There Are Four Top Idol Uncles - Chapter 6

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Episode 6

Doha’s eyes widened as if it was an unexpected question.

“…Yewon, what do you want to do?”

Soon Doha asked back with a cautious look in his eyes.

“I want to live with Uncle.”

“…Yewon, I might not be able to be a good family to you. I don’t really know how… to do it.”

“It’s okay!”

Yewon said that and quickly added.

“I know how. I, I can help you!”

“…!”

The bold “I can help you!” from a 7-year-old seemed quite shocking, as Doha’s expression was truly worth seeing.

When Yewon giggled at his dazed face, Doha also chuckled softly.

“…You really are my sister’s daughter. Always saying you’ll help with everything.”

“…!”

My mother also talked like me?

Yewon’s eyes widened with surprise at Doha’s mention of her mother.

But Yewon couldn’t ask more about her mother.

Because Doha’s face was instantly colored with sadness.

“…Do you really want to live with Uncle? Why?”

“Because Uncle is a good person.”

“!”

At Yewon’s answer, surprise spread across Doha’s face.

“You think I’m a good person? Why… do you think that? We just met.”

“Earlier, when that scary man was trying to take me away, Uncle protected me. So Uncle is a good person.”

However, Doha still looked uncertain.

“…It might be better to find a better guardian than me. Not for my sake, but for yours, Yewon.”

“….”

“Uncle can find one for you. Even if it’s a distant relative, I’ll somehow find them and… ask them to take good care of you, and everyone will….”

He probably meant he’d pay them a huge amount of money to ask.

Just like he had entrusted her to that ‘Fake Uncle.’

Yewon read the hidden meaning in Doha’s words.

And she understood his hesitant heart.

‘A male idol raising a child alone… would really be a difficult thing.’

Though she didn’t know much about the idol world, Yewon knew the entertainment industry well.

Top idols like GLEET would be incredibly busy without a moment to breathe.

It would definitely not be a good environment for raising a child.

“Uncle.”

Yewon fidgeted with her fingers as she looked up at Doha.

“Yeah?”

“Can I… ask you just one thing…?”

The question she was about to ask was very delicate because it could hurt Doha.

“Yeah.”

Actually, there had been something bothering her for a while.

“I have… a mother, but why doesn’t Mother have a mother and father?”

“!”

Specifically,

It was the reward for the Sub Quest she had seen earlier.

[Upon Quest Success: Maternal Grandparents Revealed]

Actually.

In Yewon’s view, this was the most difficult obstacle to overcome.

How would Doha, who had been active as if he had almost no family, explain to the world the existence of a niece who seemed to have sprouted from the ground?

Even if the problem of being busy with schedules could somehow be solved with a nanny’s help, this would really not be easy to resolve.

In her previous life, nothing was known about Doha’s family circumstances.

The world’s vague speculation was only that he might have lost his parents early.

No one knew he had a sister and a niece like this.

Moreover, someone who lacks confidence in raising me like this wouldn’t have failed to try to find Mother’s other family.

He must have done his best to find them.

‘I naturally thought my maternal grandparents were dead and couldn’t be found too….’

But the reward is revealing maternal grandparents.

Does that mean they’re alive?

If they are alive….

Why isn’t Uncle thinking of entrusting me to them?

“….”

Doha looked at Yewon with a dark expression.

“Your mother… never explained it to you?”

“No.”

This was true.

Though the memory from when she was 7 was hazy, she was certain.

‘Mom, why don’t I have a grandmother and grandfather?’

‘…Yewon, are you more curious about grandmother and grandfather than who your father is?’

‘Mom said father is someone we don’t need.’

When she was young.

She had said that to her mother, wanting to seem mature for no reason.

Well, back then, just mentioning father would make Mother look so sad.

‘Hmm~ Grandmother and grandfather are also people we don’t need.’

‘Really?’

‘Yeah. We just need Yewon and Mother. You understand, right? Everyone else is someone we don’t need.’

‘I see.’

There are only the two of us in this world.

She remembered feeling inexplicably disappointed as a child.

Right, that’s how it was.

Just as Yewon was about to nod inwardly.

“…I’ll explain that to you when you’re older, Yewon.”

Doha answered.

“Eh.”

Adults’ patterns are all the same.

When Yewon looked at Doha with a disappointed expression, he quietly averted his gaze.

But Yewon didn’t ask further.

It’s probably content that’s a bit much for young me to hear. Just seeing that Mother didn’t tell me, I could roughly guess.

‘…Both Mother and Uncle must have had a hard time.’

Suddenly Yewon felt like she could understand what kind of pain the two of them went through.

So.

“!”

She just pulled Doha into a hug around his neck.

“I understand. If it’s hard, you don’t have to tell me.”

“…!”

At Yewon’s words, she could feel Doha’s neck become a bit stiffer.

But the stiffer Doha became, the tighter Yewon hugged him.

…Mother too.

Used to like it when I hugged her like this.

Uncle is also Mother’s family, so wouldn’t he be similar? She thought this way on her own.

“…Really, it’s okay if I don’t tell them?”

“Yesh.”

Yewon answered while resenting her pronunciation that kept slipping unintentionally.

Then, she felt Doha’s hand patting her back.

Pat, pat….

Yewon gently closed her eyes at the sense of security his large hand provided.

No.

I need to say everything I have to say before I fall asleep again.

“Instead… Uncle, please raise me until I become an adult.”

“Huh?”

Can, can that really happen….

She could hear Doha muttering.

Yewon giggled as she listened to Doha’s voice.

But at that moment.

‘…Yewon.’

“!”

What’s this?

Suddenly a new memory came to mind. One that had never been remembered until now.

‘…Yewon has to be really good to Uncle instead of Mother. Even what Mother couldn’t do for him. You understand, right?’

Mother saying that – I thought it was strange at the time.

Mother could be good to him herself, so why was she asking me to do it?

Now that I think about it….

I wondered if Mother had somehow sensed all of this would happen.

‘Why?!’

‘Mother was a little older than Uncle. I should have taken better care of Uncle…. But back then Mother was too young too, so I couldn’t protect Uncle well.’

‘I see.’

‘So when Yewon meets Uncle, be good to him then.’

‘Mother can be good to him too!’

‘That’s right. That would work. Mother is really foolish, isn’t she?’

Why did such a memory suddenly come to mind?

‘…Because I met Uncle Doha?’

I didn’t know the reason, but one thing was certain.

Mother cared about Uncle very much.

…What kind of story did the two of them have that they grew up apart like this?

Could the answer lie in the identity of maternal grandmother and grandfather?

‘…It seems like solving the Quest is the only answer.’

* * *

The next morning.

Yewon got up sluggishly and glanced at Doha’s room.

Doha was sleeping soundly, oblivious to the world.

…It’s 6 AM, so it’s normal for him to be sleeping.

Yewon yawned and headed to the kitchen.

When she lived with Jeyeon, all the housework was Yewon’s responsibility, so Yewon would get up at 6 AM to prepare breakfast and clean the house.

The moment she opened the refrigerator to prepare breakfast as her body was accustomed to doing.

“….”

Yewon realized that she could barely reach the middle shelf, let alone the top shelf of the refrigerator.

Oops.

Making breakfast is out of the question.

Yewon pondered for a moment.

…It seems like bringing a chair and stepping on it would roughly solve the problem.

The problem is….

‘There’s hardly anything that could be called food ingredients!’

Even if she somehow accessed the top shelf of the refrigerator, it would be useless.

‘What does this person usually eat to survive…?! There’s nothing here at all?’

All that filled the refrigerator were energy drinks and alcohol, plus a few bottles of sparkling water and a few eggs.

“….”

This really isn’t an environment for raising a child.

Yewon made a slightly disgusted expression looking at the alcohol bottles all grouped together by type.

He must drink a lot. Living like this, even a healthy person would end up in trouble. I need to make him quit drinking first.

For today, I’ll have to make scrambled eggs at least.

Yewon sighed and dragged a chair in front of the refrigerator.

She planned to step on the chair and just get a few eggs before coming down.

Just as she was about to climb onto the chair-

“!”

Yewon felt her body being lifted up by someone.

“What are you doing. Really.”

When Yewon rolled her eyes to look up – there was Doha looking down at her with an angry face.

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