Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken novel Chapter 281

The second day was horrible.

Moving as a group was just not ideal. It was a day of realizing this.

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

And of course, we too were unable to accomplish much.

As we weren’t allowed to stray too far from the eyes of the instructors, the area we could go to look for herbs and seeds was very limited.

And these were areas that the other students had already searched on the first day, so it was no surprise that nothing good had come up.

If we were allowed to, I would have wanted to go to the west.

It was a desert area, so the variety of plants over there would have also been quite different.

That made me think that there would be plants suited for cooking spices…

In any case, what we were able to get was a little collection of seeds, edible grass and a clump of rock salt.

Had we gone near the shore, we might have been able to get some water to make sea salt, but of course, we could not do that. I would have been able to manage it alone, but the exploration team had only advanced one-quarter of the way through the island in a day. And so getting salt from the sea was not a very realistic idea.

Had I not realized that the rock was crystalized salt, then we would have had to eat our food without any salt at all…

…No, that is a lie.

The rock salt alone was something that I had secretly prepared.

I didn’t think you could make anything without salt, and so it was necessary for me to prepare this thing at least.

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

And so with no other choice, I had crystallized the salt in the ground when no one was looking. And then I stuck it onto the rocks so no one would think it was strange.

And then I pretended to be ignorant of it so that Mondo could discover it.

“Thi-this! It is a clump of salt!!”

Mondo was overjoyed when he told me. His happiness was incomparable to my own terrible acting skills, and he was overflowing with happiness at this discovery.

It didn’t result in any points, but no one became suspicious about it.

They were all unsurprised, thinking that picking up some rock salt was hardly enough to get you some points.

And so that was how I was able to prepare some salt.

I returned to the base and started making dinner.

Lunch was either rations or whatever you could find in your environment. And so we had searched for seeds and wild berries…but, it was not enough.

For George and Mondo, it was about the amount, but for me, it was more about quality. It was dry and not sweet. To be honest, they were just bad.

And so I had had higher hopes for dinner, but we had not been successful.

Sadly, I licked the salt and sipped the disgusting grass soup.

It seemed like Magnus and a few other students were sticking to their rations.

I understood why.

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

At the same time, the smell of the fancy dinner that Julius and the others were eating wafted in the air. And it lit a fire of rage within me.

To be frank, this was a challenge.