Chapter 196 – Chapter 196
A few days later, Baeksan’s house.
Eunchae, who came to meet Baeksan early in the morning, looked at Baeksan with a determined face.
“Today’s duel.”
At that, Baeksan closed the book he was reading and took out the stack of cards he had placed on the armrest of the sofa.
Chin-.
A stack of Baeksan’s cards came up on the table.
Eun-chae realized at once the moment she saw the deck of cards.
‘It’s the president’s deck.’
His gaze turned to Baeksan.
The way she looked at herself with her mouth tightly shut.
“The real president.”
It was the look of a good president.
*
Baeksan looked at Eunchae, pointing out the cards one by one with slow movements.
The sight of him grunting as he concentrated his nerves on the table was truly full of enthusiasm.
Is it that tense? Cold sweat had formed on his forehead before he knew it, and his bangs were sticking to him.
Eun-chae took out a new card of hers, and when she turned over her covered card, one of her own was missing.
Baeksan removed one of his cards and opened a card he had turned over until the day before while watching Eunchae shake his shoulders.
According to the rules you know, a card that revives one previously dead card.
Despair appeared on Eun-chae’s face.
Rather than the immediate card game, Baeksan focused all his attention on Eunchae, who had a colorful face, and just watched her little granddaughter’s actions.
Baeksan knew.
What actions did that little granddaughter do in the past?
What was the personality of a young granddaughter who now shows such an innocent face?
She fell into the delusion that only when she is sick can she be loved, and she knew that she was a child who had hurt herself, and that it was her granddaughter’s pain.
While thinking, the little granddaughter pulled out a card again.
The brightening of her complexion seemed to have found a breakthrough.
“This.”
The little granddaughter held out the card she had just pulled out.
A card she doesn’t know much about.
The little granddaughter rummaged through the cards she had left in what she called the ‘graveyard’ when she was done playing, and after drawing three cards, she laid them out on the table.
A card of her own that she resurrected on her last turn is dead again. And all her remaining points were deducted.
Baek San nodded his head, realizing that he had lost this time as well.
“Lost.”
“Eunchae won.”
Burr-.
The little granddaughter shuddered at her. A red aura floated across her face.
Is it that good?
As she contemplated that thought, her little granddaughter held out her hand to her.
“Handshake.”
Baeksan’s gaze turned to Eunchae.
Eun-chae exhaled her snort with her face, which was not yet excited, and added her explanation.
“Today, the chairman was no slouch, so shake hands. If he has a good fight, he shakes hands and we become friends.”
Eun-chae recited what she had learned from Do-gyun, waiting for Baek-san to reach out her hand.
Baeksan looked at her little granddaughter’s white and beautiful hands for a long time, then put her hand on top of them.
“… Yes.”
The young granddaughter’s hands were still small and fragile.
Baeksan thought.
She said that she was a child who should have reached out her hand, but that she was a little granddaughter who had overcome her pain before she knew it.
*
After eating, we went out to the garden.
Standing in front of a pond in the garden, Baeksan raised a small worry as she recalled her little granddaughter’s actions today as she ate only meat.
You should have a balanced diet.
Even when she tried to say such a thought, she only used an incomprehensible logic such as ‘Vegetables are not good’, so even Baeksan had no way to stop her little granddaughter.
… No, it would be fair to say she’s undeserving of it all.
Will you teach yourself what to do?
Baeksan’s gaze turned to her young granddaughter.
The little granddaughter came out to the pond and looked at her koi.
“I want to grow up.”
Her eyes were widened.
Baeksan followed her little granddaughter to the pond.
It’s ‘big’… , It was a pond that had been maintained for a long time, so it was only natural that the koi here were large.
It was a pond made by a wife who had passed away sometime in the past that I can’t remember well.
In addition, Baeksan was a pond that was not often looked into. The reason this still exists was because there was no reason to get rid of what was already made.
Baeksan’s eyes turned to his hand.
The little granddaughter didn’t let go of this hand while she went to her meal, even after she finished her meal, even while she was out.
It was a hand that used strength when she was excited, held it gently when she was in a good mood, and pinched it when she didn’t like something.
Right now, this hand was full of energy from excitement.
“Red.”
Said the young granddaughter, looking at the largest of her koi, the red carp, with her empty hands.
“Yes.”
“I am the captain.”
Are you dividing the ranks by size?
Baeksan, who had thought about that, nodded his head and spat out the same answer.
“Yes.”
The young granddaughter was looking at her pond, as if her own cold reply hadn’t mattered, her face still looking happy.
Baeksan stared blankly at that moment.
*
Eun-chae looked out the window. As the sun slowly went down, the sky turned red and burned the whole world.
In that scene, Eun-chae looked at the reddish clouds, and recalled the idea that the captain carp she had just seen was flying in the sky.
Her mouth fell open with a ‘heh’.
The clouds that were swimming harmoniously were constantly changing their shape in the meantime.
From carp to dinosaurs, and dinosaurs to meat again.
‘Meat.’
Saliva was forming in Eunchae’s mouth.
It must have been a while since he ate, but thinking about meat made him hungry again.
Eun-chae thought, ‘When the bees come, I have to go home and ask for meat.’ She looked at the sky endlessly, and then she looked at Baeksan Mountain.
Eun-chae, sitting on her sofa and watching Baek-san read a book with a slow sigh, thought for some reason that it was like a ‘witch’.
She has never actually met a witch, but she always communicates only on her notebook, but Eun-chae, who had come up with such thoughts without realizing it, shook her head and approached Baek-san.
Eun-chae and Baek-san took away her book.
Baeksan’s head lifted.
“No books.”
Her snort came out of Eunchae’s mouth, saying ‘Heung!’.
“If you read a lot of books, she becomes a witch.”
Her president said that because she didn’t know how scary witches were, she remembered her thoughts that she had to take care of herself.
Baeksan looked at the little granddaughter who quietly embraced the book.
An act that would never be forgiven under normal circumstances.
He was Baeksan, who would frown just by talking to her while reading a book, but he couldn’t say anything about Eunchae’s actions and just nodded his head.
“… Yes.”
Baeksan put his lost hand on his armrest and looked at Eunchae.
Eun-chae looked at those eyes, and she suddenly spat out those words.
“Chairman, don’t you have any friends?”
It was a sudden thought as I was looking at Baeksan.
Baeksan reads a book all day and does not speak, and since he is at home alone like this, he is worried that he may not have any friends.
When he eats, he has someone to cook for him, but Baeksan doesn’t even talk to that person.
Baeksan pondered over Eunchae’s words.
Don’t you have friends
“Yes.”
Does not exist.
It’s not like you never had people you could call friends in your life, but if you ask if they’re still friends, you shake your head.
It’s already too far to be friends.
After building, competing and destroying different castles, now I am really alone.
Baeksan looked at Eunchae to try to guess the intention behind her question.
Eunchae let out a deep sigh at Baeksan’s answer, and she continued.
“Then, the president will make Eunchae friend number 2.”
Baeksan’s head tilted.
Eun-chae thought it was dissatisfaction with being ‘No. 2’, so she added an explanation.
“No. 1 belongs to the bee, so it can’t be done.”
Baek San nodded his head, not thinking deeply about his little granddaughter’s incomprehensible words.
Since the words he utters are generally absurd, it must be in the same vein that he utters such words.
Baeksan leaned back on the sofa.
“He will come soon.”
They say that the time for Do-gyun to come is almost over.
When I was told to get ready to go, Eunchae reminded me of her cheeks red.
“Yes, honey bee.”
Where did the term Dang-Choi Jeo Bee come from? Baek-san felt curious about her little granddaughter’s mind and looked at her as she packed her bag.
*
After finishing work, Do-gyun said goodbye to Baek-san and took Eun-chae into the car.
Eun-chae, who was in the car, was in a state of being stretched with her back buried in the seat, probably because she was quite tired.
Do-kyun laughed at that figure and asked a question.
“Did you have fun today?”
“Yes, the president has become the real president.”
“Yes?”
Eun-chae closed her eyes and reviewed her duel she had completed today.
Each card is powerful. It was a series of crises that tightened her neck every moment.
But.
“I won again today.”
Eun-chae was a winner in the world of cold competition.
Eun-chae felt her beating heart beat, and she continued.
“Eunchae is a Duel Master.”
Do-gyun tilted his head at the unknown words, then nodded his head.
‘Well, I just need to be happy.’
Eun-chae seemed happy anyway, so she thought that if that was the case, then she was fine.
