chapter 3
3 – Uninhabited island when I woke up (3)
Returning to the beach, Chester carefully checked Monia’s ankles.
“Well, it’s not broken, it’s a little sprained. It’s okay if you stay still. You should refrain from moving your ankles.”
“What nonsense are you talking about, you quack! It hurts so much! He must have broken his ankle!”
“What is he saying now.”
Chester tapped Monia’s ankle with his finger.
“What?!”
“Anyway, keep calm. Of course, since I can’t work in the meantime, I won’t give you water or anything to eat.”
“What?!”
“Isn’t it natural? If you don’t work, you shouldn’t eat. Or help by doing what you can without using your feet.”
“I have a noble purpose that must be fulfilled! Why should I help you against my own goals! You must devote yourself to me!”
“Ugh.”
I wondered if it would have gotten a little better, but except for the disappearance of the gloomy, silent crouching, there was no improvement.
“What is his purpose?”
“I’m taking revenge on those who betrayed me! Family and country too! I can’t forgive you!”
“ah… … . No, that’s okay.”
“Something? Strangely worded.”
“Nothing.”
Revenge?
Chester thought that would be impossible.
It’s not that revenge against the country is impossible.
‘When this island circumnavigates the world and returns here, will there be a target left for revenge?’
It was like that.
Their country was a great power stronger than the neighboring countries.
However, it was only possible because the royal family and the nobility kept each other in check and did not quarrel, but joined forces to raise the national power.
And what made it possible was that the ducal family, the head of the aristocratic faction, and the royal family had been marrying and mixing blood for generations.
But now it’s different.
‘Because the stupid prince broke the engagement. That too unilaterally, even citing commoners as the reason.’
The only engagement between the royal family and the duke in each other’s names was unilaterally broken by a prince or something.
Without consulting the king, he did it on his own, even proudly at a banquet in front of the children of other families.
I can’t be bitten anymore than I’ve been working like that.
No matter how stupid he is, he is a prince, and his words are those of a royal family.
If you bite it and make them apologize, the royal family’s face will fall to the bottom and the aristocratic faction can stand on top of the royal family.
In the end, the king had to cry and eat mustard to defend the prince and sacrifice Monia and the ducal family.
‘There’s no way that greedy duke would give up this opportunity.’
The duke saw an opportunity and isolated Monia.
Perhaps, the royal family made an excuse that they were blackmailed and forcibly cut off.
The nobles will gather around the ‘poor duke’ who was betrayed by the royal family and lost his daughter.
‘There will be a coup. The duke would want to wear the crown himself.’
Monia’s separation, which would not have happened originally, came from the Duke’s greed to claim the crown.
It’s still quiet right now, but it’s certain that war will break out in the country soon.
The royal family and the nobles who followed the royal family.
Dukes and nobles who follow them.
In the meantime, nobles who join hands with foreign countries to benefit themselves, or join hands separately to create power.
We will also look out for other countries that have the chance to attack the powerful country and expand their territories.
‘The country will be devastated.’
What about the prince and his commoners? Will they regret that this happened because of them?
Chester thought no.
‘If you have a brain that can think of such causal relationships, you won’t do such stupid things.’
Chester realized that there are fools far beyond common sense in this world.
And, Chester’s eyes at Monia changed to resemble those of a prince and a commoner woman.
“What are those eyes? I feel bad.”
“it’s nothing.”
It’s just, I’m just doing the eyes that see the idiot.
‘It must be the king who regrets it.’
He should have thought of a way to save the royal family a little less face.
I had to give up the idea of preserving the face of the royal family and make a small sacrifice.
It would still have its problems, but at least it was better than the war that would destroy the country.
‘The reason why the king couldn’t do that must be because of his greed.’
Chester, who worked as a butler for the duke’s family, knew.
The moment they have power and money, the smart brain, sharp intuition, and courage that allowed them to make bold decisions that brought them money and power become dirty with the mud of money and power.
people get ugly
‘Well, that’s okay.’
Chester had no intention of returning to that country anyway.
If he had parents, he would go back and hide his identity and identity, but his parents died three years ago when they were attacked by bandits during a drought.
‘But I still need money.’
Even in order to escape to another country and settle down comfortably, I still needed money.
‘Should I do mercenary work if I can’t?’
“… … .”
While Chester thought about that, Monia was staring at him.
Chester’s hands moved skillfully, tying the log to the palm tree, while his face looked intently at something.
Using two trees and a palm tree in the forest as poles, the logs are tied together to form a triangle.
As a bonus, there was a risk of death if the coconut fell, so I picked all the coconuts hanging from the palm tree in advance.
After making a triangular frame, weave twigs and vines on top of it to make a floor.
After completing the floor of the house, Chester lay down on the floor and checked the angle of the roof to effectively block the sun.
“… … .”
Again weaving the branches together to make the frame of the roof.
After firmly fixing the truss made in this way, palm leaves were placed on it to complete the roof.
“Oh, how good.”
When the roof was completed like that, Chester, who was out of his mind, smiled in satisfaction at the unexpectedly well-built house.
Because it is made off the floor, you can avoid hot geothermal heat during the day and the risk of losing your body heat to the cold ground at night disappears.
In addition, if the palm leaves are piled up at an angle, even if it rains, it will flow down on the palm leaves and effectively block the rain.
“… … Hungry.”
And, after completing the house, Chester, who felt a little calm, felt hungry again.
‘I’ll have to find something to eat.’
When Chester finished the house, Monia was startled and tried to stand up as well.
“Ouch!”
“Don’t use your legs.”
Chester just said that and went into the woods, and Monia, who was left alone, looked at the place Chester had left and then looked at the materials he had left after making the house.
“Bad baby.”
Monia muttered.
“How dare you leave me under the scorching sun like this and disappear? Does this make sense? Bad baby. Devil. It must be the devil. How is that?”
Monia muttered that for a long time while glancing at the forest where Chester had disappeared with an uneasy look.
“It’s really too much.”
With that said, Monia carefully brought the ingredients Chester had left near the branch.
said Chester. There is nothing that can be solved by crying here.
And he left her and left.
At that time, Monia also realized.
That you have to do something yourself to get something out of it.
Water, rice, and even a house are simply out of reach.
Just because you don’t like it, you can’t even tear down a building that has already been built and build a new one.
To escape the sun on this hot sandy beach, you have to build your own house to live in.
Fortunately, Monia continued to watch the process of Chester building the house.
‘Once you’ve seen it, you can do the same! clearly! I even got water from bamboo earlier!’
The logs were used up by Chester in building his house, but he thought it would be better if he made a roof out of sticks and palm fronds.
However, Monia did not know.
“aaa!! It’s not going well!”
It is very difficult to watch and follow.
* * *
Chester drove the heel of his shoe into the tree to open a gap, then split the tree with force.
“Oh, is it a joke?”
However, no matter how much they dug up the split tree, no insects to eat were found.
However, the harvest was quite good.
There were quite a few fruits to eat.
Fruits are not enough to fill the necessary nutrients, but it was good to appease hunger right now and gain the strength to move.
“… … .”
Chester, who ate three or four pieces of fruit that had fallen on the ground, moved his feet more vigorously than before.
‘I can hear the birdsong. Sarah. what you want to eat Shall we make a catapult?’
When Chester was a child, he used to run through the fields with a catapult his father made for him as a toy and play catch birds and rabbits.
‘I caught it really well.’
He once proudly sold the rabbits he had caught to the butcher, but now that he thinks about it, it was something he couldn’t sell as a commodity.
The kind butcher must have bought a rabbit in the mood of giving pocket money to a child.
‘Can I still do well?’
Chester went to the tree he had just found, recalling the nostalgic past.
When the bark of the tree was pounded with a stone and then peeled off, the skin like cloth came off.
After carefully splitting the shells into thin strips, she gathered some of the shells together and began to twist the rope.
Fold the bundle of shells in half, hold one end, twist, and twist.
After braiding, take the untwisted side of the skin, twist again, and braid.
At first, he stumbled a little, but Chester quickly became proficient as his old memories came back, and he soon made two long ropes.
Next, tear off the inside pocket of the butler’s suit. Scratching at the stone-finished stitching, he could easily tear off the pockets of his handsome butler’s uniform.
After making holes at both ends of the bag with a pointed stone, pass two ropes through it.
Then, by using tree bark to tie the rope and the bag tightly, the bag was shaped to hold stones.
“Good.”
Chester, who made a loop at the end of one rope and put his finger through it, threw several stones at a tree as a target.
‘Does a little stone get caught in your pocket?’
Stones fly from the catapult slower than Chester thought, and the accuracy drops.
‘This can’t be helped.’
There was no way to delicately process the pocket, so I had to endure this much inconvenience.
Chester made a catapult, took a few stones to use as bullets, extra rope, and bark, and started hunting in earnest.