Tensei Shitara Slime Datta

Chapter 279: Elegant Escape Rimuru pt12

The second day was terrible.

Moving as a group is not ideal. It was a day to realize this.

As expected, the people who went fishing came back with miserable results.

And of course, we can't accomplish much either.

Since we were not allowed to stray too far from the instructor's eyes, the areas we could visit to look for herbs and seeds were extremely limited.

And this is an area that other students are already looking for on day one, so it is no surprise that nothing good has come up.

If we're allowed, I want to go west.

It was a desert area, so the plant varieties there would also be very different.

It made me think that there would be a suitable plant for cooking spices …

After all, all we could get was a small batch of seeds, edible grass, and a lump of rock salt.

If we go near the beach, we might be able to get water to make sea salt, but of course, we can't do that. I could manage it myself, but the exploration team only advanced a quarter of the way through the island in a day. So getting salt from the sea is not a very realistic idea.

Had I not realized that the stone was crystallized salt, then we should have eaten our food without salt at all …

… No, that's a lie.

The rock salt itself was something I had secretly prepared.

I don't think you can make anything without salt, so it's necessary for me to prepare this thing at least.

Actually, there was a salt lake to the west, but since we had gone to the same place as yesterday, I could not go there.

So with no other choice, I crystallized the salt in the ground when no one was looking. And then I stuck it into the rock so no one would think it was weird.

And then I pretended I didn't know about it so Mondo could find it.

"It-it's! This is a lump of salt !!"

Mondo was very happy when he told me. Her happiness was incomparable to my terrible acting skills, and she was filled with happiness at this discovery.

It did not result in any points, but no one was suspicious about it.

They are not all surprised, thinking that taking rock salt is hardly enough to give you a few points.

And that's how I can prepare salt.

I went back to the base and started making dinner.

Lunch is a Ration or anything else you can find in your neighborhood. So we've been looking for wild seeds and fruit.

For George and Mondo, it's about numbers, but for me, it's more about quality. It is dry and not sweet. Honestly, they're bad.

So I had higher expectations for dinner, but we didn't make it.

Unfortunately, I licked the salt and took a sip of disgusting grass soup.

It seems Magnus and a few other students are keeping up with their rations.

I understand why.

Overall, it was such a tragic dinner that I wanted to cry.

At the same time, the scent of the sumptuous dinner that Julius and the others ate floated in the air. And it kindled the fire of anger in me.

I don't remember being angry like this in the last few years.

This delicious aroma made us feel even more miserable.

"We should try harder to prepare a good meal tomorrow."

"Yes. I'm too hungry now. I'll do better tomorrow!"

"Yes-yes. I'm also."

There might be something intimidating about the way I say it because George seemed a little surprised when he nodded.

Mondo was so hungry that he just nodded without really thinking.

The two girls also agreed, and with that determination, we parted for the night.

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And then the third day.

I had good luck since that morning.

The hole I made on the first day had trapped a monster like a pig.

… No, that's a lie.

I had been working silently at night to find him through 'Magic Perception,' and then capture him with a 'Stick Steel Rope, ' and then I led him towards the trap.

Today we will eat good food! It was this hope that forced me to loosen the restraints of magic I was doing on myself.

A warning? Whatisit? Does it taste good?

They say that there are many urban dwellers who want to live in the countryside or live off their own forest products. However, most of them soon realized how troublesome it was once they tried it.

I'm almost the same.

My body ached because of my muscles and I was forced to eat terrible food. Not only was there no entertainment, but there was not even a place to bathe .. It was only two days, but I had already felt my limits.

And on this third day, I have decided that I will no longer try to endure it.

"I will stay here today and prepare this man to be slaughtered."

I told my teammates. There was a 200 kg boar-like monster in front of me.

Fortunately, I've got 30 points already, so there's no need to worry about getting more.

"You don't need us to help you?"

George asked. I answered,

"Deliver the cooking to me. But it will help if you can collect logs for firewood."

After hearing this, George agreed immediately.

He decided to collect the wood in the morning and then went to gather in the afternoon to collect some points.

He probably felt that I was serious, and thought it better not to get in my way.

Now it's just me and one more person left.

It was Marsha.