There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 160

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Episode 160
* * *
“…Dad?”
Yewon looked up at Yusong, trembling slightly while gripping his hand tightly without letting go.
“Yes, sweetheart.”
Every time Yusong heard his daughter call him “Dad,” he felt as though he might faint, but he answered without letting it show on his face.
“…Could that possibly be the plane we’re taking?”
At Yewon’s words, Yusong turned his head in the direction of her gaze.
There sat a private jet owned by Haion.
When Leon had suddenly announced, “I bought a plane~ don’t ask why. I bought it because I wanted to~,” he had regarded him with the most contemptuous look in the world.
To think that Crazy Guy could actually be useful like this….
“Yes. It’s not the largest plane, but it won’t be uncomfortable. However, if you find anything inconvenient at all, tell me. I’ll have an even larger private jet purchased.”
“….”
At Yusong’s words, Yewon fell silent.
There’s no reasoning with the ultra-wealthy!
She had only imagined a business class seat at best, but a private jet…!
Yewon blamed her own meager imagination.
Well, why would one of the top five conglomerates in the country fly business class….
Yewon exhaled a long sigh.
Still, I’m grateful. I wondered how we’d manage when there were no available flights…. I never expected a private jet.
Yewon looked up at Yusong again.
“Thank…you.”
“!”
It was a bit awkward, that much was true.
But gratitude should be expressed properly.
I had suddenly called and said, “I want to go to Japan following that Uncle…! Please help me!” and he had granted my wish.
“There’s no need to thank me. This is….”
Yusong hesitated briefly before continuing.
“Something a father naturally does.”
“….”
Since when was a private jet something a father naturally does?
Yewon had much to say but chose not to.
“Still. I must have surprised you by calling so suddenly.”
“I wasn’t surprised at all.”
“…!”
Really?
Yewon stared intently at Yusong.
I thought he’d be shocked.
Wasn’t he surprised that I knew his number?
“It’s only natural for a daughter to call her father.”
“….”
“I was surprised to get a call from a blocked number.”
At Yusong’s addition, Yewon subtly averted her gaze from him.
I couldn’t exactly tell him I’d called from an unactivated kids’ phone!
“…And thank you for convincing Grandfather, too.”
At Yewon’s words, Yusong lowered his eyes.
‘Hello, sir. …Father-in-law.’
‘….’
Actually, just before.
When Yusong found himself alone with Taejung, he felt slightly tense.
It had been manageable when everyone was together….
But this was his first time alone with Taejung.
‘Yewon was so eager to visit her uncles in Japan that… I found myself coming along.’
‘…I see. As for you….’
Taejung regarded Yusong with complicated eyes.
In truth, Taejung had no idea how to treat him.
He harbored lingering resentment toward Yusong for failing to protect Seoha—yet simultaneously questioned whether he, who had no right to be a father, had any right to resent Yusong at all.
So he decided simply to follow Yewon’s heart.
If Yewon accepted Yusong as family, he would do the same.
‘Have you contacted Lee Doha?’
‘No. Yewon wanted to surprise him.’
‘Still, it might be better to contact him? From Lee Doha’s perspective….’
He probably can’t fully trust you yet.
Taejung deliberately left the rest unsaid.
But Yusong immediately grasped his meaning and nodded.
‘Don’t worry. Yewon will go straight to see her uncles. And… as long as she’s with me, she’ll be safer than anyone else in this world.’
‘…Yes. If Yewon has decided to trust you, then we all should as well.’
At this hard-won permission, Yusong bowed deeply to Taejung.
He understood Taejung’s feelings, after all.
“Watch your step.”
“Yes, sir.”
The two of them boarded the private jet via the air stairs.
“Welcome, Yusong and Yewon. It’s an honor to serve you today. We’ll do our utmost to ensure a comfortable flight for you both.”
The flight attendant greeted them warmly.
Yewon, flustered by her first private jet experience, felt awkward, and the attendant smiled brightly at how adorable she looked.
“Two people are waiting for you. Shall we go in?”
“?!”
Two people waiting for me?
Yewon looked up at Yusong again in confusion.
Yusong seemed equally unaware, his face scrunching up in bewilderment.
And so, almost without thinking, I stepped onto the airplane.
“Hey there~~”
“For a quick takeoff, if you two could please be seated.”
“….”
Leon and Lee Iho were waiting for us as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Yusong immediately hid me behind him and glared at the two of them.
“What are you two doing?”
“Huh? You were going to use my airplane and leave without me~? Seriously. Where’s your conscience, hyung?”
“This isn’t your airplane. It belongs to our group company.”
“Yep. And hyung and Yewon aren’t part of our group anyway. Only the two of us are. Surely you’re not calling a joint venture representative a group member? That’s a bit of a gray area, you know.”
“….”
Unable to refute the argument, Yusong’s frown deepened.
Then.
“Let’s just all go together!”
“!”
I simply plopped down in a random seat.
Whether they came along or not, it didn’t matter to me anyway!
‘…And the message window said these uncles would be helpful…. So it’ll work out somehow!’
I just wanted to get to Uncle Doha as quickly as possible.
I had no time to waste on these strange uncles.
“See, see! Our niece says let’s just go~ Hyung, just keep quiet, sit down, and fasten your seatbelt.”
“Don’t waste time. I can’t be away from the company for long.”
“….”
Yusong finally let out a long, internal sigh and sat down next to me.
I just hoped these crazy guys wouldn’t cause any trouble….
* * *
And so, the airplane took off.
As only the brilliant blue sky and pure white clouds became visible through the window.
I gazed at the window with wonder-filled eyes.
Since this was my first time on an airplane, everything felt amazing.
So this is what it’s like….
And the three men watched me with contentment.
“By the way, our niece~ you could just wait a few days and Uncle would come back on his own. Why were you so eager to follow him this time?”
Leon rested his chin on his hand and asked with a tone that barely concealed his dissatisfaction.
He wouldn’t let me see him, yet.
Why does Uncle Doha get to be liked like that? Really!
“….”
At Leon’s question, I hesitated for a moment.
Maybe I should be honest now?
To protect my uncles… I needed these three people’s help.
Yewon paused for a moment, then drew a deep breath.
“Because I want to protect Uncle Doha!”
“!”
At those words, the eyes of all three widened slightly.
“For the past few days, I keep having nightmares. Bad people are tormenting Uncle Doha, trying to hurt him in my dreams!”
Yewon pulled out the excuse she had prepared in advance.
‘The Quest window says Uncle is in danger. It told me to protect him!’ — if I said something like that, they’d just laugh it off, saying our Yewon has such a vivid imagination.
“….”
At Yewon’s words, Yusong’s expression darkened considerably.
In truth, his daughter’s instinct wasn’t entirely wrong.
For some time now, people from Mirae Entertainment had been following Doha around.
But there was no way the child could know such things, yet she was having nightmares like this….
‘Could it be….’
Had the ordeals she’d endured left deep trauma in the child….
‘From the man who tried to kidnap my daughter, to those who took her away to exploit her—all of them….’
It was certain that deep trauma had been left behind.
It seemed that trauma was now manifesting as the fear of potentially losing her uncle.
If that were the case, what could he do now….
“I see. Then, let me show you something.”
“?!”
What?
Yewon was bewildered.
Why does he keep leaving out the object when he speaks?
“Your uncle will absolutely never be in any danger—I’ll make sure you see that clearly with your own two eyes.”
“…!”
“Then perhaps your nightmares will fade a little.”
At Yusong’s words, Yewon’s eyes sparkled with surprise.
She hadn’t expected he would go this far for her.
Yewon quickly nodded her head.
“Yes! Then I think I won’t have nightmares!”
“Good.”
Yusong nodded slowly.
“Your uncle’s schedule is….”
Yusong pulled out his laptop and displayed GLEET’s schedule table on the screen.
“…?”
How did Dad get his uncles’ schedule table…?
Yewon looked at him with suspicious eyes, but Yusong paid no attention whatsoever.
“A two-night, three-day Japan broadcast recording—one of them—and… an in-house content shoot as well. The broadcast recording is studio filming, so that should be fine. The in-house content is the problem. It’s being filmed at Mount Fuji.”
Yusong nodded his head and turned to look at Leon.
“Ah. Got it, got it. You’re saying to change the location to somewhere other than the mountain, right?”
“That’s right. On a mountain, there’s no telling what might happen.”
“?!”
“Hmm. What could there be… Japan this season….”
Leon’s eyes rolled thoughtfully before a sly smile crossed his face.
“Ah, yes. The F1 Grand Prix is being held in Japan this week, isn’t it?”
“!”
“And our Haion is the official partner of the F1 Paddock Club, right~?”
At those words, the three men—excluding Yewon—let their eyes gleam with sinister intent.
“Certainly, a place like that would be so crowded and chaotic. …Bustling enough that one person going missing wouldn’t raise the slightest suspicion.”
“And then, then~ our in-law will have cameras on him constantly, so he’ll be perfectly safe~”
“Uncontrollable, yet precisely because of that, it becomes controllable. Not a bad location at all.”
“????”
Yewon couldn’t comprehend the three men’s conversation at all, only growing more bewildered.
What on earth were they talking about? Could someone please explain this to me?!

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————