Cat Therapy Chapter 3.4

Even when looked at with suspicious eyes, Seo Yongwoo just smiled leisurely and abruptly pulled Haedong’s body towards his own.

Then, he lifted Haedong, who was only wearing a loose t-shirt, and sat him on his lower abdomen, offering the back of one of his hands like a lure.

“Here. Do what you did to my hand.”

“This position is, a bit.”

It was a familiar spot when he was a cat, but now it felt strangely peculiar. Haedong tried to get away, but he couldn’t budge an inch when he was held by the waist with a hand as big as a pot lid. Seo Yongwoo let out a subtle sigh, baring his fangs, as if he was feeling some kind of thirst.

“Have you ever let anyone into your bed?”

“Ye-yes?”

“You’re really the first one I’ve ever let into my bed.”

At that moment, Seo Yongwoo’s hand that was holding his waist moved like a slow snake. It pulled the t-shirt up, exposing his chest completely. The flustered Haedong tried to push the hand away, but he was no match for him in terms of strength.

Slide.

“……”

Seo Yongwoo stared intently at Haedong’s pink areola. One of his eyebrows twitched, and he subtly ground his fangs, which looked just like he was savoring a taste, making Haedong feel an unidentifiable sense of crisis.

‘Could it be that he’s bothered now because I’m also a male…?’

Being a male cat himself, Haedong knew how sensitive an issue territorial invasion was.

In fact, if this were the wild, it would have been a situation where they would have not only fought with their fists but also drawn blood, and he had foolishly reminded the tiger of that. Haedong desperately tried to pull his t-shirt down and said urgently.

“If you’re uncomfortable, should I, uh, sleep separately?”

“No.”

Thud. Haedong flinched in surprise at the dull sound from the side and his eyes went wide.

The tiger’s tail, as if finding something so interesting, whipped around fiercely and struck the wall next to them. Haedong, who knew the feel of that whip-like thing, found himself nodding his head. It was an action born more out of survival instinct than sincerity.

“The more I think about it, the more absurd it is.”

“Mi-mister.”

“The cat I was planning to raise after giving my heart to it for the first time, suddenly turns into a person.”

Regardless of whether the young one was talking back or not, Seo Yongwoo’s gaze swept over Haedong’s body. It felt like goosebumps were rising wherever his gaze touched.

“And the fact that I’m actually feeling guilty now is absurd too…”

At the incomprehensible words, Haedong’s cat ears stood up sensitively. Seo Yongwoo’s hand was stealthily slipping inside the generously sized t-shirt and was now gripping his waist. As if he liked the feel of the firm flesh, he let out a sound like a beast groaning in pleasure. It was proof that his rationality was gradually slipping away.

“Wai-, I’ll, I’ll turn into a cat. Hmph!”

Before he could finish his words, Seo Yongwoo caressed his small nipple. An unusual interest flickered in his eyes as he stared intently at the small, pinkish thing.

“……!”

Haedong, who had been stealthily inching his body backward, froze in that instant, his tail even puffing up to twice its size.

He could feel a hard pillar between his buttocks, and when Haedong flinched his bottom, the thing would occasionally jerk. At the unbelievable size, Haedong couldn’t even think of taking his hand off and sucked in a breath.

Even as Haedong thrashed in surprise, Seo Yongwoo held his barely fleshy chest with his hand and kneaded it leisurely. Following the gesture, his gaze seemed to have become even more intense.

“Dodong-ah. Have you ever said you liked someone other than me?”

“I, have.”

“Never mind, you don’t have to answer.”

After speaking, Seo Yongwoo, who had half-raised his upper body, placed his tongue on Haedong’s chest.

And as soon as he felt the unfamiliar sensation on his small nipple, Haedong cried out passionately, as if he had come out of the water and was gasping for air.

“Wai-, ho-, ah, mister!”

“……”

As if his ears hurt, Seo Yongwoo furrowed his brow and bowed his head to the opposite side. A certain murderous dissatisfaction was visible in the one narrowed eye that looked at Haedong again.

He stared intently at Haedong as if urging him to say what he had to say, looking extremely displeased at being interrupted.

“What?”

“…Hiccup.”

Haedong couldn’t even speak and just hiccuped.

Seo Yongwoo’s gaze swept over his widened eyes, filled with fear, and his stiffened white body. The way the kid was grabbing his wrist, shoulders trembling and hiccuping, showed that he was genuinely and greatly startled.

Seo Yongwoo asked, just in case.

“…Don’t tell me you have no experience at all?”

“N-no…”

“Not even dating?”

“In middle school, once…”

“…Looking like this and you haven’t done it.”

Seo Yongwoo muttered. As he did, he examined Haedong’s face, which was covered in soft downy hair, but Haedong felt a sense of crisis not from his gaze, but from his buttocks that were pressed against his thing through the fabric.

He wanted to ask why it had gotten even bigger than before, but he was too surprised by the twitching sensation to even speak and hastily got off Seo Yongwoo’s waist. Hiding as if in a box-shaped bed corner, Haedong looked at Seo Yongwoo warily.

To such a Haedong, Seo Yongwoo, after briefly composing his roughened breath, asked.

“You haven’t dated even after you grew up?”

“I’ve gotten some offers for compensated dating… but I didn’t do it.”

Haedong said with a look of distaste.

Haedong, who had mainly done jobs like cleaning in bars, received quite a few strange proposals.

Perhaps because of his small frame and fair face, customers looked down on Haedong easily. When they found out he was a black cat beastman, they would treat him even more carelessly.

Each time, Haedong would refuse, and when he couldn’t stand it anymore, he would run away, and then have to painstakingly find another job and adjust all over again. They were days when he lived without even knowing he was dying a little each day.

As if just hearing about it was unpleasant, Seo Yongwoo’s brow furrowed fiercely as he spoke.

“Good for you. Never do something like that.”

“……”

“If you see another trashy guy like that, tell me. What’s money got to do with dating…”

Seo Yongwoo’s expression crumpled as he spoke harshly, but Haedong found it absurd that the person who had just tried to pounce on him was saying such things.

Who was it that had just fondled and caressed his chest? It might have been something done as a lover, but for Haedong, who had no experience yet, it was by no means an ordinary event.

On top of that, Haedong didn’t have the confidence to handle an aroused tiger, nor his thick member. He had to find a way to survive, somehow. Haedong, with his sensitively sharp eyes looking pitiful, asked cautiously.

“Mister and I, we’re not like that, are we…?”

“Like what?”

“Compen-, compensated dating.”

“…What compensated dating are you talking about.”

Seo Yongwoo averted his gaze awkwardly and leaned back against the headboard of the bed. Then, he casually covered his body, which was only wearing sweatpants, with a blanket, hiding the explicit outline.

While doing so, he subtly leaned in next to Haedong, who was pressed against the corner, and slowly extended a hand as if to soothe him. Haedong pushed it away and said.

“Still, we have an age gap, and it hasn’t even been a month since we met, and if you do this, mister…”

“If I’ve endured for a whole month,”

Seo Yongwoo, who was about to say something, stopped, realizing that the pace was based on his own standards. It was a story that would only have the opposite effect right now.

“…Why do you think that? We were just progressing normally.”

“You suddenly tried to do something lewd, mister.”

“Suddenly? I’m not some pervert.”

Seo Yongwoo skillfully pretended otherwise, but Haedong was sure he had seen a certain desire in his eyes.

Still, as if he were fiercely fighting between desire and reason, Seo Yongwoo let out a couple of sighs and, putting some distance between himself and Haedong, said.

“…I was naturally planning to do it when you were ready, baby.”

“Right… Of course you would, mister.”

Haedong, having found a way out, eagerly agreed. The tiger’s eyes were still dilated with excitement, but knowing how big his member was, he had to say whatever it took, whether it was lies, flattery, or threats. It was fortunate that Seo Yongwoo still had a shred of conscience left.

Still, as if with lingering attachment, he stared at Haedong’s thighs, then licked his lips as if in disappointment. The tiger ears and tail, which he couldn’t fully suppress his instincts for, also whipped around fiercely whenever he spoke.

“But mister doesn’t have much patience. Will you be ready in about 30 minutes?”

“Even my bath preparation takes longer than that…”

At the ridiculous suggestion, Haedong couldn’t hide his look of exasperation. A cat, who hates water, needs at least 40 minutes sitting on the toilet just to mentally prepare for a bath. But 30 minutes to prepare for his first time with a tiger? It was absurd.

Still, thankfully, Seo Yongwoo didn’t touch Haedong anymore. Instead, with a sigh, he pressed a hand to his forehead and muttered softly.

“…I’m going crazy.”

Haedong instinctively fled to the highest point. Even so, it was just the corner of the box-shaped bed, which was like the back of a sofa, so Seo Yongwoo looked at him with a rather dumbfounded expression.

Looking at such a Haedong, Seo Yongwoo had to fight a different instinct.

‘Should I just be a trash?’

Was it because the period of time he had lived alone was too long? His body felt unbearably hot today.

However, Seo Yongwoo gave up after seeing Haedong’s pitiful, even wary, cat-like eyes.

“What are you so scared of? Have I ever won against you?”

Seo Yongwoo lightly flicked Haedong’s nose as if scolding him, and then got up.

Then, he wrapped Haedong tightly in a blanket and went to the bathroom by himself.

As if he were washing again, he was inside for quite a long time. Haedong, left alone on the bed, cowered with an anxious face, and then belatedly, as if on guard, slipped out of the blanket and turned into a cat.

‘I-I’m alive.’

Haedong, looking around with a finally relieved face, turned into a cat and groomed his whole body. As expected, being in cat form was the safest in front of the tiger.

Haedong, while feeling relieved that Seo Yongwoo was not coming out of the shower for quite a while, decided that he would have to live as a cat in the bedroom from now on. That way, even if he stuck close and acted affectionately, he would just be seen as cute.

‘Still, if we’re lovers, is this the time when things like this happen…?’

Suddenly, Haedong felt that his relationship with the tiger was complicated, but he didn’t think about it for long. As expected, he didn’t have the confidence yet to handle the tiger he had just seen, who was out of his mind with excitement.

The next day, Seo Yongwoo quietly got up from the box-shaped bed.

Haedong had been watching the birds outside the window during the day, and even though it was still time to get up, he was asleep, his body stretched out as bizarrely as a snake.

Seo Yongwoo, who had been looking at such a cat with a rather dumbfounded expression, got out of bed without a sound. After washing up, he finished his routine, not forgetting his skincare.

Beep.

‘…My temperature is high.’

Looking at the thermometer, Seo Yongwoo let out a sigh.