Ice Sculpture Kaguya: A Man! I Want a Man!

"Don't Starve is a survival game. It might not be very famous, but it's a lot of fun... It can be rough when you first start out, but you just have to stick with it..."

Everyone sat in the lifeboat, floating on the sea, as Zhuzhu explained the basics and setting of Don't Starve.

"So..." Tsubame-senpai said softly. "Are we actually inside a game?"

"You misunderstood, Senpai," Amamiya Natsuki corrected her. "We're not inside a game. This nightmare has just borrowed the game's setting."

"It feels pretty much the same to me." Fujiwara Chika rested her right cheek in her hand. "No wonder the frogs and spiders on the island are so huge. They're monsters from the game... Wait, hold on!"

Fujiwara Chika's eyes suddenly widened as she looked at Amamiya Natsuki. "Doesn't that mean we'll run into even bigger monsters later?"

"Most likely." Amamiya Natsuki nodded. "In Don't Starve, spiders and frogs are just the most common weak enemies."

After a pause, Amamiya Natsuki continued:

"But the dangers in Don't Starve aren't limited to monsters. There are all kinds of harsh environments, too. In short, you should prepare yourselves."

"..."

Meanwhile.

On the coast.

The frogs couldn't go into the sea, so they could only keep hopping along the shore. As the frog rain continued, the entire coast was packed with green frogs as far as the eye could see. They were crammed together so tightly that the sight made one's scalp tingle.

Only after the rain stopped did the frogs stop falling from the sky. But the frogs on the shore were still packed together, and none of them left.

Tsubame-senpai asked quietly:

"Are they going to keep guarding the beach?"

Hayasaka Ai pondered for a moment.

"If they're game monsters, it's probably because we drew their aggro