Chapter 6 - Beast Girl?

After Cecil finished washing all the loot, he searched around and found a good place with a great vantage point that allowed him to survey the surroundings of the river and wasn't too far nor too close to the forest.

This way I had enough time to prepare myself if any monster came from the river or the forest.

He then created a clothesline with vines and hung the fur he washed to dry. There was a lot of dirt and filth that was cleaned out from the fur.

'After cleaning up all my makeshift weapons, the color changed from a dirty red to a pinkish-white color.'

The make-shift weapons were no longer as dirty and disgusting, even the faint bloody scent from before had thoroughly disappeared.

Staring at the absurdly long blades, he decided to use one as a walking stick. As for the other one he would try and shorten it.

"Maybe I can wear away the bone using the sharp rocks by the river?"

Thinking so, he went around looking for sharp rocks that could be used to whittle the bone part of the bone blade. It was hard to wield since only the blade part was sharp while the handle or the bone was longer.

Having such a long handle would make it c.u.mbersome to use. It was like a spear with an absurdly long blade.

There was no way he was going to use the bone knife to whittle at the bone. That would only dull the knife instead which would be a minus.

Rocks were everywhere, he thought, smashing the smooth rocks on the ground or against other boulders; he could possibly create another sharper rock to wear down the bone blade.

It was around midday from how the sun was positioned. So he decided to hurry, it'd be best if he could finish whittling the blade before the sun sets.

'I should also try and start a fire, it should be safe here since I haven't detected any monsters nearby.'

He started walking toward the forest again while looking for dry sticks and dry tree barks in order to start a fire.

With a fire, he could also cook the 'blade bear' that he slayed earlier.

After around 30 minutes, Cecil came back to his camp site with a bunch of dry wood, sticks and also a handful of dry leaves. He also went around and gathered some of the rocks in the vicinity, dug out a small pit, and surrounded the pit with the rocks.

He picked up a stick and flattened the edge. Then a pile of dried leaves and a piece of bark and started to try and make a fire.

If done correctly, you could start a fire using friction from rubbing together the stick on top of the dried bark.

The entire process took a long while, maybe close to an hour or more. He was able to produce enough heat that caused a smoke, but then got ahead of himself and failed horribly.

It was only after he started to produce smoke on the third try that he was able to let the dried leaves on the bark catch on fire.

After producing the fire, he then moved the fire into a pit he dug earlier, and started to arrange the dried leaves and sticks around the bark. A few minutes later a proper campfire was created in the pit.

"Phew, finally done."

It was the early in the afternoon judging by the position of the sun, Cecil walked towards the forest again and started searching for more leaves and sticks. After finding a sufficient amount, he finally started working on the bone blade.

"Urk… This is harder than I thought."

After 30 minutes of cutting the bone with the rocks, it only wore away a miniscule amount of the bone.

"I've got nothing to do so let's just continue…"

He already started roasting the bear meat.

The meat was suspended above the fire pit using thick sticks that he picked up. The meat was cooking slowly, but even after being suspended above the fire for 30 minutes, they still didn't seem to be fully cooked yet.

Continuing with the grinding, it was only after another 30 minutes that the bear meat was finally cooked to perfection.

"Time to dig in."

"Woof!"

Cecil stopped grinding and took down the huge cooked bear meat that was suspended above the fire.

He then sliced up the bear meat in 2 portions, 1 portion was for himself while the other was for Silver.

The size of the bear meat was huge, but due to his training he would normally eat a lot. Plus he was also pretty famished from the earlier fight with the bear.

After giving Silver his portion of meat, Cecil then cut his up into bite size pieces and continued grinding at the bone blade while eating.

The meat was good. It was greasy and didn't have a bland taste, contrary to the fact that it wasn't seasoned or anything.

Cecil didn't dare use any of the plants or herbs from the area since he didn't know if they had any adverse effects if consumed or used as seasoning.

He could find some rock salt, but since this is a new world, he wasn't sure if the rock salts from earth are the same as the ones from here.

'If only I had a way of obtaining information. I'm an avid reader of fantasy novels and what not, since they're somewhat like the bullshit that my father and grandfather fed me when I was still a child. But in those novels, the settings was somewhat like this, teleportation to another world and such, but the main character always had some game like element added to him after the summon!'

Anyway, since he couldn't identify any of the plants around, he couldn't make medicine or seasoning.

He could experiment, but on what?

No way in hell would he use Silver or himself as guinea pigs, right? He could capture some animals and experiment on them, but if all the animals in this world were monster-like, the same with that earlier 'blade bear', then that would just be playing with his and Silver's lives.

Before any of that, what should he do now?

Referencing from the novels he's read, the main character would be summoned to some majestic place and have the inhabitants tell him his objective, or their objective, in being summoned to that world. With that, the summoned person would at least have a goal to work towards too.

Not him he was just dumped in the middle of a forest and had to face a ferocious beast minutes after arriving.

'It was a good thing that I was a trained harsher than my siblings. If I wasn't, I'd be the one lying on the ground decapitated and mutilated. Speaking of which, what did happen to my family?

In theory, since he was engulfed in that white light and summoned here, shouldn't his family have experienced the same phenomenon?

Maybe the same thing happened with the people in the city and the surroundings who were engulfed by the white light.

'Were they also summoned here to this world? Man, it's all turning into a big headache, but if my family was summoned here, I have to find them, but without information, how am I even supposed to start?'

"Ahhhhhh come on!"

As Cecil was lamenting on his misfortune and bleak future, he suddenly lashed out and threw the stick he was playing with.

"Hiiiihhh???"

"Wha?"

A sudden high pitched scream echoed out somewhere in front of him. Cecil quickly looked ahead and caught something hiding behind a tree in the distance, just a dozen meters or so from where he set camp.

'Damnit, how could I let my guard down, to think something was able to sneak up on me so close without me being aware?'

"Silver! Get ready for battle!"

Cecil grabbed the bone blade that he was whittling away earlier, took up a stance and ordered Silver to get ready.

He then started moving closer to the tree where the sound came from.

"Come out! I already know you're there!"

Not knowing what was behind the tree, he proceeded with caution.

Judging from what made the sound, it didn't sound like a monster animal.

In his heart, Cecil hoped that the sound came from a human who was also transported here like him.

"Hurry up and come out!"

Cecil took a glance towards Silver and signaled him to go around the tree and flush the perpetrator out.

Silver slowly made his way around the tree, making sure he didn't make a sound. His injured leg was hindering him a bit, but he still managed to get close to the left side of the tree.

"RAAAARRR!"

Silver pounced and Cecil quickly moved up preparing to stab his bone sword at the enemy, but then he heard a surprised shout that made him hesitate.

"KYAAAHHH!"

BAM! THUD!

Silver tumbled out behind the tree with something underneath him.

It was small, so Cecil couldn't see it from where he was standing. He alertly raised his sword preparing to attack, while moving closer to get a better aim at the target.

As he moved closer, Cecil finally caught a glimpse of what was underneath Silver and was dumbfounded by what he saw.

"Grrrrrr"

"Hiiiihhh!"

"Heel boy! Stop!"

He immediately stopped Silver from trying to attack any further.

'I-its another person, right?'

Well, the person was a young girl, around Cecil's age. She had long platinum colored hair, a cute face that was scrunched up in a horrified expression.

The only difference she had with Cecil were the 3 fluffy tails attached to the area near her butt and her ears weren't on the side of her head like Cecil, but they were on top of her head. They also looked like animal ears.

She wasn't a human. She looked more like a half beast half human.

"Wh-what are you?!"

"Uwaaaahh, ***t ***l **!!"

And that was how Cecil met the person who would become the most important person in his life.