Chapter 219 Kelat Auction House (2) (1/2)
“Tsk. Uncle isn’t fair. Right, Chirpy?”
Sesha held Nike in her arm with a frustrated face. Her red cheeks puffed up like balloons.
When Sesha first found out that she had an uncle, she was elated.
Her uncle was generous, like she imagined her dad would be, and he made a lot of delicious food for her. And sometimes, he secretly gave her snacks when Brahm wasn’t looking.
The thing called cotton candy that he made for her was so good that she kept on begging for it, but he was really unfair when he said he wouldn’t make more because she would get cavities.
But she was still grateful to him for responding to her and reading her bedtime stories.
But these days, it was extremely rare to meet her uncle.
He said something about being busy with things.
And seeing how Brahm was also focusing on it, it seemed like it was actually really important. Because Sesha was brighter than other kids her age, she caught on that what they were doing was for her.
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So in front of Yeon-woo and Brahm, she pretended like she was fine.
But it wasn’t like all her boredom completely disappeared, either. She was still a child, not even 10 years old yet. She was just a child who wanted to play.
Of course, she wasn’t as bored as she was on the 21st floor.
Edora often came to play with her, and the One-horned tribe people adored her.
At first, they were scary because they had horns, but after realizing they were all kind people, she was able to get along with them just fine.
And she was able to make friends with people her age. There were even boys that fought over her.
More than anything, she met her best friend, Nike. He was a friend that listened to everything she said. Nike was so cute that Sesha always took him with her wherever she went.
Nike sighed at being treated like a doll, but sometimes, he felt empty when he wasn’t in Sesha’s arms.
And there were things that he had to correct sometimes too.
[Sesha.]
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“Hm?”
[I’m not Chirpy; call me Ni…..]
“No. Chirpy is Chirpy!”
Sesha pulled Nike closer to her and shook her head from side to side.
Nike shut his beak. He felt wronged. He had worked so hard to escape that name! Returning to that name made him feel miserable. Whether it was the uncle or his niece—everyone in this household was the same.
But he still understood how Sesha felt, so he stroked her head with his wing.
[Then what do you want Uncle to do for you?]
“Mm, mm, mmm…..!”
Sesha wrinkled her adorable face, deep in thought. She was just mad that her uncle didn’t play with her, and it wasn’t like she didn’t like him. Rather, she liked him too much, so she just wanted him to do more for her.
Her eyes sparkled like she thought of something.
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“I want him to make cotton candy!”
[Cotton candy?]
“Yeah yeah! Cotton candy tastes so good! Totally!”
She was drooling, like she could already taste it.
Nike grinned, wiping her mouth.
She was adorable.
Except for the fact that she called him Chirpy.
***
“Sesha?’
[That’s what I heard.]
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Yeon-woo smiled bitterly as he looked at Nemesis, who he hadn’t seen a while.
Nike had delivered Sesha’s complaints to Nemesis through their connection.
Yeon-woo put down his pen and turned pensive.
These days, the time he spent with his niece had definitely decreased. He had been busy, pulling all-nighters because of the last of the operation with the Philosopher’s Stone.
‘I’ve been dumb.’
Yeon-woo blamed himself.
What was the reason he made the Philosopher’s Stone? It was to make Sesha happy. He’d been busy with things and made Sesha feel lonely. He put the cart before the horse.
‘Cotton candy…..’
Thinking that he should take better care of Sesha from now on, he wondered what he should do to apologize to her.
He could make her cotton candy, but he wanted to do something fancier. And it wasn’t good for her anyway.
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Just then, he felt Nemesis’s gaze on him.
“But why aren’t you next to Nike?”
[…..Ahem! That’s not important right now.]
Nemesis couldn’t bring himself to say that he felt drained after playing with Sesha.
Unlike Nike, who could just stay in Sesha’s arms because he was small, he was just a plaything to her.
He had to fly with her on his head, play hide and seek with her, or show her magic. He had to do all kinds of annoying and difficult things for her. And he felt even more drained when she called him Krrung after that.
‘The uncle and the niece both…..’
Sesha was a good and kindhearted child, but taking care of children was still tiring.
Yeon-woo grinned looking at Nemesis.
He felt like he understood why Nemesis was being like that.
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***
“Sesha did?”
“Yes.”
Brahm closed the book he was reading and contemplated. It was a book that he borrowed from the Head Elder, who had become one of his closest friends.
Lending books was allowed, so long as they weren’t Mugong scrolls. The book that he was reading was about the Tower’s history and politics.
He enjoyed reading books in his free time since he was a scholar, but Sesha was more important to him than knowledge.
Brahm shortly sighed after hearing that Sesha seemed to be lonely these days.
Yeon-woo was trying to find a solution to the problem, but actually, Brahm was more clueless about these kinds of things than Yeon-woo.
“…..It’s difficult.”
“I agree.”
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Yeon-woo sighed. What should they do? It would’ve been easier if Sesha was a boy instead. He could just think of what he himself liked to do when he was younger. Back in those days, he and his brother enjoyed playing with robots their father brought them.
But since it was a little girl they were talking about, he didn’t have any idea what he should do.
Soon, he would be even busier dealing with things about the Walpurgisnacht. He wanted to play with Sesha until then.
He thought it would be easy if he thought about his ex-girlfriend’s daughter that he played with, but since Sesha was actually related to him, he wanted to do more for her.
What should he do?
He decided that he needed to find another person to get advice from.
***
“Hmm.”
“…..How about telling her that I don’t know how to do these kinds of things?”
Yeon-woo felt uncomfortable for the first time seeing Edora brightly smiling at him.
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He had asked because as a girl, she might know more. But instead of answering, Edora just continued to laugh.
“How unexpected.”
“What?”
“I guess there are some things you struggle with. It’s funny.”
“…..I’m also human.”
Edora just soundlessly laughed again. She could feel Yeon-woo’s flusteredness too. He acted like a cold doll all the time, but it seemed like he wasn’t like that towards his only relative.
And at the same time, she was glad to see this human side of Yeon-woo. She felt like the distance between them that had closed after she saw his bare face had just closed even more.
‘Should I thank Sesha for this?’