There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 224

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Part 2, Episode 50
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School dismissal time.
“Ah, finally free.”
“Seriously. Even though I love acting, this was too much. Three hundred sixty-five days, twenty-four hours staring at scripts—I felt sick.”
Jeongyun and Baegyun, the siblings flanking Yewon on either side, shook their heads in agreement.
Wednesday was the only day the Film Production Club didn’t meet after school.
And it had become the unspoken day for Yewon and her friends to gather and hang out near the school. (Though Harin had to leave early today because of work.)
But.
Yewon didn’t feel like going out anywhere today.
It hadn’t been long since she learned that Uncle was in danger, and she still hadn’t completed even the Sub Quest.
Yet the reason she ended up spending time with her friends was….
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This morning.
“Hey, kid.”
Eon called out to Yewon as she was about to head to school.
“Huh?”
“Just make sure you come home early today.”
“?!”
Shouldn’t he be saying it the other way around…?
Yewon looked at Eon in confusion. But his expression was extremely stern.
“You should act your age—hang out with your friends, play around. You’re always doing nothing but acting. And on the days you’re not acting, you only hang around with these old guys. I don’t like that. You need to spend time with people your own age to develop proper social skills.”
She felt the presence of the “old guys” behind her turning around with sheepish expressions.
Well.
They didn’t look old at all, but let’s just go with it…!
“But… Uncle is sick too… I should be by his side-”
“Tsk.”
Eon’s eyes widened further.
“Children listen to adults. Here, take this.”
“?!”
What Eon forcibly pressed into Yewon’s hand was his wallet.
“A w-wallet…? Uncle, I have a card that Dad gave me!”
“I know. But my wallet’s got cash in all denominations, so use that instead. I saw they sell all kinds of stuff at the stationery store near your school—slime and whatever else. Buy all the different kinds and hand them out to your friends to play with. Pick up some for yourself too while you’re at it. You’re at the age where you should be touching slime and playing around, not mangling scripts all day.”
Eon spoke in an extremely exasperated tone, then fell silent when he saw Yewon’s flustered face.
“Anyway. When you come home today, you’d better not show up without your hands full of slime or whatever, or you’ll get it. If you come back early, you’ll get it twice as bad.”
“Y-yes….”
I’m still worried about Uncle Doha though….
Yewon kept glancing back at Uncle Doha, who was beaming broadly behind her as if everything was perfectly fine.
“This kid’s really funny.”
Eon laughed openly at her and pulled Lee Doha toward him.
“Hey, kid. I’ve been by this guy’s side since before you were even born?”
“?!!?!?”
“Remember—I was the one who picked him up and raised him when you didn’t exist yet. I came first. You got that? And you think I’d be worse at taking care of him than a fourteen-year-old?”
Well.
Yewon stood there silently, dumbfounded, watching Uncle Doha being held by Eon and simply nodding along.
“That’s right~! Yewon~! While you’re away, we’re gonna spoil Doha something fierce~!”
“Eon’s right. Yewon, go play without a care. We’ll look after Lee Doha.”
When Weon and Yeonho joined in from behind, Yewon finally managed to let out a small laugh.
That’s right….
Uncle Doha had Family taking care of him.
It felt really reassuring, but also weirdly unsettling!
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And so she had left Uncle Doha with Eon(?) and gone on her way.
“Yewon, aren’t you getting sick of it?”
Baegyun asked, eyeing Yewon, who still had a script clutched in one hand.
“Huh?”
“That script. Aren’t you getting tired of it?”
Yewon looked down at the script in her hand.
Tired of it.
In fact, she wasn’t tired of it at all. If anything, knowing it was her uncle’s lifeline made her care about it even more. The problem, if anything, was that the more she read it, the more questions kept piling up.
But if I say that here, I’ll look like I have no tact….
“Yeah. I guess I’m getting bored with it…?”
“You’re great at acting, but you’re terrible at lying.”
Baek Yun laughed softly and snatched the script from Yewon’s hands.
“Is this work really that special?”
!
Baek Yun flipped through the pages of one by one, his brow furrowing.
What was she clinging to it like this for? Now she was making even inanimate objects jealous. It wasn’t just a little disappointing.
Yewon had never shown much interest in him to begin with, but since this work appeared, she’d gotten worse. She was acting as if nothing else existed except this script.
“Is it that special? Every work is precious. You know what I’m like.”
Though caught off guard, Yewon answered as casually as she could manage.
“I know, but….”
For some reason, this one just didn’t sit right with him. Baek Yun swallowed the rest.
Senior Yoo Eun-o, who lights up whenever he sees you, doesn’t sit right with me either, and Hyuk, who’s playing your opposite role and will be matching breaths with you, doesn’t sit right with me either.
“Give it back now, Baek Yun.”
See.
Even now. She won’t let the script out of her hands for more than a minute before demanding it back.
Baek Yun pouted but handed the script back to her willingly. Regardless of how he felt about the script itself, it was impossible for him to refuse her.
“Leave him alone. He’s just jealous. It’s honestly pathetic.”
“Hey, Jeongyun!”
Baek Yun’s eyes widened at Jeongyun’s words, but she mocked him openly.
“You’re our mom’s son, but you’re really not worth it. Pack your bags and get out. And while you’re at it, get yourself erased from the family registry too.”
“What are you saying, seriously. You get out!”
While the two of them bickered on either side, Yewon paid no attention, her gaze fixed ahead.
And that was because—
‘…Yoo Eun-o?’
She could see Yoo Eun-o and Kang Seoa talking in front of the School Auditorium in the distance.
It probably had something to do with that new role they were creating.
“Hey, Yewon.”
“Huh?”
At Jeongyun’s call, Yewon finally snapped to attention and looked at her.
“You’re worried about it? Should we take her along too?”
“Her, her?”
Yewon asked back in confusion.
Take Senior Yoo Eun-o along? No, wait—did she just call him ‘her’…?
“Yeah, Kang Seoa. At first I didn’t like her much, but I’m getting used to her these days. I thought she was a psycho, and she is a real psycho, but. She’s not a bad psycho—just an ordinary one.”
“Are you introducing yourself, Jeongyun?”
Oh, she was talking about Seoa.
Yewon, who’d thought she meant Eun-o, was momentarily flustered but quickly nodded.
“Yeah, okay. Let’s ask her to come with us.”
“Roger.”
Jeongyun nodded as if confirming an order, and immediately called out to Seoa.
“Hey! Kang Seoa!”
At that, both Yoo Eun-o and Kang Seoa turned this way at the same time.
Hmm. She hadn’t meant to call out like that, but… well, might as well think of it as a happy accident.
Yoo Eun-o and Kang Seoa exchanged what looked like serious words, then Yoo Eun-o left the spot while Kang Seoa approached the three of them.
“What do you want.”
“We don’t have Film Production Club today anyway. Let’s go have some fun.”
“Fun?”
At Jeongyun’s words, Seoa knitted her brow as if she’d heard the strangest word in the world, then relaxed it again.
“Yewon, you coming too?”
“Yeah. Let’s go together.”
“Fine. Whatever.”
When Seoa nodded as if she were doing them a favor, the Yoo siblings felt oddly unsettled.
This girl really doesn’t adjust well.
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Franchise Cafe near School.
Yewon diligently did as Eon had asked, buying slime of various types from the stationery store and handing them out to her friends.
Thanks to that, her friends could happily fidget with their slime and chat away.
“But what were you talking about with Yoo Eun-o just now?”
At Jeongyun’s question, Yewon’s ears perked up. In truth, it was something she’d been curious about too, but hadn’t quite dared to ask.
“Oh. It’s because of my role.”
“You didn’t get a role?”
Jeongyun tilted her head, her expression puzzled.
“No, it’s just that the role seems like it’ll be bigger than expected, so they’re asking me to wait while they revise the script.”
“Huh? When’s your script reading?”
“Next week.”
“Wow. That’s going to be intense.”
“Tell me about it.”
As Jeongyun and Baegyun clicked their tongues, Yewon nodded subtly from beside them.
“It doesn’t matter. If you’re going to be an actor, you have to handle that much.”
Kang Seoa spoke with her shoulders raised, her face brimming with something like pride.
She seemed genuinely delighted about landing a more substantial role than she’d anticipated.
Understanding that feeling, Yewon found herself in a strange mood and said nothing.
“But if they’re rewriting the script that much, you’re going to have a rough time too, Yewon.”
“Right. I read some of your script too, and it wasn’t easy to begin with.”
“I bet this kind of thing is nothing for you though.”
“?!”
“Why are you looking at me like that? Last time I saw you, you’d already memorized almost the whole script. Or am I wrong? Either way, you’ll adapt to it quickly.”
At Kang Seoa’s words, Yewon laughed awkwardly.
If only that were true.
“By the way, that club president…”
Kang Seoa hesitated a moment before speaking.
“…he didn’t follow us here, did he? He’s over there?”
“Huh?”
At Kang Seoa’s words, they all turned around at once.
There at the counter, ordering drinks—
“Wait, seriously? Hyuk came too?”
Yoo Eun-o and Mun Hyeok were standing there.

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