I Was Reincarnated as the Weakest Monster, but I’ll Use My ‘Return from Death’ Skill to Become the Strongest! Even as the Weakest Monster, I Want to Get Stronger, Take Human Form, and Build a Harem… But Why Do Only Yandere Non-Human Girls Keep Showing Up? - Chapter 1.13

I was crushed beneath a blazing tree.

From that moment on, my memories were hazy. Yet, slowly, my consciousness began to awaken.

“…Ugh, uuhh…”

As I opened my eyes, my mind still clouded, I scanned my surroundings, trying to grasp my situation.

“Wh-where… am I?”

The place I found myself in—

It seemed to be between two trees, with something white stretched beneath me.

“Skree, skree, skree.”

Just as that thought crossed my mind, I heard a familiar, chilling sound echoing from somewhere.

“…Ah.”

A sinking feeling—an ominous premonition.

Trembling, I turned my gaze toward the source of the sound. And there it was again.

“Skree, skree, skree.”

The spider.

The one that had killed me before.

“Uwaaaaaahhhhhh!”

The moment I saw it, my body moved on instinct.

Terror gripped me. Without thinking, I threw myself down, tumbling from my precarious position.

I crashed to the ground from a considerable height. Pain shot through my body, but my fear of the spider overpowered everything else—I had to run.

“Hah… hah… hah… ngh—!”

Gasping for breath, I pushed myself forward, blindly sprinting.

“Huh?”

Then suddenly, a scorching sensation bloomed at my feet.

A fleeting moment of weightlessness—then I was sent sprawling across the ground.

“Aaaarghhh!”

Agony erupted from my leg, searing through my entire body and reaching my skull.

It hurt. It was unbearable.

Help.

The sheer, excruciating pain tore a scream from my throat. It felt endless, like an eternity of suffering.

But then—

“…Ah.”

A faint impact struck my neck.

And with that, everything vanished.

…

……

It was over.

The instant I became fully aware of that fact—

“…Ah.”

My consciousness, which had sunk into the abyss, resurfaced.

The pain, the heat—all of it disappeared, again.

The darkness that had swallowed my vision gave way, revealing a familiar scene before me once more.

I had returned.

“…Ah.”

But—

I slowly took in my surroundings.

I was high up. Beneath me, a web of white silk stretched taut.

Flanking me were two enormous trees, eerily unburned despite the raging inferno consuming the forest.

“Skree, skree, skree.”

I turned around.

And there it was—the spider.

“Huh?”

I had died.

And returned again.

That skill had activated once more.

“…Damn it.”

Why?

Why here, of all places?!

My point of return—

It was the exact moment after I had been crushed beneath the burning tree and blacked out… the moment I had woken up in the spider’s domain.

“…Sh1t.”

I wanted to run.

“…Ahhh…”

But if I moved recklessly, I would be killed.

The pain, the fear from just moments ago still gripped me, rendering me completely motionless.