Episode 1 『I lost myself in another world』

   “Hey~, mister uncle~, don’t you want to go to another world~?”

   While totally spacing out and walking to the convenience store, a little girl might have accosted me like so. Will the little girl appearance be about 10 years old? In Japan nowadays, in this good age, a man isn’t a suitable target to strike a conversation to on the roadside. Furthermore, I certainly cannot be described as an uncle!

   I search, lightly looking at the surrounding for the guardian. Chill, normally there wouldn’t be any strange meaning to just have searched for the guardian?  It doesn’t mean that I tried to do something dangerous right?

   At any rate, someone that appears to be this little girl’s guardian couldn’t be found in the vicinity,  as a result it’s my duty to immediately send her home or perhaps give her into custody to the police or something depending on her situation.

   “O~kay, shall I come with you?”

   Me who was thinking if I couldn’t start asking her address and where the parents are if given a chance answered so.

   “I got it. Then~… you follow me!”

   The little girl who hears my reply flashes a face brimming with vitality and no sooner then she answered so, TE – TE – TE – TE – TE ~ ended up running, going away. Stop it because it is dangerous for a child to run alone! It’s super bad to leave her to herself, reluctantly, do I run after her?

   A little girl running at her best, and compared to that, a man (22) running at his best. Blast it, this will certainly be reported if it is seen by anyone.

   Though it runs after, In the meantime I am having cold sweat as I’m thinking how did it come to this, the little girl’s foot is strangely fast and it is not possible to catch on at all. At that place, because the road divided into left and right I ended losing sight of the presence of her appearance.

   Relying on and giving chase after the fleeting little girl’s voice “Mister, over this way”, finally the heard crisp voice died out and I lost track completely.

   “I might be too miserable to have a complete defeat in a running speed contest against a little girl… …” I ended up lightly yielding. Ah, what will happen if I don’t make it early to take her along to smoke out the parents.

   Breathing a sigh “Ahh” and inspecting my circumference in my view, nothing but trees could be seen. On top of that, they were all su-per thick trees. What is this, it’s scary.

   Eh, seriously, wait a minute, this, what’s the meaning? Me, until a while ago, would I have been in the neighborhood, no? Such a place that overflows of nature is not within a walking range even if I’m making a mistake.

   Uwahh, danger-ous-, I accidentally ended up completely losing myself on the way is the meaning of this? I’ve never come to this type of place, me. I became a lost child at 22 years old,  this isn’t a good age at all…

   Kyoro … Kyoro… Though it looks about once more, it was still a location not known by sight no matter how it thinks about it. While it took a desperate turn to run after the little girl, dis she completely vanish? In a word, it is chancy!

   However, let’s rely on an appropriate civilization device at a time like this, let’s turn to the smartphone. The present place is not displayed for some reason though it tries to display the map with the smartphone. Moreover, the phone [out of range] is on. This is serious, isn’t it?

   Ah, shit, it’s embarrassing but at this point I can do nothing but ask for directions. Or rather, that little girl, where did she go… …?

   For the time being I walk trudgingly back the way I came. As I thought to myself “I merely went out in order to go to the convenience store, how did it become this way?”, something moved at the corner of my eyes.

   Though that is seen by reflex action, there are only clumps of bushes and trees and anything is not especially found. What, there’s nothing out of the ordinary, tch? but there -was- really something there that moved~!

   When the head was twisted so, it heard of [gasari], a sound from the back. This made me again reflexively turned that way. 

   “–Ha?”

   It’s a giant opened mouth that reflect in my eyes. Yellowish stained fangs here, there. Slippery drooled saliva.

   “Wa!”

   Seeing this incomprehensible circumstances while squeezing out some opinion I couldn’t finish, I succeed in squatting down protecting my head momentarily and managing to avoid whatever that came rushing.

   “Ouuuch, what- on earth is going on-!” though it goes on shouting, abruptly the internal acute pain that came running home and could be felt from my body until now vanished. 

   The pain like possible to be laughed by the nose, the kind of pain that has never been felt up to now has gone out from the arm. All of the ideas are deprived by the pain, a swelling impulse wanting to scream right now is burning up inside me.

   What’s this? What kind of joke is this? What happened? So I could find out what caused that pain, I turn my gaze to my own arm.

   “Hii!”

   My arm, it’s not.  It’s impossible.  What is this, why is that?

   My usual arm, it isn’t there. From the elbow on, my arm that had been there is gone, and blood had been gushing out by the flow.

   “Gahhhhhh—–”  

   It hurts It hurts It hurts It hurts It hurts It hurts. Nothing goes through the mind. Just a minute, what did I see a while ago?

   While an unbecoming cry resounded, I switched my focus to glance back to see a gigantic beast there.

   With a wolf-like body standing on four legs, yet with a gigantic body that you look up to, with its strapping fangs displayed, and obviously having a mindset that says “I will EAT you”, It is currently looking this way. 
TLN: I feel like a little red riding hood. Shouldn’t it have been him the wolf and his victim the girl??? kuh

   “Aaaa!!” 

   The pain and fear make my ideas go soppy. What is that guy. How come there’s a monster like shape like this. What is it, why did it happen?

   The monster came rushing here once again when shouting out of pain and fear.

   “Gii–!”

   While voicing out stuff I can’t understand very well myself, I leap on the left side. Without even taking some sort ukemi technique since I don’t know anything about it. It didn’t even matter. It dies if it doesn’t avoid it now.  It dies being eaten.
TLN: Ukemi is the kind of defensive martial art shit of rolling about and taking stance to absorb off impact.

   Through desperate desire alone, I attempt to avoid the monster’s rush, and then I didn’t make it.

   “Higyaaaaaaa!!”

   It’s the right leg this time. In turn it wasn’t badly bitten off whole, the fang only stuck in the leg.

   Unfortunately the monster was pleased with the current situation, his face huffing, swinging my leg forcefully against my will as it is tearing it up. There was no purpose for me to use my remaining hand or anything to stop it, and without making the leg completely torn up, and it leap out in the distance with great display of power as it was.

   “―――――――――!!”

   Then, “Bachin”, something stroke against me while making a loud noise and later on I fell on the ground. Did I get knocked against the tree, my back is in pain. My leg is painful, my arm is painful, it’s painful all over my body, and even the voice can’t be raised. Afraid of death, it vomits eaten by the fear.

   Is that so, a monster?

   That guy, chew chew chew, it was munching on something. Unpleasantness, as you’d expected when I’m using such description like that, I’m talking about my leg. By some chance, might be an arm.

   It is already useless.  I die here.  The monster will eat me, I’ll become a lump of flesh, I will dissolve. 

   It is already unpleasant, if you’re going to kill me, kill me quickly.  Please make it to end early. 

   I close firmly the eyes to turn my eyes away from fear, I want to be granted death early.  The exsanguination (hemorrhagic death) could likely occur before I might be eaten.

   It hurts It hurts I’m scared I’m scared It hurts It hurts. What are you doing beast. Hurry it up and kill me. Bring it to an end.

   However, no matter how much time pass the monster doesn’t come to kill me.

   “… …?”

   Though I could see well from the tears earlier, I strain my eyes. That beast, what is it doing?

   Gugaa! Gii-!

   The fellow is letting out a strange voice while struggling to make it, It seemed to have eyes not to care about me or such. What the? Is it suffering? Was human flesh a poison for that guy by any chance? Haha-, serves you right. Though I’m going to die, YOU’ll also come with me.

   While raising a voice of anguish the monster is noisily struggling. Before long, perhaps its suffering is reaching its summit; it’s giving out a conspicuously large voice. And simultaneously something is ripping out of the monster’s abdomen and that thing jumps out towards my location.

   I will die this time. Thinking so, I closed my eyes a second time. However, consideration doesn’t become interrupted at all.  That is, somehow the body’s pain is being pulled back.  Is blood lost too much and has the sense weakened?

   Glimpse, I open my eye.

   “Eh?”

   Just wait a minute, wh-why is there a grown up arm? Wh-why is there a grown up leg too? Wh-what, how it became?  Dangerous, never the less, stuff like arms and also legs had bloodstain slime. What is thiiisss, it’s scary.

   Then, unintentionally, I look towards that guy. That guy is making extremely small movements with its ripped open abdomen. It’s obvious this guy is breaking down.

   Limbs of slime, split the abdomen open, that something that broke through came jumping at me, that which the fellow had eaten, my limbs.

   Per chance, did my limbs try to return to its origin and did it tear up this fellow’s belly? Unpleasantness, its impossible. However, It cannot explain this situation if it doesn’t doesn’t think so. I never heard about such a monster like I saw either.

   The situation might not have been swallowed and I’m reminded of the words that should be said for my confused state of mind.

      『Hey~, mister uncle~, don’t you want to go to another world~?』

 “Another world… …”

   How did it happen, I don’t understand. What kind of existence that little girl was, I don’t understand. Even so, there is one thing which I understood. Here: in the different world, my body seems to have become something serious.

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   Later, I’m gonna make sure to hit that kid once.