Waaah!

A cheer went up from the delivery room.

The Senior Economic Secretary, waiting outside the delivery room, asked the Chief of Staff in an offhand way,

"When your children were born, Chief of Staff, did everyone rejoice like that?"

"How could they have? Was it so in your case, Senior Secretary?"

"It was the same for me."

The Senior Economic Secretary let out a short laugh, looked at the delivery room from which laughter and applause were still coming, and said,

"In our day husbands waited in the waiting room, smoking, for the child to come out, didn't they? And now they go right in and stand beside them… The world has changed a great deal."

The Chief of Staff and the Senior Economic Secretary, who had come to the family waiting room to meet Seong-ho Kim, had made a wasted trip.

Because Seong-ho Kim had already followed Gyeong-eun Lee into the delivery room.

The two of them let out a rueful laugh for a moment in the bare, empty waiting room.

And outside a delivery room, where twenty-odd years before they had kept their places with anxious hearts, they now waited for another man's child to be born.

After some while of waiting, a sound came from inside the delivery room as though the child had been born.

And in time with the sound, Gi-cheol Do arrived in front of the delivery room.

Catching sight of the Chief of Staff and the Senior Economic Secretary waiting there, he greeted them with his eyes.

The Gi-cheol Do of any ordinary day would certainly have run over to the Presidential Chief of Staff and greeted him warmly.

But something more important than that was happening in the delivery room just now, so Gi-cheol Do poured his whole attention into it and waited only for the door to open.

Then the delivery room door he had been waiting on slid open, and the obstetrics chief came out still wearing his mask.

Gi-cheol Do hurried up to the obstetrics chief and asked,

"How did it go?"

"Mother and child are both well."