In Defense of the Cuckoo Bird

Ji Gyuhwa, a man who seems to have been born a soldier. Codename: Jaguar.

Seon Nawon, the maknae who joins the team of this famously taciturn and cold man, is deployed on a classified mission to secure custody of a certain scientist.

As it turns out, the scientist is an eccentric researching time, and in trying to rescue him, Seon Nawon gets swept into a time slip.

Realizing he has opened his eyes in a Korea sixteen years in the past, Seon Nawon recalls the rule of time slips, that you must never run into your past self, and heads far away, only to come face to face with a familiar one.

“Get up, Ji Gyuhwa.”

The person is none other than Seon Nawon’s superior officer, Ji Gyuhwa.

And worse, it is his younger self from sixteen years ago, in the middle of being beaten.

Don’t touch the timeline.

Don’t touch the timeline.

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He touched the ever loving hell out of it.

“You’re in big trouble now. You’ve been sold to us. From now on you have to do the laundry and the cleaning and the cooking at our house.”

This child was a human being who had not yet become the Jaguar.

One who knew nothing of blood, of pain, of anguish, of restraint, nor of the happiness he ought to have been allowed.

So until he goes back to the present, would it really be so wrong to look after him a little?

Just until he goes back. Just a little.