Gentle Giant Chapter 69
“Hm? What’s that?”
“…Gu.”
Having barely finished speaking, Dain held Juho’s pinky finger and bowed his head deeply.
At Jung Dain’s unexpected statement, Juho’s face showed surprise. After chewing over whether what he just heard was real for a few seconds, Juho tightly gripped the finger Dain was holding.
“Hyung, say it again.”
“…Again?”
“Yes, again.”
“Ahem! Uh, the best thing I have is my, my boyfriend…!”
…And before he could finish speaking to the end, his lips were devoured by Juho’s lips.
After biting, sucking, nibbling, and licking Dain’s strawberry milk-colored lips, Juho’s face sparkled and shone.
“Haa. Our hyung, why are you so cool?”
“Co, cool?”
“Yes. I fell for you again today.”
Juho looked at Dain with the expression of a tiger with delicious meat in front of it. Under Juho’s intense gaze looking at him, Dain blushed red up to his nape.
Juho touched Dain’s reddened nape with his finger and whispered.
“If I were a carrier, I think I would have rushed to you asking to have a baby right away.”
“…!!!”
Dain’s eyes widened as he quickly lifted his head that had been bowed down. Oh, oh my!
“Ju, Juho, you’re still young but you say such things so casually!”
“Why? Hyung said you’d take responsibility for me. Feed me meat side dishes every day. Buy me a house to live in. If we’re at that level, this kind of talk is okay.”
“Is, is that so?”
“Of course, at that level we’re practically family.”
“Family…!”
Dain’s nose bridge moved pleasantly. Since Juho had just precisely driven home their relationship, all the shock from what he heard from Kim Sujeong was blown away. He felt so good that his whole body from his back to his bottom felt ticklish.
Dain quickly picked up the bag he had dropped at the entrance.
“Juho, I bought lots of various things today! Let’s organize them together!”
“That’s right. Let’s go together. Wasn’t it heavy carrying it alone?”
Juho took the bag from Dain’s hands with caring touch and headed toward the kitchen. Dain, who had been watching the bag leave his hands so naturally, hurriedly followed behind Juho.
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“What’s all this?”
Juho asked while examining the large bag. Dain put the things he bought on the dining table and explained the necessity of each item one by one.
Side dish containers, scrubbers, zip bags, tongs, kitchen scissors, even sink drain stoppers. He had bought them quite thriftily.
Juho let out a laugh saying he couldn’t stop him while watching Dain check against even the shopping list.
While helping Dain check the list and organize the items, he discovered one item that looked out of place. One large duck inside a net bag and three small ducks riding on its back.
Juho lifted the net bag to face level using only his index finger and thumb.
No matter how he looked at it, it didn’t seem like something they needed.
“Hyung, did you buy this too?”
“Huh?? Uh, yeah.”
“This…?”
Dain nodded while looking at what was dangling from Juho’s fingertips. His ear tips had turned red.
Dain took the duck family from Juho’s grasp and stammered an explanation.
“I thought it would be nice to float them in the bathtub when bathing. So it wouldn’t be boring.”
“Ah, that’s why.”
Jung Dain, really. Where did he buy such cute things? Juho grinned while watching Dain fiddle with the duck family.
Dain, who usually had fantasies about bathtubs, was planning to steadily realize that desire with this opportunity. The reason for his only impulse purchase not on the shopping list was also there.
Although the eyes were mismatched and the expression was somewhat frighteningly vacant, he really liked the yellow coloring.
Dain quickly put the duck family in the bathroom drawer and came back.
“Hyung, then I’ll organize this stuff. Go wash up first. With the ducks, pfft. With the duck family.”
“It, it’s not funny!”
“It’s not funny. I said it because it’s cute.”
When Juho coaxed the puffed-cheek Dain to the bathroom and was organizing the kitchen while unable to stop his leaking laughter.
Buzz buzz.
Dain’s phone on the dining table vibrated repeatedly and at length.
Thinking he should bring it to Dain, Juho looked at the phone screen and his lips twisted. He tapped the screen that read ‘Noona’ with his long finger for no reason.
Due to Juho’s choice to neither bring the phone to Dain nor answer it for him, the call ended not long after.
“Hmm.”
A bright smile suddenly appeared on Juho’s face as he looked at the phone with dissatisfaction.
Juho gripped the phone tightly and headed to the bathroom with urgent steps.
Meanwhile, Dain was soaking his body until all the bubbles he had released in the bathtub disappeared.
He lined up the small ducks and big duck, put them on backs and took them down, performing every possible prank. Even when his whole body turned red from the hot water in the bathtub, he didn’t care.
Dain let out a short laugh and gathered the remaining bubbles in both hands. The nice scent and fluffy texture naturally made his body languid.
Knock knock.
“Hyung!”
Juho’s urgent voice came from outside the bathroom. Dain, who had poured the bubbles from his hands back into the bathtub, quickly answered.
“Y, yeah! What’s wrong?”
“Can I come in?”
“Huh??”
Although Dain raised the end of his answer meaning ‘what’s the matter?’, Juho opened the door wide. He seemed to have interpreted Dain’s answer as he pleased.
In Juho’s hands as he entered was Dain’s phone, held demurely.
“Hyung, you got a call… Ah, it hung up.”
“Huh?”
“You got a call from your noona, so I thought it might be urgent. But it hung up. Do you want to check, hyung?”
“No, no!”
Dain shook his head while his body turned even redder than before. However, Juho used his long legs to approach the bathtub in an instant.
Dain made an X with his hands to cover his chest. Since he was well-built, it wasn’t all covered, so more parts were exposed.
Ha, bare skin. Looks damn soft.
After instantly scanning Dain’s body, Juho smiled innocently.
“Why, hyung? You never know. It might be urgent.”
“Juho…!”
“Yes?”
“Uh, if you leave the phone there, I’ll check it myself. Thanks!”
“There’s nowhere to put it here? I’ll hold it for you. Hyung just needs to move your finger.”
Juho sat on the edge of the bathtub and held the phone in front of Dain’s face.
Dain’s hands covering his chest flinched, but he couldn’t bring himself to let go.
Even though he was somewhat covered by bubbles, he was naked…!
Dain made a bewildered expression. Even though he had shown Juho down to his underwear when they first met, showing his body was a different matter.
“Uh, then could you take the phone back out? Since I’m ba, bathing right now…”
“Why, hyung? Are you embarrassed?”
“Huh?? Of, of course!”
“What’s embarrassing? Between us.”
If the earlier Lee Juho had only glanced at Dain’s body sideways, the current Lee Juho was openly staring at Dain. The more his golden eyes sparkled with curiosity, the more Dain didn’t know what to do from embarrassment.
As Dain turned his head this way and that, not knowing where to place his eyes, the duck toys also danced rippling with his movements.
Juho picked up one small duck that was near Dain’s legs and pressed it firmly.
Squeak.
With the characteristic sound of a toy, the small duck became unrecognizably flat in Juho’s hand. After repeating that action several times, Juho put the duck down and said.
“Cute.”
At Juho’s words, Dain barely lifted his head to look at his face and agreed.
“R, right? The duck is cute, right?”
“Yes, it’s cute.”
Juho’s gaze as he made a languid eye smile had been on between Dain’s legs from earlier. Even when pressing the small duck, what he persistently followed with his eyes was elsewhere.
Only then realizing what Juho was looking at when he said cute, Dain splashed and backed away. Not satisfied with just bringing together his legs that had been crossed, he tightly hugged his knees with his arms.
Looking at Dain curled up round like a cocoon, Juho made an expression as if he knew nothing.
“Hyung, why were you so surprised?”
“That’s because you…!”
“Yes, because of me? Hm?”
“You looked at my thing and said cute…!”
“Hm? I call cute things cute.”
Juho approached Dain’s face and stroked his wet hair. Hearing that, Dain shook his head vigorously.
“It’s not.”
“It looked cute though.”
“It, it’s not!”
Watching Dain insist it wasn’t even if he died, Juho’s head tilted to the side. Compared to his own, it was definitely cute. The shape was even dainty, making him think ‘that’s just like Jung Dain’ and he couldn’t stop laughing.
“Juho, yours is just too big. Mine is average.”
“Wait, how does hyung know yours is average? Have you seen other people’s?”
At Dain’s words, Juho suddenly became serious and answered. How could he know something that requires a comparison…?
Seeing Juho’s sharp expression, Dain hesitantly spoke.
“No, you learn about it all when you’re young. At, at school.”
Dain clearly remembered the teacher’s words as she brought visual materials and explained earnestly. That day, the boys in the same class were also excitedly talking about Korean averages and such.
Of course, he had naturally picked up more as he grew up. Just going to the bathroom during breaks, you could see others’ ‘things.’ However, Dain now had the sense to leave that story out.
Juho’s expression finally returned after squinting and determining the truth of what Dain was saying.
At his returned expression, Dain let out a short sigh of relief, but thinking about it, he felt wronged.
He was the one who showed his naked body and was being teased, so why was he making excuses to Juho?
Watching such changes in Dain’s expression, Juho grinned.
“Hyung, why do you have that expression?”
“No, nothing.”
“Not nothing. Ah, are you upset because you’re the only one showing?”
“Gasp…!”
How did he know? Dain’s eyes widened.
After tapping Dain’s strawberry milk-colored lips with his finger, Juho spoke.
“Then should I show you too?”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
