Naku walked around the village and saw various activities carried out by villagers such as cutting wood, sewing, cooking, and so on. He then saw two boys who looked almost the same age as him walking into the forest behind the village, even though Naku didn't want to interfere in their business he still followed them to guard against any danger that might come their way because the forest they were visiting was the forest where Naku and Carlon found the creature.

Naku walked quietly behind the trees so they wouldn't caught him, the two children walked into the forest while looking around as if looking for something in the grass and trees they walked deeper and deeper into the forest making Naku feel that something dangerous would happen to them if they continued, he decided to run after the two children to warn them who were uprooting a plant he had never seen before.

'Take a lot... father said.. this plant can cure mother's illness..' One of the children who looked older said as he took the plant and put it in their pocket.

'Mhm..!' One of the kids who looked younger said while doing the same.

'...' Naku stood silently behind the tree and listened to their conversation and smiling at what they were doing, he then walked over to them.

'Hey, if both of you done you two better go home, this place is very dangerous for you.' Naku said while explaining the dangers that exist in the forest.

'B-but.. we haven't collected much medicine..' The older of the two siblings said in a sad and slightly trembling voice.

'Still it's dangerous, you two better be with your father.' Naku replied with a slightly stronger voice.

'But... father doesn't allow us to come.. we also want to help him..' The faces of the two children turned gloomy and sad.

'Of course he would do that since this place was-'

Not having time to finish what he was saying Naku saw a huge wolf lunge at the two children, Naku quickly ran and slashed his scythe towards the wolf's head but the wolf quickly dodged it and only received a light wound to his face near his eye.

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'Tch.. hey you two quickly run away from here.' Naku held his scythe in his right hand and dagger in his left and frowned.

"...This wolf... big.. I've never seen a wolf this big before.." Naku thought while looking all over the wolf body to look for gaps and weaknesses.

'Grrrrr!' The wolf stared at Naku sharply with its red eyes.

Naku felt fear from the wolf's aura and made him feel great fear for the first time in his life as it was pricked all over his body and made him unable to move from his place.

'Ugh... I can feel his strong aura..' Naku swallowed his saliva and gritted his teeth to hold back the fear he felt.

The wolf quickly ran and jumped from one tree to another making it difficult for Naku to predict, who was someone with high hunting skills, the wolf jumped from one side to the other making and jumped straight at Naku from behind clawed at him hardly, Naku quickly dropped his body and parried the claws of the wolf with his scythe making Naku crash into a tree.

'UGH!' Naku hit the tree so hard that he couldn't breathe for a few seconds with intense pain in his back.

Naku coughed after being able to breathe again and gripped his scythe tightly again and prepared to once again fight the wolf, the wolf was jumping from side to side like it did before making Naku once again unable to predict its movements due to its high speed that can't be followed by normal human eyes.

'...' Naku panted while trying to follow the wolf's movements with his eyes but still couldn't, he then closed his eyes and took a deep breath making his whole body relaxed and calm.

'...I'll try the same thing as Uncle Carlon did, good luck..' Naku said in a small voice like a whisper to himself.

Naku tried to sense something by closing his eyes and focusing everything on sensing mana like what he saw at Carlon, the wolf increased its speed making it move at a speed of sound that normal human eyes couldn't follow, the wolf forcefully jumped straight at Naku and tried to eat it directly on the head to kill Naku instantly but Naku then feels the energy moving like a slow and calm current inside him and flowing the energy slowly like a calm river the energy flows through his body and the scythe makes the scythe stronger and sharp as well as the hilt of the scythe extended with a blue glow made of mana. Naku opened his eyes and held the hilt made of mana and swiftly slashed the scythe behind him making the wolf split from head to toe cutting it in two.

'Hah... hah...' Naku fell and panted heavily due to the exhaustion from using mana for the first time.

'Huh... so that's how to use it..' Naku slowly stood up using the handle of the scythe made of mana as a pedestal to help him up.

'Ahaha.. this... very useful.' Naku smiled happily like a child who had just learned something fun and valuable.