SLC 83

Kim Jinkyung answered with an ambiguous smile instead of words.

He had hugged Mok Seongha, who had turned into a panther in the alley, and desperately worked his brain. He remembered that he had parked his car nearby, looked around, and searched for the car first. The model was unusual, so it immediately stood out.

After that, Kim Jinkyung wrapped clothes around the panther’s head and put him into the car while pretending he was walking a large dog. He then drove like a madman and brought him straight to the mansion. Just before they arrived, Mok Seongha changed back. He had even licked his front paws while he was a panther, so his wounds had completely disappeared. Even after he returned to human form, Mok Seongha did not say a word.

“You might have been caught on camera, so it would be better if you explain quickly.”

Secretary Kang smiled as he threatened Kim Jinkyung.

Kim Jinkyung gave a rough report of what happened today. He left out the part about sitting at the same table as the two men he had once had a crush on. Secretary Kang carefully wrote down the location where Mok Seongha changed and the route Kim Jinkyung took while moving him.

“So in the end, you’re saying the young master ended up like that because he was shocked by your immoral and indecent behavior?”

“……”

The words immoral and indecent left Kim Jinkyung speechless, but he nodded.

“Really… you didn’t need to go that far.”

At Kim Jinkyung’s words, Secretary Kang stared at him for a moment and then spoke.

“I once watched the young master briefly when he was studying Korean. Do you know the novel “One Nyang of Silver”?”

“What? Ah, yes. I know it.”

Kim Jinkyung answered in surprise at the sudden mention of a novel.

“Do you remember the beggar who’s the main character?”

“Yes.”

The old beggar’s line, obsessed with a single silver coin, was so famous that anyone who had received a standard education in this country could not know it.¹

“In my opinion, the young master is that beggar.”

“…Are you serious?”

From head to toe, it was a comparison that did not suit Mok Seongha.

“Of course, our young master is handsome like a polished diamond, young, smart, and rich, so there are differences.”

“……”

That just means he’s completely different.

“If a beggar has one silver coin, and someone says they want it, how do you think the beggar feels? It feels fucking awful.”

After finishing his brief literary analysis, Secretary Kang picked up the car keys.

“Where are you going?”

Secretary Kang let out a hollow laugh as he looked at Kim Jinkyung.

“Even if the two of you, busy enjoying your sweet romance, were in a CCTV blind spot, did you even think about the possibility that you might have been recorded on a car black box?”

It meant he was fucking annoyed and busy cleaning up after their annoying romance.

“…I’m sorry.”

“So are you still going to send him to college?”

Kim Jinkyung flinched at Secretary Kang’s words. That had been worrying him too. Even if Kim Jinkyung was glued to his side now, once Mok Seongha entered college as a freshman, he would have to go to school alone. If he transformed in front of people because of an unexpected accident, he would definitely end up on the 9 o’clock news.

When Kim Jinkyung couldn’t answer, Secretary Kang sighed.

Thinking that all that studying would be a waste might just be Kim Jinkyung’s own greed. In reality, Mok Seongha had enough wealth to live a lifetime of indulgence, luxury, waste, and gambling and still have money left over. He did not need to go to college to find an aptitude or a job.

The contract Mok Seongha had previously offered included a clause that paid Kim Jinkyung an hourly tutoring fee on the condition that Kim Jinkyung sent him to college, but that was also more about keeping Kim Jinkyung tied to him as a private tutor than about college itself.

“Just enjoy a sweet romance. Don’t have an expensive one.”

Secretary Kang left those words behind and walked out the front door. Kim Jinkyung sighed and walked down the hallway.

“Seongha-ssi.”

Mok Seongha was not on the bed in his room, where Kim Jinkyung expected him to be. He even checked the bathroom, wondering if he was showering. He was not there either.

Just in case, Kim Jinkyung went out to the garden.

“Seongha-ssi.”

Kim Jinkyung called out to him and looked around. He checked the place where Mok Seongha usually lay, but he did not see a lump of black fur.

Where did he go? Should I check the building next door that connects to the basement?

As Kim Jinkyung was about to leave the glass garden, something dark brushed against his face. He raised his head to see what it was. It was a panther’s tail. The black panther was lying on a large tree in the middle of the glass garden, with his tail hanging down.

When did he change again?

Kim Jinkyung carefully fiddled with the tail and called, ‘Seongha-ssi.’ The panther flicked his tail away and avoided Kim Jinkyung’s touch.

…He’s really sulking.

At least he had lowered his tail before leaving to show that he was here. That part was very like Mok Seongha.

“Seongha-ssi. Could you come down for a moment?”

Kim Jinkyung looked up at the tree and spoke, but the panther turned his head away.

I guess there’s no choice.

Kim Jinkyung walked under the tree and looked for a place to step. He reached out, grabbed a thick branch, and pulled himself up with a grunt.

What are you doing?

The panther looked down at Kim Jinkyung with an expression of disbelief. Kim Jinkyung barely managed to climb up to where the panther was lying.

“…It’s higher than I thought.”

Kim Jinkyung muttered while holding a branch that stretched out to the side. The panther sighed and turned his head.

“You’re angry because of me, right?”

The panther bared his teeth and growled.

What kind of question is that?

Kim Jinkyung thought he needed to get a panther language certificate as soon as possible.

“Seongha-ssi. There’s something you’re misunderstanding…”

Kim Jinkyung carefully perched himself on the branch and then spoke.

“It’s not that I didn’t want to date anyone. …I couldn’t.”

Saying something like this out loud himself was a little embarrassing. But he wanted to lay everything out clearly, so Kim Jinkyung continued.

“I’m serious. I thought I’d never be able to date anyone for my entire life.”

Kim Jinkyung fiddled with the panther’s long tail, which was tapping irritably against his foot.

“Um, I realized I liked men… when I was young.”

He did not need anyone to teach him that. He just realized it naturally.

“I had a really close friend. We went to kindergarten together and stuck together all through elementary school. I thought he might understand me, so I once told him, in a roundabout way, that I liked men.”

One day, Kim Jinkyung was reading a comic book with that friend, and they jokingly started arguing about which character was the prettiest. The friend picked one of the female leads with silver hair.

‘Hey. Who would you pick?’

Kim Jinkyung thought for a moment and chose the male lead. It was a joke, but also sincere. They were close friends, so he also hoped that maybe his friend would understand him. But he could never forget the expression on his friend’s face at that moment.

‘What? What are you talking about? You seriously picked that?’

It was a face full of disgust and wariness. The attitude made it look like Kim Jinkyung had chosen something dirty that should never be chosen. Kim Jinkyung quickly picked the female character standing next to him.

‘I knew it. That’s totally your type.’

The friend said, relieved. Kim Jinkyung smiled awkwardly and brushed it off with a vague response.

The panther looked at Kim Jinkyung, urging him to continue.

“I later played it off as a joke, but… things got awkward. I drifted away from that friend.”

After that day, the two of them slowly stopped spending time together. Kim Jinkyung didn’t know if his friend realized that what he said back then wasn’t a joke. But Kim Jinkyung learned one thing. He learned that it was something he should never say out loud.

It made people uncomfortable.

Young Kim Jinkyung understood that. After that, he never brought it up again. …Not until he came to Mok Seongha’s mansion to tutor him.

Kim Jinkyung held the panther’s tail and fiddled with it.

“I’ve always felt uncomfortable expressing feelings like liking someone. …No, I thought it was wrong.”

Understanding difference was an unreasonable demand. After realizing that his feelings could make others uncomfortable, Kim Jinkyung gave up on being understood. His one sided crushes were harmless, so they came and went easily. He didn’t need anyone’s understanding, and he didn’t need to ask anyone to endure discomfort for him.

“I’m not especially kind or anything, but I didn’t want to date if it meant bothering someone else.”

The panther frowned and looked at Kim Jinkyung, asking what he was talking about.

“But, Seongha-ssi…”

Kim Jinkyung tightly held the tail resting in his palm and looked at the black panther.

“For the first time, I’m having bad thoughts.”

“……”

“I know it might make you uncomfortable, but… I wanted to say that I like you.”

Kim Jinkyung wanted to take the feelings that had been rattling uncomfortably inside him his entire life and put them out in the open, just once, and have them acknowledged. He wasn’t any different from the old beggar. That single silver coin he thought he would never hold in his life was precious.

“Ah, anyway, I just wanted to say that you didn’t need to be this hurt over my past…but I’m sorry.”

After hearing Secretary Kang’s comparison to the silver coin, Kim Jinkyung realized that he had done something terrible to Mok Seongha. That was why he swallowed his embarrassment and confessed everything about his past. But once he finished talking, his face burned with delayed shame.

“Um, then I’ll go down first. Take your time coming do…ugh!”

Kim Jinkyung tried to climb down the tree but couldn’t find a place to step, and he fell backward.

I’m falling.

Kim Jinkyung closed his eyes. But even after time passed, he still didn’t touch the ground. He slowly opened his eyes. The panther was biting the back of his collar, his face twisted into an exaggerated scowl.

“…You can let go…”

Only then did the panther release him. Kim Jinkyung landed safely on the ground with both feet. The black panther jumped down from the tree. Then he returned to human form and stood in front of Kim Jinkyung.

No matter how many times he saw it, the sight never stopped feeling strange. Kim Jinkyung stared at him for a moment, then picked up the clothes that had fallen on the ground and handed them over. Mok Seongha pulled on his pants and called out, “Teacher.”

“…Yes.”

“From now on… what am I supposed to do?”

Kim Jinkyung blinked, not understanding the question. When Mok Seongha saw that, he cursed and pulled Kim Jinkyung into a hug.

“It’s obvious. …It’s way too obvious. But once I realized that even women could like you, I got so angry I felt like I was going crazy.”

Mok Seongha admitted his anxiety.

“If you actually tried to seduce someone, it’s obvious everyone would fall for you.”

“…I don’t think so.”

Kim Jinkyung answered while leaning his head against Mok Seongha’s shoulder.

“What do you mean no? Fuck. Even a woman who looks like that fell for you.”

“……”

Kim Jinkyung’s heart throbbed when he heard the words “a woman who looks like that.” He knew that Jung Seyoung was beautiful. Stories about her receiving business cards from famous entertainment agencies circulated like legends. There was a reason people called her a goddess. But hearing that fact confirmed through Mok Seongha’s mouth made him feel strange.

“What? Did I say something wrong?”

“…No.”

Mok Seongha had high standards. Even though Seo Sangil was objectively not unattractive, Mok Seongha didn’t hesitate to call him ugly. For someone like him, Jung Seyoung passed the bar. …It made sense.

Kim Jinkyung quietly looked up at Mok Seongha.

“What?”

Mok Seongha had made plans for marriage even though he had never thought he liked humans.

Kim Jinkyung’s heart tightened again.

“Seongha-ssi would be the same. If you set your mind to it, anyone would… like you.”

Saying the plain truth, not the ridiculous rose tinted idea Mok Seongha was insisting on, made Kim Jinkyung feel a little depressed. The moment Mok Seongha expanded his world, he would have countless options, far more than now. What if he turned his eyes toward another option then?

“Who would like someone like me?”

Mok Seongha answered as if it were absurd.

…Does he never look in the mirror?

“Um, you know you’re handsome, right?”

“I know.”

He answered without hesitation.

“You know, then why…”

“I’m not human.”

Mok Seongha answered. Kim Jinkyung looked at him in surprise.

“Humans usually like other humans.”

“…Why aren’t you human, Seongha-ssi?”

Even if he was half panther, he was still human. Kim Jinkyung had never imagined that Mok Seongha thought of himself that way, and it left him flustered.

“You don’t think of me as human either.”

“What?”

“Do you think of me as a big cat? Is that why you read books like that?”

A book that had been left face down on the desk came to Kim Jinkyung’s mind. He never imagined that Mok Seongha would think that way after seeing it.

“No, it’s not that. Seongha-ssi is…”

“I know too. I’m not human. But I’m not exactly a black panther either.”

Mok Seongha lowered his gaze and grabbed Kim Jinkyung’s wrist.

“Let’s go inside.”

“Seongha-ssi.”

Kim Jinkyung stopped him.

“It’s fine. You don’t need to comfort me. A fact is still a fact.”

Mok Seongha spoke as if it didn’t matter. He existed on a boundary that was neither one thing nor the other. He couldn’t believe that Kim Jinkyung liked someone like him. He wanted to hold onto that miracle for as long as he lived, if he could.

“I think Seongha-ssi is human. And it’s also true that you’re a black panther.”

“……”

“It’s not that you’re neither. In this case, both are true. When an experiment has results, they call it positive, so of course Seongha-ssi is…’

Mok Seongha suddenly pulled Kim Jinkyung into his arms. It was so tight that Kim Jinkyung couldn’t even breathe, and froze in surprise.

“Fuck.”

Mok Seongha cursed.

“Fuck, seriously… fuck.”

“…Seongha-ssi.”

“I seriously, fuck, feel so good. It feels so good I think I’m going to die. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.”

Mok Seongha laid bare his feelings to the person who made his existence feel fully real with just a few simple words.

He didn’t know. He lacked knowledge, and he lacked experience. Every time he looked at Kim Jinkyung, this feeling surged up his throat so violently that he felt like throwing up. He didn’t know how to handle it. He didn’t know how he should act, what he should say, or what he should do.

“Then…”

Kim Jinkyung looked up at Mok Seongha. Mok Seongha waited for the next words with fierce eyes, like he was about to tear into a prey.

“…Please kiss me.”

Mok Seongha lunged at Kim Jinkyung and pressed their lips together. Once again, Kim Jinkyung gave him the perfect answer.

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“Ha… hng…”

Kim Jinkyung whimpered and braced his hand against the bathroom wall. The man who had his face buried between Kim Jinkyung’s thighs while kneeling on the floor lifted his head.

“Why?”

“…Stop…”

“I’m not done yet.”

Mok Seongha said and pushed his tongue back inside, sucking again. The sensation of wetness spreading below made Kim Jinkyung lose strength in his legs. He fell forward and clutched Mok Seongha’s head, gasping for breath.

“Seongha… please, stop… it’s too much down there…”

Kim Jinkyung begged through tears. Mok Seongha was relentless. He was far too relentless. No matter how much Kim Jinkyung cried and begged, Mok Seongha didn’t pull his mouth away. It felt like his goal wasn’t sex, but using his mouth on him.

“…Seongha… Seongha-ya.”

When Kim Jinkyung called his name, Mok Seongha froze, his tongue, still inside, stopped moving.

“…I’m going to… I think I’m going to come…”

Kim Jinkyung spoke with reddened eyes. The hand holding his hips tightened. Mok Seongha nibbled on Kim Jinkyung’s cock with his mouth.

“Ugh…!”

Kim Jinkyung had barely been holding back the urge to come already, and the direct stimulation made him feel like he was going insane.

“No. I’m… right now…”

Mok Seongha’s tongue wrapped around the head of his cock. The flesh trapped inside the hot, wet mouth twitched. Kim Jinkyung grabbed Mok Seongha’s hair.

He sucked his cock while using his hand to pry open the hole that had already been soaked and softened from all the earlier attention.

The stimulation from both sides overwhelmed Kim Jinkyung, and he came while clutching Mok Seongha’s hair.

“Ugh… hng… haa…”

Even as he came, long fingers continued to dig inside. Kim Jinkyung’s thighs trembled. Every time semen spilled from the tip, the fingers penetrated deeper.

Mok Seongha swallowed Kim Jinkyung’s cock down to his throat and gulped, swallowing the semen in his mouth. Only then did Kim Jinkyung lift his head in surprise as he felt warmth spreading beneath his feet. Mok Seongha had come while sucking him.

“…Seongha…”

Mok Seongha raised his head and met Kim Jinkyung’s eyes. The sensation of his tongue sliding up as he swallowed made Kim Jinkyung shiver.

“…That’s enough now.”

Kim Jinkyung barely managed to pull Mok Seongha away from between his legs. Only then did he pull back, smacking his lips.

“Don’t keep eating that.”

“It tastes good.”

Kim Jinkyung wiped the semen that Mok Seongha hadn’t swallowed and that lingered at the corner of his mouth.

“I’m sorry.”

“What are you sorry for?”

“…For getting it on your face.”

Mok Seongha wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, checked the semen, and smeared it across his own cheek.

“I like this.”

He said it like he was talking about a favorite treat.

“You smell sexy to me, Teacher. And when I eat this…”

Mok Seongha continued speaking while licking Kim Jinkyung’s thigh.

“…it feels like I smell a bit like you too.”

Kim Jinkyung didn’t know how to react to a reason he had never heard in his life.

“Uh… even so…”

“This…”

Mok Seongha lifted his eyes as he licked the tip of Kim Jinkyung’s cock, which still was hard from the heat.

“Come on me.”

“What?”

“So everyone knows you’re mine. Like marking territory…”

Mok Seongha slowly rose, his lips moving upward. His lips brushed Kim Jinkyung’s thighs, his cock, his lower abdomen, and reached his chest.

“I want you to come all over my body.”

His lover’s obscene request made Kim Jinkyung’s face turn deep red. The humid air of the bathroom enveloped them.

He bit down on a nipple with his lips and sucked, holding it in his mouth.

“Ah…”

The sensations in Kim Jinkyung’s body, still sensitive from climax, heightened again. Mok Seongha rubbed his reddened nipples slowly with his fingertips, then licked Kim Jinkyung’s nape, nibbled his jaw, and bit his lips.

Every time Mok Seongha had sex, he left marks on Kim Jinkyung’s body. Just like he said, it was animal behavior, marking territory.

Mok Seongha kissed Kim Jinkyung while standing, then spread him open from behind with his fingers and pushed inside. Kim Jinkyung’s moans were swallowed into Mok Seongha’s mouth.

“Uh… ugh… hng…”

Two hard cocks rubbed against each other. Because of their height difference, Kim Jinkyung’s cock rubbed between Mok Seongha’s thighs, while Mok Seongha’s cock brushed against Kim Jinkyung’s lower abdomen.

“Teacher…”

Mok Seongha called him and grabbed his ass, lifting him. Kim Jinkyung gasped when the cold bathroom wall touched his back. Then everything stopped when he felt himself being spread and penetrated from below.

“Ah…”

“Haa…”

A low moan spilled from Mok Seongha’s mouth. Any doubt about the purpose of his actions disappeared the moment he pushed inside. Kim Jinkyung understood what he really wanted without needing to ask.

“Ah… ngh…”

He wrapped his arms around Mok Seongha’s neck. He lifted his leg and pushed his cock in again. The hole, barely opened, clamped down around him. Mok Seongha frowned slightly and bit his lower lip.

“…Slowly, please, just a bit… Seongha-ssi.”

Kim Jinkyung begged in a shaky voice, clinging to his neck. He had never had sex standing up, let alone in a bathroom. Sound echoed, his skin was damp from the humidity, and it became difficult to breathe.

“How much slower do you want me to go?”

Mok Seongha answered while inching the tip forward, little by little. Sweat and water soaked his hair, which stuck to his forehead and made his features stand out even more.

“It’s too big… Seongha-ssi, it’s too…”

Kim Jinkyung’s breath brushed against Mok Seongha’s neck. The latter thrust his waist forward.

“Ah…!”

Kim Jinkyung’s raised leg trembled from the sudden penetration. His inner walls clenched in response. It was insane. Mok Seongha tensed his thigh and slammed forward again. The cock that had only been halfway in penetrated deep inside.

“Ah, haa…”

“…It’s all in.”

Mok Seongha guided one of Kim Jinkyung’s hands down to where they were joined. He spread Kim Jinkyung’s fingers and made him rub the base where his cock extended from his body.

“Ah… Teacher…”

Mok Seongha moaned with half-lidded eyes. The cool tone of his voice, as he called him, made Kim Jinkyung want to kiss him.

Impulse turned into desire. Kim Jinkyung kissed Mok Seongha’s jaw. The latter clenched his teeth.

“Fuck.”

He bit down on Kim Jinkyung’s lips and started thrusting, bracing his legs.

“Ah, ah! Hng… ah!”

Moans bounced off the bathroom walls and rang up to the ceiling. The sound filled his entire body. Mok Seongha drove his cock into Kim Jinkyung as if he were trying to split him open. Desire surged up to his throat. Even his fingertips tingled. Kim Jinkyung clung to Mok Seongha’s neck, desperate not to slip, even while kissing him.

His body was soaked, and sensations raced through it as heat spread. Mok Seongha kneaded Kim Jinkyung’s ass in his hands and slammed his hips upward.

“Ah, hng… Se… Seongha…”

Sharp teeth left a shallow cut on Kim Jinkyung’s lips. The taste of blood filled his mouth. He found even the blood sweet. Semen had tasted fishy the first time he swallowed it, but once it went down his throat, a subtle sweetness followed. Mok Seongha could tell the difference.

He hurriedly licked Kim Jinkyung’s wound. The cut vanished, leaving a metallic sweetness in his mouth. Mok Seongha swallowed it. Whether animal or human, body scent changed depending on what one consumed. Kim Jinkyung’s traces piled up inside him. The feeling of being filled with Kim Jinkyung excited Mok Seongha enough to make his skin prickle.

“Teacher… Teacher…”

Mok Seongha’s heated calling made Kim Jinkyung try to respond even as he moaned. That small movement was so lovely.

Mok Seongha spread Kim Jinkyung’s legs wider, pulled him close at the hips, and drove his hips upward. The hole, slick with saliva, clung tightly to his cock and made wet sounds.

“Haa…”

Mok Seongha moaned and held Kim Jinkyung tight. He wanted to hold him even tighter than this, even though Kim Jinkyung already couldn’t breathe.

It felt too good. It was insane. He never imagined that a human’s smell, taste, touch, sound, and the sight of him would feel this good.

Mok Seongha lowered his head and bit Kim Jinkyung’s nape.

“Seongha… ha… ah, ah…!”

Kim Jinkyung came first. Warmth spread across his stomach. The smell of semen reached Mok Seongha’s nose and stirred a hunger he couldn’t explain. Mok Seongha buried his cock to the limit inside the hole that clenched and twitched like it was breathing.

His cock pushed visibly against Kim Jinkyung’s thin abdomen. He cried and kept calling Mok Seongha’s name. The sound drove him higher. He grabbed Kim Jinkyung’s ass and came. Semen surged deep inside. It spilled out through the gap where their bodies were connected.

Kim Jinkyung trembled in Mok Seongha’s arms. The latter ground his teeth and thrust his hips several more times. He pumped more semen over what had already filled him. He repeated it again and again.

“Haa… haa…”

“…Haa…”

Breathless, their gazes locked. Neither waited, their mouths met.

“Haa… mm… ngh…”

Kim Jinkyung softly cried as he lay back on the bed, his hips still raised.

“Why are you crying?”

Mok Seongha asked, the same man who had been mercilessly pounding him just moments ago.

“…It’s too much… I’m exhausted.”

The face that turned back to him, eyes reddened from crying, looked young. Mok Seongha still couldn’t believe that Kim Jinkyung, with that face, had gone through the army surrounded by ugly men without incident.

If Mok Seongha had served with him, Kim Jinkyung would have been fucked hundreds of times over.

“…You’re tired?”

“Yes… too much… you kept going…”

1. “That one silver coin is my life!” ↩︎