It was rare for Muheon to open his mouth and laugh, so Hakyung focused intently on his face for a long time.
If only his phone had been next to him, he would have taken a picture…
He felt so disappointed.
Hakyung clicked his tongue and gently stroked Muheon’s forearm.
He could feel the smooth, firm texture filling his palm.
“But, boss,”
“Is there a specific condition for your skin to change? Before I fell asleep, I definitely saw black scales on you… just like when I saw you on the rooftop that time.”
Hakyung’s eyes darted around, searching for traces of scales.
But all he could see was smooth, glowing white skin.
Muheon was surprised to see Hakyung sniffing around like a dog looking for treats.
He hadn’t known his true form would try to emerge during their intimacy.
He had never shown any trace of his true form unless he used his powers, so it was unexpected.
He felt both bewildered that his self-control was so weak, and embarrassed that he had been as wildly excited as a child doing something for the first time when holding Kang Hakyung.
“Well… like you said, I was out of my mind back then. Because of Kang Hakyung.”
“Out of my mind… Did I say that?”
He had thought the boss was crazy, but definitely only to himself.
Hakyung made an unfair expression, like someone who had been slandered.
Hakyung insisted on his innocence, claiming he wouldn’t have said such disrespectful words to his lover, but it wasn’t accepted.
Muheon punished Hakyung by biting his chubby cheek.
Of course, for Hakyung, it was less of a punishment and more like a sweet reward.
“So I thought your boss’s… thing… might be black. Like it was too scary and you didn’t show it to me because you thought I’d run away.”
It was a plausible deduction for Hakyung, and quite an absurd one for Muheon.
At any rate, Hakyung was trying to convey that he was fully prepared mentally not to be surprised by any of his boss’s appearances.
And the words he really wanted to say to his boss finally came out at the end.
“Let’s work hard together until I can take both in!”
“What?”
“The first one was hard enough, but won’t everything get better with practice?”
“What are you talking about?”
Muheon furrowed his brows and gently stroked Hakyung’s reddened, swollen eyes.
Had Hakyung forgotten how he’d been stuck and sobbing just a few hours ago?
Muheon was quite displeased seeing Hakyung full of competitive spirit.
“I’m not overdoing it. I just want to thoroughly experience everything about you, boss. It seems like you can really enjoy it once you get the hang of it.”
It was certainly comparable to the actors in the videos.
It was true that the pain was still greater than any good feeling.
But he couldn’t help it if the boss’s “thing” was so substantial.
Hakyung clicked his tongue.
His suppressed desires were on the verge of exploding.
It was strange that the boss was the one with two unusually large things, but Hakyung’s shoulders tensed up.
He instinctively hummed a tune.
“One is good, but two is even better. One, two, one, two.”
Muheon’s brows furrowed even more than before at the nonsensical lyrics.
But Hakyung, captivated in Muheon’s arms, repeated the song several times before finally stopping.
The strange thing was that listening to that song, which was almost like drunken babbling, made Muheon’s “center” subtly rise.
***
The two had been inseparable since arriving at the sea, and they remained so the next day.
Except for eating and showering, they were always tightly embracing in the small room. Because of that, instead of seeing the sea, they spent plenty of time looking at the ceiling.
It wasn’t that Hakyung disliked being with his boss, but he now felt a little embarrassed thinking about how reclusive they had been.
“Boss, please show me the sea.”
That’s why, after kissing Muheon’s shoulder, he suddenly stated his desire.
Muheon lightly nodded at Hakyung’s request.
There were quite a few things different inside the sea compared to what they saw on land, and he thought Kang Hakyung, a river dolphin beast-man, would enjoy just seeing them.
As soon as Muheon’s answer came, Hakyung got up and eagerly prepared to go out.
First, he carefully hid the top of his head, which he usually comfortably exposed when only with his boss, inside a hat.
The one he chose today was a blue hat he had bought the day they decided to come to the sea. He had even sprayed fabric freshener on it, so its appearance and scent were perfect.
Then he took out clothes and started choosing.
Most people chose hats or shoes to match their outfits, but Hakyung chose a hat first and then found clothes that matched it.
This was a characteristic of river dolphin beast-men.
Unlike the excited Hakyung, Muheon made no special preparations.
He simply put on a robe-style Dopo, which he usually wore.
“Wow, boss, what is this? Isn’t this what kings wear…?”
Hakyung, seeing Muheon in such attire for the first time, stopped dressing and ran over.
His unzipped pants were precariously hanging on his waist, making one worry he might trip.
Muheon reached out and firmly held Hakyung’s waist.
“It’s just what I wear comfortably at my main house.”
“Cool… It really suits you, boss.”
Golden embroidery was stitched onto the black silk.
Despite the geometric patterns, it didn’t look cluttered and instead exuded grandeur.
Seeing his boss dressed like a king in such a spacious house made Hakyung feel as if he had time-traveled to the Joseon Dynasty.
Hakyung, mesmerized, stared at Muheon with his mouth agape, showing no sign of closing it.
Muheon personally closed Hakyung’s mouth and even helped him put on his pants.
Hakyung, who naturally accepted the man’s assistance, gently rubbed Muheon’s Dopo with his fingers.
The smooth texture against his fingers suggested it wasn’t cheap fabric like polyester.
“Want me to make you one?”
“Oh, it only suits you because you’re the boss. If I wore it, I’d look like a scoundrel.”
Hakyung, who had a good sense of self-awareness, shook his head.
Based on his height and build, at best he’d look like a little crown prince.
Muheon’s lips curled up in a smile at the compliment mixed into the answer, and he shrugged. He straightened Hakyung’s clothes once more before opening the sliding door.
It had been two days since they’d holed up in the room with the boss, and the sky they now saw was tinged with red.
“Surely there isn’t a sunset underwater too?”
“They say they wanted to add changes according to the passage of time.”
“You’re not doing it, are you, boss?”
“That’s my subordinates’ responsibility.”
Unlike Hwang-rin, who liked flashy things and poured his abilities into every corner of his domain, Muheon had no interest in such things.
He wasn’t one to bother using his powers for something on this small scale.
Because of that, the abilities of the West Sea beast-men were updated daily.
“Then what else? What else have your subordinates done, boss?”
“Hmm… let’s find out together.”
Muheon, who also had little interest in how his main house was decorated, moved his gaze and surveyed their surroundings.
Hakyung, excited like a student at a theme park, darted around, exclaiming in admiration every time he discovered something. It felt just like a treasure hunt.
Muheon’s lips also relaxed as he slowly followed behind the excited river dolphin.
It was unfamiliar and pleasing to see Kang Hakyung so energetically moving within his domain.
They explored with the boss for quite a while, but they couldn’t even step into the forest stretching behind the main house.
Darkness had already descended into the sea, making it impossible to look around the forest.
“See the forest tomorrow. There’s nothing special about it.”
“Nothing special?! Boss, you clearly have no sentimentality whatsoever! How can you be so blunt looking at such a beautiful landscape?”
Hakyung, who had been looking at the brightly shining coral reefs everywhere with sparkling eyes, pouted his lips.
Although, all that happened was his lips, plump from long kisses, twitched.
“Stop looking around and eat now. Your stomach is empty.”
As expected, the boss had not even an ant’s eyelash worth of sentimentality.
If only he would say, “My sentimentality is reserved for Kang Hakyung,” and give him a kiss. How nice would that be?
Hakyung grumbled inwardly, then stood on his tiptoes and pecked Muheon’s lips.
“I’m full just with your love, boss.”
He twisted his body and delivered his confident line.
“No way. Then what’s that rumbling sound?”
Muheon narrowed his eyes and poked Hakyung’s stomach.
Hakyung let out a deep sigh at the man’s unromantic reply.
It seemed they had a long way to go before they were perfectly in sync.
However, that didn’t mean he wouldn’t eat, so Hakyung firmly held Muheon’s hand and headed to the dining room.
The dining room, which they were using for the first time since coming to the sea, had a long table, and on it, a variety of side dishes were laid out, leaving no empty space.
This was truly what one would call a lavish feast.
Hakyung’s eyes widened, and he quickly sat at the dining table chair, picking up his spoon and chopsticks.
It was impossible to tell which neighborhood the river dolphin, who had claimed he only needed the boss’s love instead of food, belonged to.