“Hello……”
- Hey! Kim Yoo-shin! No, In Yoo-shin! What have you done?!
He woke up in the middle of the night and answered the phone, but the caller shouted loudly, so he became more flustered. In Yoo-shin looked at his phone again to see who it was, and it was a friend from the same orphanage as him.
“Park Seung-gi? You just woke up someone who was sleeping. What’s going on?”
- Hey, so why did you ignore my text message?!
“Because I was sleeping.”
- Anyway! I sent you a link via text message. Check it out. It’s you, right? No matter how pixelated it is, I thought I recognized you.
What was he talking about?
Tilting his head, In Yoo-shin checked the message. The link led to a large community post.
- I’m a civil servant of the Department of Supernatural Affairs and Public Safety, and I’m unraveling the story of Gyu-ha-nim’s actual visit at the company.txt
I heard a scream as I was going for a walk after eating a spicy pork rice for lunch, and the parking lot was spinning around like a sushi conveyor belt. I was surprised to see if a gate had opened, but there was a person falling from the roof…
Have you ever seen someone fall off a rooftop? My head really went blank, and I didn't think about anything for a moment. They fell very quickly, but it felt like they took an exceptionally long time to fall.
〈A picture of Gyu-ha-nim holding a princess in the air.jpg〉
But ㅋㅋㅋㅋstill ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋthe person just stopped all of a sudden ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋwow you really have to witness this with your own eyes. He was hardly a finger’s width from the ground. And…ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ Gyuha-nim descended from the heavens with a halo flashing bright and picked up the fallen person with psychokinesisㅠㅠㅠㅠ It was like watching a real movie ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Our Gyu saved someone again ㅠㅠ The Hunter who’s my next-door neighbor (I won’t tell you who it is, but.. heh) is always nice to everyone, but Gyu caught a bank robbery last week and saved another person this week ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
That’s what I thought at least…ㅋㅋㅋ..ㅋ…ㅋㅋㅋ…
When I came back to the office, I heard he came to pick up his lover… He must have been on a date with his lover on the rooftop garden… ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ That would be nice… Gyu gave them a ride on Gapsik itself…
But it’s okay… If you’re happy, I’m happy too……………
ㄴ You’re saying something like ‘Gyu’. Fuck, is this Hyeon Gyu-ha’s fan community? Isn’t it embarrassing to call someone who's almost thirty ‘Gyu’?
ㄴㄴ Hey, why are you in such a hurry to diss Hyeon Gyu-ha?
ㄴ I’m also working at the department of supernatural affairs and public safety, so it’s nice haha it wasn’t a joke from work today. I heard his nickname is Master? It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of such a nickname being spoken by someone with his upbringing;; It seems that there is no such thing as embarrassment when you reach first rank in the rankings…
ㄴㄴ His lover calls Hyeon Gyu-ha ‘Master’?
ㄴㄴㄴ No, hyeon gyuha said that to his lover yeah
ㄴ Although it’s hard to see because his face is pixelated, aren’t they the one with a short haircut? Is it an illusion in my eyes that the shoulder line looks like a man??????
ㄴㄴ You forgot the most important word. They’re his boyfriend.
ㄴㄴㄴ ???????????????????
“……”
In Yoo-shin closed the forum page, trying to look away from the 999 comments that were updating in real time, and Park Seung-gi said, “Did he say you’re his Master? It’s not like SM play, is it? How did you meet!? Hey! In Yoo-shin! Hey! Hey!!” He turned off his cell phone and calmly lay down on the mattress.
I do not know.
I didn’t see anything, I didn’t hear anything, I didn’t know anything. I really didn’t know.
That night, In Yoo-shin had a nightmare where Hyeon Gyu-ha bounced him back and forth between the rooftop and parking lot like trampolines.
“Uwah. Even if I have a nightmare like that……”
He suffered from nightmares and eventually woke up in the middle of the night. Maybe it was because he was in a dream, but Hyeon Gyu-ha’s smile had been much bloodier. Whether he screamed or not, he laughed brightly and said, ‘If you didn’t tame me, this wouldn’t happen.’ His laughing face was truly terrifying.
Okay.
As if a handsome, pale face that has risen from the far corner of a dark room……
“Why aren’t you answering the phone?”
“Hiyaaaack!!”
Ghost! Robber! No, in either case, I was at most an F-class Awakener, and as weak as a candle against the wind.
In Yoo-shin screamed and covered 6-se’s cage with his whole body.
“If you’re a ghost, I don’t know what kind of grudge you have, but I didn’t do anything anyway! If you’re a robber, I’ll give you all of my cash!”
“Yoo-shin-ssi.”
“To me, this rodent is like my child……”
“Yoo-shin-ssi, it’s me.”
“It’s only been two years since…… Uh?”
In Yoo-shin was stunned and opened his lips. It was Hyeon Gyu-ha.
“H-Hunter-nim. How did you……? I…? Didn’t I lock the door?”
“I came in through the front door.”
“Ah.”
In Yoo-shin’s head creaked and moved. The entrance seen through the partition with a modest assortment of colors somehow felt void. I didn’t know if it’s just me, but a cold wind seemed to come in.
“The door……”
“Yes. I would look like a thief if I smashed it completely, so I only broke the hinge and came in.”
“I see……”
It’s the same as tearing down the door, but if you break just the hinge, you’re not a thief……
He didn’t know what the difference was, but In Yoo-shin just nodded blankly.
“When did you come here?”
“It’s been about two hours.”
“Why did you come……?”
“You weren’t answering my calls.”
Come to think of it, I turned off my phone before going to bed. In Yoo-shin quietly turned on his cell phone. In the dark, the LCD light was bright, and the phone booted up. He confirmed that there were 124 missed calls.
“……”
There were calls from Park Seung-gi and other friends, but most of them were from only one person.
In Yoo-shin was very confused as to what expression to make at the man who made 120 calls to his cell phone, which had been turned off. It seemed like the consequence of 120 missed calls would come if I actually looked at him like I was scared to death.
Hyeon Gyu-ha’s face, illuminated by the pale LCD light, looked even more gloomy.
“I called to say goodnight, but your cell phone was turned off. Could it be that you turned off your cell phone to reject me because you didn’t like me? The moment I thought this, it felt like the world was collapsing.”
“……”
“Maybe this is how you feel when you find out that a stray dog or a stray cat has been abandoned.”
“……”
“I was out of my mind. I kept calling even though I knew your phone was off.”
“……”
“I really couldn’t make any rational decisions.”
Cold sweat ran down his spine.
In Yoo-shin finally realized that he hadn’t fully understood the gravity of the fact that he was ‘taming people’.
“When I made up my mind to just blow up a gate, wondering if there was any meaning in a world where you rejected me, I remembered that I knew your house, so I just had to go find it. When I came, I found that you were sleeping.”
In addition, I, who had been sleeping without thinking, even learned that Seoul was almost destroyed.
“A-are you okay now?”
“I guess it depends on your answer.”
“W-well…… It’s absolutely not because I don’t want to answer Hunter-nim’s phone calls! My friend keeps bothering me……”
In Yoo-shin hurriedly showed the link that Park Seung-gi sent. It was a post I would never have shown to others out of embarrassment at any other time, but now I was in no position to hide it.
“After reading this article, he kept asking me what kind of relationship I had with Hunter-nim, so I just turned off my phone.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha skimmed through the posts with dry eyes. While In Yoo-shin was asleep, escaping from reality, the comment section exploded.
“Yes. That’s an understandable reason. You must have been surprised too.”
His face with his head raised seemed to have returned to his usual expression to some extent, but In Yoo-shin's tension did not dissipate at all. In Yoo-shin spoke with all his might, as if he was making a vow.
“I’ll definitely find a way to cancel taming.”
“I don’t expect much from you, but I will trust you anyway.”
“I’m in a situation where I have nothing to say, but isn’t Hunter-nim more uncomfortable with these rumors than me? Besides, there are even rumors that Hunter-nim, who is heterosexual, is dating a man……”
“When you’re in an open relationship, it’s rather welcome because no one will be surprised if I cling to you because of separation anxiety. And whether I meet a man or a witch, my ranking will not drop.”
Every time the word ‘separation anxiety’ came out of Hyeon Gyu-ha’s mouth, it felt like his heart shook. Wouldn’t my lifespan shorten day by day?
“Besides that, Yoo-shin-ssi.”
“What?”
“I’m Hyeon Gyu-ha.”
“What?”
“My name. How long are you going to call your lover Hunter-nim?”
“Ah, but I’m a lot younger than Hunter-nim, so calling you by name is a bit too much.”
“Of course not. I’m just six years older.”
“……”
In Yoo-shin’s mouth was closed due to the extreme Korean-like age hierarchy.
“You could just call me Hyung then?”
It’s not a bad name, but it’s a bit burdensome. I was afraid that someday, if we cancel taming, we would go back to being strangers like when we didn’t know each other, but even then, we couldn’t pretend to be friends.
“Can I call you Gyu-ha-ssi?”
“Master-nim, do as you please.”
That’s how his title became ‘Gyu-ha-ssi’. In Yoo-shin said ‘Gyu-ha-ssi’ and rolled it a little in his mouth. I needed to get used to it, so that I wouldn't make mistakes in front of other people.
But wouldn’t it be okay to call out to him without hesitation when it was just the two of them?
“Hunter-nim……”
“Gyu-ha-ssi.”
“……What are you going to do today, Gyu-ha-ssi?”
I was anxious about sleeping in a house with broken doors, so I planned to take the 6-se’s cage to a nearby motel tonight. Even if the house was empty, there would be no thieves stealing from it. Anyway, it was enough as long as I could protect my body.
But Hyeon Gyu-ha ran his hand through his hair, his expression asking why he was asked something so obvious.
“I’m going to be sleeping here?”
HM: I love how Gyu-ha just spoke in the dark like a ghost as if he was pranking. Our poor MC got really scared. Of course, don’t do this in real life. It will scare the hell out of people. Yoo-shin got a real life experience of skydiving lol from Gyu-ha
Editor M: I have to give Gyu-ha props for his restraint—he’s made 124 entire calls before breaking into Yoo-shin’s home!
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Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor/Proofreader: Editor M
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