Chapter 2 Part 14

By then, a clear look of displeasure appeared on his face. It was a look that seemed to ask, “What in the world is this guy doing?” It was understandable, given that a stranger had suddenly barged into the bathroom, wasn’t answering questions, was spouting nonsense, and treating him like a child.

“Under which Chief Instructor’s team have you come? Or, though I haven’t heard any news, have you come as an Instructor or Support Staff?”

He said coldly, his face like frost.

Only then did Jeong Tae-ui flinch as if waking from a dream, scratching the back of his neck. It seemed he had upset the other person.

“I… got lost. I was just on my way to find Chief Instructor Jeong Chang-in.”

“Chief Instructor Jeong Chang-in? His room is out there, then go right all the way to the dead end, then turn right again and go all the way, and there you’ll see an elevator. Turn the corner to the right from there, and it’s the second room.”

“Hmm… okay.”

It was a half-hearted answer, but extremely helpful. If he could just pinpoint the general direction, finding it would be easy.

“Well, …thanks.”

Jeong Tae-ui gave an awkward greeting. The young man still wore a dissatisfied expression but shrugged his shoulders in reply. His bare shoulders gleamed white.

He should have left by now, but his feet wouldn’t move. He felt a desire to gaze at this pretty young man a little longer. It truly felt like looking at a wondrous, talking, moving doll.

“Aren’t you leaving?”

It seemed he had been in the middle of undressing. The young man tossed his shirt into a rattan basket provided in the changing room, then unbuckled his belt. As he was about to take off his pants, he saw Jeong Tae-ui still standing there and frowned in puzzlement, asking.

Jeong Tae-ui’s face suddenly flushed bright red. Although there was no reason to, he felt incredibly embarrassed.

“No… I’m going. See you later then.”

Jeong Tae-ui even waved his hand before exiting the bathroom.

Without looking back, he walked out of the bathroom and strode briskly to the right, just as the young man had instructed. When he reached the dead end after walking all the way, his head finally cleared a little. He raised a hand to his cheek, finding even his ears hot.

Jeong Tae-ui stood bewildered for a moment, then shook his head, turned right, and started walking again.

Jeong Tae-ui was not the type to be easily swayed emotionally. He was often told he was stoic and impassive. In fact, his face rarely showed his surprise, which contributed to this perception.

But now, he knew even without a mirror. He must have had a flustered expression on his face.

“Damn it… You never said there was someone like that here, Uncle…”

He blamed his innocent uncle once, but of course, no answer came.

There had been a time like this before. A time when his mind suddenly went blank, and he stammered in confusion. He had completely forgotten when that was.

It was when he was still a student, wet behind the ears. You could say he was precocious, or to put it negatively, a mischievous youth. By the time he was in high school, Jeong Tae-ui had already experienced everything sexually. He had slept with women, of course, but also with men, and he was aware that he was more attracted to men than women. He even knew that soft, supple bodies were pleasant to hold and suited his taste.

At that time, it was probably his first love. He went to a friend’s house during vacation and met his friend’s younger cousin, who was staying there.

Not overly thin, but with a moderate amount of flesh, white, soft skin, large eyes, and a cute expression. He was like cotton candy.

Back then, it was exactly like now.

His face flushed, his heart pounded, his mind went blank, and his breath trembled.

He made excuses to visit his friend’s house consistently for several days afterward, and gradually he got a little more used to the cousin, but still, his heart fluttered every time he saw the boy. He just liked him so much, he pondered how he might, even by accident, brush against that soft skin just once.

Not long after, the cousin returned home, and it ended as a fleeting first love.

Even after that, the type Jeong Tae-ui liked and was attracted to remained the same: cute, lovely, fresh-faced boys who seemed like they would melt.

However, men with such an appearance were rare, even among young boys, let alone older men, so he had almost never seen one in real life. Occasionally, if he found someone with a somewhat similar impression in a club, he would just enjoy himself contentedly.

But he never imagined that in such a remote place, he would find someone so perfectly suited to his taste.

“What should I do…”

Jeong Tae-ui mumbled in a truly troubled voice.

What should he do? For someone so perfectly ideal to appear.

In fact, when he thought about it, there was nothing to ‘do’ at all. He had no intention of rape or molestation, so if the man was heterosexual, that was the end of it. And the probability of that was very high. Even if, by some luck, he also had that orientation, the time was limited to half a year.

“What would be good to do?”

Jeong Tae-ui just mumbled that phrase, not even knowing what ‘what’ or ‘how’ referred to.

Meanwhile, that long corridor also came to an end. Jeong Tae-ui sighed quietly before the wall, then turned right again.

Indeed, as the young man had said, an elevator appeared. It was the same elevator Tou had taken earlier. A door leading to the stairs was also visible nearby.

“Turn the corner and the second… right?”

Jeong Tae-ui muttered the young man’s words to himself and followed the instructions.

Turning the corner and the second, he quickly found which room was his uncle’s.

His uncle was not in the room.

No, to be precise, it would be more accurate to say he wasn’t at his desk.

Lost in his thoughts and half-distracted, Jeong Tae-ui opened the door and entered without knocking, but there was no one there to scold him for it.

The door wasn’t locked, and no one was in the room, which made him pause for a moment, but then he heard the sound of water from inside and understood. It seemed his uncle was in the shower room attached to the room.