The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 1 - Chapter 6

Chapter 6:

My First Journey Is Tough!

I WAS ON MY WAY to the town of Otolwa now.

It was the closest town to Ratomi Village. There were a bunch of villages between, sure, but they had merchants who traded with Ratomi Village. Anyway, I wasn’t planning to stay in any village very long. They probably wouldn’t search that far for me, but I was still worried. Just thinking of getting caught one village over after all my planning really ticked me off. There were village roads, but I didn’t want people seeing me. Instead, I took nearby hunting trails.

Oh no! I heard footsteps coming up fast behind me. I got moving, desperate to escape as best as I could. There wasn’t even time to turn and see what it was. All I knew was if I stopped, I was dead!

What do I do, what do I do? Oh! In these cases, you should clamber up a tree, but…there aren’t any trees I can climb! Then…argh, they’re gonna catch me!

Then, like fate, there it was. Oh! Tree, tree found! Feet, don’t fail me now! I sprinted to the tree and clambered up. I made it… I’m safe! My whole body was drenched in sweat.

It was really lucky that I wasn’t being chased by a monster that could actually climb trees. Maybe I was a little too relaxed after leaving the village. I needed to stay on guard. The forest was still dangerous, after all.

I decided to rest for the remainder of the day, since I was too tired to move. Still, what had been chasing me? Haah…I don’t even wanna know what’ll happen next.

I was so scared, I could barely sleep the night before. Nothing I could do about that in the morning, though, so I decided to climb down and get moving again.

Huh?! I’m really high up! I was shocked to see where I was. I must’ve climbed all the way to the top of a tall tree, and now I was so high that I was scared to get down. I managed to make it after a while with lots of scrapes and scratches. Phew! From there, I used four lesser potions to heal myself, but they seemed a little too lesser.

I looked at the village road and considered trying it. In the end, though, I decided to keep going on the hunting trail—but more carefully this time. It would slow me down, but I’d have to keep an eye out to survive.

I chewed on dried meat as I walked. Monsters might come if they smelled it, but…nothing I could do about that. I was hungry, after all. And monsters did try to chase me, too—one after the other—but I managed to barely get away every time. I was getting hurt a lot, but I was alive. The forest had lots more violent animals and monsters than I’d thought. Yeah, I really needed to get better at sensing them…

On the eighth day, I reached a place where I could hear lots of people. I must finally be at the next village. But I’d decided to avoid that one—too close for comfort—so I took a detour and pressed on.

It was a long detour, too, because I wanted to make totally sure I wasn’t seen. After a while, I reached a big clearing. I took a quick look around and realized it was a dump. I looked through the trash, keeping an eye out for people and monsters as I did. There were magic bags! Lesser ones, but I still wanted them. In total, there were ten just…thrown out here like it was nothing. I wanted to take them all, but it’d be too much to carry…

As I fished around in the trash, people approached. I dove behind a large rock nearby to wait and watch.

“Hurry up!”

“I know!”

There was a clatter, and after a little while, they left. They sounded like kids. Probably here to throw something away, I guessed.

I’m glad they didn’t find me.

The new trash in the pile was…potions! I put a bunch of them in the bag on my shoulder. I went back and forth on it, but in the end I decided to put the ten magic bags in one of mine as well and got going.