The morning has come once again upon Rikuro. He got out of his tent and stretched.
"Aaah~ New day, new challenges. God I really hate being here." As he finished stretching, he went to the river, drank some water and sat down in the same spot where he had been thinking yesterday.
"I've acquired water, shelter, and fire, now I'll just need food to eat." He knew the deadly predators that inhabit this forest but a man's gotta eat.
" 'Men must eat', Sun Tzu definitely said something like that." As he brushed the dust from his bottom, he took one of the spears he made yesterday and left the camp.
"I shouldn't wander off too far, it would be hard to come back to the base if I go further." He explored around the area to find something he can easily kill.
The most he could see were bugs, he won't eat bugs for as long as he can. "Bugs are protein, but bugs are definitely not food. Food is something you can eat and enjoy.. bugs aren't it."
He kept looking around the area, but no luck. That's when he got the wonderful idea. "Fishing you idiot, you have a spear, a river literally near you, and you're scurrying around in the forest for something to eat, you idiot."
He quickly went back to his base and straight to the river near it. He pulled up his pants and readied his spear. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the fish to come.
As he waited, he spotted something moving from the corner of his eye, he looked at it, and it's a fish. "Yes! Finally!" He exclaimed, for two days he hadn't eaten, this would be the first time.
He went and threw the spear at the fish, the spear flew in the water and struck a rock near the fish. "Gah! God dang it, come back here!" He ran to his spear to take it back and readied to catch the fish again, but it already swam away. "Of course it swam away, great, just great."
He slumped his shoulders, disappointed in himself. What was all that throwing yesterday for. He cooled his nerves and waited again. This time he won't let it get away.
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"Splash!"
"THERE!" As quickly as he heard something move in the water, he threw his spear, and it hit true. Piercing the fish straight through the eyes. "Headshot! Hell yeah!!!!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. He took his spear and walked to his camp, where he laid down the fish on where he was sitting this morning.
"First to de-scale the fish, then take out the gills, and then the internal organs." Using his handy-dandy flint, he scraped the scales off the fish, and took out the gills and the organs with his fingers, and threw them on the sidelines into the bush.
"God it still feels weird" as he finished cleaning the fish in the river, he cleaned his hands too. He already knew what to do, the Isekai anime he had watched always showed them cooking fish in a campfire.
He used a small stick he had found and used it to skewer the fish through the mouth, then he put it near the campfire, where it stood there. He then refueled the campfire and reignited it.
"Finally, food, food, food, food!" He couldn't wait for the fish to finish cooking, the smell only making him hungrier. His feet were jittering with excitement. As he flipped the fish onto the other side so it wouldn't burn, he heard a loud howl, it's definitely closer than any of what he'd heard before.
"Wolves, right now huh. Can't be too hard.. yeah this might be where I die." He took his spear and his backup spear near him. He was cautious, his back turned on the river, no wolves would get there. His focus is on the forest infront of him.
He stood there guarding for a while, clenching his fist. The fish finished cooking before a noise was made in front of him. "I guess I'm safe.. must've been a coincidence."
He took the fish on a stick and blew on it. He was still cautious so he was on guard even after taking the fish. As the fish cooled down, his guard lowered too.
He took a bite out of the fish's side. "Dang.. it has no seasoning at all, but it still tastes.. so good." He felt tears coming out of his eyes. "Dang, those animes were not exaggerating about food. I won't go naked just because of eating tho."
As he kept continuing eating, it finally came. Sounds came from the bushes, and a gray blur was seen going closer to Rikuro. "Not a coincidence then!" He took the spear on his side. The wolf was in the air, in the middle of pouncing on him. "DIE YOU CANINE PIECE OF-!"
He used the spear to penetrate the soft underside of the wolf's jaw, using the spear as leverage he closed the wolf's mouth and stabbed further into the back of its throat. He got clawed by its paw, but luckily it wasn't a feline so its claws weren't sharp.
He kicked the wolf's belly causing it to fly into the sky, fly in the wind. Making the spear dislodge, and blood spilled out of its throat, killing it in the process.
As he rolled up, he saw 3 more wolves in the back who didn't decide to ambush him. He then noticed a system message in the middle of those 3 wolves.
『Pack of Wolves』
A group of wolves that can consist off 2 to 12 wolves. They hunt and live together trusting each other with their lives.
"This is it huh.. this is my great sage. This is how I'd be overpowered!" He gripped his hand, clenching the spear. He readied himself to fight those 3 wolves.
"BRING IT ON YOU CANINES!! THIS'LL BE YOUR END!"