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Chapter 137
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What if you have a billion yen on a deserted island? How will that money help you? Of course everyone will say that the most important thing when stranded on a deserted island is to have survival skills and basic supplies like food, shelter and clothes.
In a world filled with lesser dragons flying in the sky, money might not have that much value. Having enough money to buy the basic necessities so you could keep on living was more than enough. What was important was the freedom to spend your time as you pleased and not having your lifespan taken by other people.
Time is money might not be entirely correct.
Time and money were never equal. For me, time was far, far more valuable than money.
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Today, I was planning on making iron plates in the size that I could put in a drum. I crushed merman scales to give water attributes to the iron plates.
I had been thinking about transportation problems when it was snowing in the winter. It seemed that it’d be difficult for me to carefreely fetch water from the river in a drum with a wagon like I used to do. So, I decided to make an iron plate that could produce water, or 【water board】and installed them on a drum to store water for a bath.
The water produced was clean but it was producing water at extremely low speed. One drum wouldn’t be enough so I made 3 drums in total. Furthermore, when snow started to pile up, I could also melt the snow and use it for a bath.
Just about time. I had just finished making 3 water boards. My whole body was drenched in sweat, making me want to take a bath. I really wanted to take a bath right now so I loaded the empty drums in a wagon and went to the river to fetch water for my hot bath.
18:00
“Fuah….”
I exhaled deeply and my breath turned into steam. Looking up to the sky, the blue moon looked unusually bigger than usual. Suddenly, a thought came to my mind. I didn’t think about Yurina-san at all today. People really couldn’t live only for love, unlike what they showcased in TV dramas.
You need to put in a lot of effort in order to live a real life. For example, I spent the whole day thinking about how to get enough water for a hot bath.
My boss used to say that I should “compromise” and that I had no dream since it seemed at this rate I would never get married.
Is what my boss said true though?
Compromise, get married and build a family. I think the people who actually made that happen were amazing and I didn’t have the right to say otherwise. However, no matter what, I couldn’t think of anything more valuable than the relationship I created with my close friends in this strange world.
By the time I realized it, I had found myself becoming a pitiful creature who was analyzing myself calmly and objectively after getting so excited at the thought of her.
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T/N: A roller coaster of emotions~
Hey dummy, you’re just now getting around to making more water plates even though it was months ago when you made the first one and never explored the potential of it till now, almost winter. I feel like calling you a dumbass isn’t strong enough, but there you go. It was more important to flirt with the ho.
He says a lot of heavy atuff but don’t plate the drums with water producing plates onstead of a waterboard at the bottom 🙄
You are young – you have time, you have strength, you have no money.
You are an adult – you have strength, you have money, you have no time.
You are old – you have money, you have time, you have no strength.
Thanks for the chapter! Very self sufficient
The hole in his heart regenerated, lol
lmao like the grinch
Because he now made those three water barrels, he’s now the anti-drought measure so those barrels aren’t going to be for just his bath water anymore. Heck, considering that’s it’s clean, renewable water, people don’t exactly need to dig wells or get dangerous (in many ways) river anymore if anyone ever found out that they exist and he can make them. The Water Daggers were one thing, but barrels of (slowly growing) fresh clean water is another.
I tell ya, there’s more and more reason that he’ll have (Bavarian’s loyal) guards (who’ll hide the fact that they are guards) living with him sooner or later.
Yeah but it’s trickling down very very slowly. MC said it’s not enough to rely as water source…. Yet. I think there’s grade for attribute too? Maybe if MC can make water(big) attribute, MC can have reliable water source.
As he is now, he wouldn’t take them in. If he ends up building himself a literal castle where he can protect his solitude even with other people in his domain, maybe. He has a pet wolf king whose pack is driving away all the nearby monsters already, anyway. There is also a very slight possibility his wife is a dragon.