Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

Chapter 61

61 – Ant Wolf (7)

After catching the antwolves, Chester washed his wounds with the clean water left in the bucket and headed for the river.

“Can’t we handle it at home?”

“What if the smell of a corpse lingers in the house and animals come?”

“But you are tired.”

“Still, I have to do my work and rest.”

Immediately after arriving at the river, the two began processing the game they had caught.

First and foremost, the simplest rodents.

After making a small cut in the hide in the middle of the rodent’s body, insert your finger there and pull it left and right to peel off the skin.

After processing the entrails and heads, they put them in baskets, and the meat is skewered with twigs.

“Let’s just roast the rodents.”

“Yes!”

Monia also diligently groomed the animals next to Chester.

After cutting the throat, hang it on a tree branch near the river to draw blood.

When Chester and Monia drew blood, they often hung animals on this branch, so the branch that was high at first gradually bent and came down to a convenient position for hanging.

After the blood is drained, the skin and intestines are processed next.

At first, she couldn’t even cut a piece of meat because she was disgusted, and in the case of internal organs, Monia hated it to the point of vomiting as soon as she saw it, but now she does it.

However, both Chester and Monia were not as lively as usual.

It was as if he was forcibly leading his tired body and moving mechanically.

In addition, there were so many prey, including ant wolves, that it took a long time to process.

“Are you done processing?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, let’s go.”

The two went back home carrying the clean meat on their backs.

“Let’s flesh out the big beasts and smoke them, and let’s have the little ones for today’s meal.”

“like.”

“I’m tired, so eat some honey.”

“like!! honey! Honey after a long time!!”

By the way, Chester usually hid the honey with a heavy object to prevent Monia from eating it.

Because of this, Monia knows where the honey is, but there is no way to physically take it out, so the nightly ‘Operation to eat honey without Chester’s knowledge’ has repeatedly failed.

Monia said she would save honey.

But I didn’t say I wouldn’t eat it!

‘I wonder if it’s been several days since I haven’t eaten honey yet.’

At first, she taught Monia various things and gave her honey when she achieved results, but that also decreased and the opportunity for Monia to eat honey only decreased.

‘Bad Chester!’

But I can’t believe the opportunity to eat honey comes after such hardships!

‘To say it’s bad is a bit harsh!’

Excited at the thought of eating honey, Monia forgot her fatigue and arrived at the house with lively steps.

“Come on, get ready!”

“yes.”

Chester and Monia threaded the meat on sticks and put them in the smoking kiln.

After the days got cooler and the rain stopped, Chester built a separate smoking kiln for mass smoking.

A cylindrical stone tower that is open from the bottom to the top without a shield.

In the process of applying mud to the stone pagoda and hardening it, several grooves were made to hang branches, so you can hang the branches with meat in the grooves.

Then, after covering the top with a wide stone, put firewood in the bottom entrance and light a fire to make smoke.

It is smoked comfortably without the need to suffer while smoking hard on a small bonfire.

After confirming that the smoke was rising properly, Chester came out from under the eaves of the kiln.

After experiencing the mud of the kiln being swept away by rain the other day, I quickly installed a large tent in the place where the kiln is located and constructed a drainage system to prevent future rain damage.

Of course, this is an emergency prescription, and I intend to make a proper one later.

‘Before that, I have to be able to afford it.’

The palanquin is a later task, and now I am anxious about the winter that may come.

Monia was at home finishing cooking when Chester lit the smoker and came up.

“Ah, are you here?”

“yes.”

“Now we just need to bake!”

Monia eagerly showed Chester the dish she made.

Plain rodent meat strung on a tree branch.

But inside it was different.

The stuffing made by slicing and mixing the vegetables and fruits that Monia chose was put inside the rodent meat, and then the rodent was wrapped tightly with water-soaked string to prevent the stuffing from escaping.

The reason I watered the string was to keep it from burning.

Chester and Monia started roasting rodent meat over an open fire.

Shortly after being grilled, the rodent meat began to ooze grease, and the inside that Monia had put in absorbed the grease and exploded with aroma as it was roasted with heat.

“Five.”

“how is it?”

“Good.”

Nice smell of grilled meat and sweet fruity scent.

And to get rid of the burden of the heavy fragrance, the faint smell of spices.

“I imitated the dishes I had eaten before. Do you know dumplings?”

“yes. I’ve seen you eat You mean that white and strange thing?”

“Yes. It is made by wrapping a filling made of various ingredients with a thin film made of flour… … .”

Monia chattered about the dumplings she had eaten while grilling the rodent meat.

“Anyway, so! The name of this dish!”

“I’ll make it long again.”

“Ugh. … … It’s called mouse dumplings, well.”

Chester looked at the rodent meat.

‘It’s a mouse.’

It looks very different from a mouse.

“What was your original name?”

“Five kinds of fruit, including candy fruit, and three kinds of spices have a filling made with a mixture… .”

“Right. That’s a good name.”

“You’re not listening! How hard I struggled to find the right ratio of fruits and spices!”

After a while, the two of them removed the strings from the baked mouse dumplings and started eating.

Monia even carefully applied all the bones, so I didn’t have to bother avoiding the bones, I just had to eat them.

“Five.”

“how is it? how is it?”

“… … yes. Honestly, this is pretty tasty.”

“Wow!”

Finally! finally!

A delicious sound came out of Chester’s mouth!

‘With that mouth like a beggar who eats everything he can! I finally said it was delicious!’

I won! Chester has finally succumbed to this Monia’s cooking!

“hehehe.”

Monia smirked at Chester eating the mouse dumplings.

“Would you like more? There are more!”

“Oh, I guess.”

There were quite a few rodents caught, and Monia turned them all into mouse dumplings.

Thanks to this, the two of them were able to eat enough to satisfy their tired bodies.

* * *

“… … .”

The next day, Monia came to the floating island and woke up for the first time before Chester.

“Chester?”

Monia cautiously approached the still-sleeping Chester.

After yesterday’s meal, Chester fell asleep as if he were dead, unable to overcome the overwhelming fatigue.

Since I fell asleep much earlier than usual, Monia did all the smoke work and the rest of the clean-up.

“Are you still sleeping?”

Monia cautiously approached Chester’s side and saw Chester sleeping.

This was the second time Monia saw Chester asleep, as she always went to bed later and woke up earlier than Monia.

The first is the first day abandoned on a floating island.

And this is the second time.

“Really, it’s hard to see a sleeping face.”

Monia spoke in a whisper, fearing that the tired Chester might wake up.

Chester’s sleep was different than usual.

Usually, Chester has sharp eyes, and while keeping his mouth firmly shut, he is always alert to his surroundings.

However, when he is sleeping, his sharp face softens and his impression changes a lot.

“… … .”

Seeing Chester sleeping while snoring, Monia carefully removed the hair covering Chester’s eyes.

“Will you make a face like this often when you leave the island?”

Is it because it is a floating island that the sun is standing like that?

Will people change if they leave the island?

or not… … .

Monia couldn’t remember what Chester looked like when she was a butler.

Because I wasn’t interested.

That’s why, even though Chester had been by her side for that long time, it was only after she was abandoned on the floating island that Monia had proper memories with Chester.

‘It’s a bit unfortunate.’

I was curious about Chester in the days when he was in the kingdom, not on an island.

“You know, thank you very much.”

Originally, Chester was destined to die as a punishment like the rest of Monia’s entourage.

However, Jordi considered Monia and Chester to be the main culprits of Tiara’s bullying, and forcibly tied them together and abandoned them on a floating island.

To suffer and die.

“If it weren’t for you, I would really be dead.”

I was able to live because of Chester.

From the day he was abandoned on the floating island until now, he wouldn’t have been able to survive a single day without Chester.

“Thank you very much.”

Monia continued to thank her and looked at Chester’s sleeping face.

Yesterday, I thought of Chester, who struggled to fight the ant wolf.

A torn wound on the shoulder.

Wounds on the elbow.

Bruises all over the body.

Every time I saw it, it was hard to say anything.

And, every time I saw Chester’s body with those scars, I felt a little strange.