Chick 211
by Cristae211
The day after Groo feasted on the fish she’d caught in abundance.
Today’s special mission for Groo, with her determination renewed, was:
“Bring back some eggs!”
Groo glanced furtively at the camera beside Joorim.
Today, she would finally capture her father’s cool side on camera.
“Cluck, cluck!”
Once again, the steadfast hen glared fiercely as she sheltered her eggs.
“……”
Groo stood pressed against Joorim’s side, tensing up after a brief staredown with the chicken.
Groo knew.
The cameraman was looking forward to the dramatic scene of Mama Hen being parted from her precious eggs!
But things wouldn’t go as the cameraman expected.
Because today—
“Dad is here!”
Usually an idler and a sluggard, but in truth, he was On Joorim, the number one ranked hunter!
Surely, he could sneak off to the supermarket and back without anyone noticing.
Convinced that Joorim would be thinking the same as she was, Groo whispered to him,
“Dad, should we get the bicycle out?”
“Hm? Why the bicycle all of a sudden? Do you want to go for a ride?”
“Shhh! Shhh! W-why are you saying it so loudly?!”
Startled by Joorim’s clueless response, Groo grabbed his arm in a panic.
But, utterly failing to grasp the connection between egg collection and bicycles, Joorim—
“Hm?”
—lifted the hen in both hands without a second thought.
“Cluck?!”
The hen, alarmed, opened her eyes wide in shock.
Startled, Groo and Mephisto flailed their arms and wings.
“P-put it back!”
“But I need the eggs.”
“But, but… it’s sad for the mother and her baby!”
“Mm. It is sad.”
Saying that, Joorim calmly placed the eggs in the basket he’d brought.
Groo, clinging to Joorim’s leg as he emerged with the eggs, howled,
“N-nooo~! We could have just bought some at the supermarket~!”
Seeing his teary daughter clinging to his leg, Joorim spoke as if there was no other option.
“Then Dad would have to play the tambourine again.”
“…!”
Ding—!
A reply she never could have expected.
Would her mother and the baby chick really be separated for such a ridiculous reason?
Was it truly impossible for the ‘number one ranked hunter to infiltrate and return from the supermarket without anyone knowing’?
Meanwhile, Joorim patted Groo on the head and waltzed off to Kazuki.
“Cluck!”
He tossed aside the hen and left with only the eggs, his departing figure seeming both cold and merciless.
‘Failed… failed again?’
She really thought she’d be able to capture her dad’s cool side today.
Sniff! Groo swallowed her tears again.
“Huuhhhh…!”
The camera zoomed in on Groo’s trembling, about-to-cry face.
Groo stuck out her lower lip and wiped her tears with the back of her hand.
‘What do I do now?’
Dad was more incompetent than she thought, and so cold-hearted to boot.
And so, for the second day, Groo faced a tear-stained failure.
At last, the final day dawned.
Groo was picking peppers by the vegetable patch where potatoes were heaped in piles.
Thanks to Joorim, a grown adult, throwing a fit about not liking potato side dishes, the poor potatoes had lost their purpose and were discarded.
Beside Groo, Mephisto and Bailach were helping out by picking perilla leaves.
Not just Groo, Mephisto, and Bailach—everyone had been assigned a task.
Kazuki was stirring a stew with a ladle, Wooju was hauling firewood with Iromi…
Meanwhile, Joorim was stretched out on the bench, pretending to be awake but actually dozing off—offering praise each time Groo picked another pepper.
“…?”
Groo glanced at Joorim, who clapped for her with his eyes closed.
At some point, Joorim had become a lazybones obsessed with Groo.
‘How did he end up like this?’
Groo tilted her head in serious contemplation.
‘If I don’t do something, this will all be broadcast as is.’
If that happened, Joorim would go down in history as the ‘world’s laziest number one ranked slacker.’
Groo peeked at the camera, which was focused on Joorim’s face, then turned her gaze to the potatoes.
What was needed now!
Potato Soldier Mecha Transformation!
She loaded a potato onto the remote-controlled convertible.
Her plan: threaten potato-hating Joorim with a potato to make him get up and move.
The toy car, with its potato passenger, charged at On Joorim.
Thud! Thud!
As On Joorim opened his eyes reluctantly to look at the toy car, curiously enough, the potato started speaking.
“If you don’t get to work, you’ll soon find potatoes in every single dish.”
Threatened by the potato, On Joorim, unfazed, simply turned away and lay down again.
“Hmph!”
Angered, the potato reversed the car, then rammed even harder into Joorim’s back.
As the banging continued and his rest was disturbed, Joorim frowned and looked at the potato again.
“Get up and go help Amakusa Kazuki! If you don’t, I’ll peel myself right now and climb right into your mouth!”
Again, the potato delivered a menacing threat.
“……”
Unable to ignore it any longer, Joorim stumbled upright.
He hadn’t come all this way just to eat a potato.
But of course, he had no intention of actually helping Kazuki.
Joorim simply planned to dawdle and shower Groo with even more attention.
“……”
What to do. After staring for some time, Joorim picked up the potato and hurled it over the fence.
Whoosh!
He locked eyes with Groo, who had been controlling the potato from not far away.
“……”
“……”
Looking at Groo, frozen in astonishment with her mouth open, Joorim clapped his hands.
“Wow, Dad has defeated the potato monster.”
Groo balled her fists and caught her breath.
Huff, huff!
‘It’s all failed.’
Her father’s lazy, useless self would soon be broadcast to the whole nation.
With teary eyes, Groo again began to sniffle at Joorim’s feet.
A man too lazy to care what others think, who complains about side dishes and has no manners.
Still, she liked Dad.
“Sniff! Even if Dad gets ignored, sniff—Groo will protect you…!”
Joorim asked, genuinely baffled.
“Who’s ignoring Dad…?”
“The Orchestra newbies…”
“Why would the newbies ignore me?”
“Dad, it’s because you’re… so lazy! Waaaah!”
Explaining through her tears how she was worried about the newbies not respecting her dad, Kazuki suddenly burst out laughing beside her.
“Groo-chan, that’s what you were worried about?”
Iromi turned around, struggling to contain her laughter, and Wooju patted Groo gently on the shoulder.
“But… my lazy dad… it’ll all be on TV… Waaaah…!”
Groo sobbed and hiccupped, and Joorim soon couldn’t hold back his laughter either. Groo’s crying face would forever be preserved as a top trending video on YouTube.
[Trending Videos]
- [ENG/JPN] The On Joorim Compilation That Makes His Daughter Cry
(with a thumbnail covered in Groo’s tearful faces)
@hanalove
Oh, babyㅠㅠㅠㅠ She’s actually adorable hahahahahahaha
@ventimania
Groo… the only person in the world who ignores On Joorim is you..ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠhahaha
12:34 On Joorim: Who’s ignoring me?
Look at his completely bewildered face hahaha
@honisad23
A number one ranked hunter getting schooled for laziness by an F-rank kid hahaha
@youaregrutt
13:08 Bro. He made his own kid cry and now he’s laughing?
What are you doing, take care of him
@daoni09
3:42 Groo’s first tears (reason: I was too cool)
6:51 Groo’s second tears (reason: Dad didn’t want to play the tambourine)
10:01 Groo’s third tears (reason: Dad is lazy)
Even the reasons are diverse hahahahaha
Why would you cry because YOU were too cool hahaha
She wanted her dad to stand out but she said SHE was the cool one~!
Absolutely adorable hahahahaha
This is all the dad’s fault
@55pepep
Ever since this video went up, I’ve become someone who replays Groo crying at least 200 times. Hwang PD, you’d better take responsibility with Season 2…
@sexxyruru04
PD-nim~ Bring the whole Orchestra back for Season 2ㅠ If not, I’ll poop in front of the broadcasting station
They say Hwang PD even camped out to cast Groo for this season hahaha
Well, that’s what Hwang PD’s best at
Too muchㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ