Easy Survival Life Chapter 102. Scallops and Ear Shells

 

 

「 Are you sure you’re okay now? 」

「 Yeah, eating Hokage-kun’s food gave me energy 」

Eri returned to her cooking duties in the afternoon.

That said, her work is only inside the hideout.

Unlike when she’s full of energy, she’s going to take a rest for the other work.

As for me, I’d rather have her lie down and do nothing.

But Eri strongly refused, so I had to accept.

「 Don’t push yourself too hard. 」

「 Don’t worry. Tanaka-kun’s working hard for me 」

「 Leave it to me! 」

I’ll let Eri take care of the cooking and I’m off to do another task.

My afternoon job is gathering ingredients.

「 Sorry about that, Muscle, Hinako 」

「 No problem, muscle! 」

「 Leave it to us! Shinomiya-san! 」

I took Muscle and Hinako and sailed the fishing boat out to the sea.

Muscle’s the strongest one in the group so his responsibility is rowing the oars.

Hinako’s in charge of underwater work with me.

「 This place will do. Stop 」

「 Got it muscle! 」

Muscle stays on the boat, I’m taking off my clothes.

We don’t have any wetsuits in this world so we get naked when going underwater.

「 M-Muscle, please don’t look 」

Hinako timidly asks.

Muscle nods, saying “Of course, muscle!”

After confirming that, Hinako took off her clothes.

(He’s seriously not trying to take a peek.)

I was staring at muscles while Hinako’s undressing. Naked.

I thought of scolding him if he tried, but as expected, there’s no problem

Muscle is turning his back on us.

「 Let’s go 」

「 Yes 」

Hinako and I are holding a bamboo knife in our right hand and dived in.

I call it a knife, but that’s just the shape, it’s not sharp.

We’re not trying to chop anything so that wasn’t a problem.

(I’m glad we have goggles)

Hinako and I are equipped with goggles.

It’s a modern convenience we’re fortunate enough to bring to this world.

Thanks to this, we can see clearly in the water.

(There it is)

Hinako gives a hand sign and we go to the bottom.

We’re diving in the coastal area, the bottom is shallow, so we reached it quickly.

(Take a look)

I signal Hinako with my eyes.

She nods to convey “I understand.”

I reach for the countless shells lying on the sand of the ocean floor.

Scallops.

(Uooh!)

I approached and the scallops bounced.

The shell slowly opens, then vigorously jumps vertically at the same time.

「 Gobogobogobo 」

I’m surprised, but Hinako’s more surprised.

She exhaled a large bubble in surprise and choked on seawater.

Then, of course, she choked.

Hinako rises up to the surface to recharge her oxygen.

(Meanwhile, I’m gonna harvest these)

I grab and obtain the scallops by hand.

These guys are so lively that they’re making a lot of fuss.

But after a while, they figured it out.

They used their “stay in the shell plan” and closed tightly.

(I thought so)

I rise to the surface holding the scallops I caught.

Due to the time available for diving, we can only catch a few in one dive.

We need at least a few dives if we’re to secure food for everyone.

(Oh, it’s Hinako)

I passed by Hinako while returning to the surface.

She showed a smile, then…

(Oooh, she’s done it now!)

She touches my dick with such an innocent face.

It’s a light touch, but it got me a fourth to my erection in an instant.

Geez, what a bad girl.

「 Puhaa! 」

Though I was surprised by Hinako’s surprise attack, I reached the surface safely

「 Welcome back! Muscle! 」

「 Here you go. Take care of this 」

「 I got this! Muscle! 」

I gave the scallops to Muscle, who’s waiting on the fishing boat.

Muscle tossed them to the bucket.

After confirming that, I dived back down.

(As expected of Hinako, she doesn’t have problems)

I passed by Hinako as soon as I started diving.

She’s holding scallops in her hand.

I don’t need to teach her, she’s catching them normally.

(I can go for something else then)

I headed to the surface with Hinako.

「 Hinako, I’m going to catch some ear shells. Can you continue catching scallops? 」

「 Yes, no problem 」

「 Careful of starfishes. They won’t touch you as long as you don’t approach them 」

「 I understand 」

Starfishes prefer scallops.

That’s why we see some starfishes in the scallop habitat too.

Starfishes are dangerous because depending on the specie, they could be poisonous.

We should avoid that possibility as much as possible.

「 Then, see you later 」

I let Hinako take care of the scallops while I go harvest ear shells.

While scallops live at the bottom of shallow waters, ear shells live on reefs

(Thank goodness they’re easy to catch at noon)

They’re nocturnal.

And so, it’s common for them to sleep between the rocks during the day.

They’re easy to find once you get the hang of it, and since they’re sleeping, they’re easy to catch.

(Looks delicious)

Just like scallops, the ear shells are also high quality.

It has the charm to make you droll even before processing it.

I collect the ear shells wholeheartedly.

(My oxygen’s about to run out)

Then, I noticed that I should resurface to take a breath.

(Woah, why are you behind me)

There’s a shark behind me.

It’s the usual one.

(You surprised me, seriously.)

I used the bamboo knife and take the meat off the ear shell.

I tear off the red beak, which is hard and unsuitable for human consumption.

I skipped all the other preparations and gave the shark a whole large piece of food.

(I wonder if sharks like eating ear shells?)

I’m worried that the shark won’t like it.

It might get angry for making it eat bad food.

But, I already did it, so what can I do?

I look at the shark fearfully, and its expression changed.

Smile.

It’s smiling.

It opened its mouth slightly with the corners raised and gave me a cheek bump.

It seems like it’s happy.

(Send me up, please)

I give a hand sign that looks like a thumbs up.

The shark understood and rose to the surface with me on board.

「 Welcome back, Muscle 」

「 Welcome back, Shinomiya-san 」

「 Yeah, I’m back 」

「 「 Wait, eeeeeeeh?! 」 」

Sure enough, Hinako and Muscle are surprised to see me with the shark.

The shark didn’t seem to be excited by that reaction and disappeared quickly.

「 I have to name that shark someday 」

I mutter while staring at the shark’s back.

Hinako and Muscle were taken by surprise.