Versatile: Alternate World



I am quite certain that the wife of the Chieftain will come to us once the chieftain is awake from his little slumber. Based on what she was saying earlier, she is ready to apologize on the matter with her husband and daughter just so we don't get angry at them and cause trouble. Thankfully, I am not some bloody killer who would want them annihilated. I am not that bloodthirsty, to begin with.

But I find it a bit funny that the mother is the most sane person of them and that even the tribemates seem to be on the same wavelength as the father and daughter.

After finishing the surveillance team, I went out and went back to where Riko and the chieftain's daughter were currently tied up to see how it was going. It took a bit long for me to finish up the surveillance after all.

When I arrived, Riko was chatting with Rika and Pandora at the nearby table while the chieftain's daughter was sleeping soundly from where she was tied up.

"Huh? What happened to her?" I asked the three on what happened.

"Oh, Manato. You came back. Don't worry too much about her. We have no other choice but to put her to sleep to ensure she won't descend to madness any further while she is awake. I have trouble keeping her on track so I asked Pixie to do some sleeping spells on her and it worked. Now, she is sleeping soundly," Riko explained.

"Was it that bad that you have to resort to lulling her to sleep like this?" I asked and checked up on her condition. Thankfully, she is fine.

"Yeah, it was that bad. It was like everything we wanted to tell her seemed to just increase her stress and worry a lot more than usual so we ended up with this solution. The best option I would say and it wasn't that troublesome, especially with Pixie capable of doing it."

After hearing the reason, I also admit that it was the best course of action to do as well. To stop her slow descent to madness, letting her fall asleep helped a lot in this situation as it did stop her from thinking too much about the situation. Until her mother and father appear, she might continue to feel bad for herself so it is best to delay it until her mother comes.

"I see. Then please monitor her condition from time to time. I will go around and hunt for some monsters nearby for a bit and also scout for some ingredients present in this forest as well."

"Are you going alone, Manato?" Pandora asked.

"Yeah. We can't afford to keep the defenses low on our surroundings as you know it, I will also try to tread carefully as well to ensure things go smoothly as well."

Everyone nodded and I left the mansion to go and hunt some monsters I would like to use as an appeasement and a sign of respect for the tribe for later by offering them meat from monsters I hunted. It would make sense to offer them a game I hunted myself as they were clearly a hunter tribe and they would appreciate it if I do it like that.

And so, I started hunting. Using my ability to track down enemies in the surroundings, I tracked down a few signs of monster movements in the surroundings and followed their signs to locate their location and hunt them. If not for this ability, looking for monsters would take me quite some time to even hunt for them as the monsters were quite capable of hiding and keeping themselves hidden for a while.

Walking for a bit, I immediately noticed a big sign of a monster nearby. It wasn't there before but when I kept looking around, I realized that something big was nearby so I immediately checked and followed it around. It soon allowed me to reach an area in the forest where I witnessed a big monster that looked like a lion with the head of a dog currently eating the monster that I was formerly tracking down before I noticed the big sign of the monster.

It hasn't noticed me yet and is currently busy eating the monster it hunted down. Based on its size, I can say that this monster would yield lots of materials and meat once butchered seeing how big its size was. Not only was it very big, but it looked ferocious enough as well. Hunting this monster would also help the tribe feel a bit safer with this thing going on in the surroundings.

"Alright then, since you presented yourself to me, it is your unlucky day that you have shown yourself to me this way. Now, let's see you survive."

Readying all of my equipment, I went ahead and ambushed it. While it was busy dealing with the food it was eating, I fired off a single arrow coated with the Paralyzing Liquid on its tip and squarely hit off one of its hind legs with it.

The Paralyzing Liquid was so potent the moment the arrow hit, the monster collapsed and roared out in pain as the effects immediately followed suit. With it unable to move, I changed my weapon into a dagger which is the Carnwennan, and took care of the huge beast by quickly locating its jugular before stabbing it multiple times with the Carnwennan. The reason I used a dagger instead of a sword is because there is a chance it would ruin the pelt of the monster if I used a long sword to deal damage against it. A dagger enough to kill it is already efficient enough to deal with it so it is fine.

The Carnwennan was very effective and effectively ended the life of the monster before it could even potentially cause problems for me.

"Alright, now that the hunt is over, time to bring this back to the mansion and wait for the wife of the chieftain to come over."

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The chieftain slowly opened his eyes after feeling pained in his body. His head hurt and even his abdomen felt a bit sore as well, like it just suffered severe pain. He rubbed his head and eyes for a bit then immediately remembered what happened to him.

"My daughter!" he immediately tried to get up to find her only to feel a bit pained as a result.

"Take it easy, you fool. If not for your enemy taking it easy for you, you would have ended up dead."

He looked at his wife who was busy preparing for a set of wipes for him to use.

"Mimiko? Wait...I am quite sure that I was still fighting that young man from earlier," he rubbed his head and felt a throbbing pain.

"Looks like your sudden defeat left you unable to register what happened before you passed out. Anyways, you are back home but are currently staying in the clinic for healing. With how you were defeated, it's a bit of a wonder how you managed to stay alive when you were defeated so quickly. But thankfully, you were done in a quick manner that you wouldn't be in a bad situation."

"Wait...so I lost?"

"Yes. You lost so badly as the enemy you challenged didn't even get scathed as a result. It was a one-sided beat down and you were defeated before you could even unleash your usual ways of fighting to win a battle."

That's when the chieftain remembered the battle. The way he was unable to use his ultimate move as the guy easily predicted prevented him from using it by forcing him to reset his movements. At that moment, the enemy immediately took advantage of him losing his momentum, and the next thing he knew, he was now lying in the clinic.

"Remembered everything now?" his wife wiped off the sweat on his forehead.

"How... how was he that strong?"

"That's why I already told you before that you and your daughter should quit doing things like this anymore. If not for the fact that the guy who defeated you let you go safely, then perhaps you and your daughter would have been dead a long time ago."

"Ugh..." he couldn't say any rebuttal as his wife had a point.

"Anyways, if you are now good to go, we should go and return to the place where you challenge him. We will apologize and offer our sincerest apologies."

"What? Why?!" the chieftain was confused.

"Why? Do you think fighting him again would improve our chances of getting back our daughter safely? Don't think selfishly and think about the safety of your daughter. Since he defeated you, he has a big chance to do something for our daughter. And since you all f*cked it up and instead of apologizing, you just challenged him to a fight, he can use this chance to decimate our tribe before we can even take care of the "invaders". Now go and get ready, we will be bringing back our daughter home."