…Wait, what about my sister?
No, no, Megumi will be fine!
Kato Jun forcefully shook those dark thoughts from his head and looked firmly at the island a few kilometers away.
“How much stamina do you have left?”
Kato Jun looked at the flimsy plastic board between them, and then observed the increasingly rough waves on the sea.
Too bad…
if they headed towards the island from this direction right now, they would be swimming directly against the wind.
The buoyancy of this small plastic board was obviously not enough to support the weight of two people at once.
But it was already evening, the sun dipping dangerously low on the horizon, and the two of them had no other choice.
If they didn’t swim to the island before dark, they would be in a far more dangerous situation with the freezing night temperatures and unseen marine predators.
“I…
I can still hold on for more than half an hour…
probably…”
Yukinoshita Yukino gritted her teeth, her voice trembling slightly from the cold.
In fact, she knew she could last for twenty minutes at most if she had to continuously tread water and push forward against the current.
But in order to survive, she decided to push herself beyond her limits to try and reach that island.
She absolutely didn’t want to die so early; she still had far too many goals to accomplish in the outside world.
So don’t just die in this unknown, unforgiving sea!
“Wait, what is…”
Kato Jun blinked, wondering if the saltwater was playing tricks on his eyesight, because a bizarre option suddenly hovered right over Yukinoshita’s head.
[Do you want to check Yukinoshita Yukino’s status?]
This…
what exactly is this?
Driven by intense curiosity and a gamer’s intuition, Kato Jun chose the ‘Yes’ option in his heart.
With a crisp ding, a series of status bars suddenly materialized in the air above Yukinoshita Yukino’s head…
Hunger, Health, Stamina, SAN…
and Affinity?
No way, is this true or false?
Why would something like this suddenly appear out of thin air?
It gave him a strong sense of deja vu, exactly like the interface of a sandbox survival game…
[Name: Yukinoshita Yukino]
[Hunger Value: 50/80]
[Health: 100/100]
[Stamina: 35/90]
[SAN Value (Sanity): 130/150]
[Affinity: 10]
“Kato-san, although I know I am quite pretty, could you please stop staring at me like that at a time like this?”
“Figuring out how to swim to that island is vastly more important than satisfying your lust right now, don’t you think?”
Seeing the boy in front of her staring intently near her face, Yukinoshita Yukino crossed her arms to cover her rather barren chest, glaring at him with a freezing expression.
It was only at this moment that Kato Jun noticed the beautiful girl in front of him actually had a slightly narcissistic streak.
“Sorry, my mind just blanked for a second…
wait, can’t you see this?”
“Can’t see what?”
Yukinoshita Yukino frowned, clearly puzzled by Kato Jun’s sudden and strange remarks.
It seems she really can’t see these floating numerical panels…
Kato Jun quickly turned his attention away, incredibly surprised by the inexplicable appearance of this system.
Then, with a mere thought, he found the exact same viewing option available for himself.
Ding.
He mentally clicked on his own status bar to check his physical condition.
[Name: Kato Jun]
[Hunger Value: 130/150 (Full)]
[Health: 150/150]
[Stamina: 120/150]
[SAN Value (Sanity): 130/150]
[Special Skill: Can force a single status value to remain unchanged for three hours.]
[Note: This skill can be used once every 24 hours.
The next unique skill can be activated when the average value of your status attributes reaches 200.]
Compared with Yukinoshita Yukino, Kato Jun’s physical attributes were vastly superior across the board.
But more importantly, this special skill?
Locking a status value for three hours in a deadly survival situation was practically a god-tier cheat.
Realizing how he could save them, Kato Jun immediately turned his attention back to the shivering Yukinoshita Yukino.
TO BE CONTINUE