TN Lilykroats: This chapter took quite a long time in editing because I had to learn the whole method in Traditional Japanese woodworking, I apologize for the delay. and thank you for your support, Enjoy reading everyone~
(spoiler alert: this chapter is rated SPG due to some, you know…)
TN: also as I remind everyone again to please click the widgets to move from chapter to chapter, that is located on the top right of the page with a shape of a gear. I have decided that this will be the Table of contents for now, I only have a free domain one c:
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I’m depressed, I can’t face this reality.
Is there a powerful polar bear out there that is feeling down like me?
(TN: You’re not originally a bear though), as for human beings with average physical strength when they do a task that’s impossible with their physical body, they make up for it with technological advancements and engineering.
Altina:”This … … are you going to use it?”
I was asked by Altina’s with a grievous look while I was holding the Ono. (TN:hand axe)
Yeah, you’re ten years old, but it’s not normal for a ten years old to be able to it pick up with just one hand. The werewolf family have some terrifying strength.
Is there even a need for the tools that we got from the abandoned workshop with your terrifying strength?
When I put Ono down to the ground, I handed the saw to Altina first.
Kuma:” okay Altina, Listen carefully. First you have to mark down a horizontal line in the direction you want to cut the wood using Noko… remember, you don’t have to go too deep, just a quarter of the thickness of the tree is enough, okay?”
(TN: Noko is a Japanese wood saw, search it up to see what it looks like)
Altina: “O.K., I understand”
Altina uses the saw that she got for the first time then stopped for a while to think of how to cut it down more better.
Well, this child paid attention to my instructions quite well. She carefully dragged the saw forward to avoid injuring herself, she got used to it immediately but the line she was cutting was uneven so I gave her a little advice.
Kuma:”here, let me help you. Next time cut an angle in the mouth of the wood making it a triangle, this way it will be easier to cut using the Noko because you can freely move it around with the space here.”
Altina:”… I will do my best”
When she nodded while grasping what I meant, she increased her speed as she made the mouth to triangles.
This is called a socket.
(TN: This is how it should look like)
After that, I noticed that it was quiet somehow, the triplets who had been crying until now had been carefully watching their sister’s work.
Their tail were swaying so cutely in sync to the left and right. I’m smart enough to understand that you want to do it, but you guys are still not old enough to use a knife of this size yet. So I left them be for the time being.
Altina:”Kumakichi-sama, I’m, done here, what shall we do next?”
Kuma: “well then, next is to cut the triangle horizontally then do the same thing as before, the tip will be more comfortable to work at this way rather than making a longer triangular mouth”
Altina did what I instructed her and I began to use the saw in the other side.
A while later, I got a dangerous encounter with 3 irresistibly cute creatures giving a round puppy eyes while looking at what was in my hand.
In my hand was a wood tracer or marker that is the same as chalk.
It can’t be helped … Well, should I let them draw things for little bit?
I allowed the little girls to draw some scribbles.
Well, as I continued my work. I decided to craft a small wooden mechanism that is used in an Amado.
(TN: Japanese wooden pocket door just like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP-Ri-VWDfw)
Even though it’s just a small, It will be hard to break through if you don’t know how to open it.
In conclusion, it got the role of a hinge by having a “socket” in a triangle and a horizontal slit which is placed on the opposite side, “casing mouth”.
Afterwards if you push from the casing mouth with your hand the wood can’t help but go down with gravity in accordance to the law of physics. This is the basis of cutting down.
Lulutina:”Wow, that’s amazing … Altina, It fell down properly in place”
Lilitina:”Oh, it’s amazing,”
Altina:”…… Eh,”
Flowing with admiration the Sister,Lulutina’s, Lilitina’s and Altina’s eyes were shining.
Kuma-sama loves honest children, you admire me too much.
Using good material is essential in making the hut.
Incidentally, getting wood that is from broken trees & bent trees with weight of wind and snow proves to be disastrous to use, so we have to choose healthy trees to cut down as much as possible because it can get the job done in withstanding the elements.
For the time being, we stopped today’s work and returned to the cave after we were able to topple down trees to a certain extent.
I want to finish the construction work as soon as possible.
Next day.
After drinking herbs and mountain mushroom soup for breakfast, we headed for the construction site.
I wanted to eat meat for breakfast though because my body is a bear. I thought that following balanced nutrition is biased, so I hesitated to eat herb. Yes. I don’t need Vegetables.
As we resume building, the trees that was recently cut down cannot be used for the time being since it still has water in it, so we will remove their branches for now.
The first step in building a log cabin is to gather the logs for building.
The pruning was left to the three Lulutina, Lilitina, and Altina.
While doing that, the triplets decided to transport the branches they removed to the cavern. These branches and leaves will become materials that can be used sufficiently later.
Removing a stump is basically a huge task, by cutting off from the stump to the end of the root part using the nata yoki. (TN: Japanese Hatchet Cleaver)
It’s because, the Yoki is a versatile item used since the ancient times, because the blade is more suitable to hack off than the ono and can be hit with wedges in the buttocks. also the Ono I’ve gotten is too heavy.
Well, when I removed the tree stumps around the vicinity, I was forced to go to throw them away from the cave to give way to the hut.
On my way back, I had a short break by the river bed, took some fish from the river, went to take a look at the trap and took deer and wild boar to the river to clean it, then went back to the cave to store the meat.
I’m having trouble, Recently I felt that I didn’t have enough nutrients in my body, so when I get back to the cave we will eat deer and wild boar, I believe that when I get some food my whole body will be fine and go back to normal. I have to work hard for everyone.
Kuma:”but that … … where did everyone go?”
It was evening, so I waited alone in the cave. We finished carrying all the knocked down logs, so we can relax in the caves for a while.
First to come back was Altina, so I asked her where they have gone to.
Altina:”My older sister took a bath with Lara and the others.”
Now that you mention it, Lulutina said that there was a natural hot spring near here.
It is perfect to be able to enjoy the hot springs that is naturally running all the time! I though, I had been busy and exhausted so why don’t I relax there for today.
As I went to the hot springs, what welcomed me was Lulutina who had a soaking wet clothes on.
Kuma: …………..
I completely forgot about this, this was just an accident, honest.
Lulutina:”Ufu fu, you came at the right time”
Lulutina gave a pleasant smile when she saw me.
Kuma:”Oh, yes,…. I don’t have anything else to do for now so I decided to come here…”
I said as I tried to avoid eye contact with a blushing face and started to wash myself.
Lulutina:”If you don’t mind, will you let me scrub your back?”
gahhh, seriously….
Kuma:” I guess… I’ll accept the offer…”
I don’t think my hands will be able to reach my back with this huge body, so it wouldn’t be bad to accept it, right?…
Suddenly, Lulutina who was scrubbing my back, stopped talking with a blushing face while facing downward.
This is bad, did she remember something terrible? I wonder if something bad happened.
Lulutina:”Well,… let me have a fun …, but … … If you really want … … I … can … this body anytime … … yet I can’t make a child yet … … ”
(TN: what she said: well, you gave me a fun and happy life here, I don’t know how to repay you, but if you really want to do it, I can pleasure you with this body anytime you want, but I can’t bear a child yet)
She is mumbling with a small voice in a bad way, but was it supposed to be a s**ual invitation right now?
(TN: really a pedo bear)
Because, I’m a bear I thought that it will be a problem with our physique being too different, won’t it be bad?
Should I accept the fact in taking consideration of having an intimate relationship with a girl younger than me a little more?…
Then footsteps on someone approaching was heard.
Lilitina: “The hot spring felt really good, Kumakichi-sama, how is the water?”
Lulutina got out with steam rising from her hair. After that the triplets Continued to talking with each other.
and then, Lilitina. Went behind me and begins to scrub my back. What! aha.
Lilitina:”Are you okay kumakichi-sama? did something interesting happen?”
When I was about say something in trying to dispel the awkwardness, Lulutina glares at her sister with a shabby face.
Well, what is with this mood all of a sudden.
While I was still stunned, Lulutina dragged Lilitina out and disappeared into the back of the cave.
It seems that they are having an argument because of the loud voice. Did I make an odd remark and didn’t read the mood? I thought that everything was all like a father and a daughter relationship. But it is different than I imagined?
While deep in thought, my right arm was being pulled, so I turned my face to that direction, Altina was standing there.
Altina:”Dear Kumakichi-sama, Do you want to have a baby with Altina?”
What!? What is it with this girl???
A mystery remained on the event that happened, but for the time being I was unlikely to give an answer.
After that happened, I went back to work.
I cut down all of the Cedar trees I can find for three days straight.
Back at the construction side, everything was ready.
Lulutina:”Wow … what to say … it is spectacular, is not it?”
Murmuring while looking at the wood that Lulutina stuck in the stack of wood.
Yup. I think that I myself did help you guys a little bit but I want you to evaluate your hard work if possible.
The immediate side of the planned site where the log cabin will be built looked just like a lumber storage stack.
I wonder if this will all be used, but if we get a surplus from it then it will cut in length and be used as firewood.
Kuma:”Well, that’s okay, nobody seems to complain.”
I noticed something strange about Lilitina, she messed with her own braid and threw it flicking towards my eye, but I ignored … !.
Lulutina: “So, what do you intend to do with this, Kumakichi-sama?”
Ah. By the way, I haven’t told about it’s purpose yet.
Kuma:”I’m planning to give you a new house with this log,”
Lulutina:”… What was it that you said …?”
The startled Lulutina was opening her mouth with an eyes look that was made into a pokan, She was so shocked at the surprise.
The triplets are playing while hopping on top of the mountain of wood though it is quite dangerous.
Lilitina:”Well, uh, what is that making a new house here …?”
Lilitina asked me, wondering as if there is no sense of reality, wandering around the line of sight.
As soon as I nodded I grew a bit nervous, but gave a warm smile.
Kuma:”Yes, A house …… Well, we can’t live well without a proper house, we are not a wild creatures you know”
Lilitina:”that’s right”
Everyone was silent and rough and roaring their nostrils and wagging their tail in the left and right direction.
Lulutina:”- But, for that, We also want to cooperate with you, so if we do our best, we can have a house to live at as fast as we can.
The three of us all responded with a good reply saying “yes” with twinkling eyes.
I will exhaust my bear body with full power.
Well, what we are building is a primitive log cabin. In the future I will improve the place by building other facilities. Although I would like to make an artistic work questioning significance a thousand years ago and want to make it synonymous with this forest, leave that ambition for a while.
The first thing to do is to process the logs we have taken.
If you use logs without peeling off the bark, termite will enter it, so you must definitely remove it.
This is a lot of workload, so I’d like to divide this into the three Lulutina and Lilitina, and Altina’s, they will be competing on who will finish their line first.
Cedar is lighter than iron and it has strength nearly four times of that so it is excellent as a timber.
First of all, the method of peeling of a log, is to lightly raise it vertically and peel it with a nata and yoki.
In this case, the movement of removing the bark, peeled skin will be scatter and fly everywhere, so I ordered the little girls to move to a safe place not to get in the way.
This work, although modest, is quite difficult. But if you don’t do it well, you will not be able to proceed.
We will give a little gap between them and search for food while they are busy.
In fact, recently, I discovered that following the path will lead us at a slightly remote location.
A lot of fresh chestnuts had fallen here, so I went to pick it up with the little girls.
Chestnuts need lots of boiling in the big pot and but it is fun to break open the nut, so let’s take some time to gather it.
I’m also satisfied with it because I also undoubtedly ate some.
After that, while the peeling of the log was proceeding silently, no incident occurred on that certain day.
Well, we are just fine with meat we get from hunting, but herbs or mushrooms are always added to make the food well balanced.
Rurutina takes into consideration nutritional bias and picks what can be eaten in nearby grass.
It seems that they had eaten only leaves and mushrooms similar to this watercress until I met them. Protein is great, Meat is great, so please spare me from the veggies…
We took a walk after our long working, we decided to stop for a bit from the peeling off of the logs, and went out to gather food.
However, the vicinity of the riverbed where I catch fish in monopoly has been devastated to such extent.
Lilitina:”This is surely the work of the jackalope”
Lilitina swings both arms like wheels to show her anger.
Kuma: “What is a jackalope … …?”
Lilitina:”Kumakichi-sama, Jackalope is the horn rabbit that can be found anywhere in the forest”
Lilitina taught me instead of Lulutina who was still embarrassed after what happened at the hot springs.
Lilitina:”The meat is very delicious and we mainly eat it when there’s a special occasion”
Lara:”It is delicious to eat it”
Complementing the words of Lilitina, Lara cried out with delight. That’s understandable, It seems to be their favorite food.
Very well, I guess what we will eat is decided. The next prey is a Jackalope ……! Now it’s time to hunt.
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