My Heart Hurts…

My Heart Hurts…

 

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[Baby teaching manners to other babies

– (Video of Ha-eun explaining to the babies why they shouldn’t eat things that fall on the ground)

Isn’t our Ha-eun really cute? Haha. She’s really sharp, smart, kind, pretty, and adorable.

I want to pinch her cheeks, but maybe because she’s grown up a lot lately, she gets really embarrassed so I can’t do it.

So these days I’m just waiting for an opportunity, but Yuna keeps glaring at me with her arms crossed, so I can’t do it.

ㄴ Hahaha, Ha-eun did this? Why is Ha-eun so smart? Our niece was just busy picking things up and eating them.

ㄴ 100 wolves would be scary. But I think the wolves wouldn’t attack because the kids are too cute. Hahaha

ㄴ From now on, the strongest and worst is [wolf]. Virus? It’s just a common thing that appeared when there were no wolves.

ㄴ By the way, Yuna haha, she’s really mature. But the funny thing is that while she seems to act like an adult, if you look closely, she acts more childish than anyone else.

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The video of Ha-eun once again gained tremendous popularity, setting the hunter community on fire.

Seo-rin watched this with a very satisfied smile and kept liking all the comments calling Ha-eun cute.

‘For some reason, I feel better when they compliment the kids than when they compliment me.’

While thinking that just watching made her feel proud and in a really good mood,

A shocking post caught her attention.

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[Suddenly I thought of something.

– Was the reason why Chae-a used to wander alone in the past revealed? Last time I heard, there was a problem in the spirit world, and that’s why she wandered alone.]

ㄴ Right? These days Chae-a has become much more stable, so I completely forgot about it.

ㄴ Huh? Chae-a wandered alone? What’s this? Tell me too.

ㄴ I think they’re talking about when Chae-a wandered the Earth alone looking for a contractor (Ha-eun).

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It was a post about Chae-a right away.

It was a story about the ‘spirit world’ that had been pushed down in priority due to terrorist organizations, and they hadn’t been able to pay attention to it at all.

The moment she saw this, she was excessively flustered and bit her lip to calm her heart.

‘That’s right. We weren’t able to investigate the spirit realm at all.’

After all, while terrorist groups cause ‘direct damage’.

The spirit realm, far from causing damage, seemed to be functioning properly on the surface (spirits were being summoned well).

I realized that neither I nor anyone else had recognized the seriousness of the problem.

So, I thought it would be good to consult with the Spirit Users about this, and I crossed my arms.

* * * * *

I smiled awkwardly after seeing Seo-rin disappear.

I didn’t quite understand why she was secretly taking pictures like a ninja when she could have just openly taken them from beside me.

‘I guess she didn’t want to disturb what I was doing…’

Since it wouldn’t have been much of a disturbance even if she took pictures from beside me, I decided to tell her about this later and turned my gaze away.

‘Now that I’ve taught them pretty much everything they need to know.’

Should I teach them something like letters in the remaining time?

I considered teaching the little ones about letters for a moment, but since continuous studying would likely tire them out.

I decided to stop here for today and patted their heads one by one.

As I was patting their heads.

Chae-a giggled and spoke to me, looking very proud.

“Now Chae-a is a grown-up too…! Because I don’t eat things that fall on the ground…! And I know that Barimos? Barirous? is this much stronger than a wolf!”

“That’s great.”

“Yeah! Yuna knows now too, so Yuna is a grown-up too!”

“Grown-up…”

Yuna, seemingly very happy about becoming a grown-up, wagged her tail to show her joy.

I was giggling while listening to their conversation when Seo-a started saying something while looking at Yuna’s tail.

“Myam-mya… Ttya-ttya.”

Wondering what it meant, I looked at Chae-a.

Chae-a nodded as if she understood and interpreted it for me.

“Seo-a says she wants a tail too!”

At those words, I looked at Yuna’s gently swaying tail.

It certainly looks soft and fluffy, and it seems like it would feel nice to have one.

As I was staring at it intently, Yuna shyly hid her tail behind her and said.

“Ha-eun’s tail is prettier.”

My tail?

Hearing that, I looked at the silly tail quickly swishing back and forth behind me.

‘Is that so?’

Since it’s smooth like a lizard’s tail, I don’t find it cute at all.

I still think tails need to be furry to be soft and cute.

The silly tail seemed to get angry and hit the top of my head with a thump to express its anger.

– Swish swish

Then it shook itself quickly beside me as if challenging me.

I couldn’t forgive such a tail and reached out to grab it.

But because the tail bent to one side, my hand couldn’t reach it.

“If you’re going to be like this, I won’t stay still either.”

– Whoosh!

Deciding it couldn’t go on like this, I declared war and made a request to Chae-a who was next to me.

“Chae-a, let’s do ‘angnyangnyang’ to the tail!”

“Woah! Chae-a loves angnyangnyang.”

 

With this, it became 1 vs 2.

The tail, seemingly sensing its bleak future, swished rapidly as if denying reality.

But it couldn’t overcome Chae-a who had learned fast movement magic, so it was quickly caught.

I giggled while looking at the dejected, limp tail, thinking it got what it deserved.

Then I turned my head to look at Seo-a.

“Myamya…”

Seo-a, apparently quite envious of having a tail, was fidgeting with her fingers while watching Chae-a doing angnyangnyang.

Looking at Seo-a like that, I decided it might be good to make a tail for her too.

‘Maybe I could buy and attach something like a dog or cat tail?’

While I was pondering for a moment, thinking that might satisfy her.

Han A-rin poked her face in our direction and asked us how we were doing.

“Kids, did you have fun with Grandma Lecia?”

As soon as I saw Han A-rin’s face, I came up with a good idea.

‘Maybe I could ask her to use some kind of transformation magic.’

Thinking that would eliminate the need to bother with attaching a tail, I scurried over to Han A-rin and said.

“I have a favor to ask.”

“Huh?”

Han A-rin looks at me with a surprised expression, as if she didn’t expect me to make a request first.

Then she immediately smiles brightly, picks me up, and says playfully.

“A request? Really? What is it?”

“Can you use magic to give Seo-rin and Chae-a tails?”

“Tails? Of course, that’s fi-“

Han A-rin suddenly stops speaking and closes her mouth.

With an awkward expression, she says to me.

“…Actually, what will Ha-eun do for unnie if I grant this request?”

Hearing that, I fumble in my pocket and pull out some money (two 1000-won bills) to offer to Han A-rin.

I’d like to give more, but this is all I have in my pocket right now, so I’m offering my entire fortune.

Han A-rin shakes her head, looking very flustered.

“No, no, no, that’s not what I meant.”

I don’t understand why she’s so flustered.

As I tilt my head in confusion, Han A-rin chuckles and points to her cheek, saying.

“In return, give unnie a kiss on the cheek.”

So this was the goal…

Although I’ve done it before, this is too embarrassing, and I’m conflicted.

As I’m wondering what to do, Yuna, who was below, raises her tail nervously and says to Han A-rin.

“You shouldn’t bully Ha-eun.”

Ha-eun then took a fierce stance and gave Han A-rin a strong warning at the highest level.

Han A-rin seemed very satisfied with this and spoke with an extremely happy expression.

“Sorry, sorry. I was just joking.”

“Then it’s okay.”

“Yeah, yeah. So, could you do that ‘grr’ thing one more time? I couldn’t take a picture.”

“The ‘grr’ is scary, so I won’t do it. I’ll cry instead, boo-hoo.”

“Sis, is it because you want to cry now? So, can’t you do it just once more?”

“…?”

I awkwardly smiled as I saw Yuna getting flustered, then I spoke to Han A-rin to help Yuna out.

“Will you do it?”

“Of course I will. Then, I’ll cast a magic spell to give Chae-a and Seo-a tails, so come here, will you?”

At those words, Chae-a and Seo-a hesitantly approached.

As I watched the two suddenly becoming shy, I wondered why they were acting that way.

Han A-rin then cast a magic spell with a blue glow swirling around the two.

‘In the past, I just thought it was pretty, but now that I’ve learned magic, I can slightly sense the principle behind it.’

While I was marveling at how I could see the flow of mana,

Tails began to grow on Chae-a and Seo-a.

“Wow!”

“Wha-what!? Th-this…!?”

The two jumped up and down at their suddenly grown tails, showing extremely happy reactions as they quickly wagged their tails.

It was such an adorable sight that I couldn’t help but smile broadly.

Han A-rin, who was standing next to me, pretended to collapse on the floor and said to us.

“These babies are so cute, my heart aches…”

Then she started taking pictures randomly, looking extremely happy.

Looking at Han A-rin like this, I thought, wasn’t her personality… different when we first met?

Thinking that she seemed to be gradually falling apart, I turned my gaze away pretending not to notice.