Chapter 34: Chapter 34: The Kotatsu is Not Yet Warm
After leaving the power plant, Senju pulled the lever next to him again, the door slowly closed, and the surrounding area immediately became calm.
"Are the two of you okay? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?" After Senju felt himself, he found that nothing happened, but he was still a little worried about the two girls next to him.
"I'm okay. I don't feel any discomfort there. It's the same as usual." Although Chito was a little confused, she didn't find any discomfort after feeling carefully for a while. "Yuu, do you feel anything?"
"Nothing~" Yuuri hummed beside her. Although she gained nothing, it did not affect her mood at all.
"It's okay if you don't. Let's get on the road quickly. I don't know how far the next city is yet."
Of course, Senju and the others didn't know that those barrels contained waste materials that had been processed by strange creatures.
(T/L: If I remember correctly, it was those weird long white things(?), those statues was their face? I forgot, I haven't watched the anime in a long, long time...)
It was also because of the strange abilities of these creatures that iron locks were installed on the tight electronic doors.
Unfortunately, they didn't exist at that time.
Before they had time to study the creature, a war broke out, and everyone retreated hastily, not wanting to leave with these 'useless' things.
After the three had packed up, they got in the car and headed in the other direction.
In the windless and snowless weather, they could make out a group of buildings in the distance.
After a long time, everyone arrived near this building complex.
It was still an abandoned city with no people, but there were two-story platforms in some places, and there were also some pillars supporting them below, but the area was very small and the height It's not very high, just like a smaller version of the entire multi-story steel city.
When they arrived at the edge of the city, it was already approaching dusk, and a cold wind was blowing around them. Senju and the others decided to find a building to spend the night first.
After finding a random building, Senju sealed all the surrounding windows.
However, perhaps because the weather was too cold, the three of them still felt that it was very cold at night, and the surrounding walls were of no use at all.
Of course, Senju also knew that just sealing the windows wouldn't work, but it was impossible to seal the entire surrounding area.
There was a fire in the house.
After listening to Senju's explanation, Chito and Yuuri felt that it was necessary to find a larger building when encountering snowstorms in the future, otherwise they would always freeze in such a small room.
Their predictions were accurate.
After a day of searching, the snow and wind around them gradually intensified. During the day, the three had come across a nearby warehouse.
Chito had hoped to find supplies there, but after a thorough search, all she found was a massive, empty oil storage tank.
As they reached the warehouse, darkness enveloped their surroundings, the blizzard relentlessly assaulting them. Even as Chito drove through the deserted entrance, a chilling wind still managed to seep in behind them.
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After the car entered the warehouse, Senju blocked the abandoned doorway, leaving only a hole and put in a wooden door.
After blocking the hole, the surrounding wind noise suddenly subsided, but there was a creaking sound from the surroundings, as if the entire warehouse was shaking in the blizzard.
Chito and Yuuri also got out of the car and tidied up.
They lit the fuel lamp that had not been used for a long time and cleared the snow from the car.
Senju came over to help after blocking the hole. After tidying up a bunch of things, Everyone just sat down and took a rest.
But looking at the campfire built by Senju, Yuuri suddenly thought, "Senju, can you add another layer on top of the fire? It will be very warm to sleep on it."
"It must not work, isn't it like a grilled fish up there?" Chito understood better, but Yuuri's suggestion reminded Senju of a warm bed, but he had forgotten what it looked like, but it definitely wasn't on top of the fire.
(T/L: It's already in the title on what Senju is recallling.)
"Tch, Chii-chan is really disappointing. It must be very warm." Yuuri still didn't give up, but Chito was open-minded, "It would be nice to have a place to hide from the wind and snow. Yuu thinks too weird."
"That's not necessarily true. I'll try to figure out what Yuuri said later. That way it will be much warmer at night." After thinking about it for a while, Senju remembered the structure of the campfire and decided to try it later.
"Really? That's great." Yuuri said excitedly, and hugged Senju as gratitude, the latter blushed at the sudden embrace, and Chito immediately dragged Yuuri off Senju.
But now everyone had to eat first.
After cooking some stew, everyone took out the dry food and started eating.
After eating, Senju went out to study how to make a suitable fire pit, while Chito and Yuuri were next to the campfire. Sitting, one is writing a diary and the other is maintaining a gun.
Senju tried it in the open space next to him. This time he used concrete slab steps and concrete blocks.
These two may sound similar, but the slab is just a thin plate, while the block has a quarter of its section removed. The rest of its shape is more like a ladder.
After thinking for a while, he placed rows of steps on the ground to make several grooves appear in the middle.
Then he placed steps at both ends to make the side-by-side grooves into a connected whole, and then covered them again. steps, covering the entire structure underneath.
At both ends of the grooved passage, one side is the burning point and the other side is the chimney. Senju stacked the chimneys from a gap above to the outside of the warehouse.
After finishing it, Senju looked at the whole thing.
It was more than four meters wide and five or six meters long. There was a huge pillar standing next to it, which looked strange.
After building it for a while, Senju was very satisfied, and then built a campfire with a closed top at the burning point, with both ends connected to the grooved channel and the entrance for inputting waste materials.
When Senju was building it, Yuuri came over to watch.
After cleaning the gun, she felt bored, so she came over to watch him build it, but after a while, she ran back to the other campfire to harass Chito...
When Senju completed the fire pit, a long time had passed.
Senju decided to give it a try. After igniting the fire in the newly constructed campfire, he hovered over it for a while, only to realize there was still no heat. This left him feeling a little disappointed.
'What's the problem? Could it be because the fire isn't big enough? That can't be it.'
At that moment, Senju wanted to consult the two girls, but as he glanced over, he noticed Chito had dozed off beside the car, and Yuuri was still tending to the campfire, lost in her thoughts.
As Senju approached, he noticed tears in Yuuri's eyes, and he saw a smoldering book next to her.
Unaware of Senju's presence, Yuuri rummaged through Chito's schoolbag, extracting a diary and appearing unsure about what to do next in the flickering light of the campfire.
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Ugh, I'm translating when I'm about to sleep again... Ehh it's fine I think... I sleep early 9:30 and wake up at 5:00, not bad for a teen.
Also 23 Stones on the 1st day of the week? Man you guys really want more of these don't ya? Well me also, it's just I got a bunch of school stuff... Especially upcoming exams, though thats for next week....