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Even today, I dragged my aching body out the door in the morning.
A fine rain was falling.
Hana: "Kids~ take an umbrella each~"
Myeongmyeong: "I want the yellow umbrella!"
Taepung: "I hate the rain… I wanna use my big sister’s umbrella too"
Samhan: "If Samhan’s hair gets wet, it’s no good… Samhan wants big sister’s umbrella too…"
Ringring silently opened the smallest umbrella and stood in front.
In the end, we went to work in a strange procession, with three of them clinging to one umbrella while Ringring led the way alone.
It was when we arrived in front of the hospital.
Myeongmyeong suddenly stopped walking and sniffed the air.
Myeongmyeong: "Big sis… there’s somethin’ over there"
There was a wet cardboard box in front of the hospital door.
Hana '……I feel like I’ve seen this scene somewhere before'
Inside the box was a white fluffball.
Yurim-sensei: "Oh my, Hana-sensei, it looks like someone abandoned a stuffed toy"
Just as she was coming to work, Yurim-sensei folded her umbrella and looked into the box.
Hana: "I guess so… a stuffed toy…"
fidget
Hana·Yurim-sensei: "It moved!!!"
The fluffball lifted its head, showing two black bean-like eyes and a single black nose.
It was a baby Samoyed.
Even though it was soaked and shivering, it looked at us and smiled, the corners of its mouth lifting a little.
A small tag was attached to its neck.
'No.1129'
Hana: "…What is this? A name?"
Yurim-sensei: "Looks like a number?"
I flipped the tag over, but the back was blank.
Then, behind me, Taepung muttered very quietly.
Taepung: "……again"
Ringring lightly tugged at Taepung’s sleeve. After that, the two of them said nothing more.
The kids were led into the staff room by Yurim-sensei again today.
Myeongmyeong pressed his nose to the window, counting raindrops, but forgot before he even reached ten.
Taepung climbed onto the highest desk in the staff room and dozed off with his head bobbing from the drowsiness unique to rainy days.
Samhan stood in front of the mirror, keeping at the wet bangs with his fingers.
Samhan: "Samhan’s hair… is ruined…"
Ringring sat quietly next to Yurim-sensei and flipped through a picture book.
Still, whenever they had a chance, all four kept glancing toward the exam room through the crack in the staff room door, with faces that couldn’t hide how curious they were about the new white fluffball.
But this baby was really timid.
Yurim-sensei: "Oh my~ hello~!! It’s uncle~!!"
When Yurim-sensei greeted him cheerfully in a loud voice, the baby flinched and hid behind my leg.
Yurim-sensei: "……Am I scary?"
Hana: "Your voice is just a bit loud…"
While Yurim-sensei watched the kids in the staff room, the baby stayed glued to my side.
It was even worse in the waiting room.
Chihuahua: "Woof!"
The chihuahua, three times smaller than him, barked just once, and the baby whined and burrowed into my arms.
Hana: "Oh, baby~ It’s okay, it’s okay~"
By afternoon, the drizzle had turned into a downpour.
When thunder crashed and rumbled outside the window, this time he ducked under the exam table, sticking out only his tail and trembling.
Hana: "Baby~ Big sis is here~"
I’d called him "baby~" so much all day that by afternoon even Yurimping started copying it.
Yurim-sensei: "Hana-sensei, where did the baby go?"
Hana: "Under the exam table…"
Still, he responded well to dad jokes.
Yurim-sensei: "Baby~ What’s the kindest lion in the world?"
Yurim-sensei: "A volunteer~!"
The baby wagged his tail furiously and smiled brightly.
Yurim-sensei: "Hana-sensei… I’ve got my second fan now…"
The moment she said that, the staff room door flew open.
Ringring trotted out and stopped right in front of Yurim-sensei.
Ringring: "…Please do one more uncle joke"
Yurim-sensei: "Huh? Ringring, you want to hear them too?"
Ringring: "…Yes, I’m the number one fan"
Yurim-sensei: "If a duck freezes~?"
Ringring: "…A hill"
Ringring answered first, then shook with laughter all by himself.
Then he sneaked a glance at the baby and spoke.
After finally making it through the day with the kids and getting home, we decided to bathe the dirty little baby.
Myeongmyeong: "I’ll wash him!"
Samhan: "Samhan wants to too! Samhan wants to too!"
They all rushed into the bathroom, saying they wanted to help.
It was hard to tell whether Myeongmyeong was washing him or just splashing around,
and Taepung hated water, so he only gave orders from outside the bathroom door.
Taepung: "Not there, behind the ear—no, not there"
Samhan was covering his head with both hands, worried soap bubbles might splash onto his hair.
Samhan: "Samhan’s hair is no good… I got it styled today…"
That was when I turned on the hair dryer.
Buzzzzz-
The baby was so startled that he ran out of the bathroom.
Still wet, he ran all over the house, then stopped in the middle of the living room,
brrrrrrrr-
Hana·Myeongmyeong·Samhan: "Aaaahhh!!!"
Taepung: "…See, I told you I hate water"
Everyone got splashed with water.
Then Ringring quietly came over with a big towel and wrapped the baby up warmly.
Only then did the baby stop trembling.
After drying him off completely, he’d turned into a cotton candy fluffball twice his size.
Hana: "Now then, we need to give him a name~"
Myeongmyeong: "Puppy!"
Taepung: "That’s you"
Myeongmyeong: "I’m Myeongmyeong, though?!"
Taepung: "Fluffball"
Samhan: "Hmm… he’s white and round, so Snow Duck! Samhan likes Snow Duck a lot"
While everyone was chiming in one by one, Ringring quietly spoke up.
Ringring: "…Because on a rainy day, he’s a baby who was lucky enough to meet you, big sis"
Ringring: "Wunagi"
Hana: "……Wunagi?"
I remembered how I’d been calling him "baby~" all day. Adding the word for luck made it perfect.
Hana: "I like it! From now on, you’re Wunagi!"
Wunagi: "Woof!"
It was the first voice that didn’t sound scared.
Myeongmyeong: "Now that we’ve got a youngest one, I’m the real big bro now!"
Taepung: "Yeah, yeah, be the big bro"
Samhan: "Samhan wants to be the big bro!"
Ringring: “……”
Taepung lay sprawled out on the sofa, waving only one hand.
Taepung: "If you’re the big bro, you gotta bring Wunagi water, and you gotta spread out the blanket too"
Myeongmyeong: “……”
Myeongmyeong: "…Still gonna be the big bro"
In the end, Myeongmyeong and Samhan bickered in front of the youngest over who would get to play the big brother.
That night, thunder rumbled and crashed again.
Wunagi whined and burrowed between his older brothers.
Myeongmyeong: "It’s okay! I’ll protect you! I’m a wolf!"
Myeongmyeong stood in front of Wunagi, and Taepung, grumbling as usual, patted Wunagi’s back with his palm.
Taepung: "…Don’t cry, it’s noisy"
Samhan covered Wunagi’s ears with both hands, and Ringring handed him a sunflower seed.
Thanks to the timid youngest one, the four of them became a team together for the first time.
Since it was Saturday morning, we could sleep in.
In the living room, five little kids were lying side by side asleep.
Among them was a brand-new round little kid I’d never seen before.
Hana '…I’m not even surprised anymore.'
But something was strange.
Even though he was clearly the youngest one who had come last,
he was the one with his toes sticking out farthest among the five little kids lying side by side.
He was a whole head taller than the others.
Hana '…I guess that’s because he’s a Samoyed'
Just then, the youngest rubbed his eyes and sleepily sat up. Then the moment he saw me, he hunched his big body up tight and burrowed into my arms.
Wunagi: "Big sis… is there thunder again…?"
Hana: "No, baby, it’s not thundering anymore"
He was the biggest one, but his behavior was pure baby through and through.
Then Myeongmyeong, who had just woken up, looked up at Wunagi and stood on tiptoe.
Myeongmyeong: "……I’m the big bro"
Taepung: "If you look up at him while saying that, it’s not scary at all"
'No.1129' tag.
The tag hanging around Wunagi’s neck caught my eye, and I reached out to take it off.
Wunagi flinched and shrank his big body in tight.
Wunagi: "…I hate that… don’t touch it…"
Hana: "…Okay, I won’t touch it"
The kid who had been smiling brightly until just a moment ago would tremble whenever that tag was mentioned.
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