This wasn't just a new world. This was a jungle. A brutal forest where mercy did not exist, where only the strongest survived. And the only rule that mattered… was kill, or be killed.
Kaya pressed her lips together, a bitter laugh caught in her throat. She was a soldier. Her hands had been soaked in blood, she had ended lives without flinching. She had lived through war, stared death in the eye. And yet—even with her gun in hand, if two or three beastmen came at her at once, she wasn't sure she could leave alive.
And then another thought crashed into her, sharp and unrelenting.
If she had been pulled into this world, then surely others had too. Other humans. But what chance would they have? Not everyone was armed. Not everyone was trained. What about an office worker, a student, a teacher… a family? Normal people, with no skills beyond their everyday lives. How long would they last before the jungle swallowed them whole?
The realization detonated in her mind like a bomb.
