There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 261

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Part 2, Episode 87
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And so it came to pass.
Summer vacation had finally arrived—that endless stretch that had seemed never to come.
“Aahhhhh~!~!~!~!~~!!~!~!~!!~~! Fre~!~!~!!eee~!~!~!!~!~~!!!!!”
Weon lay sprawled across the living room floor, rolling around endlessly.
“The air conditioner’s on. Please close your mouth and stay still. How do you expect not to feel hot when you’re thrashing around like that?”
Eon gave Weon a look of utter exasperation, then unwrapped an ice cream in his hand and passed it to Yewon.
“Here, kid. Eat.”
“Mm. Aren’t you eating one, Uncle?”
“I don’t eat sweet things. Sweet things are for children.”
……
At this strangely familiar remark, Yewon’s face flushed and she fell silent.
…?
…??
……???
……????
Her four uncles caught the peculiarity in her expression.
What was that?
What was that look on Yewon’s face just now?
“What’s wrong, kid? What are you hiding from me?”
“H-hiding? No, I’m not!”
“You are too. When you lie, you make the exact same face as Lee Doha. There’s no pulling the wool over my eyes.”
Eon reached over and pinched Yewon’s cheeks between both palms as she sucked on her ice cream—chunk!—squishing them together.
“Who is it?”
?!!?!?!
“Who got into your head? Spill it. Now.”
“No-no-no, it’s not like that!!!”
“It absolutely is. You cheeky little thing…”
Eon raised his eyebrows as high as they would go.
Who managed to sneak into our family’s most precious treasure’s head!
“Eon, that’s enough. You’ll give Yewon indigestion.”
Unable to watch anymore, Lee Doha grabbed Eon’s wrists and pried his hands away.
“Yewon, finish your ice cream.”
“Mm…”
Uncle Doha really is the best. No one else compares, she was about to think—
“We’ll talk once you’re done eating.”
……
Yewon’s lips sealed shut.
She’d caught sight of Lee Doha’s expression—that slight, stiff smile, the way his facial muscles tightened almost imperceptibly….
It wasn’t a gentle smile. It was sharp.
She’d need to eat this ice cream as slowly as possible… incredibly slowly… impossibly slowly….
And so, as Yewon ate her ice cream at a glacial pace, barely making progress,
her four uncles quietly encircled her and began sharing their deductions.
“It all started that day, most likely. The festival day.”
“No doubt about it. That day… Yewon came home an hour and thirty minutes past her nine o’clock curfew. She claimed it was because of the fireworks, but according to your brother-in-law…”
“The fireworks ended at half past nine. And from the school to our house is at most a fifteen-minute walk, no matter how slowly. So what happened to those missing forty-five minutes…?”
“And there was an unidentified boy’s school uniform shirt draped over Yewon’s shoulders!!!!!!!”
“Wait—the source wasn’t unidentified. We already figured it out. There was a name sewn into the uniform. It definitely said ‘Yoo Eun-o.'”
“That settles it! So the culprit is…!!!!”
All four detectives turned their gaze to Yewon simultaneously.
……
Yewon avoided their piercing, cold, and razor-sharp investigative stares, then leaped to her feet with ice cream in hand and fled to her room.
“I… I have a right to privacy too…!”
Those words, like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, were all she left behind.
Bang.
The moment Yewon’s door slammed shut…
……
……
……
“…….”
The four detectives, their sharp gazes now utterly gone, slumped into their chairs in defeat.
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Production Team: We’ve been hearing rumors that you’ve been having a tough time lately?
[Lee Doha: Ha ha…. I’m not sure where that rumor leaked out from.]
[Eon: Who said something like that?]
[Yeonho: (silence)]
[Weon: Yes! Absolutely! I! Am! Struggling! I’m dying from how much I’m struggling!]
Caption: It seems they’ve found the source of the rumors…
[Lee Doha: It’s not that things are difficult exactly. It’s just… I’ve come to understand our parents’ hearts, their effort, things like that, a bit better.]
[Eon: …The kid… keeps trying to grow up without me noticing. I wish someone would stop her.]
[Yeonho: That’s how raising kids goes. The only difference is that now our family knows the kid is the one who’ll have it toughest.]
Production Team: Yewon has it the toughest? Why?
[Yeonho: Growing up beneath grown men who haven’t even fully matured themselves—of course that’s hard.]
Caption: Yeonho points to the GLEET members sprawled across the floor in despair
[Yeonho: They’re pathetic. I’m always feeling sorry toward Yewon.]
Caption: We should probably hear what Yewon has to say about this…
[Yewon: Me? Me?!]
[Yewon: I… don’t find it hard at all. Well, I just think my uncles and I are so close that they’re all just joking around.]
Caption: But the uncles don’t seem to be joking…
Caption: They seemed pretty serious……
[Yewon: Still, I think I’ll be able to cheer my uncles up during this chance, and I’m really happy about that.]
[Yewon: They were pretty disappointed because I’ve been so busy lately.]
Caption: An angel…
Caption: What ‘this chance’ that Yewon mentions actually refers to—
[Glittering
Baby
Teenager Travel
with GLEET, Yewon]
Caption: From now on, we begin: the travel record of GLEET and Yewon.
Caption: But does Yewon remember the Glittering Baby House from seven years ago?
[Yewon: Of course I remember! Even if not everything, I remember bits and pieces.]
Caption: Your most vivid memory?
[Yewon: Hmm… I remember getting close with Eon. It was awkward between us before that.]
Production Team: Is that so?
[Eon: The kid actually says that?]
[Eon: That’s sweet, but something feels odd about it. We hadn’t known each other long back then, so yeah, it was really awkward.]
[Weon: Awk~ward~? Come on. Talking about awkwardness. Eon was just a fool back then! He didn’t understand kids’ hearts at all! The only good uncle was me!]
Caption: We should hear what Yewon has to say about this too…
[Yewon: Ha ha….]
[Yewon: (avoiding eye contact)]
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Inside the airplane heading toward Canada.
“You’ll be okay, won’t you, kid?”
Eon pouted at Yewon sitting beside him.
“Huh?”
“Spending your precious summer vacation just traveling around with your uncles and all.”
Yewon let out a soft laugh.
She understood that beneath Eon’s words, which sounded affectionate on the surface, there was a subtle edge to them.
“Of course it’s okay. Not just uncles—you’re the most precious uncles to me.”
When the offer for a travel variety show suddenly came from Hwang PD, she’d been a bit surprised.
And it was a follow-up to the Glittering Baby House at that!
Since she was seven, GLEET and Yewon had occasionally appeared on entertainment programs together, but this was the first long-term project in ages.
“From winter on, I’ll be busy with the long shoot for Summer’s Proof anyway. Right now’s the only time to play with my uncles.”
“Hmph.”
Despite her heartfelt words, Eon’s mood had already softened completely—yet he deliberately kept sulking.
“Cheer up, Uncle. We have to make lots of fun memories over these ten days! There’s no time to waste!”
“…Well, that’s true.”
Eon’s face finally relaxed, and he reached over to ruffle Yewon’s hair.
Ten days would surely slip away like an arrow.
A month or so of summer vacation would pass in the blink of an eye, and then it would be winter break again, and another new semester, another year….
This child would grow so quickly, becoming a full-fledged adult before anyone knew it.
Just as the past seven years had vanished in what felt like a single moment.
Eon gazed intently at Yewon’s face, then let out a wistful sigh.
“I wish you had no talent at all. Then the film industry wouldn’t have stolen you away from us.”
The thought of losing this precious girl’s youth made him feel a pang of injustice so sharp it hurt.
“Don’t worry. After this feature film, I’m taking a break from acting for a while.”
“!”
“You’re serious, little one?”
“Serious??!!??!!?!”
“You mean it?”
“Are you really, Yewon?”
Yewon jumped, startled by the voices of her uncles coming from in front, behind, and both sides of her.
Wait—weren’t they all asleep…?
“You’ve all been awake this whole time and didn’t say anything to me?! How long have you been listening…!!”
“……Come on, tell us about this plan to take a break right now!!! Our precious Yewon is taking a break?!?!”
At Weon’s words, Yewon laughed helplessly.
“Yeah. After this project, I want to take time off. Until I finish university.”
“!”
That meant—nearly ten years of being away from acting!
Her uncles pictured that long stretch of time in their minds and broke into broad smiles.
“You mean it?”
“Yeah. I really want to study properly… and I can only enjoy my school years right now. I want to play freely with my friends. And more than anything….”
Yewon looked around at her uncles and laughed softly.
“I want to make so many memories with all of you and Dad.”
“…!!”
“…….”
“…Little one, you….”
“Yewon….”
Her four uncles looked at her with eyes glistening with emotion.
And in the next moment, they all rushed out and embraced her tightly.
Someday, the time would come when this child would leave the nest.
But for now….
It was time to simply savor the happiness of this moment.

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