181 – Great Wind (4)
“This is Rex.”
“Call me Rex!”
When Chester called his name, Rex puffed out his chest and introduced himself proudly.
“Are you the child of those giant monkeys then?”
“monkey?”
“What is a monkey?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Is that, after all, a descendant of a creature with black hair all over its body?”
“We call them top people.”
“If you’re asking me to be a child of the black wind, that’s right.”
“By the way, the wind is the guy who took your sword.”
Urgo remembered the giant monkey that had taken his two-pronged sword and driven him off the island.
‘Right. It’s a black wind.’
“The child of the black wind?”
“According to their culture, he became our son.”
“There are many different cultures in the world. I’ve even seen a culture where people decorate their hair with shit.”
“It’s unhygienic.”
“I’m going to get sick.”
Seeing the two men and women frowning at the same time, Urgo laughed, dug out the sand, and held out the cooked snake meat.
“Eat.”
“Well.”
“It was the same yesterday, but is this sand really safe to eat?”
“You can eat it.”
Monia grabbed the large snake meat with both hands and took a big bite of it, which was covered with sand.
“… … !”
Monia trembled and chewed at the powerful meat that hit her chin the moment she took a bite.
Chester was frowning a little, as if it was too hard to chew.
On the other hand, Rex and Ant were eating snake meat just fine.
‘My jaw hurts. Rex manages to eat something like this.’
Chester, who was chewing the snake meat as he watched Rex eat well, saw how Urgo was doing.
Urgo was eating snake meat like normal meat.
When I turned my gaze a little, the desert people who were having breakfast at a distance were also eating normally.
‘People here, both men and women, have developed chins, so why did I ask, but it was because of this.’
Chester, who painstakingly tore off the snake meat again and put it in his mouth, looked at Monia as he chewed the meat and sand together.
Monia was frowning as if her jaw was hurting from chewing snake meat.
“I love this meat… … .”
It’s not that he’s crying because eating meat is hard, he’s crying because the meat he eats is not tasty.
“Isn’t it delicious?”
Seeing that, Urgo laughed.
“Even if it doesn’t taste good to us, it’s only good because there is a lot of it.”
There is little to eat in the desert. So, if you can eat it, you will eat anything. The development of desert people’s jaws was developed to eat both hard and tough food.
A hard fruit produced by a certain cactus. Not just giant snakes, but all kinds of animals with tough shells and muscles in the desert. And, if possible, jaws and teeth to eat everything like a hard scorpion shell.
Of course, that was limited to people living their entire lives in the desert.
“Whoa.”
“Hard.”
“I never thought chewing something would consume my stamina.”
“really.”
Chester and Monia prayed to heaven that they would have a chance to leave the desert as soon as possible.
* * *
Before learning the surrounding languages from the desert interpreter, I decided to learn the desert language from Urgo. That’s why Chester and Monia started their lives by following Urgo and receiving language training.
“I have a routine, so let me teach while doing my routine.”
Urgo said that and started the day’s work.
Urgo’s daily routine began with training with warriors.
The training begins by taking off all the clothes that protected the body and washing the body while rubbing the hot desert sand dug up from the deep ground all over the body.
“It washes away the dirt from the body.”
“Washing with sand because there is no water… … .”
“How do I do?”
Monia raises her hand and asks.
Urgo, who was naked to wash himself, paused for a moment when he remembered the existence of Monia, which he had forgotten about. Then, when I turned my head slightly, the warriors of the desert were all shy and hesitant to take off their clothes at the sudden appearance of a woman.
“Kuh, you can’t show your body before you get married!”
“Hey, we’ll cover it for you, so get dressed quickly!”
“Thank you!”
A woman should not see the naked body of an unmarried man.
A man must not see the naked body of an unmarried woman.
Of course, the ceremony to start the training of the warriors was also held in a tent away from the village so that women could not see it.
Monia, who had followed Chester without knowing it, was kicked out by Urgo and sent out of the tent.
“… … It’s hot.”
The sand with hot, coarse particles is rubbed on the body, causing small scars on the body.
“It is because of the lack of tips. Once you get used to it, you’ll be fine.”
Urgo said so, took a handful of sand and rubbed it all over his body.
After washing their bodies and heads with sand, the warriors came out of their tents and bathed in the desert breeze.
As we all shaved our heads, sand and dust rose in the wind.
After thoroughly brushing off the sand from your body, you can begin training in earnest.
“The most basic exercise is to swing around a weighted bag full of sand.”
Urgo said that and showed me bags of various sizes.
“Chester, you have to choose a weight that suits your strength, so let’s try it out.”
“yes. Oh, and Monia too.”
“Well?”
Urgo saw Monia, who had followed Chester again after the warriors were dressed.
“Are you okay?”
“it’s okay!”
“I’ll do it too!”
Of course, Rex, who was attached to Chester, also said he would do it, but Chester stopped him.
“Rex, you’re still too young.”
“Why not?”
“Let’s do it when it gets bigger, okay?”
“I’m sick of doing it!”
It took quite some time to appease Rex, who insisted on doing it. He wasn’t all grown up yet, so it was better not to do strenuous and strenuous exercise until he was completely big and strong.
After calming Rex down, Chester and Monia, who found a bag of sand of the right weight, followed the desert warriors’ training.
Their training consisted of swinging sandbags around while changing positions.
The goal is not to simply swing, but to stop motion in moderation and perfect posture. If your body staggers and your posture collapses from being swung by the weight of the sandbag, repeat it until it is right.
“Wow!”
This was pretty difficult.
It was especially so because there was sand under my feet.
“Listen while doing it.”
Urgo lightly wielded the biggest sandbag and spoke to Chester with a restrained stance.
“To explain based on the language of your kingdom, the language of this desert… … .”
Chester listened to Urgo’s explanation and imitated his movements.
Although he stumbled a few times at first, Chester quickly got used to it and imitated the movements admirably to the admiration of the watching desert warriors.
‘This is quite difficult.’
It can be difficult to deal with the added centrifugal force of the sandbags, but it also puts a lot of strain on your joints if you are not positioned properly.
“Monia, watch your ankles and knees.”
“yes… !”
Chester listened to Urgo’s story while giving advice to Monia about what he felt.
“As such, it is difficult to learn because the language is so different. So, we start by dividing the sentence into three parts.”
“Three big ones?”
“The other person, the object you want to say, the information you want to say. The language of the desert is made up of these three huge paragraphs, but if you put aside the details and get used to using these three paragraphs to speak, the other side will understand you.”
Urgo gave a simple example.
“To put it simply, if you say, ‘You, give me water,’ you give me water. Just combine three simple words and it becomes a sentence.”
“Then, is it better to focus on learning words?”
“It will be comfortable at first. I’ll teach you the essential words, so learn them and learn how to pronounce them. If you use it properly, you will be fine.”
“Yaah!”
The moment Urgo tried to teach him the words by speaking, Monia, who was swinging a sandbag, lost her balance and fell face down.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Uh, uh… … .”
“If you’ve collapsed, you’ve reached your limit, so you can rest.”
“Turn off… !”
Monia didn’t respond to Urgo’s words and got up from her seat while sweating profusely.
Then he starts swinging the sandbag again.
“… … nice have persistence An evil person will succeed no matter what. Not aristocratic in a good way. It’s different from what I heard from Rotin.”
“When he was first abandoned on the island, he, Rotin? It must have been the same as what I heard from him.”
Seeing Chester’s reaction, Urgo came to mind.
‘Coming to think of it, I don’t even know the names of these two people.’
I have Rotin’s travel journal, but I don’t need to remember Rotin’s name, so I don’t remember it. Chester is so extreme that he still only remembers Rotyn and the person next to him, and at least Monia remembers the name.
‘Still, wouldn’t it be nice to be remembered by the person you love… … . No, it wouldn’t be a good memory for these two, so I wouldn’t be able to remind them.’
Urgo, who kept swinging the sandbag while repeating his thoughts, suddenly confirmed that everyone except Chester and himself had collapsed from exhaustion.
“You have good stamina.”
“That’s what I’m proud of.”
“Okay, let’s rest and move on to the next training session.”
Urgo and Chester sat down on the sandbags they had swung at each other a little while ago, simply opened the tent to create shade and rested under it.
“You’ll feel better if you eat this.”
“What is this?”
“It’s a fruit from a cactus, but it’s quite sour. It’s good when you’re tired.”
“Five. Monia, here.”
“thanks… What a shame!!”
Monia, who had bitten the fruit without thinking, was startled by the sour taste that suddenly stung her tongue and turned upside down.
Urgo and Chester were laughing while watching it, but Rex ran to Monia, calling her with a crying face.
“mom! do not die!”
The desert warriors who saw it all laughed together, but a messenger from the village found Urgo.
“Warrior commander, are you there?”
“What happened?”
“I come from a neighboring village where there was some friction not long ago. He wants to duel with the greatest warrior to find the guilty one.”
“… … Wait until morning training is over. No, this is not it. So… tell me to wait Is this right?”
“you’re right. Okay. I will tell you that.”
“after.”
Urgo, who had succeeded in speaking the desert language properly, glanced at Chester with a slightly boastful attitude.
“what? Why do you open your eyes like that? Did you get sand in your eyes?”
“Oh, no. It is nothing.”