chapter 19

And so we set up the lab outside the ruins and I’m house-sitting . ……in the end it’s always like this damn i—t! Mh—m, Ketorami-san is super good in wide places, but inside buildings is impossible for him . Mh—m, but I don’t feel like employing another smaller water dog either . Mhm, it’s fine . Since it’s a maid’s job, I’ll carry it out .

guard the house

Okay . For now I think I’ll do something with the sugarcane I had left aside . ……but even if I say that, I honestly don’t have confidence in refining sugarcane into white sugar . Ah well, black sugar is fine too . as long as its sugar And so, I will be squeezing the sugarcane . To squeeze it, I used a bucket that Hariu made for me based on that thing, that bucket used to squeeze mops . Mh—m, squeezing it is really hard work . Well, it can’t be helped . I kept boiling and concentrating the extracted juice, removing the scum . Once it becomes viscous, stir . I poured the stirred liquid onto an iron plate . Then once it cools and solidifies, done . Eerr, was this right? For now it seems to have crystallised, so it kind of solidified . Into black sugar, I think . When I ate it, it tasted like black sugar, so it’s probably fine, probably . ……someho—w, I felt like I could do it, so I tried [Cleaning] it . ……I made, pure white sugar . …… . that skill is abit ridiculous I also confirmed that I can make something like brown sugar by adjusting how much I [Clean] . Ooh, convenient convenient . For now, I don’t know where sugarcane grew, but if I can get a constant supply of it, then we won’t run out of sugar in the future .

so make more sweets!

Since I have this, I will make a secondary sugar cane extract, or rather, secondary sugar cane squeezed juice from the sugar cane, in other words, molasses . Then once I ferment that, we have rum . ……if, we got, eggs or cream, I’ll use it to make sweets . Until then……that? I can only soak fruits in it . As for why, it’s because we are high school students . We’re all underage . Alcohol is for after you turn twenty . Except when used in cooking .

not that bad in cooking

Okay okay, while I was doing this and that, it’s about time to start preparing dinner . Today is wild boar stew . Then I’m wrapping it up with porridge . Since I’m starting from gutting the boar, it’s quite troublesome . But, since we were thrown into this world, I’ve already [Dissected] a few . I’ve already gotten used to it, I managed to gut three boars in the same amount of time I took to gut that first deer . Iya—, fast fast . There’s also the power of skill-sama, as expected of otherworld qualities . These boars’ teeth are blades and their bones are some unknown metal, so I gathered them separately . I’ll pass them to Toriumi later . But still, even if these bones can be used as a metal, they’re not suited to be used as stock . Like even if I can extract metal stock, do you really want to eat that? I’ll soak the skins in alum salt solution at night for tanning use at night as usual . But I want a skill for this already . I want to be able to tan it in an instant . Mh—m, could it be, I shouldn’t be soaking it? Maybe the skill won’t activate if unless I recognise the alum salt solution as a tool? [Dyeing] had that kind of activation condition too . Okay . I put a bucket of alum salt solution beside the skin and prayed towards it . Get ta—nned . ……okay mysterious light . And the skin was tanned . I don’t get it, what’s with this world’s skill judgement! Aah, what was all that effort before this . My skills increased again . [Tanning] . Exactly as it says . Well, that’s fine, mhm, things got easier now .

cheeeat

And as I was doing that, everyone came back . “Welcome back, master—s . ” “A—h yes yes, we’re back we’re back . ” They don’t even retort anymore . ofc not And so, it’s time for dinner . And kind of as expected, they found something in the ruin that serves as the staircase down . Meaning, they went to what would be the first floor of the school . “I’m not sure, but if we check out a room that seems like it is a key to the school… . . like the principal’s office, we might be able to find out more about this otherworld transfer . ” “Ah, and, even on the first floor, the corridor is also a river like on the second floor, then it spreads out into a lake, so the principal’s office is ridiculously far . ” They showed me the map that President drew . The principal’s office is in the middle of the south building 1F, so we either have to go across or around the lake . “At worst, we are thinking of bringing you into the ruins and moving to the other side . ” ……in that case, since Ketorami can’t enter the ruins, he’ll be left behind . ……my fighting strength, is going to make an amazing shift in the minus direction again . “Well, we don’t have any plans for that right now . We have no plans for that, but we do have a plan on crossing the lake . ” Suzumoto pointed at President’s map(2F) and grinned . “Since there’s a staircase here, it wouldn’t be strange for there to be 3 more right?” Meaning, far to the west of here, in the area where monsters are stupidly strong, there’s the north building west staircase . Then much farther to the south, the south building east staircase and even father west from that, there should be the south building west staircase . ……confusing Basically, we’ll be aiming for the south of the second floor .

straight to the other side?

Now then, we wrapped up the meal with the porridge and its time to sleep . I took a look outside just in case, and Ketorami was curled up waiting with a face like ‘come on, make it fast’, so I’ll be sleeping with Ketorami-san from now on . After dusting him with the huge feather duster, I buried myself into his underbelly and slept . Good ni—ght .

i want a cat bed

It’s morning . It’s a little noisy . Mainly with Ketorami-san’s growling . ? E, errr, even when I slo—wly opened my eyes, I can only see his underbelly, so I tried slo—wly moving my head . After slo—wly taking a look, there’s some people who look like students coming out from the ruins and headed this way . Ah, by the way, the place where the ruins is is a s light basin and since the chemistry lab was set up on the edge of that basin, there is quite a distance from the ruins to the lab, and it’s also easier to see the ruins from the lab . Ketorami made a face like ‘You, hide’, so I quickly climbed onto his back and buried myself in the fur on his back . “Ketorami, could you call Suzumoto and the rest over?” As expected, we cannot deal with this alone . “Ao—n” When I said that, he gave a 34% effort howl . But it’s still the howl of a light truck-sized wolf, so the volume is still quite amazing . Seeming to have noticed, everyone came out from the chemistry lab with their equipment . Okay . This should work out somehow then . I’ll just stay hidden buried here . Mofu mofu . so nice… “Wait, where’s Maito? Wasn’t she sleeping buried in Ketorami?” Just that I was being treated like I had gone missing, so I stuck out a hand from Ketorami’s back and waved, they noticed . “Uwah, that’s definitely fluffy . How ni—ce, Maito-san, how ni—ce . ” Fufufu, Hariu is acting jealous, but I’m not yielding this spot . You guys can just sleep wrapped up in your futons on your own! muahahaha “Hariu, can you see that?” There’s a reason Suzumoto asked Hariu . Currently, I’m guessing it’s about three in the morning . Meaning, it’s still dark . But since Hariu-kun has the skill [Night Vision], he can see extremely well at night . There’s also the fact that his eyes were good in the first place . “There are……err, 17, coming from the front . ” 17… . . an extre—mely, familiar number . “A—h, that’s, probably the people that were in the information room . Uwa—h, don’t wa—nt . ” “We, were left to die after all……I, don’t know what kind of expression to make at times like this . ” “Since you were left to die… . . I don’t think you need to show them a smile . ” I see—, if it is the people who were in the information room, then there might be some trouble .

outnumbered too

“What do we do? At this rate we’re going to meet though . As for me, I don’t really want to meet those that tried to leave Toriumi and Kairya to die, but there’s a chance that they have information that we don’t . Toriumi, Kariya, what do you want to do? I leave the choice to you . ” “Nn—……well, I don’t want to meet them, but that probably also means they don’t want to meet us . So if we just meet them here, won’t it be less troublesome later on?” “I’m fine either way . Yes . I do want to hit the people who pushed us in though . Yes . ” Kariya, how about I take on that role? Ah, no, wrong, how about I entrust that to Ketorami? “No, wait a bit, you guys, you all seem to be assuming we can somehow meet normally, have a normal conversation and that’s it, but they are people who intentionally leave others to die and there’s a lot of girls that panic at the sight of monsters right? If we let our guard down, won’t they steal our food or the lab?” With Hagasaki-kun’s opinion, nobody could say anything, the atmosphere grew awkward . Iya—, after all, we want to deny it, but we can’t . If those people from the information room think they are allowed to steal anything from indoor-type people, that would be bad . We don’t know what they’re thinking after all . ……no, normally, I don’t think that would happen . But, right now it’s a little abnormal . We are trying to survive in a world with swarms of monsters . Even if something unlaughable happened like their mental states becoming abnormal and they all became even crazier with mass psychology, it wouldn’t be strange at all . There’s the precedent of Fukuyama after all . “Ah, and, to be realistic, they’re all combat progressions and there are 17 of them . We have one non-combat profession and there are 9 of us . If we fight, we cannot avoid damage . ” Gu . President dealt the finishing blow to me . Gunununu, that’s the thing, if there was something like a fight, on top of losing in numbers, there is a burden on this side . Mh—m, I want to do something about it, but it just won’t work out . “Ketorami, if you fought them, how injured would you get?” I tried asking Ketorami that . He made a face like ‘Do you think I can be hurt by something like that?’, but there’s the chance of being caught by being frozen by magic or something and then stabbed to death . He’s saying ‘I won’t mess up like that’, but this guy feels like he is slightly overconfident . hmmm “……okay . Ketorami, if it becomes a fight, run away with Maito . Don’t leave Maito . ” “Gau” Well, I knew it would become something like that, as expected . And so I adjusted my position so Ketorami can run at anytime and the others prepared to be able to fight at anytime . I sang softly and activated [Prayer Song] and [Wish Song] . ……from what I can see, it doesn’t seem like it applied to the people over there, so this skill really seems to have some strange ability to act in accordance with my intentions .

… . cliffhanger

And the time which I’m not sure is long or short slowly passed .