Chapter 34
Kaiden, sensing my unease, snapped off some branches and started making something. A little later, he presented me with a bag woven from tree vines and large leaves.
“Oh my gosh, a leaf bag, that’s so cute.”
I received the eco-friendly bag and stared blankly at Kaiden. It was amazing that he could make such a cute bag with those big hands.
I looked at the bag he made for a moment, then opened my mouth.
“Let’s go together.”
Enoch was displeased, but Kaiden was a great help to us.
Kaiden was excellent at practical skills, and Enoch was good at using his strength and hunting, so the member combination was very good.
We packed our bags and set off on a journey to move properly… Saying it like that makes it sound like a great adventure, but as always, reality wasn’t so beautiful.
Instead of wasting energy building a cabin, it was better to find something like the cave we had been staying in near the river.
But, of course, places that met the conditions were not easy to find.
I went inland, scanning the cliffs I had seen a few days ago. I didn't forget to look for cliffs that might have a Bunker.
After leaving the cave we were staying in, around sunset, we found a large river as Kaiden had said.
The gently flowing river looked perfect for fish to live in. It would be good for purifying and using as drinking water, or for washing.
The riverbank was a flat gravel field, and there was a slope past the gravel field. If you climbed the slope, there was another flat and wide ground.
It was surrounded by trees, so it was protected from animals, and it was far enough from the river to evacuate when the river flooded due to heavy rain.
“It would be good to make a branch cabin here.”
We don't know when we will leave this place to build a proper cabin in earnest.
So, making a shelter cabin using branches seemed the most appropriate.
“But Margaret, how do you make a branch cabin…?”
At the mention of building a branch cabin, Kaiden asked back with a bewildered face.
Enoch also looked at me with a face hoping for an answer, as if he didn't know how to build a cabin.
‘Ah, right. They might not know this.’
I squatted down and drew a cabin blueprint on the dirt floor with my finger.
“First, we need two short wooden sticks and one long wooden stick. It would be good to have strong and thick wood.”
Enoch and Kaiden nodded with attentive faces at my explanation.
“Set up two short wooden sticks against each other at the entrance of the cabin in a triangular shape, and then put a long wooden stick on top of them to act as the frame of the roof, and the basic work is done. This tripod is the support of the cabin.”
I drew the cabin on the floor with my finger.
Enoch and Kaiden stared with fiery eyes like scholars burning with academic passion and listened to my lecture.
“And we will set up supports like ribs next to the long wooden stick that acts as the roof. Then, if you put twigs on top of the completed wooden stick and cover it with things like fallen leaves, this will complete the temporary cabin, did you understand?”
“Not difficult.”
“Easy!”
Enoch and Kaiden nodded almost simultaneously at my words. I smiled at them and added one thing.
“It would be good to build it a little higher from the ground. We have to be careful of ants and scorpions.”
“Hmm, then we can make it like the temporary shelter we built on the beach. Laying gravel and making the floor with branches, moss, and fallen leaves.”
I nodded vigorously at Enoch's words.
“That’s right. That would be good.”
I roughly put the bag Kaiden made on the floor and scanned the surroundings.
“We need a sharper weapon to cut down trees.”
At Enoch's muttering, I approached the rocky cliff and picked up a large rock.
"What, what are you going to do? Tell me. I'll do it for you, Margaret. Don't do things like this."
I ignored Kaiden's words and struck the rock on the rock as it was.
After repeating that about three or four times, I picked out thin and sharp pieces from the broken pieces of stone and handed them to Enoch.
“I’ll make a few more, so I think you can refine them with stones to make an axe.”
The two men looked at me with strange faces. Kaiden was resting his chin with a very serious face and asked me.
“Tell me honestly. You can really tell me now. You’re not Margaret, are you? How does a noble young lady from House of Floone know how to do this?”
Of course, I didn't answer his words and went into the bushes to pick up wood.
Enoch was sharpening the blade by rubbing the sharp stone I had made on a rock.
Kaiden followed me to help and kept asking questions while picking up branches.
“Do they teach this kind of thing in House of Floone? Margaret, what don’t you know?”
Kaiden asked me with a really curious face. Wizards are said to be crazy about exploration, and looking at Kaiden, that doesn't seem to be wrong.
“Let’s pick this up. It would be good to use it when setting up the pillars in the cabin. Help me a little.”
I said to Kaiden after seeing a long wooden pillar broken.
Then he smiled and gently pushed me.
“What do you mean help? I’ll do it. Come out for a second.”
Then Kaiden put the wooden pillar on his left shoulder and lifted it up. Are Wizards originally so strong?
Because the three of us were working, the work was finished faster than expected.
It may be thanks to the temporary cabin being built in a very simple way, but Enoch and Kaiden were very quick.
By the time we finished building the cabin, the sun had set, so we had no choice but to eat Acai Palm and go inside the cabin.
It was built quite large, so it seemed like up to four adults could enter, but it was still cramped, so it seemed like it could only be used for sleeping.
I think I should definitely find the cabin in the novel. There seems to be no place as spacious and comfortable as that.
“It’s better than I thought.”
Kaiden said, lying down.
I was tired, so I lay down on the floor as it was. Lying down with two big men made me feel uncomfortable.
‘Should I try to make a separate cabin for myself when I have time?’
I was thinking that.
Kaiden turned his body and came closer to me. I was about to turn my head, wondering what was going on, but suddenly he hugged me from behind.
My back was pressed against Kaiden's chest. He slowly lowered his head, buried his face in my shoulder, and exhaled hot breath.
"What?"
I froze for a moment. I could feel Kaiden's soft lips on my bare shoulder.
"It's cramped. I'm going to sleep like this."
"...Are you crazy?"
Kaiden smiled faintly with his lips buried in my shoulder. I could feel the touch of his lips along with the warm breath.
I narrowed my brows. I reached out to push him away quietly, but Enoch was faster than me. He kicked Kaiden in the side and pushed him away.
Kaiden frowned and glared at him.
Of course, Enoch squeezed between me and Kaiden without any hesitation and lay down. Kaiden got up and protested, asking him what he was doing.
I quietly watched the two men's annoying war of nerves and said one word.
"...Shall I go out and sleep?"
Then Enoch and Kaiden got up at the same time and sat down.
"I'm sorry, I'll be quiet."
"I won't do anything, so stay here."
Kaiden said the former, and Enoch said the latter.
No, Kaiden is one thing, but even Enoch is getting more and more childish.
I looked at the two men with an uneasy face, took a seat in the corner, and went to sleep.
