Gentle Giant Chapter 14
Juho was internally drooling as he watched Dain staring at him in a daze.
Fuck, I really want to devour those eyes first.
Having thoughts that would make Dain jump if he heard them, Juho began organizing Dain’s t-shirts directly.
Dain was showing the exact same reaction as most people who usually looked at him. Finding Juho’s very existence fascinating, and seeming somewhat reverent.
However, the reason this reaction felt different from other people’s was because it was ‘Jung Dain’. The fact that this timid cat who wasn’t good at expressing himself was looking at him so ardently brought tremendous elation.
Juho was hungry. Since meeting face to face, he had instantly begun starving for Jung Dain.
Look at me more. Look only at me with eyes that see no one but me. If you do that for me, I can play the role of a good younger brother a hundred times, even a thousand times.
Juho, who barely held back from burying his nose in the t-shirts as Dain’s scent rose each time he moved them, handed the organized clothes to Dain.
“Ah, thank you. You didn’t need to organize them too.”
“Don’t mention it. Ah, but hyung, can I shower first?”
“Yeah! That door is the bathroom, and the shampoo and body wash are all on the corner shelf over there. The toothbrush is in the first drawer of that dresser. Towels are in the second drawer here.”
Dain quickly opened the bathroom door and opened and closed the dresser inside while continuing his detailed explanation. He looked around the small bathroom several times, wondering if there might be any inconveniences.
“Yes. Then I’ll wash up quickly and come out.”
When Juho took his clothes and went into the bathroom, Dain let out a short sigh.
From the airport this morning, he had been so out of it that out of all the things he had planned to do for Juho when they met, only buying him meat had been accomplished. No, even that was paid for by Juho, so everything Dain had tried to do for him had failed.
Dain opened his phone’s memo app with a disappointed expression and deleted his checklist.
Recognize him first and welcome him, carry his suitcase and heavy luggage, buy him meat, buy and charge a transportation card for him, tell him how to get from his accommodation to school, etc.
Anyone looking at it might think he considered Juho an elementary school student – it was such a detailed and trivial list, but Dain had been quite serious when writing this list last night.
Since he was the older brother, and after hearing that Juho had no one else to take care of him in Korea, he had felt tremendous responsibility.
Of course, that sense of responsibility had cleanly evaporated after seeing Juho in person and riding in the car he drove.
However, Dain had no intention of giving up on ‘taking care of Lee Juho’ here. He resolved to do his best so that there wouldn’t be a single inconvenience while Juho stayed at Dain’s house.
So he began writing a new checklist above the one he had just deleted.
When Dain was earnestly creating his checklist, the sound of the bathroom door opening was heard. Turning his head to ask if there had been any inconveniences while washing, Dain stopped breathing in that exact position.
“…!”
He had definitely seen him take a set of clothes into the bathroom, so why was his upper body naked!
Dain’s flustered eyes couldn’t leave Juho’s white and firm upper body.
Even though Dain had a solid build matching his height and build, seeing Juho’s body made his stomach feel instantly soft.
Starting with his broadly spread shoulders, appropriately volumed pectoral muscles, and the densely positioned abs and side muscles below them were put together without a single error. Even the water droplets flowing down between those firm muscles seemed to move alive following the contours.
He was definitely a male beast-man of the same gender, and definitely a younger brother than himself… but he didn’t know why it felt so sensual.
Dain had never seen another person’s naked body in his life except for his younger brother Dahoon. To such a Dain, Juho’s sculpture-like upper body was sufficiently stimulating. His face seemed to be heating up.
When Dain opened his small eyes that didn’t show much and looked at him, a slight smile caught at the corner of Juho’s mouth.
What is he so surprised about now? So cute.
Thinking to himself, Juho used his long legs to stand in front of Dain in just four steps.
“What were you doing to be so surprised like this?”
“…Huh??”
When Juho came close and asked, Dain shrank back even more in response to that movement. At that movement, Juho raised and lowered his eyebrows then quickly collapsed his expression.
“Hyung. By any chance… are you scared of me being next to you?”
A deflated voice flowed from Juho’s mouth, who usually only spoke affectionately. At that small change, Dain shook his head quickly with an even more flustered face.
“No, no! That’s not why I was surprised!”
“Then what? Why was that? Did I get too big compared to the photos I sent you before, so actually hyung is also scared of being in the same space as me like this?”
“Juho. Why are you thinking that!”
“Then why did you do that?”
The ‘why’ attack began. In a conversation that ended with ‘why did you do that’ no matter what he said, Dain also became tearful.
No matter how much of a vigorous man in his twenties, how could he say that he blushed because another man’s body looked too sexy? Thinking of Juho looking at him with contemptuous eyes after hearing that story, cold sweat flowed.
Dain’s eyes avoided Juho’s face and headed toward the bathroom door. And he desperately shouted an excuse that flashed through his mind.
“Be-, because of sweat smell! I sweated a lot today! You came out after washing, but I sweated so if you come close, sweat… I was worried about sweat smell! Th-, that’s why… I’m really not scared of you, Juho!”
Dain spat out quickly, hoping his excuse would be a sufficient reason to convince him. At the end, he made sure to convey that he wasn’t scared of Juho.
Hearing that, Juho tilted his head with a blank expression for a moment, then bent his upper body and came even closer than before. Now his sharp nose tip was close enough to touch Dain’s cheek.
“You’re right. Hyung does smell.”
“Huh…??”
Dain could only make a dumbfounded sound when his desperately spat-out excuse became fact rather than an excuse.
I, smell…?
Recalling Juho’s words, Dain jumped up and hid his body in the corner of the bed.
Smell!! Do I really have bad sweat smell?!! What do I do!!!
With his large body crumpled tightly in the corner, Dain lifted his arms and brought them close to his nose, making sniffing sounds.
Juho, who captured every single moment of that movement without missing anything, kept licking his drying lips with his tongue.
Does he know what kind of smell is coming from him right now to be acting like that? Looking at that reaction, he had definitely mistaken it for unpleasant sweat smell. The smell coming from Jung Dain isn’t like that though.
After sticking his tongue out once more to wet his lips with saliva, Juho stepped onto the bed with his knees and approached Dain.
Creak.
As soon as Juho’s knees came up, the mattress dented deeply with a loud sound.
Feeling the bed’s movement, Dain raised his head that had been lowered to smell himself. In that brief moment, Juho, who had come right in front of Dain’s nose, buried his nose in Dain’s forearm.
“Hyung, it’s not sweat smell, it’s baby smell.”
“Huh…?”
“Why do you think it’s sweat smell? It’s not.”
Juho smiled slightly and took a deep breath with his nose buried in Dain’s forearm. At that small action, Dain’s arm tensed up as goosebumps instantly rose on his back.
Actually, from Dain’s body came a sweet and cozy scent that made him want to taste it with his tongue. It was such a faint scent that it couldn’t be felt just by standing next to him, but the closer he got to Dain, the stronger the scent became.
And Juho, who was directly smelling that scent, became puzzled.
No matter how much Dain was a cat beast-man who didn’t pay much attention to territorial marking, there wasn’t a single trace of the characteristic disgusting body odor that comes from males of this age.
Rather, it was such a sweet scent that suited that cute face so well that he momentarily wondered if he had sprayed perfume. After smelling it several times, he realized it was Dain’s unique body scent.
“I, I smell like a baby? Is it the body wash scent…?”
“No, I saw the body wash was lavender scented?”
“Ah, right. Then what is it…?”
Dain tilted his head once to the left, once to the right.
In his life so far, Dain had never heard from anyone that he smelled like a cute baby smell. Even his family members who cherished Dain had never said such things. So Dain couldn’t believe Juho’s words at all.
Probably Juho was nicely packaging the sweat smell he had been producing since the airport.
Once again, additional content supporting the ‘Lee Juho angel theory’ increased in Dain’s mind.
Even imagining it would be an unpleasant smell… Juho is indeed kind.
Dain, who had been thinking to himself, carefully pulled out his arm that was held in Juho’s hand and said.
“Uh, uh, but Juho. But why aren’t you wearing a t-shirt? You’ll be cold since I have the air conditioner on…”
Dain, who had wanted to say this from the beginning, finally couldn’t overcome his curiosity and asked.
He couldn’t bring himself to say that his naked body was too sexy, but asking like this at least relieved his frustrated feelings.
To think he showed all kinds of disgraceful behavior because he couldn’t properly say this one simple sentence. Dain realized his clumsiness once again.
At Dain’s careful question, Juho looked down at his bare upper body and answered as if it was nothing.
“Ah, I moved the shower head wrong and my t-shirt got wet. So I just came out to put on something else. It’s uncomfortable to wear wet clothes.”
“Ah, aha! I see…! Yeah, right. Put on clothes quickly. You’ll catch a cold. Then I’ll go wash up and come back!”
It really wasn’t a big reason, but he had reacted oversensitively by himself after seeing that well-built body.
Embarrassed again, Dain quickly got up and got out of the bed. He felt like sweat smell kept rising from his body, so he couldn’t stand it anymore.
Juho watched the back of Dain quickly grabbing clothes and entering the bathroom.
“Fuck, so cute.”
Juho’s brief words continued behind the already closed door.
Seeing Jung Dain act cuter than he had imagined naturally put him in a good mood. Actions that he would have cursed at as idiotic if others did them seemed like just being cute and asking for attention when Jung Dain did them.
Using the sound of water from the bathroom as background music, Juho’s eyes began thoroughly examining Dain’s room.
A super single size bed, a sink with barely a 2-burner gas range on it, a built-in wardrobe, a small desk. Excluding the dressers filling the spaces between them, it was a one-room with practically no furniture.
Fortunately, it seemed his claim of having no friends wasn’t a lie, as there were no traces of other people either.
Getting off the bed, Juho turned in a circle centered on where he was standing and rubbed his scent on the walls.
Ordinary people wouldn’t know, but it was territorial marking strong enough for males like himself to recognize immediately.
Could Jung Dain actually smell this scent? As expected, Dain, who had no awareness in this area, probably wouldn’t notice.
Of course, even if he did notice, he didn’t have even the slightest intention of erasing his traces.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
