The Author's POV

Chapter 28

"Thank you"

Sitting next to each other, the party members which were on the verge of death moments before, were now happily munching on some jerky.

I was honestly quite shocked by how fast they recovered. Considering the state they were in when I found them, their recovery speed could be described as 'godly'. I mean, it only took them a little bit over 10 minutes before they were able to sit up straight and comfortably eat and drink the food that I gave them.

Then I realized, I was no longer back on earth.

Though I have reincarnated in this place for about 3 weeks, I was still not accustomed to this world's common sense, and rightfully so.

I mean, how can I adjust to this world's common sense after only having been here for three weeks?

It's not like I can rewire my brain to accept the fact that people could heal immediately when back in my previous world, in which I lived for 32 years, serious cases of dehydration would leave a person hospitalized for weeks.

I was now genuinely curious whether all the people who got reincarnated felt the same way I did.

Well leaving that aside, it seems like I was running low on supplies.

In terms of water, I still had quite a lot as my water bottle could hold up to 50 liters of water, but I was running quite low in terms of food.

I had only bought a couple of kilograms of food supplies, thinking that it would last me about a week, and rightfully so, as who would've been able to predict such a situation?

Moreover, since I was planning on staying here for at most 3 days, I didn't feel the need to bring more than a week's worth of food.

What makes matters worse is the fact that the monsters present in this dungeon couldn't be eaten.

Generally, monsters could be eaten but that depended on which monsters.

Some of the monsters which were found in some dungeons could be eaten, and when eaten could boost up a person's stats, however, that was only for a small minority of monsters, as most of them are inedible due to their meat being poisonous.

...and unfortunately for me, all the monsters in this dungeon were inedible.

"Guess I have no choice..."

Taking out a small black box from my bracelet, a slid the cover up and a small red bottom presented itself before me.

Right above the button, there was a small screen that showed fluctuating wavelengths, indicating the signal strength.

This black box, also known as the 'Safe box', was a device that is given to every member before they entered a dungeon.

By pressing the button, the black box would send a distress signal to the nearest dungeon guardian.

Once the dungeon guardian received the distress signal, they would report it to the dungeon operators, which would then swiftly send a rescue team to come to their aid.

The consequence of pressing the button was of course a loss in the deposit, but seeing how mentally exhausted the party was, I could only sacrifice my deposit.

When I was saving them, I did look for their safe boxes, but they were either damaged or malfunctioning.

...Probably from the fight they just had.

In the end, I was left with no choice but to use mine. At most I could just ask them to refund me since I was not using it for myself...

Taking one last look at the members who although physically looked okay but were anything but fine mentally, I decisively pressed the button.

-Click

-Ding! -Ding! -Ding!

black box started emitting rhythmic sounds

"Huh? strange..."

button, everything seemed normal

seeing the weird looks the party

my hand, and to my surprise the small screen that showed the

the back of the black box multiple times, as I wondered

"It's no use"

saved, the one

was also like this

attention towards them, I couldn't help but

didn't you

why their safe boxes didn't work

"We still had a bit of hope that maybe the batch of

to have lost all hope, my frown

for

since rescuing them, I noticed them flinch in horror as soon

after, their body went rigid, and their

I stood up and looked

"Hey! Hey!"

in front of them and tried to wave my hand in front of their faces but it was to no avail. Their complexion turned deathly pale as their

if they were in a trance, they each simultaneously looked at the sky and started

"Please...no...I don't wan-...."

"No..no..Ah..AHHHHHH"

"Death....demon..."

be late for

"Lord..savior"

nonsense, one word specifically caught

"Demon.."

the person that said those words, a brunette young girl with two pigtails and clothing that were proof of her mage status, started

all the other party members showed a similar reaction as

going on

tried slapping their faces a couple of times to get a reaction from them...but it proved ineffective, as their pupils quickly disappeared

"Dead...dead...dead...fuck!"

loud, I dropped on the sand

but it was how they died and the last words that the girl said before

"Demon..."

type of curse that could cause someone to die just moments after

'Mindbreaker'

especially vicious curse

was the work of a demon, as they were the only species that were capable of

believe that the only reason they were still alive was not because the demon let them go...no, it was because the demon

"Sick fucker! Ahhhh!"

-Pa!

of sand started falling from the area I had punched leaving behind

surroundings, I swore to make whoever was responsible for this pay

the shock of me witnessing people dying in front of me for the first time in my life, my

as the images of the party dying kept repeating in my

their deaths started replaying in my mind, such as the expressions they had before they died, and the last words

hating protagonists in novels who

to the time that I used to leave hate comments on novels where the protagonist sympathized with the deaths of unrelated

I realized how bang on the

only now that I started realizing how cruel and fragile life

in this world, I had mentally prepared myself for these kinds of situations, but...it is only after having experienced this first hand that I realized how daunting it is to see

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