Isekai Nonbiri Nouka Chapter 1051: Yame’s Life on the Uninhabited Island I

Ah, my name’s Yame.

I’m a devil.

I’ve been around for quite a long time.

I don’t really like being called one of the old timers…

But I do want people to say I’m amazing.

Maybe that’s why.

I challenged someone who was just a little…

Just a tiny bit stronger than me.

I lost.

I was killed about seven times.

The only reason I’m still alive is because I’m immortal.

No matter how many times I die, I come back.

It’s my unique divine authority.

As long as I make use of that power, I’ll be the one who wins in the end.

Because my opponent will grow old.

If I just wait, victory is guaranteed!

Fufufu.

I am the invincible Yame-sama!

「I will tell my children to kill you whenever they see you! And my children will pass those words on to their own children! Perish, devil!」

………………..

Y… you’re just putting on a brave face.

I’m not scared of something like that.

But…

Well…

I’m a little tired.

Maybe I’ll take a nap.

Yeah.

I’ll sleep until they’ve forgotten all about me.

A nice, long sleep.

About a hundred years.

-0-

When I woke up, I was somewhere I had never seen before.

Huh?

Why?

Why is there a beach right in front of me?

Where…

Where am I?

This isn’t where I went to sleep, is it?

F… first, I need to figure out where I am.

Ah, I’m hungry too.

Hopefully there’s a town nearby.

Ah… money?

Right.

The treasure I hid before going to sleep.

If I remember correctly, it was under a rock west of where I sealed myself away…

Where’s the rock?

Huh?

Were there ever trees like these here?

There weren’t, were there?

Wait…

Does that mean my treasure is gone?

Which means I have no money?

Then even if I find a town, I won’t be able to buy anything to eat.

I… I hope I can find someone I know…

Ugh…

The only faces that come to mind are people I’d rather not meet.

Let’s not think about that.

Well, while I’m looking for a town, I’ll search for my hidden treasure too.

Yeah, that’s a good plan.

More importantly, I’m starving.

I can barely stand it.

But it’s strange to be this hungry.

I eat a lot, but I also used to be perfectly fine going for days without eating.

Did something happen to my body?

Even when I spread my wings, I can’t fly anymore.

Well, I can get off the ground, but I fall right back down.

A… anyway, if this keeps up, I’ll be too hungry to move.

Then I’ll just starve to death.

I come back to life when I die.

But that doesn’t mean dying doesn’t hurt.

It hurts so much it literally kills me.

And even if I die, I don’t come back with a full stomach.

It’s a little better than right before I died, but only barely.

Which means I’d just keep starving to death over and over.

I want to avoid that.

If at all possible.

While I can still move, I need to find something to eat.

And drinking water…

Yeah, I’d better find that too.

Right.

While I’m searching for a town, I’ll look for my hidden treasure, something to eat, and some fresh water.

-0-

There was no town.

And I never found the treasure I had hidden.

But I did find something I could eat.

Small red berries.

They weren’t good.

They were very sour.

Some of them were incredibly bitter too.

But they were edible.

There just weren’t many of them.

I also found drinking water.

There was a river, and I could drink from the upper reaches.

The lower part wasn’t any good.

It was salty.

Then I made an important discovery.

The place I was on…

Was an island.

I spent about ten days walking along the shoreline and ended up right back where I started.

I got excited because I thought I’d found signs of other people.

It turned out they were my own footprints.

Ahahahahahaha.

…….

I can’t swim!

-0-

A… a… anyway.

Um…

What do I do now?

There wasn’t anything resembling a harbor or any boats along the coast, so it didn’t seem like anyone lived here.

The sea…

No ships passed by.

I didn’t even see any of the seakins.

I’m all alone.

………………………………….

N… no!

I’m not giving up!

I’m not going to break!

I’m going to survive!

Dying is not an option.

I’ll just come back to life.

All that would do is make the suffering continue.

I refuse to let that happen!

-0-

For now, I should check what I have with me.

My clothes.

I’m a devil, so I create them with magic.

They’re always clean.

I’m glad I still have my favorite outfit.

Then there’s a branch I picked up while walking.

It’s covered with those little red berries.

A precious source of food.

And I also picked up half of a large fruit shell while I was walking.

It works like a cup.

I did find the tree that grew those large fruits.

But it was too tall to reach.

Even throwing rocks didn’t knock any down.

Those fruits must not taste very good anyway.

So it’s not like I’m disappointed.

That’s everything I own.

…….

Whew.

Stay calm.

That’s right, Yame.

Stay calm.

It’s too early to despair.

Take a good look around.

The beach is covered with all kinds of things.

Mostly driftwood…

But surely there’s something useful…

There!

A strangely shaped fruit!

It smells delicious!

Fufufu.

As expected of me.

The heavens are watching over me!

Ah, there’s another one over there!

And another one over here!

Why didn’t I notice these while I was walking along the beach before?

Anyway, that solves the food problem!

Now all I have to do is build a base near the river, and I’ll have water too!

Fuhahahahaha!

I’m going to survive!

I ate the strangely shaped fruit and got terrible food poisoning.

D… damn it…

It only smelled good.

It hurt so much I thought I was going to die.

Actually…

I died twice.

-0-

Strangely Shaped Fruit: 「I mean… maybe you shouldn’t eat something that washed ashore after floating around the ocean at room temperature…」

Isekai: 「Isekai, there was at least a chance of getting isekaid! A chance!」

Yame: 「There wasn’t.」 (She stared off into the distance as though she had attained enlightenment.)