episode_0169

“Waaa …

What do you not like this time?

Jin-ha’s loud cries shake the quiet mansion, declaring a state of emergency for everyone.

[The lady burst into tears again!!!]

[Hey, why are you crying again this time? I just changed your diaper.]

[Are you hungry? You must be really hungry at that age.]

[Even so, Madam just breastfed, and now?]

The evil spirits were at a loss and didn’t know what to do as they heard the soft glutinous rice cakes crying loudly.

“Our cute Jin-ha… why are you crying again? Hoo, I wish I knew why…”

“Hmm, is it time for [Peekaboo]?”

“Don’t do that, it’ll make things several times more difficult than they are now.”

“…It was clearly written on the internet that babies would like it.”

“Please think of your face and tell me?”

My husband and I looked at the baby’s condition according to what we saw on the Internet and YouTube, trying to figure out how to calm him down.

“Mmm, as expected, it’s so soft that it beats most rice cakes. It’s a very addictive texture.”

The fox god who had intervened in the middle of the conversation poked Jin-ha’s cheek, amplifying his heartbreaking cries even more.

The situation is becoming increasingly chaotic.

Unable to stand watching this, I called my mom again to ask for help, and after a while, I heard her tired voice and asked for forgiveness.

[hello?]

“Oh, Mom? I’m really sorry…”

[Whew, crying again? Seriously, Jin-ha, who does that guy take after to cry so much?]

“Ugh.”

When I felt embarrassed and stretched my fluffy ears and shiny, lovely tail, my mother comforted me with a long yawn.

[Is it very difficult?]

“Oh, no? It’s not that hard because the things you do are so cute and fluffy…”

[Do you think I don’t know? No matter how cute you are, hardship is hard. That’s exactly what happened when I was raising you.]

“…”

Is this comfort or a high-level backstabbing?

As Jin-ha was silent for a moment while listening to his mother’s words, he began to cry loudly once again.

[Oh, sorry. The conversation went off on a tangent. So, are you calling because you were wondering why the baby was crying this time?]

“Yes, no matter how much I think about it, I can’t find a reason. I think I’ve done everything I can, but I can’t stop crying.”

[You’ve tried everything? Everything from changing diapers to shaking a rattle?]

“I tried everything I could find on the internet!”

Let’s speak confidently, my mom giggled and told me the answer.

[Then there is only one reason left. Crying for no reason.]

“Yes…?”

Even if you have nothing to do, does it make sense to just cry?

When I cautiously asked back, thinking I had misheard, my mother questioned me in a low voice.

[You, you were flirting with your son-in-law again, leaving Jin-ha behind?]

“Oh, no?! You, you’re busy with childcare, where do you have time for that?”

[Suspicious… Usually, when children cry for no reason, it’s because their parents aren’t paying attention to them.]

“Oh, I told you not to? I give you so much love and attention, right? ”

I tried to explain it to my daughter because I felt a pang in my heart, but this damn fire-attribute glutinous rice cake.

“Aaaa …

He lightly ignored my wish and cried even harder.

No, Jinha? You only had about 10 minutes out of an hour.

Mom should have time to enjoy happiness too, isn’t that too selfish?

As I look at my daughter, sweating profusely, I hear my mother’s harsh nagging over the phone.

[I told you over and over again to keep things moderate!]

“Oh, that’s unfair! I’m saying that it’s just a little bit to relieve parenting stress!!!”

[You’ll know if you listen to what the people around you say. There’s a white fox lady next to you, right? Try changing it.]

Words that are like a bolt from the blue.

I felt like I wouldn’t be able to make it to the first birthday party if things continued like this, so I used Jin-ha as an excuse and hung up the phone.

“Ji, Jin-ha wants some food! Are you hanging up because you’re busy? Go to sleep, Mom!”

[Hey, hey!!!]

As I hung up the phone, ignoring my mother who was yelling at me fiercely, what caught my eye was this.

“Ouch!”

My daughter, who is smiling brightly as if she is happy, and who looks like it would hurt a lot if you put it in your eyes.

I looked at the soft-spoken guy with cold eyes, wondering if he was a fox for nothing, and the corners of my lips raised in a smirk.

“Let’s try this, okay?”

“Oh?”

Jin-ha starts to feel anxious, looking at her with eyes that ask, “Why are you like that?”

I lifted my daughter out of the cradle and began to tickle her mercilessly with my soft, cuddly tail.

“You little brat, huh? You only learn bad things!”

“Oh my god!”

I tried to rebel by flailing my short arms and legs, but my cute movements couldn’t escape the harsh punishment.

Crack – !

Finally, the fox god, unable to bear to watch this cruel sight, struck my back, and only then was Jin-ha able to catch his breath.

“How childish. Not admitting that you did something wrong, and passing the blame to your daughter.”

“You don’t have the right to say that. When everyone else is seriously wondering why the child is crying, you’re scolding him while he’s just fiddling around with his toys.”

“Ugh, ugh…”

The fox god, perhaps embarrassed, quickly left the place in a trance, and I looked down at Jin-ha, who was trembling with fear.

“Should I even get scolded, my daughter?”

He gave me a smile like a devil from hell.

—–

Jin-ha fell asleep from laughter while being tickled.

I carefully placed my lovely daughter in the cradle so as not to wake her, gave her a light kiss on the forehead, and went outside for a moment.

“Phew, now I can finally catch my breath.”

I just fed her and changed her diaper, so she’ll be quiet for a few hours.

As I was catching my breath, leaning against the wall, my husband, who had come outside earlier, came over to me and patted my head.

“My wife, you’ve had a hard time. Half of your face has disappeared.”

“Phew, but are you only going to do it for the first time? It was so hard at first.”

I think back to when I first started raising my children, giggling at my husband’s words.

At that time, did you invite your mother to the mansion?

I clearly remember calling my mom when I was pregnant because I studied parenting hard on the internet and YouTube, but I couldn’t apply the theory to real life.

“Mom and I both had a very hard time. Mom had a hard time teaching me, and I had a hard time learning them one by one.”

What happened to all the evil spirits working as maids in the mansion? They are all virgin ghosts.

Since she wasn’t married, she had no idea how to raise her children, and eventually her mother had to call everyone in the mansion together to teach them how to raise their children.

The best part was when he kept complaining with a frown on his face about how there were only beginners.

Of course, when I gave him an aphrodisiac to feed to his father in exchange for teaching him, his irritation melted away like sugar dissolving in water.

As I slowly reminisce about the hardships I’ve endured over the past few months, I suddenly remember something that happened a little while ago and talk to my husband.

“But honey.”

“Huh?”

“Our Jin-ha, who does he resemble to be so sinister? You saw him a little while ago, he was crying louder on purpose.”

A sinister laugh that was hard to believe came from a baby that was only a few months old.

When I looked at my husband and asked him a question, he tilted his head and looked at me with a look that asked why he was looking at me.

“Isn’t that you? I was born with nine tails, so it seems more believable that I resemble you.”

“Huh… Well, I think my personality is more like yours. I’m not that sinister for a fox.”

“What are you talking about, a woman who always sways her tail and seduces you in a sinister way? By any chance, isn’t she aware of the seduction?”

“Think about your sexuality. It’s not that I’m tempting you, it’s that you find it strange?”

Of course, it is tempting.

However, I just don’t want to admit that I’m sinister.

We had been bickering like that for a while, but at some point, a subtle tension formed and we stopped fighting and looked at each other.

A heated atmosphere, a body with a faint heat that follows that atmosphere.

I listened to Jin-ha’s soft breathing coming from beyond the door with my perked ears and whispered quietly to my husband.

“…Jin-ha, are you sure you’re asleep?”

“He’s already breastfed and I just changed his diaper, so he won’t be up for a while. But why?”

My husband pretended not to notice and deliberately avoided the issue, so I pinched his ribs hard and smiled.

“Why would someone with such a keen eye for this kind of thing act like this?”

“You’re so clueless? I have no idea what you’re talking about?”

…Are you trying to do this with me now?

Even though you know that if you drag it out anyway, you’ll be the one losing?

I wiped away my smile and replaced it with a gloomy expression, muttering loudly as if to tell my annoying husband to listen.

“I can’t help it since my husband is so clueless.”

Turning around with a jerk.

“For the time being, I have no choice but to work alone.”

He pretends to be pissed and heads to the bedroom first.

You should be able to catch it if you walk about three steps.

You, who can’t live without sex, can you really endure it without holding on to me?

I took a few steps forward, laughing at my husband inwardly, but there was no sign of him catching me.

You still haven’t caught it? Are you really going to do a solo show?

I try to increase my walking speed as if telling him to hurry up and catch up, but my husband still remains silent.

Then, realizing that things were different than before, I turned around and spoke to my husband in a cold voice.

“Don’t you catch it?”

“…!”

It was only then that the husband realized that the prank had gone too far.

My husband ran over to me, hugged me, and, caressing my perked ears, begged for my forgiveness.

“Sorry, let’s go together. It was my fault.”

“Huh.”

This should have happened a long time ago. Why should I be proud if I was going to lose anyway?

Did you think that I would squeeze you as much as I did wrong and try to go to the bedroom with you?

Jin-ha’s heartrending sobs erupted once again from within the room, and I placed my hand on my forehead as the atmosphere was completely shattered.

But I love my daughter.

I hate it a little bit now.