Looking at the sun for a moment and then focusing on the direction of my front sight, I stepped on the barren ground and arrived in front of the forest.
As far as I could see the depths of the forest, the rain was very dark, so much noise from various animals, the humidity was so fresh but cold, and the sound of footsteps was shocking all the way here.
"Is it a monster? I think there's a big monster in there. Given this shaking of the ground, it's likely that there's something dangerous inside."
After saying that, I put this backpack down and checked the things from this backpack.
There was a food box, red clothes made of fine cloth, a transparent blue ball that looked like a crystal ball… a knife made directly from the hand in this bag.
"Oh..."
Taking the blue ball and knife, I checked whether these two things were useful or not.
"This ball… seems to have its own uses. I don't know for sure, but this ball has some use."
After putting the blue ball in my trouser pocket, I tried the sharpness of this knife on this barren ground.
"This land is quite hard. If this knife is dull, it is useless to me. But fortunately, at the tip of this knife, it has sufficient sharpness."
Designed with a strap to tie the blade of this knife with a wooden handle, this knife makes it easy for me to penetrate this barren land. Even so, the handle on this knife has an extraordinary smoothness, probably because the wood used is wood that gets wet easily and absorbs my sweat.
"I think this is enough."
After trying several times the sharpness of this knife, I took this backpack, put the knife in the other pocket of my pants, then walked towards the front.
Before entering the forest, I began to feel an astonishing air, like entering a battlefield that I had been through.
Taking a few breaths to calm me down, I convinced myself to enter the forest.
"Let's get started..."
Entering the forest, my feet felt different from the ground before. Maybe because the trees were so damp that the scorching heat of the sun didn't reach the ground, the ground I stepped on became wet. But strangely, I also feel the heat around me running right now.
This place is like a mix of cold and hot air, which doesn't come from anywhere.
But then again, thanks to the abundant natural resources, I can still enjoy the oxygen in this place, even better than in my previous world.
Taking out a knife to mark the path I've walked, and making sure that I don't get lost to get out later, I keep doing that so the worst doesn't happen to me. In this way, I've done some preliminary precautions for myself, and have been able to adapt to this forest.
Looking up for a moment, finding that the leaves of these trees were blocking the sunlight, I thought that going deeper into this forest would make it dark for me to see well.
"Ah, in this world there is no night vision. I think I'll try my best to see. Yeah, my eyes are going to work more than usual."
Thinking back to the mission to eradicate drug smuggling and being carried out in the dark octopus, I remembered how useful night vision was in that mission.
Stuff like that is needed for me right now.
Well, considering that the technology in this world had not yet arrived, I realized that such an object could not exist in this world. I have to understand that and am grateful that my eyes are in top condition.
Convinced of what I could do, I sharpened my eyes.
While the words "sharpen my eyesight" sound pretty cool, that doesn't mean my eyes will change and see darkness as well as they see in daylight. But even so, at least I'm sure that I can get through this and stay calm.
Entering deeper than this forest, and my eyes can't see any light because it's so dark, I keep walking while looking at my feet.
To prevent something I didn't want, I held the knife tightly and was ready to strike at any moment.
When I had walked only 30 steps, my trouser pocket glowed blue.
Taking the source out of my trouser pocket, I found that it was this blue ball that glowed so brightly.
"Is this a lamp?"
Pausing for a moment while looking at this blue ball, I remembered something in that city.
Oh, I see. So they used these blue balls to light up every corner of the city. I thought it was from fireflies, but it came from this ball.
This is a lamp. I mean, this blue ball gives off a light bright enough that in the dark it won't feel dark. This blue ball will automatically light up when it's dark around. That's what I thought and concluded because remembering around me it was so dark with an air full of threats.
"Quite efficient for a ball."
With this glowing blue ball, I can see in the darkness of this forest so well. However, like a flashlight, this blue ball has a range of up to 5 meters, making it still dark outside of that range.
Well, at least it helped me.
Going back with the shawl covering these handcuffs, marking the trees with a knife… and looking around to make sure there weren't any creatures that wanted to attack me, that's what I'm doing right now relying on the blue ball as light as I walk.
The more I walked inside, the more the air of this forest was felt. Every time I walked, it was as if I was being watched from various directions. Strangely, I didn't hear a sound, whether it was the sound of footsteps approaching me or the sound of the leaves of the trees blowing. Quite strange considering the wind outside the forest is quite strong.
Feeling strange, I stopped for a moment and tested something by throwing pebbles in various directions.
Nothing happened after I threw pebbles in various directions. However, I found something on this wet ground.
"Footprints?"
Approaching the pattern of the footprints, I knew something about these footprints.
"Are there any horsemen here?"
These are horse footprints that have soles made of iron.
In any case, the horse's footprints pointed in a direction in front of me, which probably meant that someone had walked on horseback in this forest. Whether human or not, the footprints of these horses indicate that there is life in this forest.
With a basic knowledge of horse riding and with the wet ground still feeling new, I assumed that this horse's footprints had just been crossed a few hours ago.
Knowing that I immediately rushed from here and followed the footprints of this horse, so that I would know that the rider on this horse was not the cat girl.
When I had only run for a few seconds, a scream was heard from in front of me.
"This voice..."
Because my memory of something was so high, I knew that this voice was familiar to my ears. And for some reason, I was even afraid that if my guess was right, there was that scream. I'm afraid that this voice is the cat girl's voice.
"Hopefully not the girl."
Since this blue ball could notice my presence here, I was forced to throw this blue ball away and run quickly to the source of the screaming sound.
Relying on my instincts, I kept running forward in hopes that this was the right path. And don't forget, I keep marking the trees with a stroke of this knife.
"Oh..."
Seeing a light in front of me, I slowly relaxed my running.
When I got close enough to the light, I hid and saw several humans—no, not humans, but creatures I assumed were monsters. And there, the catgirl was lying on the ground with wounds on her body and torn clothes.
"Now, where is that heirloom? If you want to see your imouto, hand over that thing!"
A monster that looked like a lizard but could talk approached the cat girl, and then kicked the cat girl several times.
"Quickly hand over that heirloom from your family! Otherwise, your cute imouto will…"
I guess lowly beings like that don't talk like that.
"Okay, I'll give it to you. But before that, I want to see my imouto safe first!"
"Tch, what a troublesome girl. Quickly bring the imouto here!"
"Yes."
The other lizards rushed away after the lizard ordered it.
I saw the lizard rushing away into a house that was quite far away.
"It seems that the house became their nest."
After saying that, I started to count the number of the creatures, and their number was 9, excluding the lizards that entered the house.
After a while, the lizard returned with a black-eared cat girl.
"Onee-chan..."
"Dinda..."
She was quite happy when she saw her imouto there, even almost moved from there and wanted to approach her imouto.
"So hurry up and get that heirloom thing out!"
The lizard forced the catgirl for the thing the heirloom said.
Maybe because she had to, she couldn't help but have to obey for the sake of her imouto.
"Okay, I'll give it to you."
She put her hands forward, almost touching, then suddenly a white light appeared between the gaps of her hands.
While she was doing something, I saw the horses parked there and the lamppost in which was the light bulb.
Picking up a pebble and sneaking moving from one tree to another to approach the parked horses, I prepared to make a fuss there to save the imouto first.
When the white light between my hands disappeared and took out a dagger, I simultaneously threw a pebble into the eye of one of the horses there.
"What's that?"
When the horse was in such pain that it made the horse scream and they immediately aimed at the horse, I ran towards the lizard holding the cat girl's imouto.
"Eh?"
Surprised to see me, the lizard fell silent and threw its hand away from the cat girl's imouto.
Since the lizard's neck was so long, I threw this knife at its neck, making the knife stick there with green blood gushing out.
"It's disgusting the blood of this lowly creature."
"Oi, who are you!?"
When the 3 lizards approached me with their spears in my face, I was forced to stop and retreat backward. And thanks to that, their spears clashed against each other.
Kicking and taking the spear from one of them, I swung this spear between their bodies.
Without thinking of mercy, I injured them and injured them and immediately fell to the ground.
With this close to the cat girl's imouto, I jumped up and hugged her.
However, when I landed, I felt a heat beside me.
"Watch out!"
Hearing the voice, I turned to the side and saw a fireball aiming at me.
"Tch..."