Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

16 – After the storm (3)

“I didn’t catch even one… … .”

“It was all like that at first.”

Chester and Monia fill their stomachs with the five fish Chester caught.

Unlike before, when he had been diligently catching fish with his bare hands, Chester’s fishing skills improved significantly with the help of a harpoon.

Thanks to this, I was able to quickly catch and grill enough fish to fill my stomach.

“The fish is delicious.”

“I see.”

Monia ate the fish deliciously while crying over the fact that she hadn’t caught a single fish.

Before, I was satisfied with eating just one, but after starving because of the storm, I walked through the woods and even hunted with a harpoon, so I ate two to see if I was hungry.

While Monia ate the fish, Chester also ate the fish and watched the river.

‘The water level didn’t go down.’

If the water level of the river had gone down or if the river had dried up, I should have avoided it quickly.

That means that somewhere upstream the water is clogged up, and you don’t know when it will burst out and cause a flood.

Fortunately, despite the heavy rain that lasted for so long, the river was in good shape.

‘I’m lucky.’

After the meal, Chester brought a suitable stone and gave it to Monia.

“The most basic thing is to put a stone on your knee and hit it diagonally.”

“In an oblique line.”

“yes. Do not perceive it as breaking a stone, consider it as cutting a stone with a stone.”

Chester hit the stone a few times and chipped it off.

“Repeat until it is thick enough to use as an axe.”

“… … .”

Monia watched Chester’s hand movements and copied them.

“Ouch.”

“Watch your fingers.”

Monia did not answer and carefully looked at the stone she was going to cut.

Then I saw Chester tapping briskly on a stone.

Chester knocked on a stone and when it broke, he brushed off the broken fragments, looked at the shape of the stone, and knocked it again.

I didn’t see anything special in the process.

However, unlike Monia, who struggled, Chester broke the stone too easily.

‘Is it different because he’s a man?’

Monia gritted her teeth and began swinging the stone with strength.

While Monia struggled to flatten the stone, Chester sharpened the blade of the stone that had been shaped.

“Profit!”

“Don’t be in too much of a hurry.”

“Yeah!”

“It’s more dangerous to get hurt in a hurry.”

Chester began digging a hole for the ax blade in the thick twig he had brought as material.

After digging and trimming a hole, insert an ax blade there and tie the top and bottom with a rope to finish.

While Chester finished making a stone axe, Monia was still preoccupied with flattening the stone.

“profit! urg!”

Monia, who gritted her teeth and made a sound whenever she hit a stone.

Chester gave Monia the stone ax he had made.

“Oops! … … What is it? Didn’t I tell you to make the things I will use?”

“That’s the case, but I can’t devote time to that forever.”

Monia was a little embarrassed and accepted the stone ax that Chester had made for her.

Monia, who has always been praised and admired by others, was ashamed of not being able to do something because of her lack of ability.

So every time, without Chester’s knowledge, he made a rope, knocked on a stone, and when he failed, he hid it.

There was no point in hiding it because it was so clumsy, but Monia didn’t know that.

Chester and Monia began to roam the woods to find wood for their home.

“The best thing is to get one broken by the storm.”

“is that so?”

“You can reduce energy consumption just by picking it up, right? We need to save some energy.”

“Hey, by the way, how are you planning to build a beach house? Same as before?”

“Mmm.”

Chester recalled the arrangement of trees on the beach.

‘Just like before… It won’t work.’

At that time, Chester really made a house for himself.

But this time, since I intend to use it with Monia, I wanted to make it a little bigger and stronger if possible.

‘Wouldn’t it be stronger if I added wood in the shape of an X to the floor?’

Chester started simulating in his head how he would build the cottage.

‘I want to make a shield to block the wind in case it rains later or the wind is rough.’

Chester, who put a shield on the bottom of the square frame, contemplated where to drill the entrance.

‘Will the direction of the forest be better?’

Chester pondered, but ordered Monia to collect vines and branches.

Then Chester swung his ax at a tree of moderate thickness.

‘Oh, when we make a campfire inside, we must make sure the fire doesn’t scorch the floor. Can I just cover the campfire with earth?’

After swinging an ax along the circumference of the tree, it pushes the tree down with its legs.

The tree, which looked like it was about to break and fall, stopped falling when its top got caught on another tree.

‘this.’

Chester clicked his tongue and checked the state of the tree.

A tree that did not even budge, even if I tried to push it with my legs and push it with my body.

‘It’s a waste.’

I wanted to cut the tree to the required length, but the angle at which the tree was tilted was too high, so I couldn’t do it.

You have to stretch your arms out and swing your whole body so that you can barely reach the bottom of the tree with an axe.

‘Let’s give up.’

Chester found another tree.

“uh? Are you giving up?”

Monia, watching what Chester did, was surprised to see him give up the tree he felled so easily.

“yes.”

“Isn’t it a waste?”

“It’s a pity to fail, so it’s more a pity to waste time clinging to it. When you have to give up, don’t hesitate and know how to give up.”

Chester gave advice to Monia, settled down in front of a suitable tree, and looked at the sky first.

“… … It should be this way.”

Then, he started to strike the ax in the direction he needed to knock down the tree first.

As he shakes the tree with an axe, the rainwater that has accumulated on the tree pours down and soaks Chester.

Chester continued to hit the ax in the pouring rain.

‘Two beds. bonfire. You have to have space to put things… … .’

As Chester cut the tree, he drew the shape of the villa in his head.

And that thought went beyond a vacation home or a house to what was needed for a long-term life.

‘This storm was really dangerous. And something like that could happen suddenly. In that case, it would be better to make preserved food in advance. How did you make smoked? Couldn’t it just be grilled with smoke?’

While Chester was chopping wood like that, Monia was also doing her job.

Monia didn’t have as much strength and skill as Chester, so she mainly aimed for young trees when she hit them with an axe.

It knocks down trees that are only as thick as a few fingers overlapped with an axe.

“Eight! profit!”

Since her waist and legs are slender, Monia’s body is shaken by the weight of the ax every time she swings the axe.

“Kyaa!”

In severe cases, he rolled over and fell while swinging his ax in the air instead of a tree.

“Ouch.”

Monia was able to manage to knock down a tree through such hardships.

While Monia was doing this, Chester, who had knocked down another tree, began to straighten the fallen tree properly this time.

Hold the ax short and swing it to cut off tree branches and scrape twigs.

Next, after making a mark with the ax according to the length I thought in my head, I started to chop the tree with a vigorous swing of the ax again.

After watching Chester for a moment, Monia cut down a tree. This time, she decided to target a vine and grabbed one nearby.

“Uh, how do you do this?”

Monia first grabbed the vine and shook it vigorously.

When it seemed to have no effect, this time I grabbed hold of the vine and pulled it with my whole body.

Then, the branch on which the vine was hung swayed greatly, and raindrops that had formed or accumulated there poured rainwater.

“Hey!”

Monia, soaked in the rain, stared at herself with a devastated face for a moment, then gnashed her teeth and pulled at the vine.

‘Oh really! I do not like it! Something like a forest! It’s hard to even walk! A lot of mud!’

“Ugh!”

No matter how much Monia shook the vine, the snake resting between the vines fell right in front of Monia.

“uh?”

Monia’s body stiffened when she suddenly saw a strange creature falling from the sky.

On the other hand, the snake that had fallen to the ground and twisted its body opened its mouth wide and made a sound as it was wary of Monia, a huge creature that suddenly appeared in front of it.

“Uh, uh.”

‘What, what is it? this?’

snake.

It was the first ‘monster’ that Monia had ever seen since birth.

A mysterious monster with no arms, no legs, no hair, and a strangely long body.

In terms of volume, Monia would be well over 100 times the size of that little snake, but I couldn’t even think of such a thing.

That ‘monster’ was really strange, gross, repulsive, horrible.

Monia tried to scream, but not only her body but also her throat stiffened, so her voice couldn’t come out.

‘Why, why isn’t my body moving?! No voice! why?!’

And Monia reached a realization.

‘hot… … ! Devil! Devil! This is the devil! Am I being seduced by the devil?!’

That hideous ‘monster’ must be a demon from a storybook!

Monia’s heart is stained with despair after encountering the legendary devil.

“Oh, that’s a pretty plump snake.”

Chester, who had come close to Monia, swung a wooden stick he had made while clearing the tree and hit the snake’s head.

After tapping the snake’s head a few times, when the snake is out of its mind, gently press the head to fix it, and cut the head and body with a stone knife.

Chester lifted the headless snake’s body and looked at Monia, still frozen in a strange pose half-hanging from the vine.

“what? what’s the matter?”

“uh… it’s nothing!!”

Monia mistook the unknown animal for a devil and decided to bury the fact that she was afraid of herself forever in her heart.