chapter 32
32 – Island getting hotter (1)
“Hueeng.”
Monia, whose hands were covered in blood, cried and washed them in the river.
“great. I lost a lot of flesh, but it’s not bad.”
It happened because Chester had Monia even groom the pigs.
“Hey. sniff than that! Why did you come and just watch without talking to me!”
“Because the young lady of the duke dancing the waltz alone in front of a dead pig is funny.”
“Kyaaa! aaa!! I can’t hear you! I can’t hear anything!”
“ha ha ha.”
After washing her hands, carrying the basket containing the trimmed pigs on her back, Monia laughed involuntarily as the pleasure of the successful hunt rose again.
‘I also hunted an animal, isn’t that amazing!’
Chester smiled secretly from Monia, thinking that it was like a child who had grown 1 or 2 cm in height, now an adult and trying to walk with great effort.
“Then, let’s go quickly take care of the pig so it doesn’t go bad.”
“Yes! You can’t get hurt! How did you catch it!”
The two of them went to a seaside cottage, trimmed the pig, skinned all the edible meat, and threw the bones into the sea.
Then the smoked treatment begins.
“ruler! pig! It will be delicious!”
“I don’t think I can close my eyes because I feel unfair about the pig that died to you.”
“What are you talking about! I said I would eat it deliciously!”
While Monia was smacking her lips while watching the pig being smoked, Chester was doing other work.
‘It seems that a weaker person than him shows his old self.’
She has lived as the daughter of a duke all her life.
No matter how shocking the life on the drifting island is, even if it reveals its weakness, its essence will not change easily.
Monia grilled the smoked meat and at the same time cut a little bit of pork belly and seasoned it with salt and grilled it.
Bacon sizzling in flames… It’s not enough to say, but Monia decided to think of it as bacon.
Anyway, the grilled meat smells delicious.
Seriously, how could a creature with this flavor of meat be born on such an uninhabited island?
Monia carefully checked the condition of the meat she put on the fire, and when it looked like it was cooked, she took it and approached Chester.
“sleep! Huhu, I’ll give you a special share of what I caught! Whoop whoop!”
“What’s up?”
Chester took a piece of pork and ate it while laughing.
And then continue what you were doing.
“What are you doing?”
“yes? this?”
Now Chester was crushing raspberry-like blue fruits on a flat rock.
Beat the crushed fruits with a stone to make them into small lumps, and then attach them to one side of the fruit.
After that, bring a handful of fruit again, crush it, and stick it together.
“It’s fruit, but what else is there to do with it? Can I just eat it?”
“I’m thinking of making preserved food.”
“What fruit is it?”
“yes? I don’t know either.”
“Eh.”
“I just called them blue raspberries because they look just like blue raspberries.”
Saying that, Chester puts the crushed fruit back together and attaches it to the rock.
“Is it okay to eat something unknown?”
“Pretty good. If you eat it as it is, it will be inexhaustible, but if it is dried, the sweetness will become stronger.”
“Oh, really?”
“yes. It is much sweeter than candy fruit.”
candy fruit.
Chester liked it sweet, but Monia was the worst fruit, unable to understand what it tasted like.
But wouldn’t it be better if it was sweeter than that?
“And if you crush it like this and dry it, it becomes chewy.”
“Really?”
“yes. Is there anything chewy among the bread? Think of it as chewier than that.”
“… … .”
Monia imagined the texture, but couldn’t quite imagine it.
“I don’t know.”
“Then try and judge for yourself.”
“How long does it take to dry?”
“I’m going to make it for long-term preservation, so I need to dry it for a few days.”
“How many days!”
“The sun is strong here and the wind is blowing a lot, so it might take a shorter time.”
Chester crushed all the blue raspberries and carried the boulder to the sandy beach.
“Oops.”
“If I leave it there, won’t the sand mix with it? It’s windy too.”
“Even if you eat a little sand, you won’t die.”
“Ugh.”
After preparing the blue raspberries, Chester wiped his hands, which had turned blue from the juice, in the seawater.
“I think you need to pay more attention to food!”
Monia said as she put the nuts on the smoking bonfire.
“What are you doing?”
“This will give the meat a sweet flavor of fruit!”
“Ahh… Is it the same as smoking with apple tree firewood? will it work?”
“Don’t you know?”
I don’t know if it will work or not, but once an idea comes to mind, I try it.
It was a way of life that Monia had learned from Chester.
“Well, do your best.”
“Yes!”
Monia tried to add a sweet scent by roasting fruit on one side and adding a slightly fragrant plant to the other.
While Monia cares about food like that, Chester finally started making knives with animal claws, which he had planned for a long time.
He struggled for a long time to find a flat, smooth stone that could be used as a whetstone, and he finally found one.
The stone on which the ‘strawberry dough’ made by crushing blue raspberries was also one of the candidates for the whetstone.
“Where shall we go?”
Chester sprinkled some water from the bucket on the stone to keep the powder from blowing away, and began sharpening the animal’s claws.
Incidentally, one of the things that Chester said he would do in the past but didn’t do was the bathroom Monia asked for.
I don’t know how to make it. As I was wasting my time, even Monia, who asked for it, forgot the request.
* * *
After killing the pig, Chester and Monia’s days have not changed.
Chester focused on making great knives, while Monia tried to improve her terrible diet and cook more delicious dishes.
It had been almost a month since the two of them came to this island.
whopping one month.
Probably, without Chester, it is highly likely that both of them could not have survived the storm, and even if they died because they could not adapt to the island after that, or even if they miraculously lived, they would not have had the rich environment they have now.
However, the fact that their life on the island was getting better after a month on the island also meant that they had used things for that amount of time.
“Ahh!”
that was the first time
No, it wasn’t like it was the first time, it was surprising.
“Oh my goodness.”
Chester rolled in the woods.
Is that Chester?
Even when running, it was Chester who ran as if there were no obstacles.
Knowing that, Monia laughed at the fallen Chester.
“Huh, you fall down too, don’t you? Whoop whoop. it’s okay, it’s okay Aren’t fish drowning?”
“Fish don’t drown.”
“It’s a joke. Whoa, are you ashamed now? Yes? it’s okay! I know this because I fall often! There is nothing to be ashamed of.”
“Tell me what the hell I should be ashamed of right now.”
When Chester stood up, talking nonchalantly, Monia puffed out her cheeks as if she wasn’t having fun.
“Does it get worse if you’re a little shy?”
“Yeah, I would be ashamed of myself if I fell down on the street, but that’s not the case. My father also rolls over after being a little careless in a familiar forest?”
“Yes? is that so?”
“yes. During the summer the bushes grew so much that they engulfed the slopes. Not knowing it was a slope, he stepped on it and then rolled and rolled.”
“… … .”
Monia saw where Chester fell.
It was a fairly decent path to walk comfortably even in this forest.
“Hey, aren’t you ashamed as well?”
“Because it is not. It’s not such a rough place, but if I fell down, there was a problem somewhere else. Not an ankle or a leg. It’s not that I’m weak because I’m hungry.”
“You talk a lot?”
When Monia casually pointed out, Chester involuntarily shut up.
“Usually, you only explained what you needed to explain… … . excuse me?”
“shut up.”
“Whoop whoop.”
“what!”
Sitting on the roots of a nearby tree, Chester took off his shoes, avoiding Monia’s gaze.
This is because he thought that if it was a problem that caused him to fall, it was most likely a shoe problem.
“… … Also.”
“What is it?”
“The soles of my shoes are out.”
“Yes?”
“I thought it would last a long time, but it’s a pity.”
No matter how sturdily made, the shoes were not made for daily trekking through the rough and rugged woods.
Even more recently, Chester decided to drive the pig to Monia and ran through the forest, properly damaging his shoes.
“Anyway, it’s difficult.”
Shoes were very uncomfortable to wear in a place like this, but they were a valuable daily necessity that protected the feet safely and allowed them to go anywhere.
“… … .”
“What are you going to do?”
“I will have to give up these shoes for now. No tools to repair. If we can find even a tree that secretes resin, how can we fix it?”
Sticky tree resin is a good material.
It can be used as an adhesive, or when you finish a job somewhere, you can lightly burn it to make it stronger.
It’s also waterproof there.
So Chester constantly looked for the secretion of resin, but he hadn’t found it yet.
“So I can’t fix it now.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry, but what else can I do? Well, I won’t throw it away.”
“of course?”
“I don’t know where it will be used, so I should keep it at home. Even later, if you find a tree that secretes resin, you can fix it then.”
When I looked at the other shoe, the sole was uneasy. If you walk even a little bit, it looks like it will be ripped off at any moment.
It’s just that Chester didn’t notice it because he was walking carefully and cautiously through the woods.
“Can’t I just wear them? Tie the sole of the shoe with a string… … .”
“It’s okay, but then you’re worried about when the string will break again. I don’t want to wear uncomfortable shoes.”
Chester looked at the shoes Monia was wearing.
It was a newly made tree bark sandal. Bark sandals are made new every few days because the bark used for the bottom of the shoe is easily damaged by the rough forest road.
“Okay, let’s make a new one. Let’s make yours too.”
“Yes? What?”
“What? shoes.”