a zero degree bath
as i had awoken form my deep slumber, sitting up i said,
"hello, coldness my hardest friend." i said to the cold, hard, and uncaring rock floor i was sleeping on.
with a yawn, i stretch my body as i wake up. i almost immediately go and refreeze the corpse of the rabbit i killed yesterday (i don't want it to stink).
poking my head out, i walk down towards the side of the river, trying to decide what to do today.
with a plan in mind, i head inside the forest looking for food for the day. after a while of walking, i find an animal through my ears. as i approach the creation of unknown origins, i find it to be yet another mysterious rabbit-san.
the rabbit, quite unlike (or like?) the previous bunny, this one was dark purple, had extra large ears, and what i think is, super large pupils and hind legs that seem a tad bigger than what i used to see on earth. did the last rabbit also have this? if so, how didn't i notice it before?
in this times catch, i used the same tactic as before. sneakily freezing its legs, then capturing it and freezing then defrosting it. after confirming it died, i refroze it back and headed back home.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (stealth) ----
once i reached the waterfall, i entered my cave. instead of cutting and eating it, i dropped it down, still frozen, and headed out.
once I'm out, i go to the side of the river. when there, i look at the water. but luckily i didn't find any fish. i also try and check the depth, but since this is water (thanks to ms physics), i couldn't get an accurate read on its depth. so i lifted my dress a bit up and put my leg in the water.
"cold." i uttered as i placed my leg in the water.
although the water froze my skin off, my leg did end up touching the bottom. this river ended up being roughly equal in depth to up to my thigh.
this is perfect. i quickly undressed my dress, and bloomers, and washed them in the river while i was at it.
my clothes consisted of a very torn and ragged mostly light brown dress, and a piece of light brown bloomers for underwear. after washing my clothes, i hanged them near the cave entrance for drying them and so it's easy to take them before nightfall.
with that out of the way, now comes the star of the show. as i sat just beside the river, i slowly put my right leg into slowly, and then proceed to do the same for my left leg. once both legs are in the water, i push the rest of my body into the water.
when was finally in the river, i started giggling, i wasn't giggling because i was going insane (no, I'm not insane (... i think)), but because it had been so long since i last took a shower.
i was playing around in the water, with a smile on my face i was clearly having plenty of fun. i was swinging from side to side in the water, washing my face and hair, i was playing in the water.
i know that a naked, young girl playing in a river in the middle of a forest is probably a bad thing, but it was fine {sarcasm?}(yup).
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (cold resistance) ----
the river was cold, it absolutely was. but it was fine for me. although slow, i could feel the effects of the cold that appear when cold, slowly decrease.
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after some time, i figured that i should probably leave. its been roughly an hour since i first got in. cold resistance leveled up thirteen more times while i was here.
checking my clothes, i find them still wet, so after a thought or two, i entered my cave. apon entering i kneel down next to the rabbit, shift my finger and start cutting.
i know it isn't the most elegant thing, no, but I'd rather not get rid of the blood outside the cave since that would leave the smell on me, and possibly a trail of blood leading here (and I'd have to hold it up a while).
so i made a garbage corner. I've been making sure i freeze them constantly so they don't stink. throwing the head and pelt to the side, i dump the insides right next to the head and stuff and cut the meat into edible parts.
---- 〔skill〕 - gained - (dissection) ----
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〔skill〕 - (dissection) --->
your skill and technique in the cutting of living tissue.
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i even got a skill. i proceeded to take a thigh and bite it, but while i was doing that, a thought came to mind.
most poisons have a taste and or smell, so could i taste and detect the poison?
while i was thinking of that as i was eating, my movements became sluggish, so sluggish in fact. until i collapsed to the side of where i was sitting.
ok, what happend now? ... what happened? ..... ok, this really annoying. it's not like i cant move, no, i could, it was just that this movement wasn't anymore than wiggling and shaking.
---- 〔skill〕 - gained - (paralysis resistance) ----
so i was paralysed? of course i was, it was such an obvious poisonous (once you got poisoned, that is) so why wouldn't it be.
let's see, first i got acid, that did hurt, yes, but i kinda did over exaggerate the pain, it wasn't that bad, I was just acting childish. the second was... sleeping? did i swallow sleeping pills? let's say those berries where. third was actually painful (unlike the first), guessing by the skill level ups, it was just normal poison. forth, and the one i have currently, paralysis.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (paralysis resistance) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison resistance) ----
with the level ups of my skills, i began to be able to move a bit more.
and after some more time.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up- (poison enzyme) ----
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---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up- (paralysis resistance) ----
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---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up- (paralysis resistance) ----
with this, i began to lift my body very slowly, as it still wasn't that easy to move. and after waiting a bit more, the paralysis was barely affecting me.
since i was as hungry as usual, i took another bite of rabbit-kun. while i was taking the bite, the thought from before popped into my head, since my senses are much better than normal, couldn't i, possibly, taste the poison?
with that in mind, instead of swallowing it as soon as possible, i took my sweet time tasting it, and i have to say, unlike my time, it absolutely is not sweet. i didn't bother removing the blood, so it tasted like... well, a bloody mess.
i kept it in my mouth for as long as i could until i could feel the paralysis coming up, then did i swallow the thing.
as the paralysis came, i did the only thing i could, wait until it's ove- no wait, i could do something else, couldn't i? I'm talking about anima perception, of course, (it's some what obvious, but I'll leave no further comment).
as i was collapsed on the cold floor, i started sensing the anima near me. while doing so, i found something interesting.
that's a lie, i didn't find it now but found it yesterday when i was getting that rabbit (i just didn't think too much about it). it was the fact that the anima in my body much, much more than that in the environment. not a small one at that, the difference in anima in my body to the surroundings are in the line of a lake to sea comparison.
i wonder why? maybe it has something to do with me being a living, {a living... what?} or maybe other things have a resistance to being anima perceived? or maybe my anima perception isn't high enough. or maybe, just a maybe, it's because i got overloaded on anima, (i mean, my skill even says so. (yeah that's definitely it))
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---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (anima perception) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison resistance) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison resistance) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (paralysis resistance) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (paralysis resistance) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison body) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison enzyme) ----
these are all the skill level ups i got by the time the paralysis wore off, and by now i was ready to take in another bite. while i was playing with my food, i did the same thing as last time, and surprisingly, it worked.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (taste) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - gained - (poison detection) ----
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〔skill〕 - (poison detection) --->
your skill/ ability in detecting poison through your senses
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so that radical idea actually worked out, how nice.
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i just finished eating the rabbit, all but the skin and bones. and the skill level ups that i got, were.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison resistance) ---- ×4
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison body) ---- ×2
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (poison enzyme) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up- (paralysis resistance) ---- ×6
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (taste) ---- ×3
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up- (poison detection) ---- ×3
---- 〔skill〕 -leveled up- (anima perception) ---- ×4
those where the expected level ups i got from the bun-bun, as for the unexpected?
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (iron stomach) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (iron stomach) ----
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (metabolism) ----
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〔skill〕 - (metabolism) --->
the rate at which your cells turn food into physical energy.
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now, you might think 'whats this?!?!' or 'this is inconsistency!!' or even 'this story is full of plot holes!!' that last one may be true, but the rest sure are aren't.
i got a good explanation for this, you see, i have zero clue.
i remember before i slept it wasn't there, but it appeared in my skill list after i checked after i woke up. so my guess, theory, hypothesis is, i got it while asleep.
anyway, i grabbed the (frozen) corpses of the rabbits and went out to the still daylight filled outside. after walking for half an hour next to the river, i took a look to my right and left before refreezing the already frozen corpses with an extra freeze on top, just to make sure the freeze froze the frozen freezed rabbit. and dumped them into the not so frozen river.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (Fox frost) ----
while making my way back, i tried to guess how long it would take to thaw out. after a bit of thought, i decided that it would take a while.
---- 〔skill〕 - gained - (thought processing speed) ----
ooo, am i a shounen protagonist now? actually, what skill is a stable across all shounens?
as i finally reached the waterfall cave, i find my clothes a bit wet still. with still some time till night fall, i enter the cave and take a seat.
what to do? i have spare time, but i have nothing to do. its gotten too late to get a rabbit, and too late to explore. actually, i do have something i wanna do, or more accurately, test.
since i have some time to burn, i turn my left index finger into a claw (I've been doing that alot (im sure you're wondering what? or, how? but you wont get those answered))
i take my finger and trace it along the forearm of my right hand, thus slicing it open. the wound, if you can call it that with how shallow it is, started to show tiny bits of blood.
after some time, the wound started to close. an hour past the moment i sliced my hand, the wound had fully closed. i repeated the same thing, except i put two cuts instead of one. the results were the same, after an hour (roughly, probably more) it fully closed.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (regeneration) ----
this time, i cut three slices on my forearm, bit instead of waiting for it, i tried to force it. after 10 to 20 minutes, it fully closed. repeating that for a few cuts (between 1 to 2,147,483,647 times my arm had gotten cut), i finally got the response i was going for.
---- 〔skill〕 - leveled up - (cell regeneration) ----
with what i wanted gained, i go out to get my clothes. by now the binary stars of this world started to set. so, with two pieces of clothing in hand, i entered the hole on the wall.
by now, did everything i set to do today. eat, take a shower, throw out the garbage, and... i have a rather short list.
it's fine in the end, because now, its
"sleep time." i muttered as i tried to drift asleep.