Volume 3 - CH 1

–Cyclo was awakened by the sensation of cold water touching his cheek.

“Ugh …… I …… That’s right, I must have used too much force that time and lost consciousness.”

Still holding his slightly aching head, Cyclo slowly rouses himself.

He then laughs at the corpse of the human-faced monster that collapsed at the end of the cave exit.

“Ha-ha-ha, I wasn’t dreaming! I did it! I, a Clock User, killed it!”

Cyclo’s excitement comes back again. However, his headache soon became so severe that he hurriedly and consciously calmed down.

“…… Nevertheless, now there’s hope. I can get out of this dungeon.”

Cyclo mutters.

In fact, he had managed to defeat even that monster all by himself — depending on the way he went about it, it was not impossible for him to escape from the dungeon.

However, this is only a hope. It is still just a possibility.

“For that to happen, I have to train my skills and myself even more.”

Yes. With Cyclo’s current abilities, it is only a slim, slim possibility.

Even if he says he defeated it, he only defeated one of them, unilaterally, from a safe zone.

And after that, he fell down due to the excessive use of his power.

In this state of affairs, if he were to leave this cave, he would immediately fall prey to the human-faced monster.

So Cyclo makes up his mind.

“–Okay! First of all, I need to take my time in this cave to improve my skills! Besides, I need to build my own strength …… and do some muscle training!”

Yes. Cyclo decided to retreat to this cave and train himself.

Nutritional status can be maintained at its highest by the [Clock Stop] of the “Internal Clock”. And there is an ample flow of water, which can be replenished at any time.

In this environment, Cyclo can stay in this cave as long as he wants.

And the watchmaker’s time. Cyclo was good at such steady, long hours of work and effort.

Even if it took days, weeks, or months.

He would stay in this cave until he was satisfied with his work.

“Then …… well, I’d better make sure my schedule is written down. [Clock Generation]!”

Cyclo said, producing a small metal pointed rod.

Then – scratching against the wall – he begins to write.

☆My most recent goal!

1: Strength training!

2: Train my Clock User skill!

“…… Okay. After that, I should probably keep a good record of my training. It would be useful to be able to look back on it later and see what happened…”

And so on and so forth, and Cyclo continues to write things on the wall.

Cyclo, who is a very particular person by nature, spends several hours writing on the wall until he begins his training.