Chapter 266: The Second Day
The following day, I woke up feeling depressed. Finia told it would feel a bit better if I kept myself warm, so I slept while casting Warm on the blanket.
It was certainly better while I slept, but the dull pain that hit when I woke up was even worse than yesterday.
“Ugh, looks like the rumors I heard about the following day being harder were true…”
Maxwell’s cottage was quite big, so there were leftover rooms even after we got assigned one per person.
Given my condition, Finia decided to take up the position in the neighboring room, but I didn’t have to worry about her sneaking into my room while I slept.
She was right next to , while Maxwell was there to treat the symptoms that accompanied the blood loss, so she wasn’t that worried.
“Oh, you are awake, Reid.” “I can’t sleep properly due to pain.” “Hmm, let examine you for a bit.”
Maxwell ca from the nearby room, seeming to have sensed that I woke up. Judging by the fact that he called Reid, the others had yet to wake up.
He promptly grabbed my wrist and asured my pulse. He then asured my temperature along with inspecting my pupils and throat.
“It does not seem that your condition is that severe. It simply feels worse than it actually is due to not being used to it.” “Either way, I still feel extrely sluggish, so I don’t want to work today either.” “That line makes you sound like a lazy person.” “Stop joking about it. I’m being serious here.”
The pain in my abdon was shaving off my concentration. In this state, I couldn’t expect my scout instincts to work as intended. I whined while feeling like crying, or rather, I was actually crying. My emotions were in quite an unstable state.
We caught the Floating Waka and made the shampoo, but I wanted so more of it for continuous use. Besides, I wanted to bring an additional gift, so I wanted to check so other places if I could. Given my state, however, that didn’t seem to be an option.
“Oh well, do rest obediently today. We also found sothing we have to do, so we shall work on that for now.” “Sothing you have to do?” “The counterasures against the Floating Waka. We need more of them if we wish to keep using the shampoo, right?” “Well, yeah.” “However, the first battle already ended up in that state. We have to prepare so spaces for clothes.” “Can’t we just go back and buy them?”
We didn’t expect our swimsuits to get devoured. I think it should be okay to go back to resupply things we lacked, wouldn’t it?
Maxwell seed to guess my thought process and replied with a grin.
“Were you not the one who said there would be no point in a training camp if you relied on ?” “Ugh… Yeah, but what else is your plan?” “The reason the swimsuits got devoured was because they were made of plant-based fiber. In other words, it would be fine as long as it was different.” “So you an cloth that’s not plant-based.” “Yes, in simpler terms, sothing like animal skin or insect threads.”
As he said, Floating Waka had the characteristic of eating wood materials, so using the commonly used cotton-made ones would just get them devoured.
However, as it did not eat living things or even corpses, there was no problem in using their skins.
There were also insect-made threads like my own mythril ones. These were made by absorbing the nutrients inside the body and then spitting out threads made from that material, so you couldn’t confidently say that they were plant-based.
They were planning to use these thods to make swimsuits exclusively for Waka hunting.
“However, animal skin shrinks when it gets wet, and it also rots easily. It’s not suitable as swimsuit material. And making clothes out of threads needs a lot of cutting and sewing, things that is too much for us now.” “We are of course aware of that. For now, we are simply planning to procure the threads and decide after that.” “Are you sure you’d be fine without ?”
Maxwell wasn’t that great at presence detection. In our entire party, Michelle was a bit ahead, but the rest weren’t that sharp.
Honestly speaking, they weren’t the type of people I could safely entrust the securing of thread-spitting monsters in a mostly deserted island like this. However, Maxwell seed to be quite at ease about the matter as he replied with a puffed chest.
“You can leave it to . I have familiars for that. I am quite good at detecting things inside the forest. It is you who is simply too good at it.” “Is that so?”
I answered quizzically and then noticed the lack of one person.
“Huh? What about Finia? Wouldn’t she be qualified for venturing into the forest?” “She will be staying back to nurse you. She seed to be restless all night as well.” “Is that so…”
True, if Finia went away, there would be no one left to care for . It was my first ti going through this, so I was thankful for her to remain behind.
“Besides, I gave her so howork too. You should help her solve it too.” “Howork?” “The fundantals of magic. Given her Elven lineage, her magic power is quite big. As she’s training every day, her sword skills are quite good as well. It would be interesting to raise her as a magic swordsman.” “Finia, huh… Looks like I have an unexpected rival now.”
Even if I couldn’t beco an orthodox swordsman like Lyell, I thought I could add magic to my repertoire and beco a magic swordsman. That was my current objective.
If she was to enter the sa stage as , she could very well beco my rival.
“You are already fully complete in terms of battles, though. At any rate, is it not about ti you got up? Everyone will wake up soon, so co and eat sothing.” “Oh, ti sure flies.”
As Maxwell spoke, I sensed soone outside of the door. It seed that Finia was already up and was getting ready to make breakfast. She probably didn’t co to see right away because Maxwell was already here.
That aside, for not to notice it until Maxwell ntioned… Looks like I was more exhausted than I expected.
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