34. Change (1)

He never thought Kwon Joo-ho would refuse, so Ye-Hyeon asked a silly question.

Kwon Joo-Ho frowned as he avoided looking at him. Beyond being embarrassed, he even looked frozen at first glance.

Ye-Hyeon needs help understanding. Shouldn’t he be happy if he approached him first?

He didn’t even turn it down. Kwon Joo-Ho drew a line so sharp that Ye-Hyeon was embarrassed.

“You really can’t?”

Ye-Hyeon couldn’t believe it, so he tried again. Ye-Hyeon approached half a step closer and tried to make eye contact, but Kwon Joo-Ho nodded slightly without looking at Ye-Hyeon.

Ye-Hyeon was so full of energy that his lips were puffed up. Somehow, he seemed more anxious than Kwon Joo-ho.

‘Some people would think he has a crush on him.’’

Ye-Hyeon secretly glanced at Kwon Joo-Ho.

Yoon Seung-Jae didn’t like the nickname “Hyung,” but he called Kwon Joo-Ho Hyung.

‘Then why… No, let’s not try to understand.’

There is no need to become n friends with targets. You just have to attack.

It was a conclusion that Ye-Hyeon made while analyzing “dating sims” during a few days off.

‘All you have to do is figure out where to dig. He guesses 0 points of intimacy is not yet in the stage to be called a hyung.’ Ye-Hyeon felt more comfortable when he thought Kwon Joo-Ho was a fictional character in the unprecedented game.

Ye-Hyeon glanced at Kwon Joo-Ho standing in the corner.

He made a big decision and reached out but felt crooked when Kwon Joo-Ho kept rejecting it. Ye-Hyeon knew it would be clingy if he tried further, but it was too bad to back down.

“I just want to be close…….”

However, Ye-Hyeon’s third attempt was cancelled due to the wide-open door. Ye-Hyeon hurriedly shut up. “Hello. You arrived early. What were you two talking about?”

Baek Hae-Won tilted his head with a bright smile. It seemed surprising that Ye-Hyeon and Kwon Joo-Ho were together.

“I was just saying hello.”

Ye-Hyeon turned his words around in vain. It doesn’t seem righteous to flirt with other targets in front of them.

Kwon Joo-Ho bowed lightly to Baek Hae-Won and entered the dressing room.

After heading to the dressing room, Baek Hae-Won suddenly stopped and carefully approached Ye-Hyeon to examine his face.

“Are you feeling well? Are you sick”

“You know the results of the test results. I’m healthy.”

Of course, all other tests, as well as ASDT, were normal. However, when their eyes met, he saw Baek Hae-Won’s thought, [It’s suspicious].

He didn’t raise any doubts yet.

Baek Hae-Won nodded with a worried look.

“Hunter Baek Hae-Won, you’re cool today as well.”

“Thank you.”

He scanned Ye-Hyeon thoroughly with his warm brown eyes.

“I didn’t…”

It was conveyed that he was nervous with just three letters.

Baek Hae-Won suspects Ye-Hyeon no matter what he says.’

Ye-Hyeon needs to resolve Baek Hae-Won’s suspicion before he can raise his points.

While Baek Hae-Won also went to change clothes, Yoon Seung-Jae arrived.

“You’re here?”

Ye-Hyeon was lying on the table, stood up and looked at Yoon Seung-Jae’s face. He was worried that he was still depressed.

“Hi, Hyung.”

Fortunately, Yoon Seung-Jae greets him brightly as usual.

“Yoon Seung-Jae, you told me to contact you regularly, but why did you…….”

Relieved Ye-Hyeon grumbled, and Yoon Seung-Jae, who approached quickly, hugged Ye-Hyeon.

“What?”

Yoon Seung-Jae often sticks to Ye-Hyeon but only hugs Ye-Hyeon as if hanging from the side or behind. He rarely hugged him from the front like now.

Surprised, Ye-Hyeon pushed Yoon Seung-Jae, but he didn’t budge.

Yoon Seung-Jae hugged Ye-Hyeon’s waist tightly and rubbed his cheek in Ye-Hyeon’s ear. It felt different from the usual recklessness.

“Hey, Yoon Seung-Jae?”

Ye-Hyeon shrank his neck and called Yoon Seung-Jae.

Ye-Hyeon was awkwardly stiff without being able to hug or push Yoon Seung-Jae.

[system] Intimacy points increased by 5 points.

As soon as the message window came, Yoon Seung-jae looked at Ye-Hyeon with his head tilted back. Yoon Seung-Jae smiled at Ye-Hyeon, who was puzzled. The gloomy appearance he showed before they parted ways disappeared. Ye-Hyeon even felt a strange confidence.

‘Should I say this is brave?’

“I’ll be right back after I change. Wait.”

Yoon Seung-Jae hugged Ye-Hyeon’s waist again before entering the fitting room.

“……what.”

Ye-Hyeon was left alone in an instant and murmured absurdly.

“It’s good to build up points of intimacy…”

Ye-Hyeon couldn’t guess what Yoon Seung-Jae was thinking. Ye-Hyeon scratched the cheek that Yoon Seung-Jae touched.

It was awkward, but he was most comfortable with Yoon Seung-Jae.

When Yoon Seung-Jae changed, he was quite embarrassed. Thinking that even Yoon Seung-Jae might be upset, Ye-Hyeon felt suffocated at any moment.

Yoon Seung-Jae, you can’t change, too.’

Ye-Hyeon earnestly wished.

Three people came out of the dressing room after waiting a little bit. Yoon Seung-Jae ran straight to Ye-Hyeon.

“By the way, hyung. Why are you so….”

Yoon Seung-Jae had looked closely at Ye-Hyeon for a while, then reached out to Ye-Hyeon’s eyes.

He felt Kwon Joo-Ho and Baek Hae-Won looking.

“Are there any tear marks left?”’

Ye-Hyeon hurriedly tried to rub his eyes with the back of his hand. However, Yoon Seung-Jae’s hand touched his eyes a step earlier than that. It wasn’t the end of the eye but the fat under his eyes.

“Why do you have dark circles? What did you do without resting?”

Yoon Seung-Jae swiped under Ye-Hyeon’s eyes with his thumb while puffing his cheeks dissatisfiedly. Then, he even lightly wrapped Ye-Hyeon’s cheek with his palm.

Ye-Hyeon smiled awkwardly. It was like that earlier, but it felt unfamiliar for someone else to touch his face. He went through it twice in a row.

“Well, I trained.”

Ye-Hyeon took Yoon Seung-Jae’s hand off, evasive enough.

Yoon Seung-Jae would make a fuss if he knew Ye-Hyeon. Even if it was because of his ability to train, it was obvious that he intentionally hurt his body.

He would tell him just to wound his body.

Ye-Hyeon’s eyes sank. Using ‘healing light’ heals completely, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. He couldn’t make Yoon Seung-Jae do such a thing.

“What did you train for?” Ye-Hyeon doesn’t want to answer, but Yoon Seung-Jae has been persistent today. He stuck out his lips as if he would not let them go until he answered properly and put his face into Ye-Hyeon.

“Is there anything you can’t tell me?”

Yoon Seung-Jae held Ye-Hyeon’s elbow with a sad look on his face. Then, he slowly swept down Ye-Hyeon’s arm with his palm and soon held Ye-Hyeon’s hand gently.

“Wow…”

Ye-Hyeon burst into admiration inside at the touching that continued like water. Now he knew what it meant to hold hands naturally.

Earlier, when he tried to hold Kwon Joo-Ho’s hand, he thought it was a normal attempt, but it seemed to have been an illusion. Compared to Yoon Seung-Jae, it was almost like a move to fish for prey.

‘……Kwon Joo-ho didn’t overreact.’

It may have been instinctively judged to be attacked.

‘I’ll try to be more subtle next time.’

Ye-Hyeon reflected briefly.

Yoon Seung-Jae tickled Ye-Hyeon’s palm with his fingertips as if he noticed that Ye-Hyeon was thinking about something else.

“Hyung.”

Yoon Seung-jae waved Ye-Hyeon’s hand from side to side and begged cutely.

“……It’s because you keep asking me what I did on my holiday.”

“What did you do, Ye-Hyeon? I’m interested too.”

Ye-Hyeon wanted to change the subject quickly, but even Baek Hae-Won intervened in the middle and helped Yoon Seung-Jae. Kwon Joo-ho was also looking at Ye-Hyeon from behind.

[Weird….]

‘I didn’t do anything weird.’

Ye-Hyeon groaned inside and paused in Baek Hae-won’s inner thoughts that followed.

[The smell of blood…]

Ye-Hyeon tried to snore without realizing it but held it in. He washed clean and changed his clothes, and there was no way that the smell of blood remained.

‘No matter how developed the five senses are. What kind of beast is it?’

Ye-Hyeon hated it but skillfully hid his expression.

“Is there anything special? I will build up my physical strength and practice some swordsmanship…….”

Ye-Hyeon reluctantly answered with an excuse, but Yoon Seung-Jae and Baek Hae-Won did not look satisfied.

‘How do I get out of here?’

While Ye-Hyeon was agonizing over it, Shin Do-Gyeom arrived.

How would they react once they heard what YH did to himself?

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