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599 – Spinning Whirlwind

599 – Spinning Whirlwind

How could I misunderstand being called “ugly” by the vegetable shop uncle?

While trying to clear up the children’s misunderstanding, I suddenly thought it would be fun to play a prank.

“Hey kids, I’m actually ugly.”

“Anya Anya.”

“That’s right! Wang is not ugly!”

Gaeul and Levinas firmly rejected the idea of me being ugly.

Even Haneul, who understood the situation, looked restless.

“Master is handsome…!”

The kids went so far as to say this.

Indeed, they are our kids.

Before their emotions escalated, I decided to tell them the truth.

“Kids, it’s actually a joke. The ugly one is not me, it’s this potato.”

“Kan-ja?”

“Yeah. The potato is ugly, so they gave it to us cheap.”

“Huh?”

At my words, Gaeul examined the potato.

Sniffing it and pressing it with her hand, she soon shook her head at me.

“Anya Anya.”

“Isn’t it an ugly potato?”

“It’s cold and pretty.”

Gaeul called the lumpy, misshapen potato “pretty.”

It seemed she understood that despite its appearance, its value as a potato remained unchanged.

“Then shall we go home and eat the pretty potato?”

“Yeah!”

We returned home with the potato.

Of course, the 10 kg potato was quite heavy, so Saebyeok carried it for us.

“We can make potato pancakes with this…”

We took the elevator up to our new home.

In front of the house, Ravi and Dad Ian were squatting down and having a conversation.

I couldn’t figure out why the two weren’t going inside.

“Mommy, Daddy!”

Levinas ran towards them and jumped into their arms.

Seeing their happy faces made me smile.

“Ravi, why aren’t you going inside?”

“Maybe they don’t know how to get in?”

“Uh…?”

I thought I had properly told Ravi the house password, so what was going on?

Realizing that Ravi and Ian were not familiar with modern conveniences, I understood they had the knowledge of infants in this world.

“Levinas, you should teach Mommy and Daddy how to open the door!”

“Ugh…! Aratta…!”

Levinas stood confidently in front of the door.

Then, as if to show off, she pressed the password.

Beep beep beep beep beep-

Levinas glanced back while pressing the buttons.

It seemed she wanted to confirm that her parents were watching her open the door magnificently.

“Wow, thanks to Levinas, Mommy is getting inside the house?”

“I’m glad Levinas is Daddy’s daughter.”

“Ahem.”

Levinas perked up her ears and opened the door wide.

She gestured for us to come inside.

“Then, excuse me.”

“No!”

“Huh, what?”

“This is Mommy and Daddy’s house! Saying ‘excuse me’ is wrong!”

Levinas shot a fierce look at her parents.

It was indeed strange to say “excuse me” when she was clearly at her own home.

That phrase was something guests said.

“That’s right, then what should I say instead of ‘excuse me’?”

“In our house… I’m home!”

“Did you say ‘I’m home’?”

“Yeah!”

Technically, it should be “I came back,” but with Levinas’s tone, it became “I’m home.”

Did Ravi and Ian know this too? They chuckled and entered the house.

“I’m home!”

**

Ravi and Ian were marveling at modern conveniences.

Bomi was giggling at the two of them, and it was clear she was preparing a prank.

“Do you both know what this is?”

Bomi pointed to the living room television and asked them.

As Bomi expected, Ravi and Ian had no idea what a television was.

“A thin… box?”

“I think I’ve seen this while passing by, but I don’t know what it is.”

Bomi puffed out her chest at their reactions.

It seemed she wanted to boast about something.

“This is actually a Sealing Device.”

“Sealing?”

“Yeah. The monsters we caught are sealed in here.”

Beep beep-

Bomi pressed the remote.

Having practiced for a while, she instantly played a scene from an OTT movie featuring a sea monster.

– GRAAAAH!

The monster rampaged and destroyed the city.

Even though it was a shocking scene for a first encounter, Ravi was smiling.

“Wow, that’s a terrifying monster.”

“…Aren’t you scared?”

“No. Mommy… I’ve caught monsters much bigger and scarier than that.”

“Wow! Really?!”

To think she caught something bigger and scarier than that monster, which was almost the size of a building.

Our ears perked up in excitement.

“How did you catch it?!”

“How did I catch it…?!”

We listened to Ravi’s astonishing story.

It was truly a tale worthy of a hero’s adventure.

“So?! What happened next?!”

“Then I went ‘thwack’!”

“Yeah. Mommy did this ‘thwack’!”

Ravi and Ian’s amazing adventure stories were enough to excite us.

It was such an interesting story that we listened intently, unaware of the setting sun.

“Oh, it’s already time for bed.”

“Huh? Already?”

“……!”

At the mention of bedtime, Levinas suddenly tensed up.

No one knew why Levinas was acting that way.

“Levinas, what’s wrong?”

“Uh, um…”

Levinas fidgeted with her fingers.

I could sense she was having a hard time speaking.

“Levinas, it’s okay, just say it. We’re family.”

I patted Levinas’s back.

Feeling encouraged by my touch, I could sense Levinas’s tension easing.

“Um, can Levinas sleep with Mommy and Daddy tonight…?”

“Of course.”

“Is it okay even though Levinas can’t sleep with you…?”

“Yes. It’s okay because Levinas is happily sleeping with Mommy and Daddy. Just thinking about a happy Levinas makes me happy enough to sleep well.”

“……!”

Just thinking about our happy family makes me happy.

It was a rule among us that Levinas knew very well.

“That’s right…! If Levinas is happy, I get happy too…!”

“Should you come back and tell us how happy you were sleeping with Mommy and Daddy?”

Haneul and Bomi pushed Levinas’s back, urging her to go to bed.

Thanks to the kids going this far for her, Levinas could confidently go to sleep with her parents.

“Everyone! Sleep well!”

“Yeah!”

**

The next morning.

I rubbed my eyes and came out to the living room.

I still thought it was bedtime for the kids, but Levinas was in the living room, looking more sparkling than ever.

“Wanga!”

“Did Levinas sleep well?”

“Yeah! Levinas slept happily!”

Levinas kept explaining how happy she was.

Just as the word “heaven” came out of Levinas’s mouth, the kids began to wake up one by one.

“Rabbit Horn!”

“Did you sleep well…?”

The kids hugged Levinas.

Maybe because they couldn’t be together at night, they hugged even tighter.

“Hey kids, I’m going to wash up for a bit.”

“Yeah!”

I left the kids for a moment and moved to the bathroom.

After a quick brush and wash, I heard a commotion coming from the kitchen.

“Levi Whirlpool!”

“Whirlpool?”

Levinas had filled the sink with water and was swirling her hands to create a whirlpool.

Haneul placed a paper boat on the whirlpool that had formed in the sink.

“The boat got caught in the whirlpool…!”

“Wow…!”

A boat caught in a whirlpool was quite an exciting game.

In the game, Saebyeok seemed to take on the role of the monster, hitting the spinning boat with a ladle.

Smack-! Smack-!

The boat hit by Saebyeok’s ladle began to sink slowly.

Watching this, Haneul pulled out the stopper that was blocking the sink’s drain.

Suddenly, even without waving her hands, the water drained away, creating a strong whirlpool.

“Wow!”

Gaeul clapped at all of this.

The speed of her clapping was quite fast, showing how much she enjoyed the sink whirlpool game.

“Gaeul too!”

“Do you want to try the whirlpool, Gaeul?”

“Yeah…!”

“Okay, just a moment.”

I took out the paper boat that had fallen into the food waste bin.

As I was about to refill the sink with water for Gaeul to play, for some reason, Gaeul ran out of the house.

“Gaeul?”

Didn’t she want to play?

Tilting my head in confusion, I hurried after Gaeul.

“Gaeul.”

Gaeul’s trail led to the pond.

Was Gaeul trying to play whirlpool in the pond?

As I approached the pond, I couldn’t help but be startled.

“Chuin!”

Gaeul was spinning around in a tube on the pond.

A whirlpool had formed in the pond.

‘What is this…?’

How on earth did a whirlpool form in the pond?

In my panic, I looked below and discovered something was sucking up the pond water.

‘Is it a portal?’

Gaeul, who had been slowly spinning on the outskirts, began to get pulled toward the center of the pond.

The closer she got to the center of the whirlpool, the faster Gaeul spun.

Gaeul, who had been laughing, began to panic.

“Chuiiiin!”

Her body spun along with her eyes.

Startled, I used my ability and dashed toward Gaeul.

Thanks to my incredible speed, I was able to run across the water to where Gaeul was.

“Gaeul!”

It was good that I ran, but what should I do?

I didn’t know what to do and tightly hugged Gaeul.

Splash-!

Our bodies, losing speed, fell into the pond.

As a result, I began to spin in the pond along with Gaeul.

“Nyaaaah.”

The portal that had formed beneath the pond sucked us in with all its might.

The speed was so fast that it felt like we were spinning tops.

“Eh-eh-eh.”

In the dizzying world, I could hear it.

Gaeul’s siren sound.

Perhaps Gaeul was feeling very dizzy, as the siren sound seemed strange.

A word from the author (Author’s note)

Thank you so much for reading today, PIA1747014585384!

Thank you for the comments and recommendations as well! They always give me strength!

Spinning whirlpool…!