The Rogue, Genius, Chaebol's Daughter is a Baby Master Detective! - Chapter 34

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Delinquent, genius, and billionaire’s daughter—she’s a baby detective!
Episode 34
[Black-Haired Mister]
-Occupation: CEO
-Likes: Mom, turning pages
-List of Bad Things
① Freezing out company people
② Making people do pointless special training
③ Staring with scary eyes
-List of Good Things
① Practicing tying Haru’s hair (hardworking!)
② Making lunch boxes while burning egg rolls
③ Curing company people of their ailments
④ A heart set on protecting children
★ Has a fiancée!
-Haru’s conclusion: A lonely mister without friends. He’s not a villain, so Haru will protect him!
In that instant, the door swung open.
The CEO Office door had burst wide.
“What’s this! If you found her, you should have said something! I wouldn’t even know if the staff hadn’t told me.”
“You’re right, sir. Apparently she ran around quite a bit.”
The moment Lee Hyun-woo spotted Haru, he rushed over and tucked her under his arm. Then he flicked her forehead with his finger.
“You little troublemaker! Who on earth do you take after? I thought my heart was going to stop.”
Haru flailed her arms and legs.
“Put me down!”
“Are you going to disappear without a word again?”
“No, I won’t.”
Whimper. Haru’s pouting face suddenly tilted in confusion. Something about this height felt familiar. She lifted her head sharply. The face of the yellow-haired mister seemed to overlap with the panda costume.
Detective Antenna activated. That unmistakable sense of comfort wrapped around her. Definitely a familiar side.
Ding♪
[Haru’s Detective Notebook]
Clue acquired♪
Yellow-Haired Mister and Fake Panda are exactly the same height
Register deduction?
☞ Panda = Yellow-Haired Mister
☞ Collect more clues
Haru’s eyes shifted into Detective Mode. Without hesitation, she pressed the first button.
‘The misters are suspicious. They all need investigating!’
Ding♪
[Unsolved Case No. 0 Reopened: Collecting Dad Clues]
“What am I going to do with you? You’re already running around like this, and what if you run away from home when you hit puberty? My heart couldn’t take it, Haru.”
“If I run away, will Dad come find me?”
“Of course Dad would come looking for you!”
“Like when you rescued Haru from the goat?”
Lee Hyun-woo’s body went rigid.
“Was Dad cool then?”
Ding♪
[Deduction Verified]
Panda = Yellow-Haired Mister
Correct. ★Excellent work★
[Yellow-Haired Mister]
[Investigation Progress 4/10]
“…Huh?”
At her blank exclamation, Kang Tae-jun let out an exasperated sigh.
Haru’s mind went back to the panda costume.
‘Both Black-Haired Mister and Yellow-Haired Mister came to the zoo. Did they go to buy the zoo?’
“Did Mister come here to buy the zoo too?”
‘What is she going on about now?’
Lee Hyun-woo exchanged a look of bafflement with Kang Tae-jun. Kang Tae-jun gave a small nod, as if to say he agreed.
“W-well, yes?”
“But why is Mister wearing the panda costume?”
Kang Tae-jun answered in his place.
“It’s just a hobby of mine—clowning around.”
Haru tilted her head curiously.
“Clowning?”
“Dad just really likes pandas, that’s all.”
Lee Hyun-woo, about to protest, quickly offered an excuse instead. Then he changed the subject.
“Wait a second. You’re saying if you run away, I’d come looking—does that mean you’re planning to run away?”
“I won’t run away, so let me down!”
“You’re promising you won’t sneak around without telling adults ever again?”
Haru pressed her lips together. For the sake of Detective Haru’s noble cause, she might need to wander off once or twice more….
“No answer?”
Lee Hyun-woo flipped Haru upside down.
“Aaaah!”
“What are you doing to a child? Stop fooling around.”
“Can’t you see? I’m educating her. Don’t interrupt me, will you?”
“Huh?”
Kang Tae-jun raised his eyebrows. Haru, still inverted, threw her arms up in celebration.
“Wow, the world’s all upside down!”
“Anyone can see you’re playing with her, not scolding her. Right, Secretary Park?”
“Yes. It does appear that Haru is enjoying herself greatly. Perhaps you’re jealous?”
Secretary Park, meeting Kang Tae-jun’s cool gaze, flinched and rolled his eyes away.
Lee Hyun-woo set Haru down. As she brushed off her clothes, he crouched beside her.
“Haru.”
“Yes?”
“The fact that the panda was Dad—that’s a secret from your teacher, right?”
“Why?”
….
Haru’s eyes shifted into Detective Mode.
‘Haru’s got it all figured out. The guys didn’t come to the Zoo just to visit.’
“Because….”
“It’s okay. I already know.”
“What do you… know?”
Haru giggled to herself.
‘The guys really, really like pandas, but adults get embarrassed about stuff like that!’
She remembered the little animals snuggled together in the Lunch Box too.
‘I heard someone say something on TV about people who like stuff so much… that’s it! A geek! Someone who loves something so much they go nuts over it!’
Haru recalled the panda’s tail wriggling as it scampered away.
‘He got shy because it turned out his favorite animal of all was the panda. That’s why he ran away.’
Haru nodded to herself with satisfaction and pulled out her notebook.
—Yellow-haired guy = Panda geek. (Super embarrassed, but Haru’s got his back—keeping the secret!)
Haru smiled proudly.
‘Detective Haru, solving cases every day.’
Haru reached out her hand toward Lee Hyun-woo.
“Can we go home now?”
And she grasped Lee Hyun-woo’s
pinky finger firmly. At that moment, Secretary Park, noticing Kang Tae-jun’s brow furrow, muttered quietly to himself.
‘Definitely jealousy.’
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“Today is when we present our parents’ jobs. Did everyone research well?”
“Yes!”
The children of Saessak Class answered in unison.
“Then let’s have you come up one by one to present. Who wants to go first?”
The children’s presentations continued.
“My dad is a doctor. He makes people’s faces pretty!”
“My mom is a researcher. She makes medicine to help people heal!”
“My dad makes tons and tons of cookies and bread!”
“All right, shall Ho-jun go next?”
At the teacher’s words, Kim Ho-jun hung his head low and spoke in a voice barely above a whisper.
“He was too busy, so I couldn’t research it.”
The classroom fell silent for a moment. Haru’s hand shot up. All eyes turned toward her.
“Teacher, I want to present next!”
“All right, then Haru, why don’t you go ahead?”
“Haru’s mister is the CEO!”
“The CEO?”
The other children blinked.
“He’s the highest person at the company!”
She wore an expression of pride, as if she were the CEO herself.
“The CEO protects the company.”
Haru turned the page of her notebook.
“And he has papers with circles on them.”
“Circles?”
“The more zeros there are, the richer he is.”
“Wow!”
The children gasped in amazement.
“And the CEO buys sick companies and makes them better. He takes companies that are colored blue and lying down.”
Haru lowered her voice.
“But the CEO doesn’t have any friends.”
“Why not?”
One child asked.
“He says he doesn’t need friends because he’s too busy. His face looks like a rotten apple. But it’s cool how he works hard at things that aren’t fun just to earn lots of money.”
The children clapped. Haru wiped her nose quickly.
“Haru, you investigated thoroughly. Next is Si-woo… oh, Si-woo didn’t come today.”
“Why didn’t Si-woo come?”
Haru asked.
“He had something to take care of, so he couldn’t make it. When he comes back to the Kindergarten, let’s greet him warmly.”
“Yes!”
The Saessak Class children answered. Haru glanced at Si-woo’s empty seat and tilted her head quizzically.
“Is he sick?”
Ho-jun chimed in.
“Si-woo skips the Kindergarten a lot. He’s weak.”
“Really? He looked healthy to me….”
The next day, Si-woo appeared at the Kindergarten looking perfectly fine. Haru approached him.
“Si-woo, why didn’t you come yesterday? Were you sick?”
“No. I had something to do at home, so I couldn’t come.”
“I see.”
Haru nodded.
‘Hmm, something at home? That’s a suspicious way to brush it off. So he really is hiding his strength!’
Haru had decided to persuade Si-woo today. She was going to get him to join the Secret Strength Club no matter what!
“Today we’re all going to make fruit tarts!”
Following the teacher’s guidance, the children moved to the Cooking Room and began making tarts.
As Si-woo placed fruit on the tart shell and looked up without thinking, his eyes met Haru’s directly. He felt a sense of foreboding seeing her round cheeks dusted with white sugar powder, grinning mischievously.
“Why are you smiling like that?”
“Haru knows everything.”
“About what?”
“That Si-woo is a child hiding strength.”
Haru lowered her voice and whispered mysteriously.
“On the field trip day. When you followed the panda.”
Si-woo’s shoulders tensed.
“Si-woo was behind Haru, but you knew where the panda went first. Look, this way, right?”
Haru’s eyes sparkled.
“And you found five Treasure Notes. A normal child couldn’t do that.”

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