Chapter 3 – Bikini Costume Securing Strategy (1)

“You have finished the tutorial. You will receive 3 coins as a reward. Acquired coins can be used to purchase items. Please press the shop button on the terminal.』

“Uh? Is this the end?”

If it’s a tutorial, shouldn’t it be explained more properly?

What is the island environment like, how to escape, where and how many other survivors are there, what to hunt and what to eat.

Can’t you tell me something really important like that?
Just throw it away like this, and tell them to survive on their own?

──It would be useless to complain.
After all, the mobile phone only plays the stored video.

I put my phone in my pocket and took off my field coat.

“Mom, please put this on for now.”

I hand over the shirt I took off to my mother.
My mother’s outfit now is too… It was sloppy.
This theory is dangerous in many ways. I had to cover my skin at least a little.

“No, mom is fine. I am wearing Changjae.”
“It’s easier to move around when I take it off. It’s a big deal if it gets scratched, so my mother is wearing it.”

She is forced to wear night clothes on her mother who declines.
I’m wearing a combat uniform inside as well, so it’s no problem even if I don’t have a field jacket. On the contrary, taking it off makes it easier to move around.

“Are your feet okay? It’s a stone floor here. Aren’t you sick?”
“Huh. Somehow this… Kyaaak?!”

My mother, who was checking her feet, suddenly jumped on me with her screams.

“Centipede! Centipede!”

A frightened mother clinging to my arms.
Of course, a large centipede was crawling beside the mother’s feet.

A centipede that is more than the length of the palm of your hand. It was a size rarely seen in society.

『Teeling ♪ Successful first breast contact! I got 3 coins!』

… First of all you’re shutting up.

“Hey! Hee!”

As if hiding in my arms, my mother burying her face and clinging to her with all her might.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the panicked mother didn’t seem to have time to listen to her message.

Even in the midst of that, I was more concerned about contact with my mother than the centipede because of the message I heard on my cell phone. Shit.

“… Mother. Went. It’s fine now.”

The centipede quickly went on its way, probably not paying much attention to humans who couldn’t even eat it.

“Really? Are you really gone? Really no? Really?”
“Yes. Really.”

Mother asked over and over again.
She must have been as surprised as she was.

Can not help it. Since long ago, my mother had an extreme phobia of insects.

Even when she was not with me, my mother made a fuss about her, saying that a spider had appeared in her bedroom.
She runs to see if there is a tarantula, but there is only a spider smaller than a pinky fingernail in her room.
Desperately, even after I caught her spider, my mother did not return to her room. After all, that day, even my mother slept with me in my room.

A person who can’t kill a bug is a term referring to someone like my mother. My mother has always been like this.

She’s a big deal anyway.
If it were an uninhabited island, she would be infested with not only spiders and money bugs that her mother fears, but also pests such as mosquitoes and flies, and poisonous insects such as centipedes and bees.

Even if I somehow put up with it, what about my mother?
I wouldn’t be able to do anything if I panicked every time I saw an insect.

“Mi, I’m sorry, Changjae. My mom is weak against bugs.”
“It’s okay, mother.”

My mother, who had finally found peace, walked away from me, blushing in embarrassment.
Even so, she continued to look around to see if there were any other bugs.

“Sit down for a moment. I need to save some stamina. I don’t know what will happen.”
“Huh… Sorry.”

Sat her restless mother on her stone. Her night jacket comes down to her hips, so she won’t feel too uncomfortable sitting on a hard stone.

However, the posture of squatting with her legs hugging her panties…

… No. Don’t look don’t even be conscious
Again, if a strange message comes out, it will only make the atmosphere weird.
Never turn her head that way.

“… Excitement.”

A mother sniffing the inside of her night coat.
Could it be a strange smell? It’s a bit embarrassing.

“I’m sorry, mother. Does it smell? It’s what I was wearing.”
“No! It’s not like that, but I think the clothes smell like Changjae.”

To my apology, my mother replied with a broad smile.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a strange smell.

Feeling her chills, her mother rubbed her arms with her hands and laughed.

“I don’t know how she came to this place, but her mother is with her Changjae, so she is very relieved. When she was in school, when she went on a school trip, she reminded me of her.”
“It’s a school trip…”

There was no anxiety on her mother’s face when she said that. Rather, she even seemed a little amused.

“Didn’t they break up badly when Changjae went to the army? Even when she goes on vacation, she doesn’t come home, and even when she visits, she can’t even talk properly. So I guess someone who was frustrated to watch sent me to a place like this to properly reconcile with Changjae.”

As always, my mother smiled at me and talked.
I couldn’t respond to my mother’s words.
Only the regret of running away from her mother when she was immature and the guilt of kicking away the chance to repair the relationship filled her heart.

Before enlisting, I had a big fight with my mother and ran away from home. After that, he went to and from his girlfriend’s house without contacting him and enlisted in the military.

Even on vacation, I didn’t go home and stayed at a friend’s house. He even spent an overnight stay at the house of a unit officer.
She avoided phone calls and messages from her mother, and made her impatient mother come to her base.

“I’m sorry, mother.”

I bow my head in a confused mind.
Knowing that my mother didn’t want an apology. I was a coward to the end.

Mother smiled brightly.

“No, Changjae. Can we do well from now on? Forget everything from the past, join forces with mom and escape from the deserted island! Go for it!”

A mother who clenched her little fist and spoke.
It seemed that even me would be relieved of the tension in the attitude that was not serious at all.

… My mother seems to think of this situation as something like an escape room game. Is it correct that I heard the same explanation?

However, I could honestly say that her mother’s sunny attitude was a relief for me as well. It was much better than screaming in surprise that she had been kidnapped in a strange place. In this case, the possibility of problems occurring for psychological reasons is the greatest.

“Yes. Let’s escape together, Mother.”

He escapes alive with his mother.
What should I do to do that?

“—Mother. First of all, what can I buy at the store? Let’s choose together.”
“Huh? How?”

I sat down next to her mother and took out her cell phone.
I felt it when I watched the tutorial video, but my phone looks the same, but the substance seems to be completely different.

There was nothing like calling, texting, or internet. [Map], [Shop], [Partner], [Hideout], There are only four icons that you can see when you turn on your phone. It should be regarded as a terminal modified to fit the life of this uninhabited island.

“Welcome to the store. Please select the service you want.』

When I clicked the shop button, four categories appeared again.
[Equipment], [Consumables], [Tools], [Hideout].

I chose [Equipment] Among them.

“Ah. Changjae, I have a gun.”

Equipment items varied.
From simple clubs to cold weapons such as knives, spears, and axes, there were guns as well.

“Ah.”

One of the many weapons that caught my eye.
It was none other than the K2 rifle I used throughout my military career.

However, the price is a whopping 10,000 coins.
It’s an amount I can’t afford to buy. Because the coins I have now are only 9 coins at most.

“It’s expensive.”
“Iknow, right.”

Even the cheapest old-fashioned revolver was 500 coins.
In addition, a bullet for a revolver costs 100 coins, and a 5.56mm bullet used for a K2 rifle costs 500 coins per shot. How the hell is this inflation?

“… Mother. I don’t think I can buy a gun.”
“Yes…”

I don’t know how many coins I will collect in the future, but I don’t think I can live even after 10 years if I collect 1 or 2 coins like now.

Still, I’d like to start with at least one weapon if possible.
If you look at things like hunting, there must be monsters and wild animals. Just in case you run into other survivors.

What is the best weapon other than a gun? Is it also a window?
Since ancient times, the spear has been mankind’s most powerful weapon. I don’t intend to charge at a mammoth or a lion with a spear like a primitive man, but if I think of the javelin, the spear will certainly be effective for hunting.

Or how about an axe?
An ax can also be used to chop firewood or break other things. It could be used to dismember the prey.

Hmm. What would be good
The cheapest window was 10 coins, and the ax was selling from 15 coins.
At this price, it might be better to save a little more coins and buy an axe. I can’t even buy the cheapest window anyway.

“Huh?”

When it comes to ‘equipment,’ I thought, of course, that weapons were the top priority.
So I didn’t even notice.
In addition to weapons, there are also armor and costumes in the subcategory of the equipment category.

“… Costume?”

Aside from armor, it’s a costume.
In normal games, there are cases where a charging-only costume is overspecified to induce charging. Either visually or in performance.

“Costume?”

As I entered the costume compartment as if possessed by something, my mother muttered incredulously.

I don’t know of a mother who isn’t interested in games. There are usually ridiculous cheat items hiding in places like this.

I quickly scrolled through the costume list.
And sure enough, I was able to find something that could be called a cheat.

[★Beta tester limited product]
[Hot Summer! White cute bikini]
[Purchasing time limit: 23 hours 35 minutes 44 seconds]
[Price: 30 Coins]

As the name suggests, it was a white bikini.
Since it is a bikini, of course there is exposure. Rather, it was worse than the negligee my mother is wearing now.

Obviously, if this is all there is to it, there is no reason to live, and even if you buy it, your mother will not want to wear it.
However, there was an additional phrase written below that should not be missed.

[※ Option: A must-have item for a comfortable uninhabited island life. Bugs disappear within a 100m radius of the wearer.]

“Oh!!”

Next to her, her mother raised her voice in surprise.