Farming In The Tower Alone Chapter 5

Episode 5. fruit ripens

Episode 5. fruit ripens

The fish, tightly held in Sejun’s hand, struggled and opened and closed its mouth to attack Sejun.

Just! Just!

The sharp teeth clashed together, making a sharp sound. Every time that happened, Sejun held on tighter and tighter. It felt like if I got bitten by mistake, one of my fingers would just be cut off.

Sejun held on to the fish tightly and ran to the fire below the hole in the ceiling. Meanwhile, the fish, which had been resisting strongly, became increasingly short of breath and its body became limp.

Arriving at the fire, Sejun carefully laid a piece of pie leaf on the floor. I carefully placed the fish on top of the leaves and covered it again with a sheet of pie leaves.

And

boouk.

The pie leaves were torn to the size of a finger and the two pieces of pie leaves with the fish wrapped around them were wrapped in a cross shape and tied.

“Be delicious.”

Sejun carefully wrapped the fish in pie leaves and placed it in the center of the fire pit.

And

“······”

I waited.

I watched for a while.

Sniff.

“Ah, it’s fragrant.”

The savory and oily smell dissolved in the rising steam spread around and began to fill the cave.

It reminded me of when I was young. When mom is preparing a meal, the smell of food wafting from the kitchen takes over the entire house.

I feel better when I come home from school and the smell that fills the house is my favorite side dish. At that time, I think the time I spent waiting before eating was a happy time.

Grumble.

A sound interrupted Sejun’s thoughts. I was hungry, but I held back. The desire to fill one’s empty stomach with something delicious.

Grumble.

“Hold on a little. “I’ll put something really delicious in it.”

Sejun waited patiently, soothing his stomach. I waited for the best taste to be completed.

And when the smell became thicker and thicker, I

said, “That’s it!” “I can’t stand it anymore!”

Sejun took the grilled fish wrapped in pie leaves out of the fire using the dried and hardened pie leaves.

I carefully untied the rope that tied the pie leaves.

It’s a disaster.

As I untied the string and removed the leaves of the pie, the rich scent of fish mixed with the scent of green onion wafted out.

“Wow!”

Sejun looked thrilled at the sight of the moist, shiny fish.

king.

Sejun folded the fish in half, ripped off the protruding flesh, and put it in his mouth.

“Uhm…!”

Baked well. There is no fishy taste at all, and you can feel the plumpness as soon as you chew it, as well as the lightness that spreads in your mouth the more you chew it.

‘It’s crazy!!!’

Crunch crunch.

Sejun frantically ate the fish.

“omg! “When did you finish eating?”

Before he knew it, Sejun looked at the fish with only its bones left, with an expression of despair on his face.

At that time

, beep…

beep…

I heard a sound of despair next to me. Sejun was not the only one who despaired.

“huh?”

When Sejun looked towards the place where the sound came from, he saw the rabbit couple looking lost as they looked at the fish with only bones left.

‘no way?!’

No, that can’t be possible…what kind of rabbit eats fish!

However, if you think about it, the rabbit couple preferred the Japanese style meal of grilled green onions like Sejun.

“Do you guys eat meat too?

When Sejun asked,

‘Beep!’

The rabbit couple turned their heads at the same time as if they knew that now. It seemed like Sejun was upset that he ate it all by himself.

“I’m sorry. “I didn’t know you guys even ate meat…”

Sejun scratched his head, then got up and went to the pond. He was thinking of catching some fish. There were more fish in the pond than before.

“But where do they come from?”

When Sejun looked into the pond with a torch, he saw a hole in the corner of the pond the size of a hand span.

“Huh?”

Then a fish came in through the hole.

“Oh, it’s coming in through that hole.”

Guided by the light of the torch. It seemed to be coming. Sejun finally figured out where the fish was coming from.

Sejun unconsciously brought the torch closer to the pond to take a closer look.

Splash!

The fish flew towards the torch and opened its mouth. “

Huh ?!”

.

Sejun hurriedly raised the torch to avoid the fish

, and

the fish chewed the air.

The fish that failed to hunt with a

splash went back into the water.

“What?”

Sejun carefully brought the torch closer to the water again.

Splash! Splash!

The fish jumped up to hunt the torch.

Whoosh. When

Sejun raised the torch to avoid it, it

clicked!

Splash. Splash.

This time, the fish that failed to hunt went into the water.

“Aha.”

Sejun realized what the fish were reacting to. When something moves near the surface, the fish jump, thinking it is food.

Knowing how to make the fish jump, it was easy to catch them.

Sejun waved the torch near the pond.

Splash!

A fish opened its mouth and flew towards the torch. Climbed.

‘It’s coming!’

Sejun focused on the fish’s movements, and when the fish reached its maximum height and was about to fall again, he thought,

‘Now!’

Puck!

Sejun swung the torch at the floating fish and hit it towards the outside of the pond. The fish that fell to the ground struggled to breathe.

Meanwhile,

Puck! Puck!

Sejun sent two more fish to the ground.

Breathing. When he approached the fire with these three stopped fish, the rabbit

couple gave Sejun a look

of

respect and cheered as if they had just been upset.

“Ahem.”

Sejun’s shoulders felt strong. Just at this moment. I felt like a hero.

Beep!

Beep!

The husband, Rabbit, brought pie leaves and volunteered to help with the cooking.

Boop, boop.

Next to him, his wife, Rabbit, tore the pie leaves into small pieces and made strings.

“That’s it.”

Sejun said for the third time. He said as he put the fish in the fire. All he had to do was wrap the fish with pie leaves and tie them, so cooking was quick.

And then there was happy waiting again.

Day 11 of the shipwreck. Sejun and the rabbit couple filled their stomachs with fish and fell asleep.

***

Beep beep, beep beep.

[June 19, 6 a.m.]

It was the morning of the 41st day after the shipwreck.

“Tsk!”

Sejun woke up and approached the pond. But next to the pond, there was another small pond that wasn’t there before. .

It could be said to be a tap made by connecting a small stream of water next to a pond to avoid attacks by fish. Here, I washed my face and took out the water.

Apu! Apu!

Sejun washed his face and went to the field. In the field, there was a rock that was Sejun’s designated stone. Centered around, in front were green onions, on the left were cherry tomatoes that had grown to the height of Sejun’s knees, and on the right were sprouts of sweet potatoes. The long-awaited sweet potatoes

had finally sprouted. All the crops that Sejun had planted on the first day of shipwreck had finally taken root safely in the tower. ” I’m

proud.”

A lot has happened in the meantime.

On the 32nd day after the disaster, a blue moon appeared again. From that, Sejun learned that the blue moon cycle for the floor he was on was 30 days.

And a few days ago, the sergeant The wife rabbit gave birth to six babies, and the family increased. When

the

baby rabbits’ powerful cries were heard from the burrow, the father rabbit eagerly carried the pie leaves

.

“I need to prepare breakfast.”

When I saw the busy rabbit couple, I wanted to help them.

Plop, pud, pud.

I broke the pie leaves, put 10 in the fire, and spread the rest on the ground to dry.

Then he approached the pond and waved the torch left and right on the water.

Splash! Splash!

A fish that flies up to hunt a torch. Sejun swung the torch towards those fish.

Plop!

Today, luckily, it was Il Typi.

Flap flutter.

Two fish were covered with pie leaves, tied with stems, and placed in the fire.

And in the meantime, I took out some well-grilled green onions and ate them.

“When the warmth comes in, my stomach relaxes.”

After eating the roasted green onions, Sejun spent some time watering the crops and bruising for a bit.

Sniff.

A delicious smell began to spread as if it was fully cooked.

Tuk. Tuk.

Sejun took the fish out of the fire and began to cut the rope that tied the leaves. Just then, my husband’s rabbit trudged out of the hole.

“Rabbit!”

Sejun called Papa Rabbit.

Pii…

My husband, Rabbit, had no strength in answering, perhaps because parenting was difficult.

“Eat this with your wife.”

Beep.

My husband Rabbit is impressed. My husband, the rabbit, hurried into the den with the fish.

But

hey!

Wow!

It took a while for the rabbit couple to be able to eat the fish as the babies they had barely put to sleep woke up.

***

Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

[June 19, 5 a.m.]

Day 50 of the shipwreck. The smartphone rang a notification and died.

Fortunately, rabbits wake up at exactly 5 a.m. and go to bed at 7 p.m. If we follow the rabbits’ rhythm of life, the time difference would not be disrupted by the continuously rising sun.

“Good work.”

Sejun put the dead smartphone in his bag along with the already dead laptop.

Then

beep!!

Beep!

The rabbit couple, who were now somewhat accustomed to raising children, came out of the burrow and said hello.

“Yes. Good morning.”

Shoot!

Snip, snip.

While the husband rabbit is watering the crops with a watering can and the wife rabbit is cutting the leaves of pies,

Puck!

puck!

Sejun caught a fish in the pond.

Then, he went to the fire with the fish he caught, wrapped it in leaves, and put it in the fire. Then, his wife, Rabbit, took out some roasted green onions, put them nicely in leaf leaves, gave them to Sejun, and went into the den with her husband, Rabbit.

It was to prepare breakfast for the babies while the fish was cooking.

Yum Yum.

When I was satisfying my hunger by eating green onions, I thought,

“Huh?!”

Sejun’s eyes caught sight of a yellow flower blooming at the tip of a cherry tomato.

And then something I saw on the Internet came to mind. It was said that without bees or wind, pollination would not occur.

The wind blew here in the cave, but it was weak. To ensure pollination, Sejun carefully rubbed the flower with the thorns that came from eating the fish.

‘It’s okay. ‘Do it.’

Sejun artificially pollinated the flower with his earnest heart.

***

“Tsk!”

As soon as Sejun woke up, he approached the rock wall of the cave.

And

Zech.

A stroke was drawn on the rock wall using the fish’s spine.

There were two bars engraved on the side, and 10 bars were engraved on the top row.

It has been 61 days since the shipwreck. I’ve been recording dates like this since my smartphone disappeared.

‘It’s already been 61 days…’

Just as Sejun’s mood was about to calm down, the cave became noisy.

Biya!

Biya!

Wow!

In the morning, baby rabbits came out of the hole following their parents.

Beep!

Beep!

The rabbit couple said good morning to Sejun and asked for help.

“Okay, here we go.”

These days, Sejun looks after the baby rabbits from time to time. It’s not a big deal, but it’s enough to keep you from going to dangerous places.

While Sejun watched the baby rabbits, the husband’s rabbit watered the field and his wife’s rabbit cut leaves and prepared breakfast.

The baby rabbits ate whatever was given to them, so the meal was peaceful. When the meal was over, the rabbit couple went back into the den with their cubs.

Sejun washed his face and went to the cherry tomato field. Flowers bloomed one by one in the cherry tomato field, and it has now become a flower garden.

And Sejun lightly shook the branch with cherry tomato flowers.

“Do it. Be done.”

Now that there were so many flowers, instead of pollinating them one by one, I shook the branches lightly and recited a pollination spell.

Then

“Huh?”

Between the fallen flower petals, I could see tiny green cherry tomatoes, smaller than a pea.

On the 61st day of the shipwreck, the fruit finally began to bear fruit.

It was the day before the blue moon.