235 – The journey up again (2)
“Now, coachman too.”
When Monia handed her the greasy pork sandwiched between her buns, the coachman bowed her head and took the meat-filled sandwich Monia had handed to her and ate it.
A feeling of satisfaction naturally rises from biting into soft bread and hot, juicy meat.
While eating, Chester looked at the simple travel luggage the knights had packed into the wagon.
Since Chester and Monia’s luggage had already been packed before leaving the mansion, they had additional luggage.
Since the wagon he received as a gift was added, there was no problem even if his luggage increased.
“You prepared a lot of things.”
“I don’t know what I might need, so I think I prepared everything.”
“Yes.”
Chester gave the box of rice to Monia. She was in a hurry to get it, so it wasn’t a lot, but it came in a box small enough to hold with one hand, but it wasn’t hard to imagine how difficult it must have been to get it in that urgent situation.
‘I bet he didn’t steal it.’
Chester, unaware that the knights stole her horse from the ruined stables and came running, thought of it as he watched Monia examine the rice crate.
Monia and Senna eat the grilled wild boar while thinking without saying anything.
The wild boar meat was very tough, but Monia chose the fatty parts and cooked them to melt the fat inside the meat, creating a soft texture with the tough meat.
“Hey, Chester. Speaking of our ship, shall we take the ship to Sena’s hometown?”
“Sena’s hometown?”
“Yes. They say there are a lot of jungles!”
“Jungle? It’s a jungle Are there any bugs that carry disease?”
At Chester’s question, Senna looked at their backpacks. Senna’s eyes were on Grace at the top of her.
The day I met Monia and Chester at the checkpoint the other day. The guards coveted the bounty of the top in Chester’s rucksack, saying that it could be sold at a high price.
Remembering that Chester’s reaction at that time was unusual for a simple jewel to be taken away, Sena finally understood that reaction when she saw them healing themselves with the grace of the top in the wagon today.
Since they tried to take their own lives, not jewels, they must have been determined to kill all the guards.
“I think it will be fine.”
And as Senna remembers, there are many bugs and insects that carry serious diseases, but it seems unlikely that anything powerful enough to overcome the grace of the top and take your life.
Chester, realizing what Senna was looking at and saying she was okay, nodded her head.
“Insects that carry disease? What is it?”
Only Monia, who doesn’t know the jungle, saw Chester in the sudden conversation between the two and asked that question.
“Monia. What if you get bitten by an insect?”
Monia closes her eyes and recalls the experience of being bitten by an insect on a floating island.
“Hmm. The bitten area turns red and hurts.”
“The venom of common insects is just that much. But there are some serious bugs. It’s not poison, it’s carrying disease.”
“Like a person living in a dirty place spreading disease to others?”
“Yes.”
Monia, who was listening to her story while shaking her head without thinking, suddenly came up with an uneasy thought.
“Hey, Chester.”
“Huh?”
“Aren’t you going to eat it?”
The eyes of Sena and the coachman gather at Monia’s sudden and unexpected words.
“Aren’t you going to eat it?”
“Ha ha ha.”
As Chester laughed silently, his uneasiness rose to the limit. In her uneasiness, Monia screamed as she brushed Chester’s body.
“Promise me! I won’t eat!”
“Can’t we help it if we are in a hurry?”
“I hate eating bugs!”
“I’m not going to find it and eat it. Unless you need it.”
“If you need it, you will find it and eat it!”
“You know how to eat too.”
“I didn’t eat it because I liked it?! I didn’t eat it because I liked it! I don’t want to eat again!”
Monia was clearly eating a piping hot boar meat sandwich right now, and the feeling of water in her mouth and the feeling of something bursting and juices spreading made her shiver with goosebumps.
‘Did you eat bugs?’
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‘Did you eat bugs?’
Senna and the coachman were looking at Monia Ar and saw her Chester. No matter how she looked at it, she didn’t look like Monia had eaten herself, she felt like Chester had fed her.
‘Why did you do that?’
Sena thought about asking Rex why such a thing had happened, but she looked at Rex. She looked at Rex, who was gleefully nibbling on uncooked raw wild boar meat with Ant.
Monia gave Rex all the boar legs, and while she was eating a sandwich, Rex had already eaten one leg and was holding the next one.
Rex ate the wild boar’s leg with a smile, as if he had forgotten all about the pout he hadn’t taken to the hunt earlier.
“Rex, do you like it?”
Seeing that, Sena forgot what she was going to ask and smiled. She asked if it was delicious.
Rex nodded loudly at Senna’s question and began to chew and eat the boar’s leg bones.
She was already at her mansion and had seen many scenes of Rex eating bones, so Senna didn’t care too much about that.
However, the coachman shook her body.
‘Eat bones, even bones! They’re even eating the bones!’
The knights said it was okay, so they endured Rex’s terrifying appearance, but the sight of him eating raw meat and eating his bones with blood in his mouth was terrifying.
If that’s not a demon, then what is it!
‘When this is over, I should go to church and repent.’
The coachman drew her last name on her little finger, lamenting her own fate of being entangled with her demons.
After the meal, the party went to sleep with a wide open fire warming the air.
And the next day, Chester, who woke up the earliest, went out and did the morning exercise, which was his daily routine, after rekindling the embers by putting new firewood in and out of the bonfire, which was left with nothing but red-hot charcoal.
After Chester finished his workout, the group finished their morning with the wild boar meat they had lightly grilled and preserved the day before, and set off again in the wagon.
While Chester sat beside her coachman and learned to drive her carriage, Monia, as a habit built into her body, was going about her routine.
Daily morning routine. As daily routines such as checking traps, checking traps, and making preserved food disappeared, it was inspection and management of tools that took their place.
Since she had a hand sling, Monia, who was learning to handle and touch tools beyond using them, looked more closely at her tools than before.
“Enough rope……. Senna. Don’t you think the cutlass is a bit bent?”
“Would you like to give it to me? … Yeah, it’s a little bent.”
While Senna grabbed the slightly bent cutlass and applied her strength to straighten it in the opposite direction to her, Monia finished checking her other tools and pulled out her new one.
It was an artifact that Eugene had, and an artifact that Chester took while dealing with the monster leader.
A weapon that is the prototype of the Hand Sling.
Monia herself has a hand sling, so she told Chester to get one, but the star that fit Eugene’s arm was too small for Chester’s thick arm.
Monia looked at her star, cut a new hole in her belt, adjusted the length of her belt a bit, and put her hand sling around her left arm.
“…… Yes. It’s fine.”
Unlike the hand sling, it felt a bit heavy because there were many things attached to it. However, considering what I could do with it, it was nothing more than a little heavy.
Dunmonia, who was touching her star wish, aimed her star wish out the window.
As it is the prototype of the hand sling, the star was able to shoot the wind without having to open it in the shape of a bow.
Of course, it is weaker than when unfolded with a bow, but instead, the rate of fire increases significantly. It can fire 2 or 3 rounds per second.
In this world where it is safe to say that there is no concept of ‘continuous shooting’ except for leaving several archers and having them shoot incessantly in turns, it is said that one person can shoot invisible arrows at a rate of 2 or 3 per second. Thing was threatening.
That danger is never pushed by Anubis.
If Jordy had not lost his temper and moved recklessly according to the survival instinct that the parasites had run over, Chester would have had to risk his life dealing with the body of the monster and the weapons of the ruins all at once.
Monia, who manipulated her starlight and shot the tree branches seen outside her window, shot her wind arrows and kneaded her aching arms with the recoil of her shooting, her rate of fire. Admired
“Wow.”
“Are you scared?”
Senna, who was bending her cutlass straight, was also surprised to see it.
Something invisible is flying at a terrifying speed. If she blinked, about half a dozen twigs were broken and falling to the ground.
It is fast, invisible, powerful enough to break thick tree branches, and can shoot infinitely.
What if it was pointed at you?
‘Ugh… ….’
She naturally thought of dealing with her star wish, but when Sena couldn’t think of winning, she let out her saliva without realizing it.
“Senna! This is awesome!”
At that time, Monia, who felt the power of her wish for the stars and became amused, pointed her wish at Sena and said.
“Shoo, don’t shoot!”
“… ….”
Wait, there was silence in the carriage with the two people in it.
Ant, who was sitting on the floor, looked at the two of them in silence and snorted.
“…… Sorry.”
“Oh, no. Come to think of it, I was wrong too.”
After an awkward silence, Monia left the star and prayed that Eugene’s soul, who originally had it, would go to heaven.