Chapter 5

I ran out of food and water after walking for days in this forest. The forest seems like it never ends, it stretches as far as my eye can see.

Before I knew it, it was night again and fuck, I'm starving. I found a cave and settled there for the night. I tried to fall asleep and ignore my hunger and, well, I couldn't.

My stomach was rumbling and I could feel someone—no, something watching me. I continued to rest my eyes, gripping tightly on my axe as I waited for that thing to come close to me.

...

–Slash–

I swung my axe and jumped away from the monster. Its appearance was disgusting, it had eyes all over its body.

Even tho I did manage to injure the monster with my axe, it seems like it was regenerating its own wounds!

"This is unbelievable." I muttered to myself. I was angry and annoyed at that monster.

These guys took everything from me.

It suddenly opened his mouth and started spitting out shits I couldn't understand.

" #*"##*_#... "

I was blinded with rage and launched forward. I managed to stab the monster in its eart and it fell down. I was relieved that I was able to take it down.

Just then, it stood up once more, its wound was all healed.

"What the fuck?! How the hell is this thing not dead yet?!" I was surprised. The monster was back on its feet again, launching at me.

I dodged its attack, but barely. I then try to get close to it again and again to try and hit its head this time. It took me a lot of tries before I finally stabbed its head with my axe, it fell down once more but I kept hitting on the head until its brain was squished.

I step back once I made sure that the monster was no longer alive. I stared down at the gruesome state of the monster's body. It's blood all over me and my axe, I was also covered in wounds.

It took me a moment to realize what I've done. 'I.. killed it..?' I thought to myself, looking at the body and my bloody hands, I was shaking. I didn't even think I could kill such a scary creature.

I gagged at the sight of the monster and threw up on a bush, my stomach hurting once more because I was so hungry.

I wiped my mouth clean with my sleeve and looked up. I saw a strange tree. "What the..."

It's a tree that's clearly not from Earth. This tree was glowing for fuck's sake.

'Am I hallucinating right now...?' 

I got up and climed the tree. I didn't even stop to think if the fruit growing from it was edible or not. I just straight out picked one fruit, jumped down the tree and took a bite from it.

And damn, it satisfied my hunger and thirst. "Wow.." I muttered as I finished the fruit. It was juicy and its taste was rare and good. It was probably the best fruit I've ever had in my life. I decided to get more fruit and keep some on me.

But when I looked up, the tree was gone. There was just a normal tree in front of me. "Was.. I really hallucinating?"

But ut didn't make any sense. If I really was hallucinating about eating that strabge fruit and seeing that strange tree, then why do I feel so full? Why am I not thirsty anymore? Why do I feel energized? And why do I feel like I've gotten stronger?

It was strange, so strange. So I ran away to arandom direction for as fast as I could and ran into another monster.

"Two monsters in a day? Are you shitting me right now?!" I yelled as the monster chased me. I continued running away from the monster. I didn't want to kill it since I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to like earlier.

Unlike the past days, I ran pretty fast today. At last, I lost the monster and stopped running. My feet collapsed and I sat on the ground, panting. And I just noticed that the sun has set. 'Have I really run for that long? Weird, I don't feel tired..' 

I mean, I am tired, but normally when I run for this long, I collapse out of exhaustion, but it's different right now. Do I have more stamina because I've been living and running away from monsters these last few weeks? Or was it maybe the fruit that's causing all this?

After resting for a bit, I walked around to find a new shelter for the night. But in the end, I decided to rest under a tree since I was unable to find any caves for me to sleep in.

I didn't really get that much sleep since I was on my guard the whole night but I went to find food before the sun rose. After a while, the sun was starting to rise. And when I passed by a bushy part of the forest, I saw water—I saw a lake! "Oh my.." I ran to the lake as fast as I could and touched it with my hands. It was water, real water!

"Haha! I found water!" I yelled happily

I then threw my axe on the ground and jumped in. I missed this feeling. It felt like heaven when I was finally able to bathe in fresh water after days—no, weeks even.

I swam a bit and saw fish swimming around so I got out of the lake and went to chop some wood to make a spear. I really should have made this sooner.

Anyway, after making the weapon, I went back to the lake. It took me a lot of attempts before I finally caught a fish. I ate it for my brunch.

Night came and I sat on a log, in front of the campfire I made, staring at the night sky as I let the fish I just caught cook near the fire. I also took my clothes off so it could dry more quickly so I was butt-naked right now.

I was actually feeling really lucky today. I mean, I found water and food, and I didn't encounter any monsters.

Just as I finished eating my fish, I suddenly heard a scream of a girl. I quickly stood up and put out the fire and got myself ready, holding my axe tightly.

The scream got closer and louder. 'I thought today was my lucky day!!'  I got a bit frustrated, I mean, I thought nothing bad was gonna happen to me.

The bushes rustled and a girl younger than me appeared and there was a monster following her. "H, help! Anyone!" The girl screamed.

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