“My brother had a lover.”
At those words, tossed out as if they were no big deal, On Suhyeong’s blank face went slack for a moment.
“That person and my brother’s child, Guru.”
He spoke deliberately calmly. It was to keep his father from being too shocked.
“......Are you playing some sort of joke right now?”
Jurim let out a bitter laugh.
His father surely knew this wasn’t a joke.
He just couldn’t believe it, so the question had slipped out of him.
That was why On Suhyeong’s voice was trembling at the end.
“A lover— Ijo had a lover?”
“Chloe Han. A researcher from Project Wilderness.”
“My god.”
On Suhyeong clamped a hand over his mouth. His fingertips were shaking hard.
“If... if this is a lie, don’t even think about looking me in the face again.”
As if he couldn’t believe it, On Suhyeong knit his brows in painful disbelief.
“So don’t tell me it’s a lie. Please.”
At that, Jurim took an envelope with documents from inside his coat and handed it over.
After checking the papers, On Suhyeong squeezed his eyes shut.
It was a certificate stating a 99.9% probability that the child was On Ijo’s biological offspring.
A metallic sound leaked from his mouth.
“Right, Guru is......”
On Suhyeong stared vacantly at the memorial engraved with On Ijo’s name.
“So that’s how it was. That’s how it was.”
“How much must Ijo have loved her......”
Hot tears were running down On Suhyeong’s face.
After running around in front of the memorial, Guru went into the memorial hall.
Inside, the lighting was dim and still, and in the center stood a large hologram.
A hologram of On Ijo using a skill played on repeat.
Thump-thump.
When she saw a small monster forming between his two hands, Guru’s heart pounded violently.
As if surprised himself by the marvelous sight, the On Ijo in the hologram was beaming.
'Uncle looks like he’s making a follower too.'
According to what she’d heard from Jurim, On Ijo was a Creator class with a godlike «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» ability to manifest anything in the world.
Could he have made a proto-bird flying in the sky, or a dinosaur thundering over the ground if Guru wanted it?
If so—
How far could Guru go?
Guru opened her two hands.
Whether she had inherited the ability through On Ijo’s bloodline, or it was because of that experiment her mom said she’d felt—she didn’t know.
Guru also had an L-rank skill, and the abilities of an S-rank Creator.
So far, creating new life had only gotten as far as making a small rabbit follower, and she hadn’t been able to turn Veilach or Yurian into humans, but she had made an S+ that no one would envy.
Guru was steadily growing.
'Could I become like Uncle too?'
'Could people say I had an ability like a god too?'
Just as she was filling her head with fluffy clouds and letting her imagination spread its wings—
'Huh?'
She saw a goldfish’s fin.
'Chuen unnie’s goldfish?'
The moment she recognized the goldfish, Guru began to be surrounded by goldfish formed of mana.
“Hwmm?”
Why was this happening?
Guru flailed, flustered.
Step.
Footsteps sounded nearby.
'I can’t see!'
Thinking it might be Jurim, Guru called out to him.
“Daddychann?”
“......Yeah.”
It wasn’t her dad’s voice. It was gentler, damp with emotion.
But it wasn’t unfamiliar.
If anything, it was a voice she’d heard somewhere recently.
“Yeah. It’s Dad.”
Guru shook her face between the goldfish.
Her heart grew urgent.
Her heart thudded so hard it felt like it would pop.
She tried to peel off the goldfish until her face flushed bright red, but they wouldn’t come off easily.
Plip— A tear fell to the floor as he lifted the corners of his trembling mouth into a smile.
“It’s Dad, Guru. It’s Dad.”
The man repeated the word Dad several times as he hugged the child
At the same time the goldfish vanished, Guru blinked.
Her uncle—reported to have disappeared along with the 100th floor—was standing right in front of her.
'Was it because I lost control again?'
Come to think of it, the regulator had broken.
Guru thought of the photocard-shaped regulator she had worn around her neck.
Since the regulator broke—
Her skills didn’t burst out at random like before, but still, whenever she felt her emotions sway, her power would sometimes move on its own.
Then this time too, could it be...?
'Without Guru even knowing, maybe Guru made Uncle...?'
Guru’s shoulders shook. She must have conjured up a brief illusion of him because she missed him so much.
That’s what Guru thought.
But when she squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again, Guru froze.
Only the goldfish had disappeared; the man before her had not.
He was merely standing a little distance away.
The man standing like a mirage before her had the same face as the hologram.
Guru swallowed a breath.
In the hologram, On Ijo was smiling.
A dimple formed in the same place as the man before her.
It was On Ijo’s appearance.
[Title: Rumor says On Ijo showed up at the memorial park]
Is it real?
[Comments]
– It’s bullshit
– Would it though
[Title: On Ijo pic getting mass-deleted soon]
(Blurry photo of someone said to be On Ijo at the memorial park)
[Comments]
– The photoshop is fucking obvious
– It’s just someone who looks like him
– Fact) On Jurim and On Suhyeong were also spotted at the memorial park that day + a guy who looks like On Ijo = end of story, proceed
Real fact) Once burned, twice shy
– Kinda looks hotter than the real one?
Fact) The real one is just plain handsome
[Title: Did a big one drop?]
Did On Ijo actually show?
[Comments]
– If he really showed, every broadcast would’ve stopped and there’d be an emergency bulletin
It’s an embargo!
Embargo inside your heads lol if it were real every media outlet would be losing its shit, fuck
– My friend’s friend really saw him at the memorial park (for real)
– Then where is On Ijo and what’s he doing now
[Title: If you don’t know the On Ijo situation, come in—I’ll summarize]
The day before yesterday, On Jurim, On Suhyeong, and On Guru appeared at On Ijo’s memorial park
It’s a spot where foreign tourists gather, so there were lots of proof shots (facts verifiable up to here)
Among those foreign tourists, some uploaded “proof shots” saying they saw On Ijo there
I don’t know why they use that kind of phone in the 21st century, but the image quality is fucking trash
But the guy looks like On Ijo (the board admin keeps mass-deleting the pics so he doesn’t get grilled like a cucumber)
Since On Jurim, On Suhyeong, and On Guru showed up at the memorial park, the theorycraft says it’s unlikely someone who just happens to look like On Ijo would also appear there
Real On Ijo vs. conspiracy theory = fierce battle right now
Conclusion: For the day we actually spot On Ijo, use a good phone. Summary over
[Comments]
– I wondered what the fuss was—so it was this
– Why would On Ijo suddenly show up? Saying the quality’s trash is already a dead giveaway lol the fuck, even if I wanted to use a camera like that I couldn’t
– UFOs only get shot with cameras like that too
What’s easier to spot, a UFO or On Ijo?
UFOs exist,,,
– Like, fuck, if On Ijo appeared would Korea be quiet right now~~~!! Say something that makes sense
For real is it only Korea? The whole world would be flipped lol conspiracy geeks smh

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