DCFM – Chapter 019: Sprint and Last Day

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I can walk without any problems at night. 

Thinking about the remaining distance, I would need at least 8 days to get out of the forest. 

And I have 5 points remaining.

β€œI had 9 points, so would I have been able to get out of here in a safer manner if I had done the cycle of using a Barrier Stone in the day and walking at night…?” (Hikaru)

In the end, I couldn’t make calm decisions.

Barrier Stones work for 12 hours, so if I were to break them in the morning, they would be useful till evening.

β€œNo point in worrying about that.” (Hikaru)

It has already passed.

I have managed to not use too many Crystals, and yet, they aren’t accumulating much, and I don’t feel like it will reach 30 for that 1 point in the time I am in this forest. 

Then, I should use my Crystals to aim for escape here.

It is currently 6:00pm.

Yesterday I walked all night and broke a Barrier Stone in the morning.

It is beginning to get dark already.

Time to move. 

I pick the items that I can exchange with Crystals and can realistically use. 

[Physical Strength Recovery Potion 3 Crystals.] 

[Stamina Potion 3 Crystals].

These are the ones.

The Physical Strength Recovery Potion is apparently medicine that blows away fatigue. Must be like a stimulant. Don’t think it will have any side-effects to the body, I hope…

The Stamina Potion apparently increases endurance. Like an energy drink? It is 3 Crystals, so the effect should be high.

These two are honestly useful.

Crystals can also be exchanged for food and other small things that are important, yeah, but I decided to mainly focus on these two.

I currently have 14 Crystals. 

For now, I buy a Stamina Potion.

What came out of the screen when I tapped it was a ceramic cup with orange colored juice inside.

β€œIt is the type that you have to drink right away.” (Hikaru)

Looks like they don’t give it to you in a way that can allow you to store it for later. 

Well, you can put it in another container, but in situations like mine, that wouldn’t be an option.

When I tried drinking it, it tasted like orange juice. It might have been tailored for Earthling taste. I am just happy it is a taste I can enjoy. 

I don’t feel like my endurance has increased, but I will trust it does.

I undo the barrier and chant [Darkness Fog].

I conceal myself in the darkness and run.

I say that, but it is more like jogging. 

I am not the athletic type to begin with, so I am more scared about running in a bad way and ending up injured from that. 

Even so, this will reduce the distance faster than just walking.

β€œI definitely will live out of this. I am getting out of this forest.” (Hikaru)

I use the darkness and jog through the night. 

Remaining distance to get out of the forest: 280km.

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It is going well. 

I continued running solely at night for 4 days. 

The stamina potions and physical strength recovery potions were properly doing their work.

I drank stamina potions, ran till my very limit, then drank physical strength recovery potions to run once again till my very limit. 

I now managed to go 50km in one day. 

I was thinking about running in the daytime too, but that’s no good.

I don’t know where monsters will show up. Monsters go away once I use a Barrier Stone, but walking at times other than night has quite a lot of dangers, so it was impossible. 

Wolves weren’t the only monsters, there were also small versions of those giant burning monkeys, and also strangely aggressive deers. 

The forest was filled with death as if the low amount of monsters in the territory of the giant monkey was a lie. 

Now that I look closely, there’s bones of animals here and there, and because of this, there were a lot of nuts and fruits growing around.

Life and death.

What a strange forest.

Or maybe this is what an isekai looks like.

And then, I broke the last stone with my last point, and when that was over, I did my last spurt run in this forest.

My Points and Crystals are 0.

With this, if I don’t manage to get out of this forest, I don’t know what will happen. 

β€œHaaaah…! Haaaah…! 80km remaining…! Damn it!” (Hikaru)

The strange thing about this forest is that the closer you are to the exit, the more lush and densely it begins to grow. 

The openings between the trees began to narrow, and the branches growing out were making it unbelievably difficult to run.

I rarely get attacked by monsters in this deep darkness.

There’s almost no nocturnal animal that attacks humans in this forest.

There are times when a feline beast would look at me with shining eyes as if it was going to attack me, but I managed to get away from it with Darkness Fog a 100% of the times.

I was close to invincible inside the darkness.

That’s why I wanted to get away from here while it was night.

I wanted to, and yet…

β€œIt is beginning to get bright…! This is bad… Damn it…!” (Hikaru)

The morning sun was peeking its face all carefreely, and the forest was beginning to change color.

I open the map and see there’s 42km remaining. 

There’s still 1 full marathon left. 

It is a despairing distance. 

I ran all night, so of course I am tired.

But it is already impossible to sleep.

I have to do this. 

I have over 1 billion daily viewers now. 

They must know I used up all my points. 

Are they cheering for me? 

Or are they looking forward to seeing me die pathetically?

There’s 1 billion different opinions for those 1 billion people.

I was given 3 Crystals for going over 1 billion viewers.

I immediately buy a physical strength recovery potion and drink it. 

What I have left is my Dark Spirit Abilities that have no offensive power, and my meager body. 

β€œ[Darkness Fog].” (Hikaru)

I try to run to the darker places there are inside this forest.

I have come this far.

I don’t want to die.

For the sake of Nanami.

For the sake of my family.

…And for the sake of the viewers that are watching me.

But as if throwing a cold bucket of reality on me…the howling of wolves resonate around me… 

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52 thoughts on “DCFM – Chapter 019: Sprint and Last Day”

  1. So he kept using his skills/abilities, then how much proficiencies does it have now? Did it level up/upgraded or did he got new abilities?

  3. The viewers numbers are too absurd It’s actually immersion breaking. I know It’s another world but in reality people would lose interest and go back to their lives after the first day. Does the author even know how viewer retention work? The MC would get maximum 10-15m max concurrent viewers on the first day and then It would be stabilized to like 1-5m max. 600m is just adsurd considering there 900+ other.

    1. I was thinking the same thing. Gets even worse when you consider that only 4.5b people actually have access to the internet…then kids and elderly probably wouldn’t watch it too… People have better thing to do than watch some guy running for days straight. peaking at 300million on day 1 wouldve been much better, then maybe around 25million this chapter.

    2. Yeah I cannot comprehend how he can get 1 billion views in one day. This whole isekai thing might be hyped up at the first few days but then it would just die down and it’s not even remotely interesting to watch someone’s life, especially this guy just walking in the forests for days. At most people are just going to check the news, recaps or highlights to see how the Chosens are doing. It would be a waste of time to watch the stream, especially when nothing interesting happens.

  8. Wow is been a long time since I used this.

    The only thing is bother me is that he is getting those skills relatively fast.

    Anyway thanks Reigokai.

    1. Well, even he thought that he raisr skill too fast.
      He think it caused by Affection of Spirit though.

    3. He also mentioned it is easier to raise skills inside the barrier so if he sleeps and trains during the day and uses them in real life at night they certainly will rise quickly…

  9. I get this terrible situation is because the guy is under a huge deal of stress but come on, he didn’t have to be that dumb about wasting his points and crystals. It’s like the author is trying to write themselves out of their own conundrum of the points being too godly

  10. Thanks for the chapters and thanks to the sponsors! ^^
    Wonder if it is the same pack that he encountered earlier that has stalked him with stubborness with his sent or if it is a new one and he is just unlucky.
    Stay tuned to know if our protagonist will succeed in escaping this ordeal in the next episode of DCFM!!! XD

  13. Triple chapter, yay!! Thanks a lot!
    A bulletin board, a lot of news and a cliff… that was really nice, thanks to the sponsors too!

  14. I guess he is going to talk about what happened when he’s in a safe place. Too much on his mind right now.
    And that tripple chapter felt better than sex πŸ˜€
    Thx reigokai

  15. He should start monologuing about his hope that Nanami managed to transfer and that the student from her school that stabbed her got caught and given a death sentence. He doesn’t know that his sisters have made a translation of the language he’s speaking and doesn’t even know he’s speaking a different language in the first place but he knows that there are people watching him so it wouldn’t hurt to try and speak about what happened on the off chance that the audience can understand him.

    Also he should have just went to sleep in a tree or something instead of risking it to leave the forest during the day just because he was close to the exit. He’s only been able to get this far because he’s been cautious but now he let the temptation of leaving the forest quickly got the better of him.

    1. Well he did mentioned seeing other fire monkeys and wild cats. Those trend to bed arboreal so tying himself to a tree might not be the best idea either.

      1. trend to bed… I must have been really tired to not catch those typos. I meant “tend to be” but I’m assuming most of you go it.

  16. I guess the high viewer count he had is because his sisters translated the language pretty fast. More so than any of the other isekai languages I guess.

  21. Ah, of course the Japanese considers him guilty…
    He really should go on monologues more often and just say out loud that he hopes that guy who believed that debunked rumor didn’t make it to the isekai.

  30. Hmm. Im trying to think and theorize at some point in time that god will implement commercial system on the isekai tv. And supposed to be his experienced in the forest makes him skillfully but not stronger, i guess he was now one of the top players in this reality tv shows

    1. He’s getting way more skillful plus a lot of rare materials (he mentions throwing a lot of rare plants into his shadow storage), plus from the internet chapters it seems like he’s doing way more well off than the people who all went out and died or got arrested

  34. Thanks for the chapters!
    β—˜ Oh god, his home country despises him… watching a “criminal” in a life or death situation. I wonder if ‘god’ will introduce a way for them to interact negatively with his experience…

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