Episode 13. You too, perhaps? (3)
Even if you deceive others’ eyes.
Kang Yebin showed strong confidence, as if to say that she couldn’t be fooled by the eyes of a former top actress.
She cautiously went to the baby’s room where their youngest daughter was sleeping.
Zzzzzzz.
As soon as they opened the door, the unique baby scent emanating from the baby’s body stimulated the noses of the father and his two daughters.
Kang Yera took a deep breath.
“Why is even the baby’s smell so cute?”
The phrase ‘the smell is cute’ fit perfectly.
Kang Yera and Kang Yebin, the two of them, didn’t properly remember seeing their youngest daughter as a baby.
And that was understandable. The older sisters were also young, 4 and 2 years old, so they couldn’t remember properly.
Perhaps because of that, as soon as they saw their youngest daughter, a newborn, sleeping soundly in the baby crib, their eyes sparkled brightly.
“How cute.”
“I want to bury my face and keep smelling her…”
Kang Dae-oh gave a wry smile to his eldest daughter, Kang Yera, who was honestly revealing her desires, and asked her to restrain herself.
Meanwhile. Kang Yebin began staring intently into the baby crib.
Kang Dae-oh and Kang Yera watched Kang Yebin, holding their breath.
It was Kang Dae-oh who first broke the silence.
“How is it? Can you recognize her?”
Kang Yebin shook her head.
“She’s sleeping, so I don’t know.”
“Indeed…”
Even if she was an acting genius, there was no way to tell if the other person was acting if they were asleep.
Kang Yera let out a small sigh and said.
“By the way, she’s really sleeping for a long time. Yeyoung was always a heavy sleeper, but she didn’t usually sleep this much.”
“She’s a baby. There’s nothing we can do about it.”
A newborn’s daily routine is simple.
Eat, sleep, and poop.
Looking at the bulging diaper that had changed from yellow to a blue pattern, Kang Dae-oh once again drew a wry smile on his lips.
“I guess I’ll have to change Yeyoung’s diaper when she wakes up later.”
He just hoped she hadn’t pooped.
The day Kang Yeyoung had just passed her first month since birth.
Before going home, Kang Dae-oh stopped by a local bakery located near the store he managed.
Since all the nearby merchants knew each other, the bakery owner also recognized Kang Dae-oh immediately upon seeing him.
“Mr. Kang!”
“Hello. I’m here to buy a cake.”
“What’s with the cake? Is it someone’s birthday today? Yera? Yebin? Your wife? Or perhaps, you? But people usually don’t buy their own birthday cakes. Hmm…”
The bakery owner had a habit of delving deeply into the meaning of even small clues, just like now.
Kang Dae-oh spoke to the bakery owner, who was once again lost in his own delusions.
“I’m buying it to celebrate Yeyoung’s ‘newborn graduation’ today.”
“Ah, really? I knew it. I had a feeling that would be the case.”
“I don’t think you said anything similar to that…”
“Oh, come on! It’s better not to say what you think is the right answer out loud. Others might snatch it away.”
Inwardly, he had immediately figured out why Kang Dae-oh was looking for a cake, but he was putting on a show like this.
Kang Dae-oh already knew why the bakery owner was so strangely stubborn about things like this.
“As expected. You truly are from the only ‘Deduction Studies’ department in the country.”
“Right? Even though I’m baking bread now, I was a top scholarship student, you know.”
He, who once aimed to become a famous detective.
However, South Korea doesn’t have a system established where detectives can smoothly earn income.
Struggling with a monthly salary of less than 1 million won at a private investigation agency, he eventually ended up on the path of a baker because his wife told him to just work at the bakery with her.
Nevertheless, the flame of ‘detective’ still burned brightly in his heart.
Every time Kang Dae-oh saw the bakery owner, he had this question.
What kind of place is the ‘Deduction Studies’ department, really… he wondered.
“Mr. Kang, your youngest daughter has become an adult, so I should at least buy a cake.”
“She hasn’t even been born for a year yet to be called an adult.”
Thanks to the bakery owner’s sudden outburst, the fairy of wry smiles had no time to leave Kang Dae-oh’s lips.
Kang Dae-oh repeatedly told him he didn’t have to buy it.
But the bakery owner’s stubbornness was also not to be trifled with.
“Mr. Kang, you helped us a lot when we were in trouble. If not now, when else would I repay the favor? Don’t you think?”
No matter what he said, he couldn’t stop the bakery owner now.
In the end, it was Kang Dae-oh who raised the white flag first.
“Thank you, sir.”
“Oh, it’s nothing. Anyway, congratulations again. Be sure to invite me to her first birthday party, okay?”
“Yes, I will.”
Even though the refrigerated cake he received from the bakery owner was clearly cold.
It somehow felt warm to Kang Dae-oh.
Preparations for the party to celebrate Kang Yeyoung’s ‘newborn graduation’ were in full swing.
Kang Dae-oh brought a whipped cream strawberry cake, which his daughters loved.
At their dad’s good taste, the daughters looked at him as if to say, ‘Dad is the best, as expected.’
Just with his daughters’ reactions, Kang Dae-oh already felt as full as if he had eaten three cakes.
However, they shouldn’t forget that today’s main character was Kang Yeyoung.
“Honey. What about the candles?”
“Should we just put one big one? It might feel a bit dull to celebrate without a single candle.”
“Yeah, let’s do that.”
Kang Dae-oh placed one large candle in the center of the cake.
It was at this moment.
Suddenly, Kang Yeyoung vigorously flailed her arms.
Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon thought their youngest daughter was doing that because she was uncomfortable somewhere.
“Did she perhaps poop?”
“Just a moment.”
Min Seung-yeon reached out and took off the swaddle her daughter Kang Yeyoung was wearing.
Kang Yeyoung, now free, struggled even more intensely.
“Oh dear! This mischievous princess! Just stay still for a bit!”
While Min Seung-yeon was calming Kang Yeyoung.
Kang Dae-oh quickly lifted the diaper slightly and checked the contents inside.
Fortunately, there was no poop.
“She didn’t even pee.”
As Kang Dae-oh tried to examine the inside more closely.
Flail, flail!
Kang Yeyoung’s desperate resistance (?) grew even stronger.
Kang Yera and Kang Yebin, who had been quietly watching their dad try to check their youngest sister’s private parts, shivered briefly.
“I thought I was going to die of embarrassment every time Dad tried to look at my lower half like that.”
“Me too.”
Kang Yebin also expressed deep agreement with her older sister’s words.
If they were ordinary babies, they would have just let it go.
The fact that they weren’t ordinary acted as a disadvantage in this situation.
Watching Kang Yeyoung struggling like that, the sisters Kang Yera and Kang Yebin felt like they were confronting their own dark pasts.
Meanwhile. For Kang Dae-oh and Min Seung-yeon, who had raised three children, not realizing what their youngest was currently wanting was also a blow to their pride as parenting veterans.
‘I’ll figure it out somehow.’ With this determination, Min Seung-yeon brought everything she thought Kang Yeyoung might like.
At that moment, Kang Yebin quietly called Kang Dae-oh.
“Dad.”
“Huh? What is it?”
“Try giving ‘that’ to Yeyoung.”
“That?”
Kang Dae-oh couldn’t understand what Kang Yebin was talking about.
On the other hand, Kang Yera reacted as if she knew what her younger sister was saying.
“Giving her that should work.”
Kang Dae-oh couldn’t easily follow his two daughters in their conversation, which sounded as if they had set up a secret code.
Kang Yera stepped forward to clear away the question marks in her dad’s mind herself.
“Yeyoung really loves smartphones. From what Dad told me… not the current Dad, but future Dad. Anyway, Dad told me that Yeyoung was a child who was crazy about smartphones since she was little.”
“She was?”
“Yes. So if you show her a smartphone, she’ll quiet down on her own.”
The fact that his two daughters came from the future was a great help in raising their younger sister.
Kang Dae-oh nodded briefly and took out his smartphone.
Then Min Seung-yeon asked with an incredulous expression.
“Is this really the time to leisurely record a video?”
Min Seung-yeon seemed to have misunderstood that Kang Dae-oh had taken out his smartphone to record this scene.
“Just wait and see. I’ll show you some magic.”
“Magic?”
“Ta-da!”
Kang Dae-oh showed Kang Yeyoung the smartphone.
However.
Waaah—!!!
It only made her cry even more.
Min Seung-yeon said she knew it would happen and delivered a powerful smash to Kang Dae-oh’s back.
“You said you’d show magic. Was that magic perhaps ‘baby-crying’ magic?”
“Ah, no. This isn’t right…”
Kang Dae-oh stared at his two daughters with an aggrieved look.
Kang Yera and Kang Yebin instinctively avoided their dad’s gaze at the same time.
“Th-this is strange. Dad clearly said that about Yeyoung…”
“Yeyoung loved smartphones not just when she was little, but even as an adult.”
She even tried to venture into internet broadcasting, and this became the catalyst that made her a famous influencer.
But in this life, a completely different reaction from what the two of them remembered appeared.
Could it be because Kang Yeyoung wasn’t a regressor?
However, Kang Yeyoung’s gaze was still fixed on the smartphone Kang Dae-oh was holding.
‘That’s strange?’
She didn’t seem to dislike smartphones particularly.
Kang Dae-oh pointed to the lens on the back of the smartphone.
Then.
Nod, nod.
Kang Yeyoung cried out as if saying, ‘That’s it!’
At that sight, Kang Dae-oh and his two daughters were greatly shocked.
“No way…”
“Could this be…”
Amidst growing suspicion, Kang Dae-oh started recording a video.
Then Kang Yeyoung stopped crying, as if that was exactly what she wanted.
“Oh my, she really stopped crying?”
“…”
Kang Dae-oh adjusted the angle so that both the cake and Kang Yeyoung would look good.
Just in case, Kang Yera quietly spoke.
“Dad. No way Yeyoung is also…”
Kang Yebin spoke in a confident voice, on behalf of Kang Dae-oh.
“There’s no doubt. Yeyoung is the same type as us.”
Kang Yebin’s suspicion soon turned into certainty due to a certain incident that unfolded.
“Oh my, Yeyoung-ah!”
When Min Seung-yeon brought Kang Yeyoung closer to the cake.
Kang Yeyoung suddenly pulled out the long candle.
Fortunately, the candle wasn’t lit yet, but it was equally perplexing.
However, the absurdities didn’t end there.
Using the tip of the candle, which had cake cream on it, Kang Yeyoung began scribbling something like letters on the paper box.
Min Seung-yeon was so surprised that she let out a shrill scream.
“H-honey! Look at this! Y-Yeyoung… sh-she wrote something!”
Two sparsely written characters.
On the cake box, this word was engraved:
[Regression]
“What in the world does this mean, honey? No, more importantly, how does Yeyoung know how to write? This isn’t a coincidence, is it? Huh?”
Min Seung-yeon was engulfed in confusion.
Confirming that Kang Yebin’s prediction was precisely correct, Kang Dae-oh had no choice but to make a decision.
“Honey. Listen carefully to what I’m about to say.”
Originally, he had intended to tell Min Seung-yeon when the right time came.
But now that the identity of their third child had been revealed.
A situation had arrived where he had no choice but to tell her.
“Our daughters, you see. They actually came from the future.”
“…What???”
On the day Kang Yeyoung had just ‘graduated’ from being a newborn.
An unimaginable truth was revealed.
