“Ha... ha... If we hide in here, they shouldn’t chase us anymore, right...?”

After fighting for their lives, the siblings You and Nai finally squeezed into the small tree hollow. Exhaustion hit them both, and they collapsed inside.

Outside the hollow, the Big-Leaf Monster kept its head low as it sniffed around the rocks and grassy patches, searching for the meal that had nearly been in its mouth with its not-so-impressive nose.

“Awooo! Awooo!”

But after searching everywhere and finding nothing, it let out an angry roar, scratched its head, and finally left.

“Big bro, what do we do now? You and I have only 2 HP left. One more hit could finish us off. I’m scared that if we die here, we’ll really be dead.”

Nai lay on a rock and spoke weakly.

“Sigh, let me think. I remember foxfolk have pretty good healing abilities. And I have the talent skill—Minor Heal. I just don’t know how to use it.”

You was at a loss. When they’d been running for their lives outside, he’d carried his sister in his mouth and kept repeating the skill’s name in his mind, but nothing had happened.

After hearing that, Nai started thinking it over too. Come to think of it, female foxfolk in GE were pretty much all healers. It wasn’t just because they had great healing output—the race itself came with a talent for healing.

“Hey, big bro, why do you have a healing talent, anyway?”

Nai was puzzled. Wasn’t that a trait GE gave female classes? Did that mean her big bro was a male healer?

“Maybe I’m descended from the Holy Fox Clan. I remember that in GE, all descendants of the Holy Fox Clan had this trait, male or female. Wait! The Holy Fox Clan—I get it! I know how to heal now.”

You lowered his head toward his injured arm, then stuck out his tongue and gave it a lick.

Ding~ MP -2. Minor Heal activated. +100 HP for one minute. A message appeared in You’s mind.

“As I thought! The talent effect is on the tongue. I knew it! I once saw those wild Holy Foxes on the Holy Light Continent healing each other—they just licked each other’s wounds.”

You grinned happily, baring his teeth as his tail swished.

With this skill, at a low level it only cost 2 MP to restore 100 HP. It was practically a god-tier skill! As he felt his body gradually recover, his spirits slowly lifted too.

“Wow, big bro, isn’t that a god-tier skill? Hurry up and help me too!”

Nai saw that her big bro was back to bouncing around, and she wanted... that kind of effect for herself too.

“Sure.”

You crouched beside Nai. His cute fox ears twitched as he looked at the ball of black fur.

That really was his little sister? How could she look so... otherworldly?

Squish~

“Mmm~ o(*￣▽￣*)o It’s cool.”

Ding~ Minor Heal activated. +100 HP for one minute.

Before long, Nai was bouncing around again. In the end, she and You sat together on a slightly larger rock.

“Hey, big bro, do you think we’re really alive right now? Everything that happened today feels so real. What happened to our original bodies?”

“I don’t know. I just remember getting hit by a powerful electric shock, then losing consciousness. When I woke up, I was here.”

“Wait! Could it be...?”

You seemed to have thought of something. He struggled to lift his head and look at Nai.

“What is it, big bro? What did you think of?”

“Nothing. I was wondering if it could be that thing at home—the Dun Niu-brand power strip you won in the lottery. Maybe it got old and started leaking electricity or something, and then we ended up transported here.”

Nai nearly died laughing at her big brother’s theory...

“No way! Big bro, please don’t doubt the prize I won... okay? It was... a premium model, with only five available in the whole country!”

Nai explained. Though, deep down, she knew the souvenir had been made using old-fashioned techniques, and its internal parts probably weren’t anything fancy. But power strips like that didn’t break easily, right? Yeah... that had to be it.

“Forget it. Let’s stop thinking about that. What should we do next? It’s getting dark outside, and if we go out now, the Big-Leaf Monster will definitely kill us.”

“I absolutely do not want to run into that Big-Leaf Monster again. That monkey was terrifying...”

Sizzle~

Just as the siblings were stumped by their predicament, a flash of firelight from inside the tree hollow caught their attention.