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

you guys eat

a fish. The number of fish in the pond had increased

where are they coming

a torch, he noticed a small hole about the size of a hand in the corner of

“Huh?”

fish entered through the hole

in through

torch. Sejun finally figured out where

torch closer to

Splash!

fish jumped towards the torch, opening its

“Huh?!”

Whoosh.

quickly lifted the torch

Snap!

bit

Splash.

failed to

“What’s going on?”

torch close to the water

Splash! Splash!

up to

Whoosh.

lifted the torch to avoid

Snap! Snap!

Splash. Splash.

to hunt again and returned to

“Aha.”

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

how to make the fish jump, catching them was

the torch near the

Splash!

its mouth and jumped towards the

‘Here it comes!’

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

‘Now!’

Thwack!

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

In the meantime,

Thwack! Thwack!

two more fish to

had stopped breathing,

Squeak!

Squeak-squeak!

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

“Ahem.”

straightened. At that moment, he felt

Squeak!

Squeak!

onion leaves

Rustle. Rustle.

tore the green onion leaves into small pieces to make

“It’s done.”

to wrap the fish in green

they waited

of being trapped in the tower, Sejun and the rabbit couple filled

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

[June 19th, 6 a.m.]

41st day of being trapped

“Let’s get moving!”

and approached the pond. However, there was now an additional small pond next to the old one, which hadn’t

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

Splish! Splash!

to the field. In the field, centered around Sejun’s designated rock, there were green onions in the front, cherry

appeared. All the crops Sejun had planted on the first day of the crisis had safely

“I’m proud.”

lot had happened in

the 32nd day of being trapped in the tower, a Blue Moon appeared again. With that, Sejun realized that the Blue Moon cycle on

their burrow. Mrs. Rabbit gave birth

Peep! Peep!

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

have to prepare

rabbit couple, Sejun

Snap! Snap!

them on the fire,

the pond and waved the torch from side to

Splash! Splash!

to hunt the torchlight. Sejun swung the torch towards

Thump!

luckily, it was a

Flutter, flutter.

fish with green onion leaves, tied them with stems, and put

he took out the well-cooked

comforting to have something warm

watered the crops and spent some time

Sniff, sniff.

delicious smell began

Tap. Tap.

took them out of the fire. Just

“Rabbit!”

the Daddy

Peep…

seemed to be tired from parenting, his response lacked

with