Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

63 – Ant Wolf Zone (2)

Potatoes, peppers.

Some fruits I’ve never seen before.

A strange thing appeared in front of Chester and Monia who were asking for so many things.

“What is this?”

“fruit? Are you?”

“Well… .”

It was a strangely shaped tree with a fruit attached to the end of a single plant that rose from the ground.

The hanging fruits were spiky, and on top of them, spiky grass grew.

“What fruit is it?”

“Can I eat it?”

“It’s a fruit, so if you’re careful with the seeds… .”

what the hell is this

Chester and Monia stared at the strange fruit for a long time, and decided that it was fruit anyway, so let’s try it.

Poke the bottom of the fruit with a claw knife to remove it, then put it in the basket.

And after removing all the sharp parts on the outside, the yellow flesh was revealed.

“Oh, it’s yellow.”

“It looks like it has a lot of juice.”

“like that. It smells good.”

Chester cut off some of the flesh with a claw knife and shared it with Monia.

“Five.”

“Wow.”

It’s refreshing.

On this floating island, where there are many relatively sweet fruits, the fresh taste that is difficult to feel flowed into the throat along with the overflowing fruit juice.

“Good. Is not it?”

“Yes! it is delicious!”

A different taste is always welcome.

The two happily ate the mysterious fruit and continued walking.

The territory of the ant wolf was wider than expected.

In addition, just as the vegetation changes when you cross a river, the vegetation in the area around Chester and Monia’s house is quite different.

First of all, snakes are hard to see.

Instead, giant spiders are often seen.

And the fruits have become a little more colorful, and the spices have decreased a little instead.

However, there are many plants that can be used as condiments. Of course, there was even pepper, though in a small amount.

“Pepper!”

“Is this pepper?”

“Yes! I was curious about the pepper, so I wanted to see it! So I’ve seen it myself!”

Monia, who found the pepper, was literally blinded.

Anyone looking at it would have thought they had found honey.

The peppers they found were raw, not dry, so they were clustered like grapes, but Monia rolled her eyes and tried to take all the peppers.

Although Chester dried it.

It was not right to ignorantly collect and dry the seeds, unless it was known whether they could grow peppers or chilies well.

“If I leave it alone, will it spread again on its own?”

“yes. did you say that before? The fruit is not poisonous because animals have to eat it and spread the seeds.”

“Yes.”

“Everything like peppers and peppers will spread and grow on their own in their own way.”

“How amazing.”

Monia looked at the surrounding plants with new eyes.

“Well, it’s not just dependent on other creatures.”

“of course?”

“Dandelion seeds are light, so when the wind blows, they fly away and spread on their own. In some flowers, the bud containing the seeds bursts and spreads the seeds everywhere with that power.”

“Oh oh.”

Monia listened to Chester’s story with her eyes shining like a child listening to a mysterious old story.

As if he wanted to listen closer, he sneaked close to Chester and listened to them as they walked side by side.

“Is this story interesting?”

“Ah, that… ! Yes. Is that something I didn’t know about? How amazing.”

Feeling that Monia’s behavior was somehow awkward, Chester narrowed his eyes and looked at Monia.

Monia was in no mood to feel Chester’s gaze.

‘Looking at it this way, Chester doesn’t have a bad face. body… what.’

His broad shoulders were different from those of the aristocratic children who only learned swordsmanship through etiquette.

A thick neck or raised trapezius muscles.

The curvature of the pectoral muscles and the shape of the abdominal muscles that can be seen sparsely under the vest worn.

‘I don’t think I’ve seen anything like that before.’

The vest, which originally fit the body, became smaller than the body, and the shape of the muscles stood out.

‘Did my body get bigger?’

Monia’s idea was correct.

You don’t have to eat properly like when you were a butler, and you don’t have to starve because you don’t have enough to eat like you did when you first arrived on the floating island.

So, Chester’s body was growing as his body was filled with insufficient meals, contrary to Monia’s body, which became slimmer due to the disappearance of tea time and daily course meals.

Compared to Chester now, his old body was nothing but bones.

‘I didn’t know because I saw it every day… .’

As the lack of nutrients was eliminated, the body grew, and as the amount of exercise was met, the height that had not yet grown up also grew.

Feeling Chester’s size growing, Monia recalled that she had been snuggled into his arms.

“Ugh.”

“what’s the matter?”

“Oh, no clothes! It’s nothing!”

“yes?”

Monia rolled her eyes eagerly to divert Chester’s nerves, scanning the surroundings.

“Oh, over there!”

And when he saw something strange, he pointed there.

“Let’s go over there! I can see something!”

“yes? yes?”

When Chester couldn’t see anything from the angle he was standing in because of the trees, he leaned over to Monia and looked where she pointed.

And, the moment he saw something golden shaking the sky, Chester opened his eyes wide in surprise.

“Five.”

Then he laughed and patted Monia’s head.

“good job.”

“Yes?”

Unaware of the situation, Monia was embarrassed to see Chester suddenly praising her.

* * *

Chester and Monia looked at the grain in front of them.

“Is this flour?”

“Um… Well.”

“If it’s grain, isn’t it flour?”

“No, there are grains that grow in the wild other than flour.”

“Hey.”

At least it was clear that what was in front of me was not flour.

It was very different in shape from the flour Chester knew.

“Well, grain is still grain.”

Chester brought one of the flat plates he had made for cooking.

“First of all, let’s shake off the grains by hitting this with a branch.”

“Yes Yes.”

“Strike lightly so that the grains don’t disappear.”

“Yes.”

Chester and Monia put the grain in a dish and began to beat it carefully with a stick to shake off the grain.

It took quite a bit of time as I worked very carefully and carefully to avoid losing any grains.

“Whoa.”

After barely shaking off all the kernels, Chester put the dish over the fire to separate the kernels from the shells.

While frying the grains, stir them with a bamboo spatula to separate the grains from the shells.

After the grains were all roasted, Chester fetched water and poured it into a plate.

“The grain will absorb the water and sink. So, you just need to get the skin that comes out like this.”

“Yes.”

“Let’s take out the skin and fry it again.”

“Yes? Where are you going to use it?”

“I’m going to brew it with tea.”

Thinking that the peel might have some flavor or nutrients, Chester decided to make the peel into tea.

Carefully remove the skins and put them in another dish, drain the water and start toasting the grains again.

The grains were roasted to some extent to blow off moisture, and then the skin was roasted in the same way to remove moisture.

Chester stored the roasted kernels and roasted skins in separate bamboo casks.

“Whoa.”

“How do you do this roast?”

“It should be ground into powder.”

“Powder.”

“yes.”

For this occasion, Chester had specially brought a clean stone slate that had never been used.

It was a stone plate with a slight concave in the middle, so I put roasted grains in the middle and started to grind it by rubbing it with another stone.

“If you do this, won’t stone dust get inside?”

“I have to bear it.”

“Eek.”

The grain is ground by hitting it with a stone, and ground by rubbing stones against each other, grinding again, and grinding again.

I was afraid that the grains that had turned into powder would be blown away by the wind, so I closed all the windows and carefully ground the grains, relying only on the light of the campfire.

As the grains were carefully ground, the white powder accumulated in the concave part of the stone plate before I knew it.

“Oh oh. Is this flour?”

“yes. I don’t know if that’s wheat.”

“Are you making bread with this?”

“Bread… .”

“why?”

“You mean there aren’t enough ingredients to make bread.”

“Yes?”

“yes.”

Yeast is needed to make bread rise.

“Yeast?”

“yes.”

“Then let’s make it! leaven!”

“But I don’t know how to make yeast.”

A feeling of betrayal begins to fill Monia’s face.

“What do you know… !”

“Do you think I know everything in the world?”

“bread… ! When I said I could eat it! Cake… … !!”

Chester avoided Monia’s gaze.

Monia clung to Chester and shook his body wildly.

“Are you cheating on me? How could that be! betrayer! worst! A bastard like Jordi!”

“You speak harshly. No, even if it’s not bread, you can make something else!”

“What is that!”

“Pie or something!”

tall.

At the word pie, Monia’s movements stopped.

“… … Try it.”

“yes?”

“Right Now! in front of me! Try making it! Otherwise, I won’t believe it!!”

“No, ha… . okay okay.”

Chester poured water into the piled grain flour and began to knead.

Since the amount of grain flour was small, I did not knead the dough with my whole hand, but just kneaded and kneaded it with my fingers.

As he kneaded it with his fingers, the flour turned into a white ball, and Chester pounded and pressed the dough with his palms to flatten it.

“Oh oh. It’s like playing with mud.”

“What, similar? Mud doesn’t clump together like this.”

yes.

I was quite familiar with this work as I poured water into the soil to make mud.

Anyway, after raising the edge of the flattened dough and making it into a bowl shape, add the salted candy fruit made by Monia.

“Oh, it smells like pie!”

“yes?”

“Yes! Ehehehehe, it’s a wave! pie!”

Monia, who likes Monia, laughing all the time as if she felt betrayed.

Chester finished by sprinkling a thin layer of honey on top of the candy berries piled inside the dough, then left the house and headed for the kiln.

Monia followed suit too.

The two put the barely-made pie into the clay pot and started a fire.

Then, while quietly waiting for the pie to be baked, the two chatted.