Nishino felt a chill running through him.
His instincts were warning him that something terrible was going on.
And he was right.
One of the goblins in the parking lot had attacked a passerby.
The sight of one of the goblins on a horse, stabbing a passerby with a blade in its hand, did not seem real.
“Huh, wait, right now, did someone just get stabbed ? You’re kidding ”
“ ! Rikka, let’s go!”
Nishino took Rikka’s hand and quickly returned to the room.
“Ah, Nishino. The tremor earlier was terrible. The power went out. Should I call a waiter?”
“That’s not the point! Let’s get out of here right now!”
Nishino recounted the scene they had just witnessed.
At first Shibata and the others were skeptical, but after seeing Nishino’s grim look and the goblins and orcs that were actually near the entrance, they finally understood that what he was saying was no joke.
They walked out the back door with the friend who was working there part-time.
They could hear the cries of monsters and screams of people everywhere.
“Wh, what the hell is this .?”
“What’s going on .?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know, but we’re going to have to evacuate to some other place.”
But where should we go?
As Nishino was thinking about it, he felt a chill behind him.
“Gyaah!”
A nearby goblin attacked him.
The shout and the power of the attack made Nishino stiffen involuntarily.
“ ! Don’t touch Nishino you monsterr!”
It was Shibata who moved instead.
He swung the handbag he was carrying at the goblin.
“Gigiya?!”
The goblin could not withstand the impact and was swept away, crashing into a telephone pole and became motionless.
“Hah hah did it work?”
“Shibata, sorry. You saved me ”
“It wasn’t much. Don’t mind. Anyway, are you hurt?”
“ ? What’s wrong, Shibata?”
“No, I just heard a strange voice . Something like “your level has increased” and “your experience has increased” .”
“What are you talking about, Shibatachi?
“No, I don’t know either, but ”
At first, everyone thought it was Shibata’s imagination.
But then Rikka, then Ono, and finally Nishino killed a monster and heard the announcement, which made them understand that it was neither an auditory hallucination nor an echo.
The existence of statuses, professions, and skills confused them even more.
“Hey, does this mean the world is like a game now? Are you kidding me?”
“Is it like transmigrating to another world? It’s like a novel.”
“No, it can’t be. This ”
“But the professions, the effects of the skills, and the monsters are real. At least it’s not like we’re all under some kind of mass hypnosis.”
They couldn’t believe it, but they understood that this is what the world has become.
Then, their group headed to a nearby home center with the thought that they could find some weapons and supplies that could be used in the battle against the monsters.
Whether they had already escaped or had been attacked by Treant’s, it was not clear, but the home center was completely in ruins.
Taking advantage of this, they hid themselves inside the store.
That was the end of the first day.
The night dawned, and on the second day, the incident occurred.
“– then, let’s split up and check the area.”
“Yus.”
As a new dawn broke, Nishino and his group decided to check the situation around the home center.
Nishino and Rikka, Ono and Shibata, the rest of the group split up and moved.
“It wasn’t a dream, was it ?”
“Ah, I wish it was.”
The situation did not change after a night of sleep.
Monsters were spreading around, attacking people, destroying everything in their path, and setting fires.
It looked like a scene straight out of hell.
“I wonder if everyone else is okay.”
“We just have to believe that they’re okay.”
The search went smoothly.
Thanks to the skills they had acquired, they were able to defeat the monsters without much difficulty.
“Hey, someone! Please help!”
“No! Stop it!”
They heard a scream.
When they followed the sound, they found two men and a woman being attacked by goblins.
“Nisshi, look! People are being attacked by monsters!”
“Two goblins, Rikka?”
The two of them immediately went to help them.
They defeated the goblins without difficulty and approached the people who had been attacked.
“Ah, ahh, thank you ugh.”
“You look injured. We should quickly treat you.”
“Th, thank you.”
Nishino took out bandages and antiseptic solution from his bag.
Nishino had picked one from the home center. Well, it was technically stealing but he was glad he had brought it with him.
Shibata had taught him how to apply first aid, so he was able to manage it somehow.
“Fuuh. First let us -?!”
All of a sudden, Nishino felt the familiar chill wash over him.
This was the effect of the “Crisis Detection” skill.
“Gishiiaa!”
In the next moment, the goblins he had been hiding from attacked him from behind.
“Nisshi!”
Rikka and the other woman were standing a few feet away.
Rikka ran desperately, but she was still a second too late.
(It’s okay, calm down! I can still avoid it at the last minute.)
Nishino calmly assessed the situation.
He could still dodge the goblin’s attack while protecting the man.
Just as he thought this, he suddenly lost his balance.
For a moment, he didn’t know what had happened.
It was as if someone had suddenly pushed him away
“Ah, hik! fo, forgive me .”
The man staggered away while covering his wounds.
Seeing this, Nishino understood.
The man had pushed him forward.
He was terrified of the monster approaching them, and he quickly used Nishino as bait in order to escape.
“Nisshi! Wait a minute, old man, just what in the hell– kyaa?!”
Rikka yelled at the man but the next moment, she was also pushed forward by the woman who she had saved, and lost her balance.
“ Do, don’t blame me Y, you! Hurry! Over here!”
“Ah, ahh!”
Rikka looked at them with an indescribable expression on her face as they struggled to escape.
“Hey! We were trying to save you–!”
“Gishaa!”
“Gii!”
“Gee!”
She did not have a chance to finish her sentence.
There were more goblins who were emerging from their hiding spot.
If they had any skills related to “spotting the enemy”, they would have easily found out.
But, neither Nishino nor Rikka had that kind of skill.
They had no idea that such a skill existed, or that monsters had the intelligence to hide and trick them.
“Guh, youu!”
Rikka desperately swung her machete at the attacking goblins.
“It’s, it’s okay!”
Nishino took a deep breath and activated his skill.
“– ‘Don’t move’!”
T/N: is Nishino related to the Inumaki clan??? OwO
“Gii .?”
“Giggi ?”
In that instant, the goblins stiffened in response to Nishino’s ‘order’.
“Alright, Rikka! It’s now or never!”
Rikka took advantage of the gap and killed the goblins one by one.
“U, uwaa?!”
“Wh, why .? Why isn’t my body moving?”
But, what Nishino didn’t expect was that those who had abandoned them and tried to flee were also in the area of effect of the order.
“Wh why ?”