CHAPTER 21: ACHIEVEMENT: MAKE THE TRIBE SOB

[Congratulations, Host! Side Mission Complete: Make the people in Vixeria Tribe cry because of you!]

[Reward:

+48 hours lifespan

+500 Spirit Points (SP)]

[Ding! Ding!]

[You have received a Newbie Starter Pack for completing your first mission!]

Roxanna blinked weakly as the glowing panels floated before her eyes.

Starter pack? She didn’t even have the strength to react properly.

Another notification appeared with a soft chime.

[Newbie Starter Pack Contents]

• 1x Salt Pouch (500g)

• 1x Fire Starter Stone (never runs out)

• 1x Beginner Cooking Pot (indestructible)

• +500 SP Bonus]

Roxanna’s eyes widened in shock. She never imagined she would receive a cooking starter pack.

A fire starter stone? A beginner cooking pot?! And SALT?!!

Actual, precious, holy-grail SALT!

She had already accepted her fate to eat bland, tasteless food every day for the rest of her life in this primitive world.

But who would’ve guessed the system would give her something this valuable?

[For your information, Host, the system has its own shop where items can be purchased using SP.]

[Please let the system know if you would like to view the shop now.]

Roxanna was about to say something in her mind, but the sudden shouting of the beastkins startled her.

"Leader! We’re so sorry because we’re useless!!"

A huge beastman cried loudly, tears pouring down his face, completely opposite of his muscular body and the buffalo horns on his head.

"If we weren’t so useless, you wouldn’t have had to sacrifice yourself for us, Leader!"

A beastwoman—she seemed to be the mother of the child who had been injured earlier—cried even louder than the bull beastman.

One by one, the entire group burst into tears, crying like a river that had broken through its dam.

Calen and Cyrus had just returned with—why the hell did they bring a meat slab?!!

And not just any meat slab, but a huge one! She could even see the blood dripping from it.

Well, the meat did look soft, but there was no way she would use a meat slab as a pillow!

"Roxanna! We found something soft for you!" Calen beamed proudly as he and Cyrus lifted the gigantic meat slab like it was a trophy.

They both looked so excited that Roxanna didn’t have the heart to tell them that only an idiot would sleep on raw meat.

But unexpectedly, both Calen and Cyrus’s expressions suddenly changed. Their smiles slowly faded, and their eyes looked incredibly sad.

Why? Why did they suddenly look like abandoned puppies?!

She hadn’t even said anything! She only thought it in her head!

"Leader! Leader! You need soft things? We can find more soft things for you!" one beastkin shouted eagerly.

"Leader, are you hungry? I can catch a wild boar for you!"

"Leader, are you cold? I can catch a giant mammoth and bring you its skin!"

[Ah... so noisy.]

Roxanna held her head, which was hurting even more because these people wouldn’t stop talking.

[It feels like my head is going to explode.]

No, she didn’t hate their attention at all.

Honestly, she was kind of impressed that they still chose to care for her even though the evil Roxanna had done terrible things to them.

However, despite how touching it was, with her current condition—severe headache, neck pain, and chills—she couldn’t help but feel irritated by their noise.

[Isn’t there anyone who can get them out of here?]

She wanted to ask out loud, but before she could even open her mouth, Luan stormed forward and shoved everyone out of the room like a furious mother hen protecting her chick.

"Alright, get out of here now!" Luan kept pushing them even though some of them protested. "Our leader needs a lot of rest right now! If you keep blabbering with those mouths of yours, she probably won’t recover quickly!"

The beastkins who were practically shouting at Roxanna moments ago suddenly lowered their voices so much that she could barely hear their whispers.

"And don’t go catching meat," Luan added. "She likes fruits more."

[Ah, I also like meat...] Roxanna thought.

"No, I think she likes meat too," Luan corrected himself. "You should gather fruits and meat to pay back the leader’s contribution for healing all of you."

Roxanna looked at Luan in confusion. How could he know what she liked so easily? She didn’t even deny what he said.

[But if the meat isn’t cooked, I don’t like it,] Roxanna sighed in her mind. [I know my current body won’t die from raw meat, but still... it’s impossible for me to eat something so raw.]

Luan opened his mouth to say something to the beastkins, but immediately stopped once he heard her thoughts.

[But if I ask them to cook the meat, they’ll probably burn it until it turns to charcoal.]

Luan nodded quietly. Honestly, he didn’t really understand why she wanted meat to be burned. Wasn’t freshly cut meat the best to eat?

For now, he decided to let them go look for meat, and whatever they planned to do with it later could be figured out afterward.

"Go on now," Luan grumbled as he herded the last group out of the room.

When they finally left, Roxanna let out a long, relieved breath. The door had been damaged from earlier and couldn’t close properly, but at least the beastkins were no longer piling into the same room, suffocating her with their noise and panic.

"Roxanna... we can find you something else that’s soft," Cyrus said. He quickly snatched the giant meat slab from Calen’s hands and hid it behind his back like a guilty child.

Roxanna couldn’t help but suppress a laugh. He looked exactly like a kid trying to hide a broken vase, hoping no one would notice.

After taking one deep breath, Roxanna finally said, "Why don’t you fill the waterskin with water instead? That can be used as a pillow too."

Their eyes lit up instantly, and without saying another word, both of them sprinted outside again.

Roxanna held her aching head for a moment, but now she finally had enough energy to observe the room she was staying in.

At that moment, she realized this wasn’t the evil Roxanna’s house. This place was much smaller, and there were no partitions between rooms.

The "bed" was just a plain wooden platform placed near the entrance.

Seashells of various shapes and colors hung from the wooden walls, swaying gently whenever the wind blew through the broken door.

"Azul..." Roxanna turned her gaze toward the fish beastman. "Is this your house?"