Beginner Dad.

From that day on, my dad printed and stored all the photos he had taken with me.

I took so many pictures without even realizing it, it was more than enough to fill a box.

And my dad must have realized something, and from that day on, he often took me on a tour of the world.

Today they took me to a certain building.

“Ta-da~ This is Dad’s studio?”

It is clean, as if someone had used it until recently.

“Jiho oppa!”

Dad was taken aback by the sound of a knock on the door, and opened the door slightly.

“How long has it been since this!?”

“I know…”

“Are you trying to come back?”

“no.”

The woman outside the opaque glass door only nodded, as if she was disappointed in my father’s words.

“Is there anyone?… No way…”

Dad obediently opened the door, and the woman outside the door was beautiful.

So much so that I was ecstatic.

Well, even though I don’t look much better than my mother in the picture.

‘Most women these days are beautiful…’

“daughter…?”

“huh.”

“Oh my god… this is ridiculous… it’s so pretty…”

The woman looking at me reacted even more than I did.

“Hello~ I’m Jieun’s sister~”

“… If it’s dad’s friend, it’s not an aunt, it’s just an aunt…”

Jieun looks at me with a shocked expression.

My dad was giggling next to me.

“Shall we… aunt? Us?”

“huh.”

“Whew… I almost heard you call me ajumma when I was 23…”

’23 years old?’

I was shocked that I still didn’t know my father’s age.

Even though he looks young, I thought he would be young, but he’s 23 years old.

“How old are you, Dad?”

“Dad? Doesn’t Siyoon know his father’s age?”

“huh.”

Jieun glanced at her father and said.

“I’m 26~”

I suddenly remembered what I did when I was 26.

For the development of our organization, I was working as a mercenary as an activist in a mafia organization.

At the age of 22, when my dad started ‘raising’ me, I started receiving training from an organization that wanted to ‘raise’ me properly.

“…..”

I was able to see how much effort my 22-year-old father, who had just become an adult, had put in to raise me.

“Doesn’t Siyun know how great her dad is?”

“I know roughly.”

Jieun holds out her cell phone to show me her father.

“Look at this, you’ve never seen it before~?”

I glanced over and saw that it was the video I had seen.

“saw.”

“… uh… really? Have you ever seen your dad perform?”

“huh.”

“…..”

Jieun looked at her father with an expression asking for help, but her father pretended not to notice.

I spoke seriously while looking at Aunt Jieun.

“I said your aunt’s name is Ji-eun, right?“

“That’s right.”

“Then where is the aunt who moved it and the aunt who hooked it up?”

A space where my words make me angry.

“”…..””

“Kyahahaha oh wow shit”

As I was laughing to myself, the place became quiet.

As I enjoyed it for a while, the two of them could not say anything.

Aunt Jieun played with me and then went out, saying she was going to buy something to eat.

“You can’t make fun of adults.”

“Yeah. But it was fun.”

“…To be honest, Dad too…”

“Really? That’s right, did you tell Aunt Jieun what I like?”

“huh.”

If it’s going to be sweet, I don’t eat it unless it tastes like chocolate or something that claims ‘this is a sweet food.’

After a while, my dad asked me if there was a song he had always wanted to write and played it to me while he was working on it.

“how is it?”

“Is it different from the songs your father has written so far?”

Dad said, stroking my head.

“I’m going to do this with Siyoon.”

“really?”

“It’ll be fun, right?!”

“no.”

“…..”

In response to my firm answer, I smiled and said to my father, who looked as depressed as a puppy getting caught in the rain.

“I think it’ll be fun~”

“right?!”

Dad seemed to have a reason for being called a genius.

Before Aunt Ji-eun came to pick up the snacks, I made up a song that I could fall in love with.

“oh…”

At the same time, my dad taught me step by step how to work.

“Like this, like this…”

At that time, Aunt Jieun returned to the studio with both hands full of snacks in a bag.

“Si-yoon! Your aunt is here!”

Dad seemed to be concentrating inside the recording studio, unable to spot Aunt Jieun, who was singing.

Ji-eun put down the bag of snacks on the desk, sat down casually, and spoke into the microphone.

“Oppa, that part again.”

Dad nodded at Jieun’s words.

“I thought this part was disappointing, too. Should I sing it in a higher key?”

“No, try lowering it.”

“By lowering it?”

I only heard it briefly, but I wonder if my dad completely trusts Aunt Jieun.

Following Ji-eun’s words, I nodded and lowered my voice.

A voice that conveys empty emotions.

“It’s gotten too dark… maybe?”

“Si-yoon said he was with us, so it makes up for this dark feeling.”

“Ah… Is it good?”

Watching them work while eating snacks, this scene was also refreshing.

In a way, it can be said that it is like burning youth.

These two are blooming in a peaceful space.

Dad called me while I was eating snacks to see if he had finished his work.

“Si-yoon needs to brush his teeth?”

“Ha… It’s annoying.”

“Did you eat all the cookies?”

“No? I think I ate less…”

I expressed my annoyance with my whole body, but my dad just ignored me and said,

“Shall we start by brushing my teeth?”

“Ugh… It’s annoying… Okay, let’s do it…”

Jieun watches us with a smile.

Dad took out a toothbrush from the bag he had brought, carried me with him, and headed to the bathroom.

Everyone I met said hello to my dad, and he nodded and went into the bathroom.

“Oh~”

After brushing my teeth following my father’s delicate touch, I returned to the studio.

My dad sat me down on a high chair and lowered the microphone as low as possible.

“First, sing whatever Siyun wants to sing.”

“huh.”

As I read the lyrics like a book, my father was smiling happily.

“Oppa, is this okay?”

“right?”

I didn’t want to do anything half-hearted anymore, so I started singing with the correct pitch.

“”oh…””

And, contrary to my father’s mood, I sang it with bright emotions.

Is it something like ‘Cheer up, Dad’…?

When I looked at my father, whose eyes were red again as he looked at me, he forced a smile.

From the earphones I put in my ears, I heard Jieun’s voice, not MR’s.

-“Wow… isn’t Si-yoon a genius?!”

“I know it too.”

-“…yeah…yeah.”

After finishing recording, I listened to the song from the beginning and it was better than I expected.

“It’s amazing…?”

“Well, it’s better than I thought.”

“It smells like money~”

Jieun sniffed, then looked at her father.

“Because I helped you, you’re buying me beef, right?”

“Then~”

After finishing recording, I ate beef with Ji-eun and arrived home.

Dad turned on the computer for the first time in a while, put a song on his cell phone, and played it.

“How do you do it?”

“curious?”

“huh”

Dad sat down at the computer and made me sit on his lap.

“Connect it to your cell phone like this…..”

Dad explains for a long time.

“Was it too difficult? Do you want to try?”

“huh.”

I held the mouse with my little hand and moved it around the monitor to figure out how to save it.

Even finding files on my dad’s cell phone.

“My daughter is really amazing~”

“I know. I’m hungry. Give me food.”

“Really? Are you hungry? I’m playing with the computer~ You can enter by typing on YouTube here.”

“huh.”

Using the index fingers of both hands, I went to YouTube and started watching movie reviews.

“Wow, the world has become so much better. It’s a movie.”

Then, I became curious about my family’s situation, so I searched for Kim Ji-ho.

There were endless videos… full of the word ‘fancam’.

Among them, I got to see my father’s first debut performance.

He looked tense, but at the same time he looked very happy.

I went into the green search box and searched for my dad, and various news came up.

Originally, my family was in the restaurant business, and my father left the family early to pursue music.

And his father’s talent began to bloom after meeting Jang Seong-man, and he began composing and writing lyrics for the boy group he belonged to.

Then the dating rumor broke out, my mom started dating my dad 4 years before she gave birth to me.

They must have had a hard time, and there were a lot of negative comments, but they looked at each other and held on, and ended up having a small wedding without inviting anyone.

And then my mom had me.

But family happiness did not last long.

My mother died the moment I was born.

My father, who lost the wife he loved so much because of me, may blame me, but

For the four years I remember, the only expression my father had when he looked at me was a smile.

“What are you doing, daughter? The food is ready.”

“Yes. Get out now~”

My dad lifted me up and sat me down in my own chair in front of the dining table.

“What did you do on the computer?”

“rice.”

Dad smiled and started teasing me.

“What did you see on my daughter’s computer? If you tell me, I’ll finish it and bring you ice cream.”

It was obvious that in this situation, there would be endless questions, so I just gave them a rough answer.

“Um… honestly?”

“Yes. Honestly.”

I looked at my dad and smiled.

“I saw a movie review.”

“What movie?”

“Alien.”

“… Isn’t that too cruel?”

“It’s not cruel~ It’s just that a baby comes out of a person’s chest with a ‘pop’ sound?”

Dad started looking seriously at my expression and spoke seriously.

“… You shouldn’t look at things like that.”

“Okay~”

I laughed and started eating.

‘I feel a little bland today.’

After making sure I ate everything, my dad handed me the ice cream and the remote control.

“I’m watching TV~”

“huh.”

After a while, my father came out into the living room, his eyes red.

Dad sat down and called me.

“Si-yoon.”

I nodded while looking at my dad, turned off the TV, and said,

“huh.”

“Shall we go up to the second floor with Dad?”

When I nodded, my dad picked me up and headed to the second floor.

The room was originally designed for two people to use, and it was neatly organized with a large bed.

As if I were cleaning every day…

“This is Mom and Dad’s room.”

My father, who is overflowing with sensitivity, gets teary-eyed again as soon as he enters this room.

When I pushed the wall, a storage space appeared, where the boxes and various trophies I had seen were on display.

“This is Siyoon’s mom’s”

When I opened another place, there were more trophies.

“This is dad’s.”

Dad looked around for a while and then headed to the dressing room.

A space full of mom’s clothes.

I could tell by looking at the accessories.

‘I am definitely a gold digger.’

I nodded and looked at the various accessories.

‘Has the price of gold become much cheaper? Still, there are too many…?’

Dad looked around and asked me seriously.

“Si-yoon.”

“huh?”

“If you have any questions about Mom, ask Dad.”

It seemed like I had seen the search records on my dad’s computer.

“Yeah, but I don’t even know my dad’s job?”

“…..”

“So last time, when I was drawing my dad’s occupation, I drew him cooking.”

Dad nodded, probably seeing something in my backpack.

“…was that your dad?”

“Yeah, are you good at drawing?”

“…..”

When I returned the conversation, my father had a bitter look on his face.

“Thank you~ always. Next time, I’ll ask my dad.”

“Yes… Siyun is the only father~”

“know.”

“Shall we sleep here today?”

“huh.”

I lay down on the big bed and turned on the documentary with a remote control the size of my forearm.