The Foal, the Puppy, and the Fox Learning a Woman's Senses
"You've been through a lot, Woo Yeoeun. Barely even started the job and already one of your students is sick."
After the kids had all headed off to their respective classes, I returned to the teachers' office, and Dam Sia came trotting right up to talk to me.
She had come to check in on how I was doing as a senior colleague, which I appreciated—but with her short stature and cute face, she still just looked like a little sister cosplaying as a teacher.
"Woo Yeoeun?"
"Ah, yes! Thank you for looking out for me."
I smiled brightly and bowed my head in greeting. Dam Sia looked pleased and planted both hands on her hips.
"Oh, right—what did they say at the hospital about Yang Hyein?"
"Just that she needs some rest. So I let her rest and checked in on her every so often. That was all, really."
"That's a relief. Every single student is a precious talent of Lily Academy, after all."
"Um…."
I stopped Dam Sia just as she was about to head back to her desk and carefully opened my mouth.
"Do you happen to know anything about Go Yeonhee? I only just got here, so I don't really…."
"Go Yeonhee? I've never been her homeroom teacher either, but I know she's got a reputation as a troublemaker. There were some not-so-nice rumors floating around, too."
"Not-so-nice rumors…?"
"I'd rather not go into the details myself. But why do you ask?"
Dam Sia tilted her head. In front of her, I gave an awkward laugh and scratched my cheek.
"It's nothing major… she just keeps skipping attendance."
"Ahh, she's famous for that too. But even so, it looks like she still manages to hit the mandatory attendance days. Clever little thing, I guess you could say. Woo Yeoeun? As your senior, let me just say this much… don't pour too much of your heart into something that won't work."
"What do you mean by that…?"
"Don't chase a runaway cat forever only to lose sight of all the other cats who are already looking right at you."
Dam Sia let out a soft sigh.
"I know this isn't something a teacher should be saying. But… that's just the reality. A teacher only has one body, and there are plenty of students waiting for that teacher's care. In the end, you have to choose and focus. Not for your own sake—for the students'."
"…Thank you for the advice."
"You can just let it go in one ear and out the other. Maybe I only think this way because I'm not capable enough. Someone like you… you might actually pull it off."
I watched Dam Sia's back as she returned to her seat, then leaned back in my chair.
She clearly had a bad reputation as a student, but I still couldn't give up on her this early.
Besides, our class already had the pink-haired cow girl who never looked up from her comic books and the cold wolf girl whose thoughts I could never read.
Adding one more runaway cat to the mix wouldn't change much.
"I should probably do a home visit soon."
I stretched my arms high over my head and stood up from my seat.
Everyone else in the teachers' office besides Dam Sia… still wouldn't even glance my way.
They would answer if I spoke to them, but the rest of the time they treated me like I barely existed.
I understood why they felt that way, but it still stung a little.
Alright. Cheer up and go observe some classes again while I have the chance.
Better to focus on what I could do than stew over things I couldn't change.
Yang Hyein had just returned to the track team, so it would be good to see how she was doing.
I left the teachers' office and headed toward the track where the track team's class was being held.
"One, two, three, four…!"
As I cut across the grounds, I spotted students in training clothes diligently running around the field.
Right in the middle of them was a familiar flash of eye-catching red hair.
Somehow she noticed my gaze even from a distance. Kang Heeji whipped her head toward me, dog ears flapping, and threw her hand up in a big wave.
"Kang Heeji, are you concentrating or not?"
"Ah, sorry!"
Even while getting scolded, she answered in a loud, spirited voice.
Then she snuck another glance my way, so I smiled and waved back.
The moment she saw that, Kang Heeji suddenly accelerated like a rocket and slammed right into the back of the student running ahead of her.
"Kang Heeji, you again?!"
"I'm sorryyy…!"
For someone so handsome, everything she did was ridiculously cute.
I watched Kang Heeji run for a little while longer, then set off again toward the track.
Class was in full swing there too. Yang Hyein, dressed in her track uniform, was doing some kind of drill at the side of the track.
"Let's see…."
I was worried that getting too close to the track might suddenly pull her focus, so instead I stood in the shade beside it and watched her train.
It was a drill where she drove her knees high while advancing forward. I didn't really know what kind of training it was, but… at the very least I could tell Yang Hyein was pouring her whole heart into it.
"Alright, short break…!"
When the teacher's voice rang out calling for rest, Yang Hyein retied her golden hair and rolled her hips from side to side to loosen up.
My eyes were completely stolen by the sight of her.
The track uniform clinging tightly to every curve of her body, the beads of sweat glistening on the bare skin left exposed outside it.
The slender arms lifting that sunlight-gold hair into a high tie, the smooth underarms, the legs with their clean, powerful muscle standing out as sharply as a thoroughbred mare's….
That healthy body was one thing.
But the slight furrow still left between her brows from the hard work she'd just put her muscles through, the serious expression of someone completely focused on training—somehow I couldn't tear my eyes away from that either.
She looked nothing like the playful girl I knew who loved teasing her teacher.
"……She's cool."
The words slipped out before I could stop them, startling me so badly that I quickly looked away from Yang Hyein's face.
And where my gaze landed by pure chance—was her abs.
Below the sports bra, those beautiful muscles drawn in a sharp eleven-line.
Shining under the sunlight, wet with sweat… was it just my imagination that they looked far too… far too lewd?
Wait a second.
Out of nowhere, the condition for the futanari transformation flashed through my mind.
If I got sexually excited by Yang Hyein, a cock would sprout on her.
When I'd mindlessly masturbated to fantasies of her in the bathroom before, nothing had grown, sure.
Whether that was because of the distance… or whether distance didn't matter and it was fine because I'd only been excited by a fake version of her inside my head—I still didn't know.
If it was the latter, then a cock might sprout on Yang Hyein right this second.
"…Yeah, no. This isn't good."
Thankfully nothing had appeared from just these lewd thoughts so far, but if I kept staring at her I had the feeling something even weirder would start happening.
Pressing a hand firmly against the spot over my heart that had begun to race a little too hard, I hurriedly stood up and fled the place like I was running away.
"………."
Completely failing to notice the gaze Yang Hyein was fixing on me as I left.
Having cut my observation of Yang Hyein short, I washed my face thoroughly with cold water, fixed my makeup, and then—once the next class period rolled around—went to observe a different student I hadn't watched yet.
That student was—
"Next, Kang Heeji. Start when you're ready."
"Yes!"
Kang Heeji, dressed in a dobok and taking her Arrest Self-Defense Art class.
Unaware that I had even entered the training hall, she faced a female student holding a practice carrot knife with a serious expression.
The moment the signal dropped, she whipped her arm around the one holding the knife, twisted it—and in a flash spun behind the girl and pinned her cleanly to the floor.
It looked so much like a scene out of a movie that I was left staring blankly for a second. In that same instant, the girls who had been watching Kang Heeji started squealing and cheering.
"Quiet down, quiet! I told you to watch and learn from Heeji, not gush over her!"
Whether the teacher scolded them or not, the girls paid zero attention.
After helping the fallen student back up, Kang Heeji flashed a grin and waved at the girls cheering for her.
Then her gaze naturally drifted over—to me.
"―――!"
Her face lit up in an instant, completely different from when she'd been looking at the other girls.
I mouthed That was so cool and waved, and Kang Heeji's face flushed bright red.
The way her dog ears flapped wildly in every direction with pure excitement while she got all shy like that was adorable all over again.
Now that she knew I was here, Kang Heeji threw herself into every practical that followed and put on an incredibly cool performance.
"Yeoeun-ssaem…!"
The second class ended, the puppy came barreling straight toward me.
Then the girl who was taller than me grabbed both my hands and started bouncing up and down on the spot.
"Yeoeun-ssaem, you came? I really had no idea you'd show up today…!"
"I was observing Hyein's class and then remembered the request you made last time, so I hurried over."
"Ah…."
The joy on Kang Heeji's face stiffened just a little, and the hands holding mine tightened.
"Heeji?"
"…Ah, no. I was just so happy you came."
The green eyes looking down at me curved into pretty crescents.
"By the way, Yeoeun-ssaem, how was I?"
"You were incredibly cool."
"How was I cool?"
"Hmm—the way you twisted the arm like this and made her drop the knife was cool, and then whatever that was next, judo? Flipping three people in a row with that was cool too…."
As I listed out all the cool parts, Kang Heeji's face melted soft and she started grinning foolishly.
Then she squeezed my hand and brought it right to the center of her chest.
"Yeoeun-ssaem is… really pretty too."
"Hm? I-is that so? Thank… whoa."
Had she always been this tall?
Standing face-to-face with her as she quietly looked down at me with that smiling face, I felt a strangely embarrassed sensation.
On top of that, my heart had started beating weirdly….
"Heeji, who's that?"
"Yeah yeah. Who is she that you're so close?"
Just as my breathing was getting a little rough, the girls who had been cheering for Kang Heeji swarmed over and started talking to her.
I felt relieved, but I saw Kang Heeji's usually easygoing brows furrow slightly before smoothing out again.
She put on her usual bright smile, stood right beside me, and faced the girls.
"Who do you think?"
"Hmm, isn't she the new homeroom teacher we heard about?"
"Wow—look at that body…. And that mature vibe makes her feel completely like a real adult, totally different from us."
"Right right. She's got that soft, mom-like feeling too?"
The girls' eyes swept up and down my body. Their mouths were praising me, but their gazes were anything but friendly.
Maybe they saw me as a fox trying to steal their prince.
Well, I was a fox, so that part was accurate.
Kang Heeji watched the girls subtly sizing me up, then let out a short laugh—and in the next second wrapped an arm tightly around my waist.
"Kya, kyaah?!"
"She's my girlfriend. Say hi."
What… was she saying?
The girls who heard Kang Heeji's declaration, and me included, all stared at her with dumbfounded faces.
Then the girls recovered first and all focused their eyes on me at once.
"Girlfriend? Anyone can see she's a teacher."
"Stop with the weird jokes, Heeji. It's not funny at all."
"Yeah yeah. Our Heeji is so good and cool at everything, but she really can't joke, huh?"
"Then let Yeoeun-ssaem say it."
Pulling me even tighter against her, Kang Heeji gave a soft little smile.
The pressure of the hand gripping my waist somehow sent shivers racing through my body.
Forcing that strange sensation down, I looked back and forth between the girls and Kang Heeji with a troubled expression.
In my opinion… this kid was just trying to mess with me too.
Yang Hyein already teased me enough—I couldn't just sit there and get toyed with by Kang Heeji as well.
Besides—
"Th-that's right. I'm Heeji's girlfriend!"
I deliberately pressed my large chest firmly against Kang Heeji's body as I answered the girls with total confidence.
Seeing the flabbergasted looks on their faces felt pretty satisfying and lifted my mood.
But when I looked up because the Kang Heeji who was supposed to play along with me had gone completely silent—
"………."
Even though she had started the joke, she had whipped her face to the side like she didn't want me to see how tomato-red it had gone.
Kang Heeji simply stayed quiet and squeezed my waist a little tighter.
"What are you all doing over there? Class is starting!"
"Yeees—."
Once the girls left first and it was just the two of us, Kang Heeji whispered quietly to me.
"You can never… make that kind of joke to any other kids."
"Well of course. Your teacher is Heeji's girlfriend, after all."
When I looked up at her playfully, Kang Heeji covered her entire face with both hands.
Only the bright red tips of her ears told me exactly what state her face was in.
"Kang Heeji—!"
"I-I'm going!"
"Go work hard. Your girlfriend will be right here watching carefully."
Her reactions were way too fun. Was this why Yang Hyein kept teasing me all the time?
Without the slightest idea that I was summoning my own doom, I simply watched cheerfully as Kang Heeji headed back into the training hall.