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-Pair!

“Oh, Mom!”

My neck turns back with a cheerful sound. And a burning cheek.

That’s right. I just got slapped.

And it happened at the police station.

“What are you doing? Where are your parents? Huh?! How can you beat a child like this and not even care about your own nose?”

Ha… I couldn’t believe it, so I burst out laughing. What is going on right now?

Let’s go back 40 minutes.

As soon as we arrived at the police station with the kids, we were guided straight to the Safety and Security Department by Officer Kim. There, Officer Kim interrogated each child. I quietly watched the scene as their emotions intensified during the interrogation. The kids on the other side tried to cause a commotion again, but they were quickly subdued by the surrounding officers. As conflicting statements emerged, a complicated story began to unfold.

“Hey, do you have any evidence? Do you have any proof that I said such a thing?”

When Davin stated that they had sexually harassed our family, especially me and Dayoung, a boy brazenly brought up such a story in anger.

Then Davin took out his phone and played a recording file.

The voice of that boy and conversations of other kids flowed through the speaker.

– Honestly, even Jung Dayoung is worth hitting. Is that high schooler talking about that red skirt? Hey, isn’t Jung Dayoung also big like her mom if you see her mom? Damn, she’s hot!

– Perverted bastards. That’s all that’s in a guy’s head, right? That’s why I don’t want to get married later.

– Haha, ridiculous. But when they see all kinds of decent guys, they drool.

– Hey, shouldn’t we enjoy ourselves even if we don’t get married?

– How are their bloodlines so twisted? Did you see that younger sibling earlier? Looks like a real celebrity, right?

– She looked fragile like a pure girl, but if she were a man, would she be like me! Right?

– Hey, didn’t Jung Dayoung’s mom look deliciously attractive? Wow, damn. Seriously. Do you know how much I suffered enduring watching her suck d*ck so eagerly earlier?

Seeing them casually talk about such vulgar content made me feel disgusted towards those kids.

Now, unable to control my anger, I suddenly stood up and slapped the cheek of the boy who had been babbling just now.

“W-What are you doing?!”

The police officers seemed to rush to restrain me, but I calmly stopped them and spoke up.

“Yeah, well. You can talk like that among yourselves where there’s no one around. But you got caught, right? And saying things about a lady like that, let’s overlook that. But Dayoung is your classmate. How…how can you say such things so casually?”

The boys quieted down. Soon after, the police officers backed off from me and resumed their work.

I sat back down and waited quietly for the completion of the written statement. Since there was clear evidence in the form of the recording file, the fact that they had initiated the conflict first would not change.

However, it was clear that the boy who seemed to be the leader of the group, Oh Young-i, who had simply watched without getting involved in the physical altercation, would not receive any punishment. It was evident that despite being seemingly unrelated to the situation, he had been filming with a camera.

Regardless, once someone touches my family, whether they are kids or whatever, I had no intention of letting it slide.

As I made that determination, something happened.

-Bang!

The door to the Safety and Security Department’s complaints office swung open vigorously, drawing everyone’s attention.

It was a middle-aged woman in her forties who appeared quite well-built at first glance, and moreover, her clothes seemed somewhat pricey.

“Where is our Suhyun?!”

One of the parents of the girls here.

Turning her head around, a middle-aged woman discovered her daughter and approached this way step by step.

“Eek! Why does our daughter’s face look like this?!”

Saying so, she grabbed Suhyun’s face and turned it around. Although her unpleasant touch seemed to make her daughter more uncomfortable, let’s overlook it.

Anyway, as soon as she came in, she attracted attention with a loud voice as if she were the victim and loudly pretended to be the victim. Then, looking at the boundary between our side and that side, she approached me, who looked the most adult among them.

“Is it you? Are you the guardian of these kids?”

Speaking informally at first sight. Well, she looked like she sounded from the start.

“Yes, I am their guardian.”

-Slap!

The ones most surprised by the slap were Dayoung and Davin.

“Mom!”

“Hey, what’s wrong with you?!”

“What, what?! You? How dare you behave rudely to an adult!”

As she tried to raise her hand again to hit Dayoung, I quickly grabbed her wrist. There was weight, but I had recently started exercising, so my changed body had more strength than I thought, making it easy to stop her.

“What, what are you doing! Let go of this?! Where did you learn such manners!”

Before I could say anything, the surrounding police officers intervened to prevent the atmosphere from escalating.

“Lady, do you have nothing else to show off except your age? Then life must be very happy for you, right? All that will increase in the future is your measly age and ample flesh.”

I had no intention of appearing lenient after they started with informality and violence over there.

Am I going to be judged by my age, or something else?

“What kind of rudeness is this?! Hey!! Go bring your parents! No, you said you’re the guardian, right? Are you their sister? Anyway, those who grew up without parents…”

-Slap!

This time, I slapped her. As a result, her daughter rushed towards me. Although I felt the urge to grab her due to the anger she felt when the boy directly harassed Dayoung, I hesitated to lay hands on children. So, I simply used my long reach to hold the girl’s head and block her approach, then signaled to the police officer next to me to intervene.

“Haha. Are you crazy?!”

She burst into nervous laughter, unable to understand why she was slapped.

“Why can you slap me recklessly, but I can’t hit back? What kind of country is this? And don’t speak recklessly. I’m not their sister; I’m their mother.”

I was momentarily surprised by the word “mother,” then quickly regained composure and shouted again.

“Hey! Do you know who I am?!”

There was no need to know, and I didn’t want to know.

“My husband is a lawyer! He’s coming here now, so once my husband arrives, you’ll be in big trouble! Huh?! Anyway, the young ones don’t know how scary the law is.”

Oh… How is it that the repertoire we see in dramas is unfolding in real life like this? By this point, she seemed more like a typical villain from a drama than a real person.

Despite the police officers’ objections, causing a commotion until her husband arrived, she finally calmed down when her husband arrived and began explaining everything to him in detail. After that, other parents of the children began to appear one by one, and the complaints office started bustling.

With the number of people involved and her husband being a lawyer, it seemed like Suhyun’s father was leading the way, pressuring us as if we were the perpetrators.

-Sigh.

The door to the office for public safety and complaints opens once again. Fortunately, this time it was someone I knew.

“Oh, it’s you. Sang-gi… No, Maepu!”

Son-in-law. A title used by a woman when addressing her younger sister’s husband. Originally, I used to call him by his name comfortably when I was a man. Park Sang-gi. He was a friend who was 5 years younger than me and became my younger sister’s husband. He was 4 years older than our 9-year-old sister, but now it would sound awkward if I called him by his name, so I have to attach the title of son-in-law.

Anyway, in front of me, Su-hyun had a gold badge pinned on his father’s suit, commonly referred to as a lawyer’s badge. The same badge was also pinned on my son-in-law’s suit as he entered.

In other words, the person who was to become my younger sister’s husband was a current practicing lawyer. Moreover, he was a skilled professional working at a fairly large law firm. Frankly, I don’t know how great Su-hyun’s father is as a lawyer, but at least he won’t be pushed around in legal matters.

“Oh, hyung… I mean, chohyung. Long time no see.”

My son-in-law approaches me, greeting me.

“Hey, we saw each other just last month.”

“Haha, that’s true. Anyway… Ah, Dayoung, Dabin, say hello to your uncle. Did you just hit them without any retaliation?”

“Hello, uncle. It wasn’t one-sided; we did hit each other, but since it was 3 against 1 or 2 against 1, we got hit more.”

Dayoung answered first to the son-in-law’s question, causing him to act overly surprised.

“What? Oh… If this was from a group, it would be considered assault…”

Saying that, the son-in-law looks towards the lawyer, Su-hyun’s father.

“Oh, hello. I am lawyer Park Sang-gi working at the law firm Yulri.”

The son-in-law offers his business card first. The card prominently displayed the name and logo of the law firm, with the son-in-law’s name ‘Park Sang-gi’ engraved below.