1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 170

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 7 Episode 23

Gaiden 3. Little Friend (1)

"Mom, why don't I have a father? Taesu and Yerin were there."

At the question of the four-year-old, her mother put her spoon she was holding down on her table and looked into her child's eyes.

As she sees the child's eyes shining without a single dark cloud, it doesn't seem like she's been maliciously harassed by the children playing on the playground with her.

Her child's question was simply out of her curiosity.

She expected that one day she would ask these questions, but she did it sooner than expected.

That means she's a child growing up fast.

“Ji Han-ah, Ji-han also has a father. Without her, her mother would not have been able to have Ji-han.”

"Lie, I don't have a father?"

"...Our Jihan and Mom will tell you something a little difficult."

In response to the question stemming from Ji-han Moon's pure curiosity, Da-in Moon told the truth to him who was still young.

Her father loved her mother, but her paternal grandfather did not.

That her paternal grandfather didn't love her mother, but she didn't hate her.

It was simply that his father, his son, took precedence over her mother.

Her mom and her dad came first, so she said that for him she chose to separate from him.

Da-in Moon told Ji-han Moon everything, but Ji-han Moon kept drawing question marks.

The child was an adult who was still difficult to understand.

'Then you mean you have a father after all? He doesn't?'

And Ji-han Moon also did not understand Da-in Moon.

He didn't understand, but since he had never actually seen his dad, he decided to think he was without a dad.

He thought it didn't really matter if he had a father or not.

And Moon Ji-han, who entered kindergarten the following year, found a child playing alone in the classroom.

The child played alone every day.

'Does he like to play alone?'

He thought so, but it didn't seem like that when he watched the kids gather and stare at them playing hide and seek while playing outside.

And at that time, Ji-han Moon, who was going to the bathroom alone, was able to secretly overheard the teachers talking in the office.

"These days, I'm not just worried about Hoyoung."

Hoyoung was the name of a child who had been away alone.

"Is there any problem, Mr. Kang?"

"Hoyoung is less expressive of emotions ..., and I think she's hitting a wall with the kids. She seems to have been hurt a lot by the neighborhood kids before entering kindergarten."

“Are you hurt? Oh, come to think of it, Hoyoung was the only one with her mother.”

Moon Ji-han overheard the story and was deeply surprised.

It was the first time he had ever seen a child without a father other than himself.

A child named Ho-young was curious.Moon Ji-han went straight back to the classroom on that road, ate lunch and used the rest of the time to find Ho-young playing alone among the children playing with each other, and approached him.

"Hey, you're the only mother."

It was said out of sympathy, but when he grew up thinking about it later, Ji-han Moon realized that he had said harsh words to Ho-young.

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"At that time, I really wondered what he was doing."

"Hahaha! I was five years old back then. I'm also reflecting a lot."

The friendship between Ji-han Moon and Ho-young, which started in kindergarten, was still very strong even when they were in their third year of middle school.

Ji-han Moon and Ho-young were always going to school together, eating breakfast Lee Ye-sook made at Ho-young's house, unless there was something else going on.

And after school, we always left school together.

Even now, as usual, the two were going to school together.

Since the bus they take to leave school is different, they only go to the bus stop together.

At that moment, a bus passed by them, and Ji-Han Moon, who saw the bus, was greatly surprised and ran to sweat his feet.

It was the bus that Jihan Moon had to ride.

"Ah! Don't miss that one! I'll go first!"

"Yeah! Say hello to Auntie! I'll go find her later with her mom!"

"okay!"

Moon Ji-han ran at full speed and managed to get on the bus stopped at the stop.

Ji-han Moon, who barely got on the bus, sat down and took a rough breath.

'Heh heh, heh. What's the matter with the teacher ending the ceremony late?'

The bus on which Ji-han Moon was headed was where he spends most of his time after school and on weekends.

After about 30 minutes had passed, Ji-han Moon swung her transportation card into the terminal and got off the bus and looked at the other side.

Where he looked, there was a neat and gigantic building.

The single room on the 5th floor of the hospital was where his mother, Dain Moon, had been lying for about half a year.

Half a year ago, Moon Dyne was unfortunately hit by a lorry that violated the signal and flew straight into the air.

And she hasn't opened her eyes since then.

Those who witnessed the scene firsthand say that it is a miracle that Dain Moon is alive.

But if he doesn't wake up even if he's alive, what's the point?

The doctor told me that Mundine was close to brain-dead, so the chance of waking up was close to zero.

However, Ji-han Moon did not give up, and after that, she was rushing to the hospital right after school, hoping that Da-in Moon would wake up.

After her school, it was Ji-han's daily routine to keep talking to her while doing her school's homework next to her Munda-in until the end of her visit.

"Hello, sister."

"Hello, Jihan-ah."

As she headed to the ward where Da-in Moon was hospitalized, Ji-han Moon greeted the nurses who had seen her for a long time.

He was hoping that if he treated them kindly, he would take better care of Mundain.

As I walked down the hallway with such a greeting, I turned the corner where Dain Mun's hospital room was, and saw a man standing in front of the hospital room with the first back view I had ever seen.

He said for a moment that he had found himself in the wrong room, but it wasn't.

Since Moon Da-in is hospitalized in a single room, there are no other patients in the room except for Moon Da-in.

That meant that he was a visitor to Mundain.

"who are you?"

"......?"

As Moon Ji-han approached the man to enter the hospital room, he slowly turned around.

He, too, was the first man he had ever seen.

Tears were clearly visible on his face.

The man who had been looking at Moon Ji-han stared at his face, then lowered his gaze, looked at the nameplate on his left chest, and widened his eyes.

His eyes showed many complex emotions, such as surprise and guilt.

"You, you..."

"My name is Ji-han Moon. Who is your uncle? Are you a friend of your mother?"

"...I said Baek Jae-gun."

Uncle, Mom.

Those two words have been sharply etched into Baek Jae-gun's heart.

He wrinkled his eyebrows and swallowed the tears that seemed to flow again at any moment.

Moon Ji-han spoke to him in a bright voice.

"Are you friends with your mother? Maybe she will like it when she finds out that you're coming."

Moon Ji-han said so and opened the door to the hospital room.

When the door opened, Da-in Moon, who was lying on the bed while wearing an oxygen respirator, caught Baek Jae-gun's eyes.

Seeing this, Jaegeon Baek felt something thump in his chest.

He was so sorry that he couldn't find it until now.

He was so sorry for not being by his side.

After many twists and turns, he finds her and puts her in her sight, but he wonders if he's okay with approaching her.

When he thought of that, the tears he had barely held back flowed down sadly without him knowing.

"Ugh, black......"

"......"

Moon Ji-han saw this and took Baek Jae-geon's hand and led him to the chair next to the bed.

I don't know why, but if I left it as it was, I felt like I was going to turn around without even entering the hospital room.

And he felt like he shouldn't be sent back here.

Moon Ji-han pulled out another chair from the corner and sat down next to Baek Jae-gun.

"Mom, a friend named Baek Jae-geon came to visit. If you have such a handsome friend, I'll introduce you to them right away. Isn't it too much to hide it so far?"

"......"

Dain Moon did not respond to Jihan Moon's words.

"Your friend seems to have a lot to talk about, so I'll go out for a while. Mister, I'll be sitting in the lobby on the first floor, so tell me when you're done."

It was when Jihan Moon said that and was about to leave the place.

daughter-.The sound of bells resounded in the hospital room, and at the sound, Jihan Moon's movements as she was about to get up from her seat stopped.

There are only two bells in this hospital room right now.

These are the bell rings that Moon Ji-han puts on her little fingers on both hands so that she will know immediately when she looks away from her Munda-in while she is doing her homework.

As Moon Ji-han looked at Moon Da-in's hand, the bell rang once more and she could clearly see her fingers twitching.

I didn't see it wrong.

"Mom? Mom! I'm Jihan! Mom!"

Ji-han Moon, forgetting the existence of her Baekjae-gun, held her hand and continued to call Munda-in.

Then a miracle happened.

Her Mundain's eyes twitched a little and then she slowly opened her eyes.

After staring blankly at her emptiness for a moment, she rolled her eyes and looked at Ji-han Ruby, who was shedding her tears.

Then she slowly and laboriously lifted her hand up and placed her hand on her rubbing Han's head.

She wanted to stroke her, but her arm didn't move as she would.

"Jihan-ah..."

His voice was dry and there was a cracking sound.

While lying on her bed, unable to lift a single finger from her, Munda-in continued to listen to Ji-han Moon as she walked away.

Her words gave her strength, and it was because of her visit by Baek Jae-geon that her flowers bloomed.

"Rebuild, Mr...."

"Dain... I'm sorry, I... I'm really sorry..."

When her Mundain called her name, her Baek Jae-gun cried and apologized to her.

"What... I'm sorry..."

"If I..., if I had known my father's thoughts in advance..."

As Baek Jae-gun gently grabbed Moon Da-in's hand with both hands, a clear bell rang out in the hospital room.

Ji-han Moon, who was next to Baekjae-gun, who was next to Baekjae-gun's confession, continued to spit like waves coming over the bank that had collapsed due to the typhoon, and her eyes widened in surprise.

I thought you abandoned me, so...

I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I couldn't stop my father.

I'm really sorry for coming here now.

I'm really sorry that I couldn't be a good husband...

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Her husband, Ji-Han Mu, turned her head to the word and looked at her Munda-In's face.

Then she smiled faintly and saw her face as she made eye contact with herself.

How many years have you been leaning on each other until now?

Munda-in immediately recognized her question that Ji-han Moon had, and she was able to understand her answer.

Moon Ji-han slowly turned his head to look at Baek Jae-gun, and carefully opened his mouth.

"dad......?"

At Moon Ji-han's words, Baek Jae-gun met his eyes.