The Otherworld Was Way Too Brutal – After I Healed the Mutilated Girl, She Turned Into a Completely Obsessed Yandere Guard Dog - Chapter 4-5

Chapter 4

“How to fight magic beasts…? Why the heck would you wanna know that…?”

The guy asked, looking totally puzzled.

Should I really tell them about my skill?

My skill’s kinda special.

It has levels.

That’s not normal at all around here.

In this world, skills are something you get when you’re ten and that’s it—they don’t grow or change.

So having a skill with levels like mine? That’d probably make people jealous as hell.

Not exactly info I wanna spread around.

But if I’m gonna explain why I wanna take down magic beasts, I’ve gotta tell them.

Honestly, it’s a risk.

…But still.

If I don’t explain it, they’re not gonna buy it.

Right now, just stopping bleeding is enough to put food on the table for me.

There’s no real need for me to go risk my life fighting magic beasts.

They’d get suspicious.

They’d figure I’ve got something going on.

Plus, this ability’s gonna come out eventually anyway.

When the level goes up and I can do more stuff.

I don’t think I could just stand by and let people die when I’ve got the power to help.

…Yeah, I’ll tell them.

I’ll tell these two about it.

I don’t know if they’re actually trustworthy or not.

But if I’m gonna learn how to fight magic beasts from them, I’ve gotta trust them first.

Trying to get trust from someone when I don’t trust them myself? That’s way too arrogant.

You gotta give trust to get it back.

“It’s about my skill.”

“Your skill?”

“Yeah. My skill has levels.”

The guy’s eyebrows scrunched up like he didn’t believe me.

“Levels?”

“Yeah. Basically, if I do certain things, the ability gets stronger.”

“……What?”

His face got all serious.

Leia’s eyes went wide too, like she just realized something.

“So that means…”

“Exactly. If I take down magic beasts, I might be able to save way more people.”

I nodded at what Leia said.

Both of them stared at me with their eyes popping open in shock.

“For real?”

“I mean, I’m not totally sure yet… but there’s a chance.”

“I see… Alright then. I’ll teach you everything I’ve got, Jin.”

“Thanks. …Uh…”

“I’m Ray. Name’s Ray. Nice to meet ya.”

He stuck out his hand.

I grabbed it and shook.

“Yeah, nice to meet you too.”

The next day.

I went over to Ray’s place.

His house was even more beat-up than mine.

Wind whistled through the cracks in the walls.

Ray tossed me a wooden sword one-handed, super smoothly.

“Listen up, Jin. Your goal’s to kill magic beasts. But you’re a total newbie. If you go head-on, you’re dead for sure.”

Ray’s words hit heavy.

Coming from a guy who actually lost an arm.

They carried real weight.

“So what you need to learn isn’t how to kill. It’s how not to die.”

“How not to die…”

“Yeah. Dodge their attacks, wait for an opening, then hit a vital spot. Doesn’t matter if it’s dirty or cheap. Throw dirt in their face, set traps, whatever. Just focus on staying alive and finishing them off.”

After that, the brutal training started.

Even with only one arm left, Ray completely overwhelmed me using just his left arm and footwork.

Before I could even swing my wooden sword, his kick swept my legs out.

I rolled across the floor, and the tip of his sword stopped right at my throat—perfectly held back.

“Too slow. You’re dead right now.”

“Guh…!”

I got rolled around over and over, smacked over and over.

My whole body ended up covered in bruises.

I could heal them with magic, sure, but there’s no time to sit around recovering in the middle of a real fight with a magic beast.

Ray’s rule was “feel the pain,” so I toughed it out during training without using any magic.

His teaching was tough, but he was careful too.

He was desperate himself.

He was putting his hopes on me.

Since he couldn’t fight anymore, it seemed like he was trying to find meaning in his life by making me strong enough to save people.

During a break, Ray’s little sister Leia brought over some water.

“Jin, you okay? Big brother’s being kinda too harsh, don’t you think…”

“Nah, this is fine. I’m way too weak right now.”

I chugged the water while catching my breath.

Honestly, it was so rough I wanted to run away sometimes.

My muscles were screaming from the soreness, and fear made my legs shake now and then.

But every time that happened, I remembered.

The girl waiting back home—Tsugumi.

That broken-up body of hers.

The girl who couldn’t do anything but just wait for me to come back.

If it was to get her limbs back, this kind of pain was nothing.

“……You’re starting to get some real fire in your eyes.”

Ray said, looking at me.

“Guys with something to protect are strong. I used to be like that too.”

“Ray…”

“I failed at protecting and lost my arm. But you might actually pull it off. …Alright, break’s over! On your feet, Jin!”

I groaned as I stood up.

Gripped the wooden sword tight and got ready.

I’m gonna get stronger.

I’m definitely gonna evolve that skill.

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Chapter 5

After a few days of hardcore training, I finally headed outside for real.

Of course, I wasn’t going super far right away.

This was just practical training in an area super close to the town walls, where the weaker magic beasts showed up.

Ray came along too, but he was only there to watch over me.

The actual fighting? That was all on me.

In my hand I had an iron knife I’d bought with the last of my money.

No fancy sword or anything—I couldn’t afford that.

But Ray said a newbie swinging a sword was way less deadly than getting in close and stabbing with a knife.

“Here it comes, Jin… One-Horned Rabbit Almirage.”

At Ray’s voice, my body tensed up hard, but I forced myself to move and got ready.

What jumped out of the grass was a vicious rabbit-type magic beast with one huge, nasty horn.

Even calling it a rabbit, it was about the size of a big dog.

Its eyes were bloodshot red, drool dripping from its mouth.

Zero cute points—just pure killing intent.

“Kishaaaaah!”

The Almirage leaped.

Fast.

If I hadn’t spent all that time watching Ray’s moves in training, I probably wouldn’t have reacted at all.

I swallowed my fear, rolled sideways, and dodged the horn charge.

Thud! The horn stabbed deep into the ground.

If that thing hit me square, it’d punch a hole right through my stomach.

I’d die.

If I died here, what would happen to Tsugumi?

Would she just be left alone, starving to death with nobody around?

(No way in hell…!)

I wasn’t dying here.

I kicked off the ground.

The Almirage’s horn was stuck in the dirt, so it couldn’t move right away.

I slipped behind it.

My hand shook like crazy as I flipped the knife reverse grip, just like Ray taught me, and swung down hard at the base of its neck.

“Ooooooh!!”

Zuburi— a raw, gross feeling shot through my hand.

I hit bone, hard.

Hot blood sprayed out and splashed across my face.

The Almirage thrashed around.

I pushed the knife in deeper with everything I had and twisted.

The beast’s dying scream echoed everywhere.

Finally, its movements stopped.

It dropped with a heavy thud and went still.

“Haa… haa… haa…”

Covered in blood, I collapsed right there on the spot.

My heart was pounding like crazy.

My hands wouldn’t stop shaking.

I killed it.

I killed a living thing.

“Nice job, Jin.”

Ray walked over and slapped my shoulder.

“For your first time, that was damn good. You didn’t back off at all.”

“……I didn’t even feel alive.”

“Yeah, first time’s always like that. But hey, you just took down a magic beast.”

Right.

I took down a magic beast.

So the conditions should be met.

I quickly checked my left hand.

Pulled up the status window.

――――――――
・Healing Magic <Repair Evolve>

Lv1. Stops bleeding.
Lv2. ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊
――――――――

…Nothing changed.

Still level 1.

“Damn it… guess one wasn’t enough, huh.”

I bit my lip in frustration.

But the garbled text in the level 2 spot looked just a tiny bit less blurry than before.

Maybe I was imagining it.

Still, there was definitely some progress.

Killing magic beasts was doing something.

This was the right path.

“How’d it go? The skill?”

“……No change yet. But I’ve just gotta keep going.”

“Yeah. If it was that easy, nobody’d struggle. Let’s head back for today. The smell of blood might draw other magic beasts.”

I nodded and cut off the usable parts from the Almirage’s corpse—the horn and a bit of meat—and stuffed them in my bag.

This was my first loot.

And the first step toward healing Tsugumi.

I got home in the evening.

My whole body was caked in mud and blood.

I reeked.

“I’m home…”

The second I opened the door, something shot up from the bed in the back of the room.

“Jin!”

It was Tsugumi.

Even with just one arm and one leg, she was desperately trying to crawl off the bed.

“Hey, that’s dangerous!”

I panicked, kicked off my shoes, and rushed over to catch her.

“Don’t push yourself like that. What if you fell?”

“But… you were late… you didn’t come back…”

Tsugumi grabbed my shirt tight.

Tears pooled in her eyes.

She must’ve been terrified the whole time I was gone.

Worried I’d abandoned her, or that I’d died.

She’d been fighting that fear all alone.

“Sorry. Work took longer than I thought.”

“……Smells like blood.”

Tsugumi wrinkled her nose.

The smell of magic beast blood soaked into my clothes.

Any normal girl would’ve wrinkled her face and backed off.

But Tsugumi didn’t.

She buried her face in my chest and took a deep breath.

“Jin’s smell… and blood…”

“It stinks, right? I’ll go wash up right now.”

“Uh-uh… it’s okay.”

She lifted her face and looked up at me with teary eyes.

Deep in those eyes, there was something more than just relief—something dark, heavy, like a burning heat.

“Did you… get hurt for me?”

“Huh? Well, yeah, kinda… it’s work, y’know.”

“You bled… for me…?”

Tsugumi’s hand touched my cheek.

Her thin, pale fingers gently stroked my mud-smeared face, like it was something precious.

“Jin won’t abandon me.”

“Obviously not.”

“You get hurt for me… and you come back for me.”

She murmured it with this dreamy, almost blissful look on her face.

There was something kinda twisted and dangerous about that beauty.

“I’m so happy… Jin… I love you so much…”

She wrapped her one remaining arm around my neck and hugged me tight.

Her slim body had way more strength than I’d expected.

A little chill ran down my spine.

But more than that, I just wanted to fill up all the loneliness and fear she’d been carrying.

I gently rubbed her back.

“Yeah. I’m never abandoning you, and I’m definitely gonna heal you.”

“Mm… Jin… always together…”

Tsugumi buried her face in my neck and kept whispering it over and over.