The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 69

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Episode 69

“Rabbit class friends, everyone pay attention! We have new friends!”

Teacher Noh Ji-hye’s voice had grown quite loud and could be heard clearly all the way to the back of the classroom.

“Their names are Han Hae-su and Han Hae-deun. Hae-su is a boy, and Hae-deun is a girl.”

Whaaaat?

I opened my eyes wide.

They weren’t identical twins?

But they look so much alike!

“If they’re twins, why are one a girl and one a boy?”

Yeongmin in the front row raised his hand high and asked.

“Just because they’re twins doesn’t mean they have to be the same gender or look exactly alike.”

“Ohhh… that’s amazing.”

“Yeongmin, showing such strong interest might make your friends uncomfortable.”

Teacher Noh Ji-hye made a shushing gesture to Yeongmin, then looked at Hae-su and Hae-deun.

Hae-su and Hae-deun were smiling with indifferent expressions, as if they had heard such comments many times before.

“Now, Hae-su and Hae-deun. You two introduce yourselves too.”

“Hi everyone. Let’s get along well!”

“Chaea, hello!”

When Hae-deun immediately called my name and waved at me, everyone’s attention focused on me.

Hae-su also looked at me with a giggling smile.

“I’m so excited to be in the same class as Chaea!”

Hae-su with short hair looked more lively than when he had pigtails.

“Uh, haha…”

I raised my hand appropriately to return the greeting.

So you guys ended up coming here after all.

‘I have a feeling this is going to get troublesome…’

By the way, I guess they managed to get permission from home?

“Oh my, are you already acquainted with Chaea?”

“Yes! We’re Chaea’s friends!”

“We’re Chaea’s friends too!”

“I’m close with Chaea too!”

“I’m closer!”

The preschool became noisy with the little kids competing to claim their friendship with me.

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“Didn’t your mom say she wouldn’t allow Somang Preschool?”

I asked Hae-deun and Hae-su, who came over and clung to me, in a lukewarm tone.

When I went to Hee-jae’s birthday party last time, I’m sure that’s what happened.

“We whined that we didn’t want to do English homework.”

“We cried saying we didn’t want to go to preschool.”

“Only you cried.”

“You threw a tantrum.”

Hae-deun and Hae-su competed to exchange words.

Anyway, it means their mom couldn’t win against the children’s pestering.

“And our uncle helped us.”

“Our uncle is really famous, you know.”

“Uncle’s friend helped too.”

A famous uncle – is he a celebrity or something?

“He brought flyers too. There’s a French preschool, you know.”

“No, it’s Poland!”

‘It’s neither of those.’

The flyer promoting “Finnish Northern European education” must have been effective too.

“Anyway, it was worth coming here, right?”

“Right. We got to meet Chaea!”

I looked at the kids with awkward eyes.

Why do they like me so much…

“Let’s be good friends from now on!”

At Hae-su’s words as he thrust his face forward, I hesitated for a moment.

The twin siblings from Geumhae Construction.

I couldn’t just say it was great, but it also felt wrong to coldly reject the wishes of children who purely wanted to be friends with me.

If it were a kid like Gi Min-woo, Gi Seung-cheol’s son, I would have drawn the line immediately.

“…Yeah. Well, okay.”

In the end, I accepted, and Hae-su and Hae-deun jumped excitedly and high-fived each other with their hands spread out.

“We’re totally friends with Chaea!”

“From now on, I’m going to be the closest friend with Chaea.”

“What are you talking about? I asked Chaea to be friends first.”

At Hae-su’s words, Hae-deun also thrust her face forward.

“Chaea, you’ll be friends with me too, right?”

While I was between Hae-deun and Hae-su, who were being alternately chaotic, Hee-jae approached.

Hae-deun and Hae-su seemed startled when they saw Hee-jae, but soon Hae-deun awkwardly raised her hand toward Hee-jae.

“Oh, hello.”

Unlike when he was alone with me, Hee-jae’s eyebrows were somewhat stiff and his expression was different.

“…”

Without even responding to Hae-deun, Hee-jae looked at me and asked.

“Should we go look at the flower garden again?”

This was a signal between Hee-jae and me.

When I was surrounded by the Rabbit class kids and showing signs of being strangely bothered, or when Hee-jae was receiving unwanted attention.

We would suggest looking at the flower garden and extend our hands to each other.

Then we could escape from the unwanted noise and rest a little.

I gladly nodded.

Then Hae-su suddenly interrupted.

“Flower garden? I want to go too.”

“Me too! Me too!”

Hae-deun also jumped up and down while raising her hand.

At this, Hee-jae looked at the two children with an excessively cold expression for a child.

Enough to startle the kids.

“Only the two of us are going.”

It was just one sentence, but even I could feel a strange sense of intimidation.

‘Something’s… different…?’

Is this the charisma befitting the heir of Tomorrow Finance, even at a young age?

If things continued like this, Hae-deun and Hae-su might burst into tears, so I got up from my seat, roughly comforted Hae-deun and Hae-su, and went out to the flower garden with Hee-jae.

Hee-jae, who grabbed my sleeve, walked ahead of me.

His steps were particularly fast today.

“Too fast, Hee-jae!”

Even when I said that, as if he couldn’t hear me, Hee-jae’s steps became even faster.

I was almost running to barely keep up when I put strength into pulling Hee-jae’s hand away.

Only then did Hee-jae turn to look at me.

In the sunlit corridor, Hee-jae’s eyes were somehow wavering anxiously as they looked at me.

Although his expressions had become more varied lately, this was the first time I’d seen this particular expression, so I was worried.

“…Are you okay?”

At my words, Hee-jae took one step, then two steps, and came to stand right in front of me.

A boy the same height as me, still small and compact.

A child who was gentle, pretty, and cute, but with a sharp blade of reason hidden in his heart.

Hee-jae reached out his white hand toward me.

And he took my hand. On our ring fingers were the heart ring and earth ring we had exchanged as gifts.

“…It’s not okay.”

As I stared down at them blankly, I heard a faint voice in my ear.

There was a strange tremor mixed in with the low, calm voice. It sounded incredibly anxious somehow….

“Hee-jae.”

“Chaea is….”

Hee-jae’s voice continued.

“Mine.”

A firm and resolute voice echoed through the corridor.

‘Huh?’

I was startled and opened my eyes wide.

What did this kid just say?

Still holding my hand, Hee-jae spoke to me.

“I’m Chaea’s too.”

“….”

“So….”

The sunlight that had been hidden by clouds penetrated brilliantly through the window, revealing Hee-jae’s face that looked like he was about to cry.

His cheeks were slightly red, and his shoulders seemed tense and stiff.

“Don’t get too friendly with other kids.”

I looked at Hee-jae silently for a long time.

I hadn’t expected Hee-jae to say something like this.

That I was his and he was mine….

But the silence didn’t last long.

I remembered the fact that Hee-jae was five years old.

A giggle escaped me.

‘Well, kids can be like that.’

Like the possessiveness of wanting to monopolize each other in friendships.

Hee-jae was a child whose heart had been closed for a long time due to his parents’ situation, so he might be more attached to me as his only friend.

“Okay! I’ll be Hee-jae’s.”

At my words, Hee-jae’s eyes wavered.

It was something I could easily say for Hee-jae’s peace of mind.

‘Maybe I’ll tease him about it later.’

When we’re all grown up, I’ll say “you used to say things like this,” and imagined Hee-jae’s face turning red as he denied it, then continued speaking.

“So don’t worry. To me, Hee-jae is number one!”

Well, this part was sincere.

This was the Hee-jae who willingly got covered in dirt every day, digging in the soil with his fern-like little hands to find my time capsule.

I was quite moved by his pure childlike heart in helping me.

It would be nice to maintain such a good relationship even when we grow up.

In my original life, I didn’t have a single male friend, but now I have such a reliable and cute male friend!

“…You mean it, right?”

At Hee-jae’s voice trying to confirm my feelings once more, I smiled and nodded.

“Of course!”

Only then did Hee-jae release my hand that he had been gripping tightly.

And he buried his head deeply into my shoulder.

As if he was deeply relieved about something.

Soon I heard Hee-jae’s small whisper.

“I’m never giving this up. Never.”

* * *

After completing the last Main Quest and Noah reaching level 5, a new function had opened.

It was the Karma Shop!

On a leisurely afternoon, I came home and entered the Karma Shop to browse the products.

Like an item shop in a game, there were various items with the required karma points written below.

“Why is everything so expensive?”

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Noah’s eyes also widened at seeing the prices.

A tiny little candy cost 100 karma points, but I had only accumulated 60 karma points.

All I could buy with this was a strawberry-flavored gem ring candy.

‘And there’s no soda flavor. I like soda flavor though.’

Anyway, shouldn’t they give you a free trial voucher worth about 1,000 points when you first use the shop?

“But there are some interesting things, aren’t there?”

Scrolling down through the list, I saw everything from small appliances and real-life items to fantasy game-like items that don’t exist in reality.

Wound healing potion. This required a whopping 2,000 points and was said to be able to heal all cuts and scrapes.

There was also a burn healing potion, which cost 30,000 points!

But being able to heal all burns and scars, isn’t that innovation beyond modern medicine?

There were also items that would appeal to killers in modern society, like ‘Perfect Crime Invisible Knife’ and ‘Knockout Anesthesia Gun.’

But when I scrolled down, there was something that stood out the most among everything I had seen so far.

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