I once played a game with Kwon Arin.

It was a racing game where if you hit a banana, your kart would spin around.

I thought it was just a game effect.

I didn’t know it was actually possible in real life.

“Ahhhhh.”

“Masterrrrr.”

The difference from the game was that our kart wouldn’t stop spinning.

It was because Gaeul hadn’t let go of the accelerator and steering wheel.

Spin spin-

The car spun while moving forward.

The spinning only stopped when the kart hit the wall.

Thump-!

With a heavy collision sound, our bodies were thrown to the side.

Thanks to the seatbelts, we weren’t flung out of the car.

“…Gaeul, are you okay?”

“Ma-master…”

Gaeul’s eyes were spinning.

I was dizzy too, but I managed to check Gaeul’s condition.

From head to toe.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere.

“Phew.”

I should have taught her how to drive properly.

I’ll have to explain it well when Gaeul comes to her senses.

As I was shaking my dizzy head, Levinas approached us in her kart.

“King!”

Thump-!

Levinas, who came quickly, crashed into the side wall.

It seemed Levinas was as inexperienced at driving as Gaeul.

“King! Is Gaeul puppy okay?!”

“Yeah… We’re a bit dizzy but fine.”

“Really?!”

Levinas, looking at us with her horned rabbit eyes, shook her shoulders left and right.

She seemed to be trying to imitate our spinning.

“That looked like a special move!”

“Y-yeah… but Levinas shouldn’t do it, okay?”

“Yeah! It’s too scary a technique for Levinas!”

“I see.”

Well.

Levinas doesn’t like dangerous things anyway.

I didn’t have to worry about any potential risks.

“Gaeul, are you okay?”

I reached out and stroked Gaeul’s back.

Gaeul started to regain her composure.

“Gaeul spin spin.”

“Yeah. Gaeul spun around a lot.”

After reassuring Gaeul, I properly explained how to drive the kart.

This time, Gaeul drove the kart at a snail’s pace.

Vroom-

It was so slow that walking would have felt like running.

Even at that speed, Gaeul looked happy.

“Master…!”

“Yeah. Gaeul’s driving the kart really well.”

“…!”

Gaeul’s tail wagged quickly, seeming happy with my praise.

She moved forward, driving the kart very slowly.

Safe driving is the best after all.

Seeing Gaeul enjoy herself made me happy too.

Thump-

Thump-

Levinas kept bumping her kart into things, but she looked like she was having fun, so that was good.

**

Yeoreum was reading a book at home.

Sophia, sitting in the massage chair, watched her.

“I was wondering what book you were reading…”

“Hehe…”

Cats, dogs, and even horned rabbits.

She was reading books about animals.

Knowing why she was reading these books, Sophia couldn’t help but smile.

“The children aren’t really animals, but there are many similarities.”

“Yes. I’m trying to see if there are overlapping traits.”

“Right, you’re their guardian after all. It’s good to know various things.”

Guardian.

That word made Yeoreum feel an inexplicable sense of responsibility.

It was enough to make Yeoreum, who didn’t particularly like reading, turn to the next page.

“Sophia, look at this. It says cats that are close to their owners imitate their behavior.”

“If we substitute family… it means they imitate the family’s behavior.”

“Yes. It says Gyeoul and Saebyeok imitate our behavior… Have we seen that happen?”

“I haven’t paid attention to that aspect, but isn’t it quite natural for children to imitate adults’ behavior?”

“Hmm…”

That’s true.

Yeoreum nodded, but felt a strange curiosity.

It would be really cute if Gyeoul and Saebyeok imitated their behavior.

As Yeoreum was chuckling,

Click-

The front door opened, and the children came home.

“Vroom vroom.”

Levinas made car noises with her mouth and jumped into Yeoreum’s arms in the living room.

“Crash.”

“Oh my, did you crash into your sister?”

“Yeah! Levinas drove a car today and crashed more than a hundred times!”

“A hundred times?”

Did they play some kind of game?

Just as Yeoreum was patting Levinas’s head,

Gyeoul and the other children entered the living room.

“We went to a go-kart track today.”

“A go-kart track? Weren’t you scared of driving?”

“No. We played at a children’s go-kart track.”

“Oh… I didn’t know there was such a place.”

Yeoreum patted the children’s heads and covered her mouth with her hand.

Maybe because she had been reading books she usually doesn’t, she felt a bit tired.

“Yawwwn.”

As Yeoreum let out a light yawn, Gyeoul was startled.

‘Ah.’

I shouldn’t yawn.

Just as Yeoreum was quickly trying to close her mouth, Gyeoul yawned too.

“Nyawn.”

“Oh my?”

“Hmm…”

A blush rose to Yeoreum’s face.

Sophia’s tail wagged back and forth as she watched this.

So Gyeoul imitates yawns.

Yawns are quite contagious, after all.

Yeoreum couldn’t hold back her laughter and chuckled.

Gyeoul didn’t know why Yeoreum was laughing, but she just laughed along with a “hehe.”

“What were you doing at home?”

“Your sister was just reading a book.”

“A book?”

Gyeoul’s gaze turned towards the table.

A book about cats was on the table.

‘Oh.’

That looks like an interesting book.

Gyeoul trotted over to the table and picked up the book that was face down.

The book talked about how cats imitate their owners’ behavior.

“Hmm…”

So cats have this kind of habit.

I didn’t know that at all.

Gyeoul fixed her gaze on the book’s pages.

“But I guess I don’t act exactly like a real cat.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I don’t just copy someone’s actions, right?”

“Hmm…”

Yeoreum glanced at Sophia.

Gyeoul also glanced at Sophia, following Yeoreum’s gaze.

Sophia, meeting both their eyes, just shrugged her shoulders.

It looked like a gesture saying ‘figure it out yourselves.’

“Hmm… that’s right, Gyeoul doesn’t just copy others.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“Hehe…”

It’s an instinctive behavior.

If you’re not conscious of it, it’s not easy to notice.

There wasn’t anything particularly dangerous or problematic about imitating family members.

It was also cute when Gyeoul imitated someone.

If she copied any bad behavior, they’d have to correct it, but for now, they decided to leave it be.

The book said that cats imitating family behavior indicated a strong bond with the family.

“Gyeoul, want to read the book together with your sister?”

“Yes. I’d like that.”

Gyeoul sat on Yeoreum’s lap.

They read the book together for a short while.

Gyeoul’s tail wagged gently and repeatedly.

**

The next day.

I went for a walk outside the park with the children.

We didn’t have any particular purpose.

We were just taking a simple stroll.

“Master.”

Gaeul, walking beside me, pointed in a direction.

On top of the wall she pointed at, a white cat was lying down, resting.

“Yeah. Its fur color is similar to mine.”

“Similar.”

Gaeul wagged her tail, saying she liked it.

Is she that happy to see a cat with the same fur color as me?

I didn’t quite understand, but I was happy that Gaeul liked it.

“King! Shall we go this way next?!”

“Sure. Let’s go.”

And so, we wandered around the neighborhood without any purpose or meaning.

Besides Yeomyeong Park, there were several small parks in the village.

“King! This park is small!”

“Yeah. It must be a pocket park.”

“Hehe, because it’s small, it’s a baby park!”

We rested on a bench in the park that Levinas had named the ‘baby park’.

Maybe because it was a quiet time of day, there weren’t many people around.

There were only two high school girls visible in the distance.

“Ugh, why is it so hot today?”

“I’m seriously dying from the heat…”

The two girls sitting on the bench were fanning themselves.

The weather wasn’t particularly hot, but it seemed the girls were wearing thick clothes.

“I really hate Summer.”

“Come on, Summer is still better than Winter.”

“Why, do you hate Winter?”

“Yeah. I can’t stand the cold.”

The two girls were talking about their favorite seasons.

It was a typical conversation that students might have.

However, for some reason, our children’s expressions weren’t good.

“Hurrk!”

“…!”

Levinas widened her horned rabbit eyes, and Gaeul also had similarly round eyes.

Even Saebyeok’s tail, which had been swaying happily, stopped abruptly.

“I seriously hate Winter. It’s just cold, and when it snows, the ground gets slippery.”

“…Do you hate Winter that much?”

“Yeah. My grandmother slipped last Winter. It was really…”

“You can’t say that!”

Levinas ran towards the two girls, waving a tree branch.

Their conversation stopped as Levinas shouted loudly while running.

“U-um?”

“You can’t say you hate Winter(Gyeoul)…!”

“What?!”

Gaeul chased after Levinas.

Gaeul, who was usually so gentle, looked fierce today.

“Gyeoul is the best in the world! Gyeoul is the greatest!”

“Master best!”

The children stomped their feet in front of the two girls, as if protesting.

They were waving tree branches in the air, but not towards the girls.

‘Oh dear.’

It seems like they were just talking about their seasonal preferences.

The children seemed to have misunderstood something.

“Kids.”

I need to stop the children.

As I urgently approached the children, the two high school girls flinched when they saw me.

Their expressions were as if they had seen a ghost.

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