Erin Solstice, injured and terrified after being transported to a new world, finds shelter in an abandoned inn. Overwhelmed by dust, she resolves to clean the common room. This simple act of labor occupies her for hours, helping her cope with her panic. After cleaning the tables, chairs, and bar, she falls into an exhausted sleep and is granted the [Innkeeper] class and her first two skills by The System.

Erin grapples with the reality of being in a game-like world, dealing with hunger, fear, and exhaustion. She leaves the safety of the inn, is chased by a giant Rock Crab, and eventually finds and acquires edible blue fruit by kicking a tree in frustration. Her internal monologue reveals her sarcastic but resilient personality as she tries to survive.

Erin discovers and eats the Amentus Fruit, learning of its toxic seed pods which she uses to disable a Rock Crab. She is then discovered by Goblins and chased back to the inn. Trapped inside, she fights off seven Goblins using furniture and her fists, sustaining injuries but ultimately scaring them away. Exhausted from the ordeal, she levels up to [Innkeeper] Level 4 before passing out.

Erin spends the chapter dealing with basic survival. She gathers blue fruits, realizes she has a [Basic Cleaning] skill after tidying the inn, and finds a stream to get water and bathe. She is attacked by a large fish, which she inadvertently kills and takes back to the inn. While trying to prepare it, she severely cuts her hand and spends the rest of the chapter in agony, using chess moves as a mental focus to endure the pain.

As the POV character, Erin wakes up in severe pain from her hand. While searching the kitchen for supplies, she discovers a magically preserved cupboard with food but accidentally breaks the magic. Her fear escalates when she finds the skeleton in the upstairs room is gone, leading to intense paranoia. When a Goblin scout sneaks into the inn, she overcomes her fear, attacks it, and throws it out, thwarting an ambush.

Erin spends the day making the inn more habitable. She disposes of a rotting fish, which leads to her discovering and being injured by dangerous Acid Flies. While fetching water, she encounters a large dinosaur-like bird and finds its eggs. Using her [Basic Cooking] skill, she makes a fire, prepares pasta from the eggs, and makes blue fruit juice. In a symbolic act, she flips the inn's sign to 'Open' before sitting down to her first real meal, only to be interrupted by a giant, talking insect at her door.

Erin is terrified when two non-human guardsmen, Klbkch and Relc, arrive at her inn. Overcoming her fear, she invites them in for a meal and learns crucial information about the world's system of classes and leveling. Her badly infected hand is miraculously healed by Klbkch's potion. At the end of the chapter, she reaches Level 5 in her [Innkeeper] class and gains the [Basic Crafting] skill.

Erin starts the day happy about her healed hand and her new [Basic Crafting] skill, which she uses to weave a grass basket. After being attacked by a dino-bird while gathering eggs, she suffers severe food poisoning from blue fruits and discovers their seed cores are poisonous. She learns to identify the bad fruits by observing a band of Goblins, and spends the evening waiting for Relc and Klbkch, only to be attacked by a skeletal monster after she falls asleep.

Erin confronts a threatening magical illusion, knocking out the caster, a young mage named Pisces. She intimidates him into paying for his actions with a significant amount of coin, then takes pity on his hunger and offers him a meal. She learns about the local area, including the Floodplains and the danger of Amentus Fruit, and establishes a tentative, complex relationship with Pisces before he leaves.

Erin is woken by Pisces and reluctantly serves him breakfast. Her day is interrupted by the arrival of Relc and Klbkch, to whom she reveals Pisces's earlier attempt to rob her. This leads to the mage's arrest, during which Erin questions the guards' brutal methods. She learns about Liscor, the prestigious nature of the City Guard, and witnesses Pisces's clever escape before being left alone in the inn again.

Erin laments her lack of food and money after feeding her guests. She is confronted by Pisces, who has been hiding in her inn. After initially refusing him shelter and threatening him with a knife, she witnesses his violent capture by Relc and Klbkch. Horrified by Relc's intent to kill Pisces, she intervenes, cleverly using legal arguments to establish her inn's independence and save Pisces's life, only to kick him out immediately afterwards.

Waking up to a dwindling and unappetizing food supply, Erin resolved to travel to the distant city of Liscor for supplies. During her journey, she was followed by Goblins. Upon arriving in the alien city, she felt overwhelmed by the crowds of Drakes and Gnolls. After getting lost, she mistakenly entered the Adventurer's Guild, where she was confronted and aggressively thrown out by a hostile Gnoll adventurer.

As the main point-of-view character, Erin navigates the hostile city of Liscor, feeling anxious and alone. She is scammed out of nearly all her money at the market by a prejudiced Drake shopkeeper. On her way back to the inn, she is ambushed by Goblins and rescued by a guilty Relc. The emotionally and physically draining day culminates in her reaching Level 6 of her [Innkeeper] class before falling asleep in tears.

As the POV character, Erin experiences a traumatic morning when Relc presents her with two severed Goblin heads. After a period of shock, she buries the bodies, spares a grieving Goblin child who attacks her, and is then hunted by the Goblin Chieftain. Trapped in her inn and facing certain death, she moves past despair and uses her knowledge of chess to formulate a desperate plan to fight back.