5 years have passed.

“Daddy!”

“Daddy’s sleeping…”

“I know you’re not sleeping, Daddy!”

“I said Daddy’s sleeping…”

“Oppa! Daddy won’t wake up!”

“This won’t do. Finishing move! Blanket pull!”

It begins.

A war with my children, waking me up from the morning.

Can’t you please let your Daddy sleep, at least on Saturdays?

When they were babies, they slept peacefully no matter what happened, but why are they so energetic from the moment they turned five?

And it’s a twin brother and sister, pulling the blanket together, so how can I resist?

I held onto the blanket being pulled, resisting with all my might.

“Daddy’s sleeping…please…kids…”

“Mommy told us to wake you up!”

“Auntie told us to wake you up too!!”

“That’s right! Wake up, Daddy!”

“Hurry up and wake up, Daddy!”

Jiho and Seonhye, those two brats, really.

You’re my kids, but why are you bothering your Daddy who’s trying to get some rest for once?

This Daddy feels like my back is breaking just from maintaining this house…

My editing work has decreased, and even just uploading videos is exhausting.

But why are you waking me up, why!

“Daddy’s sleeping…please Jiho-ya…Seonhye-ya…please…”

“Mommy said if Daddy doesn’t wake up, she’ll take us to the amusement park today!”

“Daddy didn’t wake up, so Daddy’s taking us to the amusement park? Yay!”

“…What?”

As soon as I heard those words, I jumped up.

“What are you talking about? Amusement park? Today? On a Saturday?”

Jiho and Seonhye nodded very confidently.

“Mommy said that? Hey, Kim Jihye!!”

You’re stealing my precious weekend?

For 5 years, I’ve been working, dating my younger sisters, and taking care of the kids, and now that I’m starting to rest, an amusement park?

No way, absolutely no way. I’m going to laze around at home today, no chance.

“Let’s go out for now. Yeah, we need to eat, huh.”

I picked up the babies, and they laughed, giggling with joy.

Regardless of their laughter, I frowned and left the room, and Jihye was at the table, chewing on cereal and looking at me.

Unlike before, her long hair reached down to her lower back, her forehead was completely exposed, and she was wearing a big t-shirt, looking every bit the housewife.

Of course, the only thing that’s changed from before is a few wrinkles around her eyes?

Other than that, nothing has changed from before, but Jihye looks very peaceful now.

Because she kept munching on her cereal until I put the kids down and sat at the table.

As soon as I sat down, she looked at me for a moment, finished her cereal, and then looked at me.

“What’s with the amusement park?”

“I’m resting today, so please go. And get some milk when you come back.”

“I’ve been working almost non-stop for 5 years, and now that I’m finally resting, you’re telling me to go? Let me rest too.”

“You’re the only one with a license in our house, Oppa. Please, just this once.”

“Just this once?”

“Yeah.”

Just once…okay, just once.

Even though I’m a bit tired, it’s the weekend tomorrow, and I’m willing to go.

Seeing the dark circles under Jihye’s eyes, it seems like she took care of the kids all night, so I nodded without arguing further.

Even though I’m tired, I did sleep all night, and at least looking at Jihye’s face now, I didn’t have the courage to say I was more tired.

She’s been taking care of the kids without complaint for almost 5 years…even if I’m tired, I should accept this much.

“…Okay. You rest for a while, I’ll play with the kids until they collapse from exhaustion.”

“Thank you, then I’ll go get some sleep while we’re at it.”

“Hey…at least bathe the kids…”

Jihye smiled brightly.

“Have fun.”

“You’re really mean.”

Watching Jihye go into the room, I got up from the table and looked for the kids.

“Jiho-ya, Seonhye-ya. Let’s take a bath and go to the amusement park.”

The children running to me at my words, were strangely scary.

–

“Save me.”

“Anyone would think you fought with the kids. Why are you asking to be saved?”

Dragging the kids around and walking around the amusement park all day, my body felt like it weighed a ton when I got in the car.

After turning 30, my body isn’t what it used to be, and I felt as tired as if I had worked a 9-hour shift.

“Do you want to walk around the amusement park with the kids for 9 hours straight? I barely managed to fill them up by feeding them hamburgers, so they fell asleep.”

“You worked hard. So the kids are sleeping in the back now?”

“They’re in the back, with their seatbelts faaaastened, holding hands and sleeping…”

I flinched for a moment at the sight in the rearview mirror.

They’re holding hands, looking friendly, and normally I’d think they’re getting along well, but…in a family where siblings have married each other, starting from my parents to me, that sight wasn’t a welcome situation.

“If three generations do that, the family will be ruined, kids. Please don’t do that…”

It was just my unnecessary worry, but I couldn’t help but worry all the way home.

As soon as I got home, I put the kids to sleep, and even while talking to Jihye before going to sleep, I was a little worried.

Is this really okay?

–

“Today is a regular holiday! The kids are at kindergarten!”

“And it’s the day Oppa buys us food.”

“Wow, clap!”

“Can’t you two go out? I want to eat chicken by myself.”

Before ordering chicken while sitting on the living room sofa, Jua and Sea sat next to me.

My younger sisters are interfering with my situation of enjoying the few freedoms of a Monday morning.

I resisted by pushing them away to both sides to regain my freedom, but they stubbornly endured and ordered the chicken they would eat.

“Please! I’m going to eat chicken and sleep all day today!”

“Nope, Eunha-unni went out to play with her friends for a while too.”

“Jihye went out for a while too. Now it’s our world.”

“Ah…so I can kick you both out and eat chicken? Is that it?”

“No way.”

“We’re going to eat too.”

Seeing the two of them naturally leaning their heads on my thighs and touching their phones, I sighed.

Even though I thought the two of them hadn’t changed even as they got older, they had changed a lot.

Jua has grown so much that she reached the number 1 spot in viewership a week ago.

Sea has become so huge that she’s practically the number 2 subscriber on War Field broadcasts, and she’s in a position where she can make a living just by playing games at home.

But her treatment at home is still behind Jihye, making her the third in line.

Weaker than his wife and pushed back by his children, he just quietly stays in his younger sisters’ place.

Of course, I didn’t neglect them, and all three of us went on dates whenever we had time, and even had sex occasionally, so I was doing my job properly in my own way.

It was me, not my younger sisters, who did it, but in that sense, Jihye just left the words ‘Oppa started it, so you have to take responsibility’ and didn’t interfere.

Still, I thought she would be dissatisfied since she was now firmly pushed back to third place, but she didn’t express her dissatisfaction, so I was uneasy, and since it was a situation where the three of us were left alone, it was bound to be uncomfortable.

“Aren’t you angry at me?”

At my sudden question, they almost simultaneously put down their phones and looked at me.

“No, aren’t you angry that I messed with you like that, and now I’m pushed back to third place by my wife and children?”

“Um…not really?”

“Me too, I can understand my wife because it’s Jihye, and I can’t help but have kids.”

Sea poked my stomach and continued.

“It’s not like you’re completely abandoning us, and you treat us like women every time we go on a date, so I have no complaints.”

“I’m similar. But aside from that, I’m Oppa, right? So it’s enough for me just to live together at home. And…”

Jua also poked my stomach.

“I’ve practically lived without a family, so I’m happy just to have a family. So I don’t have any complaints.”

“That’s a relief…but doesn’t Eunha have any complaints? It’s been a while since I’ve seen Hyunji too, so I think she’ll have complaints.”

Eunha often smiles even when she’s working…but Hyunji hasn’t been seen in a while, so she’s bound to have complaints.

We contact each other, but there are hardly any opportunities to go up, so it’s been a long time since I’ve seen her face.

“Hyunji? No, she doesn’t seem to.”

“…How do you know that, Sea?”

“We still contact each other. But Hyunji said to be prepared when Oppa’s children become adults.”

“Wow, daebak. You’re going to endure until then? That’s crazy.”

“I feel like I’m going crazy listening to you guys!”

How can they be so good to me even though I can’t give them the highest priority?

I feel so sorry and guilty that I’m about to explode, but they answer calmly and smile, so I’m definitely the worst…yeah, that’s right.

Seeing me with a sullen expression, the two of them looked at me and smiled, then touched their phones again.

Is it because they can’t monopolize me, so they’re happy just to be by my side?

If that’s the case, I’m just grateful.

“Aside from feeling like I’m going crazy, thank you. For following a guy like me and living together.”

“Then add another chicken.”

“Me too, another one.”

“…You guys aren’t trying to take advantage of my feelings of guilt to eat chicken, are you?”

“We are.”

“That’s right, you know us well.”

I don’t know if it’s to make me feel less guilty, or if they’re really happy as they are, but they both smiled and looked at me.

I really feel it even when I look at them, aren’t they real sisters? No matter how I look at it, Sea and Jua are more like sisters than me and Jihye.

Their gaming posture is similar, they play the same phone games, and they want similar chicken.

I can’t avoid the doubt of why they aren’t sisters.

“…Okay, I’ll add one more of the same thing?”

“I had bone-in, so boneless for me!”

“I had boneless, so bone-in for me!”

I was so dumbfounded by their simultaneous opposite orders that I laughed.

They tilted their heads back to look at each other, and then they laughed as if they were dumbfounded too, and the living room became a sea of laughter.

“I’m back…”

Seeing the scene of the three of us laughing, Jihye, who had come back from dropping off the kids at kindergarten, said briefly with a dumbfounded expression.

“Are you three sick somewhere?”

We just laughed instead of answering, and Jihye sighed at the sight.