Prologue | Past Life Experience | Turtle, Ladybug, and Sackcloth | Mouse, Mouse | Tickle, Tickle | Red Ant | Goblin Gloves | Piranha Pond | It's the Same | Little Beggars | Straw House | Hungry | Earthworm Side Dish | A Dog Rice Cake | The Smell of Rice | Raking the Storehouse | Being Captured | Ghosts | Monsters Are Crowding | A Pebble | Originally Original Goblin | Come Back, Jomagu | Feast | Of Course | Epilogue | Author's Note

The final time travel of the eerie and bizarre 'Foggy Elementary School'
Let's go with the Cemetery Milk Jomaso Mato and the Red Ant!

The mystery horror fairy tale series 'Kung! Fog Elementary School', which transcends time and space, has been completed with the publication of the new book 'Kung! Fog Elementary School 3: Tickling Red Ant'.
The four members of the 'Myoji Uyujo Majo Mato' group, who always travel together like four beans in a pod, follow the 'Red Ant' on a time travel to the past when a great famine was spreading, and defeat terrifying monsters in a ruined world.
When he gets angry, Jomagu grows bigger and stronger, and this time he shows off his great ability to protect the children, but thanks to the true friendship he finally encounters, he realizes his true identity.
Author Borin's restrained and rhythmic sentences and cartoonist Sengae's fantastic illustrations further enhance the work's immersion, leading readers into a state of tension and emotion.

“Our baby, our beautiful baby, don’t be cold even when it’s cold, don’t starve even when you don’t have anything…”
A fairy tale about rescuing abandoned and starving children

The day before the start of the new school year at Foggy Elementary School, the four members of the "Myoji Uyujomajomato" group, who always attend school together, gather at the library and try to experience their past lives.
Whenever Jomagu travels back in time, he knows where he is and what happened, but he feels frustrated because he doesn't know who he is.
On the first day of school, a swarm of red ants crawls out of the old sack that Jomagu brought. Jomagu's best friend Myo Myung-eun sets off on a final journey to the past with her friends to find out the cause.
That place, with its thatched houses built close together and bare, bald mountains like a bald head, was Joseon in the 1890s, when a great famine was raging.
Will the children be able to uncover the true identity of Jomagu here?

'Kung! Fog Elementary School' is a series that highlights children who survived historical events such as the Korean War in 1950, the Japanese colonial period in 1919, and the Great Famine of the 1890s.
If Borin's "Shh! Fog Elementary School" series dealt with mysteries unfolding within a school, the "Kung! Fog Elementary School" series doubles the fun of crossing over reality and fantasy by meeting children from the past.
In particular, the third volume, 'The Tickling Red Ant', is unique in that it evokes a sense of 'hunger' that is difficult for children today to feel.
Children in times of famine are so hungry that they beg, stuff inedible pebbles into their mouths, and even dig up earthworms from the ground.
Even though he only skipped one meal, the suffering is vividly described in sentences like, "If I had something to eat, I would lie ten times."
The 'monster' that appears in Volume 3 is a being that embodies a corrupt official who ignores the dying people and only cares about his own gain.
The merciless monsters greedily eat food, oblivious to the fact that the people are starving to the point of turning into ghosts called 'Agwi'.
However, the children of the past and the four members of the Fog Grass Group join forces to overcome the crisis, and finally, they are able to hold a feast where everyone in the village can eat their fill.
Readers will feel fear at the unfamiliar sensation of hunger, but will also feel courage and hope as they watch the children care for each other and bravely seek their way forward.

Jomagu's true identity, discovered by his friends!
The power of friendship to overcome suffering and tragedy

When a terrible tragedy shatters a community, how wonderful would it be if children possessed power? Furious at the monsters who aim their guns at even helpless children, Jomagu rushes forward, takes the bullets in their place, and grows to enormous size, devouring the monsters.
The ending, where the greedy monsters end up like piggy banks that can never be full no matter how much they eat, provides readers with a refreshing catharsis.
But where did Jomagu's incredible power to protect children come from? Jomagu was actually a "goblin," a being born from the soul of a beloved object held by a child.
It was once a chair that the child sat on every day, it was once a rocking chair that the child played with, and it was once a swaddle that the baby was wrapped in.
The sad story of Jomagoo, who wanted to protect the child he loved but was unable to do so and wandered for hundreds of years, leaves a deep sadness even amidst the tension of a horror fairy tale.
Myo Myung-eun and U Yoo-ju, who came to visit, desperately want Joma-gu to return just as they were when they were together, shouting, “Come back, Joma-gu!”
Perhaps because of that feeling, Jomagoo releases the pain in his heart and returns to his friends.
The children, who have overcome both hunger and monsters, embrace each other and promise to protect each other no matter what happens.
Ultimately, the 'Kung! Fog Elementary School' series is a story that shows that friendship and love are the greatest forces that can overcome fear and sustain the world.