Chapter 65: For her, the words I conveyed were…
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“Hmm… so the key is to match the inner sides of the bark, then?”
Koai, striving to remain composed, pointed at the surface of the tree stump and asked Snow.
“Kanyou…? Uh, yeah, something like that—or rather, that’s the important part,” she replied.
Her answer left Koai slightly puzzled, but it seemed she understood well enough.
“I see… then next, we’ll try to align… this… part…”
I can’t just be idle—if I’m borrowing her knowledge and time, I should at least avoid troubling her unnecessarily.
“Let’s start by cutting the matching section from the side of the stump.”
Koai took a short dagger in hand, aiming at the outer edge of the stump’s surface.
Although she said “cutting out,” if the trunk were sliced vertically, the cut surface would be far too large for the branch she brought. The real task was to carve slightly deeper into the stump’s surface—more of a chiseling than a chopping.
She had remarked before that this dagger wasn’t particularly sharp…