241 – Tongdan Continent (4)
– Kyaaagh!
It’s been 3 days since I walked through the jungle on the continent of Tongdan.
On that day, the Chester family was attacked by a huge bird.
“What?!”
Unusually, the bird wasn’t flying with its wings spread, but it was moving rapidly from tree to tree, twisting its body around with its claws on its wings and its elongated legs driving its claws into the densely-grown trees.
– Kyaaa!!
A bird that attacks a tree by violently swinging its claws, breaking a thin tree.
“Is that a bird?!”
Surprised, Monia shot her star in fright, but the bird’s beak lightly blocked the arrow of the wind.
“Monia, open your bow!”
“Yes!”
Chester shouted and held Anubis up. As the great and sharp Anubis soared menacingly, the frightened bird flapped its wings, grabbed the tree, and climbed up.
However, Rex was already there.
“Waaagh!”
Rex roared loudly, gripping his pike firmly with both hands and striking it down at the bird that came up.
Kwadeuk!
The javelin pierced the bird’s back, and the bird staggered under Rex’s weight and the impact of the javelin.
And at that moment, Monia opened her bow and aimed for it.
When Monia shot an arrow, the arrow pierced the ring, split into two, and hit both wings of the bird.
The moment the bird’s wings gave out, Rex grabbed the bird with both hands and shook it wildly.
The bird’s claws stuck in the tree were ripped off along with the tree, and Rex and the bird crashed.
Rex and the bird roll across the floor. The bird raged wildly, cutting off the approach of others by fiercely brandishing its sharp claws.
Rex grabbed the beak of the bird that was trying to peck him with his hand, and stuck his finger into the hole in the wing of one side, restraining the bird from moving freely.
However, the resistance is severe. To put it mildly, even Rex’s body was constantly shaken by the bird’s frenzy.
Looking at it, Chester raised her senses while aiming at Anubis.
Immediately after raising his senses to level 3, focusing all his attention on the rampaging bird, Chester’s hand stretched out.
The Anubis held at the end of it accurately penetrated the bird’s head, and the bird, whose brain was torn apart for an instant, squirmed as a reflex reaction and eventually died.
“…… Whoa.”
“The creatures here are as scary as the floating islands.”
Monia said as she untied the string of her bow, which was holding her tight.
“Sure. Rex, are you okay?”
“It was fun!”
“Really?”
“Yes!”
Rex seems to have enjoyed the bird resisting its power.
I couldn’t enjoy it when I was a monster because I had to risk my life.
“It was funnier than a tiger!”
“Really?”
“The tiger is strong, but I couldn’t do anything because I lifted it up.”
Rex grabs the bird’s corpse and lifts it up to tell him that he has dealt with a tiger like this.
Upon seeing that, Chester could understand why the tiger skin was so messed up. The tiger must have struggled desperately to survive. In the midst of that, if someone like that happens, who will be able to keep their skin intact?
“This bird was tough! I was holding on to the tree, so I couldn’t press or lift it!”
“I see.”
Perhaps, if the fight continued, the bird would have lost to Rex in the end.
Even if it is too large and heavy to fly, it must be light enough to move around the trees with its huge body.
So, if you fight for strength, one day the bird’s bones will break and Rex will win.
Taking the strong trees of the floating island as a standard, the person at the top with thick and heavy bones was unusual even though he could fly over the trees.
Rex plucked a particularly nice feather from the bird’s head and put it in his own fur to decorate it.
“How is it?”
“Nice.”
Monia peeled the bark of a tree near her and she straight away made a thin string. In the middle of making the string, she inserted a bird feather into her ornament, and then she tied it around Rex’s head.
“Now, if I do this, I won’t fall out even if I move, right?”
“Thank you Mom!”
While Rex and Monia hugged each other, Chester examined the shape of the bird.
“A bird that climbs a tree. There are all sorts of strange creatures in the jungle.”
Chester looked at Senna, who must have been familiar with this creature, to ask him a few questions.
“Are you still awake?”
As Chester said that, he approached Senna, who was passed out with Hope II’s back tied tightly.
“You haven’t woken up yet.”
As I got closer, I saw a piece of cloth wrapped around Senna’s white hair. It was a bandage bought from the Matoto continent.
Sneaking up, Chester lifted Senna’s head to see where the bloodstains were visible through her bandages, and scratched her head with a troubled look on her face.
There was no particular reason why Senna suffered like this.
While on her way, a hard-shelled fruit fell on Senna’s head and hit her head.
So, I literally fainted.
It was incredibly unfortunate for the victim, but it was definitely an accident that happens every year.
Chester once heard that when learning the knowledge that the water in a coconut can be drunk in a coastal city in the kingdom of Biend, people often die from being hit in the head by the coconut falling from the tree.
In that sense, Senna wasn’t bad luck, he was lucky. Because I didn’t die, I just fainted and it was over.
“Monia.”
“Does this bird have a big heart? Rex, are you going to eat the heart? … Huh? Why, Chester!”
“Let’s find the river.”
“Are you going to rest already?”
“Yes. Let’s treat Senna. You can rub the grace of her top on her head.”
It was past lunch time.
Chester said that her guide, Senna, had passed out, so she gave up on pushing ahead and decided to find a place for her to rest.
* * *
Find a river, dismember the bird, and make a campsite on a high place near the river.
Since this is a place where sudden rains often occur, if you settle down near a river, you could be swept to death in an instant by the swollen river. To prepare for the disaster, they had to settle down high enough to be safe even if the river swelled.
After finding a suitable place, disassembling the bird, making a campsite, and making all preparations for the night, Chester took out the boon at the top and unwrapped Senna’s bandages.
Shake well the bucket containing the small pieces of grace from the top to quickly mix the ingredients of the blessing from the top with the river water, and then drain the water to wipe the blood off the wound.
“It must be painful.”
Seeing her scars revealing the vivid red flesh, Monia frowned at her, and Chester nodded her head and rolled Senna in the opposite direction.
After rolling in the opposite direction, place the grace of the top down and place Senna on top of it so that the grace of the top touches the wound.
“It will be better now.”
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After that, she started preparing for dinner.
First, grill the perishable intestines. The broiler entrails were fragments of the bird’s huge heart.
After eating the baked heart, Monia started cooking in earnest, and Chester left Rex to take care of Monia and Senna, then roamed the forest looking for fruit and substitutes for bread.
Of course, there is bread and rice in their backpacks. But if you eat it, it will disappear. So rather than mindlessly eating and getting rid of it, it was better to save what you could save and save if you could get a substitute.
“Senna said you can eat the flesh of a banana tree.”
After wandering around and finding a banana, Chester pounded the banana tree with her fist the way Senna had taught him.
When I hit it hard with my fist, the fibrous banana tree tore away, and soon after, pure white flesh appeared.
Chester took a bite of the bare flesh of the banana tree and checked his tingling fist as he pounded on the tree.
‘Senna said she could easily harvest it if she beat it with her bare hands, so I tried it, but I guess she’d be better off just using a machete?’
Chester doesn’t know about the banana tree, but Senna does. That’s why she trusted Senna’s knowledge, but from now on, she’ll be better off just using tools.
Chester sliced another nearby banana tree with a machete and peeled the skin to easily dismantle it to save the flesh.
“Yes. After all, this is more comfortable.”
Chester, who got the flesh from cutting down some banana trees, looked at the banana trees he had cut down.
“If you leave it as it is, it will grow again and bear fruit again, right? What a strange tree.”
In fact, a banana tree is not a tree, but a perennial plant that blooms and bears fruit every year, but Chester, unaware of that fact, dismissed it as a peculiar tree.
‘I want to plant it in the yard when I find a house later.’
Chester smiled as he imagined growing bananas in the yard of the house where he would live with Monia in the future.
‘Settle down.’
Settlement.
It’s not just about staying in one place, it’s about buying your own house, creating your own family, and living there with your loved ones for the rest of your life.
‘Someday I’ll settle down too?’
It was not uncomfortable to live a wandering life. It must be uncomfortable for many people, but Chester, who resembled his father’s wanderlust, did not feel any difficulty or anguish on the trip.
But surely, the moment will come when they will take root and settle down.
Just as his father met his beloved mother, settled down, and gave birth to himself, someday he will settle down with Monia and give birth to a child who is truly his bloodline.
“… ….”
Chester thought deeply while holding onto the flesh of the banana tree and turned his head to one side.
“I haven’t learned all the languages of this continent yet… ….”
As I took out my machete and aimed it at it, the bushes shook slightly. Chester saw that and snapped the machete, and the stinger hit the machete and landed near Chester.
Chester covered the stinger safely by sweeping the surrounding leaves with his feet, then stepped on the stinger and looked at the bush again.
“Fortunately, I won’t have to say ‘Hello’.”