"We're not eating. We don't want any."
"..."
You said you didn't want any, but when you were hungry earlier, you were all eating like it was the best thing ever!
Before long, everyone split up to get to work.
The Young Lady stayed by the cliff to keep an eye on things while the others continued digging farther into the cave, carving out a shelter from scratch. It was hard work, but the sense of accomplishment was incredible.
Amamiya Natsuki took Haruno and Yukino into the forest to chop down some trees.
They walked in silence.
A little while later, a gloomy, eerie forest appeared before them.
"Ever since the environmental protection laws were passed, you can't recklessly chop down trees anymore, even if you planted them yourself." Amamiya Natsuki pulled out an axe and said eagerly, "But that's not a problem in this world. Here, one axe each. Let's experience the joys of being lumberjacks."
Thud, thud, thud.
With every swing of Amamiya Natsuki's axe, wood chips flew into the air.
"That's the joy of chopping down trees."
A satisfied smile spread across Amamiya Natsuki's face. It was just ordinary manual labor, but somehow, it gave him a deeply satisfying thrill.
That's right.
Real men didn't just love lifting weights. They loved chopping trees, too.
"It's just chopping down trees... Is it really that fun?"
Yukinoshita Yukino sounded baffled.
"You wouldn't understand." Amamiya Natsuki kept swinging his axe. "It's like how you can shop for bags all day without getting tired. Guys can't understand what's fun about that, either. Chopping trees is a man's joy."
The girls clearly couldn't understand the joy of being a lumberjack. By the time Amamiya Natsuki had felled one tree, Yukino and Haruno had only managed to cut through about a third of