Chapter 22 (1/2)

Jino was leaving the tracks now, clearly tired. Myohan closed the window and asked, not interested at all, to Sajun, who was still rubbing his chin.

“Then what, you have double things?”

Male snakes had two pouch-shaped genitals, which they learned in science class.

Sajun’s pain didn’t last long enough and he went close to Myohan again, telling him he could check if he was curious. Myohan looked in between his legs.

“No, I smashed one the other day, so there must be only one remaining now.”

Sajun shuddered and stepped back, feeling somehow ashamed. The bored gaze seemed to be looking right through his pants.

“It wasn’t broken!”

Sajun tried to deny it, but of course, Myohan wasn’t listening.

“But…”

Jagyeom, who had been watching them, ventured to speak. Myohan, who was growling at Sajun, turned to him, feeling suddenly stupid.

“I don’t think this is going to ever work.”

Well, Myohan had to agree to it. They could keep watching Jino and come up with hypotheses, but that wasn’t progress. Jino just kept practicing, and they were just wasting time on theirs.

So what? Were they supposed to give up on Jino and go after another animal? But it was even less appealing.

Myohan’s gut feeling, which was scarcely wrong, was saying yes, and he needed to listen to his instincts.

He narrowed his eyes. What would O Shin would have done? He would have said, ‘Trust your gut, cat,’ yet again. Maybe he would have given a hint, like he had done about the rabbit. More than anything, where on earth was he at this critical time?

Thoughts kept spinning in his mind and came back to where they had started. He didn’t realize when he started depending on O Shin so much. He really needed his help, even without his advice.

“Why is it so complicated for you?” Myo Cheong blurted out with a frown. He crossed his arms and stomped a foot, so he must’ve really disliked what Myohan was doing.

“You kept dropping me into trouble when you were catching me, so why are you being so nice to Jino?”

Myohan jumped to his feet as soon as he heard that. Myo Cheong flinched and his nose moved.

“Shit, you startled me…”

“Hey, rabbit.”

Myohan gave him a serious look. Then he put a hand on his head. Myo Cheong’s eyes widened in surprise when the hand patted his head. But Myohan just smiled.

“Good point.”

He realized it after hearing what the rabbit said. He wasn’t the type of person who thought before moving. O Shin was the one who gathered opinions through meetings. Myohan just acted spontaneously to solve everything. None of them had any information. Sitting around and thinking wasn’t going to give them a solution.

“I’m going.”

Just face it. It was always the way he preferred.

***

A pair of serious eyes looked at Myohan. The absorbing black eyes were similar to O Shin’s, but they didn’t have O Shin’s ease. Jino, who was looking at Myohan, frowned.

“What do you think?”

Jino looked troubled. He was on his way back inside after running on the track field as usual, but then a boy he had never seen before blocked his path. No, to be exact, he had seen him before.

The student who grabbed him and dragged him to the garden was the boy who had been looking for Myo Cheong. Jino glanced to the other side of the wall. He felt like crying. He wished he could leave, but Myohan looked too serious to try it.

“I’m just saying,” he said calmly. He didn’t sound surprised, nor did he look suspicious. He just talked as if asking how he had been.

“I’ve seen you turn into a horse.”

Actually, he just said that. Getting it right would be good, or it would just make him think of him as a maniac. If O Shin had heard it, he would have laughed at the stupid cat. Jino frowned even harder.

“You’re lying.”

Myohan narrowed his eyes at that answer. Jino glanced at Myohan, and then he went on, his frown still deep.