"I... yes. We have to move on. We must." It had indeed been outside of his control, he knew he couldn't fault himself for it. He had tried to help, and though he couldn't save the boy, he at least went out knowing that someone out there was vying to help him. Mr. Beast didn't know what sort of afterlife followed, but he hoped it at least eased the boys soul.

As the trio moved further into the building to find safer refuge, they came across a storage area. It was nice to have, but ultimately wouldn't serve their purpose. After all, with only one entrance and exit, they would be trapped were anything to invade. Just as Natalya had commented as such, a sound silenced her. As though summoned merely by the thought of it, a new intruder had arrived.

Mr. Beast kept Ragline in his arms as he peered out to see what had joined them, his heart sinking as he thought of the earlier attack. Instead, he found... a bear. A bear? out here? Hm... Earth-chan was certainly playing an interesting game here. It seemed to be focused on gorging itself on all the snacks that lined the building, something that Mr. Beast saw as an opportunity.

The man tip-toed out of the room, holding Ragline in one arm as he gestured to Natalya to come out and carefully make her way to the garage. If the bear found them here and decided to attack, they'd be trapped. From the garage, however, they'd have plenty more options... now was just a matter of getting there. Mr. Beast placed himself between the bear and the others just in case anything did go wrong. He wouldn't fail them, it simply wasn't an option

As they made their way towards the next room, Natalya was the first to notice something off. She glanced back, and Ragline did the same before finally Mr. Beast turned. He was met by the bear roaring and charging at the group. Instantly, Mr. Beast tossed Ragline back towards the Garage and turned to face the beast. "GO!"

His arms were wide in a grappling stance, his breathing a little shakey as he prepared himself to wrestle with a LITERALL BEAR... but this was where Natalya pulled through. A pale, thorny bush suddenly exploded into being between them and the bear, where the beast bellowed on the other side.

"Good heavens! So THIS is what you meant!" Mr. Beast wiped sweat from his forehead before gesturing for them to continue forward. "Such a wonderful ability to have, let's make sure to get to safety before it wears off." No longer needing to literally tiptoe through the building, getting to the garage should be an easy task. Ragline put his paws on his face and stared in awe as Natalya summoned her wall, hissing at the bear behind it as it mummbled about. "I can't help but wonder if the bear itself is weak, or if you are just powerful!"

A Pet Maker and a Greenhouse Engineer... my, Earth-chan sure was unique with the Classes granted to them! He was glad that they each had abilities to help them survive in this "tutorial". He had believed her when she first described her class to him, but now he KNEW first-hand just how useful it was, and had a better idea of how it worked.

"F Rank..?" Mr. Beast was confused by some of the lingo Natalya used, before it finally clicked with him from what he had seen earlier about Ragline and his Pet Maker abilities. It seemed as though EVERYTHING in this new world of Earth-chan's was made up with them, to include a mundane thing such as a wall. "Oh, I see! If that's the lowest rank, then this shouldn't be much of a challenge. Though his voice was filled with excitement, he made sure to talk quietly as the thorny wall faded away. "Whatever the case..." The man turned to Ragline, thrusting a thumb into his own chest as his eyes glinted with pride. "I'll do what I must to protect us!"

Ragline hopped up towards Mr. Beast as he turned to face the room that the bear had been locked behind. The cat waved its arms in front of the man, clearly signaling that it too wanted to fight. Again, the man whispered his response with excitement. "You too then, my friend?" Mr. Beast nodded, trusting Ragline's instinct and the knowledge provided by Natalya. "Very well. Let him come!"

"BEAR!"

As the man shouted, the bear finally glanced his way, charging forward with another Roar. Mr. Beast raised his fists and beckoned him forth, but Ragline was quick to jump into action. Like with his earlier usage of the class' abilities, Mr. Beast suddenly found himself with an understand that one had been used- only this time, it was from Ragline!

"I-" The cloth-sewn cat dashed forward, bring its claws out to the side for a ferocious [Scratch] attack with its sharpened, magic-imbued claws. The bells on its scarf jingled as it ran past the monster, catching its feet on the ground with a graceful landing befitting of a cat. "AMAZING ATTACK, RAGLINE!"

Mr. Beast hurried over to Ragline, scooping the cat up into his arms as he praised him for the job well done. "It seems that trust was well placed, Miss Natalya; Ragline here is fantastic!" Mr. Beast spun as he felt a tear well up in his eye. "I'm so happy to have you here by my side, my friend." For this alone, the man was going to survive this tutorial. He was endlessly thankful to Earth-chan for this opportunity, and was going to do everything in his power to survive.

"Hm, I suppose that's necessary..." Glancing towards where Natalya was pointing, Mr. Beast quickly caught onto her idea about moving the bear. For everyone's sake it was better if they moved it outside, though Mr. Beast placed a hand on its head in brief thanks for what it had given. As he heaved the bear up onto his shoulders, he made sure to carefully move toward the exposed entrance to drop off its body in a more convenient location. He had thought the intent was to clear the room, but the woman's comment about a lure confused him. "Wait, bait?" Now that he thought about it, if whatever creature had attacked them earlier was prowling about still, this seemed like a perfect way to get it to return!

The man's face turned to brief concern before Natalya asked about how he captured beasts. THAT was when her plan clicked. "..Oh! Goodness, what an idea! Yes, maybe that's the intent here..." His hand reached up to his chin as Mr. Beast thought more about their situation and what he knew about his Pet Maker class. "You see, this is a fairly standard scenario we're in, yet the challenges seem to be a perfect fit for our classes. It really IS like a "Tutorial from a video game!" He snapped his fingers as things all started to come together in his mind. "The walls and plants you create are exactly the kind of thing that will help us survive here, so if my class is meant to tame creatures, surely that is what Earth-chan wants me to do!"

Thinking back to the earlier screen and his previous knowledge about monster tamers, Mr. Beast felt like he had at least a basic understanding of what he needed to do. "I hadn't understood it at the time, but these stats... my [WIL] needs to be two ranks higher than a monster's [VIT] to tame it. Though my stat is low, I believe this works like a monster taming game where I'll have a much easier time against a weakened foe." Mr. Beast felt a bit giddy as he thought about Earth-chan creating a challenge just for him. This was a tutorial, so of COURSE it made sense that it would put him into scenarios to learn and understand the things he could do.

"Oh!" The man crouched down to Ragline, placing a hand on his head for a few pats. A brief yellow glow transferred from the man's body down to the cat as a portion of his [VIT] was given to Ragline to heal him in case it was needed from the fight. "Better safe than sorry, my friend! This [Helping Hand] seems like it will be a very useful ability in our future!" It was an ability that only worked on his own pets, but if Ragline was going to be fighting, that was exactly the kind of ability he wanted to have.

Mr. Beast glanced around the area surrounding their gas station when he placed the bear outside. Natalya was right... it was clear this thing had bene traveling under ground, judging by all the patches of disrupted dirt that surrounded the area. Still--for better or worse--there was no sign or way to tell if the monster was still around, or where it was hiding.

"Hmm... you're right there. I don't suppose you have a plant that can bind things?" Ragline tugged on Mr. Beast's pajama pants, gesturing toward the garage. "That's true... if we open the doors and lure it into the garage instead... We could close them back up and trap it inside!" The man picked up his little cat-like companion, petting him a bit with praise. "It'd be just like a giant mousetrap, and we already have our cheese"

The cheese obviously being the bear they defeated and left out as a lure. Moving it into the garage shouldn't be too difficult to pull off, there was just one big problem with that. The lure had been successful. It wasn't the large monster from before that stopped by for a snack, however; the two creatures that had cautiously cantered over and began to chow down were much smaller. At first, Mr. Beast thought they were deer due to their antlers, but that theory was disproven once they began to eat. "Are those... deer? My how devious they appear..."

"I wouldn't think a couple of deer would be stronger than a bear, but then again, things aren't exactly very regular anymore. Hmm... Would you be able to throw another bush their way? Perhaps it would throw them off course, and we'd have a chance to learn their strength. Although..." This was a tricky situation. They didn't NEED to fight here, but if they let these monsters continue to eat at the corpse, they might not be able to lure the larger monsters back again. Ragline looked up at Mr. Beast and Natalya expectantly, waiting to see what they would decide. "Leaving them be is also an option.. safer, likely, but we'd lose our lure."

Hmmm... With the Bush Wall from Natalya being out of the question for the time being, it looked like they were going to HAVE to fight. She was in agreeance that taking down the deer now rather than later should be the move, and with a rope she had found, Mr. Beast could divide them while her and Ragline took down the other. It was a solid plan, and one that would leave them with more meat to lure the bigger monster later.

"Alright, I think that's what we'll have to do." He took the knotted rope from the woman and nodded to Ragline. The cat had done well against the bear, but against a beast like this where there was no telling how strong it'd be... The man was glad to have a healing ability under his belt, at least. "I'll lasso one, then you two go after the other."

Crouching down, Mr. Beast began to slowly approach the couple of monsters. With how occupied they were, he would be able to get pretty close... but did he want to risk them jumping up and immediately attacking? Hmm... Coming up with a quick solution, he crouched down to pick up a can of beans. It was still full...

Mr. Beast reared his hand back, aiming high before throwing the beans out of the gas station, past the two deer. It clattered to the ground with a Ting! that would make them look up at the sound. Seeing this as his opportunity, Mr. Beast spun and tossed his rope at one of the deer, catching it around its neck as it fell over its antlers. Immediately he turned and pulled, bracing himself in case it came back and charged him but not allowing it to escape. "There's your opening!"

With one Deer occupied, Ragline sprung up into action. Just like with the bear before it, he darted past the deer, slashing with his claws. There he turned to face it again for whatever happened next.

”Yes!” The plan went off without a hitch as Natalya and Ragline tag-teamed one of the deer while he held off the other with his rope. That seed attack of hers was proving to be really valuable; its range let them get the drop on the deer, and with her accuracy Mr. Beast was pretty sure she blinded the thing! As Ragline cut down the monster, the other deer bellowed in fury and charged the cat-like companion, breaking free of the rope in the process. ”No!’

The deer caught Ragline right in between the spikes of its antler, wedging him in between them in a way that tossed the cat into the air. ”GET BACK HERE!” As soon as the deer escaped the rope, Mr. Beast charged. He was upset that the monster had attacked his friend, even more so when he saw that Ragline’s scarf had a tear in it from the damage! His bell jingled as the deer hoisted him around, turning to attack one of the two humans- just in time to be body-slammed by Mr. Beast and all the muscles that came with him.

With a hefty shoulder-charge, the man dove right into the monster to knock it to the ground. As its head slammed down and the antlers along with it, finally Ragline was free. He rolled away from the antlers, standing and steadying himself before noticing that Mr. Beast was wrestling with the deer. The monster stood, where Mr. Beast held a hand on each hand of its antlers to try and wrestle it back down again.

Seeing his opportunity to strike, Ragline dashed at the deer. Once again, he used his slash attack to take the beast down, though this time with more determination for to beat the monster that hurt both him and Mr. Beast!