A small, metal-eating wild boar rat, a large ship sailing the equator > Bonds Gallery

2026-1-24. 323. A small, metal-eating wild boar rat, a large ship sailing the equator

An unfamiliar European city
People are imitating.
It feels like a festival, and the streets are crowded with people.
They're imitating a certain movement.
Rats are gnawing on something, like eating watermelon.

Ah, I now know why.

On the street
On a square table
There are thirty small rats, rats that have shrunk down to wild boars,
in three rows.

These wild boar rats
are pulling out nails stuck in the wooden table.
Long nails, screw-in nails.
First, they pull out long nails with their mouths.
Then, they pull out nails with their teeth and eat them.
Their teeth are bleeding.
There's blood around their teeth. There's blood in their mouths and gums. Wow, I'm worried my teeth might hurt.

It gnaws on metal.
It gnaws on pulled-out nails.
And when I throw it a thick, shiny metal coin,
it catches it and chews it like a cookie.

Ah... these rats, shrunken like wild boars, are eating metal.

..

Looking at the globe screen,
it shows information about the ship's progress.
In the background, it shows information about the seabed.
It seems to be scanning the bottom with a scanner.
The monitor displays the underwater terrain in vivid colors.

It goes around the equator in the middle.

This ship is a big ship.
It's a really big ship.

I talk to the captain.

Where can I renew my marine license?
I heard it's renewed at Incheon Port.

I actually have a captain's license.
But I try to say this, but
I hold back.

A ship this large would inevitably require the hiring of a deckhand, an engineer, and several other personnel. Therefore, the costs would be substantial.