“…What?”
He spoke to his mother, but Lee Euishin’s gaze was directed at Kwon Yunsu. Kwon Yunsu, who raised his head with a blank face, had eyes that sparkled for a moment. He was glad. Lee Euishin became irritated.
“What else, I came to see you.”
Though it sounded gentle and natural, Lee Euishin knew his mother’s gaze was wavering. She knew this was something he would absolutely not tolerate. Coming to her son’s house who lives alone without notice—something that would be natural for nine out of ten people was absolutely impossible in Lee Euishin’s world.
“Why did you come without even contacting me?”
“I came to see you…”
“Who said you could come as you please?”
When he snapped back fiercely as if grinding his teeth, Kwon Yunsu, who had been sitting quietly, stood up instead of the mother who closed her mouth in surprise.
“Hey, you…!”
Lee Euishin met Kwon Yunsu head-on with the same angry face as he approached with his eyes narrowing immediately. What could you be wanting to entertain someone else’s mom like that? What do you have to feel small about?
“Were you always such a rude person?”
“Lee Euishin!”
Kwon Yunsu grabbed his arm with a surprised face. It was a face truly angry.
“What kind of manners is that toward your mother? Why are you acting so disrespectfully? Did your mother come somewhere she shouldn’t? Can’t you control your temper?!”
Though he spoke like a whisper, she probably heard everything over there. Beyond Kwon Yunsu’s shoulder, who was seriously angry, his mother had a rather absurd face. She always acts shocked, but only Kwon Yunsu doesn’t know that she’s long been used to his personality.
“Aren’t you going to apologize quickly?!”
Kwon Yunsu snapped in a low voice. This bastard is thinking of his own mom again. Lee Euishin sighed. And reluctantly opened his mouth.
“I’m sorry. I spoke too harshly.”
“……”
Toward his mother, whose face said ‘what did I just hear?’, Lee Euishin quickly added.
“Please leave now.”
“Hey!”
Kwon Yunsu finally raised his hand and hit his shoulder, and the next moment he turned pale and apologized.
“M-Mother, I’m sorry.”
Your precious son… At the muttered addition, his mother laughed as if astounded. Then she looked at Kwon Yunsu with newly curious eyes. The damn country boy had left quite a deep impression on a stranger this time too.
“I’m going, Mom has an appointment. Is coming to see if my son is doing well such a terrible thing? My son has such a bad personality.”
Next to him, Kwon Yunsu made a deeply sympathetic expression. Lee Euishin tried to pull the kid’s arm and hide him from his mother passing by, but the oblivious Kwon Yunsu shook off his hand and went out to the entrance to see his mother off.
“Please go safely, Mother.”
“What’s your name?”
“It’s Kwon Yunsu.”
“Yunsu. It’s pretty, Yunsu. Get along well with my Euishin, okay?”
…His mother’s tone of treating everyone in the world like first graders had never been as embarrassing as at that moment.
“Yes.”
Kwon Yunsu nodding his head obediently was fresh but kind of cute.
As soon as the front door closed, Kwon Yunsu, who whirled around with a fierce face, began nagging.
“Hey, why are you like that? You can’t do that to your mom, you know? Rather take it out on me. Think about how embarrassing it is for a mom to visit her son’s house and get kicked out, you unfilial son. Even adolescence should be selective about who you act that way with, geez… what am I going to do with you?”
Adolescence? Has this bastard been seeing me as an eighth-grader syndrome patient all this time? He was astounded.
“You do something about yourself first.”
“Hey, I don’t commit unfilial acts.”
No, you’re going to commit the biggest unfilial act of your life because of me.
“Did Mom say anything weird?”
He asked, following the kid heading to the kitchen.
“She didn’t say anything like that.”
Kwon Yunsu, who took out water from the refrigerator, shook his head.
“What did you talk about?”
“……”
This time there was no quick answer. He alternately looked at the water bottle in his hand and his face, then silently turned the cap. Lee Euishin stared piercingly at the slender neckline gulping down water with his head tilted back.
“…Cursing you?”
The face that replied while wiping his lips looked a bit sullen.
What conversation took place? Why does the country boy have that face? Lee Euishin immediately narrowed down the candidates.
First, thinking of his own mom after dealing with a friend’s mom asking about her son’s situation.
Second, unable to agree with his mother’s presumptuous praise of him.
Third, feeling awkward and embarrassed about the situation of meeting the homeowner’s mother alone without the homeowner present.
“……”
He couldn’t tell right away. It meant it was all three or none of them.
Though it was trivial if trivial, his head ached for no reason. It would be better if he went around swaggering everywhere rather than seeing him so dispirited like that. Why, because of what does he have that face? Would it get a bit more livable if he could immediately reach out, pull his waist into an embrace, and affectionately coax him?
Lee Euishin learned the answer to that subtle expression a while later.
“…What’s this?”
Kwon Yunsu, who was opening the refrigerator, turned his head.
He had just woken from a light sleep and fled to the kitchen to avoid Lee Euishin’s nagging.
Books, printouts, half-eaten snacks and water bottles, blankets, pillows, soccer magazines… Looking around the living room strewn messily with all sorts of things, Lee Euishin immediately clicked his tongue. Lee Euishin, who came home late at night and grumbled seeing the state of the living room, was kind of like a dad.
It was Friday night, and Kwon Yunsu, who had taken an exam late in the afternoon, was finally catching his breath before next week’s last exam. It meant he’d browsed the internet and then taken a nap. That sleep continued this late because there was no one to wake him. Even though he didn’t have an exam, Lee Euishin made rice early in the morning and left, unreachable all day. Just as he was excited, forgetting the situation, thinking he’d finally see his face. So that sharp voice was definitely not welcome.
“What?”
When he drank water and went to the living room, Lee Euishin was looking down at the laptop on the table. What was I looking at before I fell asleep? Kwon Yunsu, who stuck his head out to look at the screen, felt his heart sink. The traces of searching for studio apartment prices near school remained intact.
“What is this?”
“…What do you mean, I was just curious so I searched. Since the last exam is next Tuesday, I was fooling around while playing.”
“Why are you curious about this?”
Lee Euishin’s face was rapidly growing cold. At times like this, even though they were so familiar, he instinctively wanted to avoid him. In the past, at the same time, his competitive spirit would surge, but these days he couldn’t muster the energy at all.
“Why are you suddenly curious about rent near school?”
“…No, just, you never know what will happen in life…”
At that nonchalant remark, Lee Euishin properly lost it. What do you mean you don’t know?! Your fucking life has only one fucking path!! He wanted to grab the kid’s collar right away and press him, but he barely held back. He had to endure once for Kwon Yunsu to open his mouth. He absolutely couldn’t allow the country boy to presumptuously hide his inner thoughts.
“Do you want to run away because I took over your fucking duties?”
“What?”
Kwon Yunsu, who looked startled, soon nodded playfully.
“Right. I’m preparing to run away because of that.”
“I won’t.”
Lee Euishin answered immediately.
“I won’t cook. Take your fucking duties back, fuck.”
As he added through gritted teeth, Kwon Yunsu chuckled and hit his shoulder.
“I’m joking.”
However, Lee Euishin didn’t feel this whole situation was a joke.
Checking what his country boy had been doing during his absence was a practiced habit, and he knew infuriatingly well that the kid was peculiarly made. Yet the moment he saw the real estate information on the monitor, Lee Euishin almost lost his self-control and threw the laptop. Because the area set in the search was the university area right around here.
“What’s the joke?”
Are you trying to leave me?
“Leaving the house? Because I took over your work?”
“……”
“Stop it.”
If you leave the house, you’ll get fucking beaten with my dick, you know.
