72 – Coming of Age Ceremony (2)

Chester gave them a choice of what to do, and Monia was in charge of building the warehouse.

It’s called building a warehouse, but it’s not simple.

Chester said that he was always exploring together, but he didn’t say that he was looking for materials to build a warehouse with.

Starting from finding bamboo, from one to ten, only Monia has to do it all.

What was given to her?

there’s nothing.

It’s a task to do it alone from start to finish, so I have to do everything alone without the help of the tools I’ve made so far.

Harsh.

However, rather than complaining about the harshness, Monia just wanted to make sure this was done.

So, the first day of the coming-of-age ceremony.

“I am here!”

Monia came to the river.

to make stone knives.

“It’s been a while too!”

I haven’t had to use a stone knife since I made the claw knife.

Monia smiled as she recalled the first time she made a stone knife, closing her eyes for a moment as if recalling the nostalgic past.

‘Now that I think about it, I couldn’t make it!’

Well, that’s not important.

Monia settled down by the river, found a suitable stone, and began to carve it.

Exactly!

Stones collide with each other to break them, break them, and mold them into appropriate shapes.

It could have been shaped more delicately and sharply by grinding it with a stone slab, but I didn’t think of it because I didn’t need a tool of that level.

“Ouch.”

While breaking the stone, sharp fragments scratched Monia’s fingers, but Monia didn’t think it was a big deal and continued to work after roughly washing the wound.

I’m used to this now.

Thanks to the effect of the river, there were no or very few scars, but Monia’s hands had calluses and a lot of small scars.

The beautiful and one-of-a-kind hands of the young lady, who had been cared for since childhood that I can’t even remember, disappeared long ago.

mow!

After rounding the stone to some extent and carving it out, Monia grabbed the stone and went into the forest.

It goes into the forest and peels off the bark of a small plant near the river.

Next, I approached a fallen tree nearby and cut a branch of a suitable size with a stone knife.

“Suck!”

Quick!

He grabbed the branches with both hands and trampled them with his feet.

After breaking the branches to a suitable length, Monia, who settled down by the riverside, properly arranged one side of the branch and cut it with a stone knife to make a groove.

After inserting a stone knife into the groove, a string is made from the peeled plant bark to tie the stone knife and the twig together.

“done.”

After quickly completing the stone knife, Monia went on to the next task while chewing on the smoked meat that Chester had prepared for her.

A basic tool, a stone knife, was made.

Then, it was time to make a stone ax to cut and organize the bamboo.

‘It would have been convenient if I had a machete.’

I can’t help it, so I give up.

Clearly throwing away her regrets, Monia got all the materials to make a stone axe and returned to the riverside.

In that movement, there was no trace of the difficulty of even taking a single step in the forest on the first day of the wandering island.

He is infinitely courageous and courageous.

At first, I felt the burden, anxiety, and fear of having to move alone without Chester.

The will to do this and gain recognition from Chester overcame them all and became the driving force for Monia to move.

“done!”

After quickly making an ax blade, Monia took it and headed for the forest again.

Get suitable firewood from the forest and prepare to start a fire with it.

It is the moment when I use a hand drill technique that I have mastered at best, but Chester made a suppressor, so I have not had to use it for a long time.

‘Even though I didn’t have anything to write, I practiced hard!’

“Whoop whoop.”

Monia laughed sinisterly and cut the branch in her hand with a stone knife.

Cut the branches with a stone knife to peel off the bark, scrape off the flesh, collect them in one place, and use them as kindling.

Then he turned the twig the other way around, cut a groove on one side with a stone knife, and took the other twig and pressed it into the groove.

After firmly pressing the twig to make charcoal with both legs, hold the twig pressed into the groove with both hands and rotate it vigorously.

“Hee hee hee!”

No matter how much you practice, no matter how proficient you become, it is not easy to start a fire by turning branches by hand.

“Lee Yii Ik!!”

Chester had to sweat as well, so Monia desperately turned the branch with great effort while frowning.

“Yaaa!!”

No matter how many times she rotated it, Monia succeeded in making charcoal after suffering as if the skin on her palm would peel off.

“done! Sigh… Sigh… .”

Monia hurriedly picked up a twig, moved it, and brushed it against the kindling to move the red-hot charcoal.

“Whoop whoop!”

How much did Monia blow into the kindling fire?

The charcoal that had been injected with air burned even more red and burned the kindling, and thick smoke began to rise.

When the smoke rose to a certain extent, I blew a little more breath into it, and soon the flames rose all over the kindling.

“aaah!”

Monia, cheering at the burning tinder, hurriedly threw the tinder into the prepared thin branch.

When the fire eats some of the thin branches, put the firewood in the order prepared and pile it up to quickly make a bonfire.

When the bonfire was finished, Monia clenched her fists and raised her fists, getting drunk with a sense of achievement for a moment.

“Cheer up! I smoked it!”

With Chester not by my side, even one of these things makes me so happy.

Monia, who was looking at the bonfire happily, burned firewood for a while to make charcoal, then made an ax by making a hole in a tree branch with the charcoal and inserting an ax blade into it.

After tightly tying the top and bottom of the branch hole where the axe was inserted with string to prevent the branch from splitting, take the finished axe and head for the fallen tree you saw earlier.

Monia, who swung the ax appropriately and cut off the branches, smiled in satisfaction.

“It’s fine!”

It wasn’t at a satisfactory level, but that’s because the machete and the stone ax that Chester helped me make made my eyes go higher.

Monia knew that if she had made it by herself, this stone ax would have been made well enough.

Satisfied with the stone axe, Monia immediately put out the bonfire, took the stone axe, stone knife, and the remaining string and went into the forest.

If there was any fruit while walking in the forest, he would stuff it in his mouth to fill his stomach, and if he saw a tree that could make a rope, he would peel it and carry it to make a rope.

While taking care of things, Monia, who found the bamboo colony she had been looking for before, immediately prepared to dig the bamboo.

“It’s the first time I’ve ever broken bamboo on an inclined ground.”

The place where Monia came is the bamboo colony that Chester had considered when he asked to build a firewood shed.

At that time, it rained often and the land condition was very bad, so I only considered it for a moment.

It hadn’t rained recently, so the ground was dry, but it wasn’t easy to stand on the sloping ground.

Monia tries to do something, but as soon as she does, her body slides down.

“Ugh.”

Monia held on to the bamboo to support her descent, then looked down at the ground with a troubled expression.

‘I thought it would be fine if it didn’t rain… … .’

Even though the ground was tilted, it was not easy to stand still.

‘I can understand why, if Chester needs bamboo, he goes somewhere else instead of here.’

The bamboo here was not difficult to cut.

If the slope was this steep, he might fall down trying to cut down the bamboo.

‘Did you rather go across the river?’

There must be leftover bamboo that was cut down to make a warehouse in the past.

But Monia was no fool.

‘No, that’s not it.’

Monia didn’t have the confidence to walk across the unfamiliar river by herself.

That is overkill and arrogance.

Then, inevitably, he had to cut the bamboo on this slanted land.

Alright then.

‘What should I do?’

Monia started thinking like Chester to solve the problem.

‘What can I do with what I have now to solve the problem?’

* * *

“Hmm.”

Chester looked at the mud in front of him.

Chester, who wanted to turn chili powder into a weapon, struggled with many methods, but eventually decided to find his way out of the mud.

‘The shape of the sphere would be nice. To make it easy for me to throw. If you want to put red pepper powder inside, you’ll have to make it hollow.’

The idea was easy.

However, it was difficult to make.

Should I make a small and thin one while the thick and large ones are also breaking apart?

‘I don’t know how much to make.’

Saying that, Chester moved his hand.

I don’t know if I’ll fail or succeed, and I don’t know how many times I’ll have to try this.

I can see a way, but it’s wiser to keep trying something that may or may not work than to keep my hands off it.

‘The moment a red pepper powder weapon is created, we will have a safe way to escape even from a bear.’

That way, there’s nothing to hold back in your search.

The ant-wolf area that I haven’t entered yet.

Bear area elsewhere too.

All will be explored.

To that end, Chester moved his hands and moved them to form a hemispherical sculpture out of clay.

‘Is Monia doing well?’

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