it's been a week. Asuka started to grow wheat, and she decorated our house with a flower garden. The cows are in their pen and the sheep (who followed us here) are in theirs. Asuka knitted a fine carpet for the flooring, and i'm getting ready to start mining for ores.
"You sure you don't want me to come with you, Shinji?"
"Yeah, I'm fine with doing this, it's a man's job after all."
"Oh please, knowing you you might get stuck in a cave somewhere! I'll go with you just so I could save your sorry ass when you get trapped."
"Hey! Don't jinx that!" I got my pickaxe and bag ready, and Asuka just got dressed with a mining outfit she crafted: a tank top and overalls. I just had my t-shirt and slacks from before. We hiked a bit for 20 minutes when we stumbled upon a cave.
"Here goes!" "Wait, idiot," Asuka lit up a few torches, placing them on the cave walls as we walked.
"We can't just mindlessly mine in the dark!" "Oh, thanks Asuka." I blushed, feeling stupid. So we started to dig. At first it was just plain stone but then we came across some coal… we dug farther. Iron!
"Good, we could use this to make armor and upgrade our tools." "Great! I think we— AHH!" Asuka Dissapeared into a black pit.
"Asuka!" I lit a torch. "I'm fine Shinji, I just… broke my ankle.." Shit. i started to dig a stairway so I could walk to her and get her out of here. Soon I heard something foul coming ahead of us… "MMMMMMMMMMOAHHHN" The voiced moaned and groaned.
"Asuka, whatever you do, do not-" "AHHHHHH!" Asuka was clearly staring down at something. Further down into the darkness of the cave, stared back at us two bright purple eyes. Without hesitation, the figure came at us and struck with the stone it was carrying.
"Oof!" I moaned as I fell to the ground. "Ah!" Asuka shrieked. I didn't even get the chance to get up, I was knocked down again by the black giant. Soon after three more hits I was paralyzed, seeing red. Well great… This is the end after the end. Why couldn't I just wake up in my bed after I separated with mother…?
I wake, back in the bed where I woke up this morning, except it was evening. I feel like I've done nothing the first couple of days we were here, yet here I was, in the hut me and Asuka crafted together. And there lay asuka, sleeping soundly.
"Hey, get up." I shook Asuka awake. "Ugh, let me sleep, idiot…" She pushed me aside and rolled over, her back towards me. Well, back to the Crafting board…. except I need to get back what I came to that mine for!
I left the hut in a hurry to that same cave, no food, no tools, no weapons. I left empty handed. Quickly, I climbed down the hole we fell from and dug myself out of it. I've obtained the iron we mined, there was no way I was going to leave that there!
After getting back home, I put the iron ore in the furnace to smelt into Iron ingot, and I picked up a book I found on the floor… it looked like instructions on how to build different things, what stood out the most was the instructions on how to build armor. I went to work right away, and I built two sets of armor, two swords, and two pickaxes made of iron. I'm not sure how long this is going to keep up until we finally die out… but I had the strangest feeling everything I need to know is in this one book I found on the floor…
To be continued