Re:Zero - Starting Life in Chaos.

In a passage in the lower level of the maze.

A dozen combat-type extraordinary beings ended their fight, sat together, bandaged their wounds, and took a short rest.

A group of ordinary people were busy on the side, cleaning up the passage that was littered with body parts.

In this dim, sickening environment, the presence of a blonde girl stood out.

The girl was trying hard to suppress her nausea as she turned over the clothes of the dead and collected usable supplies.

A few strands of coral-colored highlighted hair gleamed faintly in the dimness. Even though her hair was messy and her body was covered in blood, it still couldn't hide the girl's youthful beauty.

The girl's name is Kitagawa Umi, 16 years old.

Although she is dressed like a hot girl, she is actually very chaste and is still a virgin.

If nothing goes wrong, I will go to Beichen's school to start high school in a few days.

Encounter new friendships, and even love, at this premier academy in Eastern Capital.

But now it was clear that something unexpected had happened.

Just when she had finished shopping in the clothing store and bought materials for her cosplay costume, a magic circle emitting black light appeared under her feet.

Since he was in the mall the whole time, Kitagawa didn't know what was happening in the square.

Therefore, before she fell into a coma, she thought she had encountered a plot in a novel - a summons from another world.

It's not her fault that she wasn't alert enough.

Mainly because as an ordinary person, her daily life is relatively stable.

Monsters rarely appear in urban areas, and ordinary people are not very attracted to the weird. As long as they don't seek death, they generally won't encounter weird things.

Of course, if you encounter it, that’s no problem, after all, the person is gone.

Moreover, influenced by the invasion of another world, the theme of being summoned to another world to be a hero is quite popular.

As a veteran otaku, how could Kitagawa not think in this direction?

So, even when she opened her eyes with great expectation and found herself not lying between thrones or at a ceremony site, but in a dark cave;

Even when the people surrounding her were not court magicians in strange costumes, but a group of unconscious people, she still did not realize the seriousness of the problem.

Just think of it as a gap between reality and games and novels. As long as it’s a different world, it’s fine!

She soon stopped worrying about the surroundings and raised her head impatiently, shouting into the air -

“Personal panel!!!”

The clear and pleasant sound echoed in the dark cave.

Kitagawa's eyes were firm, as if he could see through the darkness and see a wonderful scene in his future where he would rely on his rich gaming experience as an otaku to kill all enemies in the other world and rescue the people from the quagmire of war. Then he would stand on a high platform with his arms around princesses, elves, beast-eared girls, succubi and other female companions, and be admired by everyone.

She thought she must have been very handsome at that time!

Unfortunately, the expected blue light screen did not appear in front of her eyes or in her mind.

Kitagawa, unwilling to give up, changed the password several times in succession, but to no avail. Instead, he woke up the people who were in a coma.

After realizing that his behavior was very much like a chuunibyou, Kitagawa couldn't help but raise his hands to cover his blushing cheeks, fearing that others would see him.

Obviously, she was worrying too much.

Not everyone is as heartless as her.

After everyone woke up, they began to check their own conditions.

After realizing that they were in an unknown situation and had no cell phone signal, the crowd began to get agitated.

Fortunately, this feeling of uneasiness did not last long and was interrupted by fear.

The maze has started to spawn monsters!

Along with the announcement of Big Eyes' death, a bulge appeared on the wall.

The bulge gradually grew larger, from an inconspicuous hemisphere to a gigantic stove cricket, and then fell down.

At the beginning, although everyone was afraid, as ordinary people, they did not dare to do anything.

Afraid of irritating this giant creature.

It was not until the hearth crickets woke up from their nascent chaos and began to charge and bite them that they screamed and ran frantically towards the exits on both sides of the cave.

They are not isolated cases, the same situation occurs throughout the maze.

Tens of thousands of ordinary people were killed or injured the moment the monster appeared.

Soon, after the initial cleansing, the maze fell silent, as if the Shura Hell just now was just a dream.

Only the chewing sounds coming from the dark corners and the stench in the air reminded them of the survivors.

Everything is real.

The maze was devouring their own kind, digesting their fear.

Those ordinary people who were lucky enough to survive the massacre could only hide in a corner and survive, hoping that the island country’s top leaders would send someone to rescue them.

Unfortunately, they forgot the island nation’s inexplicable disaster relief efficiency and that the maze was still constantly generating monsters.

As more and more monsters landed and the leftovers could no longer satisfy their appetites, their living space began to shrink gradually.

This feeling of death getting closer and closer while being powerless to stop it is enough to drive a sane adult crazy.

Some people couldn't bear the hellish scene before them and collapsed, slashing at their fellow travelers with their butcher knives.

Some people even feel that they have no way out and start to act lawless, venting their inner fears on vulnerable groups.

Insults, beatings, and forced hugs are all common.

These vulnerable groups escaped the slaughter of foreign races, but ultimately could not escape the clutches of their own race.

The ugliness of human nature was fully displayed at this moment.

Kitagawa, who was also an ordinary person, survived by chance.

When the chaos started, she was swept by the crowd and fled towards the cave entrance.

Then they encountered a dozen patrol team members who were fighting in the passage.

Compared to others, they are undoubtedly lucky.

After all, among the more than 10,000 people who were trapped in the underground maze, there were only about a hundred extraordinary people.

This is because there is a rally on the commercial street today and the security force has been strengthened. Otherwise, there would usually be less than 20 to 30 people at most.

There is nothing that can be done about the small number of extraordinary people.

This world has only been in existence for 2000 years since the invasion of another world in 24, and is still in the early stages of spiritual recovery.

The number of extraordinary people only accounts for about one thousandth of the total population, and ordinary people still make up the majority.

Even if every country chooses to inform the masses of some popular cultivation methods, it is impossible to expect everyone to practice.

Let’s not talk about whether you have talent or not, just talk about the various training resources, which all cost money.

Poor in literature but rich in martial arts, cultivating immortals will lead to financial ruin.

Cultivation costs money.

No money?

What’s the point of practicing if you don’t have money?

What's more, in a country like the island nation where the classes are clearly divided and the chaebols are in power, even if you have money you may not necessarily have connections. How many ordinary civilians can there be?

Unless one awakens special abilities, the resources required to train an ordinary person with average talent to level 0 would be calculated in tens of millions of BaGa coins.

From this we can see how lucky it is for Kitagawa and others to meet more than a dozen extraordinary people at one time in the maze.

Even though the levels of these extraordinary people are not high.

The highest level is only level 2...