The Otherworld Was Way Too Brutal – After I Healed the Mutilated Girl, She Turned Into a Completely Obsessed Yandere Guard Dog - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

A gloomy, heavy-aired town.

Nobody’s eyes had any light in them.

Everybody just looked dead inside.

I was walking through a place like that.

How the hell did this happen?

Just a little while ago, I was living a totally normal life back in Japan.

Sure, peaceful Japan had its share of people with dead eyes too, but…

It wasn’t anywhere near this depressing.

I got reincarnated.

Into another world.

I looked down at the palm of my left hand.

Then I flicked my left hand like I was shaking something off, and a semi-transparent window popped up right in front of me.

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Name: Jin
Age: 18
Skill: Healing Magic <Repair Evolve>

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A simple status screen.

The skill I got when I reincarnated into this world was a healing one.

I checked the details on the healing skill too.

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・Healing Magic <Repair Evolve>

Lv1. Stops bleeding.
Lv2. ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊

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Looked like this healing magic had levels.

Basically, it could evolve or something.

Anyway, whatever.

That wasn’t the thing bugging me right now.

I picked up my pace heading home.

For the girl waiting back at the house, I hurried along with the cheap food I’d scraped together my last bits of money to buy.

“I’m home～”

When I got back, the girl was crouched in the corner of the room.

A silver-haired girl, kinda fragile-looking beauty.

She was missing her left arm and right leg.

Plus, it seemed like she couldn’t see out of her left eye either.

Apparently she’d gotten attacked by a magic beast and ended up like this…

No parents to help her, she’d been on the verge of dying all alone when I picked her up.

She still hadn’t really opened her heart to me.

Well, we’d only met like half a day ago.

A girl with wounds that deep in her heart wasn’t gonna trust someone that fast.

I went to the kitchen and started simmering the veggies.

Vegetable soup tonight.

With a ton of spices too.

In this world, almost nobody traded stuff around.

Because the second you stepped outside the town, powerful magic beasts were everywhere and it got insanely dangerous.

Not many people were crazy enough to walk between towns just to do business.

So food like vegetables? Everybody grew their own inside the town.

But it wasn’t like spices didn’t exist at all.

A few weirdos brought in stuff like that and sold it here.

I spent every last coin I’d earned with my healing skill and bought those spices.

Figured if she ate something tasty, maybe it’d cheer her up a little.

I kept the veggies bubbling away.

In this world, just being able to stop bleeding made you super useful.

Right now my skill could only do basic bleeding stoppage.

But tons of people got badly hurt here, and a lot of them bled out and died.

Some people even said the death rate dropped since I showed up in town.

That’s how important stopping bleeding was.

So yeah, I made decent money.

If I hadn’t been around, this girl probably would’ve died a long time ago.

The pot boiled, veggies got nice and soft.

I tossed in the spices and finished the soup.

Poured it into a bowl.

“Can you drink it?”

The girl lifted her face.

Her pretty features looked up at me.

She shook her head side to side.

“Can’t drink it by yourself?”

She shook her head again.

Hmm, what’s that about.

Maybe she didn’t like veggies?

While I was standing there confused, the girl spoke up in a tiny, weak voice.

“It’s… too good for me…”

Oh.

That’s all it was.

I crouched down so I was eye-level with her.

Then I scooped up some veggies with the spoon and held it right in front of her mouth.

“Here, drink up.”

“……No.”

“Come on, it’s fine. This soup’s delicious～. I mean, I made it myself, y’know.”

I flashed her a little grin.

She hesitated for a bit, but finally she went for it and took the spoonful.

“……It’s good.”

“Right? Told ya.”

“……Yeah.”

After that I kept feeding her the soup.

She drank it while tears ran down her face.

Guess her parents were long gone.

Probably hadn’t had a proper meal in forever either.

People in this world were too busy just surviving.

Not many had room to care about anybody else.

She was probably just another kid who got abandoned.

“Was it good?”

“Yeah.”

By the time she finished the whole bowl, her eyes looked sleepy.

Stuffed full, feeling safe for once, probably made her drowsy.

Her gaze was all hazy.

“Wanna sleep?”

When I asked, she shook her head.

“Not yet?”

She shook her head again.

Her whole body was trembling.

Then she grabbed my shirt and said,

“……I wanna stay together.”

I couldn’t help letting out a small, wry laugh.

Guess that one bowl of soup made her attach to me pretty quick.

I nodded, stood up.

Then I scooped her up in my arms—she was looking up at me all anxious—and laid her down on the bed.

I flopped down next to her and said,

“Night. Get some good rest, okay.”

“……Good night.”

And that’s how my first day in this otherworld passed.

A brutal otherworld.

But looks like, inside all this, I’d found one thing worth protecting.