Chapter 45: The next day after building a family, was he fooled by a little girl?
The second day of building a home:
Hawkeye is essentially a calm person.
As a swordsman, mentality is very important. He has already achieved the level of "the world's number one swordsman", so naturally his mentality is one of the strongest.
But even so, being suddenly proposed to by a girl whom I had known for less than a day was still a bit too much.
After a long silence, he asked uncertainly, "...What did you say?"
Wendy repeated it openly, her tone full of anticipation: "Will you marry me?"
Hawkeye: “…”
Yes, you heard it right.
But why... Is it because I'm the first person on this island, so I want to join them? Because I'm too lonely?
She didn't look very old, actually... Judging by the time the Kingdom of Xikaiari was destroyed, she must have been living alone on this island for two or three years. And what was that white ghost? Was it a relative? Why was she still able to fight even after becoming a ghost?
Hawkeye thought about it for a moment. But he still refused decisively: "Of course not."
Whatever the reason, this definitely won’t work.
Wendy wasn't surprised by this response, but her tone was a little regretful: "Okay then."
After being rejected, she didn't feel any negative emotions. She quickly put that little regret behind her. She replaced her walking cane with the newly acquired Joker series fool's cane, ran into the castle with small ribbons fluttering along the way.
Hawkeye: “…” Just like that?
He began to feel that he had thought too much before. Maybe the other party was just asking a simple question... Although he didn't know why such a thing could be asked casually.
Wendy's thinking was simple. She thought Hawkeye refused because she hadn't installed the marriage mod yet, so the game banned it. She could just wait until she installed it and then ask Hawkeye.
As for the possibility of Hawkeye refusing later, she thought it was impossible.
If the player wants it, the player gets it. If Hawkeye refuses, it means her favorability hasn't been increased yet. Just increase it and ask a few more times!
Therefore, she didn't care at all about being rejected. Instead, she ran to her room, took out the seeds she had collected before, and happily waited for Hawkeye to hoe the ground before planting the seeds.
Hawkeye glanced at her, and after a moment's silence, he chose to ask, "What kind of seeds did you sow?"
Wendy answered truthfully, "Ordinary seeds."
"..." Hawkeye paused and decided to continue asking, "What crop's seeds are these?"
"We don't know yet. We have to wait until the crops are planted!" Wendy said, kindly explaining, "We have to wait until the first crop is planted before we can sort the crop seeds. Then we can grow huge crops based on the pressure ratio, which will make the efficiency very high!"
Hawkeye didn't actually understand what Wendy was saying, but she could probably understand that the seeds she had sown were unknown, and she wouldn't know what they were until they were planted...
Watching the other person suddenly take out a watering can out of thin air, and then happily go to the pond to find water to water the land, he suddenly felt that the land he had just opened up was no longer his.
As for the "we" that the other party just said, he ignored it - they had already divided their personal areas before.
However, he had no plans to open a second piece of land today - because with Wendy staring at him, he always felt that even if he opened a second piece of land, it would not be his.
Hawkeye didn't feel angry about this. He watched Wendy start watering the plants, then went back to the castle and into the kitchen.
It was also after entering the kitchen that he saw Wendy's masterpiece - four pots surrounding a refrigerator, which looked like they were about to summon something.
He took a closer look and went back to his own area. He had brought some food supplies with him to the island, but not much.
Just as he was about to cook, Wendy came in and came over to watch curiously: "Mihawk, are you cooking? You're so slow!"
As she spoke, Wendy showed him her cooking skills.
Hawkeye watched as the blonde girl, whose origins and words were not only mysterious, opened the refrigerator, then quickly put the ingredients into four pots, and then closed the lids of the pots with a snap.
Then, for some reason, even without a fire, the pots began to boil, their lids half-opened by the steam, making a gurgling sound. And then, after 15 seconds, the gurgling stopped, the lids opened automatically, and out came the cooked food—four meatballs.
Although Hawkeye had no idea why all those ingredients could be cooked into fresh meatballs of uniform size, bright color and tempting aroma.
Wendy was very sharing. She gave him one portion of meatballs, ate one herself, and put the remaining two portions in the refrigerator. Then she cooked them twice more with super high efficiency. After putting all the meatballs in the refrigerator, she said to him, "I put the food in the refrigerator. Mihawk, you can help yourself if you want to eat."
"...Oh." Hawkeye responded belatedly, looked at the meatball stuffed in his hand hesitantly, and took a bite.
The taste was normal, even quite good...but the key point was how was it achieved? Could it be a special ability of the royal family of the Kingdom of Xikaiari? I'd never heard of it before...and with such an ability, they shouldn't be completely wiped out, right?
"It's a pity that we only have some basic materials now... But now that we have started farming, we will soon have dragon fruit and can eat dragon fruit pie! If we want to grow huge crops, we can use tomatoes to match them. This way, the by-product tomatoes can be used as vegetables and can be used to make vegetable cocktails!" Wendy talked about her plan over there, and then ran out again.
Hawkeye hesitated for a moment, but decided to eat the meatballs in his hand first and then observe the situation.
After observing her like this... Hawkeye discovered that this little royal girl was really special... or even weird.
In a way, she is very delicate.
When it rains, she has to wear a raincoat or hold an umbrella, and can't stand the darkness. She said that it will become wet and her hair will fall off, and if she meets Charlie in the dark, she will be caught and killed.
Hawkeye didn't know who Charlie was. He thought he was some villain in a fairy tale who scared children... But although Wendy said she couldn't stay in the dark, she liked to stay up late at night and hold a torch to take care of the fields.
Her clothes were always clean and tidy, even though she often went to the fields...
In this regard, she seems to be very capable.
Although his cooking skills are mysterious, the food he makes is indeed delicious. He also seems to enjoy tending to the fields, even going so far as to shine a light at night and talk to each plant...
Wendy also has her own explanation for this: "Only by communicating with the plants can they grow healthily!"
Hawkeye heard the voices late at night and came out to see this strange scene: "..."
What healthy growth? Don't tell him it's about love.
Although he thought it was unreliable, Hawkeye was a person with a strong sense of boundaries and would not casually comment on other people's actions. Therefore, he did not interfere with Wendy's farming behavior... Then he discovered that Wendy was indeed very good at it.
Because the crops she took care of really changed every day - they almost sprouted on the second day, sprouted leaves on the third day, grew big on the fourth day, and bore fruit on the fifth day... This could not be explained by premature ripening!
Even though his expression rarely changed, he couldn't control his expression when he saw Wendy harvesting crops over there on the fifth day.
Perhaps because his emotions were exposed, Wendy noticed and said, "I didn't grow any dragon fruit this time, but I did grow tomatoes."
Hawkeye: "...No, I'm not confused about that."
However, the other party seemed to have taken care of most of the farming work... Hawkeye didn't want to let the little girl work alone, so he took the initiative to take on the physical work such as re-ploughing, watering, and harvesting.
After all, he absolutely couldn't do something like talking to crops in the middle of the night.
Although Wendy got tired later and made a phonograph and started playing music for the plants, saying that this could also work... Hawkeye didn't understand, but he respected it.
But... this way, there are even more mysteries about Wendy.
He actually didn't want to pay so much attention to the other person, and it wasn't because of that weird "proposal"... It was really because the other person invaded other people's boundaries too naturally.
The territory that was agreed to be half for each of them was now completely mixed up - because Wendy planted the land he had cultivated on the first day, sorted all the ingredients he left in the kitchen and stuffed them into her own refrigerator on the second day, and on the third day she built her own strange props at the door of his room, ran into his room to set up a tent and told him you're welcome.
God knows how silent he felt when he heard that the blue hut that looked like a decoration was the urn for Wendy's sister.
Hawkeye walked into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator at the door - this was where Wendy said the finished products were made.
He took out a cup of soothing tea. It was made by Wendy from the weeds she grew in her farm. According to her, it "can slowly restore sanity"...
Although Hawkeye still doesn't quite understand it, after drinking it, he will feel refreshed... Maybe this is a spiritual concept.
While he was drinking tea, Wendy came in again and said to him, "I've planted new seeds. Mihawk, remember to play music for them at each stage. I'm going to find the Baboon King to remove the curse with a banana!"
"Got it," Hawkeye replied. After Wendy stormed off, he suddenly realized something. Wait... what was going on? Originally, they'd agreed to split the property equally, but now, forgetting the territory, the food and housing were completely conflated... How had things suddenly gotten this far in just a week?
It seemed like... everything started with that strange proposal, which caused him to only care about that one thing and ignore other strange things and developments...
For a moment, Hawkeye began to think deeply - was he being fooled by a little girl?
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PS: The nutrient solution is about to arrive... If it arrives before nine o'clock tomorrow morning, there will be an additional update.
How come your throwing speed suddenly increased... Damn it! My saved draft is really going to be gone!
PPS: Saw deep water! Currently counted as deep water x1!
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