Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

8 – Second day of living on a deserted island (4)

Monia used the leaves Chester picked as a plate to inspect the charred fish.

“Uh, how do you eat?”

“I just have to eat, what? It’s hot though.”

Chester used a stone knife to pierce the grilled fish on the plate, dismember it, let it cool, and eat it.

“Can I use it like that? It looks dirty.”

“Soon it will be unclean. After using it, they’ll ask about it. If that happens, I have to throw it away and make it again.”

“okay.”

Monia used a branch to imitate Chester.

The fish is carefully dismantled and blown cool.

Chester watched it and ate the still steaming fish flesh.

‘Ah, good. hot food good I wanted to grill a snake and eat it, but I missed it except for one in the morning.’

Chester, using his tongue to remove the thorn from the flesh of the fish, pulled it out of his mouth.

‘It’s said that they didn’t actively hunt because they were carrying a lot of luggage, but it’s still shocking that they didn’t catch anything.’

After many hunting failures yesterday and today, Chester realized how dull his skills had become.

‘I have no choice but to do this day by day and get better.’

As Chester gnawed at the steaming white flesh without hesitation, Monia swallowed her saliva involuntarily.

“Cow, you have to eat with your hands… .”

“Why?”

Monia looked at her messy hands with a rough expression, and also at her newly soiled body.

‘Eating something with your hands. That’s something only barbarians would do.’

When Monia continued to feel awkward, Chester quickly reached out and tried to take the fish she had given her.

“Hee! Mmm, I’m going to eat it!”

Surprised, Monia hurriedly caught her share of fish and put it in her mouth.

“Ugh! Heh, heh heh heh!”

Then, being hit by a heat bomb of grilled fish meat, he twisted and trembled all over.

“Heh heh! Heh heh heh!”

“Oh, is it hot?”

Monia nodded hastily as Chester barely understood what he was saying.

Seeing that, Chester put the fish meat in his mouth and blew the air out of his mouth.

“Whoop, whoop, whoop.”

Then heat escapes from Chester’s mouth, and steam rises like dragon’s breath.

Monia quickly followed suit.

“Whoa… Whoa… !”

Monia chews the fish carefully while blowing through her mouth to get rid of the cold heat in her mouth.

There is a lot to eat, and the rich taste of the plump fish grown in nutrient-rich water spreads through Monia’s mouth.

Where did she cry because of the heat a while ago? She enjoyed the taste of the fish with a relaxed face and a smile.

“Huh, Huhhwa… !”

“delicious?”

“Whoa, whoa! Neheb! It is on a different level from the garbage I ate here!”

“Trash.”

Coconut juice from candy fruits, plus clean rainwater that pooled in bamboo, was a very plentiful diet for Chester.

Chester, who had lived a wild life with his father, was able to eat many disgusting things that other people would not be able to tell.

‘I’m a little worried.’

Monia’s unbalanced diet was a fairly serious problem.

I was worried about what would happen later, as I was having a hard time with candy berries and coconut juice, which are very good foods.

This wasn’t worrying for nothing.

‘In fact, there are people who starve to death because they can’t eat the food they need to eat because their stomach doesn’t suit them.’

In the near future, it seemed that Monia’s displeasure would have to be corrected, even if it was by using a little extreme method.

At first, Monia, who was awkward and reluctant to use her hands, now ate happily, not paying attention to the fact that her hands and mouth were darkened by the soot from the burnt fish skin.

Two fish were all Monia ate that day, but she was content with having a really good meal.

“Whoa. I’m full.”

“yes?”

After finishing the meal, Chester checked the time while drinking a coconut and eating candy fruit for dessert.

The surroundings were still a bit bright, but from yesterday’s experience, it was clear that it would get dark in an instant.

This is because the sun is consumed by the towering mountains in the distance, and it gets dark quickly.

‘It’s unfortunate, but I’ll have to give up digging up bamboo today.’

Chester decided to make a tool to dig bamboo with the stones and wood he brought.

“Are you going to teach me how to twist a rope?”

“Yes.”

Chester brought the strands of bark and sat down next to Monia.

“oh.”

Surprised by Chester’s closeness, Monia unknowingly pulled back her upper body, but Chester pulled her closer, waving a strand of shell in front of her eyes.

“Now, take a good look.”

Grabbing a decent amount of bark, Chester carefully picked it out and folded it in half.

Monia also picked up a strand of bark and copied it.

“Have it in half like this, and twist one side first.”

“Yes.”

“If you twist it, now grab both sides and twist and twist. I don’t think I’m doing anything special just because I’m braiding, I just think of it as flipping back and forth.”

When Monia did the same, Chester nodded.

“Now repeat this somewhat… … .”

It was not a difficult task as long as the method was shown up close.

Monia was able to make a rope, albeit a little sloppy, after Chester taught her how.

However, unlike Chester’s, which was tightly twisted to form a proper rope, it had many gaps and was sloppy.

“… … I don’t like it! I would do it again!”

“You have to save materials, so use them again.”

“Yes? how?”

Chester tore off the finish with a stone knife and turned the rope back into a strand of bark.

Monia grabbed it and started practicing twisting the rope again.

Chester laughed at that and sat down a bit and started working on his work.

He brings two large stones, puts one on his lap, and starts slapping the stones with the other.

“Hick!”

Monia, startled by the sound of the stones hitting hard, looked at what Chester was doing.

“What are you doing?”

“I will make an axe.”

“Yes? with stones?”

“You can also make knives out of stones.”

Chester showed me the stone knife he had made.

Of course, Monia also saw Chester use a stone knife when he was preparing or eating fish, but seeing it up close like this was strange.

“Can I take a look?”

“yes. You can see. Be careful, it’s sharp.”

After receiving the stone knife, Monia looked around to find out how it was made.

“You really just broke a stone… … .”

Unlike the blades made by blacksmiths, it felt somehow wild and menacing.

I didn’t know if it was because of the blood of some unknown creature on the stone knife, but Monia was frightened and carefully put the stone knife down.

“Isn’t it sharper than I thought?”

“Yes. It looks that way.”

“I struggled a little while making it.”

Chester showed a finger wrapped in non-toxic glue.

“What is that?”

“I broke a stone and got cut.”

“Uh, can I just wrap it with glue? Or what kind of herb is that grass?”

“no way. I just put pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding. This is much more effective than halfway treatment.”

The only herbs Chester found on the island were herbs that could be brewed into tea when he had an upset stomach.

“Do you make an ax when you have a knife?”

“Currently, all I have to do is pick up fallen trees in the typhoon, but with an ax, there are many things I can do.”

You can build a bigger and stronger house by cutting down strong trees that haven’t fallen down even in a typhoon, and you can stock up on firewood by properly chopping it instead of branches.

“And if you have an ax, you can chop bamboo.”

“Bamboo?”

“yes. I will make a water bottle out of bamboo.”

“bucket?! Did you get water!”

“Did you catch a fish?”

“I never thought I’d catch anything from the sea… … .”

“I caught it in the river.”

“I want to see the river.”

“When your legs are all healed.”

“Ugh.”

Monia looked at her ankle and felt sorry for her, then watched Chester make an axe.

As if he was caught up in a thought again, Chester continued his work with a thoughtful face.

‘I wish I could concentrate on my work when I’m working!’

I was so nervous I couldn’t watch it.

However, Monia’s worries were put to shame, and the ax was made cool as there was no need to break the entire surface of the stone as delicately as a stone knife.

The way to make a stone ax is slightly different from a stone knife.

It does not break sharp like a stone knife, but rather flattened the whole.

Hit the flat side to break it large, or grind it on a whetstone as if sharpening a knife to shape it, and finally, hold the part to be sharpened and carefully break the tip to make a blade.

After completing the ax blade like that, Chester brought a thick twig to use as a handle.

Monia thought about tying the stone to the branch, but Chester flattened the top of the branch with a stone knife.

After flattening it, the center of the cut-out top begins to be dug out with a stone knife.

Dig out, bring an ax blade, compare, dig again, compare.

After a few times, he took a twig and stirred the fire to bring out the red-hot coals.

Using two twigs as tongs, pick up the charcoal and insert it into the notch in the handle of the axe.

“Whoa, whoa… .”

Chester blew lightly on the red charcoal to heat it up and burned the ax handle with the charcoal.

The charcoal dug in bit by bit, burning the handle of the axe.

When the heat of the charcoal disappears, take out the charcoal and sharpen it again with a stone knife to arrange the grooves caused by the charcoal burning the handle.

Then, new charcoal is brought in, burned, trimmed, and shaved.

Repeating the same operation on the other side, a hole was quickly formed in the ax handle.

Chester drove the ax blade into the hole and swung the ax at a nearby tree.

Even though the handle and the ax blade were not fixed by wrapping them with a rope, when the ax blade was stamped into a tree, the ax blade received an impact and was firmly inserted into the hole.

Chester, who tested the axe once and inserted the ax blade more firmly into the hole, nodded in satisfaction and pushed the wood heaped around it with his foot.

A tree with a tattered stump falls with a loud sound.

“Yeah, that’s fine.”

Chester checked the condition of the axe, sat down again in front of the campfire, took some rope, and wrapped it around the top and bottom of the blade.

“Why are you winding it up?”

“If you do this, the tree will not split further. It increases durability.”

Chester, who wrapped the rope tightly, looked at the finished ax with satisfaction.

made axes and knives.

This means that the supply and demand of basic materials and the maintenance of materials have become possible.

It was the beginning of a full-fledged uninhabited island life.

* * *

In the sea a little far away from the island wandering the sea alone, there were unusual clouds in the sky.