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"Oh, hey! Why is your phone off? Do you want to die?"
“I don’t know if the battery is dead or if the phone is broken. In any case, that’s why my phone’s off.”
When I arrived at the underground chapel, Uncle Jin-Sung immediately came running toward me in a flurry. Ji-Ah followed along right behind him. Both had eyes that seemed half-asleep, but they were still dressed. They seemed to be getting ready to go out.
“What the? Where are you going?”
“Ain’t it obvious? We were getting ready to go out so we could check whether you were okay or not.”
“Huh?”
I was a little flustered. It was because my uncle’s reaction was different from what I expected.
“I’m fine, but my house burned down. Is that fine?”
Obviously, the house that my uncle gifted me was worth a significant amount of money. If it was my uncle, I thought that he would worry more about the house than me.
It might seem like there’s no way that anyone would think like that, but uncle was definitely that sort of person.
"What are you talking about? Why are you talking about the house all of a sudden? As long as you're alright, then it’s all good."
“...Did Jin-Sung get replaced by an imposter? You’re different from usual.”
For a moment, I couldn’t help but wonder whether I was hallucinating. That’s how unreal the situation felt. My uncle was a person who believed that the value of anything except money was a meaningless illusion. I couldn’t believe that my uncle was genuinely worried about me. This sounded a little harsh, but rather than feeling touched,...
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