[Title: I Assert That 3 Is the Most Perfect Number]
Ranked 3rd at sixteen.
Three S-rankers in one guild.
And me, thirty-three-year-old Kim Heonbung…
Waiting for Hyeonak to contact me. Checking my DMs every three minutes.
[Comments]
- You’ve only got two months left of being thirty-three, lol.
Don’t rain on my parade.
- Fact) You’d have a higher chance of getting scouted if you leveled up during the time you spend checking your inbox every three minutes.
That fact hurts like hell. Fuck. Are you S-rank too?
[Title: [Life Tip] Hyeonak’s Growth Began with Her]
(A picture of Gru laughing with ice cream on her nose)
On Jurim? Gidan? Sin Nayeon?
Nope. The Age of Hyeonak was opened by God Gru.
Timeline: God Gru recruited → Gidan ranked 3rd → Nayeon became S-rank
Can we acknowledge that God Gru opened a new era?
[Comments]
- Is it adoption or recruitment?
- Who’s Gru?
She’s the daughter On Jurim adopted. She’s cute.
(A picture of Gru)
She is pretty, though.
- (A picture of Gru holding out a chocolate bar in her hand)
- (A picture of Gru smiling and making a V-sign)
- (A picture of Gru making a K-heart)
Where do you get all these?
Go to the Hyeonak Lounge or Nayeon’s Insta. They’re absolutely drowning in Gru pictures over there.
She’s cute. Is she mixed?
Is this what people call “adorably tiny” these days?
Delete our baby’s pictures while I’m still asking nicely.
Don’t wanna. Are you Gru’s dad?
Mr. Gru’s Father, if it wouldn’t be too rude, may I lick your toes?
You crazy bastard, that’s incredibly rude, hahaha.
GAY KING
*
After visiting the studio with Gru, Nayeon was assessed as S-rank.
Nayeon’s advancement to S-rank added further momentum to Hyeonak’s astounding rise.
While the guild remained abuzz with one unexpected event after another…
At that moment, On Jurim had fallen into the greatest hardship of his life over something no one could have predicted.
Hoping that he was hearing things, he looked down.
A tiny child was looking up at him.
Gru asked again.
“Guild Master, how are babies made?”
Unfortunately, his ears and his mind were both perfectly sound. What Gru had said was exactly the question he had heard a moment ago.
“…Well…”
“I searched it on my phone.”
As she pulled a kids’ phone out of her bag, Jurim snatched it away.
Crack!
“……!”
The kids’ phone broke with a crunch in Jurim’s hand.
‘Why?!’
Gru stared at him with an expression of utter disbelief.
Yet Jurim spoke slowly and calmly, as though he had no will of his own.
“Oh dear, it broke. Shall we go buy you a new phone?”
Oh! That might actually be better.
The kids’ phone could only perform simple functions and was terribly slow, making it inconvenient to use.
“Yesh!”
Going to buy one was all well and good, but…
“By the way, Guild Master. You don’t know either?”
Gru refused to give up on getting an answer.
“……”
Jurim pressed his lips together, and an eerie silence hung in the air for a while.
Those round, innocent-looking eyes gazing up at him seemed especially cruel today.
Should he just say he didn’t know?
But this was Gru.
Considering the terrifying proficiency with electronic devices possessed by that four-year-old, along with her frighteningly proactive nature, she might acquire strange knowledge from strange places.
It might be better to properly address the sensitive question and be done with it.
Of course, he had no idea what he was supposed to say.
This was precisely when he needed the sages of the moms’ online cafés.
“It’s just that…”
Right then, as if on cue, the door to the guild master’s office opened.
“Hyung! The PR team says they want me to shoot a vlog here. Can I shoot—oh, Gru, you didn’t go to kindergarten today?”
It was Gidan.
“I went and came back.”
“Already?”
Gidan smiled and approached Gru.
“Do you want to shoot the vlog with me too, Gru? We’re on the same team, remember?”
“Dan, you’re here?”
For the first time in his life, Jurim welcomed Gidan and gave him a gentle smile.
Gidan’s shoulders twitched as he sensed danger from a reaction he couldn’t believe even with his own eyes.
“Hyung…? Are you insane?”
“Unfortunately, I’m perfectly normal.”
Jurim looked at Gru and pointed toward Gidan.
“Dan-oppa will tell you.”
“Huh? Tell me what?”
Did Oppa Dan know too?
Completely unaware of the situation, Gidan stared blankly back and forth between the two of them.
“Oppa Dan, how are babies made?”
*
“……”
“……”
Gidan and Jurim sat side by side on the sofa with their heads bowed.
The guild master’s office was filled with a silence so heavy that no one could easily open their mouth.
Sluuuurp!
Gru sucked up the strawberry milk her secretary unni had brought her.
Without opening his mouth very far, Gidan whispered softly.
“Hyung, I’m a minor.”
“You’re only a minor when it’s convenient?”
“Being able to become a minor whenever you want to is the privilege of being a minor, you know?”
“You must’ve had sex education at school.”
“You know I don’t go to school much.”
“Then turn on a Zoom class, at least.”
“Who teaches sex ed over Zoom?!”
Just as Gidan finally raised his voice, the door to the guild master’s office opened again.
“Guild Master. About the group interview schedule from NBC this time—the date overlaps with my personal schedule… Why are the two of you sitting like that?”
Nayeon, who had been holding the doorknob, blinked when she spotted the two of them.
The sight of Gidan and Jurim sitting side by side on the sofa looked quite strange even to Nayeon.
Normally, Jurim would either be sleeping or scolding Gidan with his feet up on the desk, while Gidan would be kneeling or sleeping beside him on the sofa. That was the scene she saw every day.
At that moment, Gidan hurriedly pointed at Nayeon.
“N-Nayeon noona will tell her!”
“Huh? Tell her what?”
There was no reason anyone would ask me to explain something, was there? Nayeon, whose metacognition was excellent, was genuinely puzzled.
Gru swallowed her strawberry milk and spoke.
“Unni, how are babies made?”
After hearing the whole story, Nayeon sat down beside Gidan and Jurim and clapped her hands.
“I thought it was something serious! That’s what this is?”
Nayeon’s reaction was remarkably refreshing.
Jurim actually grew a little more anxious at that reaction, while Gidan wore a relieved smile.
“As expected of Nayeon noona.”
“Can we trust Sin Nayeon?”
The person in question was Nayeon. At Jurim’s distrust, Gidan whispered,
“I heard she has five nieces and nephews alone. She must have some know-how.”
“Really?”
Jurim rested his chin on his hand and glared suspiciously at Nayeon.
“Unni knows?”
“Of course!”
Nayeon said with a bright smile,
“Gru, babies are made when a man and a woman are in bed and—”
“Ah!”
Gidan shouted to cut her off, while Jurim, his face tightly scrunched up, covered his face with both hands.
‘This is making my head spin.’
*
“Mmph! Mmph!”
Gidan had covered Nayeon’s mouth with duct tape procured from somewhere.
Nayeon resisted as though she couldn’t understand why she had to end up like this, but she had to be sealed away if they wanted to avoid inflicting a fatal mental debuff on Gru.
Thus, Nayeon, Gidan, and Jurim sat side by side on the sofa.
“……”
“……”
“Mmph-mmph.”
Once again, an uncomfortable silence began, with one of them being unable to speak not by choice, but by force.
“Mmph! Mmph!”
What on earth was the way babies were made that had everyone acting like this?
Gru stared intently at the three of them and took another sip of her strawberry milk.
The reason all of this had happened was, in fact, Shakipiyo’s egg.
The egg Gru had extracted from the Duck Clip possessed not only a special birth and special abilities, but also…
On the day she had helped Nayeon unni and magnificently completed the quest, she had obtained a large amount of Filial Piety Points—and even received a notification window like this.
[You can hasten the hatching process with Filial Piety Points.]
[Would you like to use them?]
‘Is filial piety some kind of all-purpose solution?’
That must be why adults always told children to be good to their parents. It would be nice if she could buy a house with Filial Piety Points too.
In truth, she couldn’t tell whether Filial Piety Points were all-purpose, or whether the egg that could be hatched with them was simply strange.
So, as she wondered what this egg was and where it had come from…
‘Life, origin, Earth, birth, the universe. Which came first, the chicken or the egg…’
…after passing through all that,
‘But how are babies made?’
She had arrived at a fundamental question.
“Guild Master, why are you asking me where Dan and Team Leader Shin are… Hm?”
The next person to take the hot seat was Yun Seojun.
Nayeon, Gidan, and Jurim sat on the sofa. Across from them, Gru sat alone.
All of their gazes turned toward him at once.
He froze as solid as a stone with a pleasant smile still on his face.