SC1 17.3 – Household Meeting
Just before the sun arose in the east, I slowly opened my eyes. As usual, Kato already woke up before me, while Yunno and Yui still were fast asleep. I then silently got up and went to the side yard.
After taking a glance at Kato who was busy preparing breakfast in the dining hut, I asked my clones to come out. When they stayed in my shadow, their mind became one with mine so they exactly knew what I want. Even so, I decide to make a final check. It was a habit from my previous life.
“Sanno-01,” I calmly said. “What is your task today?”
Sanno-01 immediately replied, “Hunting small game, return to Sendai, hand over some of the harvest, join the breakfast, and then return here and help the others with the construction in the balcony.”
“You can go.”
“Got it.”
After Sanno-01 left the hut, I turned my gaze to Otter and the three. “What about you?”
“Help you train Yunno and Yui. Help you plan the green house and other constructions we need,” Otter calmly replied.
“Let’s proceed according to our plan then.”
Without delay, Otter and the three took position behind me. Then, we calmly enjoyed the fresh and clean morning air.
A moment later, Yunno and Yui wake up. After drinking their soy milk and swept the yard, they immediately went over to me, and as soon as they arrived before me they curiously turned their gaze to my clones. Wasting no time, I introduced them.
“Yunno, Yui,” I said as I took a step to the side and pointed at my clones using my thumb. “These are Otter, Civet, Badger, and Weasel. They are vassals of our household. You can recognize them from their mask.
Other than carrying my errand, they will help me with your training, so treat and respect them as your teachers.”
““Hai.”” Yunno and Yui replied at the same time.
“Well, let’s start the training.”
““Hai.””
Without delay, we went to balcony to get bigger training space. Yunno and Yui had reached the minimum requirement to polish their slashing form on a real target, while I was on the need for huge amount of bamboo cane. So, I combined both circumstances.
In short, other than slash and parry against empty air, starting this morning Yunno and Yui would have bamboo cutting in their menu.
With ease my clones collected a huge amount of bamboo cane. Right now, their Wind Blade was not strong enough for combat use, but it would cut bamboo cane like hot knife cut a block of butter.
Then, they built several cutting holders, cleaning the bamboo canes, and marked the spot where Yunno and Yui had to cut it. After that the slashing training began. My clones would put the ready-to-cut bamboo cane into cutting holder one by one, and Yunno and Yui would cut it using vertical slash, horizontal slash, or diagonal slash.
In a calm manner, Yunno and Yui executed precise slash one after another. Their form was perfect, while their stance was rock solid. Therefore, my clones didn’t really need to give them guidance. They only had to ensure Yunno and Yui had enough bamboo cane to be cut.
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Long short story, Yunno and Yui were training very hard as usual, and seeing such hardworking disciples truly made me happy.
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After breakfast, I held a household meeting in the dining hut. I wanted to talk about the construction in the balcony, and I wanted Kato, Yunno, and Yui listened to it directly so they were not oblivious to the matter.
“Before starting the construction, we have to put 5 meter high bamboo wall on the balcony’s edge. After that, I will put Strengthening Rune, Anti-element Rune, Anti-Trespassing Rune, Silent Alarm Rune, and other runes on it. Then, we can start the individual task.” As I showed everyone the blackboard where I wrote the construction project I continued, “These are the construction we have to carry.”
Construction A
Green house, 400 meter long, 135 meter wide, or about 60% of the balcony’s total area, and the highest point on its rooftop can’t be higher than 4 meter. In one of its corner, the green house will have dark house for mushroom cultivation, while its center roof will be used to attach honey bee boxes for honey cultivation.
Construction B
Giant pantry with preservation runes will be built inside the cliff wall, 60 interconnected rooms as big as 40-feet shipping container each.
Construction C
Renovate the kitchen in the balcony, building water tower and enlarge the cooking quarter, add the kitchen with another stone table for prep work, another stone hearths for cooking, four sinks, two stone hearths for charcoal making, butcher quarter, multi-purpose quarter, bathroom and toilet, utensil room, and sleeping attic above the utensil room.
Construction D
Stone pave all open area in the balcony, other than training ground. It’s to ensure weed will not grow on it.
After giving everyone some time to read the board I said, “Pick your task.”
“Master, let me build the green house,” Otter said. “And become its caretaker.”
“Master, let me build the pantry and become its caretaker,” Weasel said.
“Master, let me renovate the kitchen and maintain its shape,” Badger said.
“Master, let me do the stone pave,” Civet said. “I will also make oven, dehydrator, microwave, and other kitchen equipment that can be used by Yunno and Yui to practice spell casting.
I will make it out of mountain rock and my Wind Blade is strong enough to shape the frame. However, until I reach Level 1, rune art is outside my capacity, so it’s up to Master to handle the final touch.”
“Well, until you four reach Level 1, rune art is my responsibility.” After a pause I asked, “Any question?”
My clones shook their head lightly, while Kato raised her hand. I immediately gave her a nod.
“Dear, can you renovate the dining hut too?” Kato asked as she gave me an expectant look.
“What renovation do you want?”
“We need additional stone table and chair as we have more people now,” Kato calmly said. “It will also help me a lot if you add stone table I can use to cook, separately from the stone table we use to eat.”
“Other than dining table and stone table for cooking, I will add a sink and faucet and connect it with the water tower through underground pipeline.
That way, you can wash the ingredient here and don’t need to go back and forth to bath hut. Yunno and Yui also can use it to wash the dishes.”
Kato happily nodded before saying, “You should do it sooner.”
“I’m sorry. I have lot of things going on in my mind so I overlook it.”
After a smile Kato said, “No problem.”
“Other question?”
Yunno raised her hand and after I gave her a nod she asked, “What is green house?”
“It’s an indoor garden to grow fruit, vegetable, herb, and other plant without being limited by local climate,” I explained.
“Do we will grow our own vegetable, herb, and fruit?” Yunno asked another question.
“Only the kinds that we can’t find locally, such as cinnamon, Italian herb, pepper corn, Sichuan pepper corn, curry leaf, basil, fennel, coffee bean, cacao tree, vanilla bean, star anise, and many others.” After a short pause I added, “I will explain the benefit of this plant later, one by one as I teach you cooking art.”
“Hai,” Yunno replied.
“Can Big Sis Yunno and Yui help with the construction in the balcony?” Yui asked.
“By cutting the bamboo cane every morning, you and Yunno already helps the construction a lot,” I calmly said. “Other than that, you two have to focus yourself on your study, martial training, and kitchen work.”
“Mhm,” Yui obediently replied.
“If there is no other question, you can start the work while I take Yunno and Yui to Sotora.”
“Uncle Deitoro, are we going to shop?” Yui asked while giving me a curious gaze.
“No, we will deliver sample dish to Owner Tokuma. We have a deal with him.” As Yui, and also Yunno gave me big question look I added, “I will explain the detail on the way.”
““Hai,”” Yunno and Yui replied at the same time.
Wasting no time, we ended the household meeting and carried out our task.
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