The Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial - Chapter 313
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Chick Class Hunter is Being Filial! Episode 313
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“Ooh-”
Han Gru, who was hanging ribbons on the Christmas tree, looked at the balcony and made his lips round.
Beyond the large balcony blinds, Chloe and On Ijo were kissing each other over and over again.
“Stop looking.”
On Jurim, who was hanging small light bulbs, pulled Han Gru into his arms.
Even so, Han Gru twisted his head around to look at the two people.
“Love!”
“I suppose so.”
“Hooh!”
Han Gru’s cheeks turned bright red as he clasped his hands together in front of his chest.
Bang!
[Quest Complete!]
At that moment, the quest was completed and a cat paw stamp was pressed.
‘Love! It’s connected!’
The tree leaves swayed freshly.
When he opened the Status Window, the Attachment tree that had been around adolescent age had now become an adult tree.
‘Yes!’
Finally, the title would be unlocked!
Han Gru looked at the Status Window filled with anticipation.
‘Thump thump!’
That was the moment.
“Peep!”
Mephisto, who chirped softly, escaped from the Inventory and fluttered up into the air.
“Mepi!”
“Peep!”
Mephisto, who seemed not to have fully regained consciousness yet and was flying unsteadily, settled into Han Gru’s arms.
“Are you completely awake now?”
“Peep peep!”
Mephisto nodded his head and rubbed his cheek.
Now it was time to return.
On Jurim couldn’t take his eyes off The Child welcoming Mephisto and hesitated for a moment.
If he told him, how hurt would The Child be?
If he didn’t tell him? How much would The Child resent him when he found out later?
“Han Gru.”
Still, I need to prepare to go back.
Jurim swallowed his distant fear and pulled the small hand closer to hold it.
“Let’s go now.”
Like that, pretending not to know, closing his eyes.
“Already?”
“Yeah.”
His heart was impatient.
It felt like if they didn’t return quickly, it would become irreversible.
“Aren’t you going to say goodbye to sister and uncle?”
“Even if we say goodbye, they’ll forget everything anyway. It’s better to leave quietly.”
“….”
Jurim was resolute.
It was when Jurim was grabbing Mephisto’s neck and threatening him to send us back quickly.
Gru suddenly blinked his eyes.
The child stood still as if entranced, staring ahead.
Jurim, who was watching this with puzzlement, gently grabbed Gru’s shoulder.
“What’s wrong?”
“Dad, are we leaving?”
“Yeah.”
“Are we leaving….”
For some reason, the child’s voice was filled with deep sadness.
Gru looked up at Jurim.
Jurim, who suddenly met his eyes, gasped. The child’s eyes were trembling.
‘Why?’
“Dad, how sad would dad be if Gru wasn’t there?”
At the completely unexpected question, Jurim’s eyes contorted with pain.
He could instinctively tell that the child had noticed something.
Gru lowered his head again and stared quietly ahead.
In front of his eyes was a Quest completion window that he hadn’t read yet.
[Guardian Quest: Connect Mom and Dad with Love]
[Complete!]
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Why were Chloe and On Ijo able to register as guardians without building up attachment points?
It would have been natural.
‘Because they were Gru’s mom and dad.’
Gru looked at Chloe and On Ijo, whose hands he was holding.
Jurim also followed the child’s gaze.
It was the back view of a family that would be even happier if they were together with the child.
But even knowing that.
“If daddy doesn’t have Han Gru… a lot, too much. It would feel like my heart disappeared. It would hurt so much that it would be better to turn to dust and disappear.”
“…I see.”
On Jurim was momentarily afraid, unable to know what thoughts were going through that small head.
Could he be thinking of staying in the past?
Even though he might become a lost child of the past and be erased from the world before long?
“Why are you suddenly asking that?”
He had to be careful not to let his voice tremble. Was pretending to be calm such a difficult thing?
But he was bound to crumble soon.
“Are sister and uncle Han Gru’s real mom and dad?”
“…”
His throat tightened and he couldn’t breathe.
Tears were welling up in the child’s large eyes.
The moment he panicked and tried to wipe away the tears with his sleeve.
“If we go back… in the world where Han Gru lives… there’s no mom or dad?”
Han Gru could instinctively understand.
The person who sent him to the orphanage.
The person who gave him the name ‘Han Gru’.
That person was Chloe Han, his mother.
The very person who died after sending Han Gru to the orphanage from the G Folder.
Drip, drop.
Han Gru raised his head while tears continuously fell from both eyes.
On Jurim endlessly wiped away the tears.
If only I could take all your sadness away.
“Daddy is sorry. For not being able to tell you…”
Nod nod. The small head nodded as if understanding why.
“But daddy… can’t. Can’t be without Han Gru.”
A desperate voice burst out.
“…”
The child didn’t answer.
On Jurim fixed the child’s face toward him so he wouldn’t see his birth parents’ backs.
“You have to go back. Otherwise, your existence might disappear.”
“…”
On Jurim gently bumped his forehead against the child’s forehead who wasn’t answering. He closed his eyes.
“If that happens, no one will be happy…”
“…No one?”
“Yes, nobody.”
On Jurim opened his eyes.
Tears continued to fall drop by drop from the pale coral-colored eyes.
“The two of them will fall in love. And they’ll bear the fruit of their love. That’s you.”
Han Gru, who had been mulling over the word love, slowly blinked his eyes.
On Jurim once again gently caressed the child’s reddened eyes.
“And that fruit will come to meet me. And we’ll continue to be happy. That’s the future that awaits us when we return.”
“….”
“Hyung said it. That if he didn’t go to the Tower, everyone wouldn’t be able to be happy.”
Nod nod.
“That’s how it is. If you don’t go back, everyone can’t be happy.”
Han Gru, recalling On Ijo’s face as he firmly said they couldn’t be happy, grabbed On Jurim’s sleeve.
If he didn’t go back, at least the dad in front of him would be unhappy. So very much.
Like that day when he sent Hyung alone to the 100th Floor, so very much.
He didn’t want to leave him like that. When he loved Dad this much. He couldn’t make him unhappy.
Han Gru lowered his head and held back his tears. His shoulders trembled.
Mephistopheles, who had been quietly watching the two, spread his wings wide and hugged Han Gru tightly.
[You have to go, Han Gru.]
A message that was clearly sent by Mephistopheles appeared before his eyes.
He rubbed his head against Han Gru’s cheek with his small body.
[The Past is just The Past. No matter what you do, you can’t live in The Past.]
Han Gru looked at his parents’ backs while being embraced by Mephistopheles and On Jurim.
“I’ll love you even more. So let’s go back together. Please.”
“….”
As he slowly blinked again, tears fell drop by drop from his eyes.
“If you want to say goodbye one last time….”
The child shook his head slightly.
“…I’ll just go.”
Because he didn’t want it to become even harder to part here.
On Jurim, relieved, bit his lip.
Han Gru, who had squeezed his eyes shut, silently hugged On Jurim’s neck.
Light burst forth from Mephistopheles’ body.
The light enveloped Han Gru and On Jurim, spreading warmly as if comforting their choice.
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Chloe, who had returned to the Living Room, stood dazed in front of the empty Christmas Tree.
On Ijo, who had followed her in, asked.
“What’s wrong?”
“What was I doing?”
He smiled faintly.
“We decided to make a tree.”
“Two of them?”
“Ah, that’s right. Not just one tree, but two trees.”
“Gru….”
Chloe murmured. Her mind became hazily clouded as if she had forgotten something.
But that thought was quickly forgotten.
She touched her belly and stared at where the wiretapping device was.
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Han Gru slowly opened his eyes to the movement shaking him.
“Myu!”
“Kyu!”
It was Veilak and Lucifer.
‘This place is….’
As the golden, shattered remnants of the past disappeared, the sound of the jet plane’s engine could be heard from all directions.
He tried to get up, but a firm chest was holding Han Gru in its embrace.
Han Gru hid his face against the chest, avoiding the worried gazes.
Sniffling sounds continued.
On Jurim, who patted that small body, checked his wristwatch and confirmed that only a few minutes had passed, then let out a sigh.
‘Was it just a moment.’
Frowning, he kissed Han Gru’s head several times as the child buried his face in his chest.
On Jurim held the child preciously in his arms for a long while until he calmed down.
Han Gru wiped the tears that trickled out on On Jurim’s chest while sniffling.
A strange emptiness washed over him.
Han Gru clenched his empty fists tightly. As if trying to grasp the backs of his mom and dad that he had seen last.
Han Gru’s biological parents loved each other.
Han Gru was said to be the fruit of that love.
Then did mom and dad love Han Gru?
The question came to mind belatedly.
Why did mom send Han Gru to the orphanage?
Just then, the sound of tree leaves rustling as they fluttered in the wind could be heard.
‘The title….’
He hadn’t opened the title yet. Han Gru opened his status window.
[The message left in the title opens.]
At first, you were just part of my sense of responsibility.
When did I start to love you?
When you started kicking in my belly?
When I started secretly carrying your photo while tightening my belt from hunger?
Measuring the beginning of love is always a puzzling thing.
Just like how I can’t know when I started loving your father.
After On Jurim conquered the 99th Floor and returned alone, I decided to run away.
I think I had a premonition of death from that time.
Because I began to realize that the Company was experimenting on me.
Though I tried to hide it, they must have guessed that I had a child.
Sneaking into the laboratory and opening all the glass walls that confined the children was truly exhilarating. It was absolutely thrilling.
It might have been the most exciting thing in my entire life.
I entrusted the children to someone trustworthy and stole the research data.
It was difficult for an ordinary pregnant woman to avoid the eyes of a large corporation.
Still, when I felt you inside me, it seemed like I was enjoying all the happiness in the world.
When I gave birth to you in that abandoned old warehouse in the mountains, do you know how those few months I spent with you afterward were filled with such great joy?
But since I had to run away again soon, I wrote your name and sent you to the orphanage.
As Han Gru who wouldn’t be lonely, as someone had told me.
The experimental data will disappear with me.
Now the world has escaped from destruction, and I hope cruel experiments won’t continue on children like you.
I’m sorry, but mom will become part of you and watch over you.
Because this is inevitably my way of loving.
I hope you won’t obsess only over achievements.
I hope you’ll learn about relationships and love.
I hope you’ll live fully enjoying the world your father protected.
I love you.
I love you so much.
Mom loves Gru so very much.
[The lock on (Unknown Title) is being released.]
[Title: ■■■ ■■■ ■■ ■■ ■■■]
The square blocks covering the title began to disappear.
[Title: Mom Loves Gru So Very Much]
A surge of emotion. Something rushed up to my throat.
Mom had loved Gru so very much.
And even now, she continued to stay with him and love him.
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