her waterfall.
“So… Catch it. Don’t feel cocky on the subject of the wand. It just needs to be held in my hands as the owner.”
“… Ok, okay. I will cancel that operation.”
“Do you think I will believe what you say? I will never let you go until tomorrow morning… I’m… Zzzz”
I brewed a leaf of a plant that has a calming effect in coconut liquid and gave it a tea, but the effect seems to have finally turned.
Leaning on my shoulder, I stared at the sleeping face of one love for a while.
A shadow of deep darkness hidden under an angelic appearance.
“I guess you are like him.”
The first girl I saved as a hunter, the one who gave me a new direction in my life.
“Well, I hope you find out soon.”
After carefully lowering Hansarang on the floor, the bonfire was repaired so that it would not go out until tomorrow morning.
There was no moon or stars in the sky, so only darkness was complete.
‘Then, let’s move quickly.’