There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 25

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Episode 25

I never thought I’d see them in a place like this.

Though she tried to hide it, Yewon’s face and body instinctively stiffened.

Fake Uncle and Jeyeon… they’re still the same as ever.

I couldn’t see their faces properly at the funeral, but now I could see them clearly.

Fake Uncle had the same greedy face from her memories, and Jeyeon beside him was pretending to be noble, but the cunning gleaming in her eyes couldn’t be hidden.

“…”

Moreover, this was a high-end department store that dealt with expensive items.

Those two, even without me bringing in money… they’re living so luxuriously.

Did they find some other source of income?

Yewon’s eyes grew darker.

Or.

‘…Maybe they came here looking for a source of income.’

Surely, they must have deliberately sought them out to pick a fight.

‘They’re trying to extort money again.’

Yewon bit her lip.

“Why are you both acting like that? Do you know those people?”

Weon’s voice snapped Yewon out of her thoughts.

“…Those are the bastards. The ones who threatened Yewon.”

“What!?”

Weon’s mouth fell open. He’d heard many stories about them, but this was his first time actually seeing them.

“Wow. Now that I hear that and look at them, their faces are covered in malice. Hey, good thing you cut ties with them. Ugh.”

Weon whispered quietly so only Lee Doha could hear.

“…”

Fake Uncle looked at Lee Doha who had slapped his hand away and smirked.

“Hmm. It seems the CEO hasn’t told you yet?”

“…?”

At the incomprehensible words, Lee Doha furrowed his brow, and Fake Uncle shrugged and grinned wickedly.

As if to say, ‘Well, maybe I’ll postpone that for now.’

“Well, that aside… is it okay for celebrities to hit people so carelessly? Lee Doha, I didn’t think you were like that, but you’re quite reckless.”

Who’s talking to whom…! Yewon frowned.

“Before being a celebrity, I’m a guardian. I can’t overlook someone carelessly touching a child.”

“When did I carelessly touch anyone? If an adult relative holding their niece’s hand counts as touching, then there wouldn’t be anyone in this country who wouldn’t go to jail. I saw a familiar face and was happy to greet them, but it’s troublesome when people assault others like this.”

Fake Uncle’s eyes, corrupted by greed, gleamed wickedly.

This crazy bastard.

Yewon gritted her teeth and glared down at Fake Uncle.

Happy to see us? How ridiculous. He was probably looking around to see if there was anything he could leech off of.

Uncle Lee Doha is a celebrity, so he’s sensitive about incidents like assault, yet he’s deliberately saying such things… it’s basically blackmail.

“How about it, do you want to appear on the social page tomorrow? Huh? Should I expose everything I’ve been through all at once? How you begged me to raise the child first, then changed your tune when you thought you could sell something because the kid had a pretty face – should I reveal it all, huh?”

“Stop talking nonsense. Do you think I’m like you?”

“I don’t know. How would I know what goes on in entertainers’ minds?”

Fake Uncle shamelessly began raising his voice.

Then other people, wondering what the commotion was about, started paying attention to them.

No. No more commotion.

Yewon knew well how much such disturbances could negatively affect public figures, so she firmly grabbed Lee Doha’s shoulder to calm him down.

However.

“The child is scared. Please step back.”

To Lee Doha, it seemed like a signal of anxiety, and his expression hardened even more.

This isn’t right.

Just as Yewon was about to tell Lee Doha that she was okay.

“Ehhhh?! What did you say, Seller? There’s someone here who failed to kidnap a girl but is acting brazenly instead?!!?! Wow. Are there still such shameless people in the 21st century?!”

“!”

Weon and Seller appeared and began making a fuss.

The two seemed to know each other, as Seller was nodding enthusiastically and chiming in.

“He even grabbed some unknown girl’s hand and fondled it, you say?! Wow. Right in front of all these people?! Shouldn’t we report this to the police?!”

“Sh-should I call security? I saw everything from the beginning too, and that person first…”

Seller, who had apparently been watching from the start, pulled out a radio as if really about to make a report.

Then the people who had been watching with curious eyes also began murmuring while looking at Fake Uncle. At those cold reactions, Fake Uncle flinched and stepped back.

“Dad.”

At that moment.

Jeyeon, who had been silently observing the situation, firmly grasped Fake Uncle’s hand.

“I’m sorry. I asked to say hello, so this is all… it’s all my fault… I, I just… wanted to become friends with my cousin of the same age…”

“!”

At Jeyeon’s words, the adults’ expressions became mixed.

The scales that had been tipping toward Yewon and Lee Doha were being balanced again.

‘…You’re still the same, Lee Jeyeon.’

That look of being skilled at deceiving people with cunning attitudes.

Even after crossing over one lifetime and returning, you’re exactly the same.

Yewon looked down at Jeyeon with cold eyes.

“…!”

The two’s gazes crossed in mid-air.

And.

“My, my arm hurts so much…”

“!”

Yewon made her own move.

“That man tried to drag me away…”

Yewon deliberately stretched out the arm that had been grabbed so people could see, pointing to the hand marks.

Then not only Lee Doha and Weon, but all the people nearby had their expressions harden.

“He has a child of his own, yet he grabbed someone else’s child hard enough to leave marks?”

“Really shameless. I saw everything too, and that man was trying to drag the child away on his own.”

“Does he think celebrities aren’t human? This is too much…”

The murmuring of people around was loud enough to be heard here.

Perfect.

Finally, Yewon buried her face in Lee Doha’s neck and spoke ‘loud enough for everyone to hear.’

“I’m scared… I want to go home.”

At Yewon’s words, the store fell completely silent as if frozen.

What broke that silence was,

“Let’s go to the hospital right now!!”

It was Weon.

“Let’s go right now and start with X-rays at the hospital. I know a hospital director.”

“!”

“Give us your contact information first. If even a hair on our child is hurt, we’ll report it too. What kind of world is this where you injure a child? How many CCTVs are there here? Seller? This was all recorded, right?”

“It was all recorded. There are at least five cameras.”

“Did you hear that?”

“…”

Weon was even more furious than Lee Doha.

“No… reporting is a bit…”

Then Fake Uncle couldn’t make a sound and closed his mouth, looking down.

He had so carelessly laid hands on someone smaller than him, but couldn’t move a muscle against Weon who was a head taller than him – it was ridiculously pathetic.

“No. Since we’re both in positions where it would be troublesome if our faces were exposed, let’s just let it slide. Tsk. Do you think you did something right to cause trouble?”

“Does it trouble you if your face becomes known?”

At the incomprehensible words, Doha furrowed his brow and asked back.

“….”

The moment Fake Uncle just moved his lips without being able to answer.

“I’m a child actor too.”

“!”

Jeyeon said proudly, speaking in place of Fake Uncle.

“It’s not just Yewon who’s an actor, I’m an actor too.”

I don’t think anyone here would be happy that you’re an actor.

Yewon felt absurd watching Jeyeon speak with a strangely boastful tone. She’s 7 years old, so she can’t judge the situation.

“Wait, so… your daughter is also a celebrity. Are you asking us if being celebrities is all there is to it?”

Doha spat out as if incredulous.

“…No… that’s…”

“What a ridiculous man. Listen here. In a way, we’re in the same industry. Don’t you know this field is small? If you go around making threats like that to people in the same industry, word gets around. Do you want to block your daughter’s future?”

Weon also seemed dumbfounded.

“….”

Good grief.

Even while burying her face against Doha’s shoulder, Yewon could clearly see.

Jeyeon’s face completely contorting.

Yewon suppressed the sneer that was about to escape and quietly entrusted herself to Doha’s hand patting her back.

…Come to think of it, it was the first time.

The first time she felt this perfectly protected by ‘my side, my family.’

If it had been her past life, she probably couldn’t have stepped forward like this, couldn’t have faced Jeyeon and Fake Uncle head-on.

The reason Yewon could do this was all because, like Jeyeon, she could firmly believe that she too had someone on her side.

“…Dad, let’s go home.”

“Huh?”

“It’s embarrassing!! Let’s go home. Ugh, really.”

“Oh! Oh. Right. L-let’s go home. Yeah.”

She could hear Jeyeon dragging her father outside.

All of it, even the sound of the two people hurriedly running away.

At the same time, as the tension released, Yewon’s shoulders also dropped with a thud.

“Good grief. There really are all kinds of people. Hey, Yewon. You had to deal with that nonsense.”

“…Are you okay, Yewon?”

Doha and Weon asked Yewon with worried voices.

“Yes… I’m fine.”

Yewon nodded while looking at the two pairs of eyes worried about her.

Was this how you felt, every time.

Was it because of this feeling that you could look down on me like that every time, with that smile drunk on victory.

It’s funny that only now can I even vaguely guess what your feelings were like.

And.

I’m delighted that I can return this feeling to you.

Just wait and see, because the revenge hasn’t even started yet.

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