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Taein clenched his fists as he looked at Gari.
“Wow, hyung-nim speaks so well.”
It was Jang Ihwan, who had been standing in the back, who responded.
Jang Ihwan, who strode over and stood in front of Taein, even clapped his hands. Saying “I didn’t know our hyung-nim could speak so well,” he also sent his eyes to Gari who had ended up standing behind him. Only then did Gari stick his face to the side and say “Exactly.” From the beginning, he seemed not to have listened to Taein’s threats even with half an ear.
“Hyung-nim, what did you say earlier? What about manners? Be good when I’m being nice to you? You said that to me. I’m the same too.”
Jang Ihwan, who said “the same toooo” with narrowed eyes, wore a smile on his face. It was an expression Taein often saw. Acting friendly by dragging out his words inappropriately for the situation. And if he said something convincing, that would be one thing, but he always talked about JAM and holes in that tone. There was no reason to listen.
“You act human when you treat people like humans.”
Huh? Jang Ihwan, who asked back, brought his face even closer.
He had been leaning forward to throw a punch at Gari, but when Jang Ihwan suddenly closed the distance, his feet lifted off the ground. Taein, who stepped back one step, showed discomfort to Jang Ihwan who followed him by that same step. He tried to turn his shoulders while slightly frowning.
“Ah, that fucking bitch is looking at me like shit again.”
Jang Ihwan extremely hated Taein’s certain attitudes and looks. Even while speaking slyly, whenever he encountered certain aspects of Taein, his attitude would always sharpen like this. This place was no exception either, as a dark shadow fell over his face that had been playful throughout.
An enclosed space with one transparent glass bathroom. It was the typical structure of a high-end bar room, but it didn’t seem to be for customers only as clothes were scattered here and there. The huge table that should normally be there wasn’t visible either. The space only had one sofa and one marble side table that looked like a tea table.
Taein, who instinctively grasped the room’s structure, stepped back several more steps. It was because Jang Ihwan kept approaching him. While saying “fucking bastard, if you look at me like that I’ll kill you,” he was also moving his body closer. Taein, who had only been going backward, bumped his heel against the sofa leg. His balance collapsed for a moment and he ended up sitting on the sofa, and Jang Ihwan didn’t miss this and quickly bent his upper body forward.
“Hyung-nim, I’m not such a bad person. You know. Did I act like this to hyung-nim from the beginning?”
“…So what. What do you want to say?”
Taein, who had Jang Ihwan right in front of his nose, asked about Jang Ihwan’s intentions as if he had no choice.
“What I want to say, yeah.”
Jang Ihwan, who nodded, softened the momentum he had approached with while cursing and sat on the sofa. Then he naturally stretched out his arm and wrapped it around Taein’s shoulder. While he had been pushed away many times, this was the first time having his shoulder embraced like this. Naturally feeling rejection, Taein moved his body to the side and sent his gaze to Jang Ihwan. Gari standing in front seemed to find even this scene amusing as he was fully smiling. There was no one on Taein’s side in this place.
“Huh? You’re looking at me like that again?”
Jang Ihwan, who lifted his hand up, widened his eyes. His attitude was that he’d tell him once, but next time there would be no chance. It seemed like he was warning that if he looked at him like that again, then he’d throw his hand right away.
Taein sighed and covered his forehead with his hand. Since it wasn’t a sofa with a high backrest, even Taein’s shoulders leaned backward.
“Now you feel like giving up, right?”
Taking advantage of that gap, Jang Ihwan put his arm around his shoulder again and tapped Taein’s chin with his hand. This time Taein only slightly distorted his expression. He no longer sent contemptuous looks while looking at Jang Ihwan. It wasn’t that he was looking at him with contempt, but every time he looked, he seemed to make that expression and provoke Jang Ihwan’s anger. With the thought of roughly going along with Jang Ihwan, Taein placed his eyes around Gari’s knees and relaxed his facial muscles as much as possible.
“Ah, why aren’t you answering?”
“…I don’t know what you mean.”
“Ah… our hyung-nim really… is stubborn… What else could it be. Let’s cleanly attach the private loan to JAM and make money together. You’ll work here, right? Then about 4,000 falls in a month. Hyung-nim can take 500 too. No, why won’t you do something this good?”
While continuing to speak as if explaining or threatening, he made an expression like he genuinely didn’t understand. After hearing up to that point, Taein sent his eyes to the side.
“I’m paying back the money steadily… so that’s fine.”
“What’s fine. I don’t think anything’s fucking fine.”
“……”
“Haah… fuck, really.”
Even while speaking leisurely and lightly, his attitude changes like this. Jang Ihwan, who got excited quickly, gripped Taein’s nape hard.
“What would make you do it? Should I bring your kid here right now?”
“You bastard…!”
As soon as the question ended, Taein, who raised his fist, extended his arm toward Jang Ihwan’s face. Due to the angle, it was hard to reach directly. On top of that, Gari even grabbed Taein’s arm. Even though the heavy Gari was holding his arm, Taein tried to hit Jang Ihwan once while even raising his knee. Jang Ihwan only snorted at Taein who rushed at him with aggression right away. Even though he cared for the child that much, he couldn’t do what he couldn’t do? Jang Ihwan, who tilted his head diagonally, looked at Taein whose arms were trembling with arrogant eyes.
“Hey… you’re fucking acting up.”
Jang Ihwan, who muttered as if talking to himself, raised his eyes to Gari who was holding Taein.
“Pin this bastard down.”
“Yees.”
Gari, who grabbed both of Taein’s arms while smiling, pushed Taein toward the sofa.
Every time trouble arose near JAM, Gari couldn’t hit Taein. It was obvious he’d get cursed at by the boss Jang Heungcheol if the alcohol delivery bastard got scratches on his body or face. No matter how much his face was smashed, Gari’s situation was that he couldn’t even make one decent counterattack. Today, with Jang Ihwan present, there would be no particular damage even if he recklessly grabbed or shook Taein. Gari, who pushed Taein backward with peace of mind, smiled with the inside of his mouth fully revealed.
“Hyung-nim, just take this off. Then.”
When he looked to the side at the casually thrown words, Jang Ihwan had his hand on his chest. When Jang Ihwan made eye contact with Taein, he more actively tapped his own chest.
“Honestly, hyung-nim’s ear and this scar here.”
He pointed to Taein’s facial scar with his chin.
“It’s fucking ugly. But since the basics are there, even our old bastard is clinging to you. If even your front is ugly, I’m thinking of blocking it? Let’s just take a look once.”
Front. He meant the upper body. Taein had only been wearing a hoodie with an apron over it since the meat restaurant. The apron had been torn off long ago while resisting with his body, and the hoodie wasn’t in good shape either. The neck was stretched out so that one collarbone was clearly visible. With his arms caught by Gari, Taein couldn’t take off his clothes himself. Then, at the same time Gari let go of his hands, he quickly lifted Taein’s hoodie upward.
Taein’s body shrank at the upper body that was revealed in an instant.
“Hey, hyung-nim, how do you not have a single knife scar? I thought there would be at least one.”
Jang Ihwan, who looked at Taein’s chest with a curious face, fixed his gaze particularly on one spot.
It was an extremely uncomfortable look. Honestly, exposing his upper body was nothing. In summer, when it was severely hot, he would go in and out of the warehouse wearing only pants. It was possible because there were almost no people with special genders in the warehouse, and there were no perverts who got sexually excited by male upper bodies. But Gari and Jang Ihwan were different. Both were connected to JAM, and they were also bastards trying to stick him in this place, so they would look at his body differently.
Then, the sound of knocking on the door was heard.
Taein was the only one who sent his eyes that way.
Both Gari and Jang Ihwan were only interested in Taein’s body.
“Hey, isn’t it worth looking at… even though it’s a man’s body.”
“Hyung-nim, do you think male bastards sell for no reason… this bastard’s nipple color is fucking pretty too.”
While lewd talk was exchanged, the door rang once more. This knock had a bit more force than the first one.
Jang Ihwan, who had been laughing “fuck” at Gari’s words, finally looked at the door.
“Who is it?”
When he asked loudly in an annoyed voice, a sound of “Yes, hyung-nim!” was heard from outside the door.
“I said who is it, bastard.”
Even while sending his gaze to Taein’s body, Jang Ihwan frowned at the voice that said “Yes” again.
“Hey, you go check.”
When he threw his chin toward the door, Gari said “Yes” and stepped back. It seemed like a door that couldn’t be opened easily from inside or outside. When Gari pressed a switch and pulled the large door handle, one man standing with an awkward expression was revealed. Not knowing what to say, he seemed to have only been saying “Yes, hyung-nim, yes” until now. The door opened more and more. Then a man who was about a span taller than Gari could be seen standing on the corridor side.
Taein, whose gaze collided exactly with his, quickly crouched his body.
Jang Ihwan had even playfully touched his nipples gently, so there was no time to hesitate.
The man was Yoon Donghwan from Ilsim Capital.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
