The Unconscious "Beauty"
It was getting late, and the mosquitoes on the mountain were starting to multiply again.
It might sound a little funny, but it has to be admitted that Uraraka Shige got lost in the mountains again... or rather, he couldn't figure out which way to go to reach Tottori Prefecture.
Today is his second day in these mountains. If he can get through tonight, it will be the third day by tomorrow morning.
At this moment, Uraraka Shige's location could be considered a deep mountain forest, teeming with snakes, insects, rats, and wild animals, making it quite dangerous. Fortunately, Uraraka Shige's 'Quirk' allowed him to survive relatively well in such a place.
After all, because he has been using his 'Quirk' to maintain the 'Heavy Shackles' technique, any small creatures like mosquitoes that get close enough to him will be crushed to death by the sudden increase in Gravity, and thus have no chance to bite Uraraka Shige.
Slightly larger than mosquitoes, such as snakes and rats, would be startled away by the sounds that Uraraka Shige deliberately made with the wooden stick in his hand as he walked. As for the larger ones, some were no Uraraka Shige and would retreat on their own. Some wolves, bears, tigers, and leopards were too much for Uraraka Shige handle, so he would use his 'Quirk' to escape quickly and leave them far behind.
It can be said that the only real dangers for Uraraka Shige here are natural disasters, some traps, and some creatures that are good at stealth and ambushes... such as those natural predators - felines.
Fortunately, the mountain range where Uraraka Shige was located did not seem to have any felines, or perhaps there were no large felines, and the small felines had been scared away by him. At least, whether it was when he escaped last time or now, Uraraka Shige had not seen a single feline.
As for those who can't beat Uraraka Shige but won't retreat voluntarily... what do you think Uraraka Shige has been living on these past two days? His meat can be cooked and eaten, and his fur can be used as toilet paper just by rinsing it in a mountain stream...
Like that saying goes...
Bunnies are so cute, how can you eat them?! Fine, I won't eat them then. Anyway, they're great for wiping your butt... Hmm, enjoy the silky smoothness, but they don't clean very well.
There's really no other way; there's no toilet paper in the deep mountains and forests, and you can't exactly make a toilet stick out of wood...
It's very damaging to the skin and can easily cause hemorrhoids.
I didn't sleep very well that night. After all, although mosquitoes and other insects had become accustomed to Uraraka Shige 'Uraraka Shige' Shackles' over the years, they would instinctively maintain them even while he was asleep, and they couldn't harm him at all.
However, Uraraka Shige didn't have any good ideas about the temperature. These past two days, he had been trying to find places that weren't too cold to get by. He didn't know anything about starting a fire by rubbing sticks together, so he was already doing well if he could just rely on his 'Quirk' to go and find a place with lush foliage in a tree to stay.
After daybreak, Uraraka Shige stretched and loosened his limbs before descending to the ground. He then regulated his breathing and searched for food for a while, finding only two or three small wild fruits. They were slightly poisonous, but edible in small quantities. Uraraka Shige put these two or three wild fruits away and then, following the arrow marks he had made on the ground with pebbles before climbing the tree the night before, as well as the arrow marks he had carved on the tree trunk with pebbles, he began to continue in the direction he had taken the previous two days.
After walking for about two or three hours, the sun in the sky moved quite a bit, and Uraraka Shige felt a bit hungry and started to rumble. However, since she hadn't encountered any mischievous creatures yet, there was no meat to eat. In the end, she could only eat a wild fruit and dig up a few familiar wild vegetables, wash them with the stream water, and barely fill her stomach.
Next, Uraraka Shige would eat another wild fruit about every three hours. By the time he finished the last two wild fruits, Uraraka Shige had already crossed several more mountains, and it was getting quite dark, almost noon.
Around this time, Uraraka Shige descended to the halfway point of the mountain where she was, and suddenly heard a loud scream from afar. The scream echoed through the mountains for a moment before disappearing.
Uraraka Shige hesitated for a moment, then turned around and continued towards the location from which the sound had come. After about twenty or thirty minutes, he descended to the foot of a mountain, climbed a hilltop, and found the guy who had screamed earlier.
Like many melodramatic hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress plots, a 'beauty' was found at the bottom of an abandoned trap pit on this mountain. Scattered around her were some hiking backpacks, water bottles, and portable tents. Her skin was fair with a healthy rosy glow, her legs were long and strong, her figure looked great, and her features were very handsome... well, quite dashing.
By observing this 'beauty's' Adam's apple, Uraraka Shige could easily identify that this guy was a man, and a very handsome, athletic, and sunny man at that... or something like that.
In ancient China, the term "beauty" did not refer solely to women. After all, there were male favorites at that time, and many high-ranking officials and nobles also had homosexual tendencies. Moreover, this man's appearance was undoubtedly far above average, so he naturally deserved the title of "beauty."
Well, it's a pity that Uraraka Shige isn't a 'hero,' otherwise, the phrase 'hero saves damsel in distress' would be perfectly fitting.
The abandoned trap pit wasn't very deep, only about three to four meters high. The 'beauty' in the pit seemed to have fainted from hitting the back of his head, and appeared to be alright. So, after carefully confirming that there was no danger in the trap pit, Uraraka Shige jumped in and used her 'Quirk' to rescue the handsome man from the pit.
Based on the items scattered around this handsome man, Uraraka Shige could deduce that he was probably an outdoor enthusiast, who might be able to tell him where he was and how to get to Tottori Prefecture.
In fact, this did not Uraraka Shige. After Uraraka Shige carried the man through the mountains for about two more hours, the handsome man finally woke up.
After the handsome man learned what had happened, he politely thanked Uraraka Shige and, as Uraraka Shige wished, offered to take him out of the mountains and to Uraraka Shige Tottori City.
With a guide, Uraraka Shige no longer needed to worry about getting lost in the deep mountains. Then came another moonrise and sunset, the cycle of day and night. By noon the next day, Uraraka Shige finally left the mountain range and arrived at a city that he knew nothing about in his previous life.