Shipwreck

The place which none knows where of, a single man was laughing as another man, came in—a woman shining brightly by his side.

"HAHAHA! I've done it!" Noisy voice which easily surpassed 120 decibel sounded out.

"as noisy as always. what did you do this time, Kairen?" The person who just came in, Mugen quietly responded.

Despite questioning him, Mugen didn't seems to interested in Kairen's story.

"I, this great, almighty, god of fire, has manually fired the thunder and caused that flying ship which that seemingly dangerous guy was riding!" Despite Mugen's indifferences, Kairen didn't seem to bother him.

"Is that so." Kairen were uninterested.

"Kairen-san, were other peoples riding in that flying ship?" Suddenly, Yuen barged in as she asked Kairen which was nonsensically bragging.

"Hm? A person? There were about 5 or so riding in…" Yuen mentally palmed her face as she shook her head against Kairen's words.

"Haaa… Kairen-san didn't you read a rule? An action made that involved unrelated person is bound to get punished."

"Hm? No way! It's for the greater good!"

"The rule is rule." Yuen were merciless.

"No! I don't want it! I don't want a thousand years of death!" But the god punisher has already arrived. Kairen couldn't help but tighten his butt.

"NOOOO! I don'-"

*Kacha*

The door closed and it was Yuen and Mugen all alone in the room now.

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"Haha! The ship is falling! It reminds me of the day when my ship broke in the middle of ocean." Oujian laughed it off.

"I don't think now is the time to be joking ar-… hm? What happened after your ship broke?" Kuro became more curious about his story than caring about the danger of falling ship.

"Kuro! You've also joined joking with him!" Ayame lectured him.

"That's right… Ayame, do fall damage exists in this world?" Kuro stopped joking with Oujian as he decided to hear of the story later.

"It do." Ayame accomplished to keep up with Kuro.

"Hmm… aren't this bad? I am reaching my terminal velocity and if I use portal to teleport my body to the ground, my body will slam to death." Kuro said in calm tone.

'Hmm… I also don't want Ayame to carry my body and ask her to double-jump at this acceleration… I guess I'll just die.' Kuro thought seriously.

"Shion, Okayu, are you okay?"

"Yes, someho-!? No, I am perfectly fine!" The sound is slightly distorted due to the wind but Shion's voice were bright as usual.

"I am fine~…" Okayu's were as usual, carefree.

"Just asking, anyone can do something with the current situation?" Kuro asked calmly.

"I can survive the fall but I don't know whether I can save person." Oujian said troubled.

"Umm… if you want, I can bounce everyone up…" Shion raised her hand up while falling nervously.

As for the reason why everyone haven't reached the bottom yet, it's because Kuro's teleporting everyone up with portal.

"Oh, Shion nice! Can I ask you to do it immediately?" Kuro's kind gaze directed toward Shion making her happily nod.

From empty space, magic circle began to be drawn as the mana line progressed on their own—in an instant, magic circle enough to fit in 5 person were created.

The magic circle being under them, they finally dived in to it as the magic circles flattened down like an anvil in large instances of gel, the acceleration of the group began to reverse as the magic circle bounced them up.

Kuro multi-tasked; before making an portal above their head, Kuro changed the subtance of his darkness into rubber-like as he attached it to each of their legs.

Then, the portal large enough for 5 persons to enter has been created—which they passed through due to their acceleration now turned upward.

Before they were thousand meters above the ground, now they were just above the ground, after confirming that everyone's feet passed through the portal, Kuro has removed the part,

which the next instant, Kuro controlled the darkness to wrap itself into the tree in rapid speed as the darkness succeed to keep them from bouncing up to high sky without ripping of their legs.

"Thank you for saving me, Kuro." Ayame said from the side.

"You could have yourself saved without my help. Besides, it's Shion the one who saved us." However, Kuro didn't accept her gratitude.

"It feels different to save yourself and to get saved! and Shion-chan, thank you!" Ayame giggled as she faced Shion.

"Yeah, that was some high-level control of mana and I've never seen someone create a magic circle that affects the physical beings directly." Oujian honestly praised her.

"Shion is really amazing." Praising her, Kuro took out one of the creation in his storage ring. He don't know why he made it, but influenced by 21, he made this cloth to be wrapped onto person.

It's just a normal cloth that's not even a clothes. You just wrap it around but there's a letter written in it: [Today's Protagonist] is what was written.

The protagonist today were all red and despite being smug every opportunity she had, just for now, she couldn't do it.

After all, it's her first time being praised this much. She was struggling even to just keep her 'normal' face.

***

Shion still wore the cloth that Kuro wrapped her as Kuro finally gets to use his camping set. Kuro built the quick-tent after teleporting the group to another 3,000km ahead.

Supported by the wealth, workmanship and the creativity Kuro had, his tent were like the tools from he future, with one tap of the button, the tent began forming by itself.

The Soccer Ball Theory. <- The rune writing when Kuro first made the self-forming soccer ball.

Kuro only brought two tents so he decided to sleep outside with the sleeping bags he had.

"Kuro I've hunted two rabbits." Ayame called him out as Kuro began preparing for the tonight's dinner.

"Sure, I will leave the cookings to you. While waiting, I will cook a rice."

'Speaking of cook rice, there's a Chinese idiom of cooking rice with someone meaning to making babies together.' Kuro remembered of a poem 21 mentioned to him some years ago.

After a while, the rabbits has been cooked after being dismembered due to the lacks of ingredient, every parts were only roasted while adding some species Kuro kept in his ring.

At the same time, Kuro has finished cooking the rice as the water which Kuro put in has either evaporated or became one with the rices.

"It's done, kids~!" Kuro shouted as the chilrens stopped their plaything.

"I'm not kid? By the way, what is that white thing?" Oujian tilted his head.

"You act the most childish here—and this is called rice, the traditional food from some hidden country… just eat it. It's delicious."

"Kuro… I want Onigiri…(rice ball)"

"I'll make it for you when we get home."

"Yay!"

"Kuro, feed me!" Today's protagonist said so.

"Sure." Kuro spoiled her.

"Oh, this is quite delicious. How do you make this?" Oujian didn't expect for this white rice to be delicious.

"It's easy, you wash the grain of rices with clean waters around 2 times and after that, you pour in cold waters inside before cooking it. Close the pots and you just wait."

"It's that easy? So… what is this grain you speak of?"

"Eh…"

***

The groups dived into the deep night as they finished their dinners.

Before climbing up onto one of the tree trunks, Kuro spotted Shion so he asked her out a bit.

"Shion~"

"Hm, what is it?" Shion turned her head to look at Kuro.

"I've been wondering but, why didn't you teleport back to your home? Didn't you just wanted to play with Okayu and the others?"

"That… it's because even if I want to, I can't."

"Why?"

"I marked you personally so I can teleport into your place anytime, right?"

"You did that?… it seems so…"

"Anyway, I did so and I can only make one mark. So wherever you are I can teleport to you but, I can't teleport back to my home if it's too far away."

"When you teleported to me, it was more than 3,000km away from your home so you couldn't get back to your home?"

"That is… right… what is wrong with it!" Seeing Kuro's ridiculed face, Shion became embarrassed.

"Nothing is wrong with it but… I'm sorry. If you are fine with it, I can use this nighttime to teleport you back to your ho-…" Kuro looked genuinely guilty.

"No! It's okay. I wanted to go on journey since long time ago!"

"Are you sure? Won't your mother scold you?"

"Ah… it's okay, it's okay! She will understand me! Besides if she knows that you're there to look for me, she will permit it!"

"Hmm… then I will come with you to Sin's Hut since it's also my fault." Kuro didn't try to stop her since she wills it.

"By the way, why did you mark me despite being able to mark only one thi-…" Kuro tried asking curiously but was stopped

"ahhhh!! I'm going to sleep so see you tomorrow!" Shion bounced off to her tent.