Private Island Systems In Other Worlds
Thirty Three

While drying the pottery, now my focus changed to the manufacture of cement. The limestone that has been collected before I smashed into small sizes to make it easier to mix after that clay and silica sand which is also a material to make cement I clean.

After the three ingredients are finished being prepared, then I mix these three ingredients. The proportion of the mixture is about 70% limestone, 20% clay, and the remaining 10% silica sand. After that I add water until the mixture has enough moisture to form a solidifying material.

Once it is finished mixed now just dry it. Maybe this drying will take a few days like when making bricks. Later after this mixture dries stay stir in the combustion furnace to help activate chemical reactions between the ingredients which will increase the hardness of the cement.

Although the cement that will be produced with this grade-style material will not have qualities such as commercial cement on Earth but I think this cement is sturdier as an adhesive than using red brick powder.

With the help of the golem, I can make a lot of cement. There is no need to be afraid also about the storage because all of it can be placed in the inventory.

With so much time left today, I used it to train with Fina. During the practice, Fina's attitude taught me still looks like usual. I also did not know for sure what he was thinking because his expression almost always looked calm.

Until nightfall, my interaction with Fina seemed no different from before. It might feel a little different because of my more polite attitude towards him. If I had noticed how he treated me, I thought it would make no difference to the previous one. It's just like last night, Fina slept in her room tonight.

The next day, I noticed the dried pottery had dried up. Hmmm. As I recall that on Earth it should take a few days. But since this is another world let's just assume it is because there are mana influences.

Fortunately burning pottery in the furnace will not take long so today we can already use this pottery cookware and can immediately cook inside the house.

While burning pottery in the furnace, I remembered that our bathroom should be covered with tiles and not just cement. This is so that the wood is more durable. So I immediately made the bathroom ceramic tile.

Using clay that has been cleaned and soaked before, the clay is mixed and in the ulen then arranged so that it forms pieces of tile. Furthermore, the tile pieces that have been made live in the sun to dry. Then after dry properly I burn in the furnace so that he hardens perfectly.

After making the tiles that the golems then continued and while waiting for the burning and cooling of the pottery, I used the remaining time to train with Fina. Fortunately even though Fina might have been keeping her distance from me the past few days, she still continued to teach me as she always did.

Stoves, pots, and pans (cooks & cutlery) from pottery √

We continued to practice until the pottery was finished in the chill. With the completion of the pottery, I will make an important foodstuff. With so many coconuts around me, it's time to make cooking oil.

I take the coconut meat and then pureed until it looks like the meat is grated and then the coconut meat is squeezed until it gets its water. The coconut water is just kupanaskan in the pottery pan that we just finished making until the gray oil appears. I decided to make this oil as much as possible until night. Because the gift I wanted to give to Fina had something to do with this.

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Dinner this time was different. For the main dinner menu, I made pieces of spear fish fried with makeshift spices that are salt and lime only then as carbohydrates I made sago plates that only use sago flour, sago flour ingredients, water, and salt.

Previously some of the trees I picked up from the Monster Peninsula had been planted back on this island. So in addition to lime trees, on this island there are also sago trees and rambutan trees.

To cook tonight, I did it in the kitchen inside the stilt house illuminated with torches and moonlight from the window. With the stove, we no longer need to use the campfire outside to cook. I also told Fina not to help cook this time. I told her to just pay attention because I wanted to give her special treatment this time. Moreover, this is a different way than before so he should just look at it first while sitting from the dining table.

Finish cooking and putting all the food on the plate, one by one I took her to the dining table where Fina was sitting waiting with an empty plate of earthenware and a cutlery carved from wood in front of her.

Carrying the food by walking as slowly as possible like a waiter in a fancy restaurant, I delivered the food one by one then explained about the food to Fina as elegantly as possible. Not to forget also I explained and practiced how to use a spoon and fork.

As long as I explained, Fina simply looked at me with her calm gaze without taking out a word. No ‘iya’ or ‘baiklah’ etc. I wonder if he might not like it?

After all the introductions were done, I sat down in front of Fina and gave a farewell meal. Our atmosphere while eating was just quiet and calm which should be the usual atmosphere, but somehow I felt uncomfortable.

Is it possible because I've been thinking too much about Fina's behavior lately? Should I just apologize now without waiting to make something a sign of apology? That way maybe our relationship can return faster than before. Hmmm. Or maybe this is all in my mind. maybe actually Fina is fine and this is indeed her usual behavior but because I think too much to the conditions that should be ordinary even feel there is a problem.

“Hahh...” I take a deep breath while eating because I think too much about things that are not necessarily true. Instead of thinking about something uncertain like this, I should just immediately resolve this situation. Anyway after this dinner I have to take Fina to talk so I can find out exactly what went wrong. But I hope this situation is just the result of my mind being too far-fetched.

Because I think too much while eating I end up finishing my food too long. As I hurried to finish the meal and looked at Fina to say that I wanted to talk to her, it turned out that Fina had finished eating first and was looking at me as if waiting for me to finish eating.

“A-”

“I want to talk to you.”