The Author's POV

"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!

I pressed the button, the black box

"Huh? strange..."

seemed normal

after seeing the weird looks the party was giving me that I noticed something

hand, and to my surprise the

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

"It's no use"

head, the first member whom I saved, the one who wore the bulky rhino-like

was also like

towards them, I couldn't

you

in the end, the real reason why their

help but scratch the back of his head as he 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

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

see...there's this one thing that has been bothering me for

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

rigid, and their eyes became

up and

"Hey! Hey!"

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

they each simultaneously looked at the sky and started

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

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

"Death....demon..."

will be late for di..nner...wait

"Lord..savior"

all speaking nonsense, one word specifically

"Demon.."

girl with two pigtails and clothing that were proof of

after she started spasming, all the other party members showed a similar reaction as bubbles

going on

immediately moved towards them and tried slapping their faces a couple of times to get a reaction from them...but it

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

dropped on the sand and dazedly stared

me the most, but it was how they

"Demon..."

was only one type of curse that could cause someone to die just moments after they

'Mindbreaker'

vicious curse planted

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

reason they were still alive was not because the demon let them go...no, it was because the demon wanted to torture them

"Sick fucker! Ahhhh!"

-Pa!

of sand started falling from the area I had punched leaving

at my surroundings, I swore to make whoever was responsible

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

hardly think clearly, as the images of the party dying kept repeating in my mind over and

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

protagonists in novels who sympathized

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

after experiencing this for the first time that I realized how bang on

now that I started realizing how cruel

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 someone die before