I didn't expect they would die that easily. Probably, they don't have resistance to attack like this. I just inflated his lungs with more air and blow him up. Well I like the result anyway so there's no complaining.
Oh right before I came here and save these 2 I wiped out the other 2 nest of monsters. It was no fight at all. They got easily wiped out. 1st nest was a nest of orcs. Despite there huge size they don't do much against my skill, DISSECTION. The 2nd nest were nest of spiders. It was scary at first but they don't put a good fight eather but I was able invent a new skill and I name it ARCLIGHT SNIPER. ARCLIGHT SNIPER is a skill that use the sun rays at its killing power just like the name sound. I converged the water molecules at the atmosphere and bend the light unto my will by having the light hit the atom's nucleus that can be found in water. My scientific knowledge is turning me into a overpowered being. Imagine using this ability to assinate someone no one will come after you because nobody knows about this kind of attack. The only down side is that you can only use this skill when sun is out or there's a full moon. Well it's overpowered and that's all that matters. Anyways, I'm talking too much. Let's go back the situation right now.
Alicia scratch the back of her head like she's being shy and she forced out a smile that is trying to make friends and she said, "A guys, are you ok? You weren't hurt right?"
The fox didn't take Alicia likely and growl like she's preparing to fight while protecting her little brother and she said, "You monster, what do you want with us?"
This woman just wiped them all out like nothing while our village struggle against this people also look at what she did to them. I can't let my guard down around her.
The fox is on guard against Alicia well who won't be if you see someone kills like that and save you. You will be on your guard.
The fox was surprised when Alicia panics and looked around like she's about to go in a fight and said, "Monster? Where's the monster? I don't sense or see any. Terixia do you see anything."
[STUPID SHE'S TALKING ABOUT YOU. YOU'RE THE MONSTER SHE'S TALKING ABOUT. CAN'T YOU EVEN SEE HOW YOU KILLED THOSE PEOPLE?]
"I guess so" wait, despite having no emotion she's good at insulting me too. Well she have a point though. I didn't held back my power and now I'm having a hard time gaining their trust. Well I can fix this because I hired a new Professor Manga (just an imaginary).
Inside her imagination…
A smoke enter the scene and a man clad in shiny clothing like a rich man and enters like a celebrity. He has curly hair like a mushroom and wears a sunglasses like a popular person.
He looked at Alicia and both of their eyes met.
The man smiled and asked, "Are you the one who hired me?"
Alicia stared at him and said, "Yes, I hired you as the new Professor Manga. I'm sure you can provide a knowledgeable solution at my situation right?"
"Hahhahhah, You've come to pick the right person. Yes, I can provide you any knowledge you need. I wont leave you behind just like that loser did and I'll prove it to you right now."
Alicia breaths like she's not expecting much at the professor and said, "Alright, can you give me an advice how to make those 2 trust me?"
The professor gave a confident smile and said, "It's easy, just talk it out with them by words."
Alicia raised her right eyebrow like she's observing him and asked, "And if it doesn't work what should I do?"
The professor point his finger at his head and pose like he knows the answer. He smiled and said, "Simple, just show them your sincerity by battling against them."
"Battling against them?! Are you out of your mind?!"
The professor raised his hands like he's trying to calm Alicia and said, "Just calm down here me out first. I want you to show them your sincerity by letting them see how powerful you are. Make them realize that if you have the intention to kill them they would have died long time ago. Make them think that if you really want them dead they won't be standing right now."
Alicia looked like she's hesitating and said, "That's a barbaric method but that will let their guard down at me. Well I'll go and try the first option first, I hope it works."
The professor smiled and gave a smile and said, "All I can say is good luck my boy. I'll be rooting for you."
END OF IMAGINATION.
Alicia enthusiastically smiled and look at the two and said, "Alright guys, you don't have to fear me I won't bite you or anything."
The 2 of them looked at the dead bodies like they're having second doubts.
Alicia smiled and jump to block them from looking at the dead body and said, "But I save you guys right?"
(FIGHT, RUN AWAY, GIVE UP)
Both of them sighed like they've given up and the fox transformed back to her human and she said, "So, what do you want with us? Why did you save us?"
Wow she looked like someone who have given up all hope.
Alicia gave a fake confident smile and said, "Well I was in a middle of my training to become the light bringer in the night when I suddenly saw you having trouble so I ended up saving you." That's not the true reason. I was just as bored as fuck so as a kill time I play as a superhero for them. Thanks to saving them I was able to play with my sniper and I even managed to test my explosion skill so technically I didn't save them for free.
Alicia looked at them like she's being curious and asked, "By the way, who are you guys and why are you running away from them? Who are those people?"
Before the girl could answer the question Banri's stomach growl like he's hungry and he said, "I'm hungry."
"Just hold it a bit longer. I'll go look for our food." Alicia smirk and said, "Then we can just talk while we eat. I have some food left at my tent. Wanna come and eat?"Alicia reach out to them but the woman didn't make a move like she's still cautious of Alicia.
Alicia looked dumb founded and have a awkward laugh.
I see, she's still afraid of me. Well I understand her situation very well. If I'm at her situation I won't just trust anyone just like what I do in my past life. I lost my trust to everyone around in order to protect myself until I met that old man that I call master. He thought me how to weild a sword very well like the legendary samurai Takeda Shingen. He's so cool and awesome. Anyways, I only have to become like my master. I'll help them just like how my master help me even if I die at the end just like my master.
Alicia was about to speak again but she stopped when Banri go close to her and took her hand.
Banri smiled and look at his sister and said, "Let's go sister. We can trust this woman. She's so strong but she's a good person."
The woman looked at her brother with a doubting look and said, "If you say so then I guess I'll trust her."
She was being led by her brother? Whatever, it works with me so there's no complaining.
Alicia and the other 2 started walking to her tent site and said, "This might take a while so why don't we introduce ourselves my name is Alicia, what about you guys?"
The woman seems to don't want to speak so Banri speak up and said, "My name is Banri and this is my big sister Risa." He introduced themselves by pointing his finger when he state their name.
Alicia looked up at the sky like she's thinking and touching her chin and she said, "Hmmm Banri and Risa, ok I'll remember that. By the way can you tell me what race are you?"
As Alicia throws that question Risa became more on guard and pulled Banri to her back and she gave a ferocious look and said, "Why do you ask that?"
Alicia was surprised and said, "Woah, why are you suddenly looking at me like that? I'm not going to kill you or anything. I just wanted to know. What's wrong with that?"
"Of course you're human and it's pretty common for a human to hate us demi humans."
"Demi humans? So that what your really called here at this world."
Risa got her one eyebrow raised like she heard something suspicious and said, "This world? What are you, a human from another world?"
Alicia smiled and said, "Yes, I got reincarnated here and was chosen to become a Cardinal Hero."
Risa got her eyes wide open in amazement and said, "You mean you're one of those legendary heroes that was sent to fight the incoming waves? I thought all of you were dead."
Alicia frowns and looked at Risa seariously and said, "Dead? Can you tell me more about this?"
"You were sent here and you don't know?" No more like I got rejected because of the shitty Goddess. Well I can't just blurt it out. This 2 might be followers of that shitty Goddess since that Goddess is the God of this world.
Alicia looked Risa seariously and said, "Can you tell me what you know about the death of this heroes from legends?"
Risa's forehead frowns like she's thinking very deep. She touches her chin like she's searious and said, "All I know is that the past hero sealed a powerful being that can destroy this world and they paid the price by losing their luves. Also there are circulating rumor that one of the hero survive but no one is so sure about this since those events happened 3,000 years ago. No one knows what happened during those battles."
Alicia looked at Risa like she wanted to know more about what she just heard and she asked, 'Can you tell me what you know about this world ending waves?"
"Yes, I'll tell you what I know about it. The world ending wave appears once every 500 years. Chosen heroes were being summoned to rally against the waves of monsters but right now there are no heroes to save us and we're in a blink of destruction."
Alicia points at herself and said, "But I'm her though ."
Risa gave a sigh of disappointment and said, "That's one thing that we're not sure off. You may be are powerful but it doesn't tell us that you are a Cardinal Hero and besides, even if you're the Cardinal Hero what can you do? You're all alone now. You're going to fight waves of monsters in order to protect the world."
Alicia smirked and said, "Just because you haven't seen the full extent of my power I can't beat the waves of monsters. The Cardinal weapon is not the only thing that I got that I can use against the monsters. I have much more OP skills that can turn the tides of every battle."
Risa looked at Alicia like she heard a weard word and asked, "OP? What is that?"
Oh, that word didn't exist here?
Alicia gave a forceful smile and said, "OP is a short term of Overpowered and overpowered is a word that is used to describe a powerful being."
"I see, even if you're powerful yourself there's only much that you can do. After all, we're dealing with the world ending waves. A waves that nearly destroyed our village."
Alicia's eyebrows frowns like she just heard something searious and asked, "Destroyed? What happened to your village?"
Risa became silent like she just heard something awful but before she could react Banri's stomach growls like he's hungry and said, "Are we there yet? I'm getting hungry."
Alicia smiled like she wanted Risa to cool down for a bit. After all they are about to talk about something searious and said, "Well, we have reached my tent so let's just talk about it later and I'll be preparing your food. You can eat a lot."
Banri smiled cheerfully like he heard something wonderful and said, "Yehey."
Culinary time…
Alicia is right in front of her cooking table like she's about to start cooking but she's stuck with thinking what to cook.
Alicia scratch her head like she's trying to come up with something and said, "Hmm what should I cook? I got fresh meat came from orcs and some weard ingredients that smells like garlic and onions so I just took it with me. Good thing they got vinegar and soy sauce that makes me wonder how did they made this stuff because I can't see any cultivated areas around. Well whatever I'll just take this things with me since they're all dead they won't complain."
Alicia looked at the pot beside her and said, "Now for cooking oil. I extracted oil from animal fats by boiling it at hot water (of course I steal the pot from the monsters den. They are already dead so no worries.) I extracted tons of it. I think I know what I want to cook. I'm going for a roasted fork chopped but I'll cook it at a different way."
"First I'll chopped this meat into pork chopped cut. I don't have a knife and chopping board but I have air." Alicia throw the meat at the air and use a skill and said, "DESSECTION!" As she cast out her skill the meat was chopped into pieces.
Alicia place the pot at her improvised cooking stove that's made up of tree branch and some rope that she goes from monsters nest and she said, "Then boil it for about 15-20 minutes to make the meat soft and tender. With this kind of meat hardness this should be long enough for it to be cooked like that."
"Now while waiting I'll be making the secret marinate. Usually I will go for the mixture of oil, soy sauce, ketchup, and mayonnaise but I don't have ketchup and mayonnaise. To begin with I don't a have a proper grilling equipment like the brush or the stove where you put coal I don't even have a tong. I guess I'll just have to use what I have. All I have that is useful for grilling is vinegar, oil, and soy sauce. The rest is garlic and onions which are totally useless for grilling."
Wait, now that I think about it. Back when I was in a experiment lab I watched at that cooking channel. I saw this European guy grilled his fish with vinegar, oil, garlic, and onions. He wrapped it around using a foil with all this seasoning in it and grilled it and it came out good. Alright I'll go with that.
Alicia smiled like she already have an idea and said, "Alright, first of all I don't have a foil so I'm going to counter this problem using a cooking pot and banana tree leaves. I'll wrapped the food with the banana tree leaves along with the seasonings and grill it inside the pot to avoid the seasonings from leaking too much since I'll be using leaves not foil. At this process I can only cook one pork chop at a time. If only I have more pot."
"I'm going to dice up the onions and garlic so there flavors will be released and absorb by the meat. Then mix them with venigar and soy sauce.
Now I'll just wait for the meat to get boiled very well."
While waiting may be I should steal some more pot and charcoal and dig up holes to where I'm going to grill them. Oh right I almost forgot the leaves.
Alicia looked at Risa and said, "Risa can you fetch me some banana tree leaves?"
Risa was dumbfounded at what Alicia just said because it's her first time hearing the banana tree and she asked, "Banana? What is that?" Wait banana doesn't exist here?
Alicia looked like trouble. She doesn't know what to think off and she said, "If that's the case, do you know something like a long leaves that's wide as well like almost a rectangular shape."
Risa looked like someone who's trying to comprehend what Alicia just said very hard and she said, "The viola tree leaves fits at your description." Viola? What is that? It's my first time hearing such tree
"Can you fetch a lot for me?"
"Sure, no problem." I wonder what it looks like. It probably looks like a banana tree leaves but it will be color purple.
Risa looked at Banri and said, "Will you look after Banri for me."
"I'm asking you a favor so at least I will look after Banri." Alicia said this to give assurance.
"Thank you."
Risa disappear like a ninja
20 minutes later…
Risa returned back and saw there are many holes. Within the holes there's a pot surrounded with charcoal that's slowly burning up.
Risa looked for Alicia and Banri and she saw them placing another pot to another hole with a burning charcoal within the hole then carefully place the pot and next carefully surround it with charcoal.
Alicia stood up and said, "Wew, I think this will be enough for all of us to eat."
Risa got curious at what Alicia is doing and she asked, "What are you doing guys?"
Alicia looked at Risa and said, "I'm preparing to roast our food."
"Roast?"
Banri cheerfully looked at Risa and said, "Did you hear this sister? Meat like orc meats are tasty if you roast them well. You won't forget its taste."
Alicia smiled at Risa and said, "Did you get the leaves that I was asking for?"
"Yes, here it is." The leaves are twice as bigger as a normal banana tree leaves and it's color purple.
Wow it's huge and it's really color purple. Judging by its texture it can act like the same as the banana tree leaves so I think it will be fine.
Alicia begin wrapping the leaves around the pork meat with the seasonings in it and then one by one put it on a pot.
At roasting a meat the taste will be great if you let the smoke get absorbed by the meat so I shouldn't close the pot and I need to control the smoke to make the meat very tasty. That's why I dig up holes to make sure the meat will absorb the smoke easily.
Alicia did all of that and said, "Now all we just need to do is wait for a few minutes and it will be ready."
"So you used those leaves like foil?"
Alicia smiled with confidence and said, "Yes I used it like a foil. Wait, did you just say foil?"
Risa was quite estranged at what Alicia's reaction and said, "Yes, foil."
Alicia looked at Risa and said, "By foil you mean that paper like silver metal?"
"Yes, is there something wrong with that?"
"No it's nothing, it was just quite surprising that thing exist here?"
"Yes it exist at this world is just that only a few people can afford it."
Alicia got curious and asked, "Why?"
Risa looked at Alicia seariously and said, "Foil is an expensive product. It's price range cost up to 500 to 1,000 cendi. (Cendi is a gold coin at this world.)"
That cheap item at Japan is expensive here? With that price you can end up being millionaire, this is nuts.
Alicia wisphered her thoughts and said, "Sigh, I guess cheap items at Japan will be considered as valued item here if I end up introducing one."
Few minutes later…
"Finally it's all done and cooked."
All 3 of them sits down near Alicia's tent. They sat at a ground and their table is a long chopped tree with a trimmed surface above it like a table.
Alicia clap her hands and said, "Thanks for the food."
Risa looked at Alicia out of curiosity about what she did earlier and said, "What was that did you do just now?"
"Oh that? It's a prayer to thank God for the food."
"I see."
Banri's saliva are dripping out of his mouth and Alicia said, "It's time to eat!"
They all open the wrapper and delicious scent of food spreads around making them immediately eat the food.
The food taste so good. I didn't think that my survival knowledge were going to be this useful here. I never thought being hunted has it's own perks.
Banri was just happily eating his food. Meanwhile, Risa speaks like shes being a food critic and said, "The sourness and the saltiness are well balanced! Also the meat texture is perfect. I can't get enough with this food."
"Oh, I almost forgot. Can you tell about the two of you and that village of yours."
The atmosphere became silent like the silence of the night is at it's full display as Alicia said something depressing.