The Baby Seizes Fortune - Chapter 81

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Episode 81

Hee-jae listened carefully to my words and spoke with meaningful eyes.

“But I don’t think it’s number 4. If it were a completely unrelated code, the previous code context that led us to deduce Geumhae Construction as the location would have been impossible to interpret.”

That’s right.

In other words, there was a high probability that the item was in one of the locations I had proposed as candidates.

“What should we do now?”

Meanwhile, Haesoo asked me with an extremely excited face.

“I really want to explore caves!”

Haedeun’s eyes sparkled as well.

“Shh, this isn’t a game. This is a really important mission.”

“Wahhh. Missionnnn!!”

“Woohaha!!”

The kids’ eyes lit up even more at the mention of a mission.

“You guys need to…”

I whispered to the two children.

“Follow that man with silver glasses from Hee-jae’s birthday party last time and tie up his legs.”

“What?”

“Huh?”

The eyebrows of the two children, who had been excited about my suggestion to play detective together at this party, suddenly drooped.

“That’s boring?”

“Right, it’s boring. I want to do something else!”

“Shh! This is the most important mission for our detective team.”

However, at my words “important mission,” the children’s eyes began to sparkle again.

“That person is a bad guy.”

“A bad guy?”

I hardened my eyebrows and nodded.

“Yeah, a really bad villain uncle!”

“Eeeek!”

“While you guys are catching the villain, Hee-jae and I will do another mission.”

So this is a very important mission, I emphasized while looking back and forth between Haedeun and Haesoo.

“But how do we take him down?”

“Should we grab his ankle like this?”

I shook my head back and forth.

“No, no. Let me tell you. Make those things you saw in that movie!”

That movie released in the 1990s, where a young child stops burglars who broke into his house using various ingenious methods.

That movie that became a Christmas legend.

‘Home Alone’

“Aha!”

Haedeun and Haesoo’s eyes sparkled and lit up as if that’s what I meant.

“Let’s make them.”

“Right. Let’s make them!”

“Then I’m counting on you!”

“Yeah!”

I left the aftermath to the twins and walked down the corridor with Hee-jae.

The man who would come looking for the item under Gochan-hyeong’s orders was most likely Gi Seung-cheol.

He had attended Hee-jae’s birthday party last time in place of Gochan-hyeong after all.

“Will it be okay?”

I heard Hee-jae’s voice.

“It’s just kids’ pranks anyway. They won’t get in too much trouble.”

Haedeun and Haesoo are the mischievous son and daughter of the house owner.

There was a high possibility it would just pass as a single incident.

“No, not those guys. You, Chaea.”

“Huh?”

Hee-jae’s eyes were seriously intense, not befitting his age.

“Be careful.”

“Yeah, don’t worry.”

While Seungcheol was being distracted by the twins, Hee-jae and I would search those three places.

“I’ll take the gallery, so Hee-jae, you take the study. Please.”

“Okay.”

When I turned on search mode, a detailed map and floor plan of each room appeared.

I immediately ran toward the gallery.

[Warning! Attendant detected ૮₍ °ﻌ° ₎ა]

Thanks to Noah’s reaction, which detected the presence about 3 seconds in advance, I hid behind a pillar, and shortly after I could see an attendant passing by.

“Phew.”

I let out a sigh once, then slowly opened the door to the darkened gallery and entered.

Haesoo and Haedeun’s mother was said to have a hobby of collecting artworks.

I turned on the flashlight I had prepared in advance and walked through the indoor gallery, which was neither too big nor too small, shining light on the paintings.

They were paintings with a similar style to the oil paintings hanging outside.

‘Shadow… shadow…’

I made a full round but didn’t see anything unusual. Only works that were too colorful to be called ‘black still lifes.’

“What do you think? Doesn’t seem like it’s here?”

[No information found.]

“Right?”

Gallery, if it was going to be this straightforward, the message wouldn’t have been so secretive.

Still, maybe there’s something.

It was when I was taking a final look around.

“Hey, Gu Chaea.”

In the dim gallery where I thought no one else would be, hearing my name suddenly made goosebumps rise on my back.

I was startled and turned around with my shoulders jumping.

Then, where the flashlight’s beam reached, a boy was standing.

This child, who was looking at me while frowning at the sudden light, was…

“What are you doing here?”

Gi Min-woo.

The seven-year-old boy who had grabbed my collar and clashed with me when I went to Edinburgh Kindergarten.

Gi Min-woo walked toward me step by step.

‘Did he come with Gi Seung-cheol?’

Since he’s Gi Seung-cheol’s son, it wouldn’t be strange for him to be here.

“Then why are you here?”

“You?”

Gi Min-woo furrowed his brow.

And he corrected my words with an annoyed voice.

“Oppa.”

His frowning expression looked exactly like Gi Seung-cheol.

“You rude little brat. I’m two whole years older than you.”

I crossed my arms and snorted.

“Nyeh nyeh.”

And I turned the flashlight away from Gi Min-woo to shine it on the paintings.

I wasn’t leisurely enough to waste time on this little kid.

“Ha, hey, BWC.”

Gi Min-woo, who called me by the name on my t-shirt that he had once ignored, babbled.

“Are you ignoring me right now…”

“Shut up.”

At the rough voice that leaked from my lips, Min-woo’s shoulders flinched.

“Geez, you’re being so damn stubborn. Can’t you see I’m cleaning the house right now?”

He got beaten by my words last time too, so why does he keep picking fights?

“Stubborn? Did you just call me stubborn?”

As Min-woo raised his eyebrows, I leaned my face close to his and provoked him.

“I thought you learned your lesson last time, but I guess not.”

“Ugh. Really. Damn.”

Fire seemed to boil in Gi Min-woo’s eyes.

He wants to punch me, but he seems afraid of the consequences.

Since he’s already been kicked out of Edinburgh once for threatening me.

I could tell his voice was trembling slightly and mixed with fear.

I smirked and said.

“Using your body because you can’t win with words is really primitive. And mocking people with clothing names is vulgar too.”

“Primitive…? Vulgar?”

Are those difficult words for a seven-year-old?

“I mean you’re like a caveman.”

“What? Ca-caveman? This is really damn. Do you really want to get in trouble?”

The tip of Min-woo’s eyebrows shot up.

“Brother.”

At the word that flowed from my lips, Min-woo startled.

As if he never expected me to call him brother.

“Do you think that’s right, brother?”

The reason I ended up meddling when I didn’t have time was because I remembered what this child had said.

A child who fears his father but struggles to control his violent tendencies.

“This damn woman needs to get beaten to come to her senses!”

“Do you really want to become someone who hurts others?”

At those words, Min-woo’s eyes shook greatly.

“…Father said… if words don’t work, he’d send me to Samcheong Education Camp to fix my habits…”

“Adults don’t always say the right things just because they’re adults.”

“Do you know how smart our father is?”

Min-woo put his hands on his hips and spoke his piece firmly.

“Our father even passed the really difficult bar exam!”

“So what?”

“Huh?”

“Just because he passed a difficult test and became a high-ranking person, do you think everything he says is right?”

I raised my chin and stared at Min-woo.

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