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At that moment, Yoon Tae-hee cut in with a look of intrigue.

“Tell us. Why did you think that?”

The other team members, caught up in the curiosity, began to press Im Hyo-mun with sparkling eyes.

“Yeah, let’s hear what made you think that.”

“Right. What exactly did you see to come to that conclusion? Tell us.”

“Huh? No, I mean, that’s… well….”

Im Hyo-mun was caught in a bind, breaking into a cold sweat.

“Chil-chil, uh, is it okay to say?”

Naturally, he wanted to shout ‘Absolutely not!’, but the panicked Jae-gyeom was currently malfunctioning. [unauthorized copy]visit our siteunauthorized copy -->While stammering, he tried to wave his hands in refusal, but he was quickly blocked by the team members crowding in.

“Just tell us! What’s the big deal!”

“Yeah! Hurry up and tell us!”

It wasn’t easy to break through the situation with everyone’s attention focused on him. Looking back and forth between Kang Yi-bin and Jae-gyeom, Im Hyo-mun was backed into a corner. Unable to withstand the pressure, he finally opened his mouth.

“Last time, I noticed that Chil-chil couldn’t even make eye contact with Supervisor Kang and acted like a total novice….”

Listening intently, Yoon Tae-hee rested his chin on his hand and asked, as if prompting him to continue.

“Is that all?”

“And actually… well….”

After a brief hesitation, Im Hyo-mun decided to just go for it.

“Chil-chil came to me for dating advice, saying he was seeing a twenty-six-year-old Read on Read BL Novelsstyle="position:absolute;left:-9999px;font-size:0;">[stolen content]Noona. But later I found out that Supervisor Kang is twenty-six… so I just assumed that Noona was Supervisor Kang….”

Only then did Yoon Tae-hee finally understand the situation.

Once, while eating at a tonkatsu restaurant, Im Hyo-mun had mentioned something similar.

‘Chief, listen to this! Chil-chil’s been led by the nose by a twenty-six-year-old Noona….’

At the time, because he was called ‘Noona,’ he hadn’t imagined it was about himself and had let it slide. Given Jae-gyeom’s personality, he probably wouldn’t have specified the gender as male, and Im Hyo-mun had simply interpreted it his own way. Moreover, judging by the context, it was surprising that Jae-gyeom had shared his romantic troubles with Im Hyo-mun in such detail. He was inwardly curious about how much and what exactly Jae-gyeom had told him.

As Im Hyo-mun hesitantly spoke, a devastated Jae-gyeom squeezed his eyes shut and covered his face. To have the fact that he sought dating advice exposed right in front of the person involved made him want to hide in a mouse hole. However, there was a bigger problem. The reaction of the team members who heard the story was ominous.

“Wait, what…?”

“…How old?”

The most violent reaction came from Kang Yi-bin.

“How old? Twenty-six?!”

Kang Yi-bin’s face hardened terrifyingly as he slammed the table with a loud thump! Jae-gyeom, sitting next to him, flinched in surprise. Dazed by the situation, he unconsciously hunched his shoulders and glanced at Kang Yi-bin. Then, Kang Yi-bin shoved his face close with a menacing expression.

“So what happened!”

“Huh?!”

“I asked what happened with that person! Are you dating?”

“W-well….”

It was the moment Jae-gyeom hesitated and gave an awkward nod, like a rusty hinge.

“Are you insane?!”

Kang Yi-bin leaped from his seat and began slapping Jae-gyeom’s back repeatedly.

“You were a high school student until last year! And you’re dating a twenty-six-year-old? No, that was last [[stolen content]style="opacity:0;font-size:1px;user-select:all;">stolen content]stolen content -->year, so they’d be twenty-seven now! This is crazy! How can a nineteen-year-old and a twenty-seven-year-old date!”

“Ow, ah, it hurts!”

The enraged Kang Yi-bin looked as if he were about to collapse from fury.

Kang Yi-bin had a younger brother around Jae-gyeom’s age. In Kang Yi-bin’s common sense, it was unacceptable for a kid who was wearing a school uniform until recently to date someone with such a vast age gap.

Before the situation got any worse, Jae-gyeom tried to manage it however he could.

“U-um, I’m not nineteen, I’m twenty this year.”

“What is that supposed to mean? Weren’t you a sophomore last year?”

“That’s, well… there were circumstances….”

“Nineteen or twenty, it’s all the same! It’s true that you were wearing a uniform and attending high school until last year!”

Despite the haphazardly revealed age, it didn’t [Read [stolen content]on Read BL Novels]seem to register in the excited ears of Kang Yi-bin.

“That person is clearly out of their mind! A sane twenty-seven-year-old would never date a clueless kid like you!”

The other team members seemed to share Kang Yi-bin’s sentiment, as they showed no intention of stopping him while he pummeled Jae-gyeom’s back.

“Hyo-mun, how could you just sit there and listen to that under the guise of dating advice? You should have stopped him! Are you sane? You’re a few years older than Jae-gyeom, and you’re his Hyung. What were you doing instead of talking him out of it!”

This time, the sparks flew toward Im Hyo-mun, who was sitting nearby.

“What? I-I tried to stop him too!”

Feeling wronged, Im Hyo-mun jumped up as if he had been burned.

“Do you know how many times I told him not to meet that person, that he was just a fish in a tank, and that he was being played with like a toy? But he insisted on meeting them because he liked them, so what was I supposed to do…. I’m really the victim here. I stopped him as much as I could, and the rest was Chil-chil’s choice. Since he said he’d meet them regardless, I just had to respect and support him out of necessity, but I’m also against him meeting that person!”

Im Hyo-mun’s honest feeling was that he would stop him now if he could. However, since they ended up dating, it felt awkward to keep criticizing the partner or oppose it blindly, so he had simply acquiesced. If he hadn’t, his relationship with Chil-chil would have soured.

Furthermore, back when he mistakenly thought the partner was Supervisor Kang, he had let it go because they were fellow exorcists and [[stolen content]stolen content -->style="opacity:0;font-size:1px;user-select:all;">visit our site]seemed like a decent person upon meeting. But now, the partner wasn’t even Supervisor Kang. That made this a much bigger problem than he thought.

Then, Kang Yi-bin’s expression turned fierce as he grabbed Im Hyo-mun by the collar.

“What? Fish tank? Playing with him? What the hell does that mean?”

The situation was becoming more and more absurd.

What on earth should I do about this…?

Just as Im Hyo-mun closed his eyes in despair.

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Wait…?

Maybe this was an opportunity. If Chil-chil got beaten down by everyone, wouldn’t he come to his senses? Even if it meant blabbing everything, making him quit that relationship might be the best way to help a friend…!

Once that thought took hold, Im Hyo-mun sprang up. Then, as if he had made a decision, he pointed a finger at [stolen content]stolen content -->Jae-gyeom and began listing grievances about Jae-gyeom’s partner, based on the dating advice he’d given.

“Listen to this! Do you know what that person did to Chil-chil?!”

He exposed everything in sequence: how the person had lured the innocent Chil-chil and approached him first; how they spent money lavishly and bought gifts to win his favor and were very kind during dates; how they then claimed to be busy and were hard to reach normally; and the fact that Jae-gyeom had been unilaterally kissed before they were even properly dating.

“Oh my goodness.”

“Is that person crazy?”

“Good heavens.”

“Insane.”

The team members covered their mouths in shock at the waterfall of revelations pouring from Im Hyo-mun. Now that the situation had become irreversible, Jae-gyeom could do nothing but glance anxiously at Yoon Tae-hee. Then, Im Hyo-mun drove the final nail into the coffin: that when a confused Jae-gyeom asked ‘Why did you kiss me?’, the partner had responded nonchalantly, saying ‘A kiss is nothing to me.’

By the time all the revelations were finished, the team members had all fallen silent. After a moment, they exchanged glances and nodded, sharing their thoughts bluntly.

“What. They’re trash.”

“Just straight-up trash.”

“Complete trash.”

“A trash human playing with a child.”

After a brief silence, Kang Yi-bin spoke to Jo Young-woo, who was sitting diagonally from him.

“Young-woo, you’re the same age as Jae-gyeom. Be honest. What do you think?”

Jo Young-woo lowered his head with a shy face and spoke.

“I… I think they’re total trash….”

Even the mildest of them all, Jo Young-woo!

Yoon Tae-hee, who had been quietly drinking beer in the corner until then, finally succumbed to the ‘five-hit combo of [unauthorized copy]trash’ that pierced him like a dagger and choked on his drink. Looking at Yoon Tae-hee, who was visit our sitebowing his head and coughing lightly, Kang Yi-bin shouted wildly.

“See! Even the Chief is so appalled that he choked!”