[A lover……(face turns red)]
[Stalking……(face turns red)]
No, why is your face turning red at stalking!
‘System-ssi! System! System―!’
When Wonyoung shouted internally at the top of his lungs in frustration, the system appeared with a *pop* for some reason.
“Yes, yes, I’m here, I’m here. What’s the matter, Player-nim? Kyahhh!”
And Wonyoung kicked the glowing sphere with all his might. The system let out a bizarre scream as it took the kick straight on and flew away. Watching the system rapidly disappear into the distance, he sighed and chose the upper option.
“A lover……”
Wonyoung’s face turned red like a tomato. Heegang looked at Wonyoung with eyes that seemed to drip with honey.
“Were you that embarrassed by that? I was just making it up.”
‘While holding a wrench, no less.’
Soon, Heegang asked Wonyoung.
“Sorry for startling you. But by any chance, did something bad happen with the police?”
“Huh? Oh.”
Heegang was pointing out that Wonyoung had been severely frightened. Wonyoung was about to answer without much thought when he suddenly noticed the coldness in Heegang’s gaze and changed his words.
“N-no? I’m just naturally timid, you know.”
“Hmm…… Really? You weren’t this bad before.”
“W-well, I was worried because it became a false report. What if I ended up in a detention cell?”
At those words, Heegang burst into laughter. It was a laugh as refreshing as bursting fruit juice.
“That won’t happen.”
“Why?”
“You think I’d let that happen?”
“……”
His heart was trembling, but this was probably due to fear. The fear of not knowing what this guy would do if he ended up in a detention cell.
Wonyoung shook his body once at that chilling sensation and quickly changed the subject.
“Any…anyway, why were you following me?”
“Hm?”
“Technically speaking, that’s the cause of all this.”
Having brought it up, Wonyoung started getting heated and glared at Heegang. Heegang lowered his eyes as if it had never happened and said forlornly.
“It’s because I was worried about you.”
“Worried?”
Heegang let out a sigh and continued in a sullen voice.
“Today was your first day at work. I was worried whether you’d be able to adapt well.”
“Then you could have just called and asked.”
“If I did that, you’d just say you were fine, right?”
“That’s……”
“That’s why. I didn’t want to make you worry unnecessarily either.”
As befitting an actor, his dejected face was pitifully pathetic. If it were an ordinary person, they would have gone over to comfort him immediately and then some.
Honestly, Wonyoung was also slightly swayed by Heegang’s sincerity in worrying about him, but fortunately or unfortunately, he was able to stay calm by remembering the wrench in his pocket.
“I’m sorry, Rae. Don’t be mad……”
But the next moment, when Heegang said that while carefully grasping his fingertips, both the wrench and composure flew away.
“……I’m not mad.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. How could I be mad when you were worried about me?”
“That’s a relief.”
Watching Heegang’s face brighten at those words, Wonyoung’s heart pounded. Listening to his thumping heartbeat, he mentally hit himself hard.
To think he was weak to pretty faces. To think he was such an irrational person. That his heart was racing over, well not just, but anyway over that beautiful face. He couldn’t believe it.
‘This is all because of Narae.’
He must have been influenced by Narae. Wonyoung decided to believe that.
“Anyway, as you can see, nothing happened to me.”
“You fell.”
“Huh?”
Heegang looked at Rae’s knee with a hardened expression.
“You got hurt because of that bastard. Rae, can’t you quit being that jerk’s secretary? Why are you even working as that guy’s secretary?”
“……Huh? No, how do you know I fell?”
“I told you, I was worried about you going to work.”
Only then did Wonyoung realize that Heegang hadn’t simply followed him on his way home.
‘Don’t tell me this guy from the beginning……? Wait, then the ice pack and band-aids he brought me in the middle……’
“That was you……?”
“What was?”
“The person who brought me the ice pack and band-aids when I fell.”
“Yeah. I’ve been watching over you since morning anyway.”
“……”
Wonyoung smoothly put distance between himself and Heegang. Heegang made a sad expression, but Wonyoung was now confident he wouldn’t fall for anything from this handsome stalker.
However, Heegang closed the distance Wonyoung had created and clung to his arm.
“I want to kill that bastard, Rae.”
“Wh-who? Who are you trying to hurt now!”
“Your boss, that bastard. He picked you up and held you however he wanted. I only held back because of you. Because I didn’t want to cause you trouble……”
“……”
At this point, Wonyoung was genuinely grateful that Heegang had thought of him. No matter how unlucky he was, he didn’t want Taerim to get hurt.
He put more distance between himself and Heegang and said.
“Fine, now go home. I really want to be alone today.”
“……”
“That expression won’t work either.”
At Wonyoung’s warning, Heegang, who had looked like he was about to shed tears, smiled broadly.
“Really? Can’t be helped then.”
Despite finding the change absurd, Wonyoung blinked his eyes because the smile was so dazzling.
He was beginning to think that perhaps the biggest problem might be himself.
* * *
Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!
At the sound of violent knocking on the door, Wonyoung opened his eyes drowsily. Checking the time, it was 2 AM.
“Hyung! Rae hyung, open the door!”
‘Ki Siyeon……?’
Outside, Siyeon’s desperate voice could be heard. Wonyoung snapped awake.
When he urgently opened the door, there stood Siyeon with his face in a mess.
“Hyung!”
“Ki Siyeon!”
The two who called out to each other examined each other’s bodies without hesitation.
“Nothing happened, right? You’re not hurt anywhere? Nothing happened, right?”
“What about you, why is your face like this! Who did this to you?!”
“I asked if you’re hurt anywhere!”
At Siyeon’s almost screaming question, Wonyoung stammered in confusion.
“I-I’m fine…… What’s wrong?”
Only then did Siyeon let out a long sigh as if his tension had completely released and leaned on Wonyoung’s shoulder.
“Thank goodness……”
“What about you, did something happen? Why are you hurt? Answer me.”
A warning window appeared before Wonyoung’s eyes, but Wonyoung couldn’t see anything right now. His mind was already troubled by the previous incident, and now that pretty face had come all messed up, so how could a warning be a problem?
But Siyeon neither raised his head nor gave an explanation.
“……”
“Ki Siyeon.”
“……”
“Lift your head and look at me!”
However, the game couldn’t read the atmosphere.
“Ki Siyeon, wha……”
“……Hyung, what are you grabbing?”
He had clearly tried to grab his shoulder, but Lucky Pervert made him confuse chest and shoulder. It was partly because the surroundings were dark, and partly because Siyeon’s shoulders were so broad that the place he roughly thought would be the shoulder was actually the chest.
Anyway, Wonyoung was grabbing both of Siyeon’s chests.
‘Why is it always this guy’s chest like this……! Does the game creator have a chest fetish?’
“S-s-sorry. I didn’t grab it because I wanted to!”
Wonyoung quickly let go. Then suddenly, at the sound of a “pfft” laugh, when he raised his head, he saw Siyeon laughing with a swollen and bruised face.
That sight somehow made his heart ache, so Wonyoung let out a sigh. Soon, when he turned on the light, Siyeon’s appearance, more injured than expected, was revealed.
“What on earth happened to you……”
“I got hurt a bit.”
“It’s not just a bit. What happened? Did you get in a fight? But why didn’t you go to the hospital? First you got stabbed with a knife……”
As difficult questions continued, Siyeon rubbed his face against Wonyoung’s shoulder.
“Hyuuung, I’m in pain.”
“……Ha, really.”
What could he do when someone said they were in pain? People came first, nothing else was important. Wonyoung, whose mind was completely changed by Siyeon’s honey trap, pulled Siyeon’s hand.
At the hand Wonyoung grabbed without much thought, Siyeon smiled secretly to himself.
“What are you smiling about…… Why do you keep smiling? Sit down, hurry.”
Wonyoung, who had regained some reason belatedly, changed his tone, mindful of the warning. When Siyeon obediently sat down, Wonyoung brought out the first aid kit. He soaked cotton in disinfectant and carefully disinfected the scrape on his left cheek.
Siyeon seemed to be sitting still, but soon spoke up.
“Wow, hyung, your face is really close.”
“……”
“Why is your skin so white? It’s like flour dough.”
“……”
“Are you going to keep ignoring me, hyung?”
“……”
“Can I kiss you?”
“Of course not! Ah, don’t talk to me. Doesn’t it hurt?”
When Wonyoung, who had flared up momentarily, felt embarrassed about getting angry at someone in pain and asked awkwardly, Siyeon pretended to think and then answered.
“Hmm, it doesn’t hurt?”
“It doesn’t hurt, my ass.”
“Really. Strangely, it doesn’t hurt at all.”
“You……”
Wonyoung was about to say something, but before that, a choice appeared.
[Yeah, that’s really strange.]
[Is it thanks to me? Hehe.]
‘System! System, System! Come out right now!’
As soon as Wonyoung saw the choices, he called for the system, but naturally the system didn’t appear.
Having forgotten the fact that he had kicked the system away, Wonyoung’s head was filled only with the thought that he had been tricked by the game’s scheme again.
While Wonyoung was suffering with his head in his hands, less than a minute remained. In his haste, Wonyoung chose the lower option, which seemed somewhat better than the upper one.
“Is it thanks to me? Hehe.”
But even after saying it with his own mouth, the surging shame and anger were unavoidable. ‘Hehe’? Me, Heo Wonyoung? I laughed while going ‘hehe’? Like an idiot?!
“Yes, thanks to hyung.”
However, Siyeon, good-natured as he was, said that and laughed. Wonyoung felt even more embarrassed.
“……”
“Why, hyung? It really is thanks to you.”
“You’re teasing me again.”
“No.”
Siyeon said that and hugged the waist of Wonyoung, who was treating him.
“It really doesn’t hurt. Because hyung is looking after me like this.”
“……”
