chapter 20
20 – 20. What to do with me
“…?”
It’s strange.
Thoughts come to mind as soon as I open my eyes.
It was strange, and strange again.
My head is floating and my body is infinitely heavy.
Have you pressed the scissors? No, no. It has a different feel than scissors.
This is——yes, so to speak.
“I didn’t even sleep for an hour…!”
If you wake up too soon, your mind will be clear.
I must have turned off the alarm and went to sleep, but why are you waking up at 6 o’clock?
“Career…”
“Kooooo…”
“…Hehhhhh!…hhhhh…”
“…Uh”
With my eyes wide open, I stood up to find several cadets lying around me.
Come to think of it, I almost fell asleep last night after watching a movie.
On such a topic, I felt quite cursed when my eyes were opened at 6:00.
‘It’s all about that morning workout’
It’s like damn status
This was the price of going crazy to earn a stat because it was so poor that it would be nice to have a stat selected like a human being.
“Turn it off…!”
Oops, loud
I got up, stretched, and relaxed.
As long as it happened, let’s move until we can move and sleep.
If I wake up and go to the academy, my luck must have run out.
“Hmm… Mr. Chrono?”
“Huh? Are you awake?”
When I turned to Minerva’s voice, I saw her get up inside the tent I had spread out.
At first glance yesterday, I had strangely dark circles and looked a little tired, but it seemed that the fatigue was relieved quite a bit after sleeping in a bed that was like a bed.
“Looks like you slept well”
“Yes… It’s thanks to Mr. Chrono”
Minerva opens the tent and comes out with a smile.
Minerva let out a small sigh as she looked at the fallen cadets around her.
“I thought it would be like this, so I told you to go to sleep…”
Mr. Chrono woke up like this, it’s a bit embarrassing.
Minerva covered her face with both hands as if she was really shy.
Actually, I didn’t wake up because I wanted to wake up, but I decided to just laugh and move on.
‘Be strong, children’
If a leader doesn’t understand people’s hearts, he will naturally become a wolf.
I sneak out of my seat and run——because my stamina is a bit tight for running.
“Do you want to go get breakfast?”
“Yes?”
I took Minerva and headed for the nearby river.
…
..
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Fish
A small fish swims.
Fish that seem hard to catch even if you want to catch them because they are so nimble and fast.
“Sueuuu–“
But what if the fish knew in advance where and how they would move?
“──Haap!”
Chack! She threw the harpoon in her hand.
The feeling of passing through something felt at the fingertips.
I immediately took out the harpoon and checked its tip.
“… Yas!”
One Fish Get!
I tossed the fish to Minerva next to me and got back into my stance.
“Now let’s catch one…Three more!”
“…Hey, Mr. Chrono. Can I ask you something?”
“Huh? What is it?”
The root of the fish——I could see it!
Okay, again holding the fish in my hand, I turned my head to Minerva.
“Chrono…Do you have many experiences like this? Camping or survival.”
“Not really? Didn’t I tell you yesterday? I went to the beach without knowing how to look good and only made people curse me.”
“So, did you realize all of that during this test?”
“Uh…What, isn’t it?”
It was true that the usage of [Cronos’s Eye] And [Cronos’s Scythe] Greatly increased during this test.
I tossed the fish to Minerva again and tracked the fish’s path.
“Chrono-san… You’re amazing. In many ways”
“You wouldn’t give me salt, pepper, etc, even if I gave you that compliment?”
“…I don’t mean that as a compliment.”
“That’s it”
I caught the last one and threw it at Minerva.
All that’s left now is to go back to the camp and grill the fish.
“…Ah!”
Some of the fish were put separately in a barrel (Kronos’s scythe) with water.
I’ll have to bake this later when I go down the mountain and go back to my camp.
After this, we go back to Minerva’s stronghold, coat the fish, grill it, and…
“…It’s not happening.”
“Yes”
The cadets who don’t wake up
Why don’t you just wait blankly to boil the water——Cronus’s scythe had now turned into a barrel.
“Hmmm…Ah, is this enough?”
When I shouted to bring bowls last night, there was the only one who made a bowl made of iron.
What you’re saying is a blacksmith’s follower or something. It is said that it was made by lifting iron from the ground, but there is no way I know the skill of a non-heroine, a human male character.
Anyway, it must be as durable as iron. I poured water into a bowl and started boiling it over the fire.
“…Chrono?”
“Wait a minute”
After the water boils, you have to pour the water into a separate cup——but it must be very hot because it is iron.
I was wondering what to do with how hot it looked just by looking at it, so I picked up wooden cups that were lying around on the floor, washed them with water, and received the hot water.
“Now here… This is it!”
“Mixed coffee?”
Dissolve the mixed coffee inside and stir about five times.
I handed the well-made coffee to Minerva and I also made and drank coffee.
“Whoah…That’s good, isn’t it?”
“….Good. Very, very good”
Minerva is delighted with her eyes trembling at the warmth of the warm coffee.
I finally took the jerky out of my bag and handed it to Minerva.
“This is a combination of sweet and salty, so it’s quite edible.”
“You brought so many different things.”
Minerva took the jerky and put it in her mouth.
The taste seems to be pretty good, even making a small snort.
I felt a little bit proud of that figure, so I also smiled.
“Whoa….It’s really, different. It’s really different.”
“What”
“…In many ways. In many ways, I mean.”
“Huh?”
Minerva the Cloud Catcher
Soon, she turns her head towards me and smiles at her.
“When I first saw him, I thought he was blunt, distant, and liked to be alone.”
“I know you well”
“But…If I knew you were such a pleasant person, I think it would have been nice if she had gotten to know her sooner.”
“I don’t listen”
Is mourning the same as Mars?
If you think about it, Mars vs. Minerva composition was a heroine debate in Part 1, so it was understandable.
Especially, this composition is more imposed during summer vacation, and the heroine route that follows after that has a bit of a headache as it is a turning point between going to the Ares guild and Athena guild.
If you help one side, the favorability of the other side is mercilessly reduced, so to prevent this, it was right to target one side with concentrated investment first.
The problem is that even if you know it, it is difficult to do it.
‘The conditions for raising the relationship rank are all odd, so I want…’
The first condition is to ‘win the sparring with Mars’, but you could never defeat Mars with a character that was just created.
In the end, it seems that the standard route was to attack Minerva first and then attack Mars…
“Horororororok”
Drinking the last cup of coffee, he set the cup down.
“I am going now”
“…Already?”
“Are you sure you don’t intend to rip anything else out of this…?”
“It’s not trash that far. But… I wanted to say thank you…”
Minerva looking at the cadets
It looks like they were thinking of sending everyone off together saying thank you, but we’re not going to come after that.
“Thank you, in the first place, it wasn’t just giving.”
Are you saying you’re sorry for just accepting and eating? Bandages, herbs, etc., Stuffed things into the bag.
In addition, the ladle and bowl that were used yesterday
Spoons and chopsticks were also given as gifts, so it was a business that left enough to be had.
“See you later?”
“…Yes! I will definitely repay you later!”
Uncharacteristically, he raises his hand to see him off.
Perhaps he received a strange energy from that touch, his steps down the mountain were light.
“Are you there already?”
On the way down, the sun was still floating over my head even though I had washed things like dishes in the river.
I set up the cushion, tent, and sleeping bag again and crawled into the tent.
“Hmm…”
Now there is nothing left to do.
“…..Uh”
When the thought reaches that point
The tension in my whole body was released, and sleep began to flow.
“Let’s sleep”
I slept on my stomach without any worries.
It must have been much safer than I thought. When I opened my eyes, the night sky was full of pearls.
“I’m hungry”
Eat, sleep, eat, sleep, cheap, eat, sleep, sleep
Isn’t that fantastic?
I even took out the fish that I had put in the barrel, applied the intestines, and decided to boil pure fish soup this time.
“Swap it into a pot… Tear up some beef jerky, add some chopped vegetables…”
The vegetables inside are, as always, full of those gathered from the forest.
“And…The secret weapon!”
I put a handful of rice in a plastic bottle.
Don’t! Koreans are children of rice!
Of course, there wasn’t enough water to cook rice, so I decided to boil it with just rice.
If you boil it like this, whether it’s porridge or rice, it’ll be edible.
Stirring slowly with a ladle, I am waiting blankly for it to ripen…
“…It’s kind of boring”
Maybe it’s because you played so loud yesterday, but suddenly you’re alone and you’re strangely lonely?
So, in order to soothe this loneliness, ‘something like this’ was necessary.
“[The Harp of Ur], As ‘Keyboard’.”
Yes
Loneliness is always accompanied by music
With the sound of burning firewood, the sound of tapping on the keyboard, and the singing voice flowing from the keyboard, it began to flow pleasantly through the forest.
“Kyaa…! I’m tired of romance!”
To live by romance and die by romance
Singing like that, I eat boiled porridge when my stomach is empty.
“Sam three hei…Delicious!”
Eat when you want to eat
Sleep when you want to sleep
Life when you want to be cheap
It is a life like an animal, but for modern people who live a life that is worse than that of an animal, returning to the original life can be seen as ‘healing’ itself.
“It will be perfect if I sleep like this”
As I slowly tap on the keypad, I feel sleepy.
I just woke up, but I’m like a lazy animal who is trying to sleep again.
But I like living like this, so what can I do?
I, I, I really like this.
…But as I said at the beginning
“…Rono…?”
“Huh?”
Life Branch New Ongjima
“Chrono… That’s it.”
“…Mars?”
When joy is full, sadness follows behind it.
“Thank God, it is…”
“……Huh huh?”
Mars appeared while digging through the forest
He fell down in front of me in a state of super-corpse.
“…What do you say to me?”