Chapter 3

“Ha, ha, ha, ha”

It hasn't even been an hour yet after I left the mansion, I was already out of breath and my legs are really killing me right now. I haven’t felt this exhausted since when I joined the military to become a pilot.

I’m starting to regret not exercising before I ran away, I honestly thought I could just walk there with no problems.

By the time the sun rose, I reached a split in the road.

“Lets just take a break for now”

I looked around and saw a big rock on the side of the road and sat on it, then I took out my flask of water to drink.

“Blegh, how do people drink this”

Not trying to spit it out, I swallow it. I know the vinegar in it is supposed to keep the water from going bad but still this is nasty.

I put away the flask with a sigh and pulled out a map from my backpack. I was supposed to reach the split a while ago but it took way longer than I expected because I forgot to account that I was a kid, not an adult, so it’s going to take even longer to get there

Looking at the map, doing some math from where I am right now and where I want to go, in addition to my walking speed, it would take at least two to three days to get there instead of the one I’d expected it would take to get to Farsborow.

Okay, I'm going to have to cut my break short then. I reluctantly stood back up and continued walking, taking the left road on the split.

I continued walking down for the rest of the day till I’d reach a lake I was supposed to pass by in the afternoon.

It was almost dark, seeing the lake my legs finally gave out and I fell to the ground, flat on my face.

“Uuuuugh… I really don’t want to walk anymore”

There was a small clearing next to the lake for me to camp out for the night, so I got right back up and dragged my feet there.

I gathered some twigs and wood to make a campfire.

I sat on a log next to the fire, I took off my boots and massaged both my feet.

“Ahhh, this feels nice”

My feet feel extremely sore from walking all day, so massaging them felt really good right now.

After I was done massaging my feet, I took out the rations I packed in my backpack for my escape. They were a pouch of dried meat, bread, and some trail mix.

I think I should make a sandwich for dinner. I made it with the dried meat that I was snacking on all day and two pieces of bread.

When I bit into it, I immediately knew that it was a bad idea, a very bad idea. It was so very hard, I think I’d nearly chip off a piece of my tooth trying to bite into it. Why did I think it was a good idea?

Oh right, I forgot this is travelers bread, it was made to be non-perishable, so it was made to be really hard instead of the softer bread I usually eat.

I look at my flask water and sigh, I guess the only way to eat this is to soften up the bread.

I poured some of the water on it and I managed to cram the sandwich down. I’m honestly starting to regret running away in the first place if it was like this. The bread was now all soggy and now tasted like vinegar.

While I was struggling to eat my dinner and contemplating my choices, I heard rustling behind a bush. I immediately was on guard, pulling out my knife, dropping my, frankly, inedible sandwich to the ground in the process.

“Who's there?”

Did the servants find out I escaped and sent people to find me? I doubt it, since it will be too soon for any of the servants to notice I was missing.

It didn’t take too long to know because I saw multiple pairs of red eyes from a bush.

Coming out of a bush were white rabbits, 5 in total, that had a long pointy horn sticking out on its forehead.

They are bigger than normal rabbits, about three fourths bigger, the horn sticking out of its head made it pretty obvious what it was. From my gaming knowledge in my past life, it definitely looks like a horned rabbit.

I grin seeing them, guess I’m going to have to kill them since they are monsters.

All this time of not fighting anything because I was born a daughter of nobility, I finally have the opportunity to let loose for the first time in this life. I wonder how much my skills when I was a pilot have rusted over the years.

Immediately they screeched, 2 of them charged at me while the rest started circling around me.

I sidestep to the right, dodging and swiping at the neck of the first horned rabbit with my knife, who was trying to pounce at me. It left a big gash on its neck with a lot of blood coming out.

Next I stabbed my knife at the second horned rabbit who was also trying to pounce at me, through its left eye and into its brain.

Both of them fell to the ground, not moving.

Two horn rabbits that were circling me, jumped on my left and right, were attempting to use their horns to impale me.

I instinctively twisted my body out of the way of the left horned rabbit since it jumped first, grabbed it by the horn and threw it towards the horned rabbit coming on my right, causing them to collide.

While they were getting up after they collided with each other, I immediately turned my body around, intuitively knowing that another horned rabbit was going to attack me from behind.

I switched the grip on my knife to a reverse grip and slammed my knife, using the momentum of turning around, right through the neck of the horned rabbit that was about to pounce at me from behind.

Then I put my attention back to the 2 horned rabbits left. They looked really pissed off and were hissing at me after seeing me killing their friends.

Both of them began charging at me again. I kicked away the horned rabbit that lunged at me first. Then I plunge my knife into the other horned rabbit, who also tries to lunge at me, to where I think it's heart is.

It lay there motionless on the ground, I looked at the last horned rabbit who was about to get up from my kick.

I ran toward it and stomped on it to pin it to the ground, so it wouldn’t get up, then thrusted my knife at the back of its neck, severing its spine.

I think that was the last of them, I stood up and caught my breath. I checked my body for any injuries and it looks like I didn't get any.

“Hehe, so I’d haven’t gotten that rusty”

I still have to train my body though, to build up some muscle and stamina, but my fighting ability hasn't diminished that much.

Then I look at the horned rabbits around me and look at my dinner, if you could call it that, on the ground.

I think it would be a waste not to eat them, it beats eating what I have. Plus I can probably sell the furs and horns for some money when I get to Farsborow.

Gathering the dead horned rabbits, I began the process of skinning and butchering the horned rabbit, which I learned how to do in my previous life from my military training.

I decided to make some jerky so I could snack on it as I travel to Farsborow, and roast one of them whole for dinner.

I cut the flesh of the horn rabbits into small pieces, skew them on sticks, and place them near the fire to smoke.

Then I flatten a horn rabbit and began roasting the horned rabbits on a stick. When it finished cooking, I bit into the roasted Horned rabbit, it was surprisingly tender and juicy, and tasted way better than what I have.

For the rest of the meat, I threw them away in the lake so it doesn't attract any more monsters.

After finishing eating the Horned rabbit, I decided to turn in for the night, since I’m going to be dreading tomorrow because it will be another grueling day of walking, so I’ll need all the rest I can get.

I should sleep on a tree tonight, it is better to be safe than sorry, since I might be attacked by a monster in my sleep.

Finding a tree that has branches that could support my weight, I somewhat struggle to climb up due to not having that much strength in general and I was exhausted from today.

After several minutes of struggling I managed to get up to a branch. Then I took some bandages out of my backpack to use as rope to tie me to the tree so I wouldn’t fall off the tree as I slept.

When I was done, I shut my eyes and went to sleep.