146 – A bunch caught on the tip of a branch (5)
“Come on, one! two!”
At the same time Chester gave the signal, the black wind that came to play pushed the cage containing the chicken upward.
The moment we were airborne, Chester used that momentum to pull the rope tied to the cage with Monia.
“Kyaaak!”
“Give me more strength!”
“Yes!”
Monia pulls the rope with all her strength while frowning. Her hands were covered with leather gloves to keep her hands from hurting when pulling on the rope.
Chester also pulled on the rope while wearing a leather glove to increase the friction between the rope and his hand.
The two of us pulled the rope with all our might, and we slowly rose from the ground, eventually reaching the desired spot for Chester and Monia.
“done! Monia! Hold on!”
“Yaa!!”
Monia endured by leaning her body back enough to stand tall on the side of a tree branch, and while Monia held on, Chester, who hurriedly ran, grabbed us, put us down in a pre-determined position, and began to fasten us.
“it’s okay!”
Chester, who had simply fixed us, gave a signal, and Monia collapsed on the spot, loosening her body.
The surrounding tree branches supported Monia’s body, and Monia breathed heavily between the branches.
“oh my. Hard.”
While Monia collapsed with all her strength, Chester took the materials she had prepared, made a pedestal to distribute the weight of the cage to the branches, tied them with rope, and stretched the ropes tied to the cage to distribute the weight across the branches. I did the work, etc.
The beasts of the floating island are small.
There are many animals smaller than chickens in cages here.
Of course, there are a lot of small nets in the cage, but that’s enough to get you into the cage with your teeth.
And if that were the case, no matter how big the chicken was, there was a high chance it would be eaten.
He didn’t want to lose the precious livestock he had saved, to be precise, the chickens he had killed and taken away from the surviving sailors, so in vain.
So I was thinking about how to hang the chicken up on the tree like this, but thanks to the black wind that came to play at the right time, the problem was solved.
– Is this a bird? It’s a bird, so why can’t it fly?
Black Wind was curious about the chicken, a creature he had never seen before, so he asked Chester about this and that.
Chester faithfully answered Black Wind’s question.
– I don’t fly because I don’t need to fly. We feed them, and we protect their children, so they don’t need the strength to fly and fight.
– indeed. It’s like our pigs.
– Same thing.
– Is it delicious?
– What is delicious is delicious and what is not tasty is not delicious.
Just as people at the top raised pigs by feeding them only acorns and black mushrooms before killing and eating them, it is a fact that people at the top know that the taste differs greatly depending on how they raise their livestock and what they feed them.
– However, there is nothing that is not delicious unless it is a breed that cannot be grown and eaten.
– Hmm. what is the breed?
While Chester explained the breed, Monia, who had been drooling from exhaustion, jumped up and walked over to the chicken coop.
I saw Monia staring at the kennel while the two were talking across the kennel.
“bird. bird! leak! Let’s eat birds after a long time!”
– … That’s right. Are you going to eat?
– no.
The black wind looked at the chicken with a face that really wanted to eat it, then shook its head.
– When I eat something on my own, my woman gets angry at me for not eating her own.
“Woman?”
When Chester mentions that she is a woman, Monia raises her head. Chester gestured at the black wind with a surprised face.
– Have you got a girlfriend? why didn’t you tell me I’m a little embarrassed.
– Friends, I was originally popular.
That would be it. It is a black wind that has a bigger body than others and became a baby warrior at a young age. Since he had a high status both biologically and socially, he must have been attracted to many women.
– Come hang out next time. I’ll give you the chicken, so take it and eat it.
– Well. I will.
After answering, the black wind hurriedly returns home after receiving a chicken. Chester, who saw that, looked at Monia and said.
“That guy is being captured.”
“what? So, you said you were a woman earlier?”
“yes. It looks like the black wind has a lover. I should congratulate you.”
“Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. What kind of person is he?”
Monia asked Chester with a curious face.
“Because he has a purpose of wanting to be great, wouldn’t he have chosen a girl that way too?”
“Did you ask me to come play with you next time?”
“yes. I don’t know when it will come.”
“Then I must prepare for that time! I’ll try cooking something delicious with this chicken!”
“yes. for a moment… … .”
Chester looked at the number of chickens and chicks and said,
“I can eat up to five of them.”
“Then we will eat one, we will use one for cooking experiments, and we will eat the remaining three when the wind and girlfriend arrive!”
“great. let’s do that.”
“Thanks to those bastards, cooking utensils have become abundant!”
Cups, pots, pans… … definitely enriched. Chester did not have to painstakingly smelt ore, and there were great cooking utensils crafted by blacksmiths with great skills.
Thanks to this, the people at the top can afford to use the additional ore they brought for other things. Now that I have a lot of spare metal items, I’m worried about where to use these ores.
“look! Do you have a large pot like this one?”
Monia showed a large pot that could hold two small children.
“To be honest, I don’t know where to write it. We don’t have to cook in bulk, do we?”
“Well, if you feel like you have nowhere to use it, why not give it as a gift to the people at the top?”
“It feels a bit like disposing of unnecessary things.”
“If you don’t need this one but need the other one, it’s a great gift.”
Saying that, Chester set up a ladder near the chicken coop and climbed down the tree.
“The chicken coop is done… … now it’s a trap What are you going to do?”
“You mean fish are not being caught these days?”
“yes. Did your activity decrease because the days got colder? That’s why they get caught less often than before.”
“That’s right.”
After walking for a bit, Chester looked at the pile of leaves on the ground.
“The leaves are falling too.”
“It looks like it’s coming in earnest.”
“Well. You’d better start preparing for winter right now, starting today. Do you have the cloth you got from the ship? Let’s wrap it around the house for now. That would be better than moss.”
“I tried to find moss, but in the end there was nothing to use.”
“It’s good that something better has been found and there is nothing to use. Did you make the clothes?”
Monia nodded at Chester’s question.
“I made clothes, and, uh, a spare sail? I even made a cloak by adding leather to it.”
“Five. nice.”
“Is it really okay not to make Chester clothes?”
“I think it would be enough to survive the winter with the butler’s uniform and the cloak you made. They were all winter butler clothes.”
“Why do you wear butler clothes for winter?”
“Maybe Monia was thinking of holding out on this island if she got you. Knowing that the island’s routes lead to colder regions, he must have prepared winter clothes. There were other things besides the butler’s uniform. Like the dress, the sailors’ clothes.”
Chester and Monia talked as they explored the woods.
I’ve come quite far away, but I can’t see the figure of the bear that is making a territory around that area.
I walked again and headed to another place, but I didn’t see the figure of the ant wolf working hard as well.
Snakes, which were everywhere, disappeared, and creatures such as frogs and turtles also disappeared.
The biggest change of all is the bugs. The bugs that always bothered them and had to be constantly prepared for them also disappeared.
“… … It’s quiet.”
“Yeah.”
“It’s a different calm from the one that was created by the people at the top running wild.”
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Little by little, the island was falling asleep as it welcomed the approaching winter.
Plants and animals prepare to survive the winter.
At least, the only creature that doesn’t sleep is Ant with two of them.
Ant doesn’t have to stock up on food to survive the harsh winter and just sleep.
Knowing that well, Ant was constantly walking around beside the creatures even as they slowly disappeared.
“Oh, here too.”
Monia confirmed that the flower garden she liked had withered and put on a slightly sad expression.
While walking through the forest with difficulty, this place where a lot of flowers gathered to form a flower garden was Monia’s favorite place.
However, it seems that all the flowers have withered while busy moving and cleaning up because of the invaders.
Chester looked at Monia’s sad face and said.
“… … Shall we go back soon?”
“… Yes.”
Monia, who had been answering gloomily, quickly regained her energy and shouted.
“I’ll make you a delicious chicken dish!”
“yes. I’ll look forward to it.”
On the way back home, something came into Chester’s eyes as he looked up at the sky.
“ah.”
When Chester made a low sound, Monia, who turned to him, also looked up at the sky.
From the sky, a single snowflake was falling from the sky on the wind.
A single snow landed quietly on the tip of a nearby tree branch, and stayed at the tip of the branch like a flower.
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Looking at the snow on the tip of a tree branch, Chester and Monia realized that winter had arrived.