Gentle Giant 50

Gentle Giant Chapter 50

“J-Juho…!”

Dain called Juho’s name with a voice full of bewilderment. No matter what, “meow”…! Of course, even that suited him so well that there was no sense of incongruity… Anyway, it was a severely cute word for a fully grown tiger beast-man to make.

Even at Dain’s call, he just had a gentle face while rolling his golden eyes around, which really was like a cat.

Looking at the flustered expression on Dain’s face, Juho rather tapped Dain’s hand with an even more languid face.

“Meow.”

A second “meow” rang out. Dain’s face now began to turn red with embarrassment.

Fucking cute. Watching Dain being very embarrassed instead of himself who was acting nonchalant, the corners of Juho’s lips went up.

This was why he occasionally bothered Dain who was just staying still. It was too cute how he couldn’t even get annoyed because of his good nature and just struggled alone while blushing.

“Hyung, you can’t let a cat get bored. You have to play with it.”

“Mm-hmm…?”

“The owner has to play with it. Since you didn’t play with it, the cat played pranks elsewhere.”

Juho said while pointing at the phone on the bed. It wasn’t that Dain hadn’t played with him, but rather he had made a mistake while playing with Dain’s hand by himself.

Even at the shameless demand that Dain absolutely had to play with him, Dain just blushed and nodded his head. He was definitely enchanted by that truly cat-like aloof and pretty face without realizing it.

“R-right. I have to play with you Juho!”

“Right?”

“Yeah, uh… But Juho. What did you write in the group chat earlier? You didn’t write anything weird…?”

Dain asked carefully. Earlier, while watching Juho’s mood, he had been distracted by the “meow” sound and couldn’t check the phone that had fallen into his hands.

Kind Juho wouldn’t do that, but still, he wondered what to do if by any chance he had written something strange in the group chat.

Juho lightly rubbed Dain’s wrinkled nose bridge from worry, then stretched his long arm to get the phone from the bed.

“As if. Would I ruin hyung’s group project? Here, check it.”

“Mm-hmm.”

Juho with his harmless expression skillfully pressed Dain’s phone password. The action was so natural that Dain didn’t even realize he had never told Juho his phone password.

On the screen was a chat full of responses saying they understood the message Juho had written with appropriate emoticons mixed in. No one in the group chat was upset, and the conversation had ended pleasantly.

Dain let out a sigh of relief and turned off the phone screen.

By the way, to write so many characters in that short time… Juho seemed to have incredibly fast thumb movement speed too.

Dain was a little excited to learn another advantage of his boyfriend. To be good at even such trivial things, Juho really was amazing.

At the sight of Dain staring intently at his thumb with sparkling eyes, Juho’s head tilted curiously.

“Hyung?”

Juho said while lightly pulling Dain’s finger. Only then did the gaze that had been focused on his thumb rise to Juho’s face.

“Huh? Ah, mm-hmm! What should we play?”

“Hmm. First, let’s finish reading the book hyung was reading, then go for a drive? Let’s go to the outskirts, eat something delicious, and go eat hyung’s favorite dessert too.”

“Yeah, that sounds great!”

Dain really liked Juho, who planned what he wanted to do step by step without him having to say anything.

Watching Dain excited about going for a drive, Juho picked up the book and handed it to Dain. With the thought ‘I need to read quickly and go out!’, Dain’s concentration heightened greatly.

After concentrating for several tens of minutes, Dain, who was pressing his stiff neck, glanced at Juho sitting beside him.

He was reading an English original book, and even though Dain could handle English fairly well, it was content he couldn’t understand at a glance.

Juho really is smart… Dain’s heart pounded again, newly moved by Juho’s intellectual charm. Today too, he had learned several more of Juho’s charms.

Juho sitting comfortably on the floor as if reading a comic book, but actually reading a very difficult book. Somehow that made him look even smarter and cooler.

While thinking various things by himself, Dain began to seriously steal glances at Juho while he was focused on his book.

Just past 4 PM, Juho’s golden eyes and hair receiving the sunlight coming through the window were sparkling even more. That sight resembled a cat sitting by the window doing photosynthesis, making laughter leak from Dain’s mouth.

Pfft, even though it was a very small sound, Juho’s head turned toward Dain. Dain, whose eyes met directly with Juho’s, flinched his shoulders.

“Ah, did I disturb your reading by making noise for no reason? Sorry.”

“No. It’s not a disturbance. But hyung, why were you staring at me so intently? I thought my face was going to have holes in it.”

“Huh?!”

When had Juho noticed? Since there had been no sign of it at all, Dain had been watching freely, so his movements became clumsy as he watched Juho’s reaction.

At his seemingly broken appearance, Juho lightly stroked Dain’s cheek and asked again.

“Yes? Why were you staring at me like that?”

“Ah, um… well…”

“Well?”

“Because you looked like a cat.”

Whether Dain’s answer was unexpected, Juho raised one eyebrow. He thought the answer would be because he was handsome, but like a cat? Wasn’t the cat talk finished earlier?

Seeing Juho’s bewildered reaction, Dain quickly continued.

“No, you sitting there receiving sunlight looked like a well-fed cat. A really pretty cat. You’re a tiger of course… Uh, come to think of it, I’m the cat. But you actually look more like a cat than me.”

At the end, he mumbled not even knowing what he was saying.

His handsome and pretty face mysteriously relaxed really looked like an aloof cat. Of course, saying he looked like a cat wasn’t dismissive at all. Would he believe it if he said this was a compliment? Dain wondered how he should speak further from here.

However, before other words could continue, Juho first pressed down on Dain’s thigh. Dain’s eyes widened in surprise at the sudden heaviness felt on his thigh.

“Hyung, did I look like a cat?”

“Mm-hmm? No, saying you look like a cat isn’t a bad meaning…!”

“I know, I know. You mean I looked really pretty in hyung’s eyes.”

“Yeah yeah, that’s right. I said that because you were pr-pretty!”

Hearing what Dain said, Juho smiled brightly with crinkled eyes while pressing Dain’s thigh once more. At the repeated heavy weight directly pressing his thigh, Dain jumped.

“J-Juho! Your hand is on my thigh…!”

“Yes?”

“No, my thigh…”

Dain’s trembling finger pointed toward his thigh. More precisely, to Juho’s white and large hand placed prettily on top of it.

Juho just gently moved the hand Dain was pointing at but had no intention of removing it.

Dain carefully moved his finger to try to remove Juho’s hand. However, Juho blocked that movement with the hand that wasn’t touching his thigh.

Dain’s face filled with injustice. No, so why…! Wh-why are you pressing my thigh?!

“I’d like you to remove your hand…”

“Why?”

“Th-then why did you put your hand there, Juho?”

“I’m doing kneading for you.”

“…What?”

Dain’s mouth fell open. ‘Kneading’. What was that? He knew it was one of cats’ expressions of affection, but why…!

“Why are you Juho doing that…?”

“Hyung said I was like a cat. People called me a cat earlier too. So I’m expressing affection to hyung in a cat way. How is it? Can you feel my affection?”

Juho began to seriously knead Dain’s thigh. However, whether it was cat-style affection or Juho’s mischievous prank, Dain’s mind was spinning around unable to think of anything.

Since it was a place other people’s hands usually didn’t touch, even though it was just pressing, his palm tickled and goosebumps rose and fell on his back.

Dain could do neither this nor that and just flinched his hands, then suddenly came to his senses and barely removed Juho’s hand from his thigh.

“Juho, you’re a tiger beast-man. I just said you were like a cat. You don’t need to do kn-kneading like this.”

“So, you don’t like it…?”

Juho’s face answering Dain’s words was full of disappointment. Looking at his eyebrows drooping down and eyelashes trembling with hurt feelings, Dain frowned together.

“No, it’s not that I don’t like it, just that you don’t need to do it like that. Mm-hmm. I absolutely don’t dislike it!”

“Really?”

“Yeah! And I really, really, really felt a lot of affection. Really.”

“That’s a relief.”

Juho smiled with crinkled eyes again. Juho’s face that had been full of hurt feelings bloomed instantly.

Dain also quickly relaxed his expression and lifted the corners of his lips while looking at Juho.

“Then hyung, since hyung is a real cat beast-man, can’t you knead me?”

“…?!”

“I think it would be really nice if hyung kneaded me.”

As soon as Juho’s words ended, Dain shook his head vigorously. Very vigorously.

Kneading, it was an action he had never done even when he was young. No, he had never even heard of cat beast-men doing kneading.

Watching Dain shaking his head to a dizzying degree, Juho clicked his tongue briefly. Shaking his head once would be enough. That would make his head hurt.

Juho gently held up Dain’s head that was still shaking. Then he drooped his eyebrows again and said,

“Okay. You might not want to do it.”

“Uh, so… instead of kneading, something else…”

“Something else?”

“Mm-hmm. I really can’t do kneading. Something else, is there anything you want to receive?”

Dain gently rubbed the back of Juho’s hand with his round-tipped finger. Dain leaned his upper body more toward Juho, telling him to speak quickly.

As Dain’s scent wafted over, Juho with an even more relaxed expression whispered in Dain’s ear.

“Hyung. Try saying meow.”