Screams. That's all Kohaku could hear.

Where am I?

All of a sudden I can't move…

What's happening?

Cant… Speak?

Help!

Mom! Dad…? Help…

Don't want to die… don't want to die…

I don't want to die!

She heard a voice and Kohaku burst herself awake, she was sweating and panting heavily. She looked at her side and saw Senku sat near her, who scooted away a bit, smirking at her.

"Did you have a nightmare?" He asked, massaging his neck. Kohaku breathed out, "no. It was more of visual audio." She spread her arms out and stretched. She stayed silent and glanced at Senku who was just… looking at her. She bit her lip. She didn't really want to talk about it… whatever she ever had. Then she coughed to remove the silence that had arisen.

"Anyway- how long were you gone? It was for about three hours that you were gone when I fell asleep." She stood up and also helped Senku stand up.

"Five hours at most. I found the clay and brought them in piles so I don't have to walk back and forth just to bring more here." Senku pointed behind him, Kohaku looked ahead of him. There were three big blobs of clay, she walked towards them and touched them, still moist.

"I'm surprised. How'd you even manage to bring them over here?" She asked, picking one of the three blobs to test the weight. It was quite heavy. She heard Senku groan.

"I carried them one by one, I carried one far enough and left it there with a large enough leaf to get the other, just the repeating process of walking back and forth with the clay. Took almost an hour and a half just to get here." He said. Kohaku couldn't help but chuckle. She turned around and waited for Senku to say something else, only to be greeted with more silence. She sweatdropped, looking around, thinking of something to say.

"What do we do now?" Kohaku asked, glancing at the small work she has done on the house. She then remembered step two from Senku's instructions. She walked closer to him and faced him, she held his hand and led him to the two big logs.

"I almost forgot! Step two is one that I needed help on, I can't hold the wood and tie them onto the top at the same time." She explained to Senku, pointing at the instructions that were written on the ground near them. He nodded, "I was ten billion percent sure you wouldn't be able to do that step, so you can hold the logs while I do the tying. First I need to check on the work that you've done above. Can't have the floor collapse while we're on it." He said, examining the floor. They stood by each other, staring at the written instructions.

"But to do that, I'll need you to let go of my hand, Kohaku." He finished, pointing at the intertwined hands with his other hand. Kohaku looked down and quickly let go.

"Sorry." She sputtered. She watched him climb the ladder with confidence that it won't rip. He reached the top and immediately began to look for any mistakes or chipped parts. He took 10 minutes before he leaned forward and gave a thumbs up at her.

"You did great! We can start with the legs now, I have rope here." He said, revealing four 3 meter ropes that he had created over the course of time she had slept, well she guessed. Kohaku grabbed one of the logs and stood it up, the deep cut of the wood was facing up and she leaned it towards Senku and kept it in place. She waited as Senku quickly and efficiently tied the rope and log to the thick branch. Once he finished he signaled her and she quickly went for the next log. They did the same process for the next five minutes.

"We got the two done. Now we won't need to worry about the floor breaking off while we work." Senku said, observing the legs to make sure they aren't loose. While he was doing that, Kohaku went ahead and sat crisscrossed, watching Senku do his inspection. She then averted her eyes from him and the basket that was full of grapes.

"Hey, while you were gone Senku, I found the straw and made some baskets of it. I found grapes and maybe we can make some use of it?" Kohaku asked, pointed ahead of her where the basket stood. Senku studied them, thinking.

"Well we don't have much use of it right now-" He stopped, widening his eyes. Kohaku also widened her eyes to play along.

"Kohaku quick- What can you make with grapes with the least amount of ingredients? 10 billion points if answered correctly." He asked, turning around at the speed of sound to face her. She quickly thought.

"Jelly!" Kohaku exclaimed, positive she was correct.

"Wrong." He deadpanned. She stared at him.

"I thought I taught you better than that my dear lioness." He tsked and clicked his tongue, shaking his head. Kohaku internally screamed but kept quiet.

"You can make alcohol," Senku said, picking a grape from the basket and plopping them in his mouth.

"What do we even need alcohol for? You can't drink until you're 21, Senku." Kohaku said, folding her arms.

"Technically I'm not 19 anymore, and neither are you. We both are now 3734 years old." He said, scratching his ear. Kohaku sighed, "and now that laws don't exist in this world gives us the right to do whatever we want? I'm pretty sure that's what you're thinking." She said.

"Exactly." He retorted, smirking. "We can do whatever we want, there is no laws, no restrictions, police, government, cameras, nothing. This is true freedom." He spread his arms, relishing on the air fanning on his face.

"Alright, Tarzan, so what exactly do we need alcohol for?" Kohaku asked, chuckling at Senku's stance. He retreated from his position and sat next to her, "You'll see when I finish making the alcohol. Although we do need to finish the house before we go on with experimenting." He placed his hand on his cheek, pondering on the architecture of the walls.

"Let's start with the walls, then we can just add leaves for the roof. We don't need an extravagant looking house by any means." Senku said, he stood up and went to get some wood sticks and clay. Kohaku followed him, grabbing clay and plopping it onto a boulder.

"We are going to use the clay as a replacement for plywood since we definitely do not have anything to smoothen the wood." Senku went up the rope ladder, "Hand me the wood and throw the clay up- actually no." He went down again and grabbed the clay, carefully going back up.

"Just hand the wood, I should have enough rope to make two walls." He said. Kohaku saluted.

"Yes, sir!" She halted, looked up, and saw Senku looking at her in a deadpan expression. She smiled and retreated, grabbing the wood and propping it upward. She felt her arms get lighter and went to get the next one. They repeated the process until the second wall has been built.

It was now evening, Senku went down and stretched.

"Guess we should eat and continue tomorrow, we can make more rope, and perhaps get somewhere with the petrification." He scratched his ear and walked toward the charred spot on the ground, dumped some wood, and got to work with the fire. Kohaku got the covered smoked deer meat from a boulder and placed it near Senku, and helped him with the fire.