Edibility

I sighed.

'But I can't waste time..'

I needed to find out.

Since, when I looked at the sun,

It was beginning to set.

"How frustrating.."

I didn't know a thing about the habitat that I was currently in.

If I didn't somehow confirm this and find shelter, I could be in danger.

—But my prayers were never answered.

In fact, it only felt like fate was against me myself.

'How unlucky can someone be..?'

Growl— 

Beneath the tree branch, there was a pack of wolves approaching.

They didn't seem like they had seen me yet.

There were five in total.

Four adults and one child.

But even the child looked half the size of me—even when I was pretty tall.

'My god..'

My breathing began to feel haggard.

I didn't know if they could climb up the tree.

Neither did I want to take any chances.

I needed to calm down.

If not, immense danger would be all that was waiting for me.

"Huuu..."

It took a few seconds but my body's state felt better.

'How can wolves be so massive..?'

Even the biggest breeds in the world were weighing around sixty kilograms.

But these?

They were at the minimum one and a half times larger than that.

Not just that, they were also incredibly good at coordinating.

"But I can't just focus on these guys.."

I needed to eat.

My stomach began growling.

I needed to test out the fruits.

I knew that using my mouth was ruled out.

So were my eyes or other sensitive parts of my body.

Then how?

A thought suddenly flashed into my head.

'Hold on..'

If the strongest parts of your body like the bones were very strong against any kind of pain.

"Can't I test it out with my elbow?", I muttered.

Observing how my elbow is one of the places in my body where it is not protected by much tissue.

I could do it also in places like my knees.

But that wouldn't be practical at all.

If the fruit was poisonous, it would definitely harm my tissue and that could affect my ability to walk.

'Besides, I'm not in the position to test that out when I am not the greatest in medical related things..'

Then,

"Let's try it."

I took the strange fruit out and rubbed the inside of my elbow against the fruit juice after cutting a slight part of the skin out.

'Hm..'

I needed to wait a bit more.

A few minutes passed.

I counted it to be around eleven or twelve minutes.

If the fruit was poisonous, I would feel some sort of tingling sensation or sense of burning.

But I couldn't feel that at all.

It felt the same as normal.

I sighed out of relief.

I knew that this meant that it was edible.

"I can't think of what would happen if I failed.."

Because that would mean that I'd need to leave the tree and look for somewhere else to eat,

Or just starve myself throughout the night.