「Next is the base camp?」
After finishing the water break, Chiyu spoke up. She wiped her moist, glossy lips with her fingers.
「Ah. But there was no need to look for a cave.」
「…Oh. Can you build a house with your ability?」
「That’s right! I wanted to make barrels, but also build a base camp with a lot of wood.」
「Do you have the recipe? Is it unlocked?」
She opened the recipe screen.
「Um… yeah. It’s the ‘Shack’ recipe…」
So far, it seems that the recipe unlock conditions are to discover a certain amount of materials and to imagine what can be made from those materials.
Even if I tried to imagine it, log cabins or other wooden houses weren’t displayed, so something must be missing. If I were to build a log cabin, would I be able to unlock it once I gather enough logs?
Just as I was feeling disappointed, Chiyu gave me a thumbs up.
“Don’t be disappointed. It’s amazing that on the first day of being stranded on a desert island, you’ve got a shelter that can withstand rain and wind.”
“R-Right. That’s true. We’ve got to take things one step at a time.”
It was both encouraging and a fact.
“Yeah. If I cut down a few dozen trees, I might be able to build a good house. If I cut one tree a day, I should be able to do it in about a month.”
“A-About a month…”
A month on a desert island is quite a long time. When I was a kid, there was a TV show like this…
「Until then, we’ll live together in this cramped little hut.」
Chiyu said that, and lightly bumped her shoulder against mine.
「…Yeah, okay. Hey, Chiyu, are you sure you don’t mind? I could cut down another tree—」
「It’s fine.」
「Really?」
「…You’re so dense.」
「S-sorry.」
Hmm… Maybe Chiyu’s feelings for me, as a childhood friend, are higher than I thought. If that’s the case, as a healthy high school boy, I’m pretty happy about it.
For now, it seems she doesn’t mind sleeping together in the hut.
「Fine. It’s a universal truth that childhood friends always have it tough.」
The childhood friend sighed and shrugged her shoulders.
「You, of all people…」
She used another phrase that made me think I was misunderstanding something.
「No good?」
「…Not exactly.」
「So Sousuke, you’ve finally noticed my charm.」
I wished I could say something cool here, but I was at my limit.
「Oh, sure, sure…! Anyway, we should start looking for food soon.」
「You’re blushing.」
「虽然我也能做鱼叉，但毕竟是外行……而且潜海捕鱼也不行。」
强行转移话题后，千癒最终同意了。
「这里的海水看起来清澈，但我反对潜水捕鱼。徒手潜水，太危险了。」
「嗯。」
在这种情况下，风险是不可避免的，因此必须谨慎选择。
「那么，先探索森林？」
「嗯。我来带路。如果发现什么，千癒别碰，告诉我。」
有些东西碰了可能也有危险。 如果我受伤，千癒可以治疗，但如果她累得无法使用魔法，甚至失去意识，那就麻烦了。
而且，我还是很担心。
“I see. As expected of you, Sousuke, I can count on you.”
“Even if I praise you this much, you’ll just get cocky.”
But I still feel a little happy. Even I am simple.
And so, we enter the forest. To make sure we can find our way back to the sea and not get lost, we mark the tree trunks with a stone knife.
“Oh, this is a classic.”
“I do it so we don’t get lost, but it’s also visible to others…”
It also lets others know where we are.
“Do you want to be alone with me?”
“Even good people at school might turn bad in a situation like this. You don’t want to run into someone like that, do you?”
「Sousuke, did your bestial instincts wake up too?」
「…What am I supposed to do if that happens?」
「I’m too weak to fight back, so I’d just get eaten. Too bad. Really, really too bad.」
She didn’t seem to mean it as a complaint, so I just kept quiet.
Anyway, there were still the other classmates. Of course, I understood the urge to gather numbers at a time like this.
But Chiyu and I were fine with the current setup. We had everything we needed to survive. Well, maybe that was overstating it, but we only lacked a reliable way to secure food.
As for the rest… military strength?
Clothes and equipment could be made with crafting abilities.
While thinking about such things, I walked in silence for a while.
“Chiyu. Do you feel like something’s off?”
“Yeah. We’ve entered the forest, but Sousuke isn’t playing pretend sword fighting with tree branches.”
“Please don’t bring up my childhood stories.”
Childhood friends know each other well. That means they know about your immature times and black history.
“Just kidding. What’s really bothering me is… there are no insects.”
“Yeah. In Japan, you’d expect at least mosquitoes to be annoying, but they’re dangerous, right?”
They can spread diseases. There don’t seem to be no insects at all, but…
「Besides, this forest is cool.」
「And to be honest, it’s really easy to walk through.」
An untouched forest would have uneven paths, raised tree roots, and poor visibility, all of which would deter intruders.
But this forest is very easy to walk through and pleasant to be in.
「It feels like a created environment?」
It’s a common trope in stories. The mysterious blackboard that transported us might have placed us on a deserted island it created.
If the environment were too harsh, it would be difficult for high school students to survive. Even an ordinary forest could be dangerous, with the risk of tripping and spraining an ankle, or getting hurt by branches and bushes.
「I’m starting to wonder about the mystery blackboard’s purpose and the scale of its power, so maybe I’ll stop thinking about it for now.」
Just now, I decided to put it off.
“Ah, Sousuke, I found some mushrooms.”
“Wow! As expected of Chiyu! Let me take them.”
She told me where the mushrooms were, and I picked one. According to my Inventory, it’s edible.
“This one looks like it’s edible.”
Since I knew it was edible, I picked about half of them.
I’m not an expert on mushrooms, but I’ve heard that it’s better not to take them all when harvesting. If you take them all, they won’t grow back, and the next people who come along will be out of luck.
Well, maybe it’s not the time to think about such long-term considerations.
After that, they managed to find edible mushrooms, poisonous mushrooms, edible wild herbs, medicinal herbs, and edible fruits. There wasn’t anything that could be eaten in one bite, but this was still a blessing.
After having their hands purified, the two of them started munching on the fruits.
“They’re incredibly delicious. Hunger is the best seasoning.”
Chiyu was walking while her huge breasts bounced… bounce…
“I’ll cook the mushrooms a little later.”
“How are we going to make fire?”
“We have wood and vines, so I can use my crafting ability to make fire-starting tools.”
“You’re such a cheater.”
“Haha, I can’t deny it.”
Even though I thought I was in a dream, it was good that I didn’t read the air and answered honestly.
“Hm? That’s…”
As we continued our search, what we found was—.
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