## Chapter 1755 – The Foreigner With Black Hair – My Wives Got Younger
“Kaaaaaaah! Dad! Stop it! I need more time! Time to kick the blankets! I need time to kick and destroy every blanket in the world!”
Nick screamed from my arms.
He was too embarrassed. He was so ashamed of the chuunibyou-like words and actions he had done. So he needed to kick the blankets. That’s what he told me, his father.
“Nick, you told this dad that you would become a son who surpasses me. That you would rise to the top.”
“Aaaaaaaah!”
“That means, yeah. It might be a little embarrassing, but wasn’t that ‘sincere’?”
“Sincere…!”
ㅡTwitch!
Nick twitched.
“Yeah…! That’s right! Sincerity is sincerity! Actually, I still like music! So in the field of music, at least, I wanted to surpass Dad!”
“See? The words you said might have been wrapped in a little embarrassment, but they were all sincere.”
Everyone lives with cringey emotions in their hearts.
Chuunibyou and showing off are common to all mankind. But most people don’t express it because they’re embarrassed.
Even if they truly want it, even if they think that way. They can’t bring themselves to say it out loud because it’s cringey.
That is… yeah.
Isn’t that a little strange?
Expressing your feelings honestly.
It shouldn’t be a strange thing at all.
“Nick, there’s no need to hide your true feelings just because they’re a little embarrassing. What you did was a bit much, but it was all sincere. Remember that.”
“…”
“Everyone lives with sincerity in their hearts. But they don’t try to express it well because they’re embarrassed. In comparison, you expressed it very well.”
“Y-Yeah…! Dad’s right!”
“Right?”
Has he understood now?
“But it was too much! And now it’s been fossilized! I can’t undo it! Even if I try to get back on my feet, all my embarrassing history is fossilized in every dimension, so what should I do!!!”
That’s…
“Even if I start a new music career, the label will follow me…! I messed up the first button!”
Nick is in a situation where he can’t wash away his past.
“So you need to be more confident. Nick.”
“Do you think that’s as easy as it sounds!”
“Of course it’s easy, you brat. Nick, do you know what it means to mess up the first button?”
“Huh?”
“The moment you decide you messed up, that’s when you messed up. If you think you buttoned it up well from the start, then you wouldn’t have messed up the first button in the first place.”
“What are you talking about…!”
“Don’t think you messed up the first button, just think you buttoned it up well. That unique sensibility is yours alone. If you go out there confidently, Nick, everyone will think it’s okay.”
I comforted my son with the best words I could so he could recover his spirits. Honestly, even though I usually tease Nick, if I teased him to this extent, I’d be a devil, not a dad.
“But I’m not okay! No! Dad! How can I pretend to be okay after doing something like that!”
“Just put on a poker face, you brat. Can’t a man even do that?”
“Even if you scrape together all the iron on this planet, you can’t put it on my face…!”
“Ha, this kid, really. What’s so hard about putting on a poker face? Hey. Did you commit a crime? Is it okay to act like that just because you expressed your feelings honestly?”
If someone who committed a crime put on a poker face, they should be beaten, but Nick didn’t commit a crime.
“Expressing your feelings isn’t a crime.”
“Honestly, if you did that much, it is a crime.”
“This kid. Look at his logic. Hey. Then this dad will forgive your crime. Okay?”
“Aaaaaaaah! That doesn’t solve anything at all!”
“I’m a god, so why wouldn’t it solve it? Ha, kid. What’s so hard about putting on a poker face…”
Come to think of it, all my wives are currently wearing incredible poker faces.
Yeah.
There’s an example right here?
“Nick. I’ll tell you another example.”
This is a story that’s a little hard to tell my son, but damn it, my son’s mentality is about to break, so I can’t be picky. If I tell him this story, Nick will definitely be okay with his actions.
Forgive me, wives.
“Another example? What example is there? Where on this planet are there people who do embarrassing things like me!”
“There are. Nine of them, in fact.”
“Wh-What are you talking about?”
“Listen. Actually, your moms, you see. Recently, something happened that made them put on a poker face.”
“W-Wait a minute.”
Nick’s face started to turn blue.
“What kind of story are you trying to tell your son…”
“No, well. It’s not that strange of a story, so calm down and listen. But this kid, what is he, an Avatar? Why is he turning so blue? Are you Jake Sully?”
“Wait…! Dad! I don’t want to hear it! About Dad and Mom and the aunts!!!”
“No. This will help you, Nick. Winia and the aunts are just putting on a poker face. They’re, well, expressing a kind of sincere feeling in their hearts in a slightly embarrassing way.”
“Heok!”
It’s okay to say this honestly.
“So, what happened was. Do you know how old your mom and aunts are?”
“I have no idea…”
Surprisingly, my wives hadn’t even revealed their ages to their children. The only ones who shared their ages were… only each other.
The real ages are only shared within the Valkyrie Cartel!
“Actually, Dad doesn’t know either.”
“What?”
Nick froze for a moment.
“What the hell are you talking about! Why doesn’t Dad know! Dad should know!”
“Right? You think so too, right?”
“Of course! What kind of husband doesn’t know his wife’s age!”
“That’s normal, but you see. They never tell me.”
“Why…?”
“Actually, most of them are older than me, so they’re too embarrassed to reveal their age. So from the first meeting until now, I’ve never heard their exact age even once.”
“Wh-What is this…”
Shocked, Nick slumped down in his seat.
“It’s embarrassing to reveal their real age to their husband, huh. So Nick. Recently, your mom and aunts started to put on a poker face as if a new wind had blown… and that was.”
ㅡGulp.
Nick swallowed.
“They were resetting their ages.”
“Wh-What? Resetting their ages?”
“Yeah. They’re setting their own ages as they please.”
“N-No! There’s no way that’s possible!”
“It’s possible for my wives. So Nick… Risha is now twenty-nine years old…”
“Heok!!!!”
Nick swallowed his breath.
So I told the astonished Nick about his mom and aunts’ new ages and reset birthdays. Even if it’s the eldest son, he should know the ages of everyone in the family.
In addition, my age became twenty-five.
“…”
Anyway.
After hearing the whole story, Nick nodded and started to clean up his seat with a stiff face.
“Dad. That, that thing called one’s inner feelings.”
“Yeah.”
“If you reveal it confidently and you’re not embarrassed at all.”
A serious voice.
“There’s no problem at all.”
“That’s it. You’re my son after all! Everything is in your thoughts and heart! If you don’t think it’s embarrassing, then it’s not embarrassing at all!”
“I was a little puzzled why Aunt Risha was wearing pigtails. She wasn’t embarrassed at all.”
“That’s right!”
It seems like you’ve found courage, Nick!
“Music career.”
“Don’t tell me!”
“I’ll work harder, Dad.”
Nick’s face, which looked strangely relieved, was truly like an adult’s face.
* * *
“Cheonma Kim Kat, age twenty-five.”
Surprisingly, my age was fixed at twenty-five. Is this real? Is this really okay? I’m not lying, I can’t even imagine how much younger I’ve become.
Of course, the ages of my other wives have also been adjusted.
The exact age tiers are like this.
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Risha: 29 years old.
Cloudy: 28 years old.
Khadia: 27 years old.
Karin: 26 years old.
Liz: 26 years old.
Me: 25 years old.
Winia: 24 years old.
Hilde: 23 years old.
Ari: 22 years old.
Elise: 21 years old.
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“This is by no means a joke.”
My wives, who were more serious than anyone else, set the ages after a meeting that was heavier and more serious than anything else… Looking back on that overwhelming meeting… It was so absurd that it was hard to even remember.
Risha strongly insisted that she was a teenager in her late teens, and Karin and Liz seriously explained that they were seventeen years old. Winia kept saying that she had to go to school tomorrow, and Khadia asked if they had done the homework the teacher had given them.
They even unified their hairstyles and outfits.
They all came out wearing pigtails and shortened school uniforms. The sight was so absurd that I couldn’t even lift my face. Cloudy had a philosophical contemplation about whether a younger lover was possible.
Chaos and panic. Pandemonium.
In that scene, after rough agreements and discussions. After intense arguments, those ages were finally decided. It was almost like 10 years were added to the age they claimed.
“…”
Now we will live with those ages forever. There is no such thing as getting older. Risha will be 29 forever, and so will I.
And today is.
It was Risha’s new birthday.
“Hehehe! Today is this lady’s 29th birthday!”
Risha, wearing pigtails and a school uniform, was excited and enjoyed setting off fireworks. Why she was dressed like that at 29… I decided not to point it out.
“Waaaaah! Risha unnie! Congratulations!!!”
“Ah, it’s a really happy day.”
“Happy birthday, Risha unnie!”
They were squealing in front of the cake and congratulating Risha. Everyone was really enjoying themselves so purely.
Really so purely…
“Ah! It feels like I’ve been reborn! I didn’t know it would be so refreshing and feel so good! Now! Everyone, let’s eat the cake! This lady made it herself!”
“Okay! Then I’ll cut the cake! Who else would do it if I, the ‘ace of the swordsmanship club,’ didn’t?”
The moment 26-year-old pigtail school uniform Karin, who claimed to be the ace of the swordsmanship club, drew her sword, Risha’s birthday cake was divided into exactly 10 equal pieces.
I could only watch all the scenes.
The surrounding scenery was decorated like a school classroom.
