Solo Farming In The Tower

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!

simultaneously turned their

you guys eat

to go to the pond. He intended to catch a fish. The number of fish in the pond had increased since the last time he

are they

pond with a torch, he noticed a small hole

“Huh?”

the hole

they’re coming in through that

they were attracted to the light of the torch. Sejun finally

the torch closer to the pond to

Splash!

towards the torch, opening its

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

quickly lifted the torch to avoid the

Snap!

fish bit the

Splash.

fish that failed to hunt returned

“What’s going on?”

cautiously brought the torch close

Splash! Splash!

jumped up to

Whoosh.

torch

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

again and returned to the

“Aha.”

the fish were reacting to. The fish would jump when they saw the torch moving near the surface,

how to make the fish jump, catching them

the torch near the

Splash!

its mouth and jumped

‘Here it comes!’

fish reached its highest point and

‘Now!’

Thwack!

of the pond and

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

more

fish that had stopped breathing, he approached the fire

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

rabbit couple cheered for Sejun as if they were never upset, sending him

“Ahem.”

moment, he felt

Squeak!

Squeak!

some green onion leaves and volunteered to help

Rustle. Rustle.

female rabbit tore the green onion leaves into small pieces to

“It’s done.”

third fish on the fire. All that was left was to wrap the fish in green onion leaves and tie

they waited

trapped in the tower, Sejun and the rabbit couple filled their bellies with fish and went to

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

[June 19th, 6 a.m.]

was the morning of the 41st day

“Let’s get moving!”

there was now an additional small pond next to the old one, which hadn’t been

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

Splish! Splash!

In the field, centered around Sejun’s designated rock, there were green onions in the front, cherry tomatoes that had grown to the height of Sejun’s knees on the left, and

sprouts appeared. All the crops Sejun had planted on

“I’m proud.”

lot had happened in the

being trapped in the tower, a Blue Moon appeared again. With that, Sejun realized that the Blue Moon cycle on the

burrow. Mrs. Rabbit gave birth to six babies, and the family

Peep! Peep!

rabbits came from inside the burrow, Daddy Rabbit

have to prepare

couple, Sejun wanted to

Snap! Snap!

put them on the fire, and

approached the pond and waved the torch from

Splash! Splash!

the torchlight. Sejun swung the torch towards

Thump!

it was

Flutter, flutter.

with green onion leaves, tied

the meantime, he took out the well-cooked

to have

cooked green onions, Sejun watered the crops and

Sniff, sniff.

smell

Tap. Tap.

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

“Rabbit!”

the

Peep…

to be tired

with your