At first, I didn’t fully understand what they were saying and tilted my head in confusion. Surrounded?

Glancing around, I soon grasped the meaning of their words.

Between the bushes surrounding us, I could see gleaming eyes. A variety of monsters in all shapes and sizes were converging on our location.

Nox sighed deeply, his face tinged with sorrow as he ruffled his hair.

“Miss Cherry, why did you come to save someone like me? Now we’re all going to die together.”

I pulled the axe from my back.

“Who says we’re going to die?”

Dying here wasn’t an option. But no matter how strong I was, protecting everyone while fending off so many monsters at once would be impossible.

Think, Cherry. These aren’t mutated monsters; they’re regular ones, I reminded myself.

I ran through the characteristics of ordinary virus monsters in my mind, recalling that they were particularly weak to fire.

“It’d be great if we could make torches.”@@novelbin@@

“Torches? Oh, right, those things are weak to fire,” Nox replied, quickly catching on as I nodded. He immediately began gathering fallen branches from nearby, collecting enough for everyone, and tore strips of cloth to wrap around the ends.

“Miss Cherry, you have a lighter on you, right? Or maybe matches?”

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