Chapter 8 - Apologies

After a deep sigh Saemi lets go of my arm and stands next to me, then she raises both her arms towards the Slime, after which a small vortex of wind begins to form in front of Saemi's hand until it takes the shape of a bullet.

"Aim for that crystal ball in the center of it, that's its weak point"

"A-All right"

Saemi said, you could see the nervousness in her voice, seconds after that the wind bullet shot out of Saemi's hand and flew towards the Slime, the bullet went through the Slime's body destroying its core, as soon as the core was destroyed the Slime started to dissolve until there was nothing left.

"I, I did it"

Saemi said giving little jumps.

"Congratulations"

I said clapping my hands together, Saemi gave me a huge smile in response to my action making me wonder if she really didn't remember calling me various things a few minutes ago, while thinking about this I turned my gaze upwards and noticed that it was getting darker as time passed, no matter how hard I looked at the sky I saw no sign of the sun, so I thought that in this place there was no cycle of day and night, but apparently my theory was wrong.

"Let's build a fire for the night, it's starting to get dark"

I said walking towards some bushes, as soon as I picked some leaves from the bushes, I started walking towards some sticks that were scattered on the ground, out of the corner of my eye I noticed that Saemi was staring at me with a small smile on her face.

(I really can't understand what she is thinking)

After that I gathered the sticks in one place and put the leaves on top, I had seen once on television that this was a good way to make an improvised fire, the only problem would be how to light the fire now, I don't have a lighter with me, while I was thinking about this Saemi suddenly approached me and crouched down beside me, after which she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small pink lighter, this surprised me a little.

(Why the hell does she keep walking around with a lighter?)

Still I couldn't say anything to her, after all, I am the crazy one who keeps walking around with a knife, although I don't regret it since this knife saved our lives, after taking one of the leaves, Saemi lit the lighter and set the leaf on fire, then she put the leaf next to the others starting a small fire, so that we wouldn't spend the night in darkness, after this Saemi and I sat down on the ground and began to stare into the fire, we spent a few minutes in silence simply staring into the fire, this couldn't be helped, if it wasn't for this crazy situation the two of us probably wouldn't even be talking to each other, but if I want her to depend on me, I need to talk to her more, at least enough to make her feel comfortable with me.

"Have you known Shinji since you were a child?"

As soon as I said that Saemi looked at me with suspicious eyes but still answered.

"Well... I think so, we went to the same school in elementary school, as soon as he saw me, he kept asking me to date him, he spent almost 2 months asking me to go steady so I kind of gave in and accepted"

Saemi said with a small smile on her face, i don't have the slightest interest in her love life but it's good to know that she and Shinji have been dating since elementary school, after all, when I steal her away from him, he's sure to regret messing with me, while thinking about this I suddenly realized something, for some reason I'm not getting hungry, my last meal was the breakfast I ate before going to school so it's quite strange that I'm not hungry yet, as I thought about this my doubt was quickly answered by Aurora.

"The answer to that is quite simple, every time you move to a new floor all your strength is automatically restored, but I believe that starting tomorrow you will start to feel hungry again"

Listening to Aurora's answer I realized that starting tomorrow I will need to hunt if I want to eat, which leads me to another question, so far, I haven't seen any animals around here, which only leaves me with the monsters as an option.

(Are monsters edible?)

I asked Aurora in my mind, the answer to that question came soon after.

"For normal humans no, but since you received my blessing, you will be fine"

Answered Aurora, but while I will be fine that may not be the same for Saemi, but, well, she will probably be fine eating the monsters' flesh too.

"But what about you?"

While thinking about something else Saemi suddenly speaks to me, when she asked me this, I looked at her a little confused not understanding what she meant.

"What about me?"

"I learned that you joined our school after getting a scholarship, did you have any reason to choose this particular school?"

At Saemi's question I was silent for a few seconds.

"I... that school, my parents wanted me to attend it since it was the same school where they both met, when they died 3 years ago, I decided I would fulfill their dream"

When I said that Saemi looked at me with a surprised look, after that I could notice a small regret in her look.

"I'm sorry... for everything"

Saemi said looking as she looked into the fire.

"What are you apologizing for...for me always getting beat up by Shinji because of you...or for Shinji always beating me for no reason at all?"

Saemi didn't give me any answers to my questions, I didn't want to either, anything she said to me would simply make me feel worse, sorry about that Saemi, I already have my plans in mind to get back at Shinji, and you are included in them.