“What do you call it… The goddess of hunting or whatever… do you think she has it in for us, aligning herself with this potential search party?”

“I’m not sure yet. Looking at the development so far, it seems more likely that they haven’t found us yet. But if they’ve started searching, they would have predicted where we would have landed and our movement radius. They would’ve determined that we landed in the forest or an area adjacent to the forest. If so, logically, it’s likely that the goddess of hunting, ‘Diana’, will be in charge of the search since she’s a local.”

“That makes sense.”

“Moreover, we must keep in mind that, in this world, they’d know that the only way we’d be able to survive was through hunting. That’s what I think. Following this line of thought, the possibility that we’ve already been discovered can’t be excluded. Or…”

“Or?”

“There may be other reasons to leave us alone. If you look at the contents of the goddess’ message, there seems to be a clear intention of wanting to approach us. Again, there’s too little information to properly judge or come to any conclusion.”

“Damn it.”

***

From some point, all the warriors and hunters were holding their breaths....