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

know you guys

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

are

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

“Huh?”

through the hole

they’re coming in

light of the torch. Sejun finally

Sejun brought the torch closer to the pond to take a closer

Splash!

towards the torch, opening

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

lifted the torch to

Snap!

fish bit the

Splash.

that failed to

“What’s going on?”

cautiously brought the torch close to the

Splash! Splash!

jumped up

Whoosh.

torch

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

hunt again

“Aha.”

realized what the fish were reacting to. The fish would jump when they saw the torch moving near the

make the fish jump, catching them

the torch near

Splash!

opened its mouth and

‘Here it comes!’

focused on the movement of the fish. And when the fish reached its highest

‘Now!’

Thwack!

fish, knocking it out of the pond and onto the ground. The

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

two more fish to

the three fish that had stopped breathing, he approached the fire

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

for Sejun as if they were never upset, sending him admiring

“Ahem.”

straightened. At that moment, he felt like a

Squeak!

Squeak!

some green onion leaves and volunteered

Rustle. Rustle.

the green onion leaves into small pieces to

“It’s done.”

All that was left was to wrap the fish in green onion leaves and tie

they

and the rabbit couple filled their bellies with

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

[June 19th, 6 a.m.]

the morning 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

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

Splish! Splash!

were green onions in the front, cherry tomatoes that

sprouts appeared. All the crops Sejun had planted on

“I’m proud.”

happened in the

With that, Sejun realized that the Blue Moon cycle

Rabbit

Peep! Peep!

cries of the baby rabbits came from inside the burrow, Daddy Rabbit busily started watering the green onion

have to

the busy rabbit couple, Sejun wanted to

Snap! Snap!

onion leaves and put them on the fire, and the

he approached the pond and waved the torch from

Splash! Splash!

to hunt the torchlight. Sejun swung the torch towards

Thump!

it was

Flutter, flutter.

tied them

he took out the well-cooked green onions and ate

to have something warm

green onions, Sejun watered the crops and spent

Sniff, sniff.

smell began

Tap. Tap.

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

“Rabbit!”

called the

Peep…

to be tired

with

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