Not long after that intense encounter in the alley, Kang Yujun also awakened as an S-rank Hunter. He wanted to go find Lee Kanghyun right away. He wanted to use the excuse that they were both S-rank Hunters and follow him around. However, meeting Lee Kanghyun, who never left his house, wasn’t easy.
In the end, it was only after a long time since his awakening that he was finally able to meet Lee Kanghyun again, the one he had been searching for so desperately.
‘Excuse me, you’re Hunter Lee Kanghyun, right?’
‘…Why?’
‘I’m a fan. I really wanted to meet you.’
Kang Yujun suppressed his wildly beating heart and spoke to him smoothly, thoroughly pretending to be meeting him for the first time. The truth was he was inwardly nervous that Lee Kanghyun might recognize him, but Lee Kanghyun didn’t notice at all that the man looking at him with sparkling eyes was the same person who had stared up at him stupidly before.
He just nodded his head roughly with an annoyed, irritable face and passed right by.
It was natural. At the time, Lee Kanghyun had lost his parents not long ago and wasn’t in his right mind, and there must have been more than a few ordinary people he had saved since awakening. Kang Yujun hadn’t even expected Lee Kanghyun to remember him in the first place.
But still, when he confirmed that Lee Kanghyun truly didn’t remember, a corner of his heart ached strangely. It was disappointing.
“Haah…”
Kang Yujun, who had emerged from memories of the past, let out a long breath.
He raised his head that had been buried in his knees, but his heart was still pounding wildly.
He thought of Lee Kanghyun from just moments ago, hopping on both feet wrapped in a towel in the living room, and Lee Kanghyun from five years ago.
The sensitive boy who had looked down at him with empty eyes was now nowhere to be found. All that remained was the shameless shut-in who shamelessly sprawled out on someone else’s sofa to sleep.
Of course, rather than having perfectly overcome the wounds of the past, he had simply holed up in his room because everything was too bothersome. But at least he no longer had that precarious face that looked like it would crumble at any moment, like that night five years ago. That alone made Kang Yujun relieved enough to feel nauseous.
He leaned the back of his head against the door with a thud.
It didn’t matter if Lee Kanghyun didn’t remember him.
Anyway, from now on, he would make sure Lee Kanghyun would never forget him for the rest of his life by facing him until he was sick of it.
After staring at the ceiling for a while, Kang Yujun slowly got up and went out to the living room. He was worried about Lee Kanghyun, who must have fallen asleep in the living room without even a blanket. As soon as he approached the sofa, he let out a deep sigh.
Lee Kanghyun was sleeping peacefully, still rolled up like kimbap in the towel, without even wearing the clothes Kang Yujun had thrown to him.
Kang Yujun pressed his brow firmly, then went into his bedroom and brought out the thickest and softest blanket. Then he carefully and meticulously covered Lee Kanghyun’s body, who couldn’t move while sleeping, with the blanket.
As he pulled the blanket up to Lee Kanghyun’s neck, Kang Yujun looked down at Lee Kanghyun’s white, clear face as he slept soundly for a long time. His heart started racing like crazy again.
Kang Yujun went back to try to sleep. However, he ended up staying awake all night with his eyes wide open.
***
The next day, at the crack of dawn before daybreak.
The quiet house began to get noisy with sounds coming from the kitchen.
Chop chop chop! Clatter clatter. Bubble bubble.
Kang Yujun, with dark circles under his eyes from a sleepless night, was wearing an apron like a crazy person and devoted himself to cooking.
Lee Kanghyun’s thin body lingered before his eyes. I’ll definitely fatten him up. He continued cooking passionately.
“Mmm…”
Meanwhile, on the living room sofa.
Lee Kanghyun woke up from the constant clattering kitchen noise. His brow furrowed naturally. Annoyed by the smell and sounds disturbing his deep sleep, he tried to turn over. But his body, firmly bound in the towel, wouldn’t move as he wanted.
“Ah, seriously annoying…”
Lee Kanghyun grimaced in frustration and was wriggling his body like a worm inside the towel, trying to find a comfortable position.
Was it because he rolled too much? Having been pushed precariously to the edge of the sofa, he finally tumbled to the living room floor with a thud!
Kang Yujun, who had been tasting the stew with a ladle in the kitchen, rushed out as soon as he heard that sound.
“Hey! Lee Kanghyun! What’s wrong?”
Kang Yujun, who rushed out to the living room in a fluster with a ladle in one hand, froze in place as soon as he confirmed Lee Kanghyun sprawled on the floor.
“…Hup.”
The large towel that had been wrapped tightly around him had come completely undone while he rolled noisily onto the floor. Not only that. Even the towel wrapped around his waist had smoothly come loose from the impact and was rolling on the floor.
“Ah shit… almost cracked my head.”
Lee Kanghyun, who groggily raised his upper body and scratched his disheveled hair, was in a state of perfect nakedness without a single thread on him.
“…!”
Kang Yujun’s face turned bright red again.
“U-uaaaah!”
Crash!
The ladle he was holding was miserably hurled to the floor.
Kang Yujun, flushed bright red from his face to the end of his neck, covered his eyes with both hands and let out strange screams.
“…”
When he heard the scream that made him suspect it came from a beast rather than a human, Lee Kanghyun, sitting naked on the floor, looked up at Kang Yujun with an incredulous expression.
“Another fit from the morning, seriously…”
Lee Kanghyun, who didn’t care whether he was naked or not, furrowed his brow as if his ears hurt and lay sprawled on the floor.
Kang Yujun, who had seen that innocent and naked state, jumped and screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Hey, you crazy bastard! Aren’t you going to cover yourself? Hurry up and pick up some clothes! Do you really have no sense of shame?!”
Lee Kanghyun, who lightly ignored his screaming, covered his mouth and yawned.
In truth, it wasn’t that Lee Kanghyun had absolutely no sense of shame. There was no way he wouldn’t be embarrassed to be sprawled naked in the middle of someone else’s living room at the crack of dawn. The cool dawn air touching his bare skin made him shiver with goosebumps. He did feel like picking up clothes and putting them on right away.
But seeing Kang Yujun covering his eyes with his hands and jumping around, a mischievous impulse suddenly arose. Moreover, if he hurriedly covered his naked body here, he would get caught up in that fussy crazy bastard’s pace. The atmosphere would probably get even weirder.
Lee Kanghyun decided to put on a thick face and tease Kang Yujun more. Without even pretending to pick up clothes, he propped himself up on one arm, lay diagonally, and replied shamelessly.
“What shame? We’re both guys. Why make such a fuss now?”
“This counts as sexual harassment! Aren’t you going to cover yourself right now?”
“Ah, it’s too bothersome. You already peeked when I came out of the shower yesterday, and now you’re acting modest?”
“Who, who peeked? I didn’t look!”
It was a lie. He had seen yesterday, and just now he had seen very clearly. Kang Yujun, flustered, embarrassed, and overwhelmed by the heat rushing in, didn’t know what to do and stamped his feet.
“If you’re so annoyed, you should strip too.”
At Lee Kanghyun’s words, Kang Yujun’s face heated up as if exploding. For a moment his hands slipped and he ‘accidentally’ looked at Lee Kanghyun’s body again. Of all places, his gaze landed between Lee Kanghyun’s legs.
“…!”
For a moment, Kang Yujun even forgot to breathe. He knew with his head that he should turn his eyes away immediately, but his gaze automatically fixed on that place.
Lee Kanghyun’s center took exactly after its owner. It was beautifully shaped, extending straight without any curves, and had a strangely pale pink tint between the fair skin. Rather than having the usual disgusting form, it had a neat and pretty appearance.
‘Why is even down there so pretty…’
As Kang Yujun was thinking, the strength naturally drained from his entire body.
Thud—! Thump.
“Huh…?”
Kang Yujun knelt on the floor and sat down with a dazed expression.
“I really must have lost it. I’m crazy…”
Lee Kanghyun, who had been deliberately lying there to tease him, was flustered by Kang Yujun’s reaction.
He had expected him to cover his eyes, jump around, and throw a fit, but when he suddenly collapsed, the one who had been playing the prank was more surprised instead.
“Hey. Why are you suddenly like that?”
A startled Lee Kanghyun sat up. A person suddenly collapsing wasn’t normal. Worried that maybe a blood vessel in his brain had burst and he was having a seizure, he hurriedly picked up the pants rolling on the floor, roughly put them on, and approached Kang Yujun.
“Kang Yujun. Snap out of it. Are you really sick somewhere?”
Lee Kanghyun approached with a worried face and shook Kang Yujun’s firm shoulders.
As soon as Lee Kanghyun’s touch reached him, Kang Yujun startled and crawled backward. Since he had just been having trashy thoughts, he couldn’t look straight at his face.
“D-don’t come! Don’t come closer! Did you put on pants? Hurry up and put on a t-shirt too!”
“Ah, I put them on! Are you seriously crazy?”
Thinking there was some problem, but seeing him looking far too healthy instead of having any problem, Lee Kanghyun’s irritation surged.
In the end, he smacked the back of Kang Yujun’s head hard enough to make a whack sound, then hastily put on a t-shirt as well.
“You really pull all kinds of shit. I’m going home. I’m just going to sleep at home today, so you’re dead if you disturb me.”
Kang Yujun couldn’t bring himself to hold Lee Kanghyun back to eat before leaving. He just blankly watched Lee Kanghyun, wearing his clothes, open the front door and leave.
