Chapter 104: The Harvest Festival Begins (6)

Squeak!

Kreong...

While the pissed-off black rabbit was chasing Cuengi, who plotted the coup,

“Theo, where did this amberjack fish come from?”

Sejun asked Theo, who was preparing to put the amberjack fish into his bag.

“Ah, this one, meow? Well, this is...”

Just as Theo was about to explain about the amberjack fish caught by Flamie,

[Master! What’s happening here?]

Flamie hurriedly called out to Sejun, trying to divert his attention.

“Oh, it’s because of Cuengi. Are they being noisy while you’re resting? I’ll take them away quickly.”

[Yes, thank you.]

While Flamie was responding,

Swish.

One of Flamie’s roots grabbed Theo’s leg.

And,

[Please keep it a secret that I caught the amberjack fish.]

Flamie, who wanted to hide its size, made a request to Theo.

“No way, meow! There are no secrets between me and President Park, meow!”

[In exchange, I’ll catch a big fish like this every month. Big brother.]

“Pufufut. Did you just call me big brother, meow?”

Theo was pleased with the new term of address.

[Yes, big brother.]

“Alright, meow! I’ll keep it a secret, meow! President Park! I caught this amberjack fish, meow!”

Theo fell for the new term of address, ‘big brother’.

[Sigh.]

Flamie let out a sigh of relief.

However,

“Theo, you? You hate getting in the water, don’t you?”

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Theo started to stutter all of a sudden.

“Are you hiding something from me?”

“It’s a secret, meow!”

Theo ran outside in response to Sejun’s questioning.

“What’s with him?”

Sejun muttered as he watched Theo behave strangely.

Then,

“Black rabbit, please forgive Cuengi now. Cuengi has probably reflected a lot. Isn’t that right, Cuengi?”

Sejun made the black rabbit and Cuengi reconcile.

Kreong! Kreong!

Cuengi nodded vigorously at Sejun’s words.

Squeak.

The black rabbit forgave Cuengi, saying ‘only this time’.

Kreong!

Excited that the black rabbit had forgiven him, Cuengi ran around carrying the black rabbit on his back, acting as a horse.

Then,

Snap.

“What?”

During this, Theo returned to Sejun’s knee. Theo, who had run away because he couldn’t reveal the secret, couldn’t stay away from Sejun’s lap for too long. So, in the end, he returned to Sejun’s even after running away.

“Theo, how dare you keep a secret from me?!”

Plop.

Sejun pulled Theo’s cheeks as punishment for the runaway cat.

“Presi... Park, sor... , meow! Fl... gave to... me, meow!”

Finally, Theo confessed, but his pronunciation was all muddled.

“Hehehe.”

Sejun enjoyed touching Theo’s soft chubby cheeks, which felt like sweet rice cake the more he touched. He had long forgotten about Theo’s response.

Thanks to this, Flamie’s secret was kept safe.

***

Morning of the 269th day of being stranded.

It’s been six days since the Harvest Festival began.

“Is there going to be a competition today?”

Sejun said while drinking his morning coffee.

Judging from the pattern so far, there were carrot harvesting competitions on the 2nd day of the Harvest Festival and carrot eating competitions on the 4th day.

“After harvesting and eating, maybe the next one will be something like carrot cooking or carrot carving?”

As Sejun was thinking about the next competition,

Squeak! Squeak!

Kreong! Kreong!

The reconciled black rabbit and Cuengi came looking for Sejun, singing together.

Thud.

Thud!

Suddenly, the black rabbit and Cuengi bowed their heads, performing a formal bow to Sejun.

And then,

Squeak!

Kreong!

They put their palms together, it was a polite yet assertive gesture towards Sejun.

“Do you want food?”

Squeak!

The black rabbit shook his head, and

Kreong! Kreong!

Cuengi, who was nodding, saw the black rabbit and quickly shook his head.

“Then what is it?”

Squeak?

→ When attached to a desired area, it settles as a tattoo on the skin.

→ When the owner’s life is in danger, the Dragon Tribe skill – Dragon Skin activates automatically to save the owner’s life and is then destroyed.

→ Usage Restrictions: Park Sejun, acknowledged by Kaiser Pritani

→ Creator: Kaiser Pritani

→ Grade: Unmeasurable

“Wow.”

It was an extraordinary item.

“So I just put it here like this?”

When Sejun placed Kaiser’s scale on his left arm,

Swoosh.

The scale seeped into Sejun’s skin, and a black dragon tattoo covering up to his left shoulder settled in place.

“But will I ever need to use this?”

He already had the <Power: Indestructible Body>.

Sejun thought he would never have to use Kaiser’s scale, but the time to use the scale came sooner than he thought.

Sejun didn’t know that he would soon be facing a life-threatening situation, and he continued to receive the bow from the remaining rabbits and gave them their New Year’s gift money.

“Did everyone get theirs?”

As Sejun looked around to see if there were any rabbits who hadn’t received their New Year’s gift money,

Flap. Flap.

The golden bat flew in quickly.

(Sejun! I think I’ve finally found what you wanted!)

The golden bat came flying, tightly clutching the items in its two feet.

“Huh?! Is that?!!!”

Sejun was shocked at the amazing item that the golden bat brought.

“Is that instant ramen? Mixim coffee?”

This time the golden bat really brought the right items.

“First, add 550 mL of water.”

Since there was only one packet of ramen, so failure was not an option. Sejun boiled the ramen according to the instructions on the package.

To measure the correct amount of water, Sejun used the water bottle he had brought during the Vanishing to match the volume of water, and started boiling it.

“Hehehe. Good job. Good job.”

Sejun held the golden bat, the top contributor of the day, in his arms and kept stroking its head while boiling the ramen water.

Purr, purr.

The golden bat happily purred in Sejun’s arms. But there was someone who didn’t like it.

“I don’t like this, meow!”

Theo glared at the golden bat. Bringing necessary items to Sejun was Theo’s role, and it was unacceptable for the youngest one to meddle with the responsibilities of the eldest.

‘How should I scold it?’

As Theo was licking his front paws and thinking about how to scold the golden bat,

“Now is the time!”

Sejun put the noodles, soup, and flakes in the boiling water.

And

“1, 2...269, 270!”

He boiled it for exactly 4 minutes and 30 seconds as stated in the instructions, then removed the pot from the heat and moved the ramen to a bowl.

“Oh, the smell.”

He was moved just by smelling it.

“Hoo! Hoo! ”

Sejun lifted a chopstick of ramen and blew into the steamy noodles.

‘It must be cooled down by now, right? Eh, Whatever.’

When the noodles seemed cool enough, Sejun tried them first.

Slurp.

“Umm!”

The taste of ramen he hadn’t had in almost nine months made a smile appear involuntarily on Sejun’s mouth.

Slurp. Slurp.

This time, Sejun took several sips of the ramen broth with a spoon.

“Wow!”

No other words were necessary. It was simply moving.

As he was eating ramen,

Squeak!

Kreong!

The black rabbit and Cuengi came towards Sejun. Just one bite!

“Uh...”

Sejun’s eyes wavered greatly at the words ‘just one bite.’

“Here.”

Sejun first gave a strand of noodles and five spoons of soup to the black rabbit. That was enough for the black rabbit.

And then,

“Here. Cuengi.”

Sejun pretended to give some to Cuengi, but suddenly he put his face in the bowl and started to slurp up the ramen. He couldn’t let this be taken away.

However

Kreong!

As Cuengi quickly approached and started sucking from Sejun’s bowl, the pressure caused the ramen noodles to be sucked into Cuengi’s mouth like a vacuum cleaner.

Slurp.

The last strand of noodle connected to Sejun’s mouth was sucked into Cuengi’s mouth and with that, the ramen disappeared completely.

“My... my ramen...”

As Sejun was feeling despondent,

(Excuse me... big brother, I brought this for you.)

The golden bat cautiously handed Theo a bag with a cat picture on it. It was Churu.

At that moment,

[The third competition of the Harvest Festival, the Carrot Wine Drinking Competition, will begin shortly.]

[Participants who wish to participate in the competition, please gather in front of the Red Ribbon’s Giant Carrot Altar.]

The last competition of the Harvest Festival began.

*****

TL Notes:

1) The characters here are the Korean equivalents of ABCD in order. (가, 나, 다, 라...)

2) May you live long and healthy : – The blessing here, when translated into English, is a bit different. However, in Korean, it’s like living for ten thousand years without sickness and weakness. So, Kaiser misunderstood, hence his anger.