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

didn’t know you

to go to the pond. He intended to catch a fish. The number of fish in the

are they

examined the pond with a torch, he noticed a small hole about the size of

“Huh?”

the hole

coming in

of the torch. Sejun finally figured out where the

to the pond to take a

Splash!

towards the torch, opening

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

torch to avoid the

Snap!

bit the

Splash.

fish that failed to hunt returned to

“What’s going on?”

the torch close to the

Splash! Splash!

up

Whoosh.

lifted the torch to avoid

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

fish failed to hunt again and returned

“Aha.”

the fish were reacting to. The fish would jump when they saw

how to make the

torch near the

Splash!

mouth and jumped towards the

‘Here it comes!’

fish. And when the fish reached its highest

‘Now!’

Thwack!

the torch at the rising fish, knocking it out of the pond and onto the ground.

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

more

three fish that had stopped breathing, he

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

if they were never upset, sending him admiring

“Ahem.”

that moment, he felt like a

Squeak!

Squeak!

some green onion leaves

Rustle. Rustle.

tore the green onion leaves into

“It’s done.”

placed the third fish on the fire. All that was left was to wrap the fish in green onion leaves and tie them up, so the cooking

again, they

11th day of being trapped in the tower, Sejun and

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

[June 19th, 6 a.m.]

the 41st day of being

“Let’s get moving!”

woke up and approached the pond. However, there was now an additional small

water stream was connected next to the pond. Sejun washed his face and fetched water from

Splish! Splash!

were green onions in the front, cherry tomatoes that had grown to the height of Sejun’s knees on the

long-awaited sweet potato sprouts appeared. All the crops Sejun had planted on

“I’m proud.”

had happened in

again. With that, Sejun realized that the Blue Moon

Mrs. Rabbit gave birth to

Peep! Peep!

the baby rabbits came from inside the burrow, Daddy Rabbit busily

to

couple, Sejun wanted to

Snap! Snap!

them on the

pond and waved the torch from side to side over

Splash! Splash!

that jumped up to hunt the torchlight. Sejun swung the torch

Thump!

luckily, it was

Flutter, flutter.

with green onion leaves, tied them with

he took out the well-cooked green onions and ate

to have something warm

the cooked green onions, Sejun watered the crops and spent some

Sniff, sniff.

delicious smell

Tap. Tap.

the fish wrapped in leaves as he took them out of the fire. Just then, the husband rabbit came

“Rabbit!”

the Daddy

Peep…

seemed to be tired from parenting, his response lacked

with

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