Chapter 9 - Adventurous Witch The forest was deeper than he had imagined. When Kurano asked Marika, he was told that this forest had no name. It wasn't particularly strange. It was dark, deep, and deserted, with a dense concentration of trees. What's more, ferocious monsters were rampant in the depths of the forest. From the perspective of the surrounding villagers, they had no other purpose than to collect wood for their daily lives in the relatively outer parts. From what he heard, the hunters and lumberjacks in the surrounding area didn't dare to enter this forest. There were plenty of other safe forests without doing that. In that sense, this deep forest was very difficult to walk in, with only a faint animal trail for large mammals. Unlike modern Japan, there was no pavement, and no red ropes to prevent people from getting lost. Kurano relied on his intuition to find the path, which turned out to be surprisingly accurate. After walking for a while, he stopped for lunc...