265 – A Villain’s Survival on an Uninhabited Island (2)
When Chester, who had lost consciousness after being swept away by a typhoon, opened his eyes, he saw a bonfire by rubbing wood hard. It was Monia.
“Ah, Chester. Woke up?”
It’s been a while since she left the island, but maybe thanks to spending time teaching or practicing her survival skills when she has time, Monia succeeded in lighting a fire skillfully, even though it was a bonfire that had been lit for a long time.
Chester, who had been watching Monia make a bonfire while lying down, motioned to Monia as she was fixing it with a stone by driving a tree branch with a trimmed snake into the ground.
“Why?”
As Monia approached, Chester, who wrapped her hair around her head and kissed her gently, asked her Monia about her current situation.
“Except for Anubis, clothes, water bottles, and grace fragments, there is nothing left. I did a search by lightly exploring the surrounding area, but it was not found.”
“Really? It’s a waste.”
“Sure. If I had an ax or a machete, it would have been easier to cut down trees.”
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Monia agreed and gave Chester her stone, and Chester who received her stone naturally broke her stone and started making her tools.
“Water has river water. There is a fire, so you can boil it, or you can put the fragments of grace in a water container and mix it with water to purify it and drink it.”
“Let’s cut some debris and divide them into buckets of water. If you drink the water mixed with debris, it will prevent any local diseases, poisons, or parasites.”
“Okay.”
Monia used Anubis to cut one of her fragments into several pieces and put them in a bucket of water.
“What about stargazing?”
“There is.”
Monia showed off her wish for a star on her arm.
“But there is no hook part.”
Monia aimed her star at Chester and shot it, but instead of a wind strong enough to pierce her armor like before, a moderately pleasant wind blew.
“I see. If I can find even one, I might be able to use it.”
“I plan to go to the ship when Rex wakes up. I saw a wrecked ship at the end of that beach. Judging by the shape, it was the same boat we stowed away in.”
“Any survivors? Is there anyone else besides us?”
“Don’t you know? We went into the box and tied ourselves up with ropes so that we wouldn’t fall apart, so we were able to stay together alive like this, but I don’t know if the other crew members did the same.”
“I don’t think it would be strange if there were more than one survivor.”
“It wouldn’t be strange if no one else was there.”
At Monia’s words, Chester nodded her head in agreement with him.
Chester examines the shape of the broken stone and then reshapes it.
Actually, with Anubis, it’s not difficult to cut down trees, but if you’re going to do the work, it’s better to do it with a group rather than alone.
In addition, there could be an occasion where you need to use Anubis and cut down trees for other things at the same time, so it was right to make a basic tool like a stone ax for that purpose.
After making a simple stone axe, Chester and Monia, who ate the grilled snakes, leaving Senna, Rex, and Ant share, wanted to start hunting in earnest.
First of all, they untie some of the ropes tied to each other to make a thin and long rope, and then use it to make a sledgehammer.
“Monia. Have you been practicing the catapult?”
“Yes. But I don’t know if it will work.”
“Really? Should I still make a ball with it?”
After making a catapult, I picked up the rope and stones left over, made a bola, moved Rex to a shaded spot, and went hunting.
“But why doesn’t Rex wake up?”
Monia looks on worriedly as the strong Rex doesn’t get up too much, but Chester doesn’t care.
“He is sleeping.”
“Huh?”
Chester looked in the direction of the sea.
“Rex drove us through a typhoon to this island. Look.”
Chester showed me where I was tied up with the rope.
“Except for the bruises from pulling a little too hard, not a single limb was broken. It wouldn’t be like this if you were swept away by a typhoon and swung by waves.”
Someone protected it. And that someone is probably Rex. After being thrown from a boat into the sea, he survived a typhoon and came here by himself, protecting three people and one who had fainted from the shock.
“So let’s leave it to sleep.”
“…… Yes. Rex, thank you.”
After thanking Rex, Chester and Monia went into the woods to find more game.
The forest was silent. It’s not just that it’s quiet, it’s that you can’t hear the sounds of creatures.
It was strange that the sound of living things was constantly filled everywhere like a floating island, but it was also strange that there was no sound like this.
“It must be the influence of the typhoon. The animals are hiding.”
“Huh? So? I just thought I couldn’t find my prey.”
“Yes. Monia, you didn’t do anything wrong. The situation is such that there is nothing to hold on to.”
Since wandering around the forest didn’t seem like an answer, Chester and Monia set a trap.
“Let’s check the river for fish, put some water in the water bottle and go back.”
The floating island has grown to such an extent that any tree’s roots protrude above the ground, so even if you wash your eyes and search for flat terrain, it is difficult to find it.
At least, the meadow covered with waist-high grass, which I had walked once before, would be flat.
It was difficult to walk in that meadow because the grass was too high, so it was good to say that there was no comfortable place to walk anyway.
“I mean, why did I wonder if the floating island was a demonic realm?”
“I see. Certainly, looking at the environment downstairs, it’s hard to call it a demonic realm.”
“Yes. So. But after walking around the island for a while, I understand.”
“What?”
“It’s hell out there.”
It was really comfortable to walk here, where the ground was not bent by tree roots, and the bushes were not so high that they came up to the chest, let alone the waist, and it was difficult to find simple vines, let alone forearm-thick vines.
“This island is farther to the river, but I think I used up much less energy. Aristocrats abandoned on the floating island might die after walking on the island for about an hour.”
“Could it be that weak? Aren’t nobles trained in their own stamina through social activities like dancing and duels?”
“Chester.”
Monia said seriously.
“I know because I tried it, but dancing under a chandelier and walking on a floating island are on a different level.”
Chester laughed involuntarily when his wife said that with a very stern and serious face, which is rare.
“How funny! How hard I was!”
“Yes, yes. It was very difficult. To overcome that, Janghae.”
When her Chester gave her compliments as if passing by and patted her on the shoulder, Monia, who had growled and said that her Chester didn’t understand her hardships, quickly calmed down.
“It is a river!”
When I looked at the river, there were fish, albeit a little small, and when I looked under the rocks, I saw a crayfish-like creature.
“Crayfish live there, the water is clear.”
“Are crayfish clean when they live?”
“Yes.”
“Then why were there no crayfish on the floating island?”
“I don’t know about that.”
Back at the beach, Rex was awake and scratching his stomach.
“Rex, are you awake?”
“Dad! Mom! Woke up! Are you okay?”
“Yes. We are fine How are you Rex?”
“I am full. I think I drank a lot of water while swimming.”
“Really? Are there any strange places?”
“It’s okay!”
Rex said with a smile, and Chester nodded in relief.
“So it looks like the water didn’t go wrong. Thank god. Rex. First of all, drink water. They say that drinking seawater can actually lead to dehydration.”
“Okay!”
Rex gulped down the water that Chester and Monia had brought him.
“Yes! It tastes like the water I drank in my hometown!”
“Really? It must have been due to the mixing of fragments.”
“Still, this place is a bit tasteless.”
“Whoops. The island water was very tasty.”
Monia smiled and agreed, and began roasting the fish and crayfish she had caught from the river over the bonfire.
“Catfish. Chester, how do you eat crayfish? Does the skin get crispy when you bake it?”
“Huh? No, you peel the skin and eat the flesh. I ate a lot when I was playing in the river in the past. Get out of the way, I’ll do it.”
“Then Chester, ask for crayfish. I will grill the fish!”
Monia looked at the sea while grooming the fish.
“Should I get some salt?”
“Since you don’t know how long you’ll be trapped on this island, you’d better be prepared to get some salt.”
“But this island, I looked around for a while, and there doesn’t seem to be any bamboo.”
“That’s a bit unfortunate. Rex, after eating…….”
Chester measured the time by the distance between the sun and the horizon.
“I’m going to stop by the boat over there, so let me know.”
“Is that the boat we secretly boarded?”
“Yes.”
“Oh! I wanted to see other places too! Can i see it? Can I see it?”
“Yes. You can watch as much as you like.”
“Exciting! Let’s eat quickly!”
“Wait. Let’s eat when everything is cooked.”
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After taking out her anger on the sailor’s corpse for a while, Tiara sat down in the shade of a nearby tree.
Sitting crouching in the shade of a tree, she stared blankly at the waves of the sea.
Somewhere across the sea, there must be a homeland where she lived luxuriously in her castle.
Longing for that distant land, from which she can no longer return, Tiara spent her time until night without doing anything.