DMWP V1C2 – Part 13

After attending the werewolf clan event, Yoon Chi-young headed to the hotel, saying that his house was far away.

“No pets are allowed in the hotel.”

‘You can either leave me or take me with you.’

While the puppy was absentmindedly looking at the night view outside the car window, Yoon Chi-young had already found and implemented an alternative.

“This is better than my coat pocket, right?”

‘This again!’

This time, the puppy was put inside the suit jacket. Heeseong desperately struggled because he didn’t want to lean on the man’s chest, but Yoon Chi-young tried to appease him with a kiss, saying it was okay, so he had no choice but to voluntarily take refuge inside the jacket. Then, the left side of Yoon Chi-young’s chest bulged as if he had hidden a piece of bread there.

‘I’m tired….’

But once he settled down, it was quite okay. The puppy gradually flattened out in comfort. He hated to admit it, but it was quite comfortable and much warmer than his coat pocket. Yoon Chi-young took care of his body by having a separate room at home and exercising every day, so it wasn’t bad to sleep leaning on his well-trained chest.

Meanwhile, various sounds could be heard from outside. The sound of Yoon Chi-young entering the hotel lobby and the polite conversation of check-in could be heard. In addition, the sound of him greeting a young man he met in the elevator in a friendly manner could also be heard.

Yoon Chi-young whispered to the child he had met for the first time.

“Shall I show you something scary?”

No matter what noise was heard outside, Heeseong in his arms just fell asleep. Soon Yoon Chi-young bent down and slightly opened the jacket that wrapped the puppy. Wow, the sound of the child exclaiming with joy, saying that he was cute, followed. Heeseong’s ears twitched in surprise, but he didn’t wake up. He just thought that Yoon Chi-young didn’t really look like a gang boss.

Click.

Soon, after the sound of entering the room, Yoon Chi-young’s voice could be heard talking to himself in the quiet space.

“Come to think of it, I didn’t feed you dinner….”

‘…You’re not talking about me, are you?’

The puppy opened his sleepy eyes dimly. It seemed like Yoon Chi-young had been talking to himself more strangely lately, but it was also ambiguous whether he was trying to be funny. In the first place, Heeseong was now a puppy.

Just then, a large hand reached into the jacket and carefully pulled out the warm puppy.

“Shall we eat and sleep together?”

‘I don’t want to go out!’

Yoon Chi-young interrupted his sleep just when he was perfectly comfortable. However, Heeseong didn’t have the energy to bite and attack him, so he just sat on the table as he was put down.

The hotel room service menu was spread out in front of the puppy.

“What do you want to eat?”

“……?”

The puppy just blinked his eyes at the question.

‘Are you crazy? Why does a bowl of gukbap cost 50,000 won?’

The price was unbelievable. However, Yoon Chi-young didn’t seem to care about the price and suggested eating Korean food before going to bed, pointing at the menu.

“Shall we eat a full-course galbi meals and sleep? I think the puppy can digest it, right?”

Heeseong had poor digestion, so Yoon Chi-young was always very careful about his diet. Heeseong, who was planning to eat a little anyway, nodded without thinking much.

Room service was set up by the time Yoon Chi-young came out of the shower. The puppy also washed his body briefly at the sink and came out wrapped in a towel like a burrito. As soon as he sat down, Yoon Chi-young fed the puppy some shredded galbi with a few spoonfuls of rice.

“How is it? Tasty?”

‘…Woah, wow.’

The eyes of the puppy, who had been drowsy, widened in astonishment.

The succulent ribs, thought to be a luxury because of their price, were the most delicious meat Heeseong had ever tasted in his life. In truth, he hadn’t had ribs many times, but that was the case.

‘More, give me more.’

For once, Heeseong clung to Yoon Chi-young’s wrist to receive the food. Yoon Chi-young happily fed the puppy the rib meat, and then belatedly laughed in resignation upon seeing the rib sauce smeared around the puppy’s mouth.

“I’m raising you so preciously, but you keep getting dirty…”

The puppy, not understanding, licked his nose and then saw himself in the mirror beside him. There he was, a stain-covered puppy with sauce marks on his head, wine stains on his back, and rib sauce around his mouth.

‘Half of those stains are your doing!’

As Heeseong squirmed and showed his teeth, Yoon Chi-young pacified him with more ribs. The puppy then quietly finished a satisfying meal.

After the meal, the puppy happily lay down on the plush bed. The hotel bedding felt as soft as lying on clouds.

‘I feel good…’

By now, Heeseong had gotten somewhat used to living with Yoon Chi-young and enjoying luxuries. All these were strange things he was experiencing for the first time in his life, yet he seemed to adapt quickly.

“……”

However, when he felt this way, Heeseong would become a bit melancholic.

It was because he was enjoying these things under false pretenses, things that weren’t originally his. If he had been discovered not to be just a puppy but the beastman Gyeon Heeseong, he wouldn’t have been enjoying these luxuries but rather busy dealing with the aftermath of his actions. Perhaps out of guilt, Heeseong suddenly missed being at the casino where he could be in his true form.

But then the puppy thought decisively.

‘No. …I won’t miss the casino, no matter what.’

Multiple reasons surfaced as to why he disliked it, even when he tried not to think about them. There were the customers who harassed him. The memory of those who tried to buy him with money and then cursed and abused him when he refused. And there was his older brother who had scolded him, telling him to just endure it. All of it was painful.

‘…I wish my brother was always on my side like Yoon Chi-young.’

The puppy shook his head quickly at the thought. Hee couldn’t compare his brother, who was of the same species and had taken him in, to this cannibalistic wolf. After all, his brother was Heeseong’s benefactor.

Belatedly, the puppy lifted his head, puzzled.

‘Why are you so quiet?’

Normally, Yoon Chi-young would cling to the puppy the moment he lay down on the bed, but today he was strangely quiet. The puppy, who had a suspicious feeling that he was up to something, approached Yoon Chi-young’s face with his fur raised all over his body due to static electricity.

‘…Are you sick again?’

Yoon Chi-young, his black wolf ears exposed like last time, was breathing heavily. He was hunched over to the side, his brows furrowed in a look of obvious pain.

The puppy had seen this sight several times before. The time Yoon Chi-young suffered in pain at night was gradually increasing. As the doctor had warned last time, it was probably the pain caused by his inability to suppress his pheromones.

“Ugh, haah….”

‘Why don’t you just transform? You can just turn into a wolf.’

Come to think of it, Yoon Chi-young had never shown Heeseong his true form. Even though they were together 24 hours a day, he hid his true form to the point of being obsessive.

Did he think he would be scared because he was a puppy? However, Heeseong had grown up among aggressive fighting dogs, so he wasn’t afraid of wolves.

“Hey, transform. I’m not afraid of wolves. If you keep accumulating pheromones like this, you’ll get pheromone shock.”

The puppy spoke to Yoon Chi-young. To him, it would just sound like a puppy growling, but Heeseong was serious.

For a purebred beastmen, pheromones were like poison if they accumulated in the body. They had to periodically return to their true form or release them through sexual intercourse.

If pheromones accumulated like poison and caused pheromone shock, a purebred would lose control of their aggression and become violent. In severe cases, it could even lead to self-harm. Therefore, it was extremely important for a purebred to regularly release their pheromones.

“Puppy….”

Yoon Chi-young smiled faintly at the puppy’s nagging. His hair was slightly damp with sweat, and he raised the corners of his eyes beautifully. Heeseong was annoyed that he was so handsome, but he obediently listened to him.

“I’m glad the puppy took my side today….”

‘Are you saying that when you’re in pain?’

“Now the puppy also… likes me, right?”

‘Don’t get the wrong idea.’

The puppy looked at him pitifully, but still licked Yoon Chi-young’s cheek lightly. Then Yoon Chi-young caught his breath and laughed softly. Only the gray pupils in his eyes shone sharply, as if observing the puppy’s reaction.

“Even if I’m in pain… I think it’s okay to keep living like this with the puppy.”

“……”

It sounded like a romantic line, but it was different when it came from a cannibalistic wolf. The puppy knew that he had come back today with the smell of someone’s blood on his hands.

Even though he wasn’t afraid of him anymore… Heeseong became more and more anxious. It seemed that the time was approaching when the cannibalistic wolf would have to return, the more he struggled to suppress his pheromones.

And Heeseong wanted to give him a different answer.

‘I’m scared of living like this…’

The pensive puppy quietly looked at Yoon Chi-young, then mustered all his strength to cover him with a blanket.

That night, Heeseong couldn’t fall asleep until late. Lost in thought, the puppy roamed back and forth on the bed. Being small, just that much felt like a decent walk.

Finally, burrowing under the blanket, the puppy curled up between Yoon Chi-young’s thighs and thought.

‘I’m afraid I might not want to go back to being human.’

Born as a beastmen, he wondered if it was truly right to deceive others and live as a small puppy.

Yet, Heeseong was also afraid of facing the consequences as a human. It was true that he had caused trouble for Yoon Chi-young, but being robbed of drugs and facing death felt too unjust and painful to be solely his fault.

But there was something he feared even more.

It was the fear of being condemned and turned away by the brother who had taken him in. Heeseong had already been abandoned by his family once. Knowing the pain all too well, he didn’t want to be abandoned by his family again.

‘…I don’t want to be cast out of the pack.’

Tears welled up in the puppy’s black eyes as he thought. But Heeseong curled up tightly, falling asleep in an effort not to cry, slightly resenting the comfort he found by the side of a man who had once been a predator to him.

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[TL/N: Me rn இ௰இ]