Gentle Giant Chapter 75
“Then let’s stop here for today.”
At the professor’s words ending the lecture, the students’ bodies stirred restlessly. As soon as the long 3-hour lecture ended, groaning sounds naturally escaped.
Dain also stretched as soon as the professor left the classroom.
“Ugh.”
“Hyung, you’re tired, right?”
Juho, who was sitting next to him, asked while patting Dain’s shoulder.
The two had studied at home until almost 3 AM preparing for the midterms that were coming the week after next.
Since there were so many people approaching Juho at the library, they had hurriedly bought a desk and holed up at home.
Contrary to Dain’s worries, the two rarely interfered with each other.
Dain was very satisfied with the properly formed study environment. Thanks to that, he could organize and memorize books to his satisfaction once he picked them up. On the other hand, while watching such a Dain, Juho was just smacking his lips.
Of course, if it were up to him, he wanted to get rid of all the books and everything. However, on the other hand, how sexy Dain looked while frowning as he studied. Just watching Dain study would make it dawn in an instant.
“I’m fine, what about you, Juho?”
“Me? I’m totally fine.”
Juho shrugged with a grin.
How refreshing that smile was. They were both staying up until dawn studying the same way, but somehow it seemed like only Dain was becoming haggard.
Their stamina must definitely be different. Dain inwardly admired as he remembered anew that Juho was a tiger beast-man.
At Dain’s face looking at him with sparkling eyes, Juho smiled without knowing why.
Dain giggled while watching Juho, who automatically smiled whenever their eyes met at any time. Even now, Juho, who saw Dain laughing, was laughing along with Dain even though he didn’t know the reason.
Because of Juho becoming increasingly cute, Dain felt like the fatigue from the long lecture time was instantly forgotten.
It was when they both left the classroom with the corners of their mouths raised. Juho looked at his phone vibrating in his hand and spoke to Dain with a troubled expression.
“Hyung, I’ll go down first and take a call. Take your time coming down.”
“Huh? What call?”
“Work. It’s a bit chaotic here.”
“Mm-hmm! Okay, give me those books. I’ll organize them in the locker.”
“Thanks.”
After Juho ruffled Dain’s hair once, he went down the stairs. His reliable, straight back stood out immediately even when mixed among countless students. Dain, who had been moving his gaze following that back, moved his steps toward the locker when Juho’s figure disappeared.
Meanwhile, Youngju, who had arrived at the humanities building and was looking around, spotted Juho coming down the stairs.
“Oh?”
She thought she should catch him since the person she had been searching for days was right before her eyes, but seeing Juho’s fierce expression, she unconsciously stepped back.
In the end, Youngju, who had just blankly watched him disappear from a distance, turned her head to look around.
It was to find Dain, Juho’s boyfriend.
She knew they usually went around together, but he’s not here now? She looked up the stairs.
Let’s just go up to the classroom. Still, I saw Lee Juho, so it would be a bit… to go back like this. If I go and meet Dain, I’ll ask just one more time! She reached an agreement with herself.
While going up the unfamiliar humanities building stairs, Youngju looked for gray hair the entire time. She thought it would catch her eye quickly since it was an uncommon color, but it was harder to find than expected.
“Ah, should I just go?”
When she was contemplating whether to go up or down in front of the 3rd-floor hallway, she discovered gray hair near the corner lockers.
Wow, Lee Youngju’s intuition is amazing! Youngju, who praised herself, approached Dain with quick steps. While thinking that he seemed quite built for a cat beast-man.
“Excuse me!”
Dain felt déjà vu at the voice calling his name while poking his back and turned around.
As Dain expected, the female student who had introduced herself as being from the broadcasting club was standing behind him.
“Hello, you remember me, right? We talked a few days ago.”
“Ah. Yes, hello.”
Unlike the cheerful female student’s face, Dain couldn’t hide his displeased expression. He seemed to know why she had come looking for him again.
Seeing Dain’s expression harden after confirming her face, Youngju clicked her tongue briefly inwardly. He’s openly showing his dislike.
However, Youngju didn’t show her displeasure outwardly and asked in a sweet voice.
“I was waiting in case you might contact me, but you haven’t even after several days.”
“I, I…”
“Yes?”
Dain looked at Youngju with a troubled expression.
Of course, he had no plans to convey the message to Juho or contact her, but since he had thrown away the contact information itself, there was no way to contact her at all.
“I lost the contact information. And, and I won’t be conveying any messages to Juho separately. So please stop this now…”
At Dain’s firm words, Youngju’s expression hardened. This was too much when she had come all this way to talk. The voices of her peers cursing Dain floated through her head. Now she felt like she could agree with her peers’ words a hundred times over.
The more she thought about it, the worse her mood became. Eventually, an incredulous voice flowed from Youngju’s mouth.
“Excuse me.”
“Y-yes?”
“I’m not asking you to do anything difficult. If you keep saying that, I have my position too, aren’t you being a bit inflexible?”
“Then if you speak directly…”
“Ha…!”
Youngju swept up her long hair. If it were that easy, I wouldn’t be asking like this!! She really doesn’t understand. She bit her lips hard after exploding inwardly.
Dain felt sorry for throwing away the contact information, but he couldn’t understand her glaring at him as if she would devour him.
If it was such an important matter, he thought it was right to convey the message directly. He had clearly said last time that he wouldn’t convey the message.
Dain also bit his lips hard.
With their moods soured for their respective reasons, the two people looked at each other. After quite a long standoff, it was Dain who moved from his spot first.
“I, I have nothing more to say. I’d appreciate it if you didn’t come looking for me anymore.”
“Hey!”
“If it’s really important, I think you should do it directly, not necessarily through me.”
“Are you done talking now?”
Youngju made an annoyed expression after hearing the not-so-funny advice.
Dain quickly bowed his head, thinking this might get loud. After bowing to Youngju, Dain left the lockers and moved toward the stairs. By this time, Juho might have finished his call and be waiting for him.
While watching Dain’s back as he walked past her with big strides, Youngju stamped her feet.
That man was talking as if Youngju wasn’t doing her job properly and had no sense of responsibility.
The ones who really have no sense of responsibility aren’t me but the seniors. If I really hadn’t done my job properly, I wouldn’t have come looking twice like this. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became.
She quickly chased after Dain.
“Excuse me, hey, Jung Dain!”
“…?!”
Dain’s eyes widened greatly as his name was suddenly called while he was walking quickly.
There were quite a few students in the hallway. People’s eyes turned toward Dain.
Strength turned white in Dain’s fingertips as he gripped the stair railing.
“Let’s go together.”
“What?”
“I’ll talk to him directly. Let’s go together.”
“Where…”
Youngju said while grabbing the end of Dain’s sleeve. At the words without beginning or end, Dain’s eyebrows rose.
There were already students who had stopped walking and were watching the two people.
Dain felt his ears reddening and slightly shook his arm to remove her hand.
However, a slight shake wasn’t enough to remove Youngju’s hand. A small sigh flowed from Dain’s mouth. He could only think that he had gotten into serious trouble.
“You’re going to meet Lee Juho now, right? Take me with you. I’ll meet him directly and talk.”
“N-no. I’m not going to meet Juho.”
“Don’t lie. I saw Lee Juho earlier and came up.”
“What?”
Then you should have talked to him when you saw Juho earlier!
Dain’s head throbbed at her words. This was the first time he had met such an unreasonable person.
Youngju applied silent pressure to Dain, who had no intention of moving, without even realizing that she had just made a big verbal mistake.
“Let’s go quickly.”
“Excuse me, I think you’re really being rude…”
“Yes, I’m sorry about that. What are you doing, aren’t you going?”
Dain tried to pull out his sleeve once again, but Youngju was immovable.
Dain’s face gradually became tearful. He really didn’t want to go meet Juho together with this female student. How should he speak for her to just leave? Dain’s head was complicated.
While watching such a Dain, Youngju inwardly cheered.
Looking at Dain’s behavior, he was definitely going to meet his boyfriend. I’ll follow and tell him directly. Youngju, who had forgotten Juho’s fierce face from earlier, rather stamped her feet and went down the stairs ahead.
“Um, let go of this. Can’t you just go? I’m really uncomfortable and getting angry.”
“Please understand just a little. I’ll just talk briefly. Okay?”
“No, I mean, if you do it this way, Juho will dislike it too.”
“Yes, yes. I understand.”
Youngju, who had already forgotten her original purpose and only had a power struggle with Dain remaining, listened to Dain’s words with one ear and let them flow out while quickly stepping down the stairs.
And when she was just three steps away from the first floor.
“…!!!”
Youngju’s right shoe heel caught on the stair edge. Because of that, she lost her balance and swayed.
Youngju reached out her hand to regain her balance, but the incident happened so quickly that her upper body falling forward was faster.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
