“Hiss!
My head hurts.” Hakuba Shiro rubbed his throbbing head and climbed out of bed with a pained look on his face.
His mind was still foggy, and a wave of dizziness rolled through him.
Before Shiro could even start figuring out what had happened, a cold breeze swept over him, making him shiver.
“Hiss… what the hell is going on?” Shiro looked around and realized he was no longer in his old rented room.
Instead, he was inside a moving RV.
The vehicle was extremely bare-bones.
Aside from a toilet, there was only a bed placed near the rear, not even a kitchen.
Windows surrounded the vehicle on all sides, and honestly, calling it an RV felt generous.
It looked more like a minibus.
Through the window, the only thing Shiro could see was that the vehicle was driving itself down a road.
As for what lay ahead, everything around them was covered in a hazy gray mist, making it impossible to tell what was in front of them.
“Where is this?
Why am I here?
Wasn’t I supposed to be asleep at home?” Shiro stood up and began sorting through the mess inside his head.
All he remembered was returning to his rented room after school yesterday, taking a shower, then collapsing onto his bed from exhaustion and falling asleep.
When he woke up, he was already in this strange place.
Nothing else had been unusual.
After thinking it over again and again, Shiro still couldn’t figure out how he had ended up here.
With no answer to be found, he could only start by understanding his current situation.
The inside of the vehicle was simple.
Aside from what he had already seen, there was nothing else inside.
From the bed in the back to the driver’s seat up front, everything was visible at a glance.
Combined with the somewhat battered body of the vehicle, Shiro was even worried that if he pushed too hard, he might knock the door straight off its hinges.
He tightened his clothes around himself and got ready to head to the front of the vehicle to check things out.
Bracing his hands on either side of his body, Shiro suddenly felt something soft and springy under his right palm.
“Hm?
What’s this?” He gave it a small squeeze, then lowered his head to look.
“Hiss!” Lying beside him was a gorgeous blonde woman with an astonishing figure.
And the place his hand was pressing down on was none other than the beauty’s ample, pillowy mound.
“Mmm…” Marikawa Shizuka lay on her side on the examination bed, her long golden hair spilling across the white sheets like melted honey.
A few strands clung to her cheeks, and her long lashes drooped slightly, casting small fan-shaped shadows beneath them.
That was also how Shiro realized she had just begun waking from her sleep.
Her breathing carried a careless, languid air.
Her glassy, water-blue eyes were still veiled by a faint sleepy mist, and her lips were full and naturally pale pink, glossy even without any adornment.
As they parted slightly, a lazy sigh slipped out without her realizing it.
Perhaps because Shiro’s touch had stimulated her, the woman on the bed let out an enticing little murmur.
Then, while rubbing her eyes, she slowly propped herself up.
She raised both arms and stretched deeply.
The thin white shirt she wore could barely contain her astonishing fullness, and the two buttons at her chest pulled taut against the fabric, just barely holding the line of defense together.
With a slender waist that looked as though one hand could wrap around it, a height of 176 centimeters, and that deeply languid expression, she looked effortlessly beautiful and carelessly seductive.
“Fuaaah… I slept so well… Huh?
Where is this?” She opened her eyes in a daze and looked around with a natural, airheaded expression.
Her voice was soft and sweet, carrying a faint nasal tone, almost like a murmur squeezed from deep in her throat.
Seeing that she hadn’t noticed what he had just done, Shiro quietly let out a breath of relief.
“I don’t know where this is either, but judging by the situation, we seem to have ended up somewhere pretty unbelievable.” Shiro spoke up, interrupting her thoughts and drawing her attention toward him.
“Eh!
Who are you?
Why are you with me?” It was as if she had only just noticed Shiro’s existence.
The moment she saw him, she jumped in fright.
Fortunately, Shiro was not some terrifying monster, so she did not immediately attack him.
“You’re asking me?
I want to ask you the same thing.
I woke up and found myself in this unfamiliar vehicle too.
If we haven’t been kidnapped, then we may have ended up in another world.” The corner of Shiro’s mouth twitched.
Her airheadedness still left him feeling somewhat helpless.
If he had been some ill-intentioned thug, she probably would have already been pinned to the bed and arranged in dozens of different positions by now.
“Another world?
How would you know that?
Oh!
I get it!
This must be some Japanese hidden-camera prank show, right?
This is too much.
They actually entered my home and brought me out without my permission?
I’m going to the police station and reporting this.” “Emmm… Is there any chance you could calm down and feel it carefully?
Isn’t there some kind of panel inside your mind…?” Shiro ignored her reaction and began exploring the blue screen that had suddenly appeared inside his mind.
For a moment, the vehicle fell silent.
Only the sound of the engine remained as it continued driving forward.
[Welcome to Survival World.
This place is filled with unknowns, opportunities, and danger.
The person beside you is your teammate.
As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, so please support each other and survive successfully in this dangerous world.
Every seven days, your vehicle will enter a supply point.
The maximum time you may stay at a supply point is one month.
Supply points contain all kinds of monsters, creatures, and humans.
In this world, your vehicle is your only shelter.
Please protect it from destruction.
Upgrading your vehicle will increase your chances of survival.
In addition, every player will receive one chance to draw a talent.
Each player may only possess one talent.
We wish you all a pleasant stay here~] The information on the panel left Shiro silent and furious.
He had been living perfectly fine at home, and he was almost through the most unbearable stage of student life—high school.
Then this thing dragged him into such a dangerous place!
But no matter how angry Shiro was, it was useless.
Right now, the most important thing was exactly what the panel had said: he had to make sure he could survive in this world.
After closing the explanation page, Shiro opened his personal panel.
Displayed on it were his own stats.
[Hakuba Shiro: (Ordinary Human Maximum Value: 5)] Physique: 3 Mind: 5 Agility: 4 Luck: 5 The values fit his character well enough.
After all, he was still only a student.
He spent most of his time studying, and although he did exercise, his physique was definitely not top-tier.
Having a 3 was about the level of a normal person.
Behind those values were the corresponding attribute bonuses.
Aside from that, the system also had three other interfaces: Warehouse, Blueprints, and Crafting.
There were no other functions, making it seem like an extremely simple system.
Shiro then opened the system’s talent interface and was just about to draw when Marikawa Shizuka’s startled cry interrupted him.
“Ehhhhh!
What are we supposed to do now?
If I can’t go back, Rika will worry about me.
Do you have any way to send me home?” After reading the message, the gorgeous blonde woman also let out a cry of surprise.
Then she looked at Shiro pitifully, clearly hoping he could think of some way to send her back home.
“If I had a way, I would’ve gone back already.
Why would I still be here?” Shiro rubbed his forehead.
Why was this mature, voluptuous onee‑san so unreliable?
Still, she had spoken in Japanese, hadn’t she?
Why could he understand her?
His name was Japanese, but he wasn’t from Japan.
And Rika… why did that name feel so familiar?
Forget it.
If he couldn’t understand it, he would just treat it as the system’s power.
After all, making people understand each other’s languages should not be difficult for something like a system.
“Then what are we supposed to do?
I’m just a doctor.
Aside from treating patients, I don’t know anything about wilderness survival.” Shizuka plopped down beside Shiro, her tone filled with helplessness and confusion.
She had only gone to sleep, so how had she somehow ended up in a place like this?