While Edward was still sitting in the camp, Roc had already arranged for two archers to patrol the area around their cave.
Night and Daisy were satisfied as the days went by working with the women of the tribe while taking it easy and just relaxing most of their time.
But Edward couldn't be idle, he had a lot of projects he needed to look over. Edward was teaching the modern knowledge he had of his era to the savages. He was teaching them as much as he could whenever he had the time. Usually he would teach a small group and then ask them to teach others to reduce the direct burden on him but he still had to be careful that wrong or misinterpreted information was not spread.
He was doing all this so the people of the tribe could do more work and he could spend a leisurely time with the girls.
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At a flat area near the cave, Edward command two tribesmen to dig out two rectangular holes with wooden sticks.
He basically commanded the men to dig out two pools with impromptu wooden stick shovels.
One of the pit was where leather was to be processed and other was for his paper production. The walls of the pit were coated with yellow mud to smooth the area.
Rotten branches, bark, grass sticks were crushed with stones and placed in one of the pits. Then water was added.
"The bigger it is the better." He said as he was looking over the tribesmen working hard.
The more through Edward was for these initial preparations, the more softer paper he could possible make and the more it could care for the delicate skins of the girls and his own ass.
Roc had brought back a few bamboo sticks early in the morning so Edward had the bamboo smashed and turned into as much pulp as possible.
Roc and Debro couldn't imagine what Edward would make this time.
What kind of good can be made from a rotten bark?
At first Edward wanted to personally work to make paper but Roc had insisted that he let the people of the tribe do it so Edward had to reluctantly accepted it.
While they were working, Edward was worrying over their salt deposits. It had been more than a week since they came back from their salt venture and their stock was nearly empty. Most was used in cooking leather skins or to preserve meat.
While Edward was worrying over salt, the tribesmen were busy with the bamboo. The bamboo wire was braided into a fine curtain of warp and weft and the evenly mixed pulp was picked up with a clay pot and poured onto the curtain. After drying on the bamboo pole outside, Edward gently lifted it up, tearing off a piece of it. A piece of paper was finally made. Rough but it was still a paper in the most basic sense.
It was a bit hard and it seemed to be a little bit worse than his own requirements but given the current conditions this was already very good.
"Light bro, you have been busy for a few days on this thing. Is this thing useful even?" Roc frowned and asked.
Edward certainly did not want to tell them that this was mainly for Night, Daisy and mainly the women folk. Although paper had a lot of useful uses but what drove Edward to make paper right now was mostly sanitation of the women folk because otherwise he would had made paper much later.
Edward jokingly asked Roc:
"Did you take a shit today?"
"Not yet, I usually go when the sun goes down." Roc replied back while confused.
Edward teared away a piece of paper and folded it a bit before handing it to Roc.
"Use this instead of a stone or a stick."
Although Roc was confused but he still accepted Edwards's suggestion and took the papers and hurried away.
After a while, he came back with a huge smile on his face.
"Light... Light brother, I am from..... ever.....not so comfortable, this thing.... really..... really good~! I will want it later... I have to take it with me...I have fallen in love with paper to wipe my butt."
In fact, Edward had long been tired of rubbing his butt with a stone stick but what else could he do before?
After his successful experiment, Edward headed towards Night and Daisy.
"Light... What is this with you?" Night asked curiously.
"Night, this thing is called paper. This has many uses but for now this paper in my hand is for you and Daisy. When you go to relieve yourself, use this paper to wipe yourself instead of tree leaves or stones."
Just this alone was something that would surprise them both. They both looked at Edward with delight in their eyes over the fact that he was so caring of them both.
"Light I learned how to cook meat so I want to cook for you tonight." Daisy spoke to Edward with big sparkles in her eyes.
Edward knew it was a way for them to thank Edward for his efforts and show their affection for him.
'They have such a huge reaction from just this, I wonder what reaction the girls would be if I told them about using padding paper as a tampon.'