Souzou was not looking at anything at all, his mind gone numb, he was bored of everything, none of it was in anyway pleasing to him, except the food, and the floor, that was made in some weird land, still conflicted on what to think about it.
Although he was down, he still had a bit of a adventurous heart.
Standing up, stretching and then shouting carelessly.
"GOOD MOORNING!".
It was if, the figure and the giant bird were mere fragmentation of his imagination.
Souzou put his hands over his mouth as he remembered his situation, "what the hell am i doing?!", he thought to himself, his heart pounded deeply, accelerating by each heartbeat.
Souzou started to scan the area for any threats, multiple turns to left, right, whatever direction, thankfully there was nothing.
Relieved, he inhaled air deeply.
As he listened to the weak winds, his thoughts strangled him, but he pushed them to the back of his mind, simply ignoring them.
Overwhelmed by it all, more questions will not solve his problems.
So, ignorance is bliss for now, until he gets more answers.
Souzou said as he thought of his actions, "when did i get so lazy??"
He shook his head and lamented.
Suddenly a new idea struck him, "i can have a day off!!".
Souzou thought about it more, and the more he thought about it, the more he liked it. The plan was fairly as simple as it can get, a work day and a non work day, this way, the ultimatum of having to torture himself to work on the sign while going to the river everyday or waiting it out, falls apart.
Still though, in his mind, he got pretty pessimistic pretty fast, he found a solution to this chaotic vacation, well that if nothing changes, and if Souzou just meets monsters like that figure and that bird on his first day, then this will be no easy go to B and back to A plan.
"I wonder how i got transported here..., " Souzou wondered for a bit.
"Was this really my first time here?, i mean, i did forget allot these past days, " Souzou wondered again.
Souzou shook his head and thought to himself, "focus", he didn't want to waste his day off on such silly ideas.
"Well..", Souzou was happy about his day off, but now that he thinks about it, it isn't much different then a work day.
Souzou looked at the sky, observing the clouds, "were clouds this big?", he was not that keen on studying clouds, and so another question is added, "is there a delete button to this question thing".
His stomach grumbled.
he ate some fruits in hopes of satiating himself.
Souzou will soon follow up with his plan.
But first, he needs to find something entertaining, "what to do??, is there anything fun to do other then just look at the sky?, maybe i should just skip rocks at the river, wait what about that wet soil near the river?, hm.. maybe not..", as he thought about it, it dawned on him that there is not even one single tourist places or camps here.
"Why the heck people ignoring this place, this would make it in my list of things to do!!, seriously how did i never know about this place before".
He scratched his hair, and as he did, dirt fell off of it, not as shocked as before, Souzou continued scratching his hair. Then he pulled his clothes back and forth in hopes of retaining some of it former beauty.
As the shade he was under got taken over by the sun, he walked opposed to the sun and towards the river as he said out loud, "day offs really are entertaining".
Souzou just gave up the idea of finding something entertaining and thought about getting inspired while going to the river instead, humming his usual, Souzou walked with no care about any figure or bird.
Although, that what it looked like, inside, he was terrified.
As he got out of the blue tree area and onto the barren lands.
Souzou became very cautious, allot less then last time, but the effect of it, on his mind is still strong, the figure was way to scary. As his hums sounded, they were started to stutter randomly or be off tune, that wasn't helping him, what so ever.
Souzou randomly then just started getting rocks out of his pockets and throwing them, just to get better at throwing rocks, his legs trembled.
"isn't this to much?!?!, the figure was not even that scary i bet, i bet i could look at it closely, and it will some cute mascot potential animal that is misunderstood for a bully.., hah".
As he joked around to lessen his fears, he calmed down. Walking through the lands, the root that were protruding from the ground started to trick Souzou into thinking they were that cute mascot, this had done some strong reactions.
Souzou was tired and then suddenly in his peripherals he saw something, his head twitched to the direction that he thought the figure was at, nothing..
Again, it was just roots, this calmed him down a little, but his heartbeats were to strong already, and just ran reflexively, the fear of that figure was to much, it seems.
Some time later..
"SHIT, WHAT AM I DOING, WHY AM I SO SCARED??", Souzou thought as he ran, his heart rate got faster, and his limit was getting close, running at his best for 30 seconds with the help of adrenaline, then Souzou made it to a sparse spot with no cute mascot capable of hiding in it, he stopped in his tracks.
This off day might be wasted due to his marathon run, his body was exhausting, even trying to breathe was painful, his voice cut off, "Gre- great, now i might do another day o- off!, goo- good job me!".
Coughing loudly, his hands at the ground, his chest pushing back and forth, he calmed down a bit, staring at the ground in shame, Souzou did not even want to think about it anymore, after a long while.
Immediately, he looked back for any threats following him.
However, all he saw was barrens with roots protruding from the ground.
He stood up, sweat dropping out of his face, and walked, his fear was now allot milder, and now he just a bit paranoid, "calm down me", Souzou trying to placate himself, his mood was down.
His every step, made him doubt himself more.
"Am i going to survive this?", he thought to himself, he lost most of his hope two days ago but this was just beating the dead at this point.
Souzou wanted to shout, but given his circumstances, he couldn't.
And if it wasn't better, he got to do this all the way back..
After some time.
"Dammit, where did i put the arrows???, i swear i put them somewhere close to the river, did i go off course?, but how, i always go opposed to the sun?!?", he said to himself as more irritating stuff got thrown in.
Souzou sighed once more and took a break, he sat down, getting his stash of fruits out of his pockets and started eating them slowly to get more out of them.
As he ate in silence, gaining back his energy.
Reflecting. Souzou thought to himself, "what if i juggle rocks?". However, that wasn't the time for this, he stood up stretching, taking a breath and continued towards the river.
Seemingly forgetting his plan of getting inspiration for entertainment, he continued without even thinking about it.
Finally, after some time, he found the blue arrows sign, the ones he etched to the ground, it was like an angel touch, his mood was lifted instantly, and he could hear the water stream echoes.
Some time later...
Souzou was alive again, washing his hands and face, drinking to his heart desires, even if the water tasted so bad, Souzou was happy...
"this vacation sucks", Souzou said, on his back once again.
"So, are animals one time events for every species or is this land just this empty??", he said out loud, "no response??, anyone, anything?, hello??, who cares anymore, when am done with this plan, maybe i will visit out of nostalgia or something.., just joking".
Souzou was done with his most important task, and that to drink water.
Now he can do anything aside from work.
"Are there board game under the rubble?", asking himself, it might be possible, he thought.
Maybe, this was just wishful thinking, but anything could happen, he thought.
Souzou stared mindlessly for a bit, and then it hit him.
"let just learn juggling rocks for fun instead!".
Standing up.
One blue rock in his hand, and another blue one in his other hand, he never learned anything about juggling, so not expecting anything, Souzou breathed slowly.
Throwing the rock or stone in the air to the direction of the other hand, and the second stone was thrown in the mix right after.
Focusing on them in anticipation.
However, the stones reflected off the sun shine and went into Souzou eyes.
Flinching, unexpectedly.
Two objects suddenly hit his knee and his toe...
A muffled sound came out, holding his hands to his mouth.
Recoiling in the ground, Souzou spat curses in his mind, to the stones and the sun.
Tears welled in his eyes, as he fought his pain.