A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 196

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 196

 

“Grandmother, do you have a cold?”

 

Tie asked with a worried voice.

 

Chaeboksu quickly shook her head.

 

“No, no. Something just went down the wrong way. Let’s eat quickly.”

 

The child reluctantly nodded.

 

Chaeboksu quietly put down her spoon while watching Astie eat.

 

She pushed the blood-stained handkerchief into her pocket under the table.

 

“Eggs are really delicious!”

 

Seeing the child laugh cheerfully even at the meager side dishes made her nose tingle.

 

‘Poor thing.’

 

Her heart felt heavy when she looked at the child’s father sitting beside them too.

 

‘Kim needs to come to his senses quickly…’

 

Chaeboksu swallowed a sigh with a heavy heart.

 

This morning.

 

The first thing she did when she opened her eyes was to check on Tie and Tesetan.

 

She suspected that everything that happened yesterday might have all been a dream.

 

But Astie’s return was real.

 

Kim, who they thought was dead, coming back alive was also ghostly unbelievable, but it was true.

 

Chaeboksu got up from her seat.

 

And pretending to get water, she poured the rice from her bowl back into the rice cooker.

 

The doctor’s voice from earlier in the day echoed in her ears.

 

‘Ma’am, you can’t keep being stubborn like this. You need to be hospitalized right away. You can’t even do chemotherapy because of the hemoptysis. You’ll really be in big trouble at this rate!’

 

A self-deprecating laugh flowed from her constantly dry mouth.

 

‘What good would hospitalization do now?’

 

Money aside, the disease had already progressed significantly from when it was discovered.

 

They said she might live a few more months if she was lucky?

 

So being able to move around this much was already a miracle.

 

‘When you get old, you have to die.’

 

Above all, Boksu wasn’t optimistic enough to be greedy for a hopeless life.

 

‘Still…’

 

Chaeboksu stared quietly at the top of Tie’s head.

 

These past few years.

 

A little blessing that wasn’t in her fate had rolled in and been adorable, which was fun.

 

It was a series of days that she would remember even if she died tomorrow.

 

But aside from that, her life had always been unlucky and harsh.

 

Day after day of fighting, struggling, and falling down…

 

‘So what, are you asking me to take care of mother now?’

 

Remembering her son’s voice when she finally managed to contact him, Boksu cleared her throat.

 

“…Ahem.”

 

Tie’s bowl was already becoming empty on the dining table.

 

“Eat slowly. Chew it.”

 

Seeing Tesetan calmly nagging made her heart feel heavy once again.

 

‘No matter how I look at it.’

 

He doesn’t seem to have completely lost his mind.

 

Of course, Tesetan didn’t recognize Boksu.

 

He also made the ridiculous claim that he wasn’t Tie’s father.

 

‘But when I showed him the video, he just cried.’

 

His gaze toward the child and his behavior toward her were no different from before.

 

The disappearance of the urn they brought back was definitely strange, but…

 

Chaeboksu shook her head alone.

 

‘Right. That damn urn and whatever.’

 

For now, she felt she should be grateful that Tesetan’s mind was maintained to this extent.

 

‘At least he’s not abandoning the child and running away.’

 

Then Tie, who had finished eating, suddenly stood up from her seat.

 

“Ah, I’m full! Thank you for the meal!”

 

Tesetan naturally began clearing the table.

 

He said he forgot everything from one to ten.

 

But his neat and systematic housekeeping skills remained the same.

 

“Grandmother, watch Tie and me sing together!”

 

Tie immediately rubbed her face against her pants and wheedled.

 

However, Chaeboksu hesitated before answering.

 

“Child, you stay here for a moment.”

 

She raised her gaze and stared at Tesetan.

 

“Kim.”

 

Tesetan, who was stacking bowls, stopped and froze in place.

 

Chaeboksu gestured to him with a serious face.

 

“Come out for a moment. Let me talk to you.”

 

Tie tilted her head.

 

But the child soon sat down quietly in front of the television.

 

When Boksu left the room, Tesetan followed her out with an expressionless face.

 

As soon as the door closed, Chaeboksu looked around.

 

It was to check if anyone was around.

 

After confirming the alley was empty, she dragged Tesetan to the far end of the opposite side of the alley.

 

“Kim, no. Yeongsu.”

 

Under the streetlamp light.

 

Tesetan raised his gaze.

 

Eyes of a strange color, neither brown nor green, stared quietly at Chaeboksu.

 

Chaeboksu held back her choking throat and opened her lips.

 

“I was going to just let it be, but I’m getting impatient and can’t stand it.”

 

She gripped Tesetan’s hand tightly.

 

“You need to come to your senses quickly. How did this happen? Did you do something you shouldn’t have done thinking about making a living with the child?”

 

After Tie went missing.

 

Boksu had thought about it several times.

 

Could it be that Tesetan was the one who took the child?

 

Although they had brought back the urn, she hadn’t directly seen Tesetan’s corpse with her own eyes.

 

“I know it’s nonsense too. But you see it in movies! People disguise themselves as dead and steal other people’s identities to live in hiding!”

 

“…”

 

“Yeongsu, that’s what you did, right? You ran away with the child, right? And then you hurt your head somewhere and came back, that’s right, isn’t it?”

 

Tesetan had no answer.

 

Tears of frustration finally welled up in Boksu’s eyes.

 

“Goodness. If you ran away, you should have at least lived well. Why did you come back here again… I’m also getting old now and useless.”

 

“…”

 

“It’s different from the old days. Actually, I… I actually…”

 

It was the moment when Boksu’s wrinkled hands trembled finely as her lips wouldn’t part.

 

“You were coughing up blood.”

 

Tesetan muttered.

 

Boksu was startled and lifted her head.

 

“H-how do you know that?”

 

“I saw it. Earlier.”

 

Boksu hesitated and let go of Tesetan’s hand.

 

Tesetan continued speaking.

 

“Astie doesn’t know.”

 

Only then did Boksu stagger from her spot.

 

After gasping for breath several times, she leaned her back against the alley wall.

 

The yellow streetlamp light was casting shadows on her face.

 

“Are you dying?”

 

A calm question was heard.

 

When she turned her head, Tesetan was still looking at her with composure.

 

“Haha…”

 

Laughter flowed from her mouth.

 

It was strange.

 

Since he asked so casually, her heart felt rather at ease.

 

Boksu crouched down in place.

 

“…That’s right. My insides are all rotten and falling apart.”

 

“I’m sorry to hear that.”

 

“Sorry for what. When you get sick, dying is natural.”

 

However, the tears she had been holding back finally welled up in her eyes.

 

Boksu sighed and looked at Tesetan.

 

“But seeing you like this, young man. Suddenly my path to death feels so uncertain.”

 

“…”

 

“Please don’t hurt that child. Okay?”

 

“…”

 

“That little one relied on you so much. You need to keep being someone she can rely on. What’s a guy as big as a mountain doing leaning on a daughter as small as a booger…!”

 

Tesetan silently closed his mouth.

 

His gaze became complicated as he slowly crouched down as well.

 

After a long while, Tesetan spoke in a barely audible voice.

 

“That thing.”

 

“That thing?”

 

“What you showed me with this.”

 

Tesetan pointed to her phone.

 

Chaeboksu quickly opened the phone she was holding and showed it.

 

“The video? Why, should I show you more?”

 

Tesetan nodded.

 

Boksu hurriedly opened the case and turned on the album with clumsy fingers.

 

Countless photos and videos appeared on the screen.

 

Boksu deliberately held the phone toward Tesetan.

 

“Here, what do you want to see first. You choose.”

 

Tesetan hesitated and then pressed one of them.

 

Images of Tie and himself began playing on the screen.

 

Boksu looked at Tesetan with hopeful eyes as he focused on the video.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“…Young man Yeongsu?”

 

A trembling voice was heard from the end of the dim alley.

 

The first to react was not Tesetan but Chaeboksu.

 

When Boksu got up from her spot, Tesetan also slowly stood up.

 

The door to Apartment 107 opened at that very moment.

 

“When did Grandmother…”

 

Tie, who poked her head out, made eye contact with the other person.

 

Tie’s eyes widened, and soon a small voice flowed from her mouth.

 

“203 Aunt…?”

 

“Oh my goodness, oh my, oh my! Tie!”

 

203 Aunt.

 

Jeongmyeongja threw down her shopping basket and pulled Tie into a tight embrace.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————