Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3

“This works for now”

Since they brought back flasks full of water and a bunch of kindling, I gratefully used theht a fire

Usually, it would be bad to have an open fire indoors, but this is the che fires

I spread out wet newspapers on the table, laid out 4 bricks and rested an iron plate on the on top of that

It’s not the ground so I can’t do soround

That can’t be helped, so I will be using the retort stands usually used to secure flasks, liebig condenser or burettes to cook about 10 spits of meat at once

Ah, I didn’t forget to boil the water in the flasks It ater collected fro to President, it is water that can be drunk normally, but sterilise it just in case!

ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE

And so the meal was done

The meal consists of bird meat on skeith salt and soy sauce as well as fruits

It’s quite extravagant considering our situation It wouldn’t be strange if we couldn’t use fire in these kind of situations Being able to use fire and water is a wonderful thing Yes

Normally meat tastes better if you let it ripen for a few days after cooking it over a fire, but fresh meat isn’t bad either

It’s a good thing this was bird er anior mortis

really?

“Well, it tastes normal”

“This is quite nice for a mystery bird”

The taste, salt and soy sauce were quite well received

Because of the co a lot and tension, everyone other than ry They wolfed the meat down Wo—ow

2 fruits and 3 skewers of h for me It’s better for the others to eat more

It’s not like I’ out of this chemistry lab anyway My calorie consumption isn’t that much

We don’t knohen our supply of food will run out I’ll preserve the re meat tomorrow Luckily we have the necessary tools

wait 3 out of 10?

“……it’s inconvenient without light”

After thethe dark chemistry lab is the remains of the fire

Nor electric lights But there’s no e could use electricity without the power cables connected to anything

“Didn’t we have batteries and light bulbs?”

“We shouldn’t waste them now”

“Candles……we should save them too”

In the future, if the three of them had to explore soht froht bulb rather than fire, so we should hold on to the precious batteries and light bulbs until then

Similarly for the candles We shouldn’t waste them in a safe room without reason

……come to think of it, I saved the bird’s fats to see if it could be used frying on the iron plates It will go bad anyway Let’s use it

Err, if I remember correctly, there should be empty cans in the dustbin ……yep There’s some, so let’s use 1 Just in case, I chose the one that was theas the bottom is fine anyway

for?

I cut the ehtly washed it I packed the bird’s fats into the containers that was made from that and placed it over the cinders Melt Release your oil

I tore off a little of an old rag that had been left lying around as a dust cloth, stuck it into the oil that started to ooze out and used it as a wick

I thinly cut off a bit of the empty can and used it as a wire to support the wick and secured it

Then light it

……hter but……

“……the sry”

“It’s bird after all”

Mh chicken

chicken candle

Since the lamp that let out a delicious s our beds

“You’re on the counter”

“Why?”

“It’s not as cold as the floor”

Thanks to everyone’s gentle on the counter

I don’t need that gentlemanly spirit

The ones that are actually going out and doing things is everyone else and if anything happens to about it

So, I should sleep on the floor

……I objected with the above argument, but they didn’t listen

Their reasons were simply, 3 boys can’t sleep on the counter, a space proble habits so he’ll roll off the counter, quite a serious proble I could do about it, I gave up

Also our beds are cardboard on top of newspapers, with packing materials that was piled up in a corner of the chemistry store as sheets and spare lab coats as blankets It’s quite ith this

Don’t underestimate newspaper

It ended up with the three of theether to sleep in the furthest position from the counter ……this is a little lonely

good guys

It’sa look, the others were still sleeping

I lit a fire and boiled water in a claypot If we had h

Nothing I can do about that, so I threw in the bones of the bird fro soup from that After I adjusted the taste with salt, it at least became better than plain water

it’s so

While boiling the water, I cleaned myself with the feather duster With one feather duster there’s no need to bathe, it’s a

While doing this and that, President woke up, so I also cleaned President with the feather duster

“What is this”

“Just stay quiet and be cleaned”

As I pofu pofu’ed hi was complete

I also dusted Suzuasaki-kun in the same way as they oken up by President’s noise

“……heey, is this, that? Your skill?”

“YES It is [Cleaning]”

Well, at tiiene in et sick

“……[Maid] must be a support class Probably”

Obviously, it would be scary if a maid was an active front line combat profession

like Nanaki

After the ain went off the explore

Just that if they went off like that I would have nothing to do, so I had theather some branches from a sakura tree for me

I requested as thick as possible and they brought back an entire sapling

Oh m—y, how splendid

It see of his sword Mhm Scary Sees are scary Why can you cut down a tree with a sword!

logic

I somehow peeled the bark off the sakura tree and s

There’s quite a few tools in the lab so there was no probleiko

After hteen liter dru in the corner of the lab

I opened a hole in another eighteen liter dru the first one open

I lit the wood shavings and sood

I roughly washed the breast meat I had salted since yesterday and wiped off the water

After wiping it, I tied kite string to it and used wooden chopsticks and a bunch of other stuff to hang it in the eighteen liter drum and put the lid back on

……basically, I’ it Sht taste and is quite nice—

But it’s a little sood At tiood to do laundry But if I tried to hang laundry outside in this situation, I will probably become food for the birds