Chapter 230: Holding a Meeting to Improve the Standard of Living
"U-Uun..."
My back hurts. Because I slept on boards.
As expected, in a northern country a board-floored hut gets cold in the morning...
"Good morning."
"Lucia. Good morning."
The capybara girl Baka tickles my cheek with her downy-haired cheek.
That’s right. I slept using Baka as a meat futon.
I pushed my fingers into the fur of Baka’s butt and warmed my fingers while rubbing her butt.
Is it because there are many people, or because I slept holding Baka—neither Iferaski nor Letree-san did morning-wood fellatio.
The bell didn’t ring but the horse girls apparently managed to wake up properly; the two of them are not here.
From under the three lined-up capybara girls, thin arms and legs are sticking out, so Fullru is probably buried. Perhaps because the horse girls are gone, the capybara girls packed tightly seeking even a little more warmth.
I moved the capybara girls aside and excavated the buried Fullru.
Then everyone gathered and ate the remaining fish from the previous day.
From today for a while it’s improving the standard of living and preparing for wintering.
We only have crude temporary huts for long-term living and an open-air bath that is disproportionately splendid.
Or rather, once a proper house is built, I’ll reinforce this hut a little and make it a changing hut for the open-air bath.
Well then.
All of us gathered in the open space in front of the hut. The dog girls are standing, the capybara girls and cat girls are rolling on the ground, but the others are sitting on simple benches made only by combining boards and logs.
With thirty people it’s just like a school.
Me: "Is everyone here. Numbers! 1"
I sent a gaze toward Letree-san standing at the far left.
Then Letree-san understood my intention.
Letree-san: "2"
Lian older sister: "3"
Lian younger sister: "4"
Shepa: "6!"
Petit Letree: "Shepa-chan, it’s 5"
Shepa: "Goh, 5!"
Mī: "Nyaa"
Mū: "..."
Shiro: "Nya"
Kemolori: "3!"
Kapi: "Lots!"
Kaba: "Many!"
(Omitted)
Iferaski: "Pi"
Ranjou: "Pi"
Esty-san: "In this case is ’Pu’ fine? Pu"
Rafilia-san: "Then, ’Pe’"
Mirai: "Aau. Baa. Uu"
Dura: "Haai. Yochi yochi. Moving stuffed toys desu yoo. Let’s suck Kaka-chan’s ears"
Fullru: "Hey. Does this have meaning?"
"Alright. Everyone is here."
The roll call is a mess, but I visually confirmed that everyone is present for now.
Because the capybara girls might not be able to count numbers larger than 3, education is necessary. These guys wouldn’t notice even if one of them got lost. Actually, whether Baka increased or decreased, there was no disturbance at all.
Probably—or rather with quite high probability—these guys only recognize their comrades as "a large number."
"From now on everyone will cooperate to make proper houses and turn it into a village. There is a large amount of lumber, so for now private rooms for everyone. After that, I want to fulfill everyone’s requests as much as possible about what kind of houses to make, so first each of you please think about it. It’s fine to coordinate opinions among the same race, but also put out individual opinions."
And so, thinking time.
For me, if I have a private room that’s fine.
Erotic events occur regularly, but separately from that, the time when I want to masturbate alone might come.
It might make the construction a little harder, but if there are individual rooms, race rooms, and a place where everyone can gather, it’s perfect.
I want one thing like the congregation seats that were in the Monvan church hall. Lining up floor chairs so everyone can gather.
Well then, everyone’s thoughts seem to have come together.
Letree-san: "I want a space where I can spend time together with Master."
Lian older sister: "I want a sturdy room! I’m bad at controlling my strength, so I want a room that won’t break even if I carelessly..."
Lian younger sister: "Since private rooms will be provided, I would be happy if I could share a room with my sister."
Petit Letree: "I want to be with Mama."
Shepa: "I’m fine with anything!"
Mī: "Mī wants a house where fish can be caught nya. Mū wants a room where claws can be sharpened nya."
Mū: "..."
Shiro: "Nyaa. I want a house where I can sunbathe... nya."
Kemolori: "I want a room where we can stick together with everyone."
Kapi: "I want to gnaw!"
(Omitted.)
The opinions of the capybara girls were roughly the three patterns of "together with everyone," "warm is good," and "I want to gnaw."
Hmm. For these kids, giving them private rooms might actually be bad. Because they warm up and communicate by sticking their bodies together, maybe the concept of a private room is unnecessary. Conversely if left alone they might get lonely and fall ill.
Iferaski: "Pi"
You bastard! Saying you want to be with me—you say such happy things.
Are you aiming for morning fellatio?
Do you like me too much?
Ranjou: "Pi"
I wonder what she said. I still can’t understand Ranjou’s words. But is she jealous that Iferaski said she wants to be with me. It feels like she said something like "Iferaski is with me, right."
Esty-san: "I don’t particularly care about my own sleeping place. Communal sleeping is fine. What I want in the village is a place to put shared tools. Even with just one knife, with this many people it’s difficult to distribute to everyone. Therefore, deciding on a kitchen and placing just a few there is appropriate, I think."
After saying that much, Esty-san once bowed her head toward Rafilia-san.
"I’ll say something a bit self-serving, so if it offends please forgive me."
"No. Please go ahead."
"Um. Generally, kitchen knives, pots, and stoves are things that neighbors lend and borrow among themselves."
Yeah. Because my lodging place was the church, tools of all kinds were available, but the neighborhood people lent and borrowed among the neighboring houses in the same district. There were even times when neighborhood people came to the church to borrow because acquaintances visited and tableware became insufficient.
In short, things are scarce.
"In our case. At least with the current number of people, food can be prepared with Rafilia-san’s skill. That means one kitchen and cooking tools are enough. In other words, what we should prioritize is not raising individual standards of living, but creating a facility like a tavern or inn in the city where a large number of people can spend time together and also receive meals."
I see. An inn or cafeteria.
The reason Esty-san is speaking a bit hesitantly is, in short, because it’s hard to ask Rafilia-san to become our exclusive cook and prepare meals every day.
Everyone is also agreeing with Esty-san’s opinion.
Indeed, preparing private rooms and gathering furniture and tools is difficult.
That everyone would want private rooms was my assumption. The idea of fully equipped private rooms doesn’t seem to match this country’s values.
"Please forget that I said I can prepare private rooms for everyone. It’s not that I want to separate everyone. The way I asked what kind of house is good was bad. Think about what you want to do in the village."
Because it’s a medieval Europe-style world, there is no need for private space, and in the first place the concept of one house per family consisting of father, mother, and child was unnecessary.
The values are that people who get along living in the same house for economic reasons is normal, so even though lumber is abundantly available there was no need to divide everyone.
Sleeping places can be casual. As long as there is a roof and walls that thirty people can sleep under, people can just go to an empty place and sleep.
I carelessly forgot.
We are a family. There is no blood connection, but because we are a clan living in the same house, we mustn’t divide by rooms.
What is needed is facilities that everyone can share.
Like a romantic comedy harem, I just need to live together with a large number of girls.