Chapter 40 – Chapter 40

〈 Miho’s point of view 〉

Miho opened her eyes to the sweet yet familiar smell.

“Oooooh!”

It was a world made only of chicken legs.

“Chicken! Chikii!”

Miho, who was invited to a kingdom made up of only chicken legs, was able to eat even the substitute for chicken next door. However, even in such a happy world, Miho’s hunger was not completely satisfied.

“Tonnu, where are you?”

Although he found Kim Hyun-woo a bit belatedly, seeing him in a world surrounded by chicken showed how much Miho values ​​him.

Of course, in front of the person concerned, he didn’t make such a big difference.
Because it’s embarrassing

“Tongue, tongue, tongue!”

I couldn’t even call him ‘Daddy’ yet.
But Miho thought.
If a little more time passes, I will be able to call him dad and hug him without hesitation, even in front of other people and in front of Kim Hyun-woo.

“Jjigan has a lot of steam.”

Compared to the long, long time that seemed like it would never end, the time I was with Kim Hyun-woo was passing like lightning.
I was so happy, and I was in the process of regaining the warmth of the past that I had forgotten for a long time.

“That’s right, tongue-nu! Tongue, where are you? I can’t find it!”

The world is still surrounded by chicken, but let’s find out that Kim Hyun-woo is not in it. Miho no longer felt very happy in this world.

“Tongue… ?”

The child only realized it belatedly.

“Hey pig, eat this here.”
「Kyaaaaa!」

The fact that all the food he ate was so delicious that he wouldn’t know if the two of them ate one of them, because Kim Hyun-woo was always by his side.

Just in time, it sounded like something loud was coming from reality, not a dream.

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“…”

The first thing that came into Miho’s eyes when he quietly opened his eyes was a surprisingly cute girl.
And she was Kim Hyun-woo hugging and patting the girl.

“Thud!”

It felt like being hit in the back of the head with a hammer.
My heart was pounding.

‘It’s Mi-Ho’s seat…’

That was where Miho should be. The girl Kim Hyun-woo should be hugging was not that silver-haired girl he had never seen before.
It was Miho.
Even the surprise didn’t end there.

“Dad, it hurts… !”
“… !”

Dad, he said.

“Flinching”

Miho, who was about to raise his hand reflexively, flinched and lowered it. He couldn’t naturally call Kim Hyeon-woo ‘dad’ like that.
He used to call me by name in a cheeky manner.

Take away.
After that hellish time is over, that child takes away the happy and warm nest that I thought I had finally found.
It was clear that he would lose Kim Hyun-woo and his father.

‘No, I hate it…’

It couldn’t be.

‘What are you? Who the hell are you?’

Where the hell did the dog bone that popped out call Hyun-Woo Kim his father and try to take his heart? Are you trying to steal my nest that I finally found?
It couldn’t be.

Miho couldn’t stand it and was already moving.
She didn’t even know what she was going to do.

She just moved her body before she thought. Because otherwise she felt that this situation would make her despair and burst into tears.

“Who is your father!”

Get out of the way, that’s Miho’s seat.
Don’t interfere
It’s my precious nest that I finally found.
Please, please, please don’t steal it.

Miho, it’s only here.
Kim Hyun-woo, no, now only my father is left… If you take away even that.

“… Ah! Ah, ah…”

Miho started and shivered.
It was only belatedly that she noticed how frightened the girl was, and how her lips her had turned blue and were trembling.
It was as if I was seeing myself at ‘then’.
No, he was far more terrified than he was then. He felt that he had been through more pain, more suffering.

“…”

At that moment, a great sense of guilt overtook Miho.
But even so, he didn’t want to lose Kim Hyun-woo. This and that mind was complicatedly mixed, and his eyes were dizzy.
My stomach rumbled.
I feel like I’m going to vomit, but before that, my vision was fluctuating. My eyes are burning and tears are welling up.

“Ugh, nope…”

… It’s over.

It was clear that Kim Hyeon-woo had lost all of his feelings for him now.
He showed an ugly side.
A new child who is much cuter and prettier than herself, and who calls her daddy with a voice full of love, has come to this house.

It was clear to him that he would no longer be where he was.
Will you be angry now?

“Uuuuu…” … ! Uuuuu!”

I’d rather say something.
Please don’t abandon Miho.
I’ll do well in the future, so I wanted to hold on to my legs and pray until my hands were worn out, so please don’t throw it away.

However, it wasn’t Kim Hyun-woo’s angry voice that approached Miho.

“It’s okay. I don’t know how many times I’ve said this today. Even so, they tell me how many times, no, even tens of thousands of times.”
“Kkeuk, kkeukkeuk… Black, whimper…”
“It’s okay. You stupid kids.”

It’s still, no, much warmer than before…
Despite the arrival of a new girl, Kim Hyun-woo’s warm voice and consolation, which did not diminish in the slightest, were itself.
At that moment, Miho let out the words that came up in tears.

“Dad, Dad! Aaaaagh!”

Why is it that he can say this word casually only at a moment like this?
Why can’t I keep calling Kim Hyun-woo daddy like that kid?

Miho thinks of that while crying sadly, and at the same time feels sorry for Kim Hyeonu… Thank you so much again.
He who protects even such an ugly daughter is so… It was good.

* * *

Maybe it’s time to get angry?

No, before I even made that decision, my anger had risen to my chest. Because Miho committed an act that was too sudden and dangerous.
Really, even if I was just a little bit late, Noah could have been seriously injured, or even more mentally damaged than he is now.
Most of all, Miho’s action just before was a ‘wrong act’ to anyone.
It was natural to be angry with him.

So the order was a bit odd.
I was just angry first, and then I thought about whether I should be more angry in order to correct Miho’s wrongdoing.

“…”

However, seeing Miho’s eyes cooled those thoughts.

Even if I didn’t shed tears right away, I could see and feel that I was crying. I was crying silently with the most desperate feeling in the world.
Even at this moment, I was worried about whether I should be angry.
Because that’s how I learned, watched and grew up. Aren’t all other parents like that? If a child made a big mistake, he would correct it even with a cane.
But do we have to teach all children that way?
I’ve never thought about this in a complicated or deep way, but if you look at Miho right now… I thought ‘no’.
If I got really angry here and lifted the cane just because it was for Miho’s sake, I felt like I would plant new wounds on this child.
That’s how I felt.

So, rather than lifting a cane, I chose to reach out.

“It’s okay, you son of a bitch.”
“Ahhhhh, Dad, Dad!”

How surprised were they to the extent that a child who must have had a happy dream and had a sweet sleep cried so sadly before waking up?

“Uuuuu!”
“Ahhh, huhh!”

Noah also burst into tears as Miho let go of his head and cried. I just, endlessly… I thought about it as I continued to pat him until the tears stopped.

‘It’s far.’

Even if it was far, it was too far.
I had a lot to learn.

Still, I was too immature to see things from a child’s point of view.
It was not okay if I tried to solve things by my standards.

Rather, adults had to yield and yield. If adults are still like iron plates that have been hammered many times, these children are like soft glass that can easily break even in the heat.

Even when he was angry, the adult had to endure it one more time.
I realized once again that that is ‘adult’.

And parents had to put up with it several times, tens of thousands of times more than adults.

[Actually, I didn’t expect this to happen.]

A confused voice echoed in my head.

[Goofy… I just thought that since you and Miho have become friends to some extent, it would be okay to bring a new child.]
[This is really stupid.]
[I thought it was for children, but everything I was doing was nothing short of hypocrisy. Contact the person in charge immediately…]

Until there.

[… ] … Yes?]

Just do it there

[… ] …]

We are not children, but we are not perfect ‘gods’ either.
Are you kidding me if you’re so serious about just one mistake? Then I should have drowned far away in the water of the Han River.

In fact, he made the mistake of making Miho run away when he had no voice.
Even if it’s not that, if you count small mistakes, there will be no end.

Humans, even non-humans, were the same.
Including the crying elf, and the yet unknown Noah… No, in a way, even ‘God’, who believes in perfection, could make mistakes.

However, in the case of a child, the mistake may be forgiven generously and may not be corrected right away.

‘Adults can’t do that.’

Instead, everyone could make a mistake at one time or another.
Instead, if that mistake becomes a double, repeated over and over again… From then on, it became a problem, and it became difficult to forgive anymore.

‘It’s not to the point where you have to blame yourself for an act you genuinely committed to help someone, that the result was a little twisted.’

[You are…]
[No.]

The voice answered softly.

[Thank you.]

… Well, it wasn’t a bad feeling.
All I know about my voice is that it blesses me and that my voice is very pretty.

‘Is this why phone sex is so popular?’

It was a strange feeling that just hearing your voice could make you feel better.

“Whoa, by the way… How am I really supposed to do this?”
“…”
“…”

Whimper, whimper
I stopped crying before I knew it, but on the contrary, I held back the sigh that was about to come out naturally as I checked the atmosphere that was much harder than when I was crying.

Seriously, my head hurts.
Children who grew up together from the beginning don’t have to worry about this.

In a way, this was a much more awkward atmosphere than a family reunion that had been separated.

“Mmm.”

The worry had to be brief.
If this awkward atmosphere lasts even one second longer, it will all be a burden to the children.

Eventually, I made a rough decision.

“For now, take off both of them.”
“… Sniffle?”

Looking at the children who tilted their heads at my words, I said again.

“Raise your hands and cheers. I’ll take it off.”
“What if I take it off?”
“To get rid of the original awkwardness or to get closer to each other, having a conversation naked is the best.”

Miho and Noah raised their hands at the same time.

“Yeah, okay…”
“Ah, ah, okay…”

I grabbed the two of them by their clothes and took them off in an instant.