Language Cheat Reincarnation – Young Girl VTuber Saves the World
Chapter 361

Chapter 361. [Two Lives, One Choice]

"I just remembered, I forgot."

A modest gift from Angu Ogu. The advent calendar for the day before yesterday.

I was so caught up in just surviving, that I didn’t have the energy for anything else.

Plus, the gifts so far have been things like pacifiers and bottles.

"Well, it's not like it'll be useful for anything, though."

I just wanted some time to think about something other than food. If it distracted me, that was enough. I reached for the present.

But there was no excitement like when I usually unwrap things.

"Heh, it's all messy."

It's all soggy and the box is soft and flimsy.

Instead of tearing it, I peeled it off, almost like I was crushing it.

Maybe the stuff inside had gone bad too.

I thought that as I opened it... and then I realized what the present was.

"...Ah."

I let out a voice without thinking. I carefully took it out with trembling fingers.

Inside the box was...

—Baby food.

"Ah... Ahahaha... You fool. Ogu, you're such an idiot..."

A laugh, almost like crying, escaped me.

It was what would have been a joke gift: bottled baby food.

I reached for the lid and twisted it.

Maybe it was the survival instinct, gathering the last of its strength, but to my surprise, the lid popped open easily.

"Ugh, ah..."

As I scooped the paste-like substance with my fingers, a familiar scent of "food" filled the air, a smell I hadn't smelled in so long.

Before I knew it, I had popped it into my mouth.

"~~~~~!"

It was shocking. My skin prickled as all the pores opened at once, a shiver running through me.

It felt like my dulled senses were rapidly coming back to life.

"Ah... Ahhh! It's so good... It's so good, Ogu!"

I kept eating the baby food, one spoonful after another.

My hands wouldn’t stop.

"Thank you... thank you. Ugh... uhh!"

Tears and sobs accompanied the words of gratitude.

To Angu Ogu, and to food itself.

Until now... especially in my past life, I had been so careless with food.

I’d just consumed whatever gave the best nutritional cost-effectiveness and spent the rest on my fandom activities.

"I didn't know anything."

Before I knew it, I’d often gone days without eating.

Because when I watched VTuber streams, I would forget the time, and forget meals.

But... even so, it didn’t matter, because I was in Japan, a privileged environment.

A place where "living" was guaranteed.

If we hadn’t had this baby food...

The amount of energy consumed in normal life versus this situation was drastically different.

In this unfamiliar environment, the tension and fear...

My mind never rested, and my heart couldn’t calm down.

Even when doing nothing, my body was wearing out on its own.

The energy inside me was being used up at an incredible rate.

"To heal our injuries, we need nutrition... And for her too!"

Just as I remembered, I had only eaten half.

I struggled to push aside the urge to eat more.

I offered some of the food on my finger to the woman from the Secret Service.

I called out to her.

"Please eat! It's food! Do you understand?"

Her nose twitched.

She seemed semi-conscious, but still...

"...Chupa, chupa..."

"Ah... Thank goodness, she ate it."

The Secret Service woman licked my finger.

If she didn’t eat, she would die. And she was still trying to live.

"The real problem starts now. Think."

Maybe because I had eaten, my head started to clear up.

It was important to think aloud.

When information can’t be verbalized, human intelligence declines.

Words affect thinking ability.

And as I thought, I realized something.

Maybe...

"We might already be too late."

Sometimes, knowledge brings despair.

The fact that no rescue had come after so many days meant...

"—Probably, help isn’t coming."

Why? Why is this happening?

I felt like tears were going to spill.

At the same time, I realized that to escape, we had to act ourselves.

And in order to act...

"I can't, not like this!"

I was being forced to make a decision.

Ahead of me lay the woman from the Secret Service, lying helplessly, unable to move.

If no help was coming, we had to escape on our own.

But if we moved, I couldn’t take her with me.

"...Leave her behind? I can't do that! She's still trying to live!"

In the end, I postponed my decision.

It wasn’t until hours later that I realized how fatal that choice was.

***

"What’s going on?"

The forest seemed noisier than usual today.

Was it because of the rain last night?

I heard the voices of wild animals all around.

...No, that’s not it!

"Could it be!?"

I suddenly realized and sat up.

...I’d let my guard down.

A wild animal had come in the day before and left, so I thought it wouldn’t come back.

I figured we still had at least one more night. I had thought that way.

"I was wrong."

I had made a huge mistake.

The wild animals hadn’t retreated at all. In fact, the opposite.

"...We’re surrounded."

We had been judged.

Tonight was "dinner time".