Chapter 2.
Falling into a beast world was already a lot to take in, but hearing an imaginary voice and seeing things as if they were installed in one's eyes, was just about the right amount of crazy. June wasn't sure if she had crossed over to the afterlife out of shock without knowing it or perhaps gone mad.
At first she thought this could be it, but then it occurred to her that she could still throw in a request or two to whoever was gonna kill her, since she was going to die anyway.
Her eyes tightly shut as she whispered faintly, a tint of dramatic denial in her voice, "If you want to kill me, just do it without inflicting much pain."
[Do not be afraid, host!
Bigo is here to help you get adapt better in the Beast world, so host doesn't die since the host is useless]
The tiny innocently naive voice said.
"Useless?!"
That sounded like an insult regardless of what good intentions it had towards her, she wasn't planning on dying either way so she could at least tolerate this much.
June looked around, still no presence detected, the voice really was coming from her head so it seemed.
With a chuckle she thought to herself, "so it's true what they say, during a person's finally moment dopamine shoots up the brain's activities, I can't believe I'm hearing voices now."
[Voices?
Is the host implying I am but a figment of her imagination?]
The sudden change in the tiny and cute creature's voice sounded like it had suddenly hit puberty.
She could sense something ominous occurring and with her life on the line she knew she had made a mistake.
June looked around, wherever the presence could possibly snag from and kill her, "That's not it, calm down will you, my head hurts so none of this makes sense to me, but if you could reveal yourself to me, I guess that'll make you more believable."
There was silence, June seemed to have temporarily calmed whatever could have killed her in an instant. [Bigo thinks The Host is right.]
In an instant, a thick cloud of white fog filled the atmosphere, violent winds erupted, as trees shook with great pressure, whatever it was seemed to forget she was just a small being who could get whisked away with the tempest if she wasn't tied to the tree.
A small figure formed before her.
A dog? A cat? A rabbit? So many questions guessing what the entity was ran through her head, and with each second her anxiety grew, whatever it was certainly didn't look normal.
Finally the transformation seemed complete and the shadow stepped out, her expectancy dropped.
"A toad!"
It leaped into the air and onto her head.
"I am Bigo, your beast world guide, here to help you adapt into the world you've been sent to."
Her eyes lit up with tears, her nose drooling as she wept profoundly, "Oh thank goodness, I always knew I had a guardian angel somewhere."
"Bigo would like to explain the world host has been sent to for better understanding.
This world is a beast world as the name implies the people-"
"Yea, yea, I already got all that part, skip whatever intro you want to say, we can go over it later but first do something about my situation, help me get out of here."
"No problem, host."
The ropes behind her became unbound and June was finally free. Tired from such an eventful day, she let out a huge sigh of relief, her knees weakened as she fell to the ground with a sigh of relief.
"What the heck! I'm alive!!!!"
[Warning]
[Night time Approaching]
June turned to the creature, "Night time? How's that dangerous?" she asked, but the nervous look on its face said it all.
"That's because the untamed beasts usually go out hunting at night," Bigo answered cheerfully.
"I see," she said followed by a long pause, when it finally struck her. Filled with enthusiasm she got up on her feet, "then Bigo, build me a small shack."
"Negative!"
Her hope seemingly crumbled like a glass, "Negative?! What does that mean?"
"Bigo has used up hosts' survival points to set the host free."
"Well why didn't you say that earlier?"
"Doesn't host remember telling Bigo to skip Beast world preview. Bigo couldn't explain how Survival points work because host was hasty and stupid."
Yeah, June was having an earful with her stupidity pointed out, and at this point she couldn't even reprimand the damned toad since he was basically right..
Admitting defeat she let out a heavy sigh, "So what do we do? How am I supposed to survive this place of everyone is out to kill me~"
She was already at her limit, at this point it would have been better if she didn't have her hopes up in the first place.
Bigo seemed to be deep in thoughts when he leaped into the air in excitement. Bigo, on the ground now, could now inform June about the preview she skipped.
"The Host is going to survive by showcasing her survival skills which would be turned into survival points for store purchase of course."
"Survival skill?" June asked with great shock on her face, damned, she looked way worse than she did while crying, it was almost as if she had heard something so tragic.
"I- I don't have any survival skills."
The look in the toads eyes could say it all, it was anything but hopeful, and yet its words seemed to carry the weight doubtful hope, "You don't? I'm sure you should have something, a lot of female protagonists from those novels all seem to have survival skills when they fall into the beast world."
"But- I- really don't," she answered shyly.
"Can you start a fire with wood?"
"Fire can be started with wood?"
"Build a tent?"
"No!"
"Make noodles from potato flour?"
There was a long silence, disappointment written all over the Toad's face to the point where it was screaming about just how much of an idiot it had been paired with.
"No! I mean, it's not common knowledge, I live in a Gen Z generation, we'd die without the Internet."
"Wow," Bigo said sarcastically, "unfortunately your cause of death won't be from lack of wifi, it'd be from actually getting eaten alive because you're too stupid to know basic survival skills," Bigo lashed out. "You've got four hours until night time, and, if you're unable to figure things out by then."
At long last reality dawned on June, she was gonna die no matter how she looked at the situation, if it wasn't by wild animals, it'd be by hunger or cold, how was she going to survive if she had never taught herself a survival skill.
"But-" she said with a long pause, "weren't you going to brief me on how to survive out here? It must mean there's a way or two out of this mess right."
When Bigo looked at his host he realised he was now staring at the eyes of a hopeless human, he couldn't have her dying just yet and too soon. Its reputation was at stake.
It sighed woefully, "I could go over the preview, there might be something there that might help, but it's over an hour long, it'll cost you an hour of your precious time, but I mean, you'd die either way so, oh well."
Like an obedient child, June sat upright ready to listen- unaware how long an hour of someone talking actually was.
Her eyes had began to close as she slowly drifted into sleep, whatever Bigo was saying seemed to be going in one ear and out the next.
[In the Gacha pool you only have one lucky spin so it'll be a waste if it goes to waste.
Closet can be upgraded according to the season-]
"Hold on!" She yelled. "What did you say?"
[Closet can be upgraded accor-]
"No, not that, the Gacha, did you say I had a Gacha?"
June had thought to herself, this was her gold, her one chance of getting out of this mess. If anything, she's played gachas before and found that Gachas tend to give the best price in the first draw of a new player. "That's it."
Or so she thought, until after she used her free spin to draw the Gacha, which seemingly landed on the mysterious price.
[Congratulations hosts, you've won the mysterious price, your reward is being distributed]
A light ray of light suddenly appeared on June's thighs, her eyes beamed with a sparkle of hope as her rewards slowly manifested. She could feel the weight sink into her thighs, this reward, whatever it was seemed valuable as she prayed earnestly.
"-a book?!"
"Congratulations Host. You've won the Beast World Encyclopedia."
Her reward. Was an encyclopaedia.