The next morning he and the girl began to move before dawn.
I walk away from that building in a dark mountain with poor visibility.
By the time the sun rose, it seemed to have crossed the top of the mountain, and now there was a steep downhill in front of both of them.
Feeling the signs of the followers, they went down the mountain to support the trunk of the trees.
Eventually, as the sun hides on the horizon, the descending gradient slows down and the trees that blocked the view sparse.
He frowned at the sight that gradually opened up.
"This one again....."
What was spreading in front of the two was a vast land that was unobstructed.
But that's not a compliment for greenery.
A reddish wilderness covered in rocks and sand as far as you can see.
It was a world that turned green and had no sign of life at all.
"Do you want to turn back...?"
Reflexively so, he turns around and knows it's a choice he can't make.
In the darkening mountains, there were chasers chasing him and the girl.
Of course, it's not visible to the naked eye, but the lights on the chaser are coming down the mountain to hunt down the two fleeing.
Returning to the mountain here would put you at high risk of being caught by a hunter.
Now the chaser doesn't know where he and the girl are.
Fortunately, the sun will soon be dark.
There are no hidden trees in the wilderness, but if the nighttime book goes down, you'll be able to cover your chaser's eyes.
Hopefully, he and the girl may mistake him for still lurking in the mountains.
After seeing the chilari and the girl, he then turns to the wilderness, and finally looks back at the girl again.
"Let's go."
Just to tell you that briefly, I stepped out into the wilderness with the girl who nodded.
Three days have passed since he and the girl fled the building and set foot in the wilderness.
I don't see a chase anymore.
But now they can't afford to worry about the presence of a chaser.
The light of the sun relentlessly deprives both of their health, and the unobstructed wilderness becomes hot over time.
They walked away from the mountain from which they escaped, taking occasional breaks in the shadow of dotted rocks.
"It's hot....."
He looks at the sky and snaps only in his mouth.
The sun reaches the top of the sky and burns the wilderness.
"Let's get some rest."
"... yeah"
Words exchanged are short of each other.
The girl who felt like she was finally answering came after him, even though she was fluffy.
Approximately a dozen human hands tied together approached the big rock that was finally about to be surrounded, and in the wilderness, the two fell to their hips as they retreated into a conspicuous black.
The cool feeling of sand felt good.
Take off your jacket and expose yourself to fresh air.
It was never comfortable, but it would have been better than continuing to be directly illuminated by the vicious sun.
Not yet in the morning.
It will take quite some time for the earth that has gone down in the night to heat up.
But the problem is that the sun rises to the top of the sky.
The day after entering the wilderness, the two had to abandon their afternoon journey in the heat.
In the end, the hottest afternoon is used for a break in the shade of the rock, which travels from early morning until the sun rises high, and from night after the sun falls.
Naturally, you can't take a comfortable rest, and fatigue accumulates day by day.
Above all, the problems were water and food.
Unlike the lush mountains of grass and trees, it is a wilderness with reddish-brown rocks and sand as far as the eye can see.
Naturally, there are no springs or rivers, and there is little green that brings grace.
To the extent that tall grass grows, and even that rare grass is occasionally seen.
"Drink."
When he uses his palm to shape an instant vessel, suddenly water comes into it.
Bringing it closer to the mouth of a breathtaking girl with a big rock on her back, her dry and cracked lips sucked in at once.
The girl who was surprised at the sight at first is now used to it.
No, it might be more accurate to say I'm not feeling so well anymore.
He doesn't know what kind of reasoning it is.
However, the day after entering the wilderness, when I strongly wished for 'water' at the end of the unbearable dryness, a clear liquid was produced from a space that was small but empty.
It was only for a moment that I didn't understand the meaning and became confused.
He could not afford to marvel at the mysterious phenomenon and put the liquid in his mouth, realizing that it was just water.
The water produced without knowing any principles, the young buds and nuts of the trees that had been acquired in the mountains, and the wild grass that dotted slightly in the wilderness barely connected his life and that of the girl.
Water is not infinitely produced.
Only ten cups of water can be produced in a row with the palm of a hand.
No matter how many more attempts I made, they didn't come out.
With time, it can be created again, but I don't know what kind of law it is based on.
He drinks the produced water alternately with the girl himself.
The body always complains of dryness.
I understand instinctively that it is not enough, but that's why there is nothing there, and nothing that cannot be produced can be produced.
"Ah, Rigatto...."
Every time he drank water, he handed the nuts he took out of his jacket pocket to a girl who thanked him for his manners.
"Eat."
"Mmm...."
Looking away from the girl who had begun to eat the nuts, he violently chopped the grass that was growing in the shade of the rock into his mouth.
It's a wild grass that barely tastes just because it smells blue, but it would be better than not saying anything.
I chewed my face with a sandy texture until it disappeared from my mouth.
"You're not eating nuts...? I didn't eat it yesterday either....."
He told the girl with a suspicious expression without hiding it.
"That's the last food I got in the mountains.All you have to do is eat what you see. "
"Eh...."
Originally, they didn't have a storage bag.
Sometimes it got in the way, and all the food I got in the mountains was enough to get into my jacket pocket.
The amount of food that the two human beings can eat together for days is not guaranteed.
If more food were to be harvested, it would be even worse now.
It's impossible to predict that desolate lands with little water or food would last forever, and even if they had, they wouldn't have been able to prepare themselves slowly to be chased.
"Eat without worrying about me."
That's what he says without looking at him.
A few breaths.
Silence never lasts long.
With her mouth shut to say something, her gaze turned down towards him, and the girl repeated the meaningless thing several times.
He saw a girl there in conflict.
Perhaps the loss of eating decent food by yourself and the guilt of starving him for it.
However, the words "share the remaining tree nuts" do not come out of the girl's mouth.
No, you can't help but think of it as coming out of your mouth many times, and the expression that seems to suffer every time makes the color darker.
I could see how well I grew up and how the ethics and morality that I had cultivated among the girls were compatible with my instinct to survive somehow.
Eventually, the girl lay face down and slowly began to grind the nut in her hand.
There is a small voice between the chewing sounds.
"... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..."
The girl was crying as she ate the nuts.
But there was no tear in his eyes.
The girl's body is no longer moist enough to shed tears.
Hunger will have passed its limits already.
There is not enough food left that building to put on both hands.
The instinct to survive as an organism is pushed to alarm.
You can't defy instinct in such extreme conditions.
So he takes it for granted that the girl tried to fill her hunger and prioritize her survival.
Rather, I was surprised to see hesitation and even conflict.
You apologize to him, but you still don't give up surviving because the girl is human.
So that's it. Yes, he thought so.
He has no family memory or place to go.
I just ran away because I didn't want to be in that place.
Beginning to think of himself as something other than a human being, he had come to think that a girl should survive more than herself who died without a chance.
Pull the hand of a tired and heavy girl and give priority to the girl with less food.
Contrary to what he had said in the first place, his devotional appearance was like a knight defending a girl.
Take the girl to a safe place.
But that's all that drives him right now.
If you don't think about extra things, you don't have to worry about the significance of your existence.
Is it just an escape from reality, or is it just a desperation?
He didn't know, and he didn't want to know.
Seeing the sun tilt and the temperatures dropped, they started walking in the wilderness again.
Even though the surroundings were wrapped up at night, the slightest light from the sky barely illuminated both feet.
There was no such thing as happiness or misfortune or a beast attacking people.
That's why I can walk safely at night.
On the other hand, there are no creatures that can be hunted and used for food.
However, silence and darkness persist, and two footsteps echo in vain.
Suddenly one footstep stopped and the next moment I heard a loud noise.
The girl who fell to the ground was seen in his eyes.
"Hey, what's up?"
Rushing in a hurry, he embraced the girl's body and immediately realized the abnormality as he saw it.
"Are you okay? Hey!"
"Uu....."
The girl's consciousness is wandering, and she is shaking her lips and breathing weakly.
"Shit."
He looks around in spite of his malice.
When I found a lump of rock that looked like the wind, I carried the girl.
Lie on the ground with the girl's body, tapping her cheek and calling.
"Hey, come on!"
But I haven't heard back.
A girl who is thought to have lost consciousness just shivers with her upper and lower teeth.
"Is it cold...?"
As soon as he sees it, he takes action.
Take off your coat and wrap the girl in it.
When she hit the rock, she put the girl's body on her lap and held her whole body firmly.
In the wilderness, where there is little grass and trees, the temperature drops at night, as if the heat were a lie.
Regardless of a healthy body, it is a terrible situation for the girl who is trembling in the cold.
In addition to the jacket worn by the girl herself, wrap it in the jacket he took off and wrap it in his body temperature.
That's all he could do now.
Feeling the cold passing through the ground and the two warmth trembling in his arms, he fell asleep embracing the girl.