“My brother had a lover.”
At those words, tossed out as if they were no big deal, On Suhyeong’s blank face went slack for a mont.
“That person and my brother’s child, Guru.”
He spoke deliberately calmly. It was to keep his father from being too shocked.
“......Are you playing so sort of joke right now?”
Jurim let out a bitter laugh.
His father surely knew this wasn’t a joke.
He just couldn’t believe it, so the question had slipped out of him.
That was why On Suhyeong’s voice was trembling at the end.
“A lover— Ijo had a lover?”
“Chloe Han. A researcher from Project Wilderness.”
“My god.”
On Suhyeong clamped a hand over his mouth. His fingertips were shaking hard.
“If... if this is a lie, don’t even think about looking in the face again.”
As if he couldn’t believe it, On Suhyeong knit his brows in painful disbelief.
“So don’t tell it’s a lie. Please.”
At that, Jurim took an envelope with docunts from inside his coat and handed it over.
After checking the papers, On Suhyeong squeezed his eyes shut.
It was a certificate stating a 99.9% probability that the child was On Ijo’s biological offspring.
A tallic sound leaked from his mouth.
“Right, Guru is......”
On Suhyeong stared vacantly at the morial engraved with On Ijo’s na.
“So that’s how it was. That’s how it was.”
“......”
“How much must Ijo have loved her......”
Hot tears were running down On Suhyeong’s face.
***
After running around in front of the morial, Guru went into the morial hall.
Inside, the lighting was dim and still, and in the center stood a large hologram.
A hologram of On Ijo using a skill played on repeat.
Thump-thump.
When she saw a small monster forming between his two hands, Guru’s heart pounded violently.
As if surprised himself by the marvelous sight, the On Ijo in the hologram was beaming.
'Uncle looks like he’s making a follower too.'
According to what she’d heard from Jurim, On Ijo was a Creator class with a godlike «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» ability to manifest anything in the world.
Could he have made a proto-bird flying in the sky, or a dinosaur thundering over the ground if Guru wanted it?
If so—
How far could Guru go?
Guru opened her two hands.
Whether she had inherited the ability through On Ijo’s bloodline, or it was because of that experint her mom said she’d felt—she didn’t know.
Guru also had an L-rank skill, and the abilities of an S-rank Creator.
So far, creating new life had only gotten as far as making a small rabbit follower, and she hadn’t been able to turn Veilach or Yurian into humans, but she had made an S that no one would envy.
Guru was steadily growing.
'Could I beco like Uncle too?'
'Could people say I had an ability like a god too?'
Just as she was filling her head with fluffy clouds and letting her imagination spread its wings—
'Huh?'
She saw a goldfish’s fin.
'Chuen unnie’s goldfish?'
The mont she recognized the goldfish, Guru began to be surrounded by goldfish ford of mana.
“Hwmm?”
Why was this happening?
Guru flailed, flustered.
Step.
Footsteps sounded nearby.
'I can’t see!'
Thinking it might be Jurim, Guru called out to him.
“Daddychann?”
“......Yeah.”
It wasn’t her dad’s voice. It was gentler, damp with emotion.
But it wasn’t unfamiliar.
If anything, it was a voice she’d heard sowhere recently.
“Yeah. It’s Dad.”
Guru shook her face between the goldfish.
Her heart grew urgent.
Her heart thudded so hard it felt like it would pop.
She tried to peel off the goldfish until her face flushed bright red, but they wouldn’t co off easily.
Plip— A tear fell to the floor as he lifted the corners of his trembling mouth into a smile.
“It’s Dad, Guru. It’s Dad.”
The man repeated the word Dad several tis as he hugged the child.
At the sa ti the goldfish vanished, Guru blinked.
Her uncle—reported to have disappeared along with the 100th floor—was standing right in front of her.
'Was it because I lost control again?'
Co to think of it, the regulator had broken.
Guru thought of the photocard-shaped regulator she had worn around her neck.
Since the regulator broke—
Her skills didn’t burst out at random like before, but still, whenever she felt her emotions sway, her power would sotis move on its own.
Then this ti too, could it be...?
'Without Guru even knowing, maybe Guru made Uncle...?'
Guru’s shoulders shook. She must have conjured up a brief illusion of him because she missed him so much.
That’s what Guru thought.
But when she squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again, Guru froze.
Only the goldfish had disappeared; the man before her had not.
He was rely standing a little distance away.
The man standing like a mirage before her had the sa face as the hologram.
Guru swallowed a breath.
In the hologram, On Ijo was smiling.
A dimple ford in the sa place as the man before her.
It was On Ijo’s appearance.
***
[Title: Rumor says On Ijo showed up at the morial park]
Is it real?
[Comnts]
– It’s bullshit
– Would it though
[Title: On Ijo pic getting mass-deleted soon]
(Blurry photo of soone said to be On Ijo at the morial park)
[Comnts]
– The photoshop is fucking obvious
– It’s just soone who looks like him
– Fact) On Jurim and On Suhyeong were also spotted at the morial park that day a guy who looks like On Ijo = end of story, proceed
Real fact) Once burned, twice shy
– Kinda looks hotter than the real one?
Fact) The real one is just plain handso
[Title: Did a big one drop?]
Did On Ijo actually show?
[Comnts]
– If he really showed, every broadcast would’ve stopped and there’d be an ergency bulletin
It’s an embargo!
Embargo inside your heads lol if it were real every dia outlet would be losing its shit, fuck
– My friend’s friend really saw him at the morial park (for real)
– Then where is On Ijo and what’s he doing now
[Title: If you don’t know the On Ijo situation, co in—I’ll summarize]
The day before yesterday, On Jurim, On Suhyeong, and On Guru appeared at On Ijo’s morial park
It’s a spot where foreign tourists gather, so there were lots of proof shots (facts verifiable up to here)
Among those foreign tourists, so uploaded “proof shots” saying they saw On Ijo there
I don’t know why they use that kind of phone in the 21st century, but the image quality is fucking trash
But the guy looks like On Ijo (the board admin keeps mass-deleting the pics so he doesn’t get grilled like a cucumber)
Since On Jurim, On Suhyeong, and On Guru showed up at the morial park, the theorycraft says it’s unlikely soone who just happens to look like On Ijo would also appear there
Real On Ijo vs. conspiracy theory = fierce battle right now
Conclusion: For the day we actually spot On Ijo, use a good phone. Summary over
[Comnts]
– I wondered what the fuss was—so it was this
– Why would On Ijo suddenly show up? Saying the quality’s trash is already a dead giveaway lol the fuck, even if I wanted to use a cara like that I couldn’t
– UFOs only get shot with caras like that too
What’s easier to spot, a UFO or On Ijo?
UFOs exist,,,
– Like, fuck, if On Ijo appeared would Korea be quiet right now~~~!! Say sothing that makes sense
For real is it only Korea? The whole world would be flipped lol conspiracy geeks smh
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