Chapter 698: Side Story 3. Stellar Blossom - 33
It was so hard for his mind to wrap around the fact that his baby brother was already a father, but above all that...the name. It couldn’t be a coincidence, so...
"You knew?" Han Joon widened his eyes.
He knew he wasn’t allowed to talk about his sister. His father had already warned him to never mention her, that there was never a daughter inside that house. So there was no way he would tell Shin about it.
"Of course," Shin nodded while taking a seat beside him. "You told me after that man died."
That man...oh, he meant their father. Han Joon was yet to get used to the hateful tone that Shin used to address their father. Joon himself had no thought aside from fear in regard to his father. Perhaps...longing, if he was allowed such silliness.
But then again, he knew there was nothing nice about his father either, so he understood the contempt in Shin’s tone.
Anyway, there was no chance for him to think abiut his deceased father when the snow fairy demanded his attention. "Chuun, agg!"
The small baby hands smacked his cheek again, although it felt more like a tap, barely tickling. The snow fairy climbed and stood on Joon’s thighs, stretching up her arms to barely circle Joon’s neck and threw herself at her uncle.
Blinking, Joon held the baby in reflex, circling the small figure. "Oh, you want me to hug you?"
"Agg! Chuun!" Nari giggled and laid her head on Joon’s shoulder, standing on her toes.
It took Joon two seconds of being stunned, before he laughed and hugged the little snow fairy back, careful to not damage the artificial wings attached to her back. The bouncy black curl tickled his cheek the way his sister’s hair would when she hugged him in the past.