Levelmaker
Episode One Thousand Eighty-Eight: After the First Death
"Just stay."
"... you're early, you're coming home. I found him right after that."
"Yeah, it was closer than I thought"
But, well, you didn't do anything to hurt and kill me, and you got pawned in the neck in an instant, so you don't feel that hard when you're dead. No, is it because you died once that you're a little used to it? Nevertheless, when I realized it, I was at the base, but I wonder how I showed up in front of the beautiful flowers. Let me ask you something.
"Hey, what's it like to be me?
"Eh, I guess it feels like I was there when I took my eyes off you. She came out lying down."
"Same as when you used Amrita for a single hair."
"It's not Grotesque that saves you.... have dreams."
"Hmm?"
Mihana stood up and hugged me. I hug back beautiful flowers too. A hug containing fright, unlike the usual sweet appearance. That's what normal people want to be able to go to death with a game-like feel, like me. You deserve to be like a beautiful flower, don't you?
"... n"
"Do you want to kiss me?
"I will!... Ah, but if you have a dream, it doesn't stay underwear. You want to get dressed first?
"Really. Yeah, but you've been hit pretty unharmed, and there's no blood on you."
"We're getting mud or something."
"Hmm, the clothes themselves deteriorate, but I wonder if the dirt from me or Miho's body fluids will disappear when he dies"
"I think maybe I am. Well, then you shouldn't take your temperature away from me if you wear it from time to time, would you?
"Right."
I put my clothes back on. It's a uniform, but if you don't have something to wear, it's not cold at all. It warms up. Then I decided to kiss Beautiful Flowers for about two minutes and tell Beautiful Flowers the catch of a few minutes of adventure.
"Hey, what's going on?
"Yes, there was! Actually, there was a lot of food rolling around."
"Oh, really? The one without poison?
"Yeah, I can eat. Maybe it's okay. You know Mika has my memory, not as good as leaves, right? It's definitely from the knowledge I've gained from using the item master all the time."
"It is! I mean, I remember the knowledge of the item master."
"Huh, sort of!
So I'm smarter than I was before I mastered the item master. Survival would be easier to do. If you're just one person, you've been through this, but you're two, so I can't predict what's gonna happen.
"Well, I'll just pick it up."
"I'm coming with you! When it's time to die, we die together!
"Yes...? As far as I'm concerned... no"
I don't want Miho to die once. That's what I'm trying to say, but even for Miho, she shouldn't want me to die. It's going to be a fight when we come up with this topic, so one of us has to give in. I'm dead once. I have a burden, so I have to be the one pulling back here.... really, I don't like it.
"Okay, shall we go together then?"
"How much do you want to pick?
"Let's keep it as long as it's okay for a while. I don't know when I'm gonna be short."
"Yeah."
Me and Mihana went from base into the woods. The base is in the woods, too, though. I decided to hold it in search of a pointy-shaped stone so that I wouldn't get lost in the road and put an arrow on it so that it would mark the trees.
About thirty minutes to gather ingredients while taking care not to get to where I was killed earlier. I managed to find enough food today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow that I might be able to do two meals.
"Wow, you have a dream! Of grass that only looks like such a weed, you can quickly see that the roots are food! Normal people don't know first."
"This place is probably helping because it's with normal anasm except for the strength of the demons that come out, but if it was a whole new world, it would've sucked."
"Right!
Then I took forty minutes to get back to base, a little lost in the road. Light it up and get the food out of your uniform. Although it is good that I have picked it up in a good way, some are poisonous when skinned. We have to be careful.
"So far so good. What are we going to do now?
"For now, water and fire can be put out at once. That's almost limitless... let's make tools first"
"Okay! Yeah, there's a dream, me, I'm going to shake all the status points to MP right now, you know?
"Oh, that's all you got. Let's do that."
"Keep your dreams warm, huh? With my skills, I don't know what I'm going to have."
"Yeah, I'll leave you to Miho for your life skills!
There's really nothing about tools. You wouldn't even be able to kill an animal and make a bone knife. I stuffed the meat from the yokunagi with just a stone's throw, but I don't want to do it any more because that was really hard.
So the first thing to do is to look for soil that is going to be clay. If you make something in the shape of a earthenware or knife, life goes on all at once. I guess it would be fast if demonic broken nails or something fell in there, but I just have to work hard because there's no way I can expect such convenience from an SSS ranked opponent. No, no, no. It's exhaustive, but you can't help it.