The Author's POV

Inside of a densely packed forest, two individuals calmly walked through the heavy vegetation. Of the two individuals, one stood at the front looking at a large map made out of paper, whilst behind him, another individual followed him with a confused look on his face.

"Are you sure we're headed in the right direction?"

Scratching my chin, as I looked at the map before me. Tilting the map sideways, with a hint of doubt I responded.

"err...should be?"

Taken aback, Kevin couldn't help but say

"y-ou, don't tell me that we're lost"

"no, well, maybe. But most likely not"

-Smack!

Facepalming, an extended sigh escaped from Kevin's mouth. He was starting to regret his decision...

Not even halfway through the journey and they were already lost. Just what kind of guide was this?

Noticing Kevin's action, I shrugged my shoulders.

In my defense, I didn't have much to work with.

Although I had a general idea of where the dungeon was, well, let's just say that a lot of the important information on how Kevin found the dungeon was skipped in the novel. After all, back then when I was writing this part of the story, I basically directly skipped to the moment Kevin found the dungeon.

...Thus, because of how lazy I was back then, I was currently in a pickle.

Fortunately, I had a few reference points to work with

"A river...a large bent tree and a cave..."

Those were the things I was looking out for.

"Keumm...keumm...can I just ask why you're using a paper map instead of your phone?"

Coughing a couple of times, Kevin glanced at me and asked me something that had been on his mind ever since leaving the small town below.

Looking back at Kevin, brushing my hair to the side I lazily said

"What difference does it make? In the end, with this, I can just save my phone's battery"

Taking out my phone and pointing towards the top right corner, I said

"...Moreover, good luck finding a signal in the middle of nowhere"

Raising his hands in resignation, Kevin said

"Alright, do whatever makes you comfortable. I was just curious as I've never seen anyone use paper maps anymore"

Briefly glancing at Kevin, I shook my head and continued to observe the map.

Fair enough.

I would've used my phone if there was a GPS signal that would directly show me the path I had to go...sadly such a thing didn't exist. So, I just chose to use a map as that was what I used to use back on earth.

...I guess old habits never die.

"Let's see"

the ground and placing the map on a rock. I squinted my

actually headed in the right direction, and all we needed to

I traced a blue line on

there go hike up until an oddly bent tree

got it,

more times, I nodded my head and

"You've figured things out?"

if nothing goes wrong, we should be able to arrive there in about half

"Alright..."

...

this is the

"Yep"

large bent tree, Kevin and I sat down on the

had already started to set

couple of energy bars from my dimensional space I

"Here"

"Thanks"

energy bar, Kevin quickly opened it and took big bites out of it. Looking at the cave hidden behind the tree, he couldn't help

this

"Munch...munch...Yep"

down the energy bar in my mouth, I quickly nodded my head. After walking for half a day and following the instructions that I had written in my novel, I was quickly

me was really smart. Whenever I went in the wrong direction I would always just shout 'Wrong direction' and with me seeing this in the book, I was able to discard that path and quickly find the right

off to you future

"Alright, let's go"

whilst recuperating some of the energy we spent hiking all the way here, standing up, I urged

Kevin nodded his head

"Okay"

of us

back. With Kevin's overwhelming abilities, he should be able to take care of any monster

anything. In reality, there

in my hand, I

time-fighting monsters when you can just

...

fork road. There were eight paths to choose from

should

hesitation, I immediately pointed

"The fifth one"

confident with my answer as from the moment we entered the cave, I

Moreover...

"Stop"

"huh?"

on Kevin's shoulder to stop him, ignoring the confusion in his

turn left,

slightly and glancing downwards, towards

be the one that will attack you first...the safest and most efficient

midsentence, Kevin couldn't help but

are

brow, I nonchalantly

you what will happen and what you should be doing

don't get is how you know all of this...moreover, what are you doing with your

my head, I glanced

"I'm reading?"

can you read when there's nothing

"huh?"

Kevin in confusion, I waved the red book