Crocodile Farm 2 – Straightforward? RustyTube!
In the room, a suffocating silence hung in the air. Of course, Jiwon was simply smiling contentedly because he was happy, while Soyu looked ready to die of embarrassment.
“Why do you keep smiling like that…?”
Soyu tried her best to change the atmosphere, but Jiwon had been thoroughly trained in the art of flirting since childhood by his mother and father.
“I just… like looking at your face?”
“Kkyaaaang~”
That light jab made her let out a strange sound and sink straight into the floor. Watching her, Jiwon figured he should probably rein himself in a little.
“Um… sorry. Your reactions are just so cute that I can’t help teasing you…”
At his words, she fanned her face with her hands, trying to cool the heat in her cheeks.
“Ah. That last part was just a joke. (quietly) Though I did mean what I said…”
“@#&@#$”
Even though she spoke softly, the room was quiet enough that everything carried. Whether he had planned it or not, Jiwon kept chatting in a friendly tone, and before long Soyu’s tension had almost completely melted away.
“…..Is it normal to tease someone like this on a first meeting?”
Her face was still burning, but she felt she had to say something. Jiwon paused for a moment, then held up one hand and folded down his index finger.
“First. I don’t think this is our first meeting. We just didn’t know each other’s faces, but I feel like we already knew each other’s hearts pretty well.”
“Eut.”
He folded his middle finger.
“Second. I think a person’s inner self matters more than their appearance. There are plenty of pretty girls who are cruel, and handsome guys who are trash, right?”
“…..Yeah.”
He folded his ring finger.
“Lastly, third. The girl I already got along with and whose personality I liked turns out to be pretty on the outside too? What am I supposed to do?”
“….”
He lowered his hand and continued.
“I know this might put pressure on you. Still, I really wanted to say it.”
He paused for a beat.
“Kim Jiwon really likes Han Soyu. Enough that I want to date you seriously.”
Looking at Soyu, who was listening with bated breath, he added,
“I’m not trying to force my feelings on you. So I’ll take it slow until you’re ready to look at me.”
“I came here today because I wanted to tell you this. I figured I had to let you know how I feel so you’d understand I’m serious.”
Then he waited quietly.
“…..”
“…..”
After watching her struggle to find her words for a moment, he spoke gently.
“Was I too sudden? Are you confused?”
She nodded.
“Yeah. I get it. I probably rushed things. Should I step out for a bit? Do you need time to sort through your thoughts?”
She shook her head.
“(Ahem.) Ahem. You don’t have to answer right away. Should I call for Mabel?”
She shook her head again.
‘Ah… I’m gonna get a nosebleed… This is insane… How can one person be this cute?’
‘If I asked to take just one photo, would she get mad? But she’s so adorable I’m dying to have even one picture.’
Jiwon waged a fierce internal battle with his inner demon (…was it really a demon?) while Soyu mulled over his words and tried to sort through her own feelings. She had already sorted things out to some degree after talking with Arin, but his near-direct confession made her heart feel like it was about to explode.
The person she liked also liked her back. She no longer had to worry about her feelings being rejected. And she no longer had to fear growing distant from him. Those facts made her heart flutter.
But what she hadn’t realized was this:
‘Why does my chest keep pounding like this…?’
She hadn’t known the true size of her own heart. The feelings she had been forcibly suppressing and turning away from were now surging up in waves, triggered by his confession. Flustered, she tried to calm herself without being able to speak, but when she heard Jiwon’s gentle voice, her heart strangely began to settle little by little. And she found herself wanting to give him some kind of answer. He had mustered the courage to confess to her, so she felt she needed to find a little courage of her own.
“I also… like Oppa too……I……”
For a moment, even her breath seemed to stop as she listened to her own words. A soft gasp. Her eyes trembled with embarrassment, glistening with unshed tears. Below them, her cheeks were flushed a lovely red. Her slightly visible white teeth and soft pink lips, where she had bitten her lower lip while trying to speak, were all vividly etched into Jiwon’s vision—thanks to the mask she had unconsciously removed upon entering the room. (Soyu herself had no memory of taking it off in her surprise.)
As if sensing that Jiwon was holding his breath and waiting, she finally managed to voice her true feelings with difficulty.
“I also…..like you…..”
The moment Soyu’s words reached his ears, an overwhelming joy flooded through him, and a great wave of happiness rang through his heart.
“Wow……”
Thud.
“O…ppa?”
He collapsed right there, grinning like an idiot.
‘I could die happy like this…..’
Soyu, startled by him suddenly slamming his head against the table after she had barely managed to answer his confession, rushed over. But when she got close, she saw him grinning with a completely distorted face, and the sheer weirdness of it made her scurry right back away.
So Soyu stood there shifting from foot to foot (worried Jiwon might have hurt his head), while Jiwon kept his head planted on the table, smirking to himself—until Arin walked in.
She took one look at the bizarre scene (a man with his head on the table, a woman standing far away staring at him warily—like the guy had been hitting on her, gotten slapped, and passed out) and paused to assess the situation. Then she exploded in fury.
“You damn bastard!!”
Whoosh—
She launched herself into the air and delivered a dropkick straight to Jiwon.
“Die~~~”
Thud—
Crash—
“Kyaaak~ Arin, what the heck are you doing~!”
Jiwon went flying like a cartoon character and crashed into the corner (still grinning the whole time, which only made it weirder). Arin stood there huffing angrily while Soyu scolded her and tried to calm her down.
What a mess.
Sniff.
. . .
After some time had passed and everyone had calmed down, the two of them explained what had happened before Arin arrived.
“Kyahahahaha~ So you ended up passing out because you liked him too much? Is this real? Ahahaha~”
At Arin’s laughter that sounded like she might choke, Jiwon could only hang his head in silence while Soyu, now sitting beside him, gently patted his shoulder.
It was something that could only be said now, but if things had gone wrong, today might have been the last day Jiwon and Soyu ever spoke. Jiwon had tried to gauge Soyu’s reactions while talking, but he had still confessed far too abruptly. If there hadn’t already been enough emotional connection between them, and if Arin hadn’t been there to help them both open up and look at their true feelings, Soyu might have felt pressured by the sudden confession and closed her heart instead.
Feeling affection and actually starting a relationship were two very different things, after all. Still, the two of them had confirmed each other’s sincerity today and taken their first step forward hand in hand. From their perspective, things had turned out quite well—as long as they kept moving forward steadily from here.
Of course, their future antics would probably cause massive collateral damage to everyone around them…
Content: Go watch it. Try it, try it.
The “Croc Farm 2 Mad Movie: Demon King and Soul,” which surpassed the quality of the original “Babeltown Mad Movie: Hero and Soul” that had spawned countless shippers, satisfied those who had been desperately waiting for a sequel. Thanks to it, the “100,000 Woogyul Squad” was no longer just a joke.
Meanwhile, a certain streamer’s manager, who had been watching all of this, was said to have broken into a wide grin and muttered, “Just as planned…”