The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 4

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Episode 4

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Junho, carrying me on his back, walked steadily through the alley.

I rested my chubby cheek against his broad back, holding my breath as I watched the swaying scenery outside.

Broken streetlights, the sound of barking dogs, and walls with peeling paint.

After walking for a while, Junho stopped in front of the Blue Gate House.

“…Sorry, Chaea.”

I heard his low voice as he stood still.

I blinked in surprise.

“When I think of you… I should have…”

Hearing Junho’s flowing voice, I inwardly let out a sigh of relief.

I thought he was going to scold me for acting that way earlier.

“Was I too reckless?”

No, no!

Actually, I don’t know how worried I was earlier.

I was afraid he might accept his friend’s request to be a guarantor.

‘That absolutely can’t happen. The IMF crisis is only a few months away!’

Junho’s friend’s business, which had supposedly signed big contracts with two major corporations that were scheduled to go bankrupt soon, had a high probability of failing due to the IMF aftermath. Then Junho, who co-signed the guarantee, would lose what little money he had and be buried in debt.

Then I would have to sit on the streets with Junho.

What I could do in that situation with a four-year-old’s body was…

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Crash-

“Waaaahhh!!”

Nothing but slip and fall from the chair.

Fortunately, the chair wasn’t that high so the impact wasn’t too strong, but I grabbed my slightly bumped forehead and cried loudly.

“Waaahhh!!! Chaea’s forehead! Chaea’s forehead hurts!!”

I cried at the top of my lungs with all my might.

Enough for everyone in the coffee shop to look at me.

“Chaea! Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

Panicked Junho examined me with a pale face, and I cried even louder. Clutching my reddened forehead.

It was a bit embarrassing, but wasn’t it better than sitting on the streets?

“It hurts!! Waaahhh!!! It’s broken!! My head is cracked!! It’s shattered!! Waaahhh!!!”

“What’s wrong, is the kid okay?”

The man sitting across from Junho, who was supposedly his friend, was also flustered by my crying.

And he hurriedly came over to our side to examine me.

He removed my chubby hands that were clutching my forehead as I cried.

“Doesn’t seem like she’s badly hurt? I know because I’ve seen my nephew fall a few times.”

“Waaahhh!!! No!! It hurts so much I might die!!! Ambulance!!!! Waaahhh!!!”

“Hey, this is just acting. I told you she’s fine.”

The man shook his head and sat back down in his seat.

Junho still held my shoulders and examined me.

“Chaea!!!! Does it hurt a lot? Should we go to the hospital?”

“Waaahhh!! I hate it here!! I want to go! Waaahhh! Daddy!!”

At the word “daddy” that burst from my mouth, Junho’s eyes wavered.

Then I heard the man’s voice making a tsk sound.

“A man should leave his kid with his wife and come alone, instead of bringing her to a place like this and causing trouble. Tsk.”

Then he tried to take out cigarettes from his inner pocket, but Junho reached out to grab his wrist and said in a cold voice.

“Smoke it when we leave.”

The man who froze for a moment said “Huh,” as if he couldn’t understand.

“Come on, going to the hospital just because the kid bumped her head a little! Are you going to miss this important opportunity? This isn’t an opportunity that comes to just anyone. The dream of becoming a millionaire is right in front of you.”

Junho calmly reached out and picked me up.

He had a very displeased expression.

“Chaea, hold tight to daddy.”

The man made incredulous sounds like “Ha, huh,” as if he really couldn’t believe it, but Junho never sat back down.

Junho, holding me, left the coffee shop without looking back.

‘He also knew… that I hate the smell of cigarettes.’

At the pediatrician we went to right away, we heard the obvious story.

“She’s fine. She was just startled, so that’s why she cried like that?”

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Now that it was proven to be fake illness as his friend said.

Junho, standing in front of the entrance gate, apologized to me instead.

“When I think of you… I should have…”

His voice continued.

“Our Chaea got hurt but he treated you like a bothersome object, I got so angry… I couldn’t help it. It would have been a good opportunity for Chaea too.”

Junho’s sincerity in cherishing me was conveyed. I hugged his neck tightly and said.

“Daddy.”

At those words, Junho stiffened his shoulders again.

The word “daddy” is still awkward, but.

“Chaea is happy now.”

“…Chaea.”

I heard his choked voice.

I opened my mouth and continued speaking.

“Chaea only needs Junho daddy. Don’t need… anything else…”

I know how difficult his decision to adopt and raise me alone was.

No matter how close he was with mother, and even though he received such a letter from mother.

Without deep sympathy for me who would lose mother and be alone, and genuine human desire to protect me, he could never have made such a decision.

I pressed my forehead against the back of his neck and said.

“So don’t be greedy and just live healthy with Chaea for a long, long time. Now Chaea only has daddy.”

I felt his body stiffen for a moment.

Junho stood in front of the entrance gate for a long time, carrying me on his back.

“Chaea… Chaea…”

His firm shoulders began to shake slightly.

I opened my eyes wide.

“Are you crying?”

“N-no. This is.”

A round mark fell to the ground with a thud.

“Daddy’s not crying.”

Why is his voice trembling when he says that…

“Because daddy is strong.”

Junho finally entered through the entrance gate.

Making hiccup and sniffling sounds.

I could see the old stairs leading up to the rooftop apartment.

I thought while leaning against Junho’s back.

‘When I grow up, I’ll let you live in luxury.’

Junho can’t even imagine it, but I know everything that will happen in South Korea, no, in the entire world from now on.

From who the next president will be, to what major incidents will occur, I know all the big things. For someone like me, making money wouldn’t be difficult.

‘No…’

I don’t necessarily have to wait until I grow up to let him live in luxury.

If I wait until then, Junho’s health, who works hard double shifts, will get worse and worse, and his fine, pretty skin will deteriorate day by day.

Isn’t there a way to grasp wealth even with a child’s body?

‘Hmm…’

Come to think of it, it probably wouldn’t be that difficult.

If I use this thing that’s been floating in front of my eyes since birth.

[AI Secretary System ‘Noah’ is now running.]

Various rumors circulated on viewer forums about why 【Love You Even in Death】 could be aired despite having such an absurd storyline.

From the writer being the director’s wife, to rumors that the cast members were children of powerful politicians.

After watching the final episode, I got curious and looked it up. The writer was an ordinary rookie, but had a major investment company backing them.

None other than ‘Messiah’, which had rapidly risen to the ranks of major corporations with world-leading AI technology.

In my previous life, while working at a securities firm, the company most frequently mentioned to clients over the past three years was ‘Messiah’, which had reached the pinnacle of AI technology, and that very company was the main investor supporting the production.

‘It’s an American company, but I heard the founder is Korean…’

Anyway, at the time of my possession, ‘Messiah’ was conducting beta tests incorporating revolutionary AI technology, and that was precisely the AI Secretary System ‘Noah’.

With existing technology, even when using AI, it was limited to things like asking it to look something up or communicate, but this AI secretary system used through body implantation was far more evolved.

It had functions that could truly be called secretarial – handling bank account deposits, withdrawals and investments as desired, making hospital appointments and calling taxis, creating resumes and automatically applying for jobs suited to the job seeker’s tendencies.

‘But Messiah’s stock price fluctuated because variables occurred during the beta test.’

For example.

If you said ‘Create a bank account under my name tomorrow’, the principle was to receive the user’s information, transmit biometric data, and create an account while complying with all legal procedures.

Messiah’s AI Secretary System ‘Noah’ ignored legal procedures entirely, arbitrarily modifying the owner’s information to create accounts even if the user had bad credit.

‘When a Beta Tester asked how to deal with workplace bullying, it caused chaos by providing contact information for a Foreign Killer who had entered Domestic territory.’

In other words, it was a truly user-centered AI that could obtain and utilize information through various routes that ordinary people would find difficult to access. Of course, it couldn’t be commercialized due to these issues.

And by some twist of fate, that ‘Noah’ from ‘Messiah’ was implanted in me.

[I’ve been waiting for you, Master! ૮⍝• ᴥ •⍝ა]

And in the form of a very mischievous baby puppy at that!

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