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Chapter 7 – Rebelling
Se-jun put the harvested cherry tomato into his mouth without even washing it. Since there was no fine dust or pollution here, there was no need to wash it.
Pop.
When he chewed the red, well-ripened cherry tomato,
Squirt!
the skin of the cherry tomato split, and the juice inside moistened his mouth like a spray. A perfect harmony of flavors that simply could not be explained in words.
Pop! Pop!
The sour bomb and sweet bomb exploded alternately like festive fireworks, dazzling his mouth.
“Wow.”
Only an exclamation came out of Se-jun’s mouth.
Chew, chew.
Se-jun just chewed the cherry tomato silently, savoring it until the taste disappeared.
[You consumed the Magical Cherry Tomato.]
[It broke down 10g of body fat, increasing magic power by 0.1 for 10 minutes.]
A message saying that magic power had increased appeared, but it was not important.
Pop.
Se-jun put another cherry tomato into his mouth and continued the festival.
Squeak?
Watching Se-jun’s reaction as he frantically put cherry tomatoes into his mouth, the husband rabbit tilted its head and picked up one cherry tomato.
‘Is this really that delicious?’
Because the cherry tomato was quite large for the rabbit, it could not put it in its mouth in one bite like Se-jun.
Bite.
So it sank its teeth into the cherry tomato. Then, juice began to overflow through the punctured skin of the cherry tomato.
‘Precious food!’
Slurp.
The husband rabbit panicked and sucked the cherry tomato juice so as not to spill it. Spilling food was a sin.
“…!”
‘This taste?!’
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
The husband rabbit began to suck the cherry tomato as if possessed.
And
Squeak?
Squeak?
Seeing their father’s appearance, the baby rabbits each held a cherry tomato and began to suck on them.
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
For a while, only the sound of slurping filled the cave.
***
The sin of eating cherry tomatoes as a group while excluding the wife rabbit was heavy. And that sin was concentrated on the husband rabbit.
Squeak~ Squeak~
The husband rabbit approached the sulking wife rabbit, who was preparing dinner, rubbed its body against her, and acted cute. However, the wife rabbit turned her head away coldly, thoroughly ignoring the husband rabbit’s affection.
Squeak…
The husband rabbit stared at Se-jun with a sad expression. It was a sign asking for help.
‘Hang in there.’
Se-jun, who had never seen anything good come from getting squeezed between a couple, refused by showing a clenched fist and cheering the husband rabbit on with a fighting stance.
A pleasant mealtime.
Lunch was piranha, cherry tomatoes, and roasted green onions. Just one menu item had been added, but he felt the meal became much richer.
The wife rabbit placed the food evenly on leaf plates and set them at each of their spots.
Squeak?
As only roasted green onions were placed on its plate, the husband rabbit quietly protested to the wife rabbit.
Squeak!!!
Although words did not get through, it seemed she roughly said, ‘Just shut up and eat!!!’ The husband rabbit eventually failed to appease the wife rabbit’s anger.
Squeak…
‘Poor guy.’
To the disappointed husband rabbit, Se-jun shared some of his own behind the wife rabbit’s back.
Squeak.
The husband rabbit sent a look of gratitude to Se-jun and quietly vanished.
And while it was tearing off the flesh left on the piranha bones in a corner of the cave,
Squeak?
it made eye contact with the wife rabbit, who had approached thinking the husband rabbit was crying.
“…!”
“…!”
Like a married couple, a conversation went back and forth through their eyes.
Where did you get that?
Over there.
The husband rabbit pointed at Se-jun with its eyes.
‘Traitor!’
To snitch on that right away!
Although he did not know what happened after a while, the two went wild rubbing against each other.
It was once again Se-jun who obtained the lesson that one should never interfere in a couple’s fight even a little.
***
Having eaten lunch, Se-jun began to pluck cherry tomatoes again. Within a few hours, fully ripened cherry tomatoes appeared.
[You obtained a Ripe Magical Cherry Tomato.]
[Your class experience slightly increased.]
[You obtained 10 experience points.]
…
..
.
The cherry tomatoes plucked in the afternoon were 67. He harvested a slightly larger amount than in the morning. Leveled up once more, he became Level 5.
For the bonus stats, he increased Strength and Stamina by 2 each. Because Strength and Stamina were the most important for farming.
The harvested cherry tomatoes were stored by creating a storage area in a cool spot in the corner of the cave. The storage area was made by digging a pit in a cool spot in the cave corner and laying green onion leaves densely so that dirt would not enter.
Se-jun transferred the cherry tomatoes by placing them in plastic containers,
Squeak!
the dad rabbit carried two cherry tomatoes tucked under its arms.
And
Squeak!
Squeak!
Staring at such a father with eyes of respect, the baby rabbits each hugged one cherry tomato and moved them to the storage.
“One, two, three… one hundred and five.”
The total harvested cherry tomatoes were 120, but 15 were eaten and the remaining was 105.
Seeing the piled cherry tomatoes, pride rushed in again.
“Hehehe.”
As Se-jun returned to his designated spot with a silly grin,
Squeak!
Squeak!
the rabbit couple was grabbing the baby rabbits that wanted to play and pushing them into the burrow to prepare for sleep.
“Today is also ending.”
Watching the rabbits, Se-jun also prepared to sleep.
Pat, pat.
He gathered dirt to make a pillow,
Thump! Thump!
patted the dirt to make a spot to lie down, and spread green onion leaves dried in the sun on the floor to prevent dirt from rising. It was an ergonomic dirt bed built with 75 days of accumulated know-how in its own way.
“Ah, nice.”
As he lay on the green onion leaves, warmth was felt from the green onion leaves heated by the sun.
“I lived well today too. Park Se-jun.”
Just as Se-jun was about to wrap up his day while praising himself,
[A quest occurred.]
[Quest: Offer 100 harvested Magical Cherry Tomatoes to the administrator of the tower.]
Reward: 1 Class Skill
Upon Refusal: Death
Sit up.
Se-jun sat up with his upper body erect in anger.
“No, I mean, did you leave your food with me?!”
And at least give a good reward!
Since receiving Sowing as a class skill, Se-jun did not expect any rewards at all.
Coudn’t refuse either.
‘I can’t die.’
“Here.”
Se-jun bit the bullet and offered the Magical Cherry Tomatoes.
[You completed the quest.]
[The administrator of the tower was pleased.]
[As a quest completion reward, you acquired the class skill – Harvesting Lv. 1.]
“Ah! Seriously!”
Why on earth do I even need a skill for harvesting!
As expected, there was no answer.
He didn’t even bother to check the skill. It would just say something slightly increased, which would only make him angrier.
“Getting angry will only be my loss…”
Se-jun calmed his anger and lay down again. One second after closing his eyes to sleep.
Snore.
Se-jun fell asleep.
“No… My… cherry tomatoes…”
It was Se-jun, who struggled to protect the cherry tomatoes even in his dreams.
***
“Up I go!”
Scratch.
Se-jun, waking up from sleep, drew another stroke on the cave wall.
T
Before it, there were 16 “Jung” () characters.
The morning of the 82nd day of being stranded began.
There was a lot of work to do this morning. He had to harvest cherry tomatoes from the eight cherry tomato plants planted later and pollinate the flowers blooming on the cherry tomato plants harvested first.
Especially since he had to obtain experience points, harvesting cherry tomatoes was solely Se-jun’s role.
Pluck.
Se-jun plucked a cherry tomato that still had a slight green tint.
[You harvested a slightly unripe Magical Cherry Tomato.]
[By the effect of Harvesting Lv. 1, the fruit became in optimal condition.]
[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 1 slightly increased.]
[Your class experience slightly increased.]
[You obtained 10 experience points.]
The Harvesting skill was more useful than expected. The Harvesting skill had the effect of making the fruit in optimal condition when harvesting slightly unripe or overripe fruit. And every time he harvested, proficiency increased.
Thanks to that, as he harvested crops in optimal condition, he could normally increase class experience even when harvesting unripe cherry tomatoes.
The harvesting ended quickly since there were only eight plants. He harvested 50 cherry tomatoes from the plants.
“Guys, let’s eat cherry tomatoes.”
Squeak!
Squeak!
At Se-jun’s words, the baby rabbits, who were climbing the cherry tomato plants and pollinating the flowers, ran over in a rush.
The baby rabbits, who were already about a month and a half old, grew rapidly thanks to eating well, and now their height reached the husband rabbit’s shoulder.
Bite.
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
The baby rabbits buried their mouths in the cherry tomatoes and began to suck the juice.
“Here.”
Se-jun also handed one cherry tomato each to the working rabbit couple.
Squeak!
Squeak!
The rabbit couple bowed their heads and expressed gratitude.
Pop.
Se-jun also put a cherry tomato in his mouth and bit it.
Squirt!
“Hooo. Delicious.”
As the sweetness and sourness danced inside his mouth, an exclamation came out naturally.
Then
[The administrator of the tower urged you to complete the quest quickly.]
“I don’t want to. I’ll do it later.”
Since he began harvesting cherry tomatoes, the quests given by the administrator of the tower grew increasingly greedy without knowing any limits. Frequently, the number of cherry tomatoes the administrator of the tower demanded he offer increased.
It wasn’t that the rewards were good either. Since giving the Harvesting skill, there was no reward.
It was the fifth day of offering cherry tomatoes like that.
[A quest occurred.]
[Quest: Offer 500 harvested Magical Cherry Tomatoes to the administrator of the tower.]
Reward: None
Upon Refusal: Death
When the administrator of the tower demanded as many as 500 cherry tomatoes, Se-jun’s anger gauge hit the max.
‘This crossed the line!’
500 pieces! I can’t be pushed around like this every day!
“No!”
Se-jun poured out the anger he had kept in his chest refreshingly.
Although his chest cleared up, his mind went blank.
And he quickly thought of a way to survive.
‘Ah! Come to think of it, I just shouldn’t refuse the quest!’
“I’ll offer them later!”
[The administrator of the tower was flustered.]
In that way, Se-jun was rebelling against the administrator of the tower by putting the quest completion on hold.
And
[The administrator of the tower was enraged at you eating the Magical Cherry Tomatoes alone.]
“Then I’ll only offer five.”
Occasionally, when the administrator of the tower was angry, he appeased them by offering a few cherry tomatoes. After all, they were the administrator of the tower, and he shouldn’t be hated too much.
[The administrator of the tower decided to let it slide just this once.]
Se-jun was playing push-and-pull with the administrator of the tower in that way.
***
Day 91 of being stranded.
The fourth Blue Moon approached.
Squeak!
Squeak!
The rabbit couple prepared for the Blue Moon by pushing the babies into the burrow and covering the entrance with dirt.
Se-jun also put out the fire and cleared away smelly things to prepare for the Blue Moon.
And this time, in order not to faint, he prepared earplugs made of well-rolled green onion leaves, along with cherry tomatoes.
He had once heard that if magic power was high, one could withstand the roar of monsters, so he did it to increase his magic power even slightly with cherry tomatoes in case a situation like last time arose.
‘It would be best if nothing like last time happened, though.’
While Se-jun was thinking like that, the sunlight turned blue.
The Blue Moon had begun.
After a while,
Kraaa!
Kiaaa!
The roars of monsters excited by the Blue Moon were heard from afar.
‘No one come! No one come!’
When about an hour passed as Se-jun prayed in his heart like that,
“Huh?!”
a mysterious phenomenon was seen by Se-jun’s eyes.
A blue energy began to gather on one of the cherry tomato plants. It was the energy of the Blue Moon.
The energy of the Blue Moon slowly moved along the stem to the cherry tomato and was absorbed by it.
And
“Wow.”
the cherry tomato turned blue. The sight of the Blue Moon’s energy being contained in the cherry tomato was mysterious and beautiful.
Se-jun witnessed the entire process of the Blue Moon’s energy being contained in the cherry tomato for the first time.
‘I want to harvest it quickly.’
It was Se-jun, who only waited for the Blue Moon to end quickly.
Then
“Huh?!”
a blue energy was seen moving in the sweet potato vines as well.