Trapped in the Depths of the Forest (3)

Spitting on their bodies, I managed to beat them and was very exhausted.

Covered with blood on my robe, face, hands, feet, and pants, I walked over and sat on the crocodile monster's body.

"Next time, look for the right prey. A swan is still a swan, a crocodile is still a crocodile, but what is called a fight, a crocodile can't necessarily eat a swan."

Quite tired of fighting these 3 crocodile monsters. Even so tired, I was gasping for breath.

Inhaling deeply and then exhaling slowly, I try to stabilize my breathing flow. And luckily, in this place that has a fresh supply of oxygen, it helps me breathe and recovers my stamina.

I didn't expect that fighting these monsters would be quite tiring, even though my body was in good shape for fighting. It's like fighting an army that adopts a guerrilla strategy, confused about where they are hiding and shocked when they suddenly appear.

While I was controlling my breathing, I saw a monster crocodile move its mouth.

Without thinking, I kicked the crocodile monster's mouth.

"Never mind, it's better if you play dead than I have to kill you. While I still have compassion for you, you should take advantage of that."

"Grrr..."

"Don't be strong in front of me when you're already dying. Even though I don't know the number of people you've killed, I won't kill you if you play dead now!"

As if hearing my words, the crocodile monster fell asleep and made no sound.

"Good. It's better for you, and better for me for not getting my hands dirty anymore."

Having said that, and when I thought I had calmed down, I stood up and whistled for the horse.

Long enough.

It took quite a while for the horse to arrive here.

But after a while, the horse finally appeared there.

"Oh, you're safe, Pal."

"Mbeerrrrr..."

"Yosh..."

Riding this horse, I continued on my way and left them there.

"Earlier the lizards, now the crocodiles, what's next? Frogs? Ah~ it's so tiring, I want to lie down on the bed now."

***

"Wow, I'm back where I started. What is this?"

In front of me, just as I looked, I returned to where the cat girl's imouto was.

Getting off this horse and seeing the bag, I walked over to the bag.

"I left this. Well, since I arrived here, I'll just take it."

Opening this bag, I took a drink bottle with only a small amount of water left.

"Um..."

I glanced at the horse for a moment while drinking.

I have to divide this water to the horse.

Just a little drink, I walked over and gave the horse this drink.

"Pal, you drink this! You worked a lot harder today than me, so you get a lot of it. Drink it!"

After resting for a while here, I decided to continue my journey to get out of this forest and make sure that my mission was completed, seeing firsthand that they survived and managed to get out of this forest.

As this place became a familiar place to me, I managed to find a road that had scratch marks on the trees, marks that I had marked since I entered this forest.

There was no difficulty for me this time because indeed this sign helped me find my way out of this place.

I'm pretty calm about this because I'm no longer confused about this place.

While on the way, there were some fallen trees, which were from the monster chasing me a while ago.

"Come to think of it, I've been here long enough. It was likely that they had made it out of here, and were currently happily living in the house. That's good for them. At least I don't have any debt of gratitude anymore."

Even though it's just a guess, I still have to directly confirm their current condition. Only then will I determine whether I deserve to live in this world or not.

Since my goal is only one, it's obvious I won't do anything in this world. Therefore, if I get another goal, I will still live, but if not, I will do harakiri later.

"Life in this world is so short. But at least I'm useful and I don't owe anyone anything."

With only this ball as a lamp in the darkness of this place, this horse and I continued to walk on the wet ground.

Because the temperature is quite cold in this place, these bloodstains on my body become dry faster. Even though I realized that I didn't care.

When this horse suddenly stopped, I was confused as to why this horse suddenly stopped. But when I found out the cause, I decided to steer this horse towards the left.

The reason for this horse is because there is a large tree that has fallen, making the path of the road blocked. Therefore, by deciding to change lanes to the left, I did not make this horse difficult, because this horse could suddenly jump there and even cause problems for me later.

But when this horse had only taken a few steps, I was surprised by something big there.

Out of curiosity, I stopped and got off this horse.

Walking over to the big thing, I saw that the ground was covered in blood.

"What's this?"

The closer I got to it, the more I could see that big thing.

And as it turned out, the big thing was a monster crocodile that had a wound in its eye.

"…Did this lowly being die from my wounds? But that's impossible either because I only injured the eye, so how could it be that easy."

Finding out the cause of this flood of blood, which probably came from the monster, I approached the monster and looked here and there.

"Oh..."

Two trees between the monster's body were pressed against each other, and the trunks of one of the trees stabbed right into the monster's stomach, making the monster's blood gush out profusely.

"Ummm, this skin is so soft."

While saying that, I poked at this monster's stomach repeatedly with my finger.

The skin on this monster's stomach was soft. If I slashed the blade of my knife into the belly of the monster slowly, maybe my knife would be able to make the slit in the monster's stomach quite large.

"No wonder these lowly creatures dare not touch the ground when crawling, it turns out that their stomachs are so soft."

It could clearly be said that this monster died from a lack of blood. But this is funny to me, dying just because can't see and getting stabbed by the tree trunk, considering the size of this monster.

"It turns out that nature is still on my side. Even if you have a very large body size, you still won't be able to fight the forces of nature. Geez, you're such a pitiful, lowly being."

After confirming that the cause of the tree blocking my progress was from this monster that was rebelling from being unable to see, I returned to the horse I was on.

"Let's get out of here, Pal!"

***

Seeing in front of me a light appeared, it seemed that I was about to come out of this forest.

When I looked up, I could slowly see the stars shining so brightly in the sky.

"Umm, looks like I've been here for quite a while. The sun has changed to the moon, while I was stuck in this place for a long time."

This world has beautiful stars, even the light is so bright. I don't think this world is too bad for me either, even though there are many things I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know how long I stay here. For now, I'd better be grateful for seeing the stars in this world so brightly. Like humans who illuminate the way and the truth, the stars in this world are trying their best to make the living beings in this world stay alive and survive.

Until and managed to get out of this forest, I stretched my body.

"Finally, get out of that forest too."

I got a student while in the forest.

Sometimes, nature can be on our side. You should not underestimate nature even though you are the one in power in the place. Because everything in the world, whether it's from the world you come from or this world, nature still reigns. Without nature, living things cannot possibly live. Without nature, this world would not be perfect like this. And without nature, life would never exist.

Therefore, preserve the nature around you, do not let it be destroyed. Try to make nature more beautiful. Keep doing it so you can enjoy your life, you won't regret it later.

"Yosh, it's time-"

"Oi..."

Suddenly there was a scream, along with the appearance of the horses in front of me.

"Are you okay? I brought help."

"Onii-chan..."

And it turned out to be the cat girl and her imouto, and behind her were horsemen heading this way.

Knowing they were safe, I smiled to myself for a moment, then looked back at them.

"Mission complete."

When I was about to bite my tongue to kill myself, this horse knocked me to the ground instead.

"Why?"

"Mbeemm..."

"You don't want me to die, do you? Hahaha, you're such a good horse, Pal. Alright, for the time being, I'll stay alive and try to find my next purpose in life in this world…"