Yeo Dowoon didn’t prefer roundabout ways of speaking.
Just as he used direct speech, he wanted others to do the same, and if they were going to speak in riddles, he at least wanted them to convey their honest feelings in a way he could understand.
“There’s a limit to being senseless. What kind of guy are you that you don’t develop at all?”
But Kwon Jeonghoo was excessively unadorned. Yeo Dowoon, who had passed out from overusing his ability and woken up, quickly looked around. It seemed to be Kwon Jeonghoo’s officetel. Unfortunately, he had no memory of how he’d ended up here.
“You cause trouble like a wild colt and then just pass out? One bastard causes problems and another bastard has to clean up?”
“…I’m sorry. I think I went crazy for a moment.”
Since he was the one who’d committed a wrong, Yeo Dowoon readily agreed. Just as he said, he was a bastard who didn’t develop. So undeveloped he was worse than an old tree whose growth had stopped.
“Ah…!”
Yeo Dowoon, who’d been digging a tunnel into the ground, suddenly groaned when his ear was grabbed.
Kwon Jeonghoo’s cool hand was mercilessly crushing his earlobe. When Yeo Dowoon grabbed his hand while struggling, Kwon Jeonghoo smiled wickedly.
“Captain, stop…!”
In reality he was just slightly raising the corner of his mouth diagonally, but that’s how it looked to Yeo Dowoon.
Kwon Jeonghoo, who’d squeezed his ear like extracting oil, brushed off his hand as if he’d let him off the hook for now. Yeo Dowoon rubbed his earlobe with a tearful face. Thump thump. His ear grew hot enough to feel his heartbeat.
However, Kwon Jeonghoo remained cynical.
“If it hurts a lot, tell me. I’ll put medicine on it.”
“I’m fine.”
At his voice with thorns stuck in it, Yeo Dowoon answered in a stiff tone.
Since he’d dispatched a support team for an Esper dispute, he figured this situation would last at least another 24 hours. Kwon Jeonghoo expressed his toil with a heavy sigh.
He asked while painfully massaging Yeo Dowoon’s shoulder.
“Want me to get you a box of deer antler velvet? Why do you get carried in unconscious every time when you’re an Esper?”
“…It’s not, ugh. Every time.”
His rare vacation had been ruined by an unexpected support request.
“Don’t talk back.”
To send a support team, they first had to evacuate residents in the nearby area. It was to prepare for any possible mishap, so they’d put in an emergency alert as quickly as possible.
Even just that process consumed unimaginable manpower and time. Because it happened to be during vacation, he couldn’t call the Delta guys together, so Kwon Jeonghoo went to provide support himself.
It was because the person requesting support being Yeo Dowoon made it problematic to send out A-class or B-class Espers.
If an S-class Esper of his caliber had encountered difficulties, even if lower-ranked Espers went to provide support, it wasn’t impossible they’d just be a burden.
Since they had to consider the possibility of his rampage too, Cha Haseong, who’d been out, also had to urgently return to the base. Cha Haseong, who ended up being paired with Kwon Jeonghoo for dispatch, pressed his throbbing forehead when faced with the frozen rooftop. While adding the bitter remark, “Dowoon-ssi has caused another incident.”
“Is your body not what it used to be?”
Kwon Jeonghoo sat on the edge of the bed and pulled back the blanket.
“It doesn’t follow as well as your heart wants?”
He asked while massaging Yeo Dowoon’s legs with appropriate grip strength. His voice that leaked out was particularly careful. Yeo Dowoon, who’d been looking only at the air as if apologetic, suddenly raised his eyebrows.
“…No? It’s the same as before.”
“……”
“It follows as well as before. Only the possibility of rampage is fucked up.”
It was an arrogant expression.
At the tension that deflated weakly with a thud, Kwon Jeonghoo pinched his calf, saying this bastard was getting more arrogant by the day. Yeo Dowoon silently accepted even the harsh touch that felt like it would tear off a whole chunk of flesh.
“But, even I can see my head is getting worse.”
When he belatedly admitted it, Kwon Jeonghoo burst into scorn.
“Right. You should reflect since you passed out fighting with a much junior guy. And with no shame at all, you even put in a support request on top of that. Hm? Go ahead and try it until you’re sick of it.”
“What? Reflect?”
“Want to do something else then?”
Kwon Jeonghoo, who struck back with a damp voice, slowly traced down Yeo Dowoon’s shin. Yeo Dowoon kicked out in shock, but Kwon Jeonghoo just grabbed that ankle and pulled it toward himself.
“Ah, hyung!”
Yeo Dowoon, who’d been leaning back, slid down defenseless. At the “hyung” that came out whenever he was at a disadvantage, Kwon Jeonghoo responded as if sick of it.
“How long are you going to wake up in hospitals? Is the hospital your front yard?”
“Today I didn’t wake up in a hospital, I woke up at hyung’s place!”
“If I hadn’t brought you, you would’ve been headed to a hospital room again without fail. While you’re there, get a wavelength test done again too. That would’ve been great, right?”
At the mention of wavelength test, Yeo Dowoon’s struggling stopped abruptly. He asked back.
“Wavelength test?”
“Because lately, you look like it wouldn’t be strange if you went on a rampage right now.”
Yeo Dowoon gripped his forearm as if something wasn’t right.
Kwon Jeonghoo, who had somehow laid him flat beneath him, met his eyes without hesitation. At the face that had gotten much closer, Yeo Dowoon just laughed awkwardly.
The man’s body starting to seriously kindle heat while laying him on the bed was very burdensome. Since he too had opened the floodgates of affectionate acts this way, he couldn’t not know even if he wanted to.
“Sorry, but I have no intention of kissing Captain from now on.”
So he felt he should make his position clear before the atmosphere ripened further.
Yeo Dowoon didn’t want his relationship with Kwon Jeonghoo to get scratched. He just wanted him to remain as a sometimes irritating, sometimes detestable superior like now.
“But you had the intention before?”
Kwon Jeonghoo asked slyly. His hand climbed up Yeo Dowoon’s nape.
“No. I didn’t have it before either.”
“If you didn’t have it, why did you rub and suck all this time?”
Well, he could give endless reasons if he had to. The problem was he’d look completely pathetic rattling them off.
When Yeo Dowoon quietly wet his throat, Kwon Jeonghoo murmured while touching his Adam’s apple as if tickling it.
“Words just won’t come out?”
“…Are you doing this because you’re lonely?”
Yeo Dowoon asked, intercepting his hand. His attitude was serious without even a hint of playfulness.
“Honestly, I’m not your type, Captain.”
Kwon Jeonghoo’s sexual affection felt like a trial in life to Yeo Dowoon.
When the person who dated just fine without incident and discussed marriage as if he’d send out wedding invitations someday started lusting after him, it just looked like the scam of the century.
“I think there was a misunderstanding… you are my type.”
Yeo Dowoon thought Kwon Jeonghoo’s answer was crude. If he was going to lie, he should at least show some sincerity.
“Captain’s type was the kind with hair down to the collarbone that aroused protective instincts. Calm ones.”
“Your type was sexy women regardless of type. Wrong?”
When he hit the mark, sure enough that damn habit crawled out again. The bad habit of applying the opponent’s move the same way to push back. Yeo Dowoon pushed away Kwon Jeonghoo’s thigh with his foot as he criticized.
“You know you’re being petty yourself, right?”
But if pushing would make him back off, he wouldn’t have laid him down in the first place. Kwon Jeonghoo, who’d been holding firm, tightly grasped Yeo Dowoon’s sole.
“What are you doing?”
Yeo Dowoon’s spine grew cold and he struggled urgently.
The fingers tracing the hollow part of his sole were mischievous. When Yeo Dowoon involuntarily opened his mouth in absurdity at the unexpected response, Kwon Jeonghoo’s eyes flashed and he lightly bit his lower lip.
“Ngh…!”
Yeo Dowoon resisted by twisting his head. Perhaps because of that, his lip tore and a round drop of blood formed. A hot tongue licked the lip and disappeared. Yeo Dowoon felt futility at his bizarre behavior.
He was sure he’d declared about a minute ago that he wouldn’t kiss him anymore, but it seemed his words went in one ear and out the other.
Kwon Jeonghoo, who pinned down his legs that were heaving ominously, stroked Yeo Dowoon’s toes one by one and evaluated.
“Your height grew tremendously, and your foot size got bigger too.”
“It was big from the start.”
“It was smaller than now though.”
Since the height measured when he first joined the base barely hit 180cm, it couldn’t be said he was spreading distorted information. But Yeo Dowoon’s face remained coldly hardened.
If he was going to treat him like a kid, at least don’t initiate skinship. Anyway, Kwon Jeonghoo didn’t seem like he could be a sensible human either.
“Get off, please. You’re crushing me to death.”
“Thanks to who did you grow like that?”
At the question that seemed to have a predetermined answer, Yeo Dowoon let out the sigh he’d been holding forcefully.
Since he’d grown 5cm after becoming an adult, it would be fine to consider it a blessing from God, but Kwon Jeonghoo seemed to want to claim that achievement for himself as he acted persistently.
“You reckless punk, who raised you into an adult like this? Hm?”
Nevertheless, Yeo Dowoon responded expressionlessly. As they just repeated meaningless squabbling, he grew hungry for rest. He asked in an earnest tone.
“I want to rest now, Captain.”
“Rest.”
“I want to rest alone.”
Though he thought he’d refuse, Kwon Jeonghoo unexpectedly pressed his lips to his temple with a kiss, then straightened his upper body.
Yeo Dowoon didn’t even have the energy to wipe away the spot where his kiss had landed. Kwon Jeonghoo, who’d been watching his eyelids move slowly with blinks, asked simply.
“Sleepy?”
“I’ve been sleepy from the start.”
He’d just been holding it in because the homeowner kept talking to him and tormenting him without rest.
Kwon Jeonghoo chuckled and swept his hair back for him. Since it was a touch that was plain without being sticky, Yeo Dowoon also comfortably entrusted his face to it. His tense shoulders relaxed.
