Kim Hajin's Pov
After Rachel left, I began my way towards a safe spot. Sure it was nice to form teams or start early hunting, but they all had their disadvantages. And it was never bad to save a good spot before doing those. On the way, I hunted some Wild Animals and also collected some Plants that were edible or had some special effects. Differentiating between those plants was not hard at all due to my Gift so I collected as much I could.
After walking for some time, I heard sound of heavy footsteps. It was probably a monster. 'Maybe I should hunt some monsters as well', while thinking that, I started running towards the noise. After some walking, I reached a cliff, down the cliff was a muted Boar. It wasn't a high class monster, but its good point was that finding edible meat was also possible beside getting points.
I pulled out my training gun. Since it not a very strong monster, there was no need to pull out my desert eagle. There was also the fact that if Cube found out that I took my personal weapon to an exam, I would be punished and maybe even expelled, so I had to avoid being seen by others if I had to use it.
I focused some Magic from the Stigma into the bullets. Since I didn't want to use magic bullets, I used normal ones but enhanced it with Stigma since I wanted to end it in one shot to avoid the possibility of it escaping. I pulled the trigger and a Silent sound could be heard.
*Shoot*
The bullet hit the muted boar in the end, ending it in one shot. I used parkour to climb down the cliff in fast motion and collected the loot. I scanned the boar with my watch and received 5 points. After finishing the looting and everything else, I headed for a safe spot. I climbed a tree and opened my laptop. Using SP, I hacked into the drones that were observing the Exam. Using the drones. I checked all the safe spots and the positions of noticeable characters. After that, I headed for the closest safe spot. When I reached there, I quickly started setting up my camp. It was a magic device. I added some magic power into it and it expanded under seconds.
It was rather luxurious for a camp. There was a bed inside along with a table and 4 foldable chairs. After that, I went inside to rest for a while, I needed to preserve as much energy as I could, so resting was important.
2 Hours Later
I woke up and headed out of the camp. Since I had recovered energy, I was quite fresh. I began to set up the grill. I pulled out the meat for my storage. Again, it just showed how useful [Stigma] was. It was basically a nigh-omnipotent ability given I had stored enough magic power in it.
After some time, the meat had been cooked completely. The smell was very nice, and it was enhanced given the fact that this was an Island, and the situation the Cadets were in. Anyone would want to have it because of that. Suddenly, I heard some hustling in the bushes. I quickly turned on my gift and checked who it was.
'Huh?'
It was Chae Nayun. She probably smelled the meat and came here to check. I turned towards where she was hiding and started walking towards here. She likely panicked thinking I had found out and tried to run. But unfortunately for her, her legs got stuck in the bushes and she fell down head first.
"What are you doing...?" I asked not caring much.
She looked up just to show me a surprised face. It seemed that she didn't expect to meet me here so soon.
She quickly got up, cleaned the just and said, "Nothing. I just smelled something good so I came to see what it was..." She was drooling a little while eyeing the food, probably thinking how to get it.
"Ok, you probably ate all the food Cube provided, am I right?" I said in a provoking tone.
"Yeah I did! You got a problem?!" She said a little angry. It seemed my taunting had worked.
"No I don't. Well you can have some if you want-" She looked up to me with a happy face.
"Reall-"
"Of course, in exchange for points"
"Uhhh! I knew it was too good to be true. I should have known! How many points do you want"
"Hmm, how many do you have?"
"... 33"
"Alright, give me half"
"Wait what?! Why is it so expensive?!"
"Don't ask me. Take it if you want, if not, Shuu. I don't want to see you."
"Uh, at least give me a discount!"
"...Fine, I'll give you a sleeping bag as well, is that enough?"
"Give me some water as well!"
"No."
"Come On! Don't be so stubborn!" Oi! Whose the one being so stubborn?
"Fine, since half of 33 is 16.5, give me 17. In exchange, I'll give you 6 pieces, a sleeping bag and some water."
"Ok"
We brought our watch close to each other and she transferred the points. I gave up what was in the deal and began doing my own work. Though, it was still annoying for her to be around. We bickered a lot. Night came, I went in the camp while she opened the sleeping bag. Today was a decent start, I hope that I don't encounter more people. It was annoying to just have Chae Nayun here, so more people were out of question, There are some exceptions though[You know who ;)]
I laid down on the bed relaxing. I had to prepare my self since tomorrow was the day THAT incident would happen. Rachel would be fighting some enemies that were sent by *I forgot his name ;-;* to assassinate her, or at least try to.
The Next Day
It was morning. I woke up and found Chae Nayun sleeping, I got closer to wake her up. She changed sides not waking up. It seemed she was quite tired yesterday.
"... You actually look beautiful if not for your stubborn personality--"
I stood up thinking she wouldn't be waking any time soon. "Not as much as her though..." I said while walking way and started preparing for the events that were to take place today. One of which was, of course, Rachel being attacked.
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