Rebirth Online World

GRADAK GRADAK

‘Hmmm… Why is the ground shaking?’ i frowned then turned my body to the left, ‘oh it stopped…” Then i proceeded to resume my sleep.

But after a while…

DUUKK

The ground shook hard and woke me up. ‘Eh, what happened? Why is the tent shaking?’ i furrowed my brows as i saw the situation around me. The leather tent shook around uncontrollably, my fur bed below me was shaking up and down, while my white fur blanket was shaking in my hand.

DUAAAKKK

A shock was felt from below. ‘Eh what happened? Why is no one waking me up? Is something happening outside?’ i felt a bit scared to see what’s outside the tent.

I put the blanket away, crawled to the tent’s entrance and peeked outside. There i saw a man’s back and his brown hair.

GRUDUK

Suddenly another shock came from below. I lost my balance, and my upper body got thrown out of the tent.

THUD

‘Owieee…. I fell on my nose…’

Z heard a sound from behind, then found me already falling face first to the ground. “Sakura! Sorry that you get woken up. The road is a bit rocky around here,” he said to me while giving his hand to help me.

I took his hand and looked around. I was not on the ground anymore. The tent was already above the carriage roof. And the carriage is currently running on the forest road like yesterday. “Eh? Wh-what happened Z?” i asked him as we sat on the carriage roof.

“Nothing much, this morning we were waiting for you while having breakfast, but you wouldn’t wake up. So we tidied up the camp, but you still wouldn’t wake up. We were thinking if we should wake you up, but when i peeked inside the tent, you were still sleeping soundly. We waited for an hour, but you still wouldn’t wake up. So, we just picked the tent up, put it above the carriage, and then resumed the journey,” he said to me as he smiled.

“Why didn’t you just woke me up? And you even saw my sleeping face…” My cheeks were red as i gazed down in embarassment. I stared up to him while my face was planted downwards, and then i caught him staring at me too. Our eyes met. I was startled and averted my face again to the left. We fell silent, but when i took a peek at him again, he already turned away his body.

“I saw just a little. Sorry Sakura…,” he said to me.

I don’t know why, but i just can’t get angry at him like i was yesterday afternoon.

“N-no, i should be the one who is sorry. I was heavy, wasn’t i?” i said to him nervously.

He tilted his head and said, “No… i can even lift you with one hand, you know.”

“With a hand that thin?” i mocked him.

Then he laughed, “Ahahaha…so you don’t believe me? Should i pick you up right now?”

I was surprised. Then i said to him with a really startled tone, “E-eh…N-no, don’t! I was just kidding!” My face got red once again, luckily he was still sitting with his back against me and couldn’t see my face.

‘Uuuuh…why am i getting so easily flustered…,’ i was panicked in my head.

Then he suddenly turned his head to me and said, “Ah, it’s already almost mid day, you slept over the roof for around 4 hours. Are you hungry?”

I put my hand over my stomach and thought, ‘I am lucky that it didn’t make a sound like yesterday…’

“Just a little bit…,” i said to him.

“Oh good! What do you want then? Breakfast menu or Lunch menu?”

“What’s the breakfast menu?” I tilted my head to the left.

“Bread, cheese and dried meat!” he said as he smiled at me.

Then i tilted my head to the right and asked again, “Then what’s the Lunch menu?”

“Bread, dried meat, and… cheese!”

“That’s nothing different!” i said to him while smacking his forehead jokingly with the blade of my hand.

“Ahahaha…” he laughed as he took out a bundle made of leaf out of his Storage ring, “eat it… just tell me if you want more…”

I took the bread from him and ate it. I was still a bit hungry after eating one. I wanted to ask for one more but i was embarassed. While playing with my hair, i tried to ask him, “Ah..em…Z…, i…” But i just couldn’t say it. ‘What if he thinks that i am a glutton?’ i thought while staring down upon the carriage roof.

Then a hand holding a bread was seen under my eyes. I looked up, and saw Z. Then he said to me, “I was going to eat it, but then i feel a bit stuffed. It’s already opened, so it will be a shame to put it back inside. Do you want it?”

My cheeks went red again. I stared at him, nodded my head, and took the bread.

“Thank you…,” i said to him.

After a while, i finished eating the second bread. Then he gave me a leather bottle filled with water.

“Was it tasty?” he asked me.

“Yeah it was tasty…” i smiled at him cheerfully.

He smiled back at me. But then his face suddenly changed, he frowned while looking at the direction of the right side of the carriage. But it was just for an instant, his face already changed back into a smile.

Then he came closer to me in an instant, before i could back away, he already whispered at me, “Wait here, and don’t say anything to them, i will be back in a bit.”

Then i saw him soundlessly jumped down from the right side of the carriage, and went straight into the forest.

‘What happened?’

Then i waited for thirty minutes, but he didn’t come back. One hour passed, then two hour. I started to feel worried. But then, just as i was looking at the back of the carriage direction hoping to see him, a poke was felt on my shoulder and then a sound was heard, “Why are you looking at the back? I told you that it was dangerous if you don’t look to the front, right?”

He was already there beside me. Just when i wanted to say something to him, he put his index finger on my lips, and whispered to me, “I will tell you when the time is right. Not now.”

I looked down sadly. ‘Why won’t he tell me anything? When is the right time? I-i really know nothing about him, do i?’. Then a bit of tear fell down from my eyes.

He was startled. “E-eh!! I am sorry!! Did i hurt you?? Why are you crying??? Are you okay?”

I shook my head and fell silent. His worried face stared at me for a long time, so i feel embarassed. “S-stop looking at me!!” I threw my teary face away from him.

He fell silent, so i took a peek at him. His face looked like a parent that doesn’t know what to give to his sulky daughter. ‘His reaction sure is funny…’

Then i turned my whole body against him, so he could only see my back, and murmured, “Hmphhh…!”

“Awawawawawa…,” he sounded panicked behind me.

After a while i turned again, stared right at him, and said, “You really won’t tell me?”

He furrowed his brows, and stroked his chin. Then he shook his head and said to me, “I can’t, now it’s not the time. I’m sorry…”

I looked down again. ‘He really won’t tell me anything…even though i was so worried’

ZRRSSSHH

Then i heard a sound of water being poured down to the ground. I looked up, and saw that Z was washing something in his hand, then he dried it up with his shirt.

He slowly took my hand with his free hand, and put a round object onto it. “Here, for you… Don’t be sad anymore, okay…?” I put it nearer to my eyes and looked at it carefully.

It was a really beautiful marble that is as big as a golf ball. Inside the marble was a stream of red , and green light intertwined together, moving and rubbing against each other as if they were dancing.

“It’s really beautiful. What is this?”

“It’s a magical core,” he said to me while smiling.

Then he got near my ear again, and whispered slowly, “Don’t show it to anyone okay…”

“Why?” i asked him.

“I told you, not now,” he said to me as he put his index finger in front of his lips.

I just nodded, then started to stare at the marble again. I felt happy because he gave me something that was really beautiful.

“Don’t stare at it too much, we still have things to learn you know…” Then he pinched my nose.

‘Muuu…he looked at my sleeping face…he whispered on my ears…and now he touched me so casually…but i just can’t get mad at him…i even feel slightly happy…what’s wrong with me…uuuuuuuu’, i just looked down and started to cry in front of him.

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“Awawawawa…,” i panicked again as i saw her crying.

‘Harvey-san was right… Girls in puberty is so scary…,’ i frowned while not knowing what to do to her.

‘I went to kill the Fire Wind Cat beast because he was going to disturb us on the way later, but when i finally got back she sulked. Then when i gave her the Cat beast’s magical core, she was happy. And now when i told her that we are going to learn, she cried…’, i furrowed my brows confusedly. ‘Ah i know! She did the same thing when she wanted another bread! So maybe she wanted another magical core! Do i have any in my storage ring? Let’s check…’

“[Storage]!” I opened my Storage ring and rummaged inside.

‘Hmmm…it should be around here…, or is it over there…? Ah! There it is!’ I took a magical core out, cleaned the blood remains with some water, dried it up with my shirt again, and then showed it to her.

“Look! I have another magical core here! So, don’t cry ok!” i said to her.

Then she stopped crying. ‘Ah! So i was right!’

But she didn’t take the magical core. She put her face a little bit higher, then stared at me with an upward glance.

‘Uaaaah…what’s wrong with me…? Her teary face…looks so cute that i even want to bully her right now…’

She kept staring at me for a while, then shook her head slowly. After that she crawled back into her tent.

‘I…i can’t understand a girl’s fellings… Even though i am not dense like Tooru, why do i feel so jealous of his density right now…? I will be crazy if i keep seeing her beautiful smile and her cute teary face…,’ i rolled right and left over the carriage roof.

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“P-pfft……”

“Pfft-tt….”

“Pfffft……”

We three kept holding our laughter, then i whispered to both of them, “What did i told you? They were clearly likes each other but just can’t be honest with their feelings.”

“Pfft…it has been long since i saw something like this… You found some nice thing Harv!” whispered Alex to Harvey while holding his thumbs up.

“It made me remember the time when i met my wife, we were also accidentaly adventuring together, then a year later my daughter was born…,” i said to them in a really low voice.

“SShhhtt…i don’t want to skip anyhing…this is really funny…if only i can always witness something like this in my travelling,” said Bernardt.

“Pfft… Don’t worry! We could still see this comedy for around 6 more days…,” whispered Alex to Bernardt and me.

“Make it five… I still have something to sell you know… Time is money,” frowned Bernardt.

“Ahahahahaha…!” Alex and me laughed together.

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The sun was almost going to set on the western sky. In about two hour, the sky will begin to get dark. So we four concured that we need to find somewhere to camp soon, because we still had to set up the tent and hunt for dinner.

After around 15 minutes, Alex found an open space beside the forest road, and stopped there.

As i felt that the carriage stopped, i spoke from outside the tent, “Sakura, we are going to rest here. Let’s go down, i will take your tent down too.”

I jumped down from the carriage and waited for Sakura to come out. Then suddenly my skill [Mana Web] found a huge magical beast right at the edge of my sensoring range.

I frowned, ‘Ugh, a high grade magical beast, 10 km east from here. He surely sensed my [Mana Web] too, as he begin too run over here. He is pretty fast, at this speed he will be here in around 10 minutes or so. Better to take care of it right now, than when it come close later at night, i can’t risk her life in danger.’

I turned off my [Mana Web], jumped onto the carriage roof, lifted the tent together with her inside, jumped down again, and put her somewhere with squishy grass under it. Then i said to her from outside, “I will be going to hunt for dinner, ask Alex-san if you want to help with anything, okay?” I left her tent without waiting for her reply.

I went to Alex and Harvey and said to them, “I will be going to hunt for today, okay? It has been a while, maybe i could get a boar or something.”

“A boar will be good, we can roast them over the camp fire!” said Harvey.

“You sure you can do it alone?” asked Alex.

“Don’t worry!” I grinned at them.

“Well, if you say so. But seriously, bring back a big boar okay, i haven’t eaten them for a while,” said Alex to me.

“Got it! Take care of Sakura while i was away, okay?” i said to them as i ran into the forest.

‘Let’s go to the Northwest first, then bait him.’

I pumped mana into my feet to use my skill [Sky Feet]. Then i leaped from the ground and start hopping from tree to tree. My figure blured as i moved faster and faster. The tree trunks that i used as stepping place started to break, the smaller tree trunks broke apart, and the bigger trunks had deep foot marks on them.

After going for around 5 km in 3 minutes, i found an open space with no trees around it. ‘Here will be good.’

Then i turned on my skill [Mana Web] again and found that the Magical beast is around 3 km in the Southeast from me. ‘He changed his direction to me, let’s wait for him here.’

After another 3 minutes i saw a huge Tiger beast running in my direction. Then i turned off my [Mana Web], because it could give out my position in the middle of a fight to the enemy as well.

He stopped 10 meters in front of me. Now, we were staring at each other face to face. The Tiger beasts was 6 meters long and 3 meters in height. His fur was orange with blood red strips above them. Its face was full of fury, and its red eyes were savage. His tail was as thick as an adult’s thigh, and the later half of it was covered in bright orange flame.

‘Oh…pure fire type magical beast…it’s rare to see one…’

I took out my sword from the storage. It was a double edged mithril short sword with length about 50 cm. It was just a normal short sword with a sharp edge and hard material, the only special thing about it, is it’s weight. It’s weight was just 400 gram, way lighter than any other sword.

I stood there motionlessly with my sword in my right hand, when the Tiger started to circle around me. It went round and round for a minute and still couldn’t find any opening from me. I kept staring at his ruby colored eyes and won’t let him get away from my sight. The tiger finally got impatience then roared and started to pounce at me. But he wasn’t fast enough, just when he still flew above the ground, the ground under my feet broke down with a 10 cm deep foot print and a 3 meter crater around it. It was the effect of my skill [Sky Feet]. I used it to dove myself under the tiger. There i used the skill [Iron Hand] to strengthen my slashing power. In the blink of an eye, i already slashed him down from his throat into his stomach.

I walked slowly to the dying tiger, then stabbed its heart to ease down its suffering. Then I started to dismantle the tiger. ‘Yes, i got another magical core for her… And a new bed too, this Fire Tiger beast’s fur should be warm enough for her. Unfortunately, i can’t bring back the meat with me, because it will be a pain to explain it to them…’

Because i was under the tiger when i slashed it, lots of blood poured down on me. I looked at my body and frowned, ‘I need to take a bath before going back…and this fur need to be washed too’

I put the magical core in my Storage ring, and lifted the fur on my back. I started going back to the camp’s direction while searching for a river from on top of the trees.

‘Ah, there is one over there…, it’s pretty near to the camp, but no one should be there right now. Harvey-san and Alex-san are making the tent, and Bernardt-san should already finished collecting the branches….’

I jumped down to the riverside and find some nearby trees. I tied a rope between them to later dry my clothes and fur. Then i put off my shirt and trouser, and started to wash them with water from the river. ‘I should have fought naked… I usually fight with my robe so i only need to wash that when it got dirty, but i forgot that she borrowed it from me. I still have another shirt, but this is my last trouser, thank god it only got a little blood on it.’ Then i hung the trouser and the shirt on the rope.

After that i washed the huge tiger fur to remove the dirts from it. ‘Hmm, this fur is really clean, the fire element had burnt everything harmful and dirty above it, how convenient. And it should dry faster too. But it’s still too big, it will fill too much space in my Storage ring, so let’s cut it into smaller piece, let’s make a pair of leather bed and blanket, around 2×1 meter each.’

I took out my shortsword and began to cut it from the furriest place for the bed and the softest place for the blanket. ‘These are a nice pair of sleeping set for her, let’s hung and dry it.’

I hung the tiger’s leathers that i cut on the rope and threw the rest away. ‘Now, it’s time for me to take a bath’

Then i put my underpants down.

But then…

“KYAAAAAAA!”

ZRUSAAK ZRUSAAK

A sound of someone was screaming and then running away was heard.

“Who’s there?!”, i shouted while activating my [Mana Web].

‘Eh? I know this mana… Oh no…!’

“S-sakura?!!!”

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