The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 312

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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 312

After eating, Chloe started cleaning.

“I need to clear some space first to put up the Christmas tree.”

“Okay.”

Han Gru lay on the sofa watching Chloe clean.

Rather than cleaning, it looked more like she was searching for something.

After thoroughly checking around the house, Chloe spoke loudly again as if to make a point.

“Should we go buy a Christmas tree?”

Han Gru jumped up.

“I’d love that!”

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Chloe bought a small Christmas tree that was just a bit taller than Han Gru.

Han Gru’s suggestion to buy a bigger tree was rejected, but having a Christmas tree at all was still exciting.

Just as the two returned to the apartment with bright smiles and were about to get off the elevator.

A huge Christmas tree was blocking their path.

Ring ring ring-

Ring ring ring ring-

The sound of someone pressing the doorbell repeatedly could be heard.

“I guess they’re not home? Try calling.”

It was On Jurim’s voice.

“I wanted to surprise them.”

This time it was Lee Jo’s voice.

Chloe was about to press the elevator close button again while holding Han Gru.

But Han Gru quickly got off the elevator first and ran toward On Jurim.

“Little princess!”

Lee Jo welcomed Han Gru, and On Jurim naturally scooped up the child.

Han Gru got excited about the huge Christmas tree they brought, face turning red as he asked several times.

“Christmas tree? Christmas tree?! Is it a present?”

“Yes.”

“How about decorating the Christmas tree together with your uncles?”

“I’d love that!”

Han Gru was on the verge of fainting from joy at having two Christmas trees.

“Sister! There are two Christmas trees!”

Even Chloe, who had been watching with displeasure, eventually burst into laughter at the sight.

Then Lee Jo approached, took the small Christmas tree from Chloe and held her hand. His large, long hand enveloped Chloe’s hand in one grasp.

“Sorry I couldn’t make breakfast this morning. I was picking this up.”

He quietly interlaced his fingers with Chloe’s hand that was obediently caught.

“…How am I supposed to deal with something so ridiculously big that you just brought over?”

“Sorry. But the tree size wasn’t my idea. That guy just isn’t delicate enough.”

On Jurim shrugged his shoulders and entered the house.

Lee Jo casually asked.

“I’m still better, right?”

At his appearance of not missing the opportunity to appeal, Chloe burst into giggles once again.

“That’s right. This side is better.”

“…Really?”

“Really.”

When Lee Jo smiled brightly as if delighted, Chloe hesitated and met that smile.

Then he lifted their interlaced hands and placed a kiss on the back of Chloe’s hand.

And before Chloe could protest anything, he pushed her back and entered the house.

Chloe suddenly realized that she was enjoying this commotion and pleasant entanglement.

On Jurim, who was setting up the Christmas tree in the living room, and Han Gru, who was trying out decorations for the tree, greeted the two.

As the door closed behind them, Lee Jo took Chloe’s coat and headed toward the styler.

“….”

Chloe quietly watched this peaceful scene.

When was the last time she had decorated a Christmas tree?

Tracing back her memories, it was the last year her parents were alive.

‘Ah….’

Anguish struck her.

Why do these people keep reminding her?

How much she had actually longed for the warmth between people. How much she wanted to love people.

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Behind the Christmas tree being decorated one by one. The black Tower could be glimpsed through the balcony window.

While On Jurim and Han Gru decorated the tree, Chloe went out to the terrace to get a better look at the Tower.

The Tower standing like a mirage could be seen from anywhere, and anyone who wanted to go could reach it.

How such a phenomenon was possible had still not been figured out.

Han Gru tried to follow Chloe who was outside alone, but On Jurim shook his head.

Because Lee Jo was heading out to the terrace with a shawl.

After wrapping the shawl around Chloe, he was showing her that soft smile as if smitten with love.

Chloe, who was leaning against the terrace looking at the Tower, asked.

“How do you think the 99th Floor strategy will go?”

“We’ll manage it.”

“Won’t it be difficult?”

“Even so, we have to do it.”

Chloe gazed into the distance.

In the center of the park stood a giant tree lined with small light bulbs, seemingly to create a Christmas atmosphere.

Families and couples had come out there to enjoy Christmas.

‘Can those people not even see the Tower?’

The black Tower standing like a tombstone beyond the tree was a symbol of destruction.

Why do people love even as the world is collapsing?

“Gru asked me something.”

“What?”

“If you know you’ll have to part ways, shouldn’t you not like them?”

“Huh? So what did you tell him?”

“I asked why he’d meet with such a jerk. He met them at the kids cafe, right?”

Lee Jo burst into laughter like a flower bud blooming.

“Well. I didn’t see any such jerk. Must be unrequited love. Like me.”

Lee Jo said this while shrugging his shoulders.

He appeals as naturally as breathing. Chloe no longer had the energy to argue, so she changed the question.

“What about you, On Ijo?”

“Me?”

“How would you answer? That you shouldn’t start from the beginning?”

“No. I’d tell him he doesn’t need to hesitate to enjoy today’s happiness while blaming tomorrow’s misfortune.”

At his immediate response that came out as if it were a truth like the sun rising in the east, Chloe found herself agreeing without room for objection.

I see. That’s how you live.

Lee Jo smiled deeply and lowered his eyes.

“When the strategy is over, I’ll come back to you first.”

“….”

“Then let’s go on a trip together. Gru too.”

“A trip?”

At his words naturally talking about ‘our’ future, Chloe let out a soft laugh.

Really like a fox.

“CC, do you like the sea?”

“Yes.”

And I’m just as bad for not being able to push away that fox. Chloe thought self-deprecatingly.

“Even deserted places?”

“I like them.”

In deserted places, Gru would be able to run around freely.

She smiled, imagining walking along a quiet sea with Gru.

“Then what about me?”

“….”

“Do you like me?”

Large hands swept down Chloe’s arms and clasped both her hands.

Chloe slowly closed and opened her eyes.

A world where the Tower has disappeared.

A quiet sea.

Gru enjoying himself as he runs away from the waves.

And On Ijo exists in her imagination.

Holding her hand with her belly swollen round, watching Gru.

It was the image of happiness she had unconsciously longed for.

In truth, she had been continuously picturing a future of raising a child together and being in love.

“Someone…”

Chloe continued speaking quietly with both cheeks flushed red.

“I wish someone would teach me how to hate you.”

She didn’t want to fall this deep.

“It’s too late.”

Chloe’s hands cupped On Ijo’s cheeks.

And then, she kissed his lips.

On Ijo’s eyes widened at the sudden kiss.

Chloe smiled happily.

“I have something to tell you when you come back.”

That the research facility was deceiving you, and I was a bystander.

But because I fell in love with you, because I came to like Gru, I can no longer keep my mouth shut.

Today, she decided to completely destroy all the career and life she had built.

“So come back as quickly and safely as possible.”

Once she resolved to tell everything, her mind became frighteningly calm.

She couldn’t tell him everything in the heat of the moment right now.

Because she couldn’t know how the Company would react.

If she received On Ijo’s help now, she and Gru could escape, but…

She wanted to save all the children in the laboratory too.

To do that, she needed time, and during that time, Lee Jo had to go save the world.

That’s why she couldn’t tell him yet.

Instead, after Lee Jo entered the Tower, she would have to protect everyone from the laboratory children to the child in her womb by herself.

Chloe glanced at the wiretapping device and pressed her lips into a straight line.

If she said “I don’t want the child” where the Company could hear, she could buy some time until the child was born.

During that time, it would be better to remain as one of the obedient researchers under the Company’s surveillance.

‘It’ll be difficult.’

But that was okay.

‘I still have to do it.’

Chloe Han’s way of loving was always sacrificial and consuming.

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