Sejun’s hand tightly gripped the fish, which struggled and opened its mouth wide to attack Sejun, then clamped down hard.

Snap! Snap!

Sharp teeth clashed, making a sharp sound. Each time, Sejun held on tighter, fearing that if he lost his grip, he might lose a finger.

Sejun held the fish tightly and ran to the spot below the hole in the ceiling where the fire was. Meanwhile, the fish, which had been fiercely resisting, began to breathe faster, and its body went limp.

Upon reaching the fire, Sejun carefully laid down a single green onion leaf on the ground. He carefully placed the fish on the leaf and covered it with another green onion leaf.

And then

Swoosh.

He tore the green onion leaves to the thickness of a finger to use them as strings, wrapped the fish in two pieces of the torn leaves in a cross shape, and tied them together.

“I hope this tastes amazing.'”

Sejun carefully placed the fish wrapped in green onion leaves in the center of the fire pit.

And then

“······”

He waited.

He watched for a long time.

Sniff sniff.

“Ah, it smells great.”

The rich, oily scent melted into the rising steam and began to fill the cave.

He remembered his childhood. When his mother was preparing a meal, the smell of food would spread from the kitchen and take over the entire house.

When he came home after school and the smell filled the house, his mood would lift if it was one of his favorite side dishes. Back then, even the waiting time before eating was happy.

Gurgle.

A noise interrupted Sejun’s thoughts. He was hungry, but he held back. He was determined to fill his empty stomach with something delicious.

Gurgle.

“Hold on just a bit longer. I’ll put something really delicious in you.”

Sejun consoled his stomach and patiently waited. He waited for it to be completely cooked.

And when the scent became deeper and richer

“I can’t wait any longer! I can’t stand it!”

Sejun used the dried, hardened green onion leaves to remove the grilled fish wrapped in palm leaves from the fire.

He carefully untied the knot that held the green onion leaves together.

Whoosh.

When he untied the string and removed the green onion leaves, a dense aroma of fish mixed with the scent of green onion leaves spread.

“Wow!”

Sejun marveled at the sight of the moist, glistening fish.

Gulp.

Sejun folded the fish in half, tore off a piece of protruding flesh, and put it in his mouth.

“Um…!”

It was perfectly cooked. There was no fishy taste, and the chewy texture was felt as soon as he bit into it, with the savory flavor spreading in his mouth the more he chewed.

‘Amazing!!!’

Gobble gobble.

Sejun devoured the fish in a frenzy.

“Huh, I finished it already?!”

Sejun looked at the fish with only bones left and wore a crestfallen expression.

At that moment

Peep…

Peep…

A sound of disappointment came from the side. Sejun wasn’t the only one disappointed.

“Huh?”

Sejun looked at the source of the sound, and the rabbit couple was wearing a lost expression as they stared at the fish bones left.

‘No way?!’

No, it couldn’t be… rabbits eating fish!

But on second thought, the rabbit couple preferred to roast and eat the leaves like Sejun.

“Do you guys eat meat too?”

Sejun asked.

Peep!

out now, the rabbit couple simultaneously turned their heads. They seemed annoyed that

I didn’t know you guys eat meat

scratched his head and got up to go to the pond. He intended to catch a fish. The number of fish in the

where are they

with a torch, he noticed a small hole about the size

“Huh?”

through the hole

in through that

the torch. Sejun finally figured out where the fish were coming

torch closer to

Splash!

towards the torch, opening its

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

torch to

Snap!

bit

Splash.

that failed to hunt returned

“What’s going on?”

brought the torch

Splash! Splash!

up to hunt

Whoosh.

the torch to avoid

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

again and

“Aha.”

The fish would jump when they saw the

that he knew how to make the fish jump, catching

torch

Splash!

mouth and

‘Here it comes!’

the fish reached its highest

‘Now!’

Thwack!

of the pond and onto the ground. The fallen

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

sent two more fish to the

that had stopped breathing, he approached the

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

Sejun as if they were never upset, sending him admiring

“Ahem.”

moment, he felt like a

Squeak!

Squeak!

green onion leaves and volunteered

Rustle. Rustle.

rabbit tore the green onion leaves

“It’s done.”

wrap the fish in green onion leaves

they waited

of being trapped in the tower, Sejun and the rabbit couple

Beep-beep-beep. Beep-beep-beep.

[June 19th, 6 a.m.]

of the 41st day of being trapped in

“Let’s get moving!”

up and approached the pond. However, there was now an additional small pond next to the old one, which hadn’t been there

order to avoid the fish’s attacks, a small faucet-like water stream was connected next to the pond. Sejun washed his face and fetched water

Splish! Splash!

centered around Sejun’s designated rock, there were green onions in the front,

on

“I’m proud.”

happened in the

appeared again. With that, Sejun realized that the Blue Moon cycle on the floor he was on was 30

Rabbit gave birth to six babies, and

Peep! Peep!

inside the burrow, Daddy Rabbit busily started watering the green onion

to

the busy rabbit couple, Sejun wanted to help

Snap! Snap!

onion leaves and put them on the

and waved the torch from side to side over the

Splash! Splash!

the torchlight. Sejun

Thump!

it was a

Flutter, flutter.

leaves, tied them

meantime, he took out the well-cooked green

comforting to have something warm

Sejun watered the crops and spent some

Sniff, sniff.

smell began to

Tap. Tap.

began to cut the strings that tied the fish wrapped in leaves as he took them out of the fire. Just then, the husband rabbit came out

“Rabbit!”

the Daddy

Peep…

be tired from

with

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