TillyFlonka

What the fuck? (⊙…⊙ )

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I noticed a tiny detail when rereading Chapter 29 (you can find the Korean chapter here on Lezhin -> https://www.lezhin.com/ko/comic/paintings ) that may or may not be of interest to others!

Just a brief summary for those who haven't read any spoilers yet: NaKyum runs into InHun - it seems they left the house separately after all - and starts begging him to run away with him, telling him that they're both in danger. InHun guides NaKyum to an empty alley to talk in private. After he hugs NaKyum to comfort/calm him, InHun basically tells NaKyum to butch up and paint for SeungHo, even if he's uncomfortable since he promised to help him (InHun, getting dirt on Seungho). NaKyum reluctantly follows him back.

There's a point when InHun is telling NaKyum to butch up and paint when he mentions that NaKyum is probably just uncomfortable & overreacting because Seungho made him watch perverted things, and comments something along the lines of, "It's not like he's doing anything to you... right?" What I noticed is that, while he's saying that line, it shows a zoomed in shot of him holding NaKyum by the shoulders/arms. There's a *super* faint, but seemingly deliberate, red mark visible on NaKyum's neck; a hickey. It then cuts to a close up of InHun's eyes as he's looking down at NaKyum, then shows his hand as he lets go of NaKyum. There's a pause in his sentence during these shots, noted with ellipses, before it shows InHun's face as he says, "right?" while wearing a super creepy expression. The second to last panel of the chapter shows NaKyum in profile, and the hickey is much more visible.

I find this detail interesting because, to me, *this* seems like the moment when InHun connects all of the dots. I don't think he actually knew Seungho had gotten physical with NaKyum yet until he noticed that hickey, and then you can see the gears start turning in his head as he realizes that he's finally gotten the dirt he wanted on Seungho. That side-eyed look he gives NaKyum as they're leaving is like he's knowingly leading a sheep to slaughter. No empathy whatsoever despite having realized exactly why NaKyum is desperate to escape.

One extra note: I keep seeing people call InHun a pedophile, and I think it's because no one's bothered to translate the first portion of the chapter in favor of focusing on his & NaKyum's interactions. Using my shitty camera translation app, I gathered that he's trying to get the man he's talking with to help him get more info on/spread rumors about Seungho (hard to tell exactly which with the app). My point is, he's not making creepy faces because he's leering sexually at the kid on his lap that he's presumably teaching. He's making creepy faces because he's conniving & planning to get his revenge against Seungho. He's a piece of shit, but I don't think the story's heading in that direction...