Saemi and I continued to explore the 3rd floor, the sky was already getting dark, indicating that night was approaching, both Saemi and I were trying to avoid contact with monsters as much as possible in our exploration, besides that, the two of us also decided to stay on the 3rd floor, there was no reason to go back to the 1st floor every time just to sleep, although the 3rd floor was cold thanks to our new clothes it was nothing we couldn't handle.

"Ok, I think we've gone pretty far for today, let's go camping around here tonight"

I said as soon as we had reached a good spot, it was a relatively quiet place as there were hardly any monsters around the area, there was a stream a few steps away from here where we could get drinking water from so this would definitely be a good place to stay for a while.

"Finally, we can rest. My feet are killing me"

Saemi said, sitting down on a rock and using it as a chair.

"You can stay here, I will get some branches and enjoy hunting some animals, I should be back in a few hours"

I said as I looked at the surrounding area.

"Alright, be careful"

Saemi said with a soft smile on her face as she looked at me.

"Right"

I said giving another small smile, after that I moved a little away from Saemi as I marked the nearby trees so I wouldn't get lost on my way back, as the night came the colder it got indicating that the night would be quite cold, i had already gotten food so I was just gathering some branches that I found on the ground on the way back, as I had marked the path earlier it would probably be okay, and following the markings on the trees I finally reach the camp, Saemi was still sitting on the rock while playing with a snowball in her hand, that was a pretty cute sight to be honest.

"I'm back"

I said as soon as I approached Saemi, hearing my voice Saemi looked at me and put a smile on her face.

"Welcome back"

Saemi said getting up from the stone and coming towards me, as soon as she approached me, she seemed to be confused about something as she inspected me.

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"Didn't you go out to hunt and gather some branches to make the fire?"

Saemi asked looking at me doubtfully.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, when I used my power on the second-floor boss I got two abilities from him, and one of them was this one"

As soon as I said that I pointed my arm forward and activated my ability.

"Storage"

As soon as I said this the space in front of me distorted and soon the things, I had picked up in my exploration began to be spat out, Saemi looked in surprise at what was happening.

"What is that?"

Saemi asked as she looked at the storage distortion that was still present.

"This is my magic called storage, you can think of it as inventory, it can store our stuff in there"

Hearing my words Saemi was visibly surprised but nodded showing she understood, after that Saemi and I were in front of a fire while we waited for the meat, we had put in to be ready, Saemi was sitting between my legs while I was hugging her from behind, it's not like we expected anything from each other, we just felt comfortable doing it so we were doing it, as I thought about this, I glanced at Saemi and realized that she was also looking at me, we stared at each other for a few seconds, every now and then I caught myself looking at Saemi's lips, then slowly I started to move closer while looking into her eyes.

Saemi didn't seem to be against it and was also looking at me, as soon as our lips touched a quiet slow kiss began, we were calmly exploring each other's mouths as an invisible drool began to form, i asked for passage with my tongue and Saemi gave in, as soon as our tongues met, we began to deepen the kiss even more, it seemed that there was only Saemi and me in the world, only our gasping breaths could be heard in the night as we kissed, unfortunately, our moment was abruptly interrupted by bushes that began to rustle indicating that something was sneaking up on us.

Saemi and I stood up and prepared ourselves in case we needed to engage in combat, within seconds from the bushes a white wolf emerges, he was sniffing the whole time as if looking for something, and as soon as he stops sniffing, he raises his head finally noticing us.

"Rrrrrrrrr"

With a menacing growl the wolf started to come out of the bushes, but as soon as he came out, I noticed something was wrong, he was limping and, on his paw, and some parts of his body were bleeding quite badly, he seems to have been bitten repeatedly.

"Makoto, what do we do?"

Saemi said as she looked with a strange face at the wolf, I know what she is feeling, even if he is a monster, I think it would weigh on my mind to kill him while he is injured like that.

"Wait here Saemi"

I said as I approached the wolf.

"Rrrrrrrrr"

The wolf's growling intensified but still I didn't give up and kept approaching, I noticed that sometimes he would take his eyes off me and look at the meats that were being made in the fire, taking one of the improvised toothpicks made from a stick where the meat was, I slowly approached the wolf as I held the meat out to him, little by little the wolf's growling subsided and when we were within inches of each other the wolf was no longer growling, its eyes looking at me as if it saw something, slowly he gulps down the meat and begins to eat, he really seemed to be very hungry.

"Is he okay?"

Saemi asked after approaching.

"I can't tell, he is still injured but it doesn't look like he is going to die"

"Rrrrrrrrr"

When I said that the wolf growled again looking irritated about something.

"... Her?"