chapter 11
11 – rainy day (3)
Chester tossed some wet rocks into the fire, then added wood to light the fire.
‘I hope the stone doesn’t break.’
After checking the bonfire, Chester looked at Monia again.
She curled up in front of the campfire and shivered.
Chester, as well as all commoners in the world, were accustomed to the cold.
Commoners’ winters are cold and harsh.
Food is not available, and the animals are not active, so there is no food available.
You have to rely on the hard, tasteless preserves you’ve made during the fall.
and water.
If there is a river nearby, it’s fine, but if there isn’t, you have to melt snow to make it alive.
But even that is not easy.
Fire is needed to melt the snow, and firewood is not cheap.
They save firewood and heat it to overcome the cold and make water, but if they run out of firewood, they have to risk their lives to go into the harsh winter mountains to get firewood.
Mountains in winter are dangerous.
The biggest problem is that the shape of the road is unknown.
When the snow accumulates thickly, there are cases where a cliff with nothing becomes a road.
Many people die by stepping on a cliff covered with snow while walking without thinking.
In addition, as the snow melts and freezes in the early days when it just snowed, the ground turns into an ice sheet and becomes slippery.
Even if it’s not that, it’s hard to walk while hurting your eyes.
It consumes more stamina than you think, and you sweat.
As the shed sweat evaporates, heat is taken away from the body, and the lost stamina is deprived of the strength to overcome the cold and snow.
Climbing the mountain behind the village, a person freezes to death.
So, save firewood and write.
Even if it’s cold, I just hold on and hold on, and if it really doesn’t work, I cut firewood.
Of course, families with young children often lose them in the cold of winter.
It hurts my heart, but it can’t be helped.
Having spent such a harsh and harsh winter, commoners are hardened against the cold.
resistant to cold
But nobles are different.
When winter comes, they spend leisurely time in a warm room, lighting a fire all the time.
At least male aristocrats go out hunting while enjoying the cold and snow, which are the “luxuries” of winter, but female aristocrats do not have such a thing.
That is why nobles’ bodies are not accustomed to the cold.
If you are a noble like Monia, there is a high probability that you have never felt the sensation of being cold in your life.
“Uh, uh… !”
Chester curled up as much as he could and watched the trembling Monia, then approached her.
“Take off your clothes.”
“Black!”
“If you don’t take it off, you die.”
“… … Yes Yes.”
In front of the terrible cold, ’embarrassment’ flew out of Monia’s head.
“No, how do you take this off?!”
If there was a problem, it was that the way to put on and take off Monia’s dress was no joke.
“Mo, I don’t know… .”
Of course, Monia, who always left the dressing to the maid, did not know how to put on and take off her own dress.
“… … How are you doing here? I’m sorry, can you tear it up a bit?”
Monia nodded urgently, and Chester took Monia off by ripping the dress with a stone knife as a rule of thumb.
When the wet dress disappears, the cold goes away in an instant.
Of course, it was only for a short while as the body temperature that had been taken away by the dress stopped, and soon after, the cold came again as we were exposed to the rain and wind naked.
Chester took off all of Monia’s underwear and sat in front of the campfire, holding her wet body tightly.
“Huh, huh… .”
Monia, who was shivering, felt Chester’s body warming her body when he touched it.
Conversely, Chester was shocked as if he had drowned in a cold lake as his body temperature was taken away by Monia in an instant.
“No, why do you hold out until this happens!”
“Mi, I’m sorry… .”
When Chester shouted, Monia apologized honestly.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry… … .”
‘This half tasted gone.’
Chester looked at Monia, who continued to apologize, and started to stir the campfire with a branch.
I went into the fire a little bit, took out the heated stone, and held it in my hand to see if it would burn me if it came into contact with my skin.
‘great.’
Fortunately, the stone was wet, so it didn’t get that hot.
Chester picked up a stone and placed it in Monia’s armpit.
I put a stone on the opposite armpit as well, and put the remaining stone on the nape of Monia’s neck, hugging her tightly.
If you leave it like this, the blood in the large blood vessels in the neck and armpits will be warmed up by the heat of the stone, and it will go around Monia’s whole body and raise her body temperature a little.
Once he finished the treatment he knew, Chester threw additional rocks into the bonfire and stroked Monia’s body everywhere.
Chester’s palm rubs against Monia’s skin, generating heat.
“Sigh… Sigh… .”
Monia, who kept apologizing that she was sorry, kept her mouth shut and breathed quietly as her body warmed up little by little.
At the same time, he moves his body and tries to dig into Chester’s arms even a little.
Chester grabbed Monia’s hair and squeezed out as much water as possible while continuing to massage her hands and feet and caress her body.
The wind was getting stronger.
There was no sign that the rain would end.
Rather, the drifting island was making its way to more and more windy places.
* * *
The world shone white.
“Eww?!”
When Chester opened his eyes in surprise at the white light penetrating his eyelids, a strong resounding sound ran through the sky.
“… … It was lightning.”
‘this. When did you fall asleep?’
Chester wiped the saliva from his mouth and looked at the fire.
The bonfire was slowly going out, so I urgently saved the bonfire.
“Whoa.”
Chester let out a sigh of relief and looked at the rain.
It was still raining heavily on the island.
It seemed to be much stronger than before, to the point that the house was shaking from the pouring rain.
Chester reached out with a bucket of water left over from building the wall.
The rain poured down hard enough to sting my skin, and the bucket filled with water in an instant.
It would be absurd to drink this cold water as it is, so Chester put the bucket near the fire and took a heated stone from the fire.
When a hot stone is placed in a bucket of water, the water boils in an instant and emits steam.
Chester drank cautiously, not minding the water that had been turned cloudy by the addition of stones.
“… … Is it okay to drink that?”
“yes. clean.”
Chester looked at Monia in his arms and asked.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“… … I am.”
“Well. I don’t know because the sky is dark, but I’ve been asleep for about a day.”
“… … .”
After hearing that answer, Monia looked at herself.
Monia is now stripped of her dress and her underwear, revealing her white, shining naked body alone in the dark world.
Monia’s face flushed with embarrassment, but she didn’t escape from Chester’s arms and only curled up.
Seeing Monia like that, Chester drank half of the water from the bucket and handed it to Monia.
“… … Mmm.”
At first, Monia hesitated at the sight of the muddy water, but soon closed her eyes and drank carefully.
As the hot water seeps into your cold body, it gives you a sense of relief as it melts away.
“Whoa, whoa… .”
Where did Monia’s awkwardness at first go and she drank water sips without stopping.
It was so hot I couldn’t swallow it.
“I want to drink tea. I like black tea. And sweet desserts… … .”
“Certainly, the car is good. Because you can get nutrients that you can’t easily get from things like meat.”
“It’s not like that.”
At Chester’s shocking words, Monia puffed out her cheeks and glared at Chester asking why she said that.
Then the world shone white again.
“Kyaaa!!”
Monia, startled by the light and frightened by the roar of thunder that followed, frightened and clung to Chester.
“calm down. Lightning doesn’t fall because where we are is low.”
“Gee, really?”
“yes. Lightning aims for something high and pointed.”
Chester reassured him by giving an example of what had happened in the kingdom.
“Why, on a rainy day, lightning always falls on the tip of the cathedral? Priests who pray for it as a revelation from God get electrocuted and die.”
Priests who died after being electrocuted are revered as saints, saying they were called by God.
“Yeah, it was.”
“That’s not a revelation from God, it’s simply lightning falling from high above. It often falls even in the royal castle.”
“Bird, I think. Is it, is it really safe? Phew.”
Monia let out a sigh of relief, only then realized that she was naked and clinging to Chester, and fell in surprise.
“You pervert! What are you trying to do to me!”
“This year? You saved my life, you see what I’m saying?”
“after! Isn’t it natural for a gentleman to take care of a lady!”
This attitude as soon as you know it’s safe.
Recalling the cute Monia, who had been frightened and became honest a moment ago, Chester felt a strange pity at the body temperature that had disappeared from his arms.
‘No, am I going crazy now? It’s ridiculous that Monia is cute.’
Chester remembered Monia, who had beaten and kicked her, calling her a pig for failing to produce satisfactory results even though she did her job properly.
‘Yes, Monia can’t be cute. After all, I’m crazy.’