The 268th day of being stranded, morning.

As soon as Sejun, who had just woken up and come outside, found Cuengi playing alone in front of his house, he tried to question what had happened yesterday.

However,

“Euh-euh?! (Cuengi, you knew your medicine you gave me smelled like poop, didn’t you?!)”

“President Park, shut your mouth, meow! The smell of poop is still lingering, meow!”

“Euh?! (Still?!)”

Theo quickly covered Sejun’s mouth and Sejun was once again confined to his house. He couldn’t harm the animals with sensitive noses.

Fortunately, by the afternoon, the smell from his mouth completely disappeared. Of course, to get rid of the smell, Sejun had to eat a lot of green onions and water.

“Phew. Now it seems a bit more like living.”

Sejun came outside the house and said this, taking a deep breath.

Kreong…

As Sejun came out, Cuengi, who had been guarding the front of the house, loitered around him. Dad, I’m sorry…

“Cuengi, come here.”

Kreong…

Cuengi cautiously approached Sejun at his words.

“Cuengi, why are you so down?”

Is this how parents feel? Seeing Cuengi looking at him cautiously, Sejun felt bad. How much stress must the kid have gone through to be so down? He thought.

Kreong.

Seeing that Sejun seemed to be in a better mood, Cuengi rubbed his face against Sejun’s leg.

Swipe. Swipe.

“Cuengi, are you going to give me something that smells like poop again?”

When Sejun petted Cuengi’s head and asked,

Kreong!

[I won’t give you anything that smells like poop anymore!]

Cuengi responded by shaking his head vigorously.

“Alright. Let’s go eat then.”

Kreong!

At Sejun’s words, Cuengi cheered.

In this way, Sejun started cooking in the kitchen. Today’s dish was rice cake soup. There were rice cakes and the harvest festival gave it a holiday vibe.

“Iona, please cut these rice cakes diagonally like this.”

“Yes. Windcutter.”

Iona began to slice the dried rice cakes with magic.

“President Park! I can cut the rice cake too, meow! Why don’t you let me do anything, meow?!”

Swish!

Theo unsheathed its sharp claws and asked Sejun why he wasn’t being asked to do anything.

“President Theo, take a break. A president doesn’t always have to step in.”

Sejun was worried that Theo moving around to cut the rice cake might cause his fur to stick to the rice cake, but he spoke carefully so as not to hurt Theo’s feelings.

“Is that so, meow?! Got it, meow! Then, as a president, I’ll take my rest even more seriously, meow!”

Theo, who didn’t quite understand Sejun’s words but took them as the truth, decided to take a rest as Sejun suggested.

‘Puhuhu. Now I, President Theo, don’t have to do such chores and can still have Sejun’s lap, meow!’

In this way, Theo happily started resting on Sejun’s lap. While Iona was cutting the rice cakes, Sejun prepared the broth for the rice cake soup.

Chiiick.

He put the Purple Locust meat in the pot, stir-fried it, poured water, and kept boiling it with detoxifying green onions. Now all he had to do was wait for the broth.

Slice slice slice.

While waiting for the broth to be ready, Sejun chopped some green onions. They were for garnishing the rice-cake soup.

“Kyoot Kyoot Kyoot. I’ve cut them all!”

“Yep. Good job.”

“Yes. Anything else you want me to do?”

“No. That’s all.”

“Yes!”

ran to Theo, wrapped

“Is it ready?”

Sejun tasted the broth.

put in the rice cakes and

the sliced rice cakes into the pot

Kreong! Kreong!

danced around in

wait a little.

Kreong!

A little later,

Rice-cake Soup for the first time

for Purple Rice-cake Soup will be registered in cooking Lv.

cooking Lv. 4 greatly

cake soup was

see what effects

options of

[Purple Rice Cake Soup]

were boiled at high heat, allowing the nutrients of the two

onions neutralize the extreme poison in the Purple Locust meat, preventing

The taste is slightly

feeling of satiety

Tower

Date: 10

→ Grade: D+

effects other than

for the detoxifying green onions,

long as

rice cake soup, and then filled his own. He topped

“Let’s eat now.”

Kreong!

his mouth, Cuengi also hurriedly started drinking the

“Ah, this is delicious!”

the rice cakes, sliced to a perfect thickness, provided a nice chewy texture. Thanks to the dried rice cakes, there was an additional crunch when

Slurp.

immersed

Kreong!

had quickly finished a bowl, ladled more soup from the pot into his

However,

Slurp. Slurp.

seat to eat, then go back to the pot for seconds. But later, he just started

the time Sejun

“Huh?! You already finished?”

finished

hehehe.

his stomach and laughed

Then,

Cuengi is now older than me. How does it

started to tease with a

Kreong?

called him grandpa. Why am I suddenly

you for every bowl of rice cake soup you eat, you age a

Kreong?!

was startled by Sejun’s words. He quickly started calculating how many bowls of

of the pot, he must have had around 200 bowls. He

Kreong…

than his dad. His brothers Theo

Then,

Kreong?

into Cuengi’s head. Am I now the

“Meow?!”

Swoosh.

ran outside. He was

“Huh? Cuengi!”

Sejun tried to follow Cuengi,

has been

soup that makes you one

chance

refused: Refusal is

Sejun’s joke seriously,

“Aileen, that was just…”

to correct his

***

Kreong! Kreong!

the eldest brother! Because I’m

the cave, announcing that he was the oldest and should therefore be the big

However,

200 years old, meow? And I’m 250 years old,

ready to accept Cuengi as

Then,

big brother! We should decide it by who

the hierarchy based on who brought the most help to

words sparked another debate on the criteria

brought the

should decide by

let’s decide

(I’m okay

Bat tried, he could never be the eldest brother, so he simply

Then,

be the

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