After packing up all his equipment as well as his journal, which was made out of leather and such materials, Akio had walked out of his house, heading towards the village entrance where his siblings and father were waiting for him to start the hunt.
However as Akio was heading towards the village entrance, he suddenly bumped into someone on the way.
When Akio was about to apologize to the person he had accidentally bumped into, he suddenly recognized the person he bumped and into, And to Akio's bad luck the person he had bumped into was one of his classmates for a short while in the village school, before he started being just taught by Anise as due to his intelligence and his memories from his past life. Most of the lessons taught in the village school were useless for Akio, which in turn was the reason he graduated from the school fairly quickly, not even spending five months in school before Akio had requested to conduct the graduation exam, which surprisingly to Akio, had the same type of structure as exams from his high school days before the Great Wiping.
And the person he had accidentally bump into was one of the most talented in the class he was placed in back then, and she was named Kuroka a girl similar in age to him with blond messy hair, blue eyes, and a fairly fit body that fitted perfectly to blue colored dress that looked very similar to all the dresses that the women in the village wore. Unlike other kids in the village school, which Akio found to be mostly ordinary and average, Kuroka was not according to some rumors he heard as he secretly researched the village as a side hobby while waiting for results in either his technological inventions from before the pre-petrification event. Or his ongoing research to discover how to use magic that Rob had mentioned to him before reincarnation that, would become real in this world.
Akio found out that unlike the other villagers, Kuroka seemed to be one of the people that was petrified like most of the stone statues located in all parts of the world currently. Although she wasn't one of the people that was petrified due to the Great Wipe, but instead one of the people that was petrified in the last hundreds of years or so.
As Akio also discovered from his research in the village and the world as a whole, it seems that sometimes another petrification event happens, randomly to certain locations, although not as large scale as the event which caused humanity to revert to the stone age again.
According to some of the villagers, Kuroka seemed to have been petrified as a mere baby, being less than a year old at the time, when the villagers found her petrified body, and although I don't know what had cured Kuroka of her petrification, due to lack of research data, I still observed that Kuroka was at most petrified just a few years ago, due to her being able to survive as a mere baby. According to Rob back when I first arrived in his place, that the only human with enough will be able to keep their minds alive in their petrification was able to live or People who were lucky enough for their petrified bodies to not be damaged in any way and had to be recently petrified, or in any case just lucky to awaken as a living human.
And I am pretty sure that a normal human baby, wouldn't have that enough will to live yet if she was petrified.
I had once wanted to discover more about the petrified bodies that were the result of the Great Wiping near the village but, due to my strict mother and the guards guarding the village borders, I wasn't able to gather enough data to determine how to possibly cure the petrified people from years ago. And those are reasons why I haven't been able to get too far away from the village, aside from my lack of strength to go any further as a 10-year-old weak child.
So in short the story about Kuroka was that a few years ago when the hunters of the village, was hunting for food in the forest best the village, they discovered Kuroka in the middle of the Forest due to her weak cries.
And when the Hunters had managed to locate where Kuroka was, they discovered that besides the crying petrified body of Kuroka which already had cracks, signifying that Kuroka could be saved. Was some petrified bodies which could have been Kuroka's original parents.
So out of pity and seeing that Kuroka could still be saved, from the verification the Hunters took Kuroka, and in turn, brought her back to the village. So after that Akio learned from the slight stories he heard about Kuroka, that after being brought back to the village, one of the Hunters who discovered Kuroka adopted her as his family's daughter, due to the reason that most of that Hunter's children were males as well as pity for Kuroka back then.
So due to her upbringing with mostly only boys around her, Kuroka had grown up to be a massive tomboy in the village, She also had the personality too often trying to pick fights with most of the students in the village school, for her to prove that she was the strongest in school despite being pretty bad on her academics even among all the other children in the village. And most of all unlike other girls in the village who most of the time in the village did agricultural, knitting, etc. Kuroka liked to brawl and hunt more than those, which solidated the opinion of the village of Kuroka as a tomboy.
So due to her reputation, Akio tended to avoid her as to not be troubled if she ever tries to brawl with Akio. However, due to some bizarre reason that Akio himself didn't know about Kuroka, seemed to like to bother him even when Akio had graduated the school early.
So due to his experience of her, Akio tended to try as much as possible to avoid meeting Kuroka, as even though she knew Akio's special condition of having a weak physique, she still makes Akio brawl with her physically and also sometimes forces him to do some lackey works which pisses, Akio most of the time as he thinks that it wastes time for his research.
When Akio was about to pretend that he didn't see Kuroka and about to run off immediately to the village entrance to meet with his siblings. He then felt Kuroka's hand land on his shoulder as she said with a scary tone to Akio.
[Kuroka] " Hey well isn't it Akio here, Are you planning to run away from me again today, while just bumped into me."