By Zephyria 
“Ah, what the—!”
“What is it!”
It was the peak of the rush hour. Pushing through the crowds flooding inside and climbing the stairs, he saw a long line stretching far beyond the outer wall.
“……Hey, you!”
As soon as Mo Yeon-hu stepped outside, he tried to shake him off again, but he was somewhat passive, feeling intimidated.
It was because of the murmuring voices and the pouring gazes.
‘Is everyone looking at him right now?’
He was appalled. People who had been expressionlessly tapping away on their phones turned their heads to follow Kwon Mi-eon’s movements, like cats chasing a laser pointer. Not only that, many seemed to be talking about him.
‘Does a life like that actually exist?’
They all looked at Kwon Mi-eon, whispering to their companions and letting out sighs of admiration. Just as Mo Yeon-hu accidentally locked eyes with them and flinched.
“Ah, seriously…….”
Kwon Mi-eon used his large hand to casually cover Mo Yeon-hu’s face.
“Women are so damn thirsty.”
Mo Yeon-hu, whose face was suddenly buried in a hand, was bewildered. No, he hadn’t even been looking at the women.
“That’s not why they were looking; those people were looking at you…!”
Flustered, Mo Yeon-hu glared at Kwon Mi-eon through the gaps in his fingers and then whipped his head away.
“Hurry up and let’s go somewhere without people.”
Kwon Mi-eon sighed and started walking. Since they were in the middle of a street lined with clubs, there were an immense number of people. However, there was a separate problem.
“Ah, excuse me. Are you planning to drink more? If you come to our place, the whiskey is…….”
“Excuse me. Are you staying out longer? Where are you headed?”
Mo Yeon-hu’s jaw dropped.
‘Wow, how can a man get stopped by so many people?’
Whether it was promoters or people hunting for dates, seeing them dive toward Kwon Mi-eon like crazy moths made Mo Yeon-hu realize once again the reality of lookism.
“…….”
Without a word of response, Kwon Mi-eon kept walking and walking, finally pushing Mo Yeon-hu into a dark alleyway.
“This should work.”
“Hey, Kwon Mi-eon. What the hell is this?”
Only after standing in the deserted, empty alley could the two face each other, and Mo Yeon-hu snapped at Kwon Mi-een as if he had been waiting for the moment.
“Why do you keep following me? You saw starsta and came to where I was! That’s what happened last time when I was hanging out with Kim Seong-jae and Park Taek-yoon, too! Why do you keep following me?”
“Because you don’t answer your phone, Hyung.”
Kwon Mi-eon simply replied indifferently.
“Isn’t it natural to look for you since I was worried whether you were dead or alive? But then you suddenly say you’re at a club; I was so baffled on my way here.”
He worried about me? Looking closer, Kwon Mi-eon’s forehead was indeed slightly damp with sweat.
‘He worried and searched for me to that extent?’
He couldn’t understand Kwon Mi-eon’s behavior. Do friends usually search for someone’s whereabouts this aggressively just because they aren’t answering? Of course, the number of missed calls wasn’t normal either, but….
‘Usually, people just think they’re busy and let it go. Who goes this far…….’
At that moment, their eyes met. Feeling a gaze that seemed to be dissecting his face, Mo Yeon-hu spoke up, startled as if he had been burned.
“Do you know how weird this is? If someone doesn’t answer, you should just let it be. Secretly following someone after looking at their SNS is…….”
As soon as the words left his mouth, he realized his mistake. Kwon Mi-eon stared intently at Mo Yeon-hu with strangely glistening eyes.
“Keep talking. Following someone is… what?”
It was a gaze that seemed to point out, ‘Aren’t you the same as me? You secretly followed Kang Mi-yeong even into a game.’ Feeling guilty, Mo Yeon-hu clenched his fists with a tense expression.
No, there’s no way he knows that far. Even if he accidentally called her ‘Ms. Mi-yeong,’ surely…….
“Didn’t Hyung start the game because of Kang Mi-yeong? Then are you a stalker too, Hyung?”
……Gasp.
‘How did he know?’
His heart sank. As Mo Yeon-hu froze from being hit right where it hurt, Kwon Mi-eon let out a smirk.
“I guess that was the right answer.”
As if he had just confirmed a suspicion.
Mo Yeon-hu felt dizzy.
“I—I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“What don’t you know?”
He tried to play dumb for now, but Kwon Mi-eon only smirked again.
“Hyung started Zombie Village because of Kang Mi-yeong, and you followed Miu around thinking they were Kang Mi-yeong.”
Then, he recited Mo Yeon-hu’s recent tracks.
“Thinking I was Kang Mi-yeong, Hyung not only poured out all sorts of cheesy letters and gifts to Miu, but you appeared every single day wagging your tail. You even said you didn’t mind being used as long as they called you Oppa…….”
……Ah, please. Mo Yeon-hu wanted to beg now. To please just shut up. Pressing his lips together, which were trembling involuntarily, he replied as calmly as he could.
“Ga—game? What are you talking about? Who plays a game? I don’t know anything about games, so I have no idea what you’re saying.”
“Huh?”
Kwon Mi-eon responded as if he were appalled by Mo Yeon-hu’s brazen ignorance.
“What are you talking about? I saw you playing Zombie Village at home last time—.”
“No? That was Zone Village.”
“……What?”
Kwon Mi-eon’s expression distorted grotesquely.
“Zone Village.”
……Fuck, oh my god. Would anyone actually believe this? But Mo Yeon-hu decided to be as brazen as possible.
“Stop talking nonsense. Momo is Hyung. I saw the nickname back then.”
Of course, a rebuttal came immediately.
“I don’t know, do you have proof?”
“Proof?”
“Yeah. Is there any proof that I am that Momo person?”
“For starters, your starsta ID is already…… Ha, wait a second.”
The moment Kwon Mi-eon pulled out his phone, Mo Yeon-hu wanted to tear his hair out.
‘That’s the one I saw back then!!’
It was that problematic phone he had mistaken for Ms. Mi-yeong’s! Kwon Mi-eon immediately dialed a number. Then, as he looked straight into his eyes, Mo Yeon-hu realized exactly what he was doing.
‘He’s calling me.’
However, when there was no reaction from Mo Yeon-hu’s phone, Kwon Mi-eon’s brow furrowed. Well, it was only natural.
‘I blocked him long ago….’
While being caught and dragged along by Kwon Mi-eon, he had quickly blocked the number for my yeong heart. He had done it just in case.
“Look at this. This number I’m calling right now is yours, Hyung.”
“I don’t know, I can’t see it.”
“What about the messages? We’ve been exchanging them all this time, haven’t we?”
“I told you, I can’t see it.”
Kwon Mi-eon shoved his phone forward. Mo Yeon-hu squeezed his eyes shut, doing his best to avoid the phone screen that had come right up to his nose.
“Ha…….”
Kwon Mi-eon let out a hollow laugh of disbelief and reached out.
“Then give me your phone.”
Then he tried to snatch Yeon-hu’s phone.
No. If the phone was taken, if these contents were exposed vividly, he might actually die.
“N-no.”
Because the last shred of his face and dignity would be destroyed!
A scuffle broke out between Yeon-hu, who desperately clung to the phone, and Kwon Mi-eon, who tried to take it. However, this was very brief. Kwon Mi-eon overpowered Mo Yeon-hu in an instant and looked down at him.
“What kind of nonsense is this. You blocked my number, didn’t you? Looking at you, you really only pick the most useless things to do.”
But the position of the two was strange. As Mo Yeon-hu looked up with both hands pinned against the wall, Kwon Mi-eon paused a moment late.
“I—I’m really not, I told you.”
The corners of Mo Yeon-hu’s eyes grew red and wet with a sense of injustice.
“I’m not.”
Seeing this, Kwon Mi-eon momentarily loosened his grip without realizing it. Mo Yeon-hu did not miss that opportunity.
Crack!
He abruptly slammed the phone he was holding straight against the corner of the wall. But this was only the beginning.
Smash, crack! Bang!
As he crushed the phone with a touch of madness, the latest smartphone instantly became unrecognizable. Kwon Mi-eon watched the scene with a blank expression, and then his face hardened like a demon.
“What are you doing?”
At the chilling voice, Mo Yeon-hu looked miserable again and gauged Kwon Mi-eon’s reaction. He seemed angry that he had tried to destroy the evidence.
‘I’m totally going to get beaten now, right? He must be angry because he thinks I’m his cousin’s stalker.’
Looking at the difference in their size, he felt he might cross the River Styx with just one hit.
‘One hit? Two? Three?’
It might actually be more refreshing to just get hit and be done with it. But Kwon Mi-eon’s body is so damn good; it would be hard to survive if he got hit. How should he get hit to hurt less…….
“Your hand, fuck.”
……Huh?
Kwon Mi-eon grabbed Mo Yeon-hu’s wrist.
“I told you to use words, use words.”
Without even glancing at the phone that had been turned into powder, he leaned down and closely examined Mo Yeon-hu’s palm. His touch was excessively careful, checking if any glass shards were embedded or if the bone was damaged from hitting the wall.
Where did the momentum from a moment ago, when he looked like he would devour him, go? Kwon Mi-eon only let go after confirming that Yeon-hu’s hand was without a single scratch.
“I understand things just fine, so don’t do this kind of thing.”
Mo Yeon-hu wore a blank expression. He couldn’t take his eyes off Kwon Mi-eon’s face as he set his hand down preciously, as if handling a treasure.