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!

as I pressed the button, the black box started emitting rhythmic sounds that spread across

"Huh? strange..."

after pressing the button, everything seemed normal

after seeing the weird looks the

and to my surprise the small screen that showed the wavelengths

on the back of the black box multiple times,

"It's no use"

saved, the one

like this for

towards them, I couldn't

why didn't you tell

the real reason why their safe boxes didn't work

said "We still had a bit of hope that maybe the batch of safe boxes we received were malfunctioning and that maybe yours would work...but it seems like this is not

the other members, who seemed to have lost all hope,

me for a while, but what exactly happened

asking them about what had happened, which was my goal since rescuing them, I noticed them flinch in horror as soon

after, their body went rigid, and

stood up and looked

"Hey! Hey!"

I went in front of them and tried to wave my hand in front of their

if they were in a trance, they each simultaneously

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

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

"Death....demon..."

be late for di..nner...wait

"Lord..savior"

all speaking nonsense, one word

"Demon.."

young girl with two pigtails

showed a similar

going

a couple of times to get a reaction from them...but it proved ineffective, as their pupils

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

on the sand

the most, but it was how they died and the last

"Demon..."

was only one type of curse that could

'Mindbreaker'

especially vicious curse planted by

apparent that this was the work of a demon, as they were the only species that were capable of implanting this type of curse

only reason they were still alive was not because the demon let them go...no, it was because the demon wanted to torture them by making them suffer from dehydration

"Sick fucker! Ahhhh!"

-Pa!

granules of sand started falling from

surroundings, I swore to make whoever was responsible for this

perhaps be due to the shock of me witnessing people dying in front of me for the first time in my life, my emotions were in a state of

of the party dying kept repeating in my mind over and over

started replaying in my mind, such as the expressions they had before

I was hating protagonists in

I thought back to the time that I used to leave hate comments on novels where the protagonist sympathized

first time that I realized how bang on the authors were when depicting the raw emotions one felt when death occurred before

that I started realizing how

only after having experienced this first hand that I realized how daunting it is to see someone

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