Love In The Stone World || Sahyo

chapter 5: stone boat

||~overflowing in the palm of my hand, the passion that wakes me up, just simply wandering in this world~||

"Eight bottles, eight members, one shot, no turning back. Are you ready?"

Jihyo huffed a big loud sigh. "I'm ready!"

"Aight, good luck. Be careful with the lions."

"What-"

"Bye-bye Jihyo-san!!” Taiju waved both his hands in excitement.

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Jihyo was filled with thrill, enthusiasm pumped rashly inside her adrenaline. She didn't even realize there was a tiny squirrel she stepped on, a day full of light and blue. Any branches on her way and stone statues blocking her road she passed through without any challenges.

It was a bright noon when she strode into the jungle, but after a while, her tummy started growling like wild pups asking for food from their mother wolf. It was the third snarl within this 60 seconds, and the real life howling of the adult feral wolves began to exhibit as the sky smoothly switched to a colder fading cerulean. It was never a good sign when the sound was crystal clear to her ears, anything could happen to the poor lonely girl in the middle of the unexpected mess of innocent nature.

Jihyo made a small camp with a fire in the middle of two gigantic trunks, thanks to senku's invention using a curved stick with a rope attached to each side, but it was a bit risky because of the nearby trees and long branches reaching to the ground. Sitting on one of the broken stone statues as she glaring on the blaze while eating her packed meal, a tightful grip on the spear so it would ever leave her hand, another grateful to Senku, she was aware of any roary menace or endangerment that could take her own life. A whole main reason for the permanent sanctuary.

An exhausting sleepless night, the only thing that entertained her these couple of nights was the thought of her secret lover. Among the faces of the members she adored, Sana appeared to be the most of the time. As if every time she was counting the blinking elegant stars, the unanticipated display of her face in the previous morning was just beyond to be reached by her own hand. But another foot ahead will just cause her to an indestructible unfortunate fate as there would be none to catch the fallen broken lass. A whole main journey was dedicated to bring back everyone she loved before, undeniably the major one would be the Japanese she desired for.

'I should've had a lead in the first place. I need to find her, and the rest of them too.'

It was not early after sunrise, Jihyo was already content with the small breakfast she had right after she awoke from her short nap. Right next to the small river where she just washed her face and her hair, the leader was gulping fresh water before she started her path. Tightening her leather belt, contained with eight bottles of revival fluid around her waist, she was prepared to continue her adventurous journey.

Jihyo was on her way to head east, but her eyes then quickly switched upon one of the statues not faraway from where she stood. A familiar face, it was a stone girl with long hair, she didn't notice it last night since the light of her campfire didn't reach that far. A few steps taken, the face of the statue getting clear to her pearl glistening eyes. The round-almond eyes and perfect pointy nose, the slender neck with a drooling lean waistline, it could be none other than the person she was looking for all this time. "Is that who I think it is?"

But to her unfortunate, it wasn't Sana the stone girl was. It really resembled the girl, but after Jihyo arrived and took a look for a quiet second, only a few features established her presence but the statue was completely a different person. Jihyo totally forgot she was still on the land of the rising sun and not her motherland, quote unquote explaining why there so much statues looked identical with each other. She sighed in dissatisfaction.