~sigh~ "Fukou Da..."

as you can tell from my usual phrase but with a tint of an exasperated sigh, my body is currently buried underground while my head being the only thing to be seen on the ground, is feeling the carbon dioxide being exhaled by a 2 meter sized Magic-beast right in front of me...I think I might die today.

Also, a blonde guy buried right next to me was continuesly eating a Roasted meat on the ground. I can't blame him though...I wonder, how did I get here?

~ 20 hours earlier ~

As the carriage continues down the road traveling at 60 kilometers per hour...Y-Yes...60km per hour, Why you ask? Well...it might be the flock of Horned dogs chasing the carriage, the Omega-bear (a bear whose body was covered with a blue and yellow stripped pattern) chasing them with its mouth leaking with saliva, the flock of Red carnivorous Hunter hens (Ostrich looking red birds that has beaks as sharps as a knife.) racing at the same speed as the Carriage or the Green Wyvern (a Green Wyvern) thats following those aforementioned beast, or maybe all of them...Probably all of them.

"Fukoouuhh!!" said the boy as he desperately holds on to the carriage traveling at 60kmph.

"It hasn't even been Half a day since I left the Kingdom and my luck came following me even in my Quest!! Fukou Dahh!!" shouted Kamijou while holding on with his dear life on the Carriage.

"Neh Kamijou-san, what the hell is Going on, in all 8 years of driving this carriage, this is the first time I've ever been in a situation like this!" said the Coachman as he struggles to control the horses.

"there must be a reason why there following us...Ah."

Even with the ever non-stop shaking of the carriage, Kamijou Touma would never mistake what was before his very eyes. There piled neatly and tied with a rope, were a pile of crates with a label that literally said "meat" on front with a logo of a pig giving a thumbs up.

"Neh...Coachman-san, can I ask you what your delivery was today?"

"Ah."

"Well...A desperate mans gotta do what a desperate and unlucky mans gotta do."

With the continues shaking, Kamijou tried approaching the crates while the carriage was traveling at 60kmph. In a minute of struggling with his stature, Kamijou was finally able to reach the crates.

With the non-stop shaking, Kamijou was having a hard time finding the end of the rope that was tying up all of the crates. He wanted to at least properly loosening the rope and get at least one crate and throw it out the carriage as a diversion but he couldn't find the end of it. With a desperate measure, he pulls out the sword he bought from Himegami and steadily pointed the sharp edge of the sword towards the rope.

Just as he was about to cut the rope, the coachman call out to him.

"Haaa-"

"Wait! Kamijou-san, I know what you're about to do is the most logical thing to do here but I advise you to not do it!"

"Huh? why? They're just meat products and obviously our lives are more important here!" said Kamijou while steadily holding his position.

"Each of those crates contain 10kgs of A5 Wagyu quality pork! One crate would at least be worth of up to 15 gold coins!"

"F-f-f-f-f-f-FIFTEEN GOLD!"

For Kamijou Touma, A single gold coin was worth 2 Months of an allowance for him, when working as a delivery boy, his salary was decent to say the least. Marking between 20-25 silver per month. He wasn't careless with spending his money with gambling or any type of addictive hobbies, in fact a Quarter of his payment was always sent to his family as a show of respect and sign that he was doing okay in the Kingdom.

Although his situation living as a Delivery boy with his bad of a luck can sometimes cause a bit of issues regarding his financial life. Misfortune was literally his arch-nemesis in his everyday life. Going to Hospitals were some of the main reasons he couldn't save as much even with all the time he had.Saving even a copper per day was a challenge for Kamijou.

You might think that since this is a Fantasy Iasekai version of Toaru, Potions would be a norm in healing, but in Kamijou's case...things aren't as easy as Chug jugging a bottle of healing potion.

With that being said, throwing a single crate of that meat was literally the same as throwing a child out of a window for Kamijou, since the price was equivalent to him saving up to at least 20 years, his choice was now limited. He could throw away even a single crate but Kamijou that would mean he would throw away 15 gold coins worth...he didn't want too.

While contemplating on what to do, one of the Horned dogs was able to catch up to the carriage. Its fit body jumped and aimed inside the carriage, Kamijou noticed this and quickly got his shield right in front of him. As the Dog landed inside the Carriage causing it to rattle a bit. The dog dashed straight towards Kamijou with its mouth wide open and its fangs ready to tear apart a piece of flesh right out of the boys body, Kamijou countered this by charging with his shield in front to push back the Beast. They clashed. The Dog struggles to try to bite off Kamijou's face, Kamijou readied the Sword in his other hand and proceeded to jab the sword into the Dogs body.

The Dog felt the Sword stabbing right through its body and some of the blood got splatted right on Kamijou's face, not a second later, it body losses it strength and fells to the ground, blood starts leaking from its body as it laid their with its soulless eyes.

Kamijou turned his direction to the Magic-beast with a determined face, he made his resolve to survive this Quest.

This wasn't the first time Kamijou killed a magic-beast, since he once lived in a location that wasn't guarded by walls like Marginal Kingdom, Kamijou and his family lived in a place where attacks from Magic-beast were happening at least once a month. So killing a Magic-beast like a Horned dog was an easy kill for him.

Kamijou pushed the Dead body out of the Carriage. As it hits the road, the green wyvern opened it's mouth a meter wide and swallowed the Dead Horned-dog whole.

Seeing it in front, Kamijou felt shivers down his spine. The Wyvern didn't even slowed down as it ate the dead beast, in fact it wanted more.

"This is bad, sooner or later those Hunter hens would catch up along with the other Horned dogs...What do I do?"

The chase continued on for another 5 minutes, soon after, the horses began slowing down due to exhaustion and the Magic Beast started catching up.

"Fuck! What do we do!?"

"Don't worry Kamijou-san, we're almost at my destination. Once we'll make it there, we'll be safe." said the Coachman with a confident face.

"I'll trust you on tha-"

All of a sudden, something happened. The carriage started tilting left for some reason, causing Kamijou to fall down to the side. The carriage was still running but it was tilting its direction away from the road, the shaking became even more intense. Kamijou quickly got up and tried to see what was going on. He look outside and saw the Omega bear already at the side of the Carriage.

"It Broke the left wheel!!" shouted Kamijou to inform the Coachman.

"What!?"

The Coachman couldn't control the carriage and they were heading to a open field.

"!?" Kamijou noticed the bear changing its location, it slowed down and headed to the other side of the Carriage.

"Shit don't tell me!?"

The Omega bear started pushing its body to the Carriage. Colliding with the carriage without losing its speed.

As the bear collided with the carriage the third time, it finally flipped.

"Shit!!"

It flipped on its side, dragging along the horses and killing one of it. Kamijou rolled along with the Carriage and hits his head along the crates, knocking him out in the process. As for the Coachman, he fell off the carriage.

"...ah.." Kamijou woke up a minute later with blood dripping from his head.

Kamijou was breathing heavily, he layed inside the wrecked Carriage with bruises all over his body.

"Haa...Haaa...This Fuckin Magic-beast are smart as shit..."

He tried standing up but his body was beaten up when the carriage rolled. Some of his ribs might have even been broken on the process.

The only thing he could do was pray. With every ounce of his strength left, he was able to position himself sitting beside one of the Meat crates.

He heard footsteps of Magic beast approaching the Carriage. Slowly, he was losing hope.

"Dammit...Guess this was all I could do in the end."

He saw a Horned dog approaching him slowly. Its eyes targeting the helpless boy with its saliva drooling out of its mouth.

(Haaa...this was even my first quest...what a letdown.)

Kamijou closed his eyes and readied his heart.

He heard something struggling in pain, he opened his eyes and saw the Horned dog laying on the with blood dripping out from its mouth. He saw something sticking out of its neck.

"An Arrow?"

Soon after, a bunch of noise was heard from outside the carriage. Most of the noise came from the Horned dogs Barking loud while the others were squealing in pain. A minute has passed and the noise was gone. He didn't hear a single beast outside the carriage.

"Huh?...what happened?"

His eyes were beginning to shut down.

"Ah.." he saw someone with blonde hair approach him slowly with a bow behind his back.

"...Who...?"

"Oh shit, Someone's in here! Somebody get the Medic!" said the blonde!

"...What...Happened?" asked Kamijou while he slowly losing his strength.

"Don't talk..were gonna take you to the medic!" said the Blonde.

He lifts Kamijou from his place and carries him out of the carriage. He places him on the ground and tried pulling out a potion of healing and started to put it on Kamijou mouth to make him drink it.

All of a sudden Kamijou grabs the hand of the blonde and pushed it away.

"It..won't work.."

"What?"

The blonde man was confuse on why Kamijou wouldn't try the Healing potion. Since the boys life was on the line here, he forced the potion straight into Kamijou's mouth. Slowly Kamijou began drinking the potion, and with the the Blonde man smiled.

"Good, keep drinking the potion. It'll heal yo-...!?."

All of a sudden his smile drops.

"What the?"

When drinking the healing potion, the body of the person was supposed to emit a light coming straight out if body. It was a sign that it was working. It should have worked for everyone...but Kamijou was different.

(...shit! At this rate he'll die!) thought the blonde boy.

As he was panicking on what to do, someone suddenly touched his shoulder and he turns around to see who it was. The man before him was a Frog-faced person. He wore a white coat and was carrying a briefcase with him.

"Move aside." said the man.

"...okay."

The Blonde boy moves and gives way to the person. He knew this person as the Medic of the group.

The Frog-faced person examined the boy and after a minute of looking around the boy's body, he turns to the Blonde boy and told him the condition of the Boy.

"He's conditions fine but we have to bring him to the Infirmary at the Base camp so I can fix him up. Did you try making him drink a Healing potion?"

"I did...but for some reason it didn't work."

"I see."

"Carry him to my Carriage. we gotta get to the Infirmary quick."

"Okay."

"Ah, that's an Unfamiliar ceiling." said Kamijou while still feeling a bit of pain on his body.

"Oh, you're awake." said the frog faced doctor.

He finds some parts of his body wrapped in bandages especially his head.

"I see...How long was I out?"

"You've been asleep for 6 hours."

"6 hours huh..."

He looks around to see where he was right now and all he can tell was that he was in a tent.

He looks through the window and notices that it was already noon.

"Where am I?"

"You're at infirmary in a base camp near a certain small village right now."

He looks to his side and finds his things placed In a wooden crate right next to him.

"How long before I get to leave."

"You can't leave that fast. At most it would take you 2 days to be fully healed."

"...I see."

"For now you should take this."

The Doctor hands over a Glass container with white powder with what seems to be medicine inside.

"What's this?"

"Medicine. For some reason Healing potions don't react to your body when you tried taking them, so my other result is this. It would help boost the recovery of your body, giving You a faster rate to get back on your journey."

"Really?"

"Yeah, also-."

All of a sudden someone burst in the Tent carrying a body of a heavily injured man. One thing was noticeable about this was that his was was missing an arm and blood was gushing out of the severed limb.

"Doctor!"

"Put him There!"

As soon as they laid the man on the bed, they covered the curtains and began helping them man. Kamijou was left shock to see what was happening.

"Where am I?"

Not long after a bunch of other injured men came in Barging in the Infirmary.

The infirmary was getting full.

Not soon after Kamijou heard a bunch of screams from the outside. It sounded like men who were charging at enemy territory.

It all felt like there was a war going on.

To try to distract himself, Kamijou began Digesting the Medicine given to him.

After ingesting the Medicine, he suddenly felt dizzy and his consciousness was starting to fade.

"A drug?"

Not long after Kamijou fell asleep.

~6 hours later~

Kamijou wakes up and felt his body feeling a bit better. He tried moving his arms a bit and they felt less painful than before. His head was a bit dizzy but he could tell that the medicine worked.

Slowly but surely he tried moving out of the bed for a quick test if he can walk around and...

"Whoa...I can walk. At this rate of recovery I can continue on with the quest."

He looks outside the window and notices that it was already dark out.

"By tomorrow I can get back on that Quest...huh?"

As while Kamijou was admiring his recovery, he notices a boy his height walked passed by the infirmary. His hair was blonde and was carrying a bow.

"It's him, the guy who saved me. I gotta thank him now for saving my life before I get back on my quest."

Without thinking twice he followed the Boy. He couldn't catch up to him because he was still recovering. But the walking pace of the Blonde was a bit fast and Suspicious

"Where's he going?"

Not long after, the Blonde boy arrives at places that was most likely a storage house.

"Huh? Whats he doing?"

The door was lock but the Blonde boy easily locked-picked it. He sneaked inside and not long after he got back out. He was carrying something in his arm, but Kamijou couldn't see well since it was dark.

The Blonde boy suddenly dashed out from the Storage and into the woods.

"...Eh?" but still, even with those suspicious acts, Kamijou followed the Blonde into the forest.

He brought with him a torch to see in the dark forest. After 5 minutes of looking around, Kamijou notices light emitting at the forest, he got close and saw the blonde roasting a piece of meat.

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

"...Wait...is that?"

"Whoa!?" the Blonde was surprised to see a person covered in Bandages out here in the forest. To his surprise he recognizes the guy.

"Wait...you're the guy that was injured in that Carriage." said the Blonde while continually roasting the beef right in front of him.

"Y-yeah, I came here to thank you but...what are you doing?"

"Uuuuhhhhhh...Roasting."

"Y-yeah, but what are you roasting?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh...Oh look an adaptation season 4 of the Light novel series, A certain magical index!"

"Huh!? Where!?"

"HAHA! Sucker!!"

(AN: Aren't we all?)

"Wait what!?"

"HA! I'm gonna savor this juicy A5 quality meat all on my own."

"A-A5!?"

Kamijou Chased the Blonde through the Thick Forest, not minding the dangers that lurk deep within it.

"..No wait, I'm just here to Thank you for saving me back there."

"Oh, Really? well...You're welcome I-Whoa!!"

The Blonde suddenly fell through a trap as he was dashing in the Forest. A trap meant for magic beast.

"What the--WHOA!?"

Soon after Kamijou followed.

The smoke clears and Kamijou was located just a meter away from the other guy.

"What happened?" asked Kamijou.

"It must have been a trap meant to capture Magic-beast." said the blonde.

"eehhh..? How do we get out?"

"We can't...Its impossible to get out of a trap meant for Magic-beast. from what I can assume, the ground must have been reinforced with magic. Making it impossible for us to escape. Well...even if it wasn't reinforced with magic, a single person can't escape this type of trap all on their own."

"What do we do now?"

"Beats me...All I care for right now is this Roasted beef right next to my face. Well...no time like the present."

"Eh, what are you_"

The Blonde boy began eating through the Roasted meat. As he was chowing down the meat. He introduces himself.

"I'm Hamazura Shiage by the way."

"Kamijou Touma...I don't think this is the time for eating something as luxurious as a A5 wagyu meat."

"Hmm, it's not like I have a choice, look."

"huh? What do you mean by that?"

Kamijou slightly turns his head and notices something big approaching them.

"...it's an Omega bear."

And so...here we are, it's been most likely 30 minutes and Hamazura has been desperately eating his way through the roast beef while I am meet with a 2 meter Magic beast exhaling right in front of my face.

End scene.

so sorry I got a bit delayed . I got busy playing hollow knight. so hope you guys enjoyed reading this.until next time. also...I'm preparing to offer my potato to the blood God. wish me luck.