Yes, It’s Me. The Obsessive Side Top

#045

In the midst of being startled, my unconscious mind made me close my mouth, knowing I shouldn’t scream.

What should I be thinking in this situation? I suddenly woke up to a strange sensation, and Kim Shin’s head was moving around my neck area. Kim Shin acts as if nothing happened, but I clearly saw his head in my drowsy state.

“Ha Jin, why are you awake?”

I looked at Kim Shin, who spoke quietly as if coaxing me. In the darkness, I could faintly see the outline of Kim Shin’s face. I couldn’t accurately make out his expression, but hearing his voice, I could picture him holding back a smile.

“Go back to sleep.”

He spoke affectionately in a whisper-like voice. But there was something I needed to confirm with Kim Shin before going back to sleep.

“You coming next to me just now.”

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Kim Shin answered, cutting off my words. He still whispered softly. As I continued to look at him with suspicion, Kim Shin let out a soft laugh.

“You’re really out of it when you sleep. I ended up waking you.”

My eyes, accustomed to the darkness, made out Kim Shin’s expression. He made eye contact with me and showed his typical sly smile. I raised my hand and brushed my neck. Something got caught on my fingertips. There was a small bump as if a mosquito bite had formed.

“There was a mosquito on your neck, so I killed it. I was checking if our Ha Jin got bitten by a mosquito.”

Listening to Kim Shin’s words, the bumpy part seemed a bit itchy.

“Did you get bitten?”

“Yeah. I got bitten. Properly.”

“What were you doing instead of sleeping that you caught a mosquito on my neck?”

“I woke up from the mosquito buzzing. I thought I should catch it, but the mosquito dared to go to our Ha Jin’s neck. I tried to catch it really carefully so as not to wake you. Taking care of Ha Jin without making it obvious is my job, but this time I made it obvious, huh?”

Kim Shin showed a brittle smile and closed his eyes again. Come to think of it, there’s no way Kim Shin would do the same thing as Sun Woo. And there’s no way Kim Shin would have such intentions. In the webtoon, Kim Shin was just Ha Jin’s close friend and helper, nothing more. I grew unnecessarily suspicious of people because Sun Woo kept acting strange.

“Sun Woo might come. Let’s stop talking and sleep, Ha Jin.”

“Okay.”

“Then should we hold hands as we sleep, as a sign of good night?”

“…”

“Just kidding. Good night, Ha Jin. I caught the mosquito, so you won’t get bitten anymore.”

I couldn’t hear the buzzing of mosquitoes in my ear, so his words seemed true. I closed my eyes again with a comfortable mind. Although it was an unfamiliar feeling, sleeping with Kim Shin like this wasn’t bad either. At least it felt much more reassuring than sleeping with Sun Woo.

Kim Shin even catches mosquitoes for me. What a remarkable guy.

“What’s this?”

“Huh?”

“On your neck. This.”

Sun Woo seemed to have entered the room as soon as the sun rose. When I opened my eyes, Kim Shin was nowhere to be seen, and there was Sun Woo waking me up for no reason. In a half-asleep state, the clock I vaguely saw seemed to have just passed 6 AM. What kind of humiliation is this from the early morning breeze?

“Sun Woo. I’m going to sleep a bit more.”

I pulled the blanket up and covered my head. But Sun Woo lightly pulled the blanket down. Seeing his hand heading towards my neck, I even felt a chilling sensation, wondering if he was going to strangle me. That’s how angry Sun Woo looked.

“Tell me what this is.”

“What is it that you keep telling me to say it?”

“This mark on your neck.”

“Ah, that.”

I tried to kindly explain to Sun Woo. It seemed like he would understand and stop forcibly waking me up if I did. However, as if he had no intention of listening to me, Sun Woo bit my neck as it was.

“Mmph!”

Startled, I covered my mouth with my hand. Sun Woo strongly sucked on my nape. I pressed one hand firmly over my mouth and frantically waved the other hand, trying to shake off the 188cm Sun Woo mosquito sucking on my neck.

“Hey, Sun Woo.”

I spoke softly, trying to avoid him, but it wasn’t easy to escape from being pinned underneath. I should learn self-defense, not receive PT. After biting and sucking for a long time like that, Sun Woo finally pulled away on his own, not budging at my resistance. My nape, torn by him, hurt.

“What are you doing…?”

I don’t even have the energy to get angry. I spoke with no strength in my voice and rubbed my neck with my hand.

“Why are you sucking on a mosquito bite? Were you trying to apply your saliva? Isn’t that a bit excessive for that?”

“A mosquito, you say?”

“I got bitten by a mosquito last night. On my neck.”

“A mosquito, you say? Then you should have said so.”

“I was trying to say it, but you just ignored me and bit my neck…”

Damn it. Sun Woo’s moist saliva is on my hand. Even in this situation, I was still not fully awake, so I brought the blanket Sun Woo had pulled down and covered myself again. As I closed my eyes, something warm embraced me from behind. Sun Woo had lain down next to me in the position he had been sleeping with me these past few days. Hugging me tightly without any gaps.

“I think Kim Shin might come.”

“So what if he comes?”

“I don’t know. I’m. Sleeping.”

Sun Woo seems to have no shame at all. As if I had also assimilated to him, I decided to just sleep regardless of whether Kim Shin would be surprised to see this. Wow, it’s comfortable once I give up.

In my half-asleep state, I think I heard Kim Shin bursting into laughter.

“Ha Jin. I’m having so much fun with this.”

Kim Shin was excited like a kid going on a picnic, swinging the silver kettle in his hand back and forth as he walked. His light steps bounced as if dancing. Grandmother said she would make loach stew, so we were on our way to catch loaches. Kim Shin was genuinely enjoying going to catch loaches. As I walked holding a cone-shaped net, I thought about the kettle Kim Shin was swinging. Why would we need a kettle to catch loaches?

“Sun Woo. What’s the kettle for?”

“It’s a container to put the loaches in.”

“Why put them in a kettle?”

“If you put them in a regular container, they might jump out and escape.”

“Ah.”

So there was such a deep meaning. Honestly, I found it a bit fun too, just like Kim Shin. I never had this kind of experience because my grandparents passed away early. Even in the military, only a very few people went for civil support, and when I was selected, it was for festival sites. People wanted to go for civil support in rural areas because you could get boiled pork and lots of delicious food.

Becoming Ha Jin, I get to experience all sorts of things.

The place Sun Woo guided us to as the loach catching spot was where ditches were dug between rice fields. The water was knee-deep, and the width was just right for two people to walk side by side.

Since we were wearing shorts, it seemed like our clothes wouldn’t get wet at this water level. To catch the loaches, the three of us went into the water under Sun Woo’s guidance.

“Kim Shin. Hold the net and stay there. We’ll drive them in.”

“I just stay still?”

“Don’t move and stay still.”

Kim Shin held the net firmly, saying he would carry out the instructions well. Sun Woo and I tried to walk in the direction of the water flow to drive the loaches. We were about to walk with some distance in front of Kim Shin, but Sun Woo suddenly held my hand.

“To match our pace.”

I wasn’t sure if that was right or wrong, so it was awkward to let go of his hand. Since he would know best about life here, I should follow Sun Woo, but strangely, he seemed to have ill intentions. As we walked holding hands, Kim Shin, who was waiting still in front, suddenly raised his voice.

“What? If you’re doing it like that, I want to do the driving with Ha Jin. Sun Woo, let’s switch.”

“We need to drive well, so beginners can’t do it.”

“Then Ha Jin can hold the net. Sun Woo. Let’s hold hands.”

“…”

Sun Woo ignored Kim Shin’s words and walked silently.

“Sun Woo. I want to hold hands with you too. Should we interlock fingers? I really like interlocking fingers. Sun Woo, can’t you give me some attention too? I’m someone who’s really starved for attention.”

“Be quiet.”

Sun Woo walked up to Kim Shin and spoke coldly, then lifted the net. I wondered if they would get caught with this, but there were a few loaches in the net.

“They really got caught?”

“Right, Ha Jin? It’s fascinating.”

I brought the kettle I had left outside the ditch, and Sun Woo took out the loaches with his hands and put them in the kettle. Kim Shin tried to catch some too, but he caught a loach with his hand, got startled, and threw the loach he had caught with difficulty far away while screaming.

“Ack. What, it’s slippery.”

“What? We didn’t catch many. Kim Shin. Go pick up the one you threw.”

“Ugh, Ha Jin. I can’t touch loaches.”

“If you’re going to throw them, at least throw them into the net.”

“Don’t do that, Ha Jin. The feeling is really weird. It’s super slippery.”

“It’s slippery because it’s a loach.”

“Ah, is that so?”

Kim Shin laughed as if he had just now realized the meaning of the name “loach” while making a dumb face. After all, Kim Shin had a sloppy side that didn’t match his appearance. It’s a waste of his cold handsome face.

“Ha Jin. You hold the net this time.”

Kim Shin held out the net after taking out all the loaches. As I took the net and got into position, Kim Shin held Sun Woo’s hand.

“Let go.”

Sun Woo couldn’t pull his hand out and was only giving verbal warnings with a murderous look, perhaps because Kim Shin had held it with force.

“Sun Woo. My heart is pounding like crazy from holding your hand.”

“Mine is pounding too. My blood is slowly boiling.”

“Hey, you said we need to match our pace.”

Kim Shin and Sun Woo bickered as they walked, and it was funny, so I laughed. Kim Shin smiled back at me, while Sun Woo had a constipated expression as Kim Shin held his hand. You reap what you sow. Compared to when he was driving with me, Sun Woo walked more than twice as fast. Kim Shin followed Sun Woo, running rather than walking, still not letting go of his hand. I lifted the net as they arrived in an instant, and there were incomparably more loaches caught than before.

“I think this position is perfect for us. Sun Woo, we click well together, don’t we?”

“I guess you two are a good match.”

Sun Woo threw off Kim Shin’s hand as if in a bad mood and put the loaches caught in the net back into the kettle.

“Should we go again?”

Kim Shin stretched out his arm and held it out to Sun Woo. He clenched and unclenched his hand, asking Sun Woo to hold him quickly, but Sun Woo only rolled up the net.

“This much is enough.”

“Already? Ah, I want to do more.”

“We only need to catch enough to eat.”

“That’s true. But holding your hand was unexpectedly nice, Sun Woo.”

What? Did Kim Shin fall for Sun Woo or something? I examined Kim Shin with a strange feeling. Since he always smiled slyly, it was hard to grasp his intentions. Sun Woo went up the ditch first as if he found it bothersome, and Kim Shin kept making unnecessary remarks and clinging to him. I guess their sense of humor matches well too. In the webtoon, Sun Woo made two big-shot men totally devoted to him.

Lost in thought, I made a misstep as I got on the ditch and fell backwards. In the moment of surprise, my body was completely submerged in the water up to my knees.

At the same time, two men approached me with startled faces and reached out their hands to me. I looked at the two hands held out to me as I lay there fallen.

[The Lives of Golden Spoons]

– Ha Jin’s prohibited list 11. Using the toilet prohibited

└ You guys are really

└└ Think about it. Ha Jin sitting on the toilet to poop

└└└ Ah, just thinking about it is disgusting.

└└└ Lol, when you give an example, it hits hard. We should prohibit it

└ If he doesn’t go to the bathroom… How does he live? No butthole?

└└ He doesn’t have one.

└└ Why would a saint have one?

└└└ The world is harsh. Are you going to erase our Ha Jin’s body too? Lol

└└ No lol. He can poop, but using the toilet is prohibited lol

└└└└ Crazy lol. Then what, dig a hole in the ground and poop?

└└└└ Lolololol. Just let him use the toilet! This is even more disgusting lol

└ Ha Jin cat theory.

└└ Lol. He needs to poop and cover it with sand

└└ Let’s change the sand frequently

└ Fuck! He doesn’t poop!

└ Lol, so funny lol. As expected, prohibiting things without substance is the best.