There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 227

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Part 2, Chapter 53
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Meanwhile, at Yewon’s house.
Ian wasn’t in a particularly good mood these days.
Lee Doha, that idiot, was clearly unwell, but he wouldn’t show it for fear that Yewon or Ian might worry—and then there was Yewon, that brat, who’d grown up far too serious and kept trying to comfort the adults around her.
“Ugh. I’m starving. Hey, Ian. What do you want to order?!!?!? Yewon’s not here, so I’ve got no motivation to cook. Having to feed these dark-skinned brutes takes my precious labor. Absolutely not. I need my bunny-like baby soda instead….”
That idiot Hanwon still had no sense of the room.
“Eat chicken breast. You need to maintain yourself even during the off-season.”
That lunatic Seo Yeonho never rested for a moment.
“What is chicken breast?”
Brother-in-law Hyeon Yuseong was truly exasperating….
Ian closed his book and let out a long sigh.
He couldn’t believe that in this dump of a house, he was the only sane person besides Yewon. What on earth was God doing? Couldn’t He send down one more normal person?
Now that Lee Doha had gone off to hear his test results, the house truly felt like it held only crazy men.
‘Which is why I said I’d go with him.’
Lee Doha’s Avoidant DNA must have triggered again—he’d insisted, ‘Just this once, I want to go alone and come back quietly,’ leaving Ian coldly abandoned in this godforsaken house.
Normally, Ian would have snapped back, ‘Fine, just kill me on your way out. Since I’m bleeding dry anyway, might as well put me out of my misery first, right? You XXXXXXX…!’
But this time, Lee Doha had looked so genuinely desperate that Ian couldn’t bring himself to do it.
What sin did I commit in my past life to be stuck with someone who maxed out his avoidance stat as my leader? Ian genuinely cursed his previous existence.
“Hey, isn’t that Yewon?”
At Hanwon’s words, massive figures throughout the house erupted to their feet with thunderous crashes. Ian was no exception. (Though he rose rather more gracefully than the others.)
They all hurried to the window behind Hanwon and peered down.
And….
“?”
“??”
“???????????????????????”
“…?”
The four men froze simultaneously with a dull thud.
Because….
“I-i-is sh-she c-c-crazy…? Tell me my eyes are wrong, please. Please. Oh my God. This can’t be real. For heaven’s sake. Jesus? Buddha? What in the—what is this?”
Yewon was standing in the alley in front of the house, alone with some lanky guy, laughing together!
And what’s more!
“That ba—no, that other man’s son is hitting on our Yewon right now, isn’t he?”
At Ian’s words, the other three men nodded in unison.
There was no doubt.
Even from a distance, that man’s eyes—full of selfish desire, smitten—were perfectly clear!
If they left this alone any longer, that cursed bastard would definitely steal their precious house darling away.
Just as the four men turned to fetch their weapons,
“Wait. I know that face.”
“?”
At Yeonho’s words, everyone froze.
“That’s… Mun Hyeok.”
“Ah~”
“Hmm.”
As Hanwon and Yusong nodded at the revelation, Ian patted his own chest sharply.
This was so infuriating he felt like he was dying.
“So what? ‘It’s Mun Hyeok’—what difference does that make? Just because you’ve known him longer doesn’t make a wolf into a cat, does it? You all don’t know? An older acquaintance is the scariest thing in the world!”
When Ian burst out, the three men fell back into turmoil.
“But….”
“But what.”
As Hanwon hesitated, Ian’s eyes went wide. What nonsense was he about to spout?
“H-he gets along with Yewon… and if we chase him away, Yewon’s going to be really mad at us, I think….”
“…….”
“I don’t want Yewon to hate me, so… would someone punish him for me instead? Ahahaha~”
Ian, unable to hold back any longer, smacked Hanwon on the head with a sharp thwack.
He was working very hard not to hit him much harder than that.
“Ow!!!!!!!!!! Ian!!!!! Why’d you hit me!!!!!! We need to chase him out!!!!!”
“Shut your mouth. Before I really lose it and beat you.”
Ian turned back to watch Yewon and Mun Hyeok, his eyes narrowed to slits, ready to make sure that sneaky bastard didn’t pull anything on his little girl.
She was someone special. He’d carried her and raised her from childhood, brainwashing her early on with tutoring that said, ‘Don’t bring home anyone worse than me’—Ian was confident that as a result, Yewon would never be able to bring anyone home at all.
“If even a single tear—or even just a trace of tears—appears in our girl’s eyes, I’m telling you….”
The other three men nodded heavily at Ian’s muttering.
If that happened, the world would end.
But then….
But then…?
“Yewon’s smiling?”
Weon spoke in a dazed voice.
“And he’s patting her head right now.”
This time Seo Yeonho spoke in a tone that suggested his very soul had been drained from his body.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX….
This, in its own way, genuinely displeased Ian.
But then.
“Brother-in-law!!! Brother-in-law!!! Calm down, calm down!!!!!!”
At the sound coming from beside him, Ian turned and froze.
Yusong was gripping a baseball bat with eyes that had gone completely vacant (it really looked that way).
“Hey, why is this guy so strong??? Yeonho! Make sure you’re holding it straight, will you?”
“I am.”
Why build muscle just to use it like this? Hold him properly!”
In the end, the three men had to exert all their might just to pry Yusong away.
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“You don’t need to walk me home, oppa.”
Yewon laughed softly at Hyuk, who had no choice but to follow her to the front of her house.
What am I, some little kid? Well, I guess I am, but I’m still in middle school just like you….
And why is he patting my head anyway? Does he think I’m seven years old?
“Of course I have to. You….”
Hyuk said that much, then stopped abruptly.
“I what?”
“Nothing.”
“…?”
What’s that about? Suspicious.
Yewon narrowed her eyes as she studied Hyuk. Since he’d started middle school, this guy had gotten a lot more secretive.
“Okay. It’s not far from here to your house, is it?”
“Right. Five minutes, so don’t worry.”
Five minutes away.
The fact that she lived so close to him yet barely saw him during all this time suddenly felt very real.
I really have been living a hectic life. Yewon nodded to herself with a wry smile.
“Thanks for walking me home. Be careful going in, oppa.”
“Yeah. See you at school tomorrow.”
Yewon waved once to Hyuk, then turned and made her way back toward her house.
But then.
“Yewon!”
Hyuk called out to her.
“Yeah?”
What is it? Does he have something else to say?
Yewon turned back around, tilting her head curiously.
“Um… starting tomorrow, after English Composition Class ends, do you want to practice acting together?”
“Huh?”
All of a sudden?
Yewon was a bit taken aback. Although Hyuk had been her scene partner, this was the first time he’d asked to practice together outside of regular class time.
“Don’t we already practice enough together at school?”
At Yewon’s question, Hyuk laughed awkwardly.
“Yeah, I know, but… hearing what you said today made me want to do better.”
“What I said?”
“Yeah. That you hope this production turns out perfectly.”
Hyuk said that and slowly stepped closer to her, one pace at a time.
“This production seems really important to you. Doesn’t it?”
Oh.
Yewon felt flustered as she watched Hyuk draw near again.
“That’s… right.”
The Summer’s Proof really was an important work to her. But what did that have to do with him?
“Yeah. So this piece has become important to me too.”
Yewon glanced up slightly at Hyuk, who had drawn close without her noticing.
His eye level was familiar. Exactly the same height difference as with Uncle Doha. The thought made her feel strangely unsettled.
So Yewon asked,
“Why?”
A question she wouldn’t normally have asked.
“…Because.”
She could feel him rolling the word over in his mouth once more. Because…
What kind of important reason made him hesitate like that, unable to speak? Yewon was about to press him further when she decided against it.
“…Because you’re too important to me, Yewon.”
Hyuk answered.
His complexion didn’t change at all—his face remained as calm and gentle as always.
It was Yewon’s face that had changed color instead.
“W-what kind of thing to say—”
As if it were nothing!
In the moment Yewon stammered in panic,
“You punk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“!?!?!?!?”
“The Seven-Year Rule applies!!! What are you doing!!!! Get away from our girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
An enormous roar erupted from behind them.
Yewon spun around in shock.
And there,
“………Uncle? Dad?”
Four people she’d rather not see right now were standing there.
It was truly the first time.
The first time she’d looked at her uncles and father and thought, “I wish they weren’t here right now.”

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