154 – Year 1(2)
Chester stood in front of the mirror.
“Well. You have grown a lot.”
I didn’t pay attention, and my beard grew thick like trees in a dense jungle that covered the sky and blocked out the sunlight, making it as dark as night in broad daylight.
Chester ran his hand through his beard and pulled out a cloth soaked in hot water. Wrap the cloth around your face and wait for the beard to soften and soften with the warm moisture and heat. In the meantime, I took out a knife and checked its condition.
The knife, sharpened with a whetstone, had such a clean surface that it was as shiny as a mirror, and it clearly reflected Chester’s eyes. Muttering that a sharpening stone is better than just grinding with a stone, Chester put the knife into the sheath and examined his own hair.
‘Should I cut my hair a bit too?’
It was too long. The bangs seemed to poke the pupils.
If you are going to cut your hair, how should you cut it? Previously, Chester would have just shaved it cleanly and not intrusively, but now that I have Monia’s eyes, I wanted to trim them a little cool.
‘The only time I grew my hair was when I was a butler… At that time, no matter how long my hair was, I put it all back after applying the medicine, so I can’t use it as a reference.’
The next thing I thought of was the prince, Jordi. Jordi paid attention to his appearance every day as if to prove that he was a prince. No, I was forced to pay attention to those around me.
I get up early in the morning, take a bath, apply balm, and trim my skin, nails, hair, eyebrows, and beard. Even the clothes he was wearing were changed to breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the whole academy was in a frenzy on days when his face was scarred.
‘It’s not too much.’
Chester’s face frowns as he imagines himself with a hairstyle like Jordi’s. disgusting. I didn’t want my hair to look like it was oiled.
‘Should I just cut it roughly as I go?’
Chester, knowing that he had no sense in this area, undid the cloth from his face and brought the knife to his softened beard.
After stretching the skin, he carefully takes the infinitely sharp blade used to slice the thick rope over his face. And just like that, I gently slide the blade and shave my beard.
A slight mistake would cut his skin on the sharp blade, but Chester moved the knife without hesitation.
After shaving once along the direction of the beard growth, this time shaving in the opposite direction of the beard growth to neatly shave near the root of the beard.
“Hmm.”
After making sure his beard was well shaved, Chester sprayed his face with water from a bucket. Upon contact with the bluish water, the skin that had been irritated while shaving and reddened and reddened immediately subsided.
Satisfied with the smoothness of his skin without the harshness of his beard, Chester cleaned his knife and looked at his hair.
“Let’s make it a bit shorter first.”
The future nagging Monia about why she carelessly touched her hair was visible, but Chester boldly took the knife to her hair.
“This person is real!”
And after a while, Monia’s whip whipped Chester’s back.
“… … sorry.”
“What is this head! If you stay still, I will cut it myself, so why are you touching it!”
“Do, I wanted to try.”
“Ugh! I am real.”
Monia sighed deeply and trimmed Chester’s messy hair.
“I will have to cut out almost everything.”
Chester messed with her hair so much that Monia gave up trimming and started cutting her hair drastically.
Every time the knife moves a little, the hair that falls from the top of Chester’s head. Monia fired a bunch of nags at Chester with each movement of the knife.
‘father.’
Being nagged by Monia, Chester thought of his father.
Recalling the image of his mother scolding his father for coming in drunk, and the image of his father, who had shrunk from his usual cool appearance while being scolded by his mother, said Chester.
‘Marriage is hard.’
“It’s all done!”
Monia brushed Chester’s hair off and led him to the mirror.
“Five. It’s neat.”
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Looking in the mirror, Chester’s hair, which had been long enough to cover his eyes and ears, was neatly shaved on the sides and back, revealing the entire head, and the rest of the hair on top was trimmed short, no more than a finger’s length.
“I had no choice but to do this! It has to be like this! Someone somewhere cuts my hair too short!”
“It’s still better than when I did it.”
“What was Chester trying to do?”
“Well. It’s annoying, so I thought I’d just push it all away.”
“No! that’s! of course! No way!”
“Isn’t there a lot different from this?”
“It’s so different!”
Monia’s sharp palm hit Chester’s back again.
After beating Chester, I calmed down and looked at Chester.
“Well! I did, but well done!”
At first, I was angry at Chester for cutting my hair so badly that even the children of the slums would not treat it, but as a result, I decided to be satisfied with it because it was nicely repaired and nicely trimmed.
“Next time, don’t touch my hair without a word!”
“Ugh!”
Of course, the scolding wasn’t over.
* * *
The cold air noticeably receded, and the cool breeze and soft sunlight that warmed the body settled down on the island.
Of course, I don’t know if it’s correct to say a season like winter or spring on this island that just wanders around the world and doesn’t clearly settle in one place, but it can be said that spring has come anyway.
The snow that weighed heavily on the island is now gone except that it did not melt and endured in the dark shade where the cold air stays and the warm sunlight does not reach, and the sprouts that began to sprout as the winter passed grew abruptly as if they had never been sprouts. It turned into greenery that covered the entire island.
The animals that had disappeared without a trace quickly regained their place, no matter where they had been hiding until now, and are working hard to fill their hungry stomachs during the winter.
In step with the refurbished island with the missing eye, Chester and Monia also refurbished.
Chester had his beard and hair trimmed, Monia’s hair trimmed, and she put on new clothes, taking off the dirty old butler’s uniform and dress that she had worn through the winter and endured the cold.
It didn’t end there, and when there was still plenty of food and the cold of winter was not severe, I put on the things I had made for use in the spring.
Up until now, I had tied a rope around my waist and hung things there, but now I used a sailor’s belt and a knife holster to make a new tool that allows me to hang various things more securely.
Hanging from the belt are knives and axes made from the ore of the island, as well as knives, telescopes, and arrows obtained from the sailors. Here, Monia hangs a machete made from the ore of the island, and Chester hangs a machete he picked up from the waterfall. Both men’s machetes were housed in leather scabbards.
The basket was made of bamboo, so it was quite strong thanks to the flexibility of bamboo, but the bamboo was inevitably smashed when he rolled his body violently. Of course, it was made by cutting a lot of bamboo and connecting it with a rope, so if a part breaks, just replace it, so it wasn’t too much trouble.
Still, it’s good to be strong without being broken no matter what happens. At most, a spare sail was in hand, so Chester and Monia used it to make a tough, sturdy new backpack. It was made with double padded sails.
The shoes are not new, but have been changed to something much better than before. Previously, Chester and Monia wore crude wooden sandals made by tying a string around a tree, but now they wear long boots with firm ankles and hard soles.
In a situation where delicate hand movements are not required, gloves to be used to protect the hands are prepared separately and stored in the backpack. It is difficult to say that the quality is good, but a proper bow and a powerful weapon, the crossbow, are also prepared.
Much had to be done to rectify the events of the winter.
You have to fix a broken bridge, fix a broken shed, make sure that a kiln that’s been buried in snow for the winter can do its job, see how the waterways are, put traps in rivers, re-set traps in forests, The villa has to be rebuilt after being built due to the coming wind.
There is a lot to do. But it was fine.
Chester carved a mark with a knife into a tree near his house.
I started marking the date from the time I came to this island and settled here.
Sometimes I forgot to mark it, and there are days when I didn’t mark it because I didn’t have to leave the house. In the middle, the people at the top got drunk and the tree I marked was smashed, so I started marking other trees again, and in winter Most of them were sent from home, so I didn’t mark them, and I forgot the sense of the date, so I can’t even remember how many days have passed.
Still, in order to leave a new start, the mark was engraved deeper than usual.
After arriving at the floating island, time passed. Obviously, it must have been over a year.
I don’t know how long they’ll be on this island in the future, but what’s clear is that they’ve lived on this island for a year, and despite a lot of things happening in that year, the two are still alive and well.
“Shall we go?”
“yes!”
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With Ant at the forefront, Chester and Monia headed into the woods.
They had just woken up from hibernation, and a forest full of hungry beasts spread out in front of them.
It’s okay though.
Suffering from hunger and thirst, being swept away by a storm, fighting the heat, being attacked by ant wolves, overcoming a bear, surviving upstairs, being attacked by 70 people.
they are still alive