142 – A bunch caught on the tip of a branch (1)
After defeating the ‘unknown’ invader and enjoying a party with the top people, Chester and Monia are back to normal.
The first thing the two of them did after returning to their daily lives was to examine the wreckage of the ship on the beach.
Starting with the cannonball that destroyed the villa, I look for something like a useful board in the wreckage of the ship, and I open the boxes and look at the items inside.
When he grabbed it to open the lid of the box, the blue gemstone ring on the ring finger of Chester’s left hand shone beautifully.
“This is rum.”
When Chester opened the box and looked at the contents inside, Monia, who had been collecting torn sails, approached, wondering if she was curious about the rum.
“Is that rum? A drink drunk by sailors. In an opera about sailors, they always drink it.”
“yes. I don’t even know why I’m drinking this.”
“Is it a preference?”
Of course, they all have practical reasons.
Rum with high alcohol content is easy to store because it does not rot, and alcohol is a precious lifeline that can be used as a substitute for drinking water in the sea where water is difficult to obtain.
The reason why scurvy is prevented is thanks to the vitamins of the fruit used to soak rum, but sailors who do not know that just drink rum, believing the advice from experience that drinking rum from long ago does not get sick.
“Oh, it’s more than half broken. Do you have ten bottles left? Shall we drink one?”
“I heard that rum is strong, is it okay?”
Monia, who held the bottle, was surprised by the words and put it back into the box.
On the ring finger of his left hand, which held the rum, a ring with a chester and other red jewels shone.
“Do, how poisonous is it?”
“Well? I think the fruit wine on this island was pretty strong too, but wouldn’t it be less than that? This is what sailors drink on a daily basis.”
“… … .”
After thinking about something for a moment, Monia said with a reddened face and a determined voice.
“Hey, let’s take this!”
His voice trembled a little, perhaps because he was embarrassed. Chester laughed as if he was cute when he saw Monia like that.
“Oops. Why, why!”
“No, just.”
“Oh, what! Speak!”
“ha ha ha.”
“Quiey!”
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Laughing at Monia, who couldn’t bear to speak and made strange noises and trembled, Chester pulled out a nearby box.
“yes? are these clothes? above… It’s a sailor’s suit, and it’s blocked with a board in the middle.”
Chester took a thin piece of plank and twisted open the square plank that divided the box into the upper and lower levels.
“yes? What is this?”
Below were clothes much more luxurious than those worn by sailors.
Clothes that are all too familiar to Chester and Monia. Chester picked up one of the clothes and tried it out.
“Isn’t this a maid outfit?”
“… … Iknow, right? uh? Why is there such a thing?”
“Well. You want to put it on Monia?”
“Hey.”
Monia, who made a disgusted expression as she recalled the captain who did not know his face or name, looked at the box and confirmed that the maid uniforms were piled up by size.
“… … Could there be a maid on board?”
“It is very likely. Since I came to pick you up, wouldn’t there have been a maid or a butler?”
“butler… .”
At the word butler, Monia suddenly grabbed the maid’s uniform and started pulling it out.
“uh? what’s the matter?”
“there is! there is!”
With her pelvis hanging over the box, Monia slumped down and pulled out the clothes underneath.
“Come on!”
It was at the bottom, so it was messed up with seawater and sand, but it was not difficult to recognize what kind of clothes it was because the shape remained intact.
“that’s.”
“Butler clothes!”
Monia unfolded the butler’s uniform and put it on top of Chester.
“lol. It suits you!”
“… … It doesn’t feel right to the touch.”
“It can’t be helped compared to the one used by the duke’s family! Our butlers’ butler’s clothes cost more than the dresses of some noble ladies?”
“Why would you do that?”
“The next time you see the daddy kid, ask him then!”
“How would the duke feel if he was asked why he spent so much money on his butler’s uniform right before he died?”
“Huh, I think just imagining it would be fun!”
Chester and Monia packed everything in the net and searched through the other boxes.
“Oh, Chester! Chester! Here’s the arrow! There are a lot of arrows!”
“yes? Oh, is it real? Can you melt arrowheads and make things?”
“Well, we have to save the arrows we will use!”
“Know. Do not worry about it.”
In other places, household items were found.
“What is this?”
“What?”
“Oh, no. There’s a broken glass bottle here. I think I was holding something. Is this also rum?”
Monia carefully sniffed the glass bottle.
“yes? strange smell. Is it perfume?”
“Oh, here are the candles. Good.”
“A candle? Ah, then this is a lamp!”
“Is it a lamp that uses candles rather than oil? Aren’t you all right?”
The two rummaged through the box and found a lamp that was in good shape. Except for the slightly warped lamp, it was a normal lamp.
“yes? This box is open.”
“Have the people at the top opened it?”
“I guess so? Some things are missing inside.”
It was a box with many miscellaneous items.
Monia found a mirror in the box and took it out and began to look at her body here and there.
Chester smiled at Monia like that and took out a crumpled piece of paper in the corner of the box.
‘It’s just paper.’
I thought it might be a treasure map, but it was just paper. But the quality seems pretty good.
‘Paper must be a luxury item, but I had it well.’
There are few things like paper that you need in life. That is why it was close to a luxury item and a high-end item that was not needed in life and only sought for by those who were looking for it.
“I don’t have any use for it.”
“Oh, paper. Shall we use it as kindling?”
“It will burn well. It doesn’t weigh much and isn’t bulky, so should I have it first?”
I also brought paper.
“Let’s take all the whetstones. This will allow you to sharpen the blade more properly.”
“Chester, isn’t this a smoking pipe? Do you smoke?”
“no. I did try to smoke it. It’s normal for men to smoke when talking to each other, so I had to know how to smoke to get along with it. But it didn’t fit me.”
“Oh my. Would you like to smoke it?”
“it’s okay.”
In this way, the chests on the beach did not contain only necessities.
In case they needed to stop somewhere to replenish supplies, there were also a few trade items that could be exchanged for money anywhere and cost a lot.
“Oh, the compass.”
“Where are you using it?”
“See the red color on this needle? This red end always points north. With this, you can know the north, south, east, and west.”
Among those trade items, there were many that were difficult for Monia to come into contact with.
“wow! wow! Awesome! Awesome! It looks like something far away is right in front of you!”
“Isn’t that great?”
“This is a telescope!”
A dice that someone carries for fortune telling. Cards for pastime. A quarter for stargazing, one boot with someone’s severed foot in it.
“… … Shall I make a grave for you?”
“Is that so? The people in the forest should also make graves.”
On one side of the beach, there was a modest tomb with only one ankle in it.
Next to it was the tomb with Rottin’s body, which Urgo had made when he left.
Instead of a tombstone, Rottin carried a cutlass that Urgo used during his duel with Chester.
Chester, who looked at the cutlass covered in his own blood with a strange feeling, moved to rummage through the box again.
Take the item from the box and move it, then come back and take the item and move it.
Things that could be left on the beach were thrown near the wreckage of the villa, and all valuable items that were difficult to obtain were moved home and stored in storage.
“But it’s funny when you think about it.”
“yes? what?”
“Chester, out of all those boxes, why did you take the dress for me first?”
“… … .”
As Chester was arranging things in the basement storage room, his face turned red and he stopped talking.
“there.”
As she clenched her chin, she saw a ring shining on Monia’s left hand.
“Chester.”
Monia asked slowly, leisurely, reaching for Chester and stroking his cheek.
“What was the first dress you got?”
Chester, who stood silently for a long time feeling Monia’s hand gently caressing her cheek, eventually held out a dress with an embarrassed expression.
“oh. wow This… … .”
Monia, who saw the dress Chester was holding out, was a little surprised, then leaned down and whispered in Chester’s ear.
“beast.”
side.
Then she gives her a light kiss on the cheek and disappears upward with the dress.
Before leaving, Monia spoke softly into Chester’s ear.
“Wait a little bit there, okay?”
After Monia disappeared into the house, Chester, who was standing still, picked up the butler’s uniform that Monia had set aside.