There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 216

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Part 2, Episode 42
“Why do you keep looking at me like that’s so unexpected? Did you think I’m such a fool that I can’t trust my own eyes?”
“No, it’s not that… I thought you disliked me.”
“Don’t be mistaken. I still don’t care much for you.”
Blunt as ever.
Faced with Seoha’s curt response, Yewon fell silent.
“But that was….”
Seoha hesitated briefly before continuing.
“I thought you got the role through someone else’s influence, not your own ability.”
!
“…You wouldn’t have known, but there were rumors circulating among the other child actors.”
Rumors?
Yewon looked at Seoha with confusion, wondering what kind of rumors.
“That you had such strong connections you were sweeping up all the roles.”
Seoha said this and let out a somewhat petulant sigh.
“…So I thought my role was stolen too. Because of your connections.”
I see.
Since Yewon had faced such misunderstandings more than once before, she took it in stride.
…Yeah, if she thought I took what was hers, she’d have every reason to dislike me.
“You’re an idiot.”
But even so, that didn’t change the fact that Seoha was an idiot.
“What?”
“If you’d watched the movie like you said, you would’ve known. I didn’t get the role through connections.”
…….
At Yewon’s words, Seoha’s lips jutted out stubbornly.
She seemed to know the truth in her heart all along.
“How would you know? I might’ve done better if I’d taken the role.”
“No way!!!!!”
Just then, Jeongyun burst between the two of them, shouting.
“Yewon did way better!!”
“Seriously.”
Seoha scoffed at Jeongyun’s sudden appearance and turned her head away.
“Well, anyway… Since you helped this time too, I’ll give you a little credit.”
“My help?”
When Yewon asked with a puzzled look, Seoha pointed to the other first-year students.
Yewon hadn’t noticed before, but all the first-year students were now looking at her with favorable eyes.
“Right. First-years weren’t supposed to audition at all, but thanks to you raising your hand there, we at least got to try.”
Seoha said this and glanced toward the third-years, adding in a conspiratorial whisper.
“And everyone here got a good, clear look at the fact that third-years are absolutely nothing special.”
Hmm.
Is that how it works?
“The first-years are all grateful to you in their own way.”
“That part’s true, Yewon.”
For the first time, Jeongyun agreed with Seoha.
“Of course, thanks to that, the third-year seniors started disliking us a bit, but who cares, right.”
“Exactly. Who cares about some people graduating next year. They’re not even second-years.”
She’s got quite the personality…!
Yewon found herself reminded of someone by Seoha’s sardonic smile.
Wait.
Eon… Uncle Eon flickered through her mind for a moment….
Yewon shook her head vigorously, trying to erase the image of Eon.
No, this isn’t it!
Let’s just say I’ve made a friend with a sharp tongue…!
* * *
Meanwhile, on the road.
GLEET members and Yusong were heading home.
“I’m sorry, sir. I should be driving….”
“I can’t have an injured person at the wheel. Rest easy.”
Yusong answered calmly, keeping his eyes on the road ahead.
Lee Doha wished the members would drive at least half as responsibly as Yusong did.
“That’s right. Get some rest, Lee Doha. If you go around apologizing, what does that make the rest of us who are perfectly fine? Huh?!”
Weon leaned forward from the back seat, protesting to Lee Doha.
“What do you mean, what… I’d just be trash….”
Lee Doha muttered under his breath.
“What?!?!?!!? Hey! My ears work pretty well, don’t they???? Huh??”
“You heard it because I said it for a reason…. I suppose….”
Lee Doha continued muttering timidly.
As a leader, he sometimes felt so embarrassed by his members’ concern that he didn’t know what to do with himself.
“You ungrateful bastard. We followed you here out of concern, and you don’t even appreciate it. You should’ve gotten a conscience scan instead of a health checkup. The doctor probably would’ve said your conscience was hairless, you know? Seriously. And I spent my precious vacation time for this!”
Weon grumbled on and on, chiding Lee Doha relentlessly.
But his expression was more anxious than it had ever been.
It wasn’t just Weon. The others were quiet, but they were worried about Lee Doha more than usual.
Lee Doha noticed his members’ concern and smiled weakly.
“Everyone, stop worrying about me. The doctor said so too. For someone my age, headaches aren’t something to worry about so much. It’s probably from overwork. It’s just a routine checkup.”
“What are you rambling on about…. A routine checkup? So you’re saying headaches are routine too? Look at this car—there are five young men in here, and you’re the only one with a headache. This safety-blind idiot…. Damn it….”
When Ian burst out in strong complaint, Lee Doha fell silent. He sensed from the tone of Ian’s voice that he wasn’t just normally angry.
Better not push it right now…,
“Well, I’m grateful to be counted among the young men.”
Meanwhile, Yusong was saying something like that,
“Hey! Hyung!! We’re the same age, aren’t we!!!”
Weon timidly tapped Yusong’s shoulder from the back, joking around.
“I told you not to bother the driver, Hanwon.”
“You think I look like a kid just because you’ve been raising one? Why do you keep teaching me, teaching me like that? Why don’t you try being a kid yourself? Huh?! Did you think I couldn’t?!??!!?”
“You’re still plenty of a kid, you know.”
“You kids, shut up. You’re stressing me out.”
It was Lee Doha, then Hanwon, then Lee Doha again, and finally Ian.
Yeonho, sitting in the front, watched the four men and thought.
He wished Yewon were here instead of these idiots.
“By the way.”
Yusong smiled quietly at his ‘younger brothers’ and added,
“Why are you keeping it a secret from Yewon?”
“I don’t want to worry her.”
“Hmm.”
Yusong tilted his head slightly.
“I’d rather not lie to my daughter.”
“If you don’t keep it secret, I’ll tell her that you’ve been watching her at school.”
“….”
At Lee Doha’s words, Yusong closed his mouth.
Noticing that this was Yusong’s silent agreement, Lee Doha smiled faintly.
“When do the results come back?”
“Next week, he said.”
Yusong nodded at Lee Doha’s answer.
The test results would surely come back as ‘normal’… so he’d only need to tell one lie for a week.
He could think of it as holding his breath for just a week.
Yusong muttered that to himself.
* * *
But fortunately, Yusong didn’t need to lie to his daughter for a whole week.
“…Uncle.”
“Yeah?”
“Does something hurt…?”
“!”
The moment he came home, Yewon asked Lee Doha this very question.
* * *
This can’t happen.
That was Yewon’s first thought as she saw Lee Doha return home.
This can’t happen. Please.
“Uncle’s home~!! Come here and let me cuddle with you, sweetie. Huh? I desperately need some Yewon therapy. Please!!”
“Oh, what’s this. The little one came home early?”
The uncles filtered through the door one by one, greeting her warmly.
But Yewon couldn’t respond to their greeting properly.
“How did the audition go, Yewon?”
That was when a window appeared above Lee Doha’s head—similar to the Quest Window, but different.
[D-???]
Please, not this.
The moment she saw the crimson text, she couldn’t breathe.
[Extraction of the corresponding soul has begun]
[Extraction rate: 1%]
Extraction of a soul has begun?
Without thinking, Yewon clutched at her chest.
They’re taking Uncle’s soul away?
Who?
Why?
Terror and a storm of questions seized her.
Then.
[Quest Reward Arrived! – <The Veiled Truth>]
[View it? (Yes/No)]
A message window appeared before her eyes.
It can’t be.
Yewon pressed ‘Yes’, seized by a sudden premonition.
Desperately hoping it was anything but what she feared.
And then her vision flooded with darkness—
—Lee Doha of GLEET.
The background suddenly shifted to inside a mountain.
Splash.
Rain thick as a staff poured down.
—Quite a cruel fate you siblings have.
Yewon spotted Fluffball silhouetted against the moonlight—the only illumination in the dark mountain.
Fluffball? Who’s he talking to?
—Your sister made a wish that ‘failed’. Can you succeed where she couldn’t?
I don’t understand. What’s this about—
As Yewon frowned at the cryptic words, she spotted a man dying beneath Fluffball.
And she cried out without thinking.
‘Uncle!’
But no sound came from her lips.
—What?
As if Lee Doha had said something, Fluffball’s brow furrowed and he drew closer to him.
—Now, Lee Doha. That won’t do. That’s far too costly a bargain for me. You want me to turn back time so you can save your niece?
‘!’
Yewon’s hands flew to her mouth.
Uncle made a wish… for me?
—How about making a wager with me instead?
Even though Yewon could only see Fluffball’s back, she understood.
It was clearly—
—Neither your sister nor you succeeded in saving your niece. So instead…
—let’s wager on whether your niece can save you!
He was delighting in it.

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