Chapter 2 (1/2)

A coldness like the air in front of the station stings my skin. I wonder, what’s this moist feeling? It moistens my skin, but also makes it feel itchy. What’s with this?

While half asleep, I open my eyes. I see gra.s.s. Gra.s.s? Not understanding the meaning, I slowly raise my body and look at my surroundings.

When I came to my senses, there was a green hill covered in smoky fog.

「What……the? Where is…… this place?」

Right, before this I was supposed to be in a convenience store. Together with a robber. Remembering up to that point, I hurriedly rolled up my uniform to look at my abdomen. However, the knife that I expected to be there was not, to make matters worse the knife that had cut through my uniform had left no wound. I don’t understand. I don’t understand, but……something does come to mind. That voice from before. It said ‘summoning target’.

Basically someone or something, for reasons I don’t understand, decided to summon me. It’s like in the novels I read back when I was in school.

Transferred to another world.

It’s something like that, right? Something took pity on me for being stabbed by the robber, and as consolation summoned me to another world or something……?

Well, it would be pretty embarra.s.sing if this turned out to be the j.a.panese countryside. In that case, it would be more like a horror though…….

For the time being, I have to do something. I wonder if it’s early morning…… it does feel like morning. I can’t just stay here forever. Fortunately, the mist is gradually clearing up.

「The morning fog……」

How did I, 『Kamiyas.h.i.+ro Asagi』get thrown here without any explanation? Without understanding the whys or hows, I go down the hill. Beyond the short gra.s.s plain, I see a forest.

「A forest……」

Forest. If this really is another world, then those guys are probably here.

Monsters.

If those guys attack then I won’t be able to resist. If that’s the case then I’ll need a weapon. If I find a suitable stick in the forest I’ll manage. Luckily in my pocket, there’s a box cutter I’d been using to cut the cords off the recently delivered magazines. But my cellphone was left in the office. c.r.a.p. Well, I can sharpen a stick from the forest into a spear.

Luckily I had a box cutter in my pocket that I was using to cut the cords off of the recently delivered magazines. Shoot. I left my cellphone in the office.

Yosh, I’d better hurry go.  They will not wait for me.

I promptly walked to the forest.

As I walked atop the fluffy fallen leaves, I found a pointed rock and searched for a thin piece of wood.

After a bit of walking, I found a good sized tree growing out of the ground. It’s thickness settled nicely in my grasp. Using the stone I’d picked up, I hit the roots. The sound of rock hitting wood reverberated throughout the forest. It’s making me a bit nervous…

After countless strikes, the tree slowly fell over. I held the box cutter in my hand and used it to prune all the small branches that were in the way. The trick is to cut a line in the same spot repeatedly. Then, using the back of the box cutter, file away the cut branch stubs. This doesn’t make it smooth, but it’s easy to hold. Finally, I sharpen the tip into a spearhead and viola, the stick is reborn as a spear.

「Yosh…… it’s done.」

As I look at the spear in my hands, I think. Just before I died, I heard a voice saying ‘granting Unique Skill 《Jack of all Trades, Master of None》’. I bet that it’s thanks to that that I was able to that that I was able to do woodworking so easily. Well…… It’s no use just thinking about it……. I prepare to test the spear.

「Eh……!?」

At that moment, the motions of a spear thrust rose to the surface of my mind. It was like watching the security footage on the monitor behind the counter, having 4 part.i.tions each showing a different angle. All of them combined into one perfect image of me going through the motions of a spear thrust. I mimic them, stepping my feet into position, and thrust the spear.

「Fu-……!」

An audible sound of the air splitting is released along with the sharp spear thrust. This is, as I thought. Before this, I’ve never held a spear. I do one more powerful thrust, a perfectly straight attack without any waiver.

That must be it, this confirms the ability of my unique skill.

《Jack of all Trades, Master of None》is probably a skill that makes it so I can decently use any object I hold, even without ever having touched it before.

In that case, the ‘Jack of all Trades’ part is great, right? ‘Master of None’ on the other hand worries me…. Perhaps it means I can use anything but never improve?

That’s too bad. There are Skills in this world. That means there’s probably Status as well. Although I’ve yet to see anything to indicate so yet, perhaps I’m also able to use magic. I take a second to try raising the methods for magic use in my mind, but nothing is working. In that case, I should go investigate this somewhere, somewhere like a town.

……Right, a town. I should aim for a town. This is another world, so that means there should be lots of Adventurer like people, and a Guild like a.s.sociation. That’s just my fantasy though.

At that moment, there was a sound from behind me. A Monster? I slowly turn my head.

「Gugyururu……」