17. Survival Rule 3: We are all friends (3)
Four days have passed since Lenny woke up.
Lenny, who was able to move to a certain extent due to Karina’s extremely sincere treatment, persistently followed Karina. Carina stopped her Lenny with a rare angry voice at the unfunny sight of her critically ill patient trying to escort her patient, but Lenny passed her words into one of her ears and followed her Carina around.
That’s a stalker. It’s an escort.
Karina used to talk softly, looking at her Lenny now, almost as if her headache was hurting, but her Lenny’s expression didn’t change one bit. She’ll know that if you speak softly, she’ll never listen. In the end, Karina declared to Lenny in front of me.
“If you keep doing that, I won’t treat you!”
Only then did Leni stop her post-piping.
For reference, post-zippi means regret, obsession, and exhaustion.
It’s a rather interesting combination of words when you’re in the position of watching from the sidelines. Regret that if he had found another ship, he would not have been in this situation. An obsession that follows Karina tenaciously with her body in a state of disrepair. When Karina who sees it is frightened, her heart is hurt and exhausted.
…Actually, the impoverishment was put on.
That stalker, or rather, the escort driver, is a great person to think that he is doing a good job. Had she gone a little further, she might have become a person who follows her to the bathroom. It’s a side view, but it gives me goosebumps. Girls go to the bathroom together, but… Don’t they? Where did you hear the story?
“Snakes won’t appear on the beach, right?”
Lenny asked me, making a fuss about her, as she had been doing the past few days. Carina wore the shoes I made and it was a common occurrence whenever she went for a walk on the beach alone. The beach in front of the house isn’t too far away, and I’ve removed all the risk factors, so there’s no problem.
“It’s already the 10th. Be still, it’s safe.”
It’s annoying to keep listening while tanning. The relationship that started out rather rough, but after eating and sleeping under the same roof for four days, the sense of distance has decreased to some extent. Because I didn’t touch Karina at all, Lenny’s suspicions must have subsided. Instead, I ended up being swayed by Lenny’s fuss, but…
It’s only been once or twice that Karina has only worried about it, and that was enough to put a scab on her ear. I laid the tanned leather aside and picked up the soft tree trunk. Now I was going to twist this to make a band that holds the sole and foot in place.
But there is one thing to do before that.
“Lenny.”
“…Why?”
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“I’ll look at your feet for a second.”
“What?”
I carefully held Lenny’s feet, which were now almost healed, and looked around. The copper toes with calluses embedded in them, as if from long training, and the scars carved from the battlefield. Her scars are said to be her warrior’s medals, but are they really medals for her? That’s what she thought as she ran her finger across her scar.
“Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing?!”
“It’s about measuring your foot size. Those tattered boots are not functioning properly. I need to make new shoes.”
Lenny wiggled her feet as if to let go, but now she can barely lift a spoon, so trying to resist just tickles her. If her Lenny’s body had been fine, she might have kicked one by now and smashed through the wall like the main character of a gag cartoon. As I grabbed her feet and started to look around, Lenny, who was about to pull her feet away, sighed and stopped her wiggling feet.
“No, thank you, but…Don’t grab your feet all of a sudden. You were surprised.”
After fiddling with Lenny’s foot for a long time, I roughly measured it with my hand and let go of his foot. Lenny looked at me with a complicated expression and turned his head away.
Now I can make shoes more comfortably.
I hold up the trunk of the tree in front of me. Now twist it to make a sole, make a cushion with leather to absorb the shock of the sole, and attach a band covered with leather to make a strong sandal, and that’s it. After that, he planned to make a suitably usable sword out of the bones he had brought. It was a serious problem for the swordsman not to have a sword.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t make them use a broken sword. It’s not something I made, so I can’t repair it.
If we escape the island, should we learn night jangjutsu? If possible, learn alchemy. After all, if you want to live, you have to have a job.
“Isn’t it too much to start with kimchi soup?”
I’m not even sure if escape is still possible. It would be better not to think about anything for now, as you may be disappointed if you hoped for nothing. But being human is what you want
“What?”
“…Talking to myself.”
“…You talk to yourself a lot.”
Those were the words Leni threw out. It was really nothing, but it was a strange feeling to be pointed out by someone again. Because it was a word that made me realize again that I had lived on an uninhabited island for too long.
“If you live alone for a long time, it is inevitable that you will naturally talk to yourself.”
“I see…”
Silence came between the two of us. It was because we couldn’t find anything to talk about. Without Karina, the conversation would cut off like half-cooked noodles.
Neither of them are particularly talkative, and I was doing something when I wasn’t sleeping. If you focus on your work, you will run out of words. Isn’t it natural? Maybe it’s because I’m working with Lenny, so maybe it’s not okay to touch him?
Some stories worth telling have fallen off before long. But since we can’t bring up sensitive topics, well, we have nothing to do but keep our mouths shut.
“…You mean, did you make everything here with your own hands?”
“Yes.”
“Awesome.”
“When you live alone, you have to be self-sufficient in everything, so it’s not that great. Have you ever made anything?”
“No. ‘Cause I’ve always been the one to beat and break Enemies, allies, whatever.”
For some reason, Lenny’s voice sounded melancholy.
Is it my imagination or is it real? Withholding judgment, I checked the soles. It was an important part because if there was a protruding part, it could hurt your feet. Since the wearer is a human, it shouldn’t hurt that much, but since even a small wound can lead to a fatal injury on an uninhabited island, there’s nothing wrong with being careful.
Of course, we have Karina, our healing machine, so she wouldn’t be afraid to die with a little scratch.
Okay. The soles were good enough. It is completed when each part is connected in earnest to form a shape. It won’t take that long, so after finishing, let’s go check the snakes’ trends for a while. I was in the middle of making a plan in my head like that.
“…I almost did it this time too. If it wasn’t for you, Karina-sama and I wouldn’t have survived.”
“I just did what I had to do.”
If you stay stuck on an uninhabited island for 10 years, even a serial killer will save people. Besides, Karina was like my benefactor. Thanks to that, after 10 years, I was able to find out the identity of the world I possessed, and I was able to take the first step in my escape plan. I can’t tell you the truth, but…
“It’s a world where people who don’t even do what they have to do are piled up like a mountain. How about being proud? You’re much better than someone like me.”
…A guy like me.
“Aren’t you a decent enough human being too? Devoting yourself to someone is not going to be that easy.”
In a funny situation where each other paints each other’s face, Lenny and I forgot what to say and looked at each other, then smiled and turned our heads again.
“It’s not like flattering each other, what is this doing?”
That’s what I mean. I held out my leather shoes, which were shaped like shoes, to Lenny.
“Try it on. I need to know if it’s the right size or not.”
“I’m sorry, but can you wear the shoes? Like a child whose arm strength is still over a week old, he’s flimsy.”
It’s just about putting on shoes. I grabbed Lennie’s feet and put on his shoes. Leni looked at me curiously as I put her foot in her leather shoe.
“What kind of hair is this? The texture is a bit odd.”
“Bear fur.”
“You live and live and you end up wearing bearskin shoes.”
“What size is it?”
“It is suitable. I don’t think it would be too much of a hassle to move. It feels a bit heavy, but…”
Lenny seemed to like her shoes quite a bit. After I took off Doro Leni’s shoes, I started the final finishing touches.
Trim the shape and apply a specially formulated drug to prevent the leather from rotting.
I put the finished shoes under Lenny’s feet and stood up.
Now that the shoes have been made, it is time to make the sword.
I brought the claws of the bear chief selected in advance and set the bones in front of Lenny. Lenny asked me a question with a puzzled face when I put the bone down.
“What bone?”
“I plan to make your sword out of these bones. By your standards, how many spans was the sword body?”
“Span? Um… A span or three?”
“Three spans… What about the handle?”
“A span and a half.”
“Production.”
The toenails compressed and deformed and began to take on the shape of a sword. It was close to the shape I use, but the shape itself is not much different from the sword Lenny uses, so this should be fine. When the rough-looking sword was completed in an instant, Lenny looked at me with a puzzled expression and raised a question.
“Isn’t this enough to make shoes with skills?”
“You can’t make everything with skills.”
The process of processing and refining the sword was too long, so it took a lot of time to make it. I don’t know when the snakes will attack, but I’m not going to make a demonic sword, and I can’t make a weapon by spending a long time. Still, wouldn’t this be enough to be a good sword?
“It’s a pity that I can’t wield it right now.”
Lenny looked down at the sword with an expression like a child receiving a gift. To that appearance, I added a brief comment.
“Soon you will be wielding a lot.”
The war with the snake is not far away.
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“John. Have you become close with Lenny?”
Karina’s mischievous smile caught my eye.
Have you…Been friends?
It seems like we are closer than before. I do not know.
The meaning of getting close is too difficult for me.
Karina smiled and said how she understood my expression.
“Looking at you worrying, it seems like you’re getting closer than before.”
“Maybe.”
The only thing I could give back to her words was an awkward answer.