101 – heterogeneous exchange(3)
It was lunchtime when ‘him’ showed up.
After finishing the exercise, I was about to eat rice, but it showed up while damaging the bush.
“Kyaa?!”
I had already heard an explanation from Chester, but even so, it was unreasonable to tell me not to be surprised when something like that suddenly appeared.
The moment a black monster much larger than herself burst out of nowhere, Monia, startled, unknowingly clung to Chester’s side.
After reassuring Monia that it was okay, Chester placed his ring finger and possession on the one that the owner of the young island held out.
After greeting, the owner of the young island put down the food he was carrying on his back.
A quadrupedal animal that has something like a pointed shell attached to its entire body. It was a very impressive animal to Chester.
“This is the animal that came along with Machete.”
“Yes? did you? I don’t remember very well.”
At the word machete, Monia also looked at the creature with interest, but a specific part of the creature caught Monia’s attention.
“Ah!”
“Why?”
“nose! Horns on the nose! This is him. Chester! It must be that bastard!”
“Chester, no, is that so?”
“Mother is coming to attack!”
It could be just a creature with a similar body structure, or maybe even a baby.
‘Isn’t it a bit troublesome if it’s a baby?’
Didn’t you come all the way here and attack me? With that uneasiness, Chester drew a picture on the rock.
The young island owner expresses that it is not like that and that it is okay when he draws the characteristics of a rhino in an easy-to-understand manner, explains the content with hand gestures, and points to the prey.
“It’s not a baby.”
“Oh yeah. phew. thank god. … … No, you can talk?!”
“yes. Did you tell me yesterday?”
“I didn’t know it was real!”
Meanwhile, the young owner of the island was observing the house Chester had built.
What caught the attention of the owner of the island was the rope Chester had tied to the stones to keep the house from being blown away by the wind.
‘What is this? I’ve never seen it.’
The strange-looking object, like a snake eating prey, is wrapped around the stone, which catches the eye.
‘If it were this, wouldn’t I be able to use it right away?’
I just saw the rope tying a stone or a big stone, but the young island owner, who reminded me of a snake, came up with many possibilities.
“I want to have?”
At that time, Chester, who was carefully dismantling while observing the animals the young island owner had caught, spoke to him.
Chester pointed alternately with his index fingers at the meat he had given him and the rope he was interested in, pointing the index finger at the meat at the young island’s owner and at the rope at himself.
Then, the action of changing the pointing direction by turning the two index fingers was repeated.
Some move the meat side index finger from the owner of the young island to themselves, and some move the rope side index finger from themselves to the owner of the young island.
After moving his fingers like that a few times, the young owner of the island, who realized what he was saying, nodded saying he liked it.
After Chester said yes, he asked Monia to bring one of the ropes left in the basket.
Monia looked at the hand of the young island owner and brought the thickest and largest rope they had.
“Hey, here!”
And with a trembling voice, he carefully held out the rope to the young island owner.
The young owner of the island bowed his head in gratitude and met Monia’s eyes below with his own, then snatched the rope from Monia’s hand and carried it away.
“ah.”
“Why?”
“Oh, no. I thought it wasn’t that scary when I saw it up close. Those are bright and pretty eyes.”
“Hey, hahahahaha!”
Those bright and pretty eyes.
Chester couldn’t help but burst into laughter when he saw Monia use a baby-like expression toward that gigantic creature.
“profit! Why are you laughing!”
“Are you that scared?”
“Well, we are preparing the meat, but you are quiet. So when I looked at it, it was fine.”
At Monia’s words, Chester suppressed his voice again and laughed.
‘My lady has become very bold.’
“Ahh! Don’t laugh at me!”
Chester watched Monia crying and clinging to him like a child, then started preparing the meat.
‘Anyway, this is a troublesome creature to care for. The sharp skin gets in the way, so I can’t peel it off at once.’
If you try to peel off the skin at once, the sharp ends of the shells will press against each other or get stuck between other shells, so you will not be able to pull the leather to your heart’s content.
I wanted to clean the shell with a machete and peel it off, but I didn’t want to use the machete when there were other means.
So Chester had no choice but to dismantle it by cutting the hide and shell together with a machete and separating them separately.
Unfortunately, the leather wasn’t cut with the claw knife, but the method of separating the leather by aiming for gaps rather than cutting the hard shell would save a lot of machetes.
Still, as I do it, I come up with a knack.
First, put your hand under the shell and lift it up to open the gap between the shells. The tough leather is pulled taut and you can cut it a little bit better.
Gently stab the machete there.
‘But can you eat this creature? The meat must be tough.’
Chester, who had finished grooming the creature over a long period of time, began to bring the machete to his head, worrying about that.
– Kiyaa!
The young owner of the island, whose body was entangled in the rope while playing with it, was screaming for help.
“… … Ugh.”
Monia, who had no use at all when she just came to the deserted island.
Ant, who had to pick up since he was a baby and teach him everything from one to ten, and raise him diligently.
And even the curious monster in front of me.
Chester involuntarily sighed at the thought of having been taking care of someone since he landed on this island.
‘No, that’s it.’
Chester approached the young island’s owner to loosen the rope.
“No, where the hell did it get tangled?!”
* * *
“Bahoo.”
After parting ways with Chester and Monia, the young owner of the island, who came to a distant place, looked at the rope he was holding in his hand and said,
“Bar, bar-who. Kreureung. Bar-su?”
I tried to say rope several times by imitating Chester’s words, but unlike Chester and Monia, the young island owner, who had a thick and hard tongue, couldn’t pronounce the rope well. arrived at
“Bah-joo! Bar-week! baju! Bar-ju!”
A young island owner who shakes the rope while calling baju, baju.
He stayed with Chester and Monia for a while after lunch and learned how to use the rope from Chester.
What he taught me was a really simple way to use it. But even if I taught complicated things from the beginning, I wouldn’t be able to use them, so it was right to teach them basic things.
Chester had just met the young island owner.
Rather than trying to hide things for no reason, it was better to show them something difficult and tell them clearly that it is difficult and then teach them simple things as much as possible.
wholeheartedly.
The other person is a strong creature, and seeing how he reacts to them, it’s unlikely that the meeting will end in a short time.
Chester’s choice was right.
The young owner of the island was very satisfied with Chester, who taught him how to use it, as well as the bar-ju he held in his hand.
So next time I thought of bringing Chester a big present that would surprise him.
‘Which gift would be good? They said they would exchange meat for ba-ju, but it hurts my pride to exchange that amount of meat for ba-ju.’
The young island owner was troubled.
Chester, what is there to surprise your new good friend with?
‘… … !’
After pondering for a while, the young owner of the island came up with a very good gift.
It is a ‘very hard and slightly shiny stone’ that some of the young family found by chance and proudly boasted about.
Chester and Monia have been making and using stones for a number of things, so if you bring them a good stone, they will definitely love it!
The young island owner, so convinced, rushed to get the gift.
The very hard and slightly shiny stone was far away, so I had to move hard.
* * *
How long has it been since you started exercising using the power of the lake? Thanks to the excellent effect of the lake water, Chester and Monia were seeing quick results.
Of course, it wasn’t too hard.
Exercise once a day. Recovering with lake water is once a day.
There were some things to be wary of the possible side effects of ‘mysterious water’, but there were more realistic problems than that.
As long as the preserved food they brought was almost gone, they couldn’t make a meal with only the pots left in the lake water forever.
A trap is not a perfect trap that will 100% always catch fish. There are many times when not a single fish is caught in the pot.
In order to survive, they must focus on hunting and setting traps rather than exercising.
I was spending the day working out like that, worrying about the condition of the house I left, and making plans for the future, saying that I was supposed to make more preserved food, but I couldn’t make it, and I was staying at the lake.
There was a problem that I hadn’t experienced in my downstairs days, when I built a house on a tree and lived safely.
It was the second night after the owner of the young island had received the rope.
“… … !”
– Whoops!
2:30 in the morning.
Chester and Ant, who had been sleeping deeply, opened their eyes.
The two of them opened their eyes at the same time, focused their senses on their ears and nose, and soon became convinced.
Something is going around outside the house.