The brothers, the atmosphere much more relaxed now, welcomed Geuru.
“Looks like things have settled down a bit.”
“I’m sorry. It’s been so long, and I showed you such an ugly side of me.”
“You should be apologizing to the child.”
“Ah, right.”
Just then, Jurim approached Geuru, bent at the waist, and met her eyes.
“I got too worked up and said something I shouldn’t have. It’s a word you must never learn. I shouldn’t have done that. I’m really sorry.”
“I won’t learn it. It’s okay.”
“Yeah. Thank you.”
Only then did Jurim smile, as if finally relieved.
After giving Jurim a hug, Geuru turned her gaze to On Ijo.
On Ijo, stiff with tension again, lifted the corners of his mouth.
“U-Uncle showed you something pathetic.”
Geuru, looking nervous as well, trembled at the corners of her mouth before shouting,
“U-Uncle!”
“Hm?”
“Can I call you Uncle for just a little longer?”
“Just a little?”
Nod, nod.
“Until I get used to it……”
So she still needed time.
“Of course!”
When On Ijo smiled brightly, Geuru’s eyes sparkled, and she began to smile little by little.
*
Inside the luxurious hospital room that had taken over the entire VIP ward.
Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, On Ijo held his phone and groaned.
cafe: HN-dong Gathering of Classy Moms Membership Form
[On Ijo]
- This nickname is already in use.
“No, why is someone using the nickname ‘On Ijo’ in a mom cafe?”
On Ijo, who had been trying to join the mom cafe Jurim had sent him, simply couldn’t understand it.
Jurim
Why would someone in a mom cafe
go out of their way to use On Ijo as a nickname??
On Jurim
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Isn’t that weird???
On Jurim
Use this instead of On Ijo
On Ijo, who had been tearing up in front of the nickname creation window, let out a laugh when he saw the message Jurim sent him.
*
cafe: HN-dong Gathering of Classy Moms
[Title: Regarding My Child Not Calling Me Dad]
Author: Segeuru
[Comments]
- What’s your relationship with Dugeuru?
- Did Dugeuru become a regretful male lead and turn into Segeuru?
- Are you perhaps that T-villain?
“Dugeuru?”
On Ijo tilted his head at the comments that kept asking if he was Dugeuru.
After joining with great confidence, he had written up and uploaded the issue that worried him most, but instead of answers, the post was filled with nothing but completely random comments.
Jurim
Is this really a helpful place?
(screenshot of the post and comments)
They keep asking if I’m Dugeuru
Who is Dugeuru that they’re acting like this????
But Jurim must have been busy, because his reply was terribly late.
In the end, On Ijo asked who Dugeuru was, only to receive a flood of comments asking if he had “come back with a dot,” which left him dejected.
The mom cafe was not a kind place for novice guardian On Ijo.
It had already been four days since On Ijo returned to play the role of a father.
He had been about to make his own efforts to get closer to the child, who still called him Uncle and kept her distance, but no matter what he did, nothing was easy.
It was right around the time On Ijo was struggling through those worries and efforts.
Just then, there was a knock at the door, and Geuru poked her head in.
“Our Princess Geuru is here?”
“Uncle~”
When On Ijo greeted her warmly, Geuru’s face turned rosy as well, and she shuffled awkwardly into the hospital room.
Ijo picked Geuru up and seated her on his lap.
“Our princess, did you go to kindergarten today?”
“Yes, I came wight away. Dad told me to keep an eye on Uncle.”
“Mm. He told you to keep an eye on me?”
“Yees.”
“You even say things like that exactly as they are. Our Geuru is the most honest and cutest in the world.”
At On Ijo’s fussing as he rubbed his face against hers, Geuru burst into giggles.
“What did you do at kindergarten today?”
“Ah! I drew a picture.”
Geuru rummaged around and pulled a sheet of drawing paper from her bag.
Perhaps it was a drawing of her family, because her grandfather, Jurim, Ijo, and Geuru were all drawn on it.
Near Geuru, her animal friends were there as well.
“Dis is Mepi, and dis is Beii, and this one is Pereu.”
Listening to her seriously call out each of their names one by one, On Ijo smiled.
She meant the bird on top of her head, and the hamster and rabbit peeking out from her bag. How cute.
Just then, he pointed at the dog drawn at the very edge.
“Geuru, then who’s this dog?”
He had seen the bird, hamster, and rabbit, but he had never seen a dog like this.
“Ah……”
At that, Geuru’s shoulders drooped.
“He’s a puppy Geuru was raising. He disappeared.”
There had been no word of Yurian since he disappeared from the aircraft carrier.
The CCTV had captured him running out of the hangar, but after that, it was a blind spot, so they had been unable to trace where he had gone.
Geuru pouted.
Whenever she said she had lost him, everyone said, “Wasn’t he a stray dog you picked up, so maybe he went back home?” and it had been making her insides boil.
“Actually……”
Geuru whispered into On Ijo’s ear.
“I think Yurian was kidnapped.”
Jurim had said, “Aren’t you the one who kidnapped Yurian?” but Geuru had not listened to him in the slightest.
She had not kidnapped Yurian. They had become family for certain reasons.
So there was no way he would have disappeared without saying a word to his family.
Yurian must have been kidnapped by a bad villain.
Fortunately, On Ijo did not laugh at Geuru’s story and listened to her seriously.
“I see.”
“Yees. So Geuru has to find Yurian.”
It was while On Ijo was patting Geuru’s bottom, telling her how admirable she was.
Suddenly, he repeated the name that lingered in his ears.
“……Yurian?”
“Yees. This one is called Yurian.”
On Ijo froze for a moment.
“Yurian?”
“Yees. Yurian.”
When Geuru emphasized it once more, On Ijo rolled his eyes with a smile on his face.
There was confusion in his expression, so Geuru tilted her head.
“Why?”
“Ah, no…… It’s the same name as a friend I know.”
“I see.”
Thinking it was strange since it wasn’t a common name, Geuru hopped down from On Ijo’s lap.
Then she began taking items out of her bag one by one.
“Geuru made lots of items to find Yurian. Do you wanna see?”
“Wow, that’s amazing. Is it okay for Uncle to see these?”
“Yees. This is a magnifying glass that can find items. When you equip it like this, it shines.”
“Waaah! How did you make something like this?”
When On Ijo opened his eyes wide and made a fuss, Geuru puffed out her chest like a pigeon as she showed off each of her items.
“And this is a spy ladybug. I upgraded it recently, so it can find smells and go to them. So Geuru put Yurian’s smell on here. If it smells Yurian, it flies and finds Yurian.”
It was the moment Geuru took out the ladybug and set it on the floor.
Bzzzz—
“……?”
The ladybug suddenly flew upward.
Seeing that, On Ijo lifted his head.
“It really does fly. How can even your items be as small and cute as you, Geuru?”
Meanwhile, Geuru’s mouth fell open.
Why was it flying here? Unless Yurian was nearby, it shouldn’t react.
The “Spy Ladybug” circled above Geuru’s head. Its movements were as if telling her to follow.
Geuru, her eyes round, sprang up.
“Y-Yurian must be here!”
On Ijo smiled as he crouched down.
If that Yurian is the Yurian I’m thinking of, then he would indeed be here.
Though I don’t know why that Yurian is this Yurian.
In truth, Yurian had indeed been kidnapped, just as the child had guessed.
For some reason, On Ijo’s face filled with emotion as he pulled Geuru tightly into his arms.
“Is my kid a genius?”