Ein felt her body lifted up from the ground. It was the thief guy who did it. Realizing the close contact with each other, she slapped his hand away and jumped back.

“Ah! uh…Sorry, I didn’t …I mean, thank you for your help, I’m okay now.”

That reaction embarrassed her. She felt no hostility from him, but her body reacted on her own. Silly that she would call the avatar in the game her “body”, but at the moment she really did felt that way. Her hand felt the ground for her staff. It was not there. Weird, she was holding tight to it moment before crashing, it shouldn’t have fallen that far away…

Oh, the girl she’d crashed to have it. Suspicion obviously lingered on her eyes, which Ein found understandable. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to attack you or anything, I was just from this cave and I…I…”

Suddenly she remembered something she shouldn’t have forgotten. Why she had run out from the cave like mad man? It was…

“...RUN! IT'S COMING!”

The bushes behind her split open as an entity barged through. It was a rat. Not just a normal rat, but a giant rat as tall as human being. Its front teeth were sharpened like blades, with claws jutting out from its fingers. It was half-erect, standing on its two feet, with two eyes glowing in crimson color. The text [b]Rat General[/b] in red blinked on Ein’s HUD. That thing had chased her throughout the cave, and even into the outside field.

And it was clearly pissed off.