Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

21 – Finding Food (4)

Until now, when Monia traveled to the floating island, she only went to certain places.

When you enter the forest from the villa, you pass by the bamboo where you used to get water.

Next, pass through a dizzying forest with too many trees, and come out to a place where the distance between the trees is wide enough to some extent.

From there, if you turn your course slightly and walk, you will get tired and you will not know how far you have walked.

Shortly after hearing the sound of the river flowing, a path rises slightly, and after climbing it, the river finally appears in front of Monia.

This was all of the forests that Monia wandered through, and all of the floating islands that Monia knew.

In fact, less than 1% of the island.

And today, Monia moved a new forest away from the place she knew for the first time.

Actually, even if I say this, Chester is also an unknown space that I have been to this morning for the first time.

“Oh, what is this?”

“yes? It’s a toxic plant, so you better not touch it.”

“Hick! poison!”

“Even if you touch it, it becomes inflamed and the skin becomes itchy and red, but sometimes the poison doesn’t work and some people die of shock.”

“Hey.”

While Monia trembled at the poisonous plant, Chester looked at other plants nearby.

‘… … The leaves are fibrous.’

When I touched it lightly and tore the leaf, it tore like a thread.

‘I can make a thin rope with this…’ … .’

If you can make a thin rope, you can make a lasso trap.

Chester packed a bunch of leaves and put them in his pocket.

“I like this plant.”

Then he pointed at another plant and cut it with a stone knife.

“What is that?”

“You can eat the flesh as long as you peel the skin off.”

After peeling, Chester chewed the plant.

Then I handed it over to Monia.

“… … .”

Monia, who was looking at the white flesh of the plant sticking out, bit into the end of the plant and gnawed at it like a rabbit eating a carrot stick.

“Oops!”

“Doesn’t this taste good too?”

“… … .”

Monia thought as she rolled the gnawed plant into her mouth.

It’s not that it tastes awful… … .

“The texture is terrible.”

“ha ha ha. Doesn’t it chew well?”

It’s not tough, but you have to chew for a long time to swallow it.

However, Chester rather liked it because it tricked his stomach into reducing his hunger.

Chester, who cut the plant flesh in half and gave half to Monia, chewed the other half in his mouth.

“Let’s keep going.”

“Yep.”

Monia, who still gnawed at the flesh of the plant with a strange expression, followed Chester.

Chester laughed at Monia.

‘Still, should I say I’m glad I ate whatever was handed to me? no From the first day I came, I would put anything I ate in my mouth.’

Fortunately, I can’t swallow and spit it out if it offends my taste even a little, but I seem to be able to eat food that doesn’t have the taste itself.

“That’s a poisonous mushroom. … … No, just don’t touch all the mushrooms. Did I tell you this last time?”

“How is it?”

Chester immediately stopped worrying about the memory of having had a similar conversation before, or maybe not.

It doesn’t make any sense to think about it anyway.

“This plant is medicine. It’s good to drink tea when you have an upset stomach. Shall I take care of it?”

“It smells strange.”

“Yeah, even if it’s tea, it will be very different from the black tea you used to drink.”

Chester put the plant with the wedge-shaped leaves in a different bag from the fibrous leaves he had just picked up.

“Don’t you put it in the basket?”

“If you put it in, it will all come out through the gap.”

“What kind of basket is that? I should have made it a little better.”

“Okay, next time you make a good one.”

“Ugh! that, that… what is that… Ooh.”

“What are you expecting?”

“ooo,

Chester giggled when Monia made a strange noise and was in trouble, but stopped when he found a suitable place just in time.

“Now, what is the most important thing when making traps?”

And began to teach about traps.

“It’s installed near the road where the beast often goes.”

Chester drew a line with his finger.

“I don’t know what it is, but this is the way some creature goes.”

“How do you know?”

“The leaves are a bit strange.”

Fallen leaves from the heavy rain cover the ground, making it difficult to see the animal’s path, but traces remain even on the freshly laid green ground.

And if it is enough to leave a mark on the newly covered ground, it means that a beast of some weight moved and left a mark.

In other words, it is a place where creatures with a lot to eat pass by.

“I don’t like building anything right on a street corner like this. It should be installed slightly away from the street corner.”

“why?”

“Because I’m wary of something I don’t know about on a familiar road.”

Chester found a suitable spot next to the trail he had found.

“Shall we go here?”

Then he picked up an ax and started chopping down a nearby tree branch.

“When making a trap, use the materials around it as much as possible.”

“Yes.”

“Why? Tell me.”

“… … I don’t know!”

“… … Think about it.”

When asked to think, Monia closed her eyes and pondered.

And after thinking about it, he gave the answer that came out.

“I don’t know!”

“first. It takes less energy to make something that is easy to find nearby.”

Chester cutting a tree branch while talking.

“second. Materials obtained nearby are permeated with the smell of that place, and can fool the sensitive noses of beasts.”

After cutting one side of the branch at an angle, make a groove on the other side.

Two other twigs were taken and similarly cut on one side, and two grooves were made there, one at the opposite end and one near the side of the cut.

“Is that a trap?”

“yes.”

A cross is made by interlocking a bar with two grooves with the grooves on the opposite side and the side cut obliquely, and then carefully set it on the ground, and a tree with one groove is inserted diagonally to form a figure 4 shape.

‘… … I wonder if this will be enough.’

Chester, who made the four-figure wooden sculpture, put it down for a while and started looking for something heavy to put on top.

“I like this.”

Finding a log of the right size, Chester took it and set up the figure-four sculpture again, carefully placing the log on top.

“Well, wouldn’t it break if I did that?”

“Now, look.”

“… … uh?”

Surprisingly, the 4-shaped sculpture, which looked so weak compared to the log, easily withstood the weight of the log.

Chester pointed to the tip of a stick protruding diagonally from the top of the figure-four sculpture on top of a log.

“These sticks bear the burden by distributing the weight through the grooves in which they hang. It’s delicately tailored, so if you touch it a little here, the sculpture will collapse right away.”

“The log bangs.”

“right.”

Chester opened a bundle of leaves, took out some of the entrails inside, and scattered them next to the figure-four sculpture.

“The moment you stick your head out to eat this, the sculpture will collapse and the log will crush the beast’s head.”

Chester covered the area with leaves, being careful not to touch the figure 4 sculpture.

And so that the smell of people would not remain in the place, Chester took Monia with him and quickly left the place.

The two decided to rest for a while, taking a seat in a place some distance away from the sunlight.

“Can we make some ropes during the break?”

“Shu, while you said you were taking a break! I’m hungry too!”

“what.”

“Besides, there is no bark!”

“I’m going to make a thin rope out of this.”

Monia’s expression turned strange as Chester held out a leaf.

“These are leaves.”

“Some plants are made of fiber. You can make all of that out of rope. It will make it as thin as thread.”

As Chester said, he broke open a leaf and showed it to me.

When the leaves are split, mysteriously, they do not tear, but rather unravel and split into thread-like structures.

“wow… … .”

“It’s so thin it’s kind of hard to twist the way you know.”

Chester pulled the unraveled fiber all the way and began to roll it round and round.

“So I’m going to twist it all over first like this, then fold it in half and twist it again.”

By folding the thread once twisted and twisting it again, a rope-like shape is created in an instant.

“Tighten the braided one, close the ends, and voila.”

A thin rope was created in an instant, and Monia was startled and held out her hand to Chester.

“I want to try too!”

“Will you?”

Chester held out a leaf, and Monia began to split it.

When Monia quickly finished making the rope, Chester praised her and focused her eyes on her by holding out the rope.

“Now then, I will teach you how to tie a knot.”

“How to tie a knot?”

“yes. A rope has as many ways to tie it as there are uses for it.”

first lecture.

“This is a noose. I will use it often, so keep it in mind.”