Chapter 5 |
Chapter 5
The effect of Seo-jun’s video did not end with one time.
A week later, Seo-eun-hye’s Banana Talk had many messages piled up.
They were messages from mothers who praised Seo-jun’s video.
-He ate again today!
-Wow! Ji-yoon ate everything without skipping a single meal!
-Do the twins weigh twice as much now?
The twins’ mother was joking, but the other mothers also had a chance to weigh their children.
“Seo-jun seems to be growing really fast, doesn’t he?”
Lee Min-joon looked at the picture that Seo-eun-hye sent him.
She sent him a picture of Seo-jun taken just now on Banana Talk.
It was a picture of Seo-jun sitting on a scale with a bright smile, holding an orc with green skin in both hands.
And she sent him a message with his weight from last week and this week.
Lee Min-joon was amazed by the huge increase in weight.
Well, his son was a child who ate well, slept well, and pooped well. He would have been worried if he didn’t gain weight.
“Oh, Seo-jun?”
Kim Hee-sung came.
Kim Hee-sung glanced at Lee Min-joon’s phone.
“An orc? The one I gave you? He still likes it?”
Lee Min-joon sighed.
Kim Hee-sung laughed awkwardly, scratching the back of his neck.
Cold sweat ran down his back.
“No, I really didn’t know he would like it.”
He wanted to tease Seo-jun, who always smiled brightly.
He wanted to see Seo-jun cry in fear. Kim Hee-sung, as a joke, filled a large box with monster dolls that were piled up in his house and took them to Lee Min-joon’s house.
He thought he would take them back as soon as Seo-jun cried…
“I didn’t know he would like it so much…”
Lee Min-joon rubbed his face.
As soon as he opened the box, his son screamed in a high-pitched voice.
He thought he was scared and quickly closed the box, but his son was so excited that he hit the box and Lee Min-joon’s arm with both hands.
It hurt. It looked like he was shouting ‘Open it! Open it!’ so Lee Min-joon had no choice but to open it for him.
“He became completely attached to them…”
“Ahahaha. Sorry.”
Seo-jun crawled into the box and buried himself in the dolls, giggling.
Kim Hee-sung was also surprised by Seo-jun’s reaction and didn’t know what to do.
At that time, Seo-eun-hye was standing there with a blank expression, holding Todorolli – a rabbit doll – that had been abandoned by Seo-jun.
“But he really has a strange taste, Seo-jun.”
“Are you in any position to say that…”
Kim Hee-sung, who had been nagged by Lee Min-joon and Seo-eun-hye for about a week for giving such dolls to a baby, raised both hands at Lee Min-joon’s faint words.
“I’m really sorry!”
“Haa, no. I gave up now.”
He said he gave up, but Lee Min-joon opened his phone gallery and showed him pictures of Seo-jun.
Seo-jun holding an orc, Seo-jun holding a slime in both hands and smiling, Seo-jun crushing a dragon.
Seo-jun sleeping with a werewolf.
Seo-jun with a twin head ogre…
Kim Hee-sung quietly bowed his head.
“I’m really sorry.”
Seo-jun’s smiling face was cute, but the dolls he was holding were terrifying.
It was enough to doubt his parents’ taste.
Kim Hee-sung had no choice but to apologize for the imbalance.
Lee Min-joon nodded his head.
Kim Hee-sung’s apology was not enough until Seo-jun’s taste changed.
Lee Min-joon didn’t know.
He never thought he would hear Kim Hee-sung’s apology for a lifetime…
Kim Hee-sung sat down.
Thanks to working until Saturday to finish his work, he could relax today.
Maybe it would have been better to work today…
He sat down without any motivation. Lee Min-joon showed him a video.
Kim Hee-sung expected it.
It would be either a video of Seo-jun or Seo-eun-hye or a video of both of them.
His expectation was right.
“Our Seo-jun eats well!”
“This arm strength.”
But Kim Hee-sung also thought that Seo-jun was very very cute.
He seemed to have inherited his parents’ good points and hidden good points and was very cute.
Kim Hee-sung, who was watching Seo-jun eating baby food, opened his mouth.
He saw Seo-jun shaking his arms and eating.
“But why is he shaking his hands?”
“Hmm…”
Lee Min-joon shook his head as if he didn’t know at Kim Hee-sung’s question.
Seo-jun didn’t shake his hands when he ate baby food this morning. Why did he do that?
“Maybe he’s very excited?”
“Eating? Every time he eats?”
Lee Min-joon shook his head and said no.
Kim Hee-sung thought hard. The difference between usual and now was…
“Camera?”
“…Camera?”
Lee Min-joon looked at the video at Kim Hee-sung’s words.
There was Seo-jun, who was shaking his arms and smiling brightly.
“Does he like cameras? That’s why he’s excited and shaking his arms.”
“Is that so?”
“Oh, Seo-jun has the potential to be an actor!”
Lee Min-joon looked at the video again at Kim Hee-sung’s words.
Kyaaak!
Seo-jun’s laughter was heard.
***
“Wow, really… Ji-yoon and I. We got praised at the hospital.”
Seo-eun-hye smiled at Ji-yoon’s mother’s words.
It had been two weeks since she sent the video of Seo-jun eating.
The five babies ate well without making a fuss.
“He eats well even without watching Seo-jun’s video now.”
Mina’s mother nodded her head at Mina’s mother’s words.
“After watching Seo-jun’s video for a few days, I thought he wouldn’t be able to eat without it, but now he eats well without watching it when it’s time to eat.”
“Well… There was a little bit of a struggle in between…”
“That’s nothing. He’s a baby!”
The three mothers agreed with Seo-eun-hye’s words.
She smiled brightly and brought a cake that Mina’s mother had made.
A whipped cream cake with lots of strawberries.
It seemed to celebrate the resolution of the mothers’ worries.
There was a moment when everyone was silent as if they had the same thought.
Seo-eun-hye looked at the three mothers.
They had no makeup on, but their faces shone brightly as they solved their worries.
Seo-eun-hye felt choked up.
The other mothers were the same.
Ji-yoon’s mother, who had a weak heart, had tears in her eyes.
“Thank you, really. Eun-hye…”
“No…”
“Really, really… Thank you…”
Some people might say it was just baby food, but it was more painful for parents than skipping a few meals themselves.
“He eats well, plays well, sleeps well… And he doesn’t get sick…”
“It’s only been two weeks.”
“I was really happy for those two weeks.”
Mina’s mother also said.
She was grateful for Mina who ate without fuss and for Seo-jun too.
“Doesn’t our sons look more lively?”
The mothers laughed and wiped their tears at the twins’ mother’s joke.
The babies also laughed at the mothers’ laughter.
Seo-jun was surprised to hear the mothers’ words.
‘The [Fairy’s Sparkle] had an effect through the video?’
It was his first time using his ability through a medium like a video, so he thought it wouldn’t have any effect. But it seemed otherwise from the mothers’ words.
He didn’t expect it, but it was good news.
‘If an ability like [Fairy’s Sparkle] works through a video… It would be easier to become a superstar.’
Seo-jun giggled and hugged the doll that Kim Hee-sung gave him a few days ago.
It was a doll of a black mage lich king that Kim Hee-sung said he made himself.
Seo-eun-hye was startled by the skull doll with a crown – it looked even scarier with a green cubic in its eye – but Seo-jun liked it so much that he hugged it all week.
The babies moved away from Seo-jun, who was laughing happily.
The lich king’s green eyes seemed to glare at them.
As they ate cake and talked, Mina’s mother cautiously opened her mouth.
“If it’s okay, how about uploading Seo-jun’s video on YouTube?”
“YouTube?”
Seo-eun-hye asked and Mina’s mother nodded.
“I’m uploading vlogs on YouTube, you know.”
The mothers listened carefully.
“I used to upload Mina’s appearance a little bit while uploading vlogs. Like Mina ate well today, or she didn’t eat well. Then there were a lot of comments from other baby moms saying their son or daughter doesn’t eat well either.”
Seo-eun-hye and the mothers nodded.
Seo-jun, who was wiping the mat with the lich king’s hand and drawing a magic circle on the cloud-shaped mat, also nodded.
There must have been more than four babies who didn’t eat well here.
“But for the past two weeks, I kept saying ‘Mina ate well today’, ‘I gave her a new baby food and she really liked it’. I didn’t even realize it.”
Mina’s mother looked at Seo-eun-hye apologetically.
Ji-yoon’s mother and the twins’ mother also flinched. They also bragged to their parents and in-laws that their children ate well these days.
“It’s okay. It’s not like you talked about Seo-jun.”
Seo-eun-hye shook her head.
“So there were comments asking me to tell them the secret of how to make babies eat well. And besides that, there were comments saying their babies don’t eat well… They even went to the hospital…”
The mothers looked at Ji-yoon’s mother at the mention of the hospital.
Ji-yoon’s mother shrugged her shoulders.
Ji-yoon was now a child who ate well. She had nothing to worry about.
“I didn’t talk about Seo-jun’s video. I just posted the brand of formula Mina drinks and some baby food recipes. Eun-hye, if you’re okay with it, I want to upload Seo-jun’s video on YouTube and help other baby moms.”
“Hmm. I see.”
Seo-eun-hye thought about it.
The mothers waited quietly for Seo-eun-hye to finish thinking.
Should she upload Seo-jun’s video or not? Seo-eun-hye thought hard.
It was about Seo-jun’s face being uploaded on video.
It was a situation where Seo-jun’s opinion was needed more than anyone else, but her son was only a 7-month-old baby who crawled around saying abububu.
The baby’s mom and dad had to make a decision.
‘I think the good thing is… It will help babies who don’t eat well. Their parents will also be able to solve their worries. And the bad thing is that Seo-jun’s face will be known…’
There could have been other good and bad points, but she couldn’t decide by herself because it was about Seo-jun.
She finished thinking and opened her mouth.
“I’ll talk to my husband first.”
“Okay. You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to! Think carefully and decide.”
Mina’s mother nodded at Seo-eun-hye’s words.
‘If only Seo-jun could talk, I would ask him…’
Seo-eun-hye looked at her son who was cleaning the mat with the hand of a skull doll.
The dark and white bones.
She momentarily forgot about YouTube and sighed at the skull doll that Kim Hee-sung gave her.
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