“Hey.”

Come here and look. I motioned with my finger, and Jo Taeeun, who’d been standing there rigidly, hesitated a little.

“You not gonna come running?”

Only after seeing my scowl did Jo Taeeun hurry over and bow his head.

“Hello. …hyung.”

In the middle of that young, blank face, his cheeks were slightly red. It was because of the cold weather, with the chilly wind brushing his face all the time, but to my eyes he looked a little heat-struck.

Since I’d already asked him if he was crazy too many times, I decided to throw out a slightly different question, courtesy of the alcohol.

“Do you like me that much?”

At that, Jo Taeeun hesitated again, then nodded.

“Yes, I like you that much……”

His muttering voice sounded pitiful in a way that didn’t match his build, though it did fit his face pretty well.

The only connection between us was that he’d gotten beaten bloody the moment we first met, so what the hell was this brat so hooked on? Had he just gotten hit in the head too hard and his brain was going in and out?

As I narrowed my brow and stared at him closely, his black eyes rolled around, then he turned away to avoid my gaze. I stared at those eyes for a moment without blinking, then at the slightly red cheeks beneath them.

So……

As the saying goes, even a snail has a talent for rolling, and this bastard had such a crazy talent that he was making me, a man who’d never once in my life thought I’d sleep with anyone but a woman, actually hesitate. Of course, if I stripped him naked and told him to fuck him while looking at his bare body, the story would be different.

“Kid’s already gone and gotten so damn cheeky…. You want your ass taken before your front gets taken?”

At times when his eyes looked a little hazy and half out of it, he seemed like a really slutty bastard, but when he was just standing there, he somehow looked a little……. He looked so dumb and innocent that I almost suspected he’d said the word “virginity” without even knowing what it meant.

Either way, I was a little interested, so I tapped the neat line of his jaw with the back of my hand. I was looking to see if he might just obediently nod again, but Jo Taeeun, still wearing that innocent face, smiled a little sheepishly and said,

“I’ve already had the front taken……”

Oh, really. I laughed, letting out a breath.

Gangsters and the like were full of guys who’d learned that kind of thing before their dicks had even fully matured, including me, but this clean, pretty face having learned how to fuck so early was somehow funny.

Not that it was really laugh-out-loud funny. More like,

This homo bastard is really going to get into huge trouble if he gets involved with the wrong person.

“By a man?”

“By a woman……”

“You like men, don’t you?”

“Still got hard, though……”

I’d gotten the thought that I wanted to mess with this blank, shameless bastard a little — that’s what it was.

I don’t usually think very deeply.

He seemed fun. If he got too cocky, I would’ve beaten him up, and if he were some crazy bastard insisting he wanted to fuck me, I would’ve killed him. But the fact that he had such a nicely shaped face, was so quiet, and yet had a slightly crazy side to him, was kind of appetizing.

If I stripped him down and he still wasn’t sexy enough, I could just drag him back up and throw him outside. I came to a simple conclusion, having completely swallowed up any notion of keeping one’s word sacred.

“Then take the back off too. I’m not interested in eating a brand-new dick.”

“……?”

As Jo Taeeun looked up at me in confusion, his face suddenly brightened as if someone had turned on a light.

Just from how he was only about one head shorter than me, there was no doubt he was a man over 180 centimeters tall, but making those cute little ah, uh sounds was pretty funny.

I’d feel better if I could make him cry once. The moment I had that thought, the stuffiness I hadn’t even realized I’d been carrying around suddenly cleared.

“Does that mean if I take it off and come back, you’ll…… you’ll do it for me?”

His question, asking if I’d fuck him, was unnecessarily polite. What a weird bastard.

He was only twenty, which actually made him only three years younger than me. It was a gap small enough to call ourselves peers, in a way, but he somehow looked way too much like a kid. I smirked.

“Let’s see after you get taken first.”

This was the kind of place where you should sort of fade out around here, and that would’ve been perfect in every way, but Jo Taeeun, who didn’t know the meaning of “moderation,” wanted certainty and asked one more time.

“So there is a possibility, right?”

“Let’s say there is.”

“……Really?”

Baek Beomgu, whose body was a tiger but whose patience was shorter than a Welsh corgi’s legs, finally snapped.

“Yeah, fuck. If you get rolled around enough, I’ll eat you once. Satisfied?”

“Yes!”

After getting the answer he wanted, Jo Taeeun answered cleanly and disappeared. I stood there blankly for a while, having rarely felt so dumbfounded in my life, then shook my head.

Ha…. Seriously, I’m really saying this kid’s insane.

⌗ • ⌗ • ⌗

For several days, I devoured videos of men and men having sex. Honestly, the mechanics were something you could figure out from watching once or twice, and the reason I got so worked up over studying videos was elsewhere.

No matter how I looked across Korea and then all the way through East Asia, Russia, Europe, and the United States, I couldn’t find a body shape like a fake Beomgu’s. Forget Baek Beomgu — there wasn’t even a Seventeen Beomgu. There wasn’t even a Baek Beomthree…….

I already knew I’d gone a little crazy, my eyes had gone weird and my head had gone a little off after the first time I saw him, so I understood at least that it was the kind of rare ideal fit made just for me. After all, just showing his face had turned my sexual orientation, which I’d thought had been madly obsessed with women all this time, a full 180 degrees.

But if I combed through even the huge American backwater and still couldn’t find anyone similar, wasn’t that a little too much…….

On top of that, after Jo Taeeun got shoved into the office and then tossed back out, he’d become aware of his own masochistic side. He was also completely bewitched by Baek Beomgu’s temper.

He had the look of a rare beast, but his speech was rough, simple, and stupid, so it seemed like sex with him would definitely be the kind that just went for it like an animal without any calculation……

And so, smacking my lips, I made my decision. I was going to show myself to the fullest and somehow, just once, lick that man’s bare skin.

Of course, that didn’t mean I could just suddenly strip naked and rush at the only son of a gangster everybody in this city knew. So I decided to apply the one method I knew, the one I’d used on women countless times and that had always worked.

I was going to win with my face.

Of course, whether that face would actually work was a different issue. But since that was all I had to rely on, I had no choice but to bet on it first.

Since Baek Beomgu seemed far less forgiving and far more intimidating than the girls, even when I stood there shivering in the cold of early spring and waited for ages, he would only barely glance at me for less than a second before turning away and going inside.

But since I hadn’t gone to college or gotten a part-time job, Jo Taeeun, who was still living stubbornly even while taking side-eye from everyone, didn’t consider that kind of thing a proper trial. After enduring and enduring like that, the result was—

He said he’d do it once…….

My chest filled with warm satisfaction over the result I’d won for myself.

It wasn’t like I had no worries.

First, Baek Beomgu had said he didn’t want brand-new.

But since Baek Beomgu had dropped a cheap porn line like “take the back off and come back.” From that moment on, Jo Taeeun was only thinking of one path.

I’ll just come back after a few days and lie like crazy that I already did it!

No matter how many sculpted, ridiculously handsome men there were, men whose heavy cocks dangled and slapped solidly against their thighs every time they walked, none of them could beat Baek Beomgu, who just glanced at me and passed by.

Baek Beomgu was kind of crude in a different way from me, lacking much in the way of refinement except that he didn’t seem interested in putting on airs or acting cool. But that only…… made him more to my taste.

My taste is really bad, and Baek Beomgu fits that bad taste perfectly!

If it was like that, then of course I didn’t want to give my first time to just any other man. Much less on this neighborhood street where it was hard to even run into a man taller than me…… to find the man who would be the first to open my back.

If it wasn’t Baek Beomgu, it was meaningless. Jo Taeeun’s thoughts, carrying a rather pure kind of sincerity, naturally ended up at, let’s just roughly fuck myself open once and then lie my ass off that I did it!

Once I had a goal, I was the type who took morality off and left it in the refrigerator at home, and I thought lies used to appeal to a man who obviously looked like he’d only sleep with women were perfectly acceptable. They didn’t bother me much at all.

What bothered me a little more, actually, was Baek Beomgu’s sudden “Do you like me that much?” comment…….