A Wolf in the Rabbit's Hole - Chapter 1.2
What was more, if the other was a dominant, then the moment he made up his mind, a recessive like Seo In would be completely dominated. That was a beastkin’s instinct.
It was the moment Seo In gripped the pepper spray in his pocket tighter. The man’s hand that was as big as a pot lid,shot out from his hoodie pocket.
Startled, Seo In’s eyes squeezed shut. A knife? Or knuckles? Or something even more terrifying than that?
“P-please take it……!”
Then a thick, low voice burst out, echoing through the alley. The echo was so loud that a crow dozing atop a utility pole flew off in a start. And, unlike he expected, he felt no blow, no sharp pain.
Seo In cracked one eye open and froze. What sat on the huge palm held out before him was no knife, no knuckles, and not the fellow’s drawn lower half, either.
It was an adorable, bright pink strawberry milk, with even the straw stuck in snugly.
“……Ha?”
“It’s for you to drink. It’s yours, senior…….”
The next moment, Seo In’s face crumpled in dismay. Wait, what did he just call me? Senior? And what is that strawberry milk?
“Did you steal it or take it off someone?”
“No! I-I bought it! At a convenience store! With a two-plus-one deal……!”
The man shouted, as if wronged. His voice was still menacing. Even for a cavernous low voice, the sound itself was ignorantly loud. But its content was so very trivial.
Dumbfounded, Seo In couldn’t even take out the pepper spray as he stared at him.
Beneath the flickering streetlight, the wolf’s face was revealed. His eyes were slit-like, with piercing three-sided whites [1]. A silver piercing in his left eyebrow. A savage, intense impression that made it obvious at a glance, “if someone struck him once in jest, the other would be at least half dead.”
But that face was now flushed beet red. Even the corners of his eyes, stealing glances at Seo In, seemed somehow wet.
Seo In immediately straightened his glasses, wondering if he might be seeing things from overwork.
He wasn’t. It was real. That gangster face was, right now, ongoingly blushing, ripening red with shyness.
“……What the.”
He stood holding out the milk pack, as if tightly wound. The tendons on the back of his huge hand bulged. That massive body seemed to tremble faintly.
It was like a bolt from the blue in the dead of night, at that. Flabbergasted, Seo In asked.
“Who are you?”
The man swallowed hard.
“Cha Tae Seong, a freshman in the College of Physical Education.”
“…….”
“Since the entrance ceremony…… I’ve been watching. You eating at the cafeteria, and you sleeping in the library……. Ah, no! You studying.”
Seo In looked at the man with a blank expression.
What was this? A stalker’s confession of stalking? Or was this what confessions from the PE college looked like these days?
“So?”
Since the situation was what it was, when Seo In asked dryly, the wolf named Tae Seong opened his mouth, gripping the strawberry milk as if it would burst.
“Won’t you go out with me?”
“Go out?”
“Dating…… I mean. I can really, really treat you well.”
The content was obviously a confession, but because of Tae Seong’s appearance, it sounded like a declaration of war.
“I’m strong, and I eat well, and also…….”
“Hey.”
Seo In cut him off short. Tae Seong’s shoulders froze as if electrocuted. Seo In crossed his arms and tilted his head. It was the patience-less gaze peculiar to a person at the far end of exhaustion.
“Haven’t you heard the rumors about me?”
“……Excuse me?”
“I don’t turn away the people who come to me, but your type is the kind I absolutely can’t stand.”
At the direct hit, Tae Seong’s three-sided white eyes shook as if hit by an earthquake.
“What do you……. I-I’m really not a scary person. And this milk, I really bought it with my own money…….”
“You look scary. I don’t like rough things, whether in looks or personality.”
Seo In swept his gaze over Tae Seong from head to toe.
The chest muscles that looked ready to burst even under the hoodie, the thick thighs, the overly large hands, the nape tattoo, the piercing, the overbearing pheromone unique to a dominant. A disaster perfectly suited to standing in a back alley at midnight.
“My taste is someone pretty and strong who quietly does as they’re told. But you’re too much in every way. You’re a burden.”
Tae Seong’s lips twitched.
“I-I’m really obedient. Whatever you tell me to do…….”
“Take the piercing out and then talk. And the smell coming off you is too strong. It’s giving me a headache, so can you step aside?”
Notes on Translation:
[1] 날카로운 삼백안 (Nalkaroun Sanpaku-an) or Sharp sanpaku eyes (where the white of the eye is visible beneath or above the iris along with the sides, giving a sharp, predatory, or rebellious glare) is a trope based on face reading.
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