Finding Your Way Home In Another World With The Gender Change Skill/Shadow & The Jester [Remake]
Chapter 12: The Groen Forest

It has been about 1 hour since we entered this forest.

This forest had the name [Groen Forest], as the name suggests, this forest was extremely dense and there was rarely any light coming in, this forest has never been explored before and is only famous for being very dangerous.

If anyone asks me how I could have easily chosen this dangerous path, I will answer that we should all be stronger.

Why do we have to become stronger? That's because we still don't know how strong the enemy we will face later.

It could be that the Kingdom will send a stronger person to take our lives, not us, actually I am the only one that the King of this Kingdom is after.

My fate has been really unlucky ever since I came to this world, as if I were not accepted here, I really want to cry now.

If you ask what we are doing, we are now resting after walking for 1 Hour.Because the streets here are full of tree branches, so it makes us all tired quickly.

So now I'm cooking something to eat right now.

“Neh Sou-chan I didn't expect you to be good at cooking” Nagisa said that while looking at me in surprise.

“You're right Miyouji-kun, I thought Shimotsuki was a completely useless living thing” then Natsuki-san said that while looking at me doubtfully.

“Ugh!”

The two of them said something very cruel about me right in front of me, not only that, everyone even nodded towards those words.

“Are you not too cruel to me, what is it to you that I am?” I said that while staring at them with trembling eyes.

By the time I asked that, they all answered him in a very compact manner.

“”Useless people who have no spirit of life at all”

“Ugh!!”

They said it proudly, without thinking about my feelings at all.

It seems like I really have a bad reputation in their eyes, but I am indeed a person who would rather sleep than become a Hero.

because my life motto is sleep is more important than saving the world or rather, sleep is everything.

Even so, are not these two days I too diligent, huh?...

At the moment when I was thinking funny things, Sanada suddenly started talking.

“So Onichan why do we have to pass through this Forest?” Sanada asked that while tilting his head to the side.

By the time Sanada asked me that, they all started looking at me.

“That's because we have to become stronger” I answered him while looking back at Sanada.

The moment I said that, they immediately tilted their heads to the side.

After a pause of a few seconds, Shinomiya-san started talking.

“Shimotsuki-kun, why should we become stronger?” Shinomiya-san said that while tilting her head.

“Because we don't know at all what kind of enemy we will fight later, and again, we don't know how strong that person will hinder us to find our way home”

After I finished my words, they all looked at each other and nodded simultaneously.

At that moment I finished making food for us. This meal I made was a simple Steak from the meat of a Monster named [Crazy Wild Boar].

I hope they like it, because I risked my life just to hunt him down, no, actually at the time I used my Unique [Samurai] Skill to kill this [Crazy Wild Boar], actually, that time I simultaneously tried a 1000 times multiplied attack this time.

At that very moment, I accidentally cut down this forest, it now had a straight path that not even a monster dared to approach here in the slightest.

And it's all my fault, so the reason we quit isn't really because we're tired, but, the real reason is to honor someone who has split this forest in two, I was lectured all-out by the five of them without any pause at all for 4 hours.

Even so, all I could do was pray for the living beings who died as a result of being cut off by me.

I'm sorry Goblin-kun, Orc-kun, Wild Boar-kun, Dragon-san, and other monsters that I can't name one by one. I hope that in your second life, you can get happiness, and take it easy, I will remember your merits for helping me raise my level by over 500. I will surely avenge you, by slaughtering the remnants of the survivors, so that you do not envy them, then see you, may we meet again in the next life.

I don't know why I can imagine they're all protesting against me right now. Ohh yes, I also gained a lot of new Skills and my level also went up a lot, although I still haven't checked it, maybe I will check it out later on when these girls are already sleeping.

Ohh yes by the way, thanks to my [Mind Acceleration] Skill that had already evolved into a Unique Skill [Very Fast Thinking], I was able to think 100 thousand times faster than an ordinary human being, because of that, what I thought before was not even 10 seconds.

I started walking and put a wooden plate on the table. If you ask how we can have a table and other cutlery. It was because earlier these girls were bored, and they started making this thing while waiting for me to finish cooking.

As I put the food right in front of them, each of them had saliva that was almost spilled and was waiting for me to say something.

Hmm... What should I say now? Ohh yeah.. Do I really have to say that? All right, I'll say it.

“I-itadakimasu”

“”Itadakimasu!!”

After saying that, they all immediately ate voraciously.

I don't know why I feel like I've become the head of the family.

I immediately shook my head to dispel that thought and immediately ate.

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After we finished dinner, we immediately prepared a place to sleep, because the sun had started to set. We divide the tasks according to their respective expertise.

Shinomiya-san and Ayano-sensei were sewing a futon for us to rest, this futon was made from the skin of a monster named [Sleeping Sheep] who was killed at that time.

From his explanation, this monster was an A rank monster and was an extremely rare monster. Feathers from this monster are very sought by the nobles to be made into clothes, because that is the price is very expensive if sold.

This monster is also not too strong even though it is at level 175, because that's why many hunters hunt this monster, and because of that, this monster became very rare and protected by every kingdom so as not to become extinct.

Then Natsuki-san and Sanada were looking for firewood all around, while Nagisa and I were now going around to make sure things went around.

“Neh Sou-chan.

Nagisa suddenly hugged me from behind for no apparent reason.

“What's Nagisa?”

At the time I asked him, he immediately answered him in a somewhat sad tone.

“Will you hear my story?”

He said that while lowering his head down.

“OK”

All I can do now is agree to it, and listen to what Nagisa wants to tell me.