Chapter 7 of 100
Chapter 7: Rebellion
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Sejun put the cherry tomatoes he had harvested directly into his mouth without washing them. There was no need to wash them since there was no fine dust or pollution here.
*Crunch.*
As he chewed the ripe cherry tomatoes,
*Squish!*
the skin of the cherry tomatoes split, and the juice inside sprayed into his mouth. It was a perfect blend of flavors that could not be described in words.
*Pop! Pop!*
The sour bomb and the sweet bomb exploded alternately in his mouth, creating a chaotic festival.
"Wow."
Sejun could only let out a sigh of amazement.
*Munch, munch.*
Sejun chewed the cherry tomatoes silently, savoring the taste until it disappeared.
[You have consumed a Magic Cherry Tomato.]
[10g of fat has been broken down, increasing your magic power by 0.1 for 10 minutes.]
Although a message appeared indicating that his magic power had increased, it was not important.
*Crunch.*
Sejun put another cherry tomato in his mouth and continued the feast.
*Peep?*
Seeing Sejun's reaction as he mindlessly ate the cherry tomatoes, the husband rabbit tilted his head and picked up a cherry tomato.
'Is it really that delicious?'
*Plop.*
Since the cherry tomato was quite large for the rabbit, he couldn't eat it in one bite like Sejun.
*Crunch.*
So he bit into the cherry tomato, and the juice started to overflow from the hole in the skin.
'What a waste of food!'
*Slurp.*
The husband rabbit, startled, sucked up the juice to prevent it from spilling. Wasting food was a sin.
*...!*
'What is this taste?!'
*Slurp, slurp.*
The husband rabbit began to suck on the cherry tomato as if entranced.
*Peep?*
*Peep?*
Seeing their father's behavior, the baby rabbits each picked up a cherry tomato and started to suck on it.
*Slurp, slurp.*
*Slurp, slurp.*
For a while, the cave was filled only with the sound of slurping.
***
Eating cherry tomatoes without the wife rabbit was a serious offense. And the blame was focused on the husband rabbit.
*Peep, peep.*
The husband rabbit approached the wife rabbit, who was preparing dinner, rubbing against her and trying to be cute. However, the wife rabbit turned her head away and completely ignored his attempts.
*Peep...*
The husband rabbit looked at Sejun with a sad expression, asking for help.
'Hang in there.'
Sejun, who had never seen a good outcome from getting involved in a couple's affairs, clenched his fist and encouraged the husband rabbit from a distance, refusing to help.
A pleasant mealtime.
Lunch consisted of piranha, cherry tomatoes, and grilled leeks. Even though only one menu item had been added, the meal felt much more abundant.
The wife rabbit placed the food evenly on leaf plates and set them at each person's place.
*Peep?*
The husband rabbit quietly protested when he saw that only grilled leeks were on his plate.
*Peep!!!*
Although they couldn't communicate, it seemed like he was saying, "Just eat it!!!" The husband rabbit failed to calm the wife rabbit down.
*Peep...*
'Poor guy.'
Seeing the husband rabbit's dejected state, Sejun secretly gave him some of his own food.
*Peep.*
The husband rabbit sent a grateful look to Sejun and quietly disappeared.
And when he was tearing the flesh from the piranha spines in a corner of the cave,
*Peep?*
The wife rabbit, thinking he was crying, met his eyes.
*...!*
*...!*
They communicated with their eyes, as a couple would.
Where did you get that?
Early morning.
The husband rabbit pointed at Sejun with his eyes.
'Traitor!'
To immediately inform on him!
A little while later, although they didn't know what had happened, the two were rolling around in a fight.
Sejun, once again learning the lesson that one should never get involved in a couple's fight, watched from a distance.
***
After lunch, Sejun started picking cherry tomatoes again. In a few hours, more fully ripe cherry tomatoes had appeared.
[You have obtained fully ripe Magic Cherry Tomatoes.]
[Your job experience has increased slightly.]
[You have gained 10 experience points.]
...
..
.
In the afternoon, he picked 67 cherry tomatoes, a slightly larger amount than in the morning. He leveled up once more, reaching level 5.
For his bonus stats, he increased his strength and stamina by 2 points each, as they were the most important for farming.
He stored the harvested cherry tomatoes in a cool corner of the cave, creating a storage area by digging a hole and lining it with tightly packed leaves to prevent dirt from getting in.
Sejun transferred the cherry tomatoes to a plastic container,
*Peep!*
and the father rabbit carried two cherry tomatoes under his arm.
And
*Peep!*
*Peep!*
The baby rabbits, looking at their father with admiration, each picked up a cherry tomato and carried it to the storage area.
"One, two, three... one hundred and five."
In total, he harvested 120 cherry tomatoes, but after eating 15, 105 remained.
Seeing the pile of cherry tomatoes, a sense of satisfaction washed over him.
"Hehehe."
Sejun smiled and returned to his spot,
*Peep!*
*Peep!*
where the rabbit couple was pushing the baby rabbits into the cave to prepare for sleep.
"Another day is coming to an end."
Sejun also prepared for sleep, watching the rabbits.
*Thump, thump.*
He gathered dirt to make a pillow and
*Thud! Thud!*
beat the dirt to create a place to lie down, then laid out leek leaves that had been dried in the sun to prevent dirt from rising. It was a human-engineered dirt bed, the result of 75 days of experience.
"Ah, that's good."
Lying on the leek leaves, he felt the warmth from the sun-warmed leaves.
"I did well today. Park Sejun."
As Sejun praised himself and was about to end the day,
[You have received a quest.]
[Quest: Offer 100 harvested Magic Cherry Tomatoes to the Tower Manager.]
Reward: 1 Job Skill
Refusal: Death
*Thud.*
Sejun sat up in anger.
"Are you kidding me? You entrusted me with food?!"
And at least give a good reward!
Since receiving the seed-planting skill, Sejun had no expectations for the rewards.
But he couldn't refuse.
'I can't die.'
"Here."
Sejun reluctantly offered the Magic Cherry Tomatoes.
[You have completed the quest.]
[The Tower Manager is satisfied.]
[As a reward for completing the quest, you have obtained the Job Skill - Harvesting Lv. 1.]
"Ah! Really!"
What kind of skill do you need for harvesting?
As expected, there was no answer.
He didn't even bother to check the skill. It would only make him angrier to see something increase slightly.
"Getting angry won't do me any good..."
Sejun calmed down and lay back down. He closed his eyes to sleep, and in one second,
*Snore.*
Sejun fell asleep.
"No... my... tomatoes..."
Even in his dreams, Sejun tried to protect the cherry tomatoes.
***
"Ugh!"
*Swish.*
Sejun, who had woken up, drew another tally mark on the cave wall.
T
In front of it were 16 正 marks.
The 82nd day of being stranded started in the morning.
He had a lot to do in the morning. He needed to harvest cherry tomatoes from the 8 cherry tomato plants he had planted later and pollinate the flowers on the earlier harvested cherry tomato plants.
Especially since he needed to gain experience, harvesting cherry tomatoes was solely his responsibility.
*Snap.*
Sejun picked a slightly green cherry tomato.
[You have harvested a slightly unripe Magic Cherry Tomato.]
[The effect of Harvesting Lv. 1 makes the fruit reach its optimal state.]
[The proficiency of Harvesting Lv. 1 has increased slightly.]
[Your job experience has increased slightly.]
[You have gained 10 experience points.]
The Harvesting skill turned out to be more useful than he thought. It had an effect that made slightly unripe or overripe fruits reach their optimal state when harvested, and the proficiency increased with each harvest.
Thanks to this, he could harvest optimally, and even unripe cherry tomatoes could increase his job experience normally.
Harvesting was quick since there were only 8 plants. He harvested 50 cherry tomatoes from the plants.
"Hey, let's eat some cherry tomatoes."
*Peep!*
*Peep!*
The baby rabbits, who were pollinating the flowers on the cherry tomato plants, ran over at Sejun's call.
The baby rabbits, who had grown to the height of the husband rabbit's shoulders due to good nutrition, were about a month and a half old.
*Plop.*
*Slurp, slurp.*
The baby rabbits started to bite into the cherry tomatoes and suck the juice.
"Here, take one."
Sejun also gave a cherry tomato to the rabbit couple, who were working.
*Peep!*
*Peep!*
The rabbit couple bowed their heads in gratitude.
*Crunch.*
Sejun also put a cherry tomato in his mouth and bit into it.
*Squish!*
"Wow, it's delicious."
The sour and sweet flavors dancing in his mouth made him exclaim.
At that moment,
[The Tower Manager is urging you to complete the quest quickly.]
"I don't want to. I'll do it later."
Since he started harvesting cherry tomatoes, the quests given by the Tower Manager had become increasingly greedy. The number of cherry tomatoes the Tower Manager demanded kept increasing.
And the rewards weren't good either. There were no rewards after giving the Harvesting skill.
It had been 5 days since he started offering cherry tomatoes.
[You have received a quest.]
[Quest: Offer 500 harvested Magic Cherry Tomatoes to the Tower Manager.]
Reward: None
Refusal: Death
The Tower Manager demanding 500 cherry tomatoes made Sejun's anger meter max out.
'This is crossing the line!'
500! I can't keep dealing with this every day!
"I don't want to!"
Sejun let out the anger he had been holding in his chest.
His chest felt better, but his head turned white.
And he hurriedly thought of a way to survive.
'Ah! As long as I don't refuse the quest, it's fine!'
"I'll offer them later!"
[The Tower Manager is surprised.]
That's how Sejun was rebelling against the Tower Manager by putting the quest completion on hold.
And
[The Tower Manager is angry that you are eating the Magic Cherry Tomatoes alone.]
"Then I'll offer 5."
Sometimes, when the Tower Manager got angry, Sejun offered a few cherry tomatoes to calm him down. Even though he was the Tower Manager, he couldn't be too hated.
[The Tower Manager says he will tolerate it this time.]
Sejun was playing a game of push and pull with the Tower Manager like this.
***
The 91st day of being stranded.
The 4th Blue Moon was approaching.
*Peep!*
*Peep!*
The rabbit couple pushed the babies into the cave and covered the entrance with dirt to prepare for the Blue Moon.
Sejun also put out the fire and cleaned up the smelly things to prepare for the Blue Moon.
This time, he prepared earplugs made from well-dried leek leaves and cherry tomatoes to avoid fainting.
He had heard that if your magic power was high, you could withstand the roar of monsters, so he prepared cherry tomatoes to increase his magic power in case the same situation as last time occurred.
'But it would be best if nothing like last time happens.'
While Sejun was thinking this, the sunlight turned blue.
The Blue Moon had begun.
A little while later,
*Roar!*
*Roar!*
The roars of monsters excited by the Blue Moon could be heard from a distance.
'No one come! Don't come!'
As Sejun wished in his heart, about an hour passed,
"Hey?!"
Sejun saw a mysterious phenomenon.
A blue aura began to form 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 and was absorbed by the cherry tomatoes.
"Wow."
The cherry tomatoes began to turn blue. The sight of the Blue Moon's energy being absorbed into the cherry tomatoes was mysterious and beautiful.
Sejun witnessed the entire process of the Blue Moon's energy being absorbed into the cherry tomatoes for the first time.
'I want to harvest them quickly.'
Sejun, waiting for the Blue Moon to end quickly,
"Hey?!"
saw a blue aura moving in the sweet potato vines.