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 heads. They seemed annoyed that

I didn’t know you guys eat

a fish.

where are

hole about the size of a hand

“Huh?”

the hole at

coming in

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

torch closer to the pond to take a

Splash!

towards the torch, opening its

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

quickly lifted the torch to avoid

Snap!

bit the

Splash.

to

“What’s going on?”

cautiously brought the torch

Splash! Splash!

jumped up to

Whoosh.

torch to

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

to hunt again and

“Aha.”

fish would jump when they saw

that he knew how to make the fish

the torch near

Splash!

fish opened its mouth and

‘Here it comes!’

And when the fish reached its highest point and was about to fall

‘Now!’

Thwack!

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

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

more fish

stopped breathing, he approached the fire

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

cheered for Sejun as if they were never upset,

“Ahem.”

straightened. At that moment, he felt like

Squeak!

Squeak!

brought some green onion leaves and

Rustle. Rustle.

rabbit tore the green onion leaves

“It’s done.”

that was left was to wrap the fish in green onion leaves and tie them up, so the

they waited

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

“Let’s get moving!”

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

attacks, a small faucet-like water stream was connected next to the pond. Sejun washed his face and fetched water from

Splish! Splash!

in the front, cherry tomatoes that had grown to the height of Sejun’s knees on the left, and sprouts

crops Sejun had planted on the first day of

“I’m proud.”

happened

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

ago, In their burrow. Mrs. Rabbit gave birth to six babies, and

Peep! Peep!

the energetic cries of the baby rabbits came from inside the burrow, Daddy Rabbit busily started

have to prepare

couple, Sejun

Snap! Snap!

and put them on the fire, and the rest were laid on the

and waved the torch from side

Splash! Splash!

hunt the torchlight. Sejun swung the torch towards

Thump!

luckily, it

Flutter, flutter.

fish with green onion leaves, tied them with stems,

the well-cooked green onions and

comforting to have something warm

watered the crops

Sniff, sniff.

delicious smell began to

Tap. Tap.

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

“Rabbit!”

the

Peep…

to be tired

this with

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