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 heads. They seemed

know you

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

where are

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

“Huh?”

entered through the

in through that

they were attracted to the light of the torch. Sejun

Sejun brought the torch closer to the

Splash!

jumped towards the torch, opening

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

the torch to avoid the

Snap!

bit the

Splash.

failed to hunt returned

“What’s going on?”

torch close to

Splash! Splash!

fish jumped up to hunt the

Whoosh.

lifted the torch to

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

hunt again and returned to the

“Aha.”

jump when they saw

that he knew how to make

the torch near the

Splash!

fish opened its mouth

‘Here it comes!’

focused on the movement of the fish. And when the fish reached its highest point and was about

‘Now!’

Thwack!

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

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

two more

that had stopped breathing, he approached

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

if

“Ahem.”

shoulders straightened. At that moment, he felt like

Squeak!

Squeak!

rabbit brought some green onion leaves and volunteered to help

Rustle. Rustle.

female rabbit tore the green onion leaves into small pieces to make

“It’s done.”

wrap the fish in green onion leaves and tie them up, so the cooking process can be

they waited

of being 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.]

the 41st day of being trapped in the

“Let’s get moving!”

approached the pond. However, there was now an additional small pond next to the old one, which

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

Splish! Splash!

face and went to the field. 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 of sweet potatoes

the long-awaited sweet potato sprouts appeared. All the crops Sejun had planted on the first day of the crisis had safely taken root at the

“I’m proud.”

lot had happened in the

tower, a Blue Moon appeared again. With that, Sejun realized that the Blue

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

Peep! Peep!

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

have to prepare

couple, Sejun wanted to

Snap! Snap!

leaves and put them on the fire, and the rest

he approached the pond and waved the

Splash! Splash!

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

Thump!

it was a

Flutter, flutter.

with green onion leaves, tied them with stems, and

meantime, he took out the well-cooked

comforting to have something warm

the cooked green onions, Sejun watered the

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 of the

“Rabbit!”

called the Daddy

Peep…

to be tired from parenting,

with