The brothers, their mood noticeably eased, welcomed Guru.
“It looks like things have settled a bit now.”
“I’m sorry. It’s been a while, and I ended up showing you this side of me.”
“You should be apologizing to the kid.”
“Ah, right.”
Just then, Jurim stepped up to Guru, 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 weawn it. It’s otay.”
“Good. Thank you.”
Only then did Jurim smile, as if he finally let out the breath he’d been holding.
Guru gave him a quick hug, then turned her gaze to On Ijo.
On Ijo, stiff with tension again, forced up the corners of his mouth.
“U-uncle showed you an ugly side.”
Guru, just as tense, quivered her lips and shouted.
“U-uncwe!”
“Hm?”
“Can Gwuu caw you uncwe a wittle wonguh?”
“A little longer?”
Nod, nod.
“Until I get used to it...”
She still needed time.
“Of course!”
When On Ijo beamed, Guru’s eyes sparkled and she began to smile bit by bit as well.
Inside the luxurious hospital room, with the entire VIP ward cleared out.
Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, On Ijo groaned as he held his phone.
cafe: HN-dong Classy Moms’ Gathering sign-up form
[On Ijo]
— This nickname is already taken.
“Why on earth would someone use ‘On Ijo’ as a nickname on a moms’ cafe?”
Trying to join the moms’ cafe Jurim had sent him, On Ijo couldn’t make sense of it.
Jurim,
why would someone
use my name as a nickname on a moms’ cafe??
On Jurim
ᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏᄏ
Isn’t that weird???
On Jurim
Don’t use ‘On Ijo,’ use this
Tearing up in front of the nickname creation box, On Ijo saw Jurim’s message and let out a laugh.
cafe: HN-dong Classy Moms’ Gathering
[Title: Regarding a Child Not Calling Me Dad]
[Comments]
— What’s your relationship with Du-Guru?
— Did you regret being Du-Guru and become Se-Guru?
— Are you that T-villain by any chance?
“Du-Guru?”
Tilting his head, On Ijo stared at the repeated comments asking if he was “Du-Guru.”
After joining full of swagger and posting his most pressing issue, he’d expected advice—but instead, all he got were a bunch of random comments that made no sense.
Jurim,
does this place actually help?
(screenshot of the post and comments)
They keep asking if I’m Du-Guru—
who the hell is Du-Guru????
But Jurim seemed busy; his reply was slow.
In the end, when On Ijo asked who Du-Guru was, he only got flooded with comments like “Did you put a dot and come back,” which left him dejected.
The moms’ cafe was not kind to rookie caregiver On Ijo.
It had already been four days since On Ijo “came back to do the dad thing.”
He was trying in his own way to get closer to the kid who still kept her distance by calling him “uncle,” but nothing was easy no matter what he did.
It was while On Ijo was struggling with those worries and efforts.
Right on cue, there was a knock-knock, and Guru peeked her head in.
“Pwincess Gwuuw came?”
“Samchuun~”
When On Ijo greeted her happily, Guru blushed and shuffled into the room.
Ijo lifted her up and sat her on his knee.
“Our princess, did you go to preschool today?”
“Yesh, I came stwaight hewe. Daddy told me to, um, keep an eye on Uncwe.”
“Mm. Keep an eye on me?”
“Yesh.”
“And you just say things like that straight up—our Guru is the most honest and cutest in the whole world.”
Rubbing his cheek against hers, On Ijo’s doting made Guru giggle.
“What did you do at preschool today?”
“Ah! I dwawed a pictuwe.”
Guru wriggled a sheet of drawing paper out of her bag.
It was a family drawing—Grandpa, ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) Jurim, Ijo, and Guru were all there.
Near Guru, there were animal friends as well.
“This one is Mephi, and dis one is Bayi, and dis one is Pere.”
Smiling as he listened to her solemnly name them one by one, On Ijo nodded.
The bird above her head, and the hamster and rabbit peeking from the bag. So that’s who she means. Cute.
Then he pointed to the dog drawn at the very end.
“Guru, who’s this dog?”
He’d seen the bird, the hamster, the rabbit—but never this dog.
“Ah...”
Guru’s shoulders drooped.
“It was the puppy Gwuu was waishing, but... it disappeawed.”
Yurian had vanished since the aircraft carrier incident.
CCTV had caught him running out of the hangar, but after that it was a blind spot—no way to track where he went.
Guru pouted her lips in a sulk.
Whenever she said he was lost, everyone kept saying, “He was a found puppy, so maybe he just went home,” which only made her simmer inside.
“The twuth is...”
Guru whispered into On Ijo’s ear.
“I think Yuwian got kidnapped.”
Jurim had said, “Wasn’t it you who kidnapped Yurian?” but Guru didn’t hear it with even the back of her ear.
I didn’t kidnap Yurian. For some reason, we became family.
So there was no way he would disappear without a word to his family.
It had to be that Yurian was kidnapped by some bad villain.
Thankfully, On Ijo didn’t laugh at her story; he listened seriously.
“I see.”
“Yesh. So Gwuu hasta find Yuwian.”
He was patting Guru’s butt proudly when he suddenly repeated the name lingering by his ear.
“...Yurian?”
“Yesh. Dis one’s name is Yuwian.”
On Ijo froze.
“Yurian?”
“Yesh. Yuwian.”
When Guru emphasized it again, On Ijo’s smiling eyes flicked, rolling side to side.
There was a hint of fluster on his face, and Guru tilted her head.
“Why?”
“Ah, no... It’s the same name as someone I know.”
“I see.”
It’s not a common name, she thought, how interesting, and hopped off On Ijo’s knee.
Then she began taking items out of her bag one by one.
“Gwuu made a bunch of items to find Yuwian. Wanna see?”
“Wow, that’s amazing. Is it okay for uncle to look at these?”
“Yesh. Dis one is a magnifying gwass that can find items. If you equip it like dis, it wights up.”
“Woooow! How did you even make something like this?”
When On Ijo’s eyes went round and he fussed over it, Guru puffed out her chest like a pigeon as she presented the items one by one.
“And dis is a spy ladybug. I upgwaded it wecentwy so it can fowwow scents too. So Gwuu put Yuwian’s smeww on it hewe. If it catches Yuwian’s smeww, it fwies and finds him.”
The moment Guru took out the ladybug and set it on the floor—
Buuuuung—
The ladybug suddenly lifted into the air.
At that, On Ijo tipped his head up.
“It really flies. How are even your items as small and cute as you, Guru?”
Meanwhile, Guru’s mouth fell open. “Heh—”
'Why is it taking off here? Unless Yurian is nearby, it shouldn’t react...'
The [Spy Ladybug ver.2] circled above Guru’s head. As if telling her to follow.
Guru’s eyes went wide, and she sprang up.
“Y-Yuwian must be hewe somewhere!”
Crouching, On Ijo smiled faintly.
If it’s the Yurian I’m thinking of, then yeah—he’d be here.
Why that Yurian is this Yurian, I don’t know, but...
In truth, the kid’s guess was right: Yurian had been kidnapped.
Feeling a sudden swell in his chest, On Ijo hugged Guru tight.
“Our kid—are you a genius?”

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