“Kwitato Weactuh Seed Tatoes!”

“Hm?”

“......?”

Guru’s mouth dropped open in a dazed smile as she looked at On Suhyeong’s blank face.

Her mind was exploding with mental bombs one after another.

‘Gwuu said it! Gwuu said da twuff wike a dummy~!’

What now?!

Did Grandpa know? That Jjapso was the one who made the Kritato Reactor?

What would happen if Dad found out she revealed her identity to Grandpa by accident?

Jurim was very sensitive about keeping Guru’s identity a secret.

They had even fought over whether she should be doing Hunter work or not. If he found out she just blurted it out like this...

‘He’s gonna go “Nope” a hundred times dis time!’

While Guru’s mouth stayed frozen in a gaping smile, her brain overheating, Suhyeong softly opened his mouth.

“Kri......”

She was so shocked that she hiccupped.

“Hic!”

Pale-faced, Guru clapped both hands over her mouth.

“Kri... what did you say after that? Grandpa’s hearing hasn’t been great lately, so I didn’t catch the rest.”

“......!”

Guru’s eyes started sparkling.

“Kwis-mas... tatoes... hic!”

“Ah, Christmas potatoes. Got it. So it’s a toy factory that makes Christmas potatoes.”

“Yesh! Yeshh! Hic!”

“Then how about we go inside and play a game where we draw factory designs together?”

“Okaay!”

“Let’s go.”

“Yesh! Hic!”

“Sounds like you got really startled.”

“Gwuu didn’ get stawtwed... hic!”

“Alright then. Let’s go inside and have some tasty juice to help you calm down.”

“Okaaay. Hic.”

Suhyeong gently wiped the little tear from Guru’s eye and patted her back kindly. The hiccups stopped soon after.

“But Guru, is it okay to leave those two out here?”

He motioned toward the baby bird and hamster buried up to their necks, who began crying pitifully for help.

“BEEEEEEP!”

“MEEEEEW!”

“......”

Maybe she should take them out... The factory would be closing for the day anyway.

Guru grabbed Mephisto and Veilach by their heads and pop pop pulled them out of the dirt.

Once freed, they burrowed into Suhyeong’s arms with a soft smile.

“Heh heh heh.”

Seeing that, Guru puffed out her cheeks.

“Let’s head inside.”

“Okaaay.”

***

Unlike her fears that Grandpa might have figured something out—

“How does this Christmas potato thing work?”

“You put mana stone in hewe... wike dis...”

“Modern toys use mana stones now, huh. That sounds like fun.”

“Super fun!”

Guru beamed in a goofy, full-cheeked smile and thought:

‘Gwampa is weawwy bad at guessin’ stuff...!’

Knowledge +1

He was this oblivious, and yet the Chairman of a huge company?

In dramas, oblivious chairmen always got betrayed a lot...

Guru looked at On Suhyeong with a sorrowful gaze.

‘Gwuu gotta pwotect Gwampa too.’

While Guru made this solemn vow, Grandpa was redrawing the factory schematics on his laptop.

“How about we make this part out of soft material? Corners are easy to bump into, you see.”

“Oh! That’s fine! Sounds gweat.”

“Good, good. Now this rotary kiln part—we can extend it into a long cylinder, so the potatoes roll out one at a time...”

With his hands moving in rapid, practiced clicks, the design started morphing into a truly professional blueprint.

‘Wooooow...’

It didn’t look clunky anymore.

There was even a little handle attached, keeping in mind that children might carry it around, and the whole thing looked more like an amusement park attraction.

Guru visualized the magical-looking blueprint in her head, rotating the 3D model mentally.

[Knowledge has increased!]

[Clink Clank! Filial Factory has leveled up!]

[You may now assign 3 more workers!]

‘UWOOOOH!’

Now she could have six workers! That’s double the output—S-Rank Reactors were no longer just a dream!

“Guru, do you think this could be made with LEGO? What if Grandpa creates molds and makes the parts for you—would that still work as a toy?”

“Yesh!”

She just had to designate it as a Filial Factory—didn’t matter what it was made of.

“That’s good to hear.”

“Heehee.”

Grandpa and granddaughter smiled at each other with matching grins.

“But you know, Guru... I don’t think it’s safe to leave a toy here. Empty houses need extra care, and staff pass through a lot.”

DUN DUN!

But then Guru wouldn’t have anywhere to go!

Would she have to move it back to the Guildmastuh’s office?

She was already imagining a furious Dad Wolf Monster kicking her factory away with one giant paw.

“If your toy needs a lot of mana, Grandpa has a dungeon he bought that you can use.”

“Dunjun?”

Guru perked up her ears.

“Yes. Companies like mine sometimes buy abandoned dungeons. They’re useful for research, waste disposal, and all sorts of things.”

Putting her factory in a dungeon would make it super easy to access with [Dungeon is an Open Door].

“Gwuu can weawwy use one?”

Guru knew at least that dungeons were more expensive than most plots of land. And not just anyone could buy one, even with money.

At that, Suhyeong smiled and tapped her nose gently.

“Of course. If our Guru wants to use it, Grandpa’s happy to let you—whatever makes you smile.”

BZZZZZTTT—

Guru clutched her chest, overwhelmed.

“Gwuu too! Gwuu wants Gwampa to be happy too!”

“Then can you say Grandpa is your favorite?”

“Yeshh! Gwuu—!”

“Wait a second.”

Suhyeong suddenly started recording Guru with his phone.

“Gwuu wuvs Gwampa da most!”

Laughing brightly, Suhyeong kissed her cheek. Guru giggled and kissed his cheek in return.

After filming the video, Suhyeong seemed to send it somewhere.

Soon his phone buzzed repeatedly with incoming messages, and he chuckled to himself as he read them.

What’s dat about? Guru tilted her head in curiosity—

Just then, the screen lit up with a caller ID: Our Son~♡, and the phone began vibrating non-stop.

“Is dat Daddy?”

“He’ll be here soon. Want to have dinner at our house tonight?”

“Okaay!”

“Good. Grandpa will get everything ready. Go play for now.”

Suhyeong patted Guru’s bottom with a gentle tap.

“Wet’s go pway!”

Guru chirped cheerfully and skipped off, followed by the hamster, bunny, and baby bird.

Suhyeong watched the child running around the yard and smiled from ear to ear.

“Even my granddaughter is a prodigy...”

He didn’t think he’d lived a particularly good or righteous life—but now he was spending his days with such a brilliant and lovable child.

Life was truly unpredictable.

Guru seemed like she wanted to hide it, but he had known for a while now that she was a rising star in the Hunter world.

It wasn’t hard to figure out—why his prickly and lazy son brought the girl home, who had visited Hyeonak right afterward, and what that interview during their conflict had really meant.

Not to mention, having had exceptional sons himself, he had fewer prejudices than most.

The truth was, he’d made that shady “Jjapso” the figurehead CEO of a subsidiary because he knew Jjapso was actually Guru.

“......”

As Suhyeong smiled, memories that nagged at the back of his mind resurfaced again, making him sigh.

When you’re running a company this big, your intuition sharpens on its own.

You start seeing how everything connects, the big picture.

Suhyeong picked up his phone and sent a message to his chief of staff.

Look into everything about the classified “Project Wilderness.”

The goal of the classified project had been to “reconstruct” On Ijo.

Ijo, who possessed an L-Rank production skill, was known by another name: Imago Dei.

Just as God created humans in His own image, Ijo could perfectly reproduce anything in existence.

Organisms or inanimate objects, animals, humans, monsters—it didn’t matter. Regardless of real-world limits or rank...

It might not have been a ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) coincidence that Guru reminded him of Ijo.

Suhyeong gripped his trembling hand.

If his suspicions were right, he wanted all data wiped before Jurim figured it out.

Because the more Guru grew, the more certain it became that Jurim would eventually reach the same conclusion.