As Kim Sungchan rose to his feet saying he would bring water right away, Shin Heesung swept past him like a flash.
Bringing water in an instant, Shin Heesung held the cup directly to Go Yeonwoo’s lips.
At the same time, he glared intensely at Kim Sungchan.
Kim Sungchan, already exhausted in both mind and body, didn’t even have the energy left to care about Shin Heesung.
Go ahead and grab me by the collar again, for all I care.
With the mindset of whatever happens, happens, Kim Sungchan cleanly ignored Shin Heesung.
Kim Sungchan’s gaze turned back toward Go Yeonwoo.
Having accepted water a few times and lying back down, Go Yeonwoo let out a sluggish breath.
Whether due to the influence of the esper energy rampaging inside his body, he looked completely drained of strength.
“You don’t have an ounce of energy right now, do you?”
Go Yeonwoo didn’t answer. Finding even voicing a word a bother, he tried to close his eyes again.
Shin Heesung forcefully grabbed and pried open the eyelids that were about to shut.
“Hey, what are you doing!”
Startled out of his wits, Kim Sungchan grabbed Shin Heesung’s wrist without realizing it, then stepped back.
It was because a tingling current of electricity was felt from the contacted hand.
Shin Heesung muttered with a sulky expression soon after.
“Don’t touch me so carelessly. It’s unpleasant.”
“Look who’s talking! Who told you to pry his eyelids open on a whim?!”
“Why’ve you gotten so cocky since we last saw each other? Annoying…….”
When Kim Sungchan snapped with uncharacteristic irritability, Shin Heesung slowly tilted his head and muttered.
Massaging his throbbing hand, Kim Sungchan let out a deep, heavy sigh a moment later.
“Ha, seriously, what kind of madness is this. Good grief.”
“Kim Sungchan, get out. You’re in the way.”
“The hell you mean. Do you even know what Go Yeonwoo’s current condition is before telling me to get out, huh?”
This time, Kim Sungchan raised his eyes fiercely in return.
At that, Shin Heesung blinked a few times. He looked like someone who still hadn’t grasped the situation well enough to understand why Kim Sungchan was acting so brazen.
“Ah. Whatever. I don’t even have the energy to explain anymore. If you’re curious, ask Han Jihyuk. I’m going back to the warehouse or whatever.”
With that, Kim Sungchan briskly strode out of the room. Shin Heesung watched Kim Sungchan leave with a look of disbelief, then turned his head back.
Go Yeonwoo, who looked as though he had fallen asleep again just how long after waking up, came into view.
Even though he had deliberately stopped his eyelids from closing, he had fallen asleep in the meantime.
The pale face, completely devoid of even the small amount of life it had, kept bothering him.
That was precisely why he had tried to keep him from sleeping, but his cock socket had fallen asleep without knowing a thing—he felt a sense of resentment.
Staring down at Go Yeonwoo for a moment, Shin Heesung’s gaze drifted off to the side.
The bizarrely twisted, swollen right ankle caught his eye, standing in stark contrast to the intact left ankle. He already knew who had done such a thing.
He had rushed right over after checking the cameras outside in the first place.
When he had just finished his mission with Kang Taewon and stepped out of the gate, Shin Heesung had suddenly been hit by an ominous feeling.
With his intuition acting strangely bad, he had run blindly toward the mansion.
Kang Taewon, who had ended up running alongside him by fluke, spewed all sorts of curses, but Shin Heesung didn’t even have the leisure to care.
He was entirely busy fiddling with his earring to check the recorded video.
Kang Taewon, guessing what Shin Heesung was trying to do, stopped his angry rant to check the footage as well, and the result was the current situation.
“……So annoying. Han Jihyuk, Kang Taewon, and Lee Dohoon, all of them.”
Saying that, Shin Heesung buried his face right over Go Yeonwoo’s palm and let out a long breath.
Meanwhile, coming out of the warehouse with items suitable for a makeshift splint, Kim Sungchan let out a heavy sigh at the scene unfolding in the living room.
The atmosphere had been hostile even before he went into the warehouse, and it was still just as bad.
He could see Kang Taewon growling fiercely in front of Han Jihyuk, and Lee Dohoon leaning his back against a nearby wall, staring at the two of them.
But Lee Dohoon’s state looked a bit different from the other two, Kang Taewon and Shin Heesung.
“What on earth is up with that bastard’s face……?”
Kim Sungchan muttered under his breath, staring at Lee Dohoon with a subtle expression.
Since Go Yeonwoo was currently their only guide, it made sense for Kang Taewon and Shin Heesung to be angry.
When he had rushed out of the warehouse earlier, he hadn’t grasped the situation, but come to find out, Han Jihyuk had lost his mind and tried to strangle Go Yeonwoo to death, didn’t he?
So it was a completely understandable situation for them to be furious.
It made him think the state of the bedroom was actually relatively mild by comparison.
But why on earth did Lee Dohoon look like that?
Kim Sungchan felt deeply unsettled.
Didn’t he look rather like someone who was quietly pleased that Go Yeonwoo’s ankle was completely crippled?
“……No way. Surely not.”
Even as he forced himself to deny it, Kim Sungchan couldn’t stop observing Lee Dohoon.
But no matter how many times he looked, it contrasted too sharply with Kang Taewon, who was scouring the dictionary for every animal name under the sun while hurling curses.
“Are you guys seriously out of your minds?”
At Kim Sungchan’s voice, which had involuntarily risen in volume, gazes snapped toward him.
Quickly clamping his mouth shut, Kim Sungchan turned his head and pretended to look elsewhere, causing the stares to scatter.
He had even gathered things that could pass for splints, so he should have just headed straight back to the room, but for some reason, Kim Sungchan’s feet wouldn’t budge.
It was because of the unsettling vibe he got from Lee Dohoon.
It’s driving me crazy, this is so nerve-wracking. Just as Kim Sungchan was dawdling and slowly making his way back toward the room, Kang Taewon’s words reached his ears.
“Spit it out and say something, dammit! How long are you going to keep your damn mouth shut, huh? When that fucker Lee Dohoon smashed Go Yeonwoo’s ankle I was already royally pissed, but this time you’re pulling this crap, Han Jihyuk?”
“Taewon, you need to get your facts straight. Smashed? Back then, the ankle healed just fine, didn’t it? So shouldn’t you say it was practically good as new?”
Lee Dohoon had smashed Go Yeonwoo’s ankle?
Kim Sungchan, momentarily dumbfounded by the piece of information he was hearing for the first time, soon let out a dry laugh.
Now that he saw it, there had been a reason for everything.
The unsettling feeling he got from Lee Dohoon, that was.
So Lee Dohoon had a prior record of breaking Go Yeonwoo’s ankle even before Han Jihyuk?
……Actually, come to think of it, that was a bit weird.
Because Shin Heesung had broken Go Yeonwoo’s ankle in the past, too.
