Author's Note

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We thank you for your patience in the rewrite of the story and can happily say we have almost finished, with this up to the latest chapter being written.

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Chapter 1 (Rewritten)

One year. One year of development had brought him to this day. The day when the two games he'd been producing would finally be seen in the public eye.

Samual had travelled to Insomnia58 at Birmingham in the United Kingdom and was walking around the convention. His heart beating furiously in excitement for the rest of the day as he walked by multiple booths that were crammed into every corner of the hall, with some of the stalls being filled by people he had met in the past.

A week before he was supposed to go to the convention; Samual's manager had told him that he wanted him to go in some kind of ‘cosplay’ and also requested what he wanted it to be. He had; for some reason; pulled together some extra resources to create the costume for him to go in as well.

In the end, Samual ended up dressing in a pale navy blue robe with sleeves wrist rims being white and a diamond shape image pointing up the sleeves. A pair of iron pauldrons on both shoulders that surprisingly made from proper metal, having a matching colored tongue-collar hoodie with two copper buttons pinning a single string between them, along with a worn-out; dark red coloured belt which held the robe together. Wore some trousers that match the color of the robe along with some black modern shoes.

He was walking past one of the booths when he was curious about the contents and walked back to the stall. The stall had multiple pieces of memorabilia from all kinds of games and tv shows, which in itself wasn’t strange. However, the bit that confuses him was the fact that on display was what looks to be multiple items from the games he had been working on, one of which hadn’t been released to the public yet.

It was then that he looked up to see a young man sitting in the stall. He wore a long black and grey flowing trench coat and looked to have two swords strapped to his back, looking almost exactly like Kirito from the first season of Sword Art Online. He also had jet black hair that’s somewhat neatly combed, that was the only part of him that didn’t look to match the character.

“I see you're confused by some of my wares.” The man in the stall said.

“Pretty much, I know some of this stuff is from an unreleased game I’ve spent the last year working on, I didn’t think anyone had anything to do with the stuff yet.” Samual said in astonishment.

“It’s to be expected, I got a few details from a friend of mine in the company you work for, and the managing director sent me a few designs of weapons to try and help promote the game.” He exclaimed.

‘I don’t believe that for a second.’ Samual thought to himself before slowly starting to ask. “So~, have any of them sold today?”

“Oh yes plenty of them!” The figure responds with a smile. “But enough about that. Is there anything that you are interested in?”

Samual looks over the man's stall again to find anything of interest to buy. He spotted what looks to be some kind of pistol that almost looked to match his costume. He points towards the object. “How much for that?”

“Let sayyy... fifteen dollars for the magic gun and;” Stall men reach into a box, open it and pull out a small black ring that has a large red gem embedded into the centre of it. “I’ll throw in this ring with it as well.”

“Anything else you can throw in to sweeten the deal?”

“Well there is this...” The man said as he placed two small books in front of him. “These are just some replica skill books. I was given these a long time ago, been trying to pawn them off for a while but the things won’t sell, you can have them. At least it will get them out of my hands.”

“So all that for just fifteen pounds?”

“Yes, all fifteen pounds,” The salesman clarifies as Samual quickly held out the requested amount to him. “seems reasonable.”

Samuel took both skill books, the salesman passing him a holster for the gun and the ring which Samual put on his finger before attaching the gun holster to his side before he said. “than-”

However, before he could finish his gratitude; his vision became blurry before collapsing on the floor, then going completely black and losing all feeling around him.

Samual awoke with a shudder, sense of touch registers the frozen ice against his bare skin. Grunt with rattling teeth from the cold as he got himself off the ground, hearing a soft crunching sound but didn’t confirm with his eyes closed.

Samual opening his eyes, vision began to clear, slowly blinking before looking up. He found himself in what appears to be a frozen wasteland with nothing around him except for a large empty canvas of white in every direction. Turning around to look behind him, he found only a large canyon.

“Why do I get the feeling that I’m not in Birmingham anymore?” Samual asks himself before quickly trying to run towards the canyon to get some shelter from the cold snow.

It took ten minutes for him to reach the entrance to the canyon. Went inside, he took a few slow breaths releasing white mist from the low temperature, rub his hands together.

After a couple of seconds, he glances around before talking to himself. “Okay, so this is not anywhere near Birmingham... I don’t know of anywhere like this near where I was. So that leaves the question: Where am I?” It was then the words; ‘Cold Resistance - Lv.1, acquired.’ came into view, surprising him.

“Wait, what?” Samual asked himself in surprise before turning into curiosity. Glancing at the side of his vision, he saw a small circle with an arrow inside it, the actual design of it looking strangely familiar. “Hmm… Is this the design for the World War taskbar I designed?”

As he went to try something out, he mentally moves the arrow cursor towards one button and clicks it. It was then that a screen pops up in front of him that looks to have some character information on it. “... Wait… What the fuck is this, and did I just do that with my mind?”

After a few seconds of looking over the information he slowly read some of the information as he saw that it notes his name as ‘Satou Pendragon’ at the top of the screen and the word; ‘Level: 1’ below it. “I must have fallen asleep because I swear I’m in the game… and why the hell is it saying my name Satou? My name is Satou… wait, that's not right.”

The boy now known as Satou continues to look over the screen. It looks to have a section that read ‘Title’ with the word ‘Half-blood’ next to it. Below the word ‘Race’ is seen, which has ‘Human/Demon Hybrid’ beside it.

Satou looked at this for a moment, confusion clear on his face before he thought. ‘Wait demon? I don’t remember that being an option for the race of your character?’

A few seconds later; he blinks as the screen changes, now showing a map of the area with the words ‘Frosted Valley’ above it. “So... That must be the area I’m in right now. As much as I hate the idea of being in the open, I need to find out if anything else is nearby. I guess going to the top of this canyon would be an easier way to see a larger distance.”

After a few moments of contemplating on where to go, Satou slowly walks towards the side of the canyon. When he arrived, he found a stairway built into the side of the ravine. He uses it to walk up to the top. Couple of minutes of walking led him to the top of the valley and what he found was the extension of the valley as far as he could see. Turning around towards the open plain he had come from and saw what looks to be a humongous size, pink dome covering most of his vision. ‘How did I not see that before?’

Looking back at the valley Satou saw a white mist begin to fill the bottom of it. He frantically searches through his taskbar in hope of finding what he is looking for. Satou found a button that had an icon of a sonar symbol. He calmly took a breath before mentally deciding to activate it, a red line swipe down the map before hundreds of red dots appeared on it.

“That's not good, red markers only ever meant one thing in video games...” Satou mutters to himself as each of the markers starts lighting up, showing information on the incoming enemies.

On closer inspection, each of the incoming enemies were called ‘Elite Frost Lizardmen’ with levels ranging from 45 to 60. “Okay, which of the developers decided that putting new players against this was a good idea?” When they got within sight is when all of the ‘Elite Frost Lizardmen’ halt, climbing off the wolves back before grabbing bows off their backs.

Satou quickly ran behind a rock formation near him. “Please say they didn’t see me.” However; after a few moments, he looks out from behind the rock to suddenly see a hail of arrows beginning to fall from the sky towards him as he ducks back behind the rock as he shouts. “They saw me! They fucking saw me!”

Satou quickly covered his head, hoping this was just a dream. ‘If this really is a game, I really want that easy mode that we put in activating!’

After a few seconds, the volley of arrows ceased, giving Satou a short calm breath before suddenly clutching the side of his head. Feeling a throb and clench his eyes shut as multiple loud pinging noises were heard ringing through his head.

It felt like an hour had passed but it was only a minute when the noise ended. Haven’t heard any movements for a couple of seconds before re-opening them. Confused, Satou looks over the rocks to find the area full of lizardmen on the ground covered in black burn marks and collapse, seeming to have died. The snowy grounds around them had melted scars on the dirt.

He slowly stood up, walking towards the edge of the valley. When he got close; the ice and snow he was walking over suddenly made him slip and tumble down to the bottom of the valley.

When he finally reached the bottom of the valley, he slowly stood up to his feet on shaky legs somehow only receiving a few cuts and bruises from the fall. Groaning in pain, the young boy gazes up and spots one of the Lizardmen who is shakily getting up to its feet.

‘And of course one survives.’ He thought to himself. Looking around the area near the remaining lizard-lady to find many others trying to crawl forwards, most of them missing limbs and blood pooling around their bodies. They are close to death by a thread as Satou sees only less than five percent of health.

The lizard-lady who was able to stand began to speak in a foreign and broken tone which Satou could not understand, the language definitely not English or any other language he had heard before.

The lizard-lady grabbed one of the fallen Lizardmen’s swords, tossing it to the ground in front of Satou.

“I guess you want to fight me on even terms instead of killing me while I’m unarmed. I suppose there's comfort in the fact that I won’t die to a heartless monster.” Satou responded, grabbing the sword shakily standing on his own feet as the word; ‘Reptilian Language - Lv.1 acquired’ appeared in front of him.

Satou suddenly heard a few faint pings before a feminine voice that he soon realised came from the lizard-man infront of him as he heard her say. “You may have ruined all chances I had of saving my race, but even you deserve to die in battle like our laws dictate.”

After a second, the Lizard-man stumbles towards Satou, attempting to slash at him before he moves backwards just away from the blade as he thought. ‘Okay, so I heard multiple pings, then I could hear this lizard-man… or is it a lizard-girl in this case, clearly?’

Looking at the Lizard-man closely, he could definitely say that the Lizard-man was a woman. She had bright blue scales and a white underbelly that could be seen through her heavily damaged armour. Have nub curved horns on her head; two on top and one on each side of the head. Has large breasts; but since he’s a guy he couldn’t tell what size, her figure looks sort of frail but tough and attractive.

The lizard-lady slowly made her way forwards, trying to swing her sword at him as she barely swung it at him. Satou notices this and quickly ducks under the slow swipe. He found an opening where her armour had a large hole at the stomach area. As soon as Satou saw a gap in her armour; he quickly swung his left fist for a gut punch at his opponent's exposed chest area. She gasps in pain for a moment before slumping over his shoulder.

He took a slow breath, listening for any sign of life. He heard the lizard-man’s faint breath being a sign of her being still alive, as well as being clearly unconscious as the word ‘Skill acquired - Unarmed’ appeared in front of him.

But then, something caught Satou's eyes. What looked to be a silver collar that was covered in strange runes is in the snow next to one of the dead lizardmen corpses. He leaned down while trying to be careful with the lizard-girl, picking it up for a closer look.

He turned it around in his hand for a second before it suddenly leapt forwards snapping around the neck of the lizard-lady that was slumped over him, as the runes lit up in a golden colour which fades as quickly as it appears.

“What just happened?” Satou asked in surprise as he looked at the collar that was now around the Lizard-lady’s neck as whatever the clasp ends that allowed it to surround her neck had sealed completely, now having changed into a single continuous loop.

Now feeling like it's a good time, the young boy looks around the nearby area hoping for a place to get out of the cold.

Finding a small cave nearby, he slowly walks towards it while carrying the unconscious Lizard-lady, almost dragging her feet as he walks.

This continued for six minute until he reached the cave. Set her down against the wall before sitting beside her to catch his breath but pause for a second when her head fell into his lap. Her laying on the ground instead of sitting up.

“Okay, what the hell just happened?” He asked himself. Taking a breath before the menu appeared in front of him again, it flicked into a tab that said ‘Skills’. He looked down the list and saw his current skills he had gained. Confirming everything that had appeared in front of him during the unexplained fight was added to the list, showing at level 1 of 10; excluding ‘Reptilian Language’ which is marked as 10 out of 10.

Moving to another section in the menu that said ‘Spells’ and saw a single spell listed that read ‘Burst Rain - Lv.1’, with nothing else listed under it. “So; I only have a single spell… and what even is that spell? Where did it come from and why do I have it?”

He was suddenly struck by a pulsating pink light that obscured his vision for only a couple of seconds before fading. A new message pops up in front of him called ‘Crystal Cock Resistance - Lv.1 acquired’. He paused in confusion. “Okay, now what the hell is that one about?”

Satou pauses when he feels something rubbing itself near his crotch. When he looked down, he found the Lizard-lady rubbing her head against it, as a small tent appeared where her head was. “Okay, I’m not attracted to this one, so I think that resistance thing is a big warning. I think I'm maxing that one out.” Satou stated; quickly maxing it out. For whatever reason it was that had caused him to get an erection disappeared and soon after return to normal.

“Okay. That was weird;” Satou muttered to himself. “there doesn’t happen to be an explanation on what that actually did?” It was at that moment when a screen pops up with text that read;

(Crystal Cock Resistance - Lv.10 - Complete immunity to the effects of the Crystal Cock, no effects we will present includes increased Lust and unstoppable need to have sex with the opposite sex.)

“Okay, that's one weird thing that I cannot explain… But thank god I’ve got rid of that debuff.”

A faint groan came from Satou’s lap as he felt the Lizard-lady in his lap begin to stir before she suddenly gasped as the runes on the collar glowed in a golden light which quickly faded. Heard the Lizard-man begin to sob, blubbering. “No… p-please no. I-Ie don’t want to be a slave again, I just escaped my old master!”

“Wait, old master…” Satou responded by accident, followed with a thought. ‘What is wrong with this world?’

“Master, please don’t make me a slave!” The lady begged before realizing what she said; “No! Please no!” before starting to sob into Satou’s lap again.

‘Why do I think this is going to be a long day?’ Satou thought to himself as he sighed before starting to slowly rub the back of the lizard-lady’s neck as the word ‘Title acquired - Beginner Slave Owner’ appeared in front of him.

As he did this Satou began to look over his menu, checking through his inventory, finding it full of everything from the corpses of the lizard-men that had somehow died along with their weapons and armour, also received what looked to be a water pouch. He then looked at what money he had; it showed over 1 million Bits as he thought. ‘Well, I won’t be in trouble in terms of money for a while at least… if these Bits are this place's currency that is.’

He simply scrolled through all of his information and found his level had increased from Level 1 to Level 31 and that his stats had increased by quite a large margin from when he had started.

Then he went to look at the map of a nearby area, finding that there were only 4 dots remaining on the map before the map zoomed out further. The map outside the area he was in was completely blacked out. ‘Looks like I'll need to take a trip around to see more of the map. Stupid fog of war.’

After a couple of minutes, he looked down and found the lizard-lady had calmed down. But beside that, she is rubbing her head against Satou’s chest affectionately, almost as if she’s in some kind of trance.

He let this continue for a couple of minutes before he asked. “Okay, so two things Miss.”

“Miss? Why are you speaking so kindly to me, master?” The lizard-lady asked.

“What do you mean? Is it not common courtesy to treat others with respect?”

“Master… Are all females not inferior to males?” The lizard-man asked.

“Okay, there are three things I need to ask.” Satou replied, changing the subject as quickly as possible. “First, what is your name?”

“My old master called me slut.” The lizard-man responds.

“Not happening, I want your real name.” Satou asked again.

“Master… I-I don’t...” The lizard-man responded hesitant before closing her eyes, visibly shaking. “I-its Frostine. M-my name is F-Frostine...”

“That is a beautiful name for a beautiful woman.” Satou responded as Frostine began to blush before Satou added “Now, can you tell me everything you know about this world?”

“Y-you mean, you don’t know Master?” Frostine asked as Satou shook his head. “Well, I would be glad to tell you everything I know, master.” Frostine seemingly crawled almost like a dog till she was sitting in front of Satou.

Frostine took a breath before speaking up. “I don’t know much about what's going on with the world currently, and I only know bits from before everything started. You need to understand, I came from a small, remote and unseen village before I first became a slave.”

“Okay, but anything I can learn that will help?” Satou asked.

Frostine just nodded to him before continuing. “Well, from what I know, the frozen north; the area of the continent where we currently are in; was invaded by a race from across the seas just over a year ago. We don’t actually know why they came here or for what purpose. But what we do know from before then is scarce. The limit of it is that they are called the Caribou, and from what I saw; it appears the entire female population of their race are for all better terms ‘as smart as a rock.’”

“So I take it that makes the males of the race act like the dominant part of their culture then?”

“Yes Master, but beyond that, it appears that they rate the females of their race so low that they are all treated as slaves or animals at best, or even just property at worst, many aren’t even seen as living creatures and are only really used for the males enjoyment or to fulfil their most carnal desires… in other words sex.” Frostine explained, reaching towards Satou crotch as if to make a point.

“Frostine, don’t do that.”

“Sorry master...” Frostine responded, quickly pulling her hands back. “Anyway, from what I learned, the collar you put on me is made like a system to show them how well trained their slaves are, I know of only four classes, with silver being questionable for a class as it means unclassified.”

“And the others mean?”

“Red means willing, Black means unwilling, and even though I’ve never witnessed the last; there are purple collars that class the wearer as being ‘fucked silly’ is how it was explained by the Caribou that I belonged to before.”

“Okay, and how were you treated? You're not of their race, and you clearly are smart enough to have been seen as at least equal to them in terms of intelligence.” Satou stated, not understanding the situation.

“Umm… m-my last master, he kept me in a small cage in the dungeons under his home with about fifty other slaves. He would only feed me little scraps that he didn’t want… or his… you know… h-he w-w-would…” She stopped as she began to sob, remembering what happened to her having clearly upset her.

Satou reaches over and pulls her next to him, saying. “It’s okay. If you don’t want to talk about it, you don’t need to.”

Frostine sniffed while shaking her head before she said shakily. “H-he would chain us to a roof in one of the larger cells a-and leave us hanging there for days at a time, starving us and only coming down to use anything he could to harm us, from bats to whips and even stab us sometimes to amuse himself!” As soon as she said that she broke down once again in tears as she grabbed a hold of Satou tightly. “P-please master, don’t hurt me i-i-i’ll be whatever you what, j-just please don’t hurt me!” She pleaded.

Satou places her on his lap and he starts rubbing her back. “I won’t hurt you, you have my word. Just make me a promise, as long as you don’t do anything that could get us both in trouble, I will always protect you.” He reassured her.

“I-I promise master!” Frostine responded through her tears. “T-thank you!”

Satou looked outside of the cave to find a blizzard had appeared. “We’ll stay here for the night, just rest for now and we’ll move when this storm calms.”

“Okay master.” Frostine responded before he heard what sounded like a stomach rumbling next to him.

He then looked to Frostine before he calmly said. “I take it you're hungry.”

“Y-yes master, I’m sorry to waste your time feeding me, I’ll be fine.”

“No, I’ll sort something, we just need to find something to create a fire and something to eat.”

Frostine went silent for a minute before saying, “I could drag one of the bodies from outside in here for us to cook.”

Satou looks at her in shock. “You would eat your own kind!”

“Yes Master, it’s not strange for us. When someone in the village dies we would often use all of their body for anything from food to clothing, and even use their claws as tools.”

“Oookay... If you are willing to do this, try to get some of the bodies from outside. We may be able to do something with them.” Satou stated as Frostine climbed off him, quickly making her way outside. “I know I had something in my inventory to use for a fire.”

He went to open his inventory, scrolling through the list to try finding a few other corpses, lizard-man armour and weapons that had been placed in the inventory; which seems to have no capacity on what it could carry. After a few moments, he found what looked to be ‘Spruce Wood Logs x10’ which he pulled out of his inventory as ten large wooden logs appeared in front of him.

“Where did I even get these from?” Satou thought to himself as he waited for Frostine to return.

After a couple of minutes, Frostine returned, dragging the bodies of two Lizardmen behind her before placing one of them in the corner of the cave while placing the second against a wall as blood began to leak onto the floor around the body, it seemed to twitch slightly.

Frostine then quickly shouts to Satou, fear clear in her voice. “Master please; help him!”

Satou quickly made his way towards the bleeding lizard-men. He saw that he was missing one of his legs. He quickly opened his inventory before wildly scanning through the list, until he found some objects inside that read ‘Old Clothes x60’ and ‘Health Potions x22’. He reaches in and pulls the objects out of the bag.

After a couple of seconds of him tightening the old clothes around the missing leg as tight as he could in an attempt to restrict the blood flow, did this 5 more times going up the entire leg until the blood stopped flowing. Grabbed one of the health potions, opening it and he held it up to the lizard-men's lips, liquid inside dripping down into the injured lizard's mouth. He tried to open his mouth a bit more before Satou placed the bottle into his mouth, slowly allowing the lizard-men to drink the whole content of the bottle.

As soon as he drank the entire bottle, Satou observed the injured lizardmens health that shows 600 out of 2300. “I’ll keep an eye on him for a while, but we should let him rest and hope for the best.”

“Thank you master,” Frostine responded, looking at the pile of logs on the ground. “Where did you get the wood master?… Do you have a Dazaneg's Magic Bag?”

‘Now I remember. That was the name of the infinite storage bag from the Log Horizon anime. I suppose I could say that was the case.’ Satou thought to himself before responding. “I didn’t know that anyone else knew of it. I heard nobody else had made one in a long time.”

“They are rare master. Not many people know how to make them anymore, so having one is an amazing asset to have!” Frostine said in astonishment before looking back at the wood. “D-do you mind if I light the fire, master?”

“Go ahead.”

Frostine nods before walking towards the pile of logs, placing three of them in the centre before placing her hand out, a small fire ball hits the logs as they somehow ignite creating a flickering blue flame.

“I’ll see if I can find anything else worth scavenging from the other bodies before I prepare everything for you master. You just relax for now while you look after him and I’ll bring you the food when it’s done and the supplies from the bodies for you to keep for when you need them.” Frostine stated.

“Okay, I look forward to seeing what you can come up with.” Satou responded with a smile as Frostine nodded before she made her way back into the valley to begin scavenging what she could.

After an hour she came back with a few Lizardmen corpses from outside which she put them into a pile. Then began to slowly tear them apart and skinning them completely, then place all of the parts of the bodies into piles as she carried all the meat over to the fire to begin preparation.

She had also managed to find two of the wolves they had been riding, must have survived whatever had killed the group. She led them back to the cave and were resting near the mouth of the cave, seeming to be acting as guard dogs.

“If you wish to master, you can start clearing the other materials away for me and put them in the bag. I can re-use all the parts for us later to make us some bits.” Frostine suggested as she looked at Satou, who was helping the injured Lizardmen drink with another health potion.

“Well at least that all but confirms that bits are the currency they use here.” Satou thought to himself before he said with a smile. “I’d be glad too, Frostine, just be careful, okay.”

Satou places the empty bottle back into his bag before walking towards the piles of loots, looking over them, each of them reading ‘Lizard-man Hide x98’, ‘Lizard-man Claws x196’ and ‘Lizard-man Bones x685’.

Satou halted from taking the loots, looking back towards Frostine. “Umm… Are you sure you don’t want to bury their bones?”

Frostine looks back to him before saying with a smile. “No. It’s actually a sign of respect for us to reuse every part of the body. We do live in a frozen wasteland, resources are scarce as they are. If we can be useful to others; even after we pass; we see it as an honor to do so.”

Satou looks back at the pile of body parts. Closing his eyes and the piles quickly disappeared in a glow of light as each pile of parts appeared in his inventory.

Looking back to Frostine as a status menu appears over her, showing Satou some information on her. It had everything from her name, to her level which strangely now read as only level 3 instead of the lowest level of 45 he had seen before.

[Frostine Stats

Level: 3

Health Points:250/1000

Strength: 5

Endurance: 7

Stamina: 13

Magic Power: 10

Vitality: 35

Dexterity: 20

Intelligence: 27]

After a few moments, Satou walks over to her before reaching into his bag, pulling out a loose white t-shirt before saying. “Frostine, please put this on. It’s not much but it might keep you a bit warmer.”

She looked back over her shoulder and saw what Satou was presenting. She happily took it quickly putting it on before smiling happily at Satou before hugging him. “Thank you, master, I love it.”

“It’s not a problem, how far off do you think we are for food?” He asks as Frostine releases her hugging embrace.

“I’d say... at least five more minutes, but I’ll say ten just to be safe.” Frostine answers. “I’ll bring it over once it’s ready, master.”

Satou just nodded before sitting back down as he looked at Frostines Status Menu again. ‘So it appears armour increases your stats slightly, with the t-shirt I gave her have increased her level by 1. So the levels I saw before were heightened by their armour.’ He glanced over her other stats and saw one that read ‘Class’ but he strangely found the section blank while the ‘Subclass’ was registered as ‘Housewife’.

Soon enough, two warm and ready reptilian cooked steaks to eat, one of which she brought over to Satou, passing one to him as she sat down next to him. “I hope you like it, master.”

“I honestly hope I do as well.” Satou responded with a nervous smile as they both took a bite out of their steaks. ‘You know… It tastes a bit like chicken.’

He looks back at Frostine to find she has already eaten all of her steak and is sitting next to the injured lizardman, using her claws cutting the steaks before feeding a piece to him.

Satou's attention turned to the mouth of the cave, seeing that the blizzard was still going strong and the wolves eating some of the raw meat.

After a couple of minutes, Satou felt a weight against his leg, he looked down to find Frostine sitting next to him, her head resting in his lap. He began rubbing the back of her neck before calmly saying. “We’ll spend the night here, then start moving tomorrow morning. You get some sleep okay?”

“Yes, master...” Frostine responded with a happy smile on her face as she fell asleep on Satou’s leg.

‘What kind of messed up world have I got stuck in?’Satou thought as he looked at the injured lizard-man who looked to be trying to say something in his sleep, though Satou couldn’t hear.

After a couple of minutes looking through his menu again before letting it fade out of view as sleep comes to claim him. Closing his eyes and moments later, he fell asleep.