"you bastard! Get back here!" The Chubby butcher store owner yells in frustration as a homeless begger suddenly just rushes into his shop and stole a string of sausages.
The homeless begger ignores the butcher's angry yells as he runs into an alley dissapring from the butcher's sight.
Seeing the begger runs into the alley the chubby butcher could only stop and pant as he clearly knows that he'll never going to catch that begger.
"You better not show up in my store again! Or else I'll show you what's it like to steal from me!" The butcher yells out in frustration.
A bit later in the slums a begger lazily walks into his hastily made wooden shack.
He drops his string of sausages to the floor not caring if the floor is dirty or not, he fell flatly on the floor as he pants heavily.
He turns over thinking a few months back on how he ended up in this situation.
Now some of you may be asking who is this begger? And what significance he has to the story?
Well ladies and gentlemen, meet the hero of the story William.
A few months ago he experienced what is know is an transmigration event or to put it simply he got isekaied.
At first he was confused as he was just snacking in front of his computer watching some random crap on YouTube before suddenly finding himself in a back alley of some sort.
it didn't take long for him to figure out that he got isekaied.
Now, problem is that there is no goddess to give him cheats nor was his part of a summoning ceremony.
He was just inexplicably transported from his room to whatever this place was, worst yet he didn't even got a language package with his transmigration, so he's just some dude in his undergarments trapped in a world that he can't understand.
So now is the question what would you do if you suddenly found yourself in such a situation?
Do you run around screaming like a headless chicken, screaming in a language that you know that the locals doesn't understands and shaking the shoulders of everyone you meet?
No! Are you crazy!? Who the hell in their right mind would do that!
it was then that William realised that most of the novels he has read is very reliant of the very helpful "random" encounters they get when they first transmigrated.
like what if a transmigrator doesn't have such luck? Well, they would be as confused and aimless as the current William is.
like what can he do in a foreign world that doesn't speak his language?
So he's forced to lived like a homeless man for last few months.
living as a street vagrant is by no means easy as it might sound, it forced him dig through trash and eat people's leftovers.
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On the bright side it did however helped him lose weight as he was getting particularly fat recently, on the other hand at least he finally found some use of binge watching Bear Grylls's show.
like that survival on an abandoned factory really helped him find food as a homeless man.
It really forced him to eat a few disgusting things but it sure as hell helped him survive.
Of course theoretical knowledge is one thing and practical experience is another as his first time trying to make a fire took him a hella long time to make, but of course throws repetitive experience he gradually got a hang of it and now he can start a fire in under a minute.
There was also the time when he was first forced to eat rats and and bugs.
Like he knows that bugs are very nutritious and eatable but just looking at those wormy things almost made him puke. Even so William forced himself to eat them and now a few months later he isn't bothered by eating bugs any more.
when cooked a certain way they're actually quite crunchy to be totally honest.
Another development during this time period is that in order to acquire various meats and fruits, his situation kinda forced him to develop his parkour skills so that he can evade capture during stealing runs.
William as an indoors kind of guy naturally never really got into parkour, But however as someone living in the 21st century he has watched a bunch of parkour videos, some of those videos teaches people how to parkour.
Who knew that beings watching people doing dangerouse sports could come in handy in situations like these.
Naturally William didn't master over night but it took a long rigorous process before he could use them in any official capacity.
Right now while he's still very hesitant on jumping off buildings but he's more than confident enough to climb over walls and fences 3 times his height.
Thanks to this he is able to evade raid fruit stalls and evade capture from the guards.
During past few months William naturally picked up a bit of the native language, granted the vocabulary he knows is probably less then that of a child's but hey it's something isn't it.
Especial when he's learning it by being a homeless dude on the street and eavesdropping on people's conversations.
it's really impressive if you think about it, as he has to determine what people are saying based on gestures, body language, expression and tone of voice.
Based on his observations William is able to determine that the language of this world is largely fortunately is tonnel and very expressive of one's emotions.
which means he can read people intentions based on their tone of speech.
It's like how people talk in anime's, like some times you don't even need to read sub titles to know what they're talking about.
like if you sees a guy going all emotional and starts saying sentences full of "kimochi"s then he's probably yammering about some crap about love.
Switch to another country.... for example Chinese. William had tried watching those Chinese anime's and he just find them very off putting.
Maybe it's their voice acting? Perhaps it's their language? But William more or less believed that it's probably the language.
As in the case of the German dub of Hellsing. That's a masterpiece! especially the when the Major is speaking.
French dubbed animes are good too although the Russian dubs just sounds alike angry Russians.
Anyways, it is thanks to this peculiarity in the local language that William is able to a few basic words.
Fast forward to the present
William lays on the ground thinking "what's wrong with my life?"
As he stares at the sausages in his hand, like sausages is great and all but William really missed his old life style back on earth, while he might not be rich and he might not be eating the healthiest of foods but at least he could practically eat almost anything he wants.
"That's it!" He thought as he clenched his the sausage on his hand tightly, he had finally made up his mind on something.
NEXT DAY
William is currently try to sneak into a nearby local school.
For awhile now he had been thinking of doing this.
This school is a particularly high class school and so William thought "those rich kids must be very waste full and so there must be a tone of leftovers in the trash."
William had been thinking of this for months now every since he saw the weatefullness of the students of from that school as they dine in a restaurant.
They were acting high and mighty and they barely even touch their food before leaving the restaurant with a sneer, as if looking down on the fairly decent (in William's opinion) food provided.