Chapter 15 (1/2)

“What is he saying?”

Myo Cheong seemed to be thinking. Unfortunately, he didn’t have much time to think. Myohan shouted, trying to measure the height of the window of the first floor right behind the wall.

“One,”

He thought of the worst-case scenario. What if Myo Cheong didn’t do as he said and everything went wrong? Still, he had no other option. He recalled how O Shin had told him to follow his guts.

“Two,”

He gulped. He could see the buff guys laughing to see him suddenly begin counting. They had to be thinking he was up to something stupid. Myo Cheong closed his eyes.

“Three!”

“Ugh!”

The one who screamed was the one standing at the back. Myo Cheong kicked his thigh with his leg in the cast, and at the same time, Myohan jumped up a wall and then stepped on the shoulder of the guy in front of him.

“What, what the?”

‘Kick with your leg in the cast and run.’

Myo Cheong recalled what Myohan had said a minute before and looked like he was about to cry. What should I do? What should I do? He was nervously shifting around when Myohan shouted again.

“Hey, what are you doing? Run!”

Myo Cheong quickly ran away only then. Myohan let out a sigh of relief. He had guessed so as he ran without limping, but he was right. His leg had already recovered.

He took a deep breath, dodged a punch, and then nimbly jumped up to the shoulders of the biggest guy.

“Idiots,” he added, smirking. And then he quickly ran toward the wall he had been standing on. The bullies all frowned. Of course they were angry to miss two victims in less than a minute. They decided to go after Myohan instead of following Myo Cheong.

“You..!”

But when they went behind the wall, there was no one there.

Myohan sank to the floor. He could see the bullies looking around confusedly. He had jumped up through the window while they were in shock. It was good that the window was open.

“Reckless cat.”

A familiar voice said so. Myohan undid a couple of shirt buttons and grinned.

“I knew you would say that.”

He had been sure of it. The man just laughed. Myohan didn’t seem to be surprised to see him there. He even knew what he would say. Now he really understood the man.

“But what if they come after you?”

“Well, I don’t know.”

“They must have seen your face.”

Myohan hadn’t thought that far. His body just moved instinctively, making him do what he had done.

The fact that he might be the next target of those bullies, or that his interference might have just put Myo Cheong in an even worse situation hadn’t crossed his mind at all. So why did he do it? He was actually pretty confused.

“Rabbits have keen ears.”

Myohan nodded, but actually, he didn’t even care a bit about it. What mattered the most was that he had missed the rabbit yet again. Letting him run away was meaningless. He had missed a chance and it wasn’t going to come back. Would he be willing to talk if Myohan went to find him again?

“You know it?”

The man asked, but it sounded like he already knew the answer. He offered Myohan a hand, so he took it to stand up. Then he looked out the window. The bullies were long gone. He narrowed his eyes and replied, looking down at a student, “Well…”

Myo Cheong, who had run away, had come back.

***

“You saved my life?”

“I just didn’t want to be bothered.”

“No, you’re my…”

“Stop, stop!”

O Shin stopped in the middle of his line and looked at Yuja.

Yuja yelled angrily, “What kind of a prince looks at his princess like that?”

After classes, both Myohan and O Shin were held back by Yuja, who told them they were going to pay the price for running away during lunchtime. Myohan, who had been reciting the lines he had remembered days ago, replied halfheartedly.

“How am I supposed to look at him, then?”

“With love, with love!”

“They won’t notice the difference when we’re on stage.”

“Ugh!”