279 – Someone who knows Monia (2)
After talking with Monia to relieve her worries about her body, Chester feels more at ease, I was able to refine my technique.
“Hmm.”
And Chester was trying to make a pedestal to organize these tools, such as a stone axe, that he had made while living on the island.
Measuring the length between the two trees growing at a suitable distance, Chester took a thick board used in the boat, cut a groove at the opposite side of the two trees at a good height with a knife, and cut the groove with an axe.
After making a groove and digging it a little deeper, I put a plank between the trees and then hammered and pressed it into the groove.
After checking to see if the plank was firmly fixed between the grooves, I hung the stone ax I was holding on top of the board.
“…… Hmm.”
Looking at the rebuilt pedestal, Chester thought, “Hmm,” And tapped the stone ax with his finger.
The stone ax resting on the plank shakes uneasily. It’s heavy, so there’s nothing to do with it falling off, but it would be a loss if you accidentally touched it and accidentally hit it on the top of your foot.
“Um.”
Chester started digging the board with his knife. He dug a plank to make a groove for the ax handle to fit into. Chester, who inserted a stone ax into the groove and properly fixed it, touched the stone ax caught in the groove.
“Will it take a while?”
It’s not exactly the right size, but it was done by eye, so the stone ax seems to get caught in the groove a little. Every time I put it in and take it out, I feel a tingling sensation.
“Well, this should be enough.”
It’s better than being loose and the ax falling off.
Chester, who put the ax and miscellaneous items on the pedestal, made two more pedestals to organize everything.
After organizing my things, I headed to the beach to look at the dried fish I was going to eat today.
At the beach, Senna was looking out over the sea through her telescope.
Chester asked while examining the condition of the dried fish on the net erected next to Senna.
“What do you see?”
“Huh? Yes.”
It’s a beach where you wouldn’t normally see anything, and Chester was just asking for morning greetings, but… Surprisingly, a different answer came back from Senna.
“Huh? Really?”
Chester took out her telescope and looked in the direction Senna was looking.
“I see a boat. I didn’t see it until a little while ago. Chester, isn’t that a sail up there?”
“…… Yes. It looks like a sail to my eyes too. Monia! Rex! Ant!”
Chester immediately called his family.
“It’s a ship! A ship is coming! Bring something to burn! With things full of water! As many as possible! You have to smoke!”
The moment they heard Chester’s words, everyone, starting with Monia, who was preparing breakfast, ran to the forest and started diligently raking grass.
Chester quickly built a large bonfire and burned the wet grass his family had gathered to create a thick, thick smoke that was blown high into the sky.
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“Smoke! I see smoke!”
“Oh yeah?”
Hearing the cries of his men watching from the mast, the captain, who was out on deck and watching the sea, went into his cabin and spoke to his employers.
“They say they found an island!”
Hearing that he had found the island, Rowan, who was lying down and resting after exercising, opened his eyes.
“Finally?”
Tongdan I had traveled here and there by river on the continent, but living on a boat that was always rocking on such a huge sea was a terrible thing.
With a happy smile at the fact that he was finally able to get off the ground, Rowan looked at his collaborator who shared a cabin with him, and spoke to Shima, the representative of the nobleman, who was writing a logbook as a hobby because he had nothing to do.
“Mr. Shima. What should I do when I go?”
We became quite close to each other, and now we have become a casual relationship where we don’t use honorifics.
“If smoke is a target, kill it… Are you talking about a case where it isn’t?”
“Yes.”
“Wouldn’t it be neat to kill him though?”
“Isn’t it a bit awkward to kill someone you have nothing to do with?”
At Rorwan’s words, Shima nodded that it might be so, and then she stood up, saying that she would decide whether or not to kill her after seeing her opponent.
“You’re going to go that far?”
An agent of nobility. Since they are in an absolute power relationship, Shima is in a position where she can eat well without doing anything.
But when he said that he would go ahead and look at people and judge them, Rowan licked his lips, wondering if he should have just said he would kill them.
“No, I think I’m going to die of boredom because I’m in my room. People can’t use it because they can’t do it. I have to go out and work and live.”
“If you think about it like that, wouldn’t most of the nobles become bad people? Can I make a statement like that?”
Seema smiled at Rorowan’s words.
“If you look at the amount of work that nobles actually do, you wouldn’t say that? There are many stupid nobles who just play and eat, but the workload and difficulty of proper nobles is beyond imagination. If you are a normal person, you will be knocked out in one day.”
While talking, Shima went out onto the deck, was greeted by the crew, headed to the front, and was introduced to the location of the island by the captain who had been waiting for him beforehand.
“Oh, that definitely stands out. How do you make smoke like that? Are you burning down a house?”
“If you burn a lot of wet grass or twigs that cannot be used as firewood, it will smoke like that.”
Rowan said as he watched the smoke rise.
“That means the smoker knew how to signal like that, and smoked after seeing our boat. There’s no need to raise the smoke like that for no reason.”
“Isn’t it possible to burn without thinking?”
“A fool like that wouldn’t survive on the island for more than half a year. It’s better to see someone with an idea. Telescope.”
Shima held out his hand, and the captain put his telescope into Shima’s hand.
“Where should I look… …. As expected, it is too far away to be seen!”
“Of course not. The other side must have smoked just by looking at the shape of the ship.”
“I guess so. Do you have a telescope?”
A telescope is not simply made of glass, it is an expensive item made by crafting the glass into a lens. An item that is rare to have unless you are a high-ranking person on a ship, such as a captain or a navigator.
Why is it that even after the telescope was invented, many ships still use it as the eyes of the ship, putting sailors with good eyesight on the mast instead of using telescopes? That’s because telescopes are expensive.
It’s burdensome to buy, and I can’t afford it when it’s broken after I buy it. Even a slight crack in the glass would make me really sad.
In that sense, the telescope is also used as ‘a certain signal’.
A being with a huge amount of money who can readily buy a telescope and give it to a ship. In other words, there are cases where a telescope is given to the captain in the sense that the ship is sponsored by a nobleman.
Of course, in that case, the telescope is not a simple function, but a luxury item among luxury items decorated with gold and jewels and paying attention to the aesthetic part.
In other words, on this sea, the telescope is used as a warning signal to the pirates to think before they touch it, as this is a ship sponsored by nobles.
“There must be a telescope. It’s a ship sponsored by nobles.”
“Yes, I guess. There must have been, but I just thought it was a good thing that the telescope wasn’t damaged in that typhoon.”
Even while talking, the distance between the island and the ship was steadily narrowing.
“Captain. If we keep going like this, when will we reach the island?”
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“Today, the wind is weak, so the speed is not good. So I guess it should be around noon.”
“Until you are at a distance where you can identify people on the island?”
“That, I don’t know. If there are no obstructions on the island, it will be identifiable at any moment.”
“I see. Shall we wait here for a while? Let’s see the faces of the lucky ones who miraculously survived.”
“Could it be one person?”
“Then I just have to go back and correct it and say I’m lucky.”
Shima folded the telescope and returned it to the captain. The captain carefully returned the telescope and placed it in a soft fur pouch embroidered with luxurious gold thread.
“It’s been a while since I came out, so why don’t I just go in, hey, Captain.”
“Yes.”
“Do you have anything interesting to say?”
“Yes?”
When Shima began teasing her captain by forcing her to tell her funny stories, Rowan shook her head.
No matter how hard the captain tries to talk funny things, it won’t help. Shima’s taste for gags is… Because it was a little too much
Shima’s jokes were only good enough for her to listen to while drunk at a drinking party.
While Shima was harassing her captain, the ship and the island gradually got closer, and when she reached the distance where she could distinguish people’s faces, Shima looked at the people on the island with her telescope.
“Hmm. Whoa. A very strong looking man. Are you very tall? …… What kind of creature is that?”
“Why?”
“Look at you.”
When Rowan looked at the island instead of Shima, he realized what Shima was confused about.
“Are there no monkeys where you live?”
“A monkey? What is that. No, how can an animal subject resemble a human? Are you insulting God? … !”
Shocked by some blasphemous creature, Shima shuddered and then took the telescope back and looked at the others.
“Gray hair is unusual…… ?”
Seeing Sena and then Monia, Shima stopped her.
“Huh?”
Then, with an expression of seeing something completely unbelievable, with a face more shocked than when he saw Rex, he took his eyes off the telescope and rubbed his eyes to see if he was seeing something wrong.
Looking through the telescope again, Shima laughed when she realized that she was not mistaken.
“Huh, heh heh heh. Heh heh heh heh. …… Is it a joke of fate? Why are you there?”
There is no way to be mistaken.
That dark black hair and distinctive purple eyes. Even though she must have suffered outside for a long time, her skin is as white as a doll.
It is all harmonious and beautiful as a goddess of beauty would be jealous, the first love of all the nobles who knew her in her country, and at the same time the nobles of other countries who happened to see her while visiting her country. A demonic woman who even captivated his heart.
Shima also knew her very well. As his master admired her beauty, she dared to take her far steps, going back and forth from country to country, to see her.
“All!”
But more important than her beauty is the blood that runs inside her.
“Stow your weapon! Hey! There you, you, you! You! There! All the ugly guys are in! Deck! Tidy up the deck! Why is it so dirty here! Come on, clean up, come on!”
“Yes? Oh, I cleaned it this morning.”
“If you want to do it, do it! Hurry! No mistakes at all!”
The daughter of the Duke of Monia.
She, whom everyone thought was dead and grieved at the loss of her beauty, appeared on this uninhabited island that had nothing to do with the floating island.