17 – After the storm (4)

Chester disposed of the snake’s head and hung the carcass around his neck.

“Ugh. Why are you wearing it around your neck?”

“You can’t carry a snake around. I have to use both hands.”

There was still a lot of material to get, so Chester said simply and went back to the log he was trimming.

Monia was surprised to see Chester still moving energetically, unlike herself, who was about to collapse from exhaustion just from walking in the woods.

‘Is it because his physical strength is infinite?’

Of course not.

After coming to this uninhabited island, Chester’s momentum far exceeded Monia’s.

It was his mental strength that moved Chester’s body in the midst of a shortage of food.

The driving force that makes me move by ignoring fatigue, forgetting the hardships and looking ahead positively.

It was like that even now.

‘I want to eat a little more rice. Three fish is not enough.’

Chester wanted some bread.

Chester, who couldn’t find time to eat because of his busy butler job, hid food here and there in a small storage room where he kept supplies and ate with it.

Hard, dry bread, dry-smoked meat that can keep for a long time, cheap cheese, and some dried fruit.

A cold meal that you hurriedly pass into your stomach before cutting it with a knife and moving on to the next task.

It was a meal that was like forced to eat because I couldn’t not fill my stomach to work, but now I missed even that.

In fact, even though it may not be like it to the commoners of the capital, it was a pretty luxurious meal for Chester, a commoner from a poor village.

It was unimaginable to eat meat, cheese, and fruit every day on non-black bread.

‘Still, I lived a little richly.’

His father was a hunter, and he received various benefits because he worked to supply valuable meat and helped the village with his hunting skills whenever the village was in trouble.

For example, when the village is starving, even the village head skips over the food that is obtained and receives the supply first.

Chester spread vines on the floor and then placed a log cut to the right length on top.

One tree made two logs.

‘Is the log a bit long? No, that’s okay. I have to do this while actually matching.’

Chester dug another tree and cut it down to the proper length.

After that, two long logs and two short logs are tied together using several vines, and then one vine is tied back to the vine to hold the logs firmly in place.

Chester grabbed onto the long vine and started walking through the woods, dragging the log.

“… … wow.”

Monia, who seemed to be dying from the pain of just holding the bundle of vines and twigs that Chester passed her, looked at Chester with a surprised face.

‘What’s going on with that?’

Monia remembered Chester’s naked body.

Chester’s body was obviously very well-trained, but it wasn’t built to fight like a knight.

The body exposed in front of a swaying bonfire in rough weather with rain and wind.

During that time full of fear and confusion, Chester’s naked body was a strangely vivid memory to Monia.

A body that only looked beautiful even with Monia’s aesthetic sense, feeling the delicacy and elegance that was made to never cross the line, leaving only the necessary functions.

‘It was beautiful.’

Actually, I didn’t gain weight properly because I was eating poorly while doing hard labor as a butler, but originally, that depends on how the viewer accepts it.

“swimming… .”

“What are you doing while drooling?”

“Oh no?! I didn’t do anything!”

Monia, who was drooling in a daze concentrating on imagining Chester’s naked body, was startled and tried to steal the spittle.

Unfortunately, however, both of her hands are disabled due to the bundle of twigs she is holding.

“Chew!”

In the end, Monia swallowed the saliva that flowed outside her lips again.

Chester, who saw that, walked towards the beach again.

‘Thanks to the rain, the floor is slippery so it’s easy to move.’

Normally, it would have been quite difficult, but thanks to the rain, it was very easy to move the logs in the slippery forest here and there.

“Kyaaak!”

“this.”

Of course, it was hard for Monia to walk through the woods with her stuff full.

* * *

Arriving at the beach somehow, Chester left Monia, who was absent for a while due to personal reasons, and chose a place to build a villa alone.

Find a location where you can be safe from nature with a good view of the sea through the beach and the protection of the forest.

At the same time, it was best to have an empty lot wide enough to build a villa.

“After all, is this the best?”

The place Chester had chosen, focusing on the beach, was a bit farther back from where he had originally built his house.

Where the road leads to the forest.

With that place as the center, a villa is built as if separating the forest from the beach.

Chester, who drew an imaginary line by drawing the air with his finger, thought about what order to build the villa with the materials he had.

‘There are many trees around, but they are not as dense as in the forest. It would be easy to build a villa and build a shield.’

Create an empty space in the shield and use it as an entrance to the beach and forest.

In addition, there were trees placed in a good way to make a square frame.

‘It’s going to be a little crooked square. Are you going to lean to the right?’

Chester immediately brought a log to the tree and tied it with vines to the desired height.

After tying it up to the other side, starting with that, the logs were tied with vines and tied again to quickly make a square frame.

Next, add a frame in the shape of an X on top of it.

After making the frame, Chester went inside a bit and hit the tree again.

‘Come to think of it, I wish I had gotten the ingredients here from the beginning, right?’

Why did he suffer so much on the way back from the river?

‘Could it be Monia’s stupidity?’

Chester trembled in fear for a moment.

‘No, no way, like that. that, yes If you want to make a house in the forest, you have to get materials from the forest and move them anyway. It’s that rehearsal. yes.’

Chester shuddered in fear and eagerly denied the situation, but it was true that he had forgotten the very simple action plan of saving energy by gathering as much material as possible from the surrounding area.

“I’m home… .”

While Chester was deeply concerned about his new reflection, Monia, who returned from her ‘personal business’ near the rocks by the sea, blushed with embarrassment.

“Make a bathroom.”

“yes?”

“When making a house! Make a bathroom! please!”

“… … Where do you make them?”

When Chester asked with a puzzled face, Monia covered her face and let out an inaudible scream.

“anyway! make it!”

“… … well, okay Let’s make it, make it.”

Chester had a strong idea of whether he needed to care about physiological shame, but Monia couldn’t help but care.

No matter how accustomed she became to the uninhabited island and the wildness, she was the daughter of a ducal family who had grown up in civilization.

The dress she was wearing and the necklace she was wearing around her neck proved that.

‘But even if I were to make a toilet, how should I make it?’

Considering safety, you can’t make it far from home.

However, if you make it close to your house and smell it, animals may come to you, so you have to move it farther away to deal with it in the end.

While he was thinking, Chester, who had cut enough wood, approached the wreckage of the house.

“I cut all the vines.”

Monia, who had been ordered to work in advance, smiled and waved a stone knife as Chester approached, and Chester snatched the knife from Monia’s dangerously waving stone knife, then pulled a log out of the wreckage of the house.

A log that Chester pulled out of the rubble of a house on a fan log.

Combining the two into a floor of a satisfactory width, Chester placed the logs one by one on the frame of the cottage and tied them together with vines.

“Okay, finish the floor.”

“Oh oh! Can I go up?!”

“Of course not. Climb up and jump.”

“Wow!”

Monia smiled brightly, climbed onto the floor of the villa, and started jumping on top of it.

“… … .”

Chester looked at the stable floor, Monia running excitedly, and her sternly swaying body.

“You know you’re not wearing underwear, right?”

“Hikaak?!”

Surprised by Chester’s sudden words, Monia sat down on the spot with her hands pressed down on her skirt.

Then, crying, I looked at Chester.

“I didn’t see it, don’t worry.”

“Gee, really?”

“yes. really.”

“All right, I’m glad.”

Monia was sincerely relieved.

“Because I’m so charming that you’ll turn into a beast if you show a gap!”

“Where did you learn those words?”

“From a book my friend at the academy was reading!”

“… … .”

As the daughter of a duke, I wondered where Monia, who was raised only as the fiancée of a prince, had a bad reputation, but it seems that it was at the academy.

‘This is why I have to make good friends.’

“what! At that level, you’ll turn into a beast even if you don’t show any gaps!”

“Nothing like that.”

“Are you insulting me for my lack of charm now?! profit! Let’s see!”

“What do you want to see?”

said Chester as he brought the materials and framed the roof.

“Come and help with the roofing.”

“Ah, yes.”

“Now, here it is… … .”

“Yes Yes.”

“When I finish making this, I will tie it to a tree to secure it.”

“I know.”

Chester teaches, Monia learns.

Monia helps with simple tasks that can be helped even without learning, while Chester quickly finishes difficult tasks.

As a result of the two of them sharing the work, the villa was completed by the time the sun went down and some time had passed.

There was only a roof and floor without a shield as yet planned, but with earth covered in the middle of the floor and a bonfire lit, the empty villa instantly became comfortable.

“Somehow I finished it today.”

“Iknow, right.”

“… … OK, it’s all baked. Here, try it.”

“Ugh! Pears, snakes.”

That night, Monia ate a mysterious food called snake meat for the first time in her life.

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