I heard him say something in Korean, and caught the words busy and stupid; the first obviously about Zero and Athelas, the second most likely about me (well, how do you think I know the Korean word for stupid so well?). From that he probably meant me to infer that Zero and Athelas were busy, but had expected me to be an idiot and so had sent him ahead.
“Hah!” I said, poking my head around the door. “Says you!”
Unfortunately, JinYeong’s dripping jacket was in a soggy pile on the bathroom floor and his shirt was just about to join it when I did so.
I slapped a hand over my eyes and howled, “Gross! Close the flamin’ door when you’re going to do that!”
“Kohjjoh!” snarled JinYeong, and a wet, tarry business shirt hit me in the face.
I knew what that word meant, too; but even if I hadn’t, the shirt in the face would have been pretty clear.
“Gross!” I complained again, feeling for the door knob. I pulled the door shut and yelled through it, “Normal people close the door!”
He yelled something back, and I heard the word for person in there, followed by a negative, so I suppose he was saying that he wasn’t a normal person. Yeah. ’S’if I don’t know that.
I turned back toward the kitchen, peeling wet shirt and tar from my face, and grumbled beneath my breath. This was going to take ages to clean up.
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