00 KAVIAR

today, the weather is quite hot. unlike the previous days I spent working, working, working, then studying, studying, studying, and building a business. Today is the first day of my long vacation after the expiration of my six-year employment contract.

according to the big plan that I had arranged from last night, today I decided to take a walk around various tourist attractions in this country before returning to my country.

the sky is clear, sakura is blooming, the leaves are green. Spring never disappoints. people are busy, and so am I.

time goes on, the sun goes up. the streets are getting quieter. busyness crowded offices and factories. Ahh, it's nice not to work.

sometimes I look at the blue sky that seems to support my agenda today. well, it took an extra big intention to leave my beloved mattress but it was worth the beautiful movements of the city and its nature this morning.

seeing the deserted streets, I couldn't help but frolic at the zebra crossing. everything went well. my mood is at its best.

BLAARRRRRRRRRRRR

deg. huh? suddenly my body felt a terrible pain. when I opened my eyes again, the pain was real. and something strange was lying in front of me.

I try to move my body on the wet ground. it hurts so bad. I was moaning in pain. what's wrong with me?

"wait? land? I was on the highway."I glared. suddenly panic seized me from all directions.

I saw my hands full of mud. my eyes are getting bulging. not only did my body size change. my legs are aching. my head is pounding and throbbing.

"am I crazy?"could it be that stress has taken over the source of my imagination?

"is this a dream? and I had a dream this morning too?"kuraba once again my whole body," but everything is so real! it hurts, too."

my eyes wandered all over the dark place. I can assure you I was in the middle of a dense forest.

"Oh my god!"I exclaimed in panic as soon as I saw that the thing seen in front of me was a human figure. not just one but there were several, and for some reason it suddenly smelled like rancid blood all around me?

scared? who wouldn't be scared to be me? I was dreaming of good things, but then something terrible happened to me. am I really dreaming now?

"if this is a dream please wake me up!"

PLAKKKK

"awwww."

I slapped myself. instead of waking up my mind was even more convinced I was not dreaming. maybe... I got into isekai?

"that's right, too. why am I thinking now? no way, right?"

PLAKKKKKK

once again I slashed my cheeks harder. I'm back to pain. "damn how is this? that kind of thing can't be right, right?"

my mouth kept swearing but my lips felt twitching. something ticklish filled my stomach. am I happy?

"damn it!... I'm in another world? how about this? I'm so happy! ah, is my luck good here too? come on, at least I want to live as the son of a super-rich aristocrat so I don't have to work. after all, why didn't I inherit the memory of the owner of this body?"

tired of laughing and thinking, I remembered some people lying in front of me. "they're not dead, are they?"

I crawled up to them. the lack of lighting also makes it difficult for me to see their condition well.

deg. something wet on my hand. I shook my hand, which appeared to be covered in blood. the smell of burning smoke filled my sense of smell. I was scared, but somehow... I'm curious too.

"Oh my god!"my reflexes crawled backwards out of fear and surprise.

it was only a moment ago that I thought that my otherworldly life would be brilliant. however, not even a day had passed before I was confronted with human corpses.

"who killed them?"no now is not the time for me to be silent ," I have to run, right?"

there was no one, my hair was getting goosebumps. my heart is beating so fast that it hurts. as if oblivious to the pain gnawing at my feet, I ran madly in no direction.

I didn't know if I was going into the woods or out of the woods. the panic seemed to overwhelm me until finally tired back to bring my sanity.

"hosh...hoshh...hosshh... se ka rang...hoshh... ak khu... ha rus teee hoshh...hush hush..."

I take a deep breath and then exhale slowly. I did it over and over again until I felt completely calm.

first of all do not panic. if I calm down, I have to find something to protect myself. it seems like it would be useless to make a fire on wet ground like this. at least I have to find a stream or a high place.

I decided to carry a wooden branch the size of my arm as a personal protective weapon. by tearing up the shabby clothes I wear, I can trace the path I have walked.

my heart was pounding, my heart was pounding, my heart was pounding until it felt like death. how long have I been walking? there are no really high places. the cold is getting on my skin. I was scared but at the same time challenged.

"akhh.. I really don't understand myself."

krucukkkkrucukkkkrucukkk

"the sound of water?"I listened very carefully to that voice. the longer the clearer it sounds. it's good that I feel like I'm on the right path.

sure enough. there's a river in front of me. soon I could see the reflection of the moonlight in the water that flowed quite heavily. yahhh... I miss seeing the river water can be as clear as this river.

as I approached. I could see my own reflection in the water. when me and my shadow met face to face, my consciousness was sucked into a dimension.

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a woman with a reddish-orange mane continues to cuddle a tiny baby on the terrace of a modest cottage at the top of a hill surrounded by forest.

just by the light of the moon, the two of them sat quietly on the porch. the baby was fast asleep while the woman kept staring blankly ahead.

the woman's face was pale as if she had no more life left of her. the light in his eyes was no longer shining. no one knows his story.

oekkkoekkkoekk...

when the wind greeted them with piercing air, the baby cried loudly. the woman is still unmoved. moments later, she realized her baby was crying.

everything about the two of them looks so sad and empty. while the baby continues to grow every day, the woman and her mother are increasingly eroded by her vitality. he became more often sickly and increasingly weakened.

when the baby grows stronger and begins to understand the situation, he quickly adapts in place of his mother to do various things. how vast knowledge the mother taught how to survive for her only four-year-old daughter.

and in the fifth year, right on the day her daughter had a birthday... the woman put a jewel earring in the boy's left ear and left a tearful message.

"I finished teaching you how to survive alone. now... it's up to you because tomorrow there will be no more me. sorry!...."

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"hah! my memory?"

"brother! watch him wake up," I jumped up in shock when someone's voice called out beside me. can I understand what they're saying?

he's a kid. he was probably about six or seven years old. his clothes were ragged and shabby. her face was dirty, her hair was messy and an unpleasant smell emanated from her. who is he?

not long after, another boy came rushing up to me. their physical characteristics in general look almost similar.

"who are you guys?"

"nobody."from the sound of it, it looks like he's a boy.

"you should be thanking me for saving you."the boy spoke again.

"ah right too. thank you."

"no. we don't need words of thanks. give us your earring and your debt will be paid."

"huh?"for a while I just realized that I was being robbed. no, for now I need to calm down and think clearly.

"why not take it myself when I pass out?"can't they just take it for granted when I'm unconscious then they would benefit and I wouldn't know the look of the person who robbed me.

"if we can take it off, we won't wait for you to come to your senses. we can't hold your earring. when I tried to let go, he threw me off."

"Oh my god, really? should I believe there is such a thing?"Basic children. there's no such thing.

"don't prolong the conversation and leave the earrings to us!"

"what if you don't want to give it up?"

"I will kill you."

"wait. you're still a kid, can you kill me?"

"it's easy. we just need to herd the monsters to you and you will die."

"monster? there are monsters in this world?"

"are you stupid? of course, not just monsters. nations of spirits, dragons, demons, fairies, elves, vampires and many other nations are here."

"really? is there an adventurer's guild in this world?"

"the adventurer's guild? what is it? are you crazy?"

"no. I'm not crazy you know. that's where monster hunters find work, you know?"

"you mean the mercenaries? they work in stupid information unions. you don't know that either?"

this kid, he thinks he's smart? just so you know I'm a lot older and smarter than you. I even got to have five college degrees following my name.

"stupid brother! why give him information?"

"it's not even information but general knowledge. he's just too stupid."

"even though I'm stupid. I am older and stronger than you know! and just so you know.. I am a poor man who almost died of being lost. so how could I have the treasure or the money to pay for your services, brat."

"naughty boy? you think we're kids?"I quickly nodded in the affirmative, he was getting more and more angry. "don't call us bad boys!"

"then who should I call you? he mumbled, "You don't have a name?"

"ck... what's wrong with not having a name. Call Me Ka and Ku. I am Ka and she is ku. remember that."

"well, I don't have a name either."

"really?" Ku began to look at myself curiously. after all, they are still children. children are easily swayed by some stories.

I nodded enthusiastically, "that's right. my mother never told me my name until she died."

"your mother is dead?"I nodded again. if you look at me like this, ku look so cute.

"so you're homeless like us?"

"of course."

"then, why does a bum like you have such a jewel necklace?" Ka don't like looking at me.

"this is the only thing my mother gave me. I also don't know why he gave me stuff like this."

"then why don't you ask him?"

"when I wanted to ask him, he was dead."

well, the moment I passed out made me able to see all the memories of the previous owner of this body. I have to admit, the past made me cry in my dreams. even at just ten years old he was able to kill a group of bandits who were about to wreak havoc by infecting the forest monsters.

in fact, even though it was not me who committed the murder, my hands still trembled when I found out that I was the owner of the body of the murderer of the humans I saw in the forest.

"Hey, you want to help me?"

ka and ku looked at each other. they looked back at me not long after, "what do we have to do, and what's the payoff?"

I smiled knot. I got them. "help me adapt to this place and I will support you for that long."

ka looked at me dismissively, "but you have no money. how are you going to support us? stupid!"

"fufufu... I didn't have the money to live in the city but, I had spent my whole life until yesterday living in the wilderness alone."I looked at them confidently," in other words, I was better at surviving than you."

still with an incredulous look, ka took me lightly, "then why did we find you dying yesterday by the river?"

ohh, there's no way I can say that I'm a figure who came from another world and then suddenly possessed this body because the original owner died and before the owner of the body died, he had killed many bandits with his meanness right?

"because I'm trying to get out of the forest where I live. and meet the bandits who want to capture me and make me a slave that can be sold."will they believe this alibi?

"what a coincidence. we are also on the run from bandits who want to capture us and make us slaves later, even accidentally found you."

"hoho, ku... isn't our fate similar? I feel like the three of us can be really great partners in the future."

I was upset but in the end he agreed.

and from today my story of being a new great punk begins.

"ah, now I'm hungry and my legs are still hurting... I can't leave this place yet."

just after feeling relieved, I felt pain all over my body again because of the injuries I got last night.

"at the beginning of your duty as my partner, will you get me something to eat?"

ka looked at me more and more annoyed, "motherfucker! fuck you ..."

"Caviar. just call me that!"I smiled in response to ka who had held back his swearing because he did not know my name.

"you said You Didn't have a name?"I looked at me surprised.

"I just gave myself a name. cool, right?"I nodded and agreed. well, I don't know why at this moment I even remember the expensive food. I couldn't believe it was the name of the food.

"ck, that name is not cool."you look at me sarcastically.

"haha... really? but my name is better than yours? I laughed at her, " now, you'll also find it easier when you want to curse me, right?"

"shut up you fool!"the boy screamed and left me with me.

"Ku, if you allow me I will also give you guys cool names."

"I'm so happy, "she said, her eyes brightening," isn't that right?"

Wow, these kids are funny.