Baek Seonwoo, who’d been tense like a male wolf before a showdown between alphas, ended up deflated. But there wasn’t anyone who paid attention to him.
Yoon Minoh felt a welling regret at the memories that freshly surfaced.
“If I grab hyung’s hand painfully tight and pull you toward me.”
He tried hard to convey intact to Yeo Dowoon the sensation he’d experienced when he first recognized his own ability. Yeo Dowoon obediently entrusted his body as he led him.
Tap, their shoulders interlocked one side each.
“Hyung has no choice but to pour toward me. It’s no different for me either. Want to try pulling?”
Yoon Minoh didn’t maintain his usual tactless speech pattern that easily ruined the other person’s mood.
Rather, he used such a serious tone that even Baek Seonwoo, who’d been freaking out thinking these bastards had collectively lost their minds, ended up listening.
Yeo Dowoon roughly applied grip strength and did as Yoon Minoh instructed.
Then Yoon Minoh pressed his nose firmly against his shoulder with a thud and let out an exaggerated moan of “ow ow ow.” But when he just stayed leaning blankly against him even after several seconds passed, Yeo Dowoon asked without hesitation.
“Is that it?”
“…….”
“What’s next?”
To be frank, he still didn’t completely understand the core concept of centrifugal force that Yoon Minoh claimed. So when he could collect specific information from the person in question, he wanted to actively utilize that opportunity.
“Hmm…, well. What would be the next step needed for hyung and me?”
When Yoon Minoh couldn’t hold back and let out a nasal sound, Yeo Dowoon pointed out firmly.
“Don’t downplay your ability, explain it properly.”
“I never downplayed it. Your lips were right in front of my eyes, so I tried being cute.”
Yoon Minoh, who’d pulled away with a huff, returned to the same position as before and demanded.
“Pull me toward you one more time.”
“Why?”
“You told me to explain. If I want to be favored by hyung, I should listen well.”
If that had been his intention, he shouldn’t have put the pair clause as a contract condition and made his retirement go up in smoke. But Yeo Dowoon didn’t reproach him and readily handed over his palm.
Yoon Minoh, who’d whistled with a whoosh, drawled out three simple syllables.
“Oh my….”
“……What?”
“Haha, what do you mean what. It’s the centrifugal force our sunbae has been waiting and waiting for.”
Yeo Dowoon, who’d pulled the clasped hand in his direction, strangely ended up tilted and falling into Yoon Minoh’s embrace. Trapped in those well-built arms, he still couldn’t grasp it and narrowed his eyes sharply.
“This isn’t a trick?”
Though his words were harsh, even for Yeo Dowoon, he wasn’t really asking back because Yoon Minoh was suspicious.
He who’d directly held hands was more clearly experiencing the fact that he hadn’t been bracing himself with force in his legs. But it didn’t seem like he’d given a reaction to tilt his center of gravity either.
“A trick would be, hmm, more like this, wouldn’t it?”
Yoon Minoh, who’d tried to lower his lips to Yeo Dowoon’s cheek aiming for the gap, had his jawbone twisted and caught in an instant and shook his head. As if to shatter his lower jaw, violent grip strength poured out.
“Mmph……!”
Yoon Minoh hastily changed tactics and pleaded.
“Ah, hyung…, it hurts…….”
“Try it again.”
“If, if you let go of my chin first…….”
“Can’t you do it like this?”
He can’t. It hurts enough for tears to seep out, so how could there be conditions to concentrate?
However, Yeo Dowoon just glared at him day and night as if suspicious. Yoon Minoh whined as if the positions of his upper and lower jaw were being switched.
“Hngh…….”
Only after he became red as a beet and whimpered did Yeo Dowoon fling his head away with a whoosh. Yoon Minoh, who pitifully held his chin that felt grainy as if scraped by sandpaper, raised his fresh eyes and lamented.
“So stingy…, is it that hard to pay the lesson fee with a kiss?”
“Lesson, my ass.”
“The one who’s crazy is your personality, hyung.”
“Your impudence isn’t bad either.”
Yeo Dowoon cut in and pressed.
“Is it really all finished?”
“I’m in pain…….”
Yoon Minoh, who’d been suffering from an untimely toothache because his chin had been gripped so hard, showed his grievance. Though his drooping eyebrows were pitiful, Yeo Dowoon was extremely stubborn.
“Fine. Rest.”
When he became indifferent and tried to withdraw his interest from him, Yoon Minoh hurriedly attempted a third handshake.
“Please pull me one last time. I’ll show you clearly.”
Yeo Dowoon clasped his hand half-believing, half-doubting. This time too, it was while he was quickly pulling him. Yeo Dowoon lost his center toward the bumpy chest as if the direction of force had reversed to complete opposites.
“Haha, oh my. Hyung.”
Yoon Minoh shamelessly caught and embraced the falling Yeo Dowoon. A sentence seemingly heavily doused with impure intentions followed. The tone of his voice had also been lowered sultrily.
“What should I do with you like this. Makes me want to hold you tight.”
His thick chest muscles undulated up and down as if giving a welcoming greeting. Left, right, left, right, bouncing up in order. However, that alone seemed insufficient to capture Yeo Dowoon’s attention.
Yeo Dowoon immediately asked.
“What’s the principle?”
To that, Yoon Minoh answered in a somewhat strange tone.
“It’s centrifugal force, I’m telling you. Hyung can’t feel it, but when using the ability, the targets that enter the coordinates move in circular motion round and round. At infinite speed. It’s movement so fast and minute that the human eye can’t confirm it, so it just looks like a stationary state on the outside.”
“…….”
“What acts at this time is inertia. If it’s in the opposite direction of the net force, it’s centrifugal force; if it’s in the same direction, it’s centripetal force.”
“…….”
“I can use both…, but my specialty is centrifugal force.”
……What bullshit is this. It seemed like some letters entered his ears, but even those felt like they were slipping right back out.
“…Does the Captain know too?”
Yeo Dowoon asked, giving up on understanding. It was the limit of his intellectual capacity. Yoon Minoh answered neatly.
“If he didn’t know, wouldn’t he not have sent me out as hyung’s backup on Yeongjong Island?”
“Anyway, what you just said is an actually possible principle, right?”
“Right. If it were impossible, what trick would I use to handle centrifugal force?”
Yeo Dowoon finally let out a hollow laugh. Though he only vaguely grasped Yoon Minoh’s ability itself, he realized a lot.
“Why are you only telling me this now?”
“Huh? From my experience, this is the third time explaining….”
“If you’d told me earlier, it would’ve been good for everyone, you bastard.”
“Wait. I chatted plenty at the hotel I was at with hyung too, you know? I’m so wronged I could die!”
Whether it was centrifugal force or whatever, the flaw was that he’d thought it was far from his concern and hadn’t tried to look into it. You can apply all physical forces that exist in nature?
“Yoon Minoh.”
Yeo Dowoon firmly grasped Yoon Minoh’s face. At the fervent contact, Yoon Minoh opened his eyes wide. If that was the original definition of centrifugal force, damn it.
“Can you suppress berserk too?”
He felt like he’d finally found the only way for Cha Haseong to not have his ankle caught beside him. Though there was a possibility it could be a rotten rope, Yeo Dowoon shone with eyes as if he’d lost his mind.
“You can, right?”
An Esper’s berserk is the condensation and explosion of the physical force each individual possesses. Therefore, if there was no lie mixed in Yoon Minoh’s centrifugal force lesson, he should necessarily be able to suppress berserk too.
Yoon Minoh answered while crumpling his expression in bewilderment.
“According to theory…, suppressing it should be possible. It’s really just suppressing, so the target would burst and explode. I’d be making it act as an opposing force, not the concept of removing the force itself….”
“That’s enough.”
Yeo Dowoon responded as soon as his lips opened.
“First, thank you so much for accepting someone like me as your pair. Minoh.”
A brilliant smile bloomed on his expressionless face. However, Yoon Minoh only became increasingly ominous. Fear crept in at the extremely changed treatment. Yoon Minoh asked softly.
“Hyung, are you sick somewhere by any chance? You’re okay, right?”
Yeo Dowoon, who’d released the cheeks he’d been holding in his grasp, soothed him maturely.
“I’m always fine.”
“Hyung.”
“So from now on too, you should take responsibility for hyung.”
“…Should I call an ambulance? Just where and how much does it hurt!”
“I’ll take responsibility for you too. Take responsibility for me.”
Yoon Minoh turned pale and clung to Yeo Dowoon’s clothes.
“It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have tried to make hyung understand centrifugal force…, haah. Not knowing the principle or concept doesn’t create obstacles to living. Even if you don’t strain your brain, there’s no one to blame you.”
“I strained it early on.”
“Damn it! Hyung, you’re an Esper. Espers aren’t the profession that analyzes abilities, they’re the profession that runs into actual combat.”
“Right. Let’s run into actual combat together nicely.”
Yoon Minoh, who judged that Yeo Dowoon had lost his reason due to excessive information, shouted out.
“Is there no Guide here? Anyone’s fine, so bring a Guide, quickly!”
He felt like he could accept it even if Cha Haseong with his unlucky mug appeared.
“Minoh.”
“Aaah! Dowoon hyung, get a hold of yourself! When have you ever called me Minoh!”
Yeo Dowoon urgently needed to receive guiding. Baek Seonwoo, who’d returned to the bench as if embarrassed, fed up with the two people’s loving antics that weren’t loving antics, clicked his tongue and muttered to himself.
“They’re hugging each other and putting on quite a show, quite a show.”
He’d even felt left out for a moment, but watching a relationship heading toward catastrophe, nothing could be more exhilarating than this.
Ko Ijae, who’d been contacting Kwon Jeonghoo who couldn’t be found even though roll call time had passed, busily shifted his gaze to the hand pinching his side.
“Hey, look at that.”
“…….”
“Two ridiculous guys are fighting.”
Where Baek Seonwoo gestured with his head, a sudden bloody battle was taking place.
