Chapter 137 – Selling Better to Hit Early

“Uncle Mincheol?”
“It’s been a while.”

Did you see him dressed as a man before, because you had to dress up as a man?
However, this time in a more shocking way than before.
It’s nothing else, it greets the person of Hyeonseong with a figure holding a child.

“That child is…”
“She’s my daughter.”
“Daughter…Then the man next to him…”
“He’s the father.”

Minchul must have been quite surprised to see me holding my daughter in my arms.

“But what are you doing here?”
“…Should I say this as if it were just a normal thing…”
“What’s the matter?”

After a moment of silence, his voice was filled with worry.
But.
Since I wasn’t Lee Seo-ha, I don’t know the details of the inside story, but from that person’s point of view, it feels like a daughter came with her child one day.

“The president is looking for a young lady.”
“…Me?”
“Yes. But that…”

Looking at Sae-ah and seeing him blurring his words again, his expression hardened.
Know.
I fought with my father to become a guardian and ran out of the house, and went all the way to the academy like that.
It would never be nice to see you hooked up with a man and holding a child in your arms.

“There is nothing wrong with the child.”

Naturally, words that seemed to defend Sae-ah came out in a hurry.
Of course it’s physical force. At this point, there won’t be many people who can catch me.
But that’s only possible when you give up your normal life in this world.

“Ah, it’s not that kind of problem. But…”
“But?”
“If I tell you that the lady has no memory, if you two meet this time, it will be a reunion for the first time in about eight years.”
“Eight…Years?”
“Yes. But if the girl who went out saying that a person with power should use that power for the right thing, goes back with her baby in her arms…”

It’s been longer than I thought…
From Seoyeon’s words, I knew roughly that a long time had passed.

“Well, what can I do? It’s already been like this.”
“You can refuse if you don’t want to.”
“Eight years is a long time.”

Responding to Mr. Min-cheol’s words, he took Sae-ah into his arms.
Surprised to hear it suddenly while sleeping, Sae-ah opened her eyes for a moment and, thinking it was her mother, slowly closed her eyes again and began to fall asleep.

“The young lady is also a mother now.”
“Yes.”
“Do you know Lady Seoyeon?”
“Yes. I know.”

I carefully put it down on the baby cushion so that it wouldn’t wake up, and got up.
I looked at Mr. Mincheol waiting for my answer for a while, then stopped by the room using dimensional transfer and returned.
My uncle was watching all of me like nothing.

“Mister.”
“Yes.”
“This is my home address.”
“Aren’t you a Guardian trainee?”
“I can’t stay in the dormitory anymore. I have to raise a bird…”

She handed him her note and gave him a small smile.
After reporting discharge from the hospital today, it was a bit tight to move Kim Joo-won, who was still asleep, to a hospital near her house.
At Guardian Academy, they probably objected to moving Kim Joo-won because he had to lecture.

That’s just the academy’s position.
Since I had accomplished my goal of finding a new child, there was no reason for me to stay at the academy anymore.
Especially because of the future manipulation and the overwhelming power created by defeating Lee Seo-ha and reading her dimensional core.

“I don’t think I can do it right now. I need to prepare a little bit.”
“The president told me to come comfortably as it is always good.”
“Yeah. Well, it won’t take long, but could you tell him that we need to prepare a little?”

I wonder if my words were quite unexpected for those who knew the situation.
It was quite a strange experience to see a small fluctuation in the eyes of a person who did not even shake the slightest when he saw Sae-ah.

“I’ll pass it on.”
“Thank you for coming.”
“Then…”

It was only when I saw Mincheol leave that I was able to lie down on the bed again.
Chairman Hyeonseong, a person who hasn’t been looking for me for a while is looking for me…

‘I should go.’

Right now, if I take off the name of Hyeonseong, I am like a guardian trainee who has virtually nothing.
If you use the ability to manipulate the future, you can overcome all of these situations, but you don’t know what the cost will follow.
When I locked Lee Seo-ha’s two-dimensional space, my ability was also locked.
In return for cutting off Kim Joo-won’s return, how could he know that he would still be asleep?

‘Are you going to be a maternal grandfather to Sae-ah?’

But now I knew.
During the last year of my life on the run, I had to live as if I was dead.
But that’s only possible when the child is a complete baby.
After all, when you grow up, you will have to go outside…

“Saeah, shall we go see your maternal grandfather?”

Waking up from sleep, she asked her child while breastfeeding.
Twice a day, every day for this moment, the moment of deliberately expressing milk passed before my eyes.
This, too, relied heavily on luck, but it must have been possible because of my efforts and efforts.

‘I’m sure they won’t welcome you.’

In fact, if you look at it closely, it is a child who was not blessed from the beginning.
She came out of a relationship with Kim Joo-won, but the process is a child born through rape that is never beautiful.
On top of that, she is a child she gave birth to with difficulty, even running away to avoid a fate that was almost erased.

Certainly, Hyeonseong would not welcome this child who came out of an unexpected relationship with an orphan.
But now I know.
In the end, in order to raise Sae-ah without succumbing to external pressure, I now need the value of Hyun-sung’s name.
I thought about it for a while, but raising a child as a guardian with nothing behind it makes no sense at all.

“Joo Won, I’ll go and come back.”

After eating enough to eat, I put down Sae-ah, who was trying to play with the faucet, and quietly held the still-sleeping boy’s hand.
I felt his normally, always firm hands move like a doll.
However, he will wake up sooner or later and call my name.
Because he met me after going through countless relapses and became somewhat aloof from the wounds of the past.

“I’ll see you tomorrow.”

I tidied up my clothes and left the hospital room to report discharge.
The nurses were already looking at me with worried eyes, asking if I was being discharged.
I had no answer other than a smile telling them not to worry.

Because I’m a mother who can’t be weak anymore.
She changed her clothes and took her child in her arms.

“Let’s go, bird.”

She was looking at me with bright eyes.

* * *

I must have stopped by last week for a simple cleaning.

Returning with Sae-ah in our arms, me and Kim Joo-won.
And this space where Sae-ah lived together felt really welcome.
It feels like coming back to my long-lost home after a long time.

I put my child carefully in the crib for the first time in a long time.
Looking at the bed that found its owner, I smiled naturally.
How long ago do you feel?

‘It’s something I have to face anyway.’

In what ways will her president Hyeon-seong, who is her father of Lee Seo-ha, remember her?
Reflecting on Seo-yeon’s words, she was clearly an unfilial child who stood up for her own beliefs but couldn’t control her blood and rebelled against her father.
In addition, given that there were many opportunities to find it, but they did not find it, the anger must have lasted for quite a long time.

‘Maybe it has faded now.’

I was still thinking
Now, I know that someone has to support Sae-ah, not me.
Whether this choice was right or not, it was not visible as if it was hidden in a fog.

‘Stuffy.’

If these things were a scene from a novel, I might have written them comfortably.
My writing style was one that was written in such a way that development could always be dealt with behind the scenes.

However, as I gave up on returning to the reality I was in and tried to accept this world as my new world, each and every one of these things felt like a difficult task.
Because the novel and the development and the real thing are obviously different.

Open the closet
I folded my school uniform and hung it neatly, and I wore a suit to look as good as possible.
Lee Seo-ha must have lived as a man for a long time.
Judging from Seoyeon saying she was her brother in the past, even when she was in the family.

But now that kind of dressing up doesn’t make any sense.
Even though the bottom suit is suit pants that stick to the legs quite a bit.
Her shirt, vest, and thin jacket clearly showed that she was a woman who had lived as a man.
After all, no one would think that I was a man when I was holding a child with long hair.

‘Even a bird is as pretty as possible.’

After texting Uncle Min-chul, she dressed Sae-ah as neatly as possible, including her children’s shirt.
My heart was pounding.
He is a father he does not remember, but the fact that he needs to be acknowledged was burning his throat little by little.

‘Did Seo-ha Lee leave the house saying that she would use her powers for the right thing?’

If you saw such a bastard appear with a child in his arms, it was obvious what he would think.
If it’s to the point of being caught by the hair, I guess it’s going to end docilely.

“Miss.”
“Yes.”
“Are you all right?”

When he shows up with Sae-ah in his arms, Mr. Min-cheol’s eyes are worried.
But what do you do if you’re worried?
You can’t hide the fact that you have a baby for the rest of your life.

“They say it’s better to get hit early.”

She gets into the car with her child in her arms.
Although the baby car seat I had prepared just in case caught my eye.
I ride like that because my arms are safer than those car seats.

“If that’s what you mean, my lady…”

In the end, he smiled at the voice of Min-cheol, who could not hide his worries.
The first process of accepting it anyway is labor pain, what will the father do with his child.
How cute is our baby there.

“Let’s go quickly.”

With the engine sound, the scenery outside began to move.