>>5809876>>5809880>>5809885>>5809891>>5809958>>5809963You wander around the woods semi-randomly, probably focusing too hard on your sphere. It’s at the level where you keep accidentally bumping into trees: Even though you can hold it in your hand to passively detect its fluctuations, the sometimes random alerts pulling you back towards to the cottage (Towards Kenji) keep distracting you with false positives and throw you off significantly.
After a bit you notice that you’re no longer flanked by Masami and Naoki, each having probably branched out to investigate their own avenues of investigation while you wandered aimlessly. It’s at this point that it also occurs to you that you should have had some kind of methodology to your search, such as traveling in circles in an expanding ring around the cottage. Rolling your eyes at your own failures, you decide to start over. At this point you had only wasted roughly half an hour, there was plenty of time to start over.
You attempt to head back to the cottage only to realize… You have no clue where you are. Woops. You are now as lost as Grandmama Sato. And in not much better condition, as you had borderline zero chakra reserves thanks to your confrontation with the demon. If you had noticed your teammates leaving you would have asked for at least one to stay with you, or at the very least a crab to serve as backup. As things stood, you were incredibly uncomfortable. Lost. Exposed. Power level similar to an almost unarmed civilian.
A bead of sweat appears on your temple. It would be extremely, EXTREMELY bad if you got involved in some kind of violent confrontation right now. Kenji was scared of wolves on account of the fact that his grandma practically invited them to live near her home. If you ran into them, you were basically fucked. Since you could likely only form a single water bullet before you passed out, you could take out one of… Something. It was probably enough to teach a lone bear a hard lesson, but if there was a pack of, say, five wolves, you would be screwed.
“FUCK.” You can’t help but announce. This was honestly a gigantic failure of imagination on your part. You were beginning to become nervous that YOU would be alright in this situation, let alone Mrs. Sato. You secretly curse Naoki and Masami for being overly confident in your abilities.
