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Jo Euishin groaned as he was forced to drink another one of Hyangrok's horrible tasting elixirs. Eunho gave him an unsympathetic look as he massaged Jo Euishin's throat, helping the newly made antidote go down while Jo Euishin still couldn't move from the poison that had paralyzed and numbed his entire body.
"Let this be a lesson to take care of yourself better."
Jo Euishin gave him a look that said 'how was he supposed to know that one of the enemies had coated their weapon with an innovative poison'.
Eunho huffed. "Don't get hit by anything in the first place."
How unreasonable, Jo Euishin huffed. It was hard to not get at least scratched by something when there were so many enemies in battle.
Eunho worried when Jo Euishin seemed to still be unable to talk. "Did you not say that it would kick in quickly, Hyangrok-nim?"
"I did!" Hyangrok, the cheerful doctor said, "It should completely cure Jo Euishin in a few minutes. If you want to test and see if he has regained all of his senses, you can try tickling him!"
Suddenly, it seemed like all of the Tigers' eyes lit up.
Meanwhile, Jo Euishin suddenly felt like prey. Was this what it was actually supposed to feel like on the receiving end of the Tigers' Brilliant Gaze skill?
"That." Eunho emphasized. "is a brilliant idea, Hyangrok-nim."
Hwangho nodded enthusiastically. "Yes. Your best ever yet."
Baekho nodded, and even Jeokho seemed excited as he rubbed his hands together.
They weren't actually going to tickle him, right? If he was cured of a paralytic poison, it would be obvious when he just sat up in a few minutes!
As if reading his mind, Eunho shook his head playfully, "No, Euishin hyung. It would be obvious if the paralytic part wore off, but we still need to check if your sense of touch was restored. After all, it was half a numbing poison too."
Jo Euishin stared at them with wide eyes.
He then tried to move, but it hadn't been a few minutes yet and his body was still paralyzed.
"Let this be a lesson to take care of yourself better." Hwangho repeated Eunho's earlier words. Hwangho's pretty eyes twinkled with delight before he descended on Jo Euishin.
At first, Jo Euishin sighed in relief when he didn't feel much of anything. Maybe, they'd get bored and tired of trying to tickle him before they could actually tickle him. It was embarrassing, but at least it wasn't as embarrassing as it could have been.
But then, Jo Euishin could start to feel it wearing off...
And then, Jo Euishin had to try to keep his poker face so as to prolong the illusion of numbness and make the Tigers get tired of trying.
And then, the faint feelings became extremely ticklish like someone taking a feather and dusting it against his skin. Jo Euishin trembled as the feeling of four men's fingers brushing and poking at his skin became more and more prominent to his senses until Jo Euishin finally broke and jolted at the touch of Baekho's fingers against his ears. "Mm!" In his jolt, he crashed into Eunho's finger which dug into his sensitive side. "Ack!" And then, Jo Euishin cracked as he felt Hwangho tickle his belly button while Jeokho claimed Jo Euishin's foot in delight and tickled all over the sole of his foot.
"No-" Jo Euishin gasped before laughing as Hwangho and Jeokho moved their fingers at a supernatural speed, "That's cheating hahaha! You- you can't use your superpowers like this!"
"If I can't use my superpowers to make my friends laugh, then what good are they for?" Hwangho somehow said sagely despite continuing his immature tickling ministrations. Jo Euishin was writhing as he cackled breathlessly under the assault of four men at his most ticklish areas.
Eunho was cheating as well! Jo Euishin wanted to accuse, but couldn't speak as he kept laughing. Eunho was using his medical knowledge to jab at his most sensitive acupuncture spots!
"I've never seen you laugh like this before, Euishin hyung." Eunho smiled as he kept cheating and testing all of Jo Euishin's points for the most sensitive nerve. "We should tickle you more often."
"Nooo-" Jo Euishin managed to say before writhing again as Baekho grabbed his arm and tickled his armpit. Ack- That area was just- It's just weird to touch a guy's armpits, Jo Euishin wanted to project his thoughts at Baekho but the man just smirked and smiled as Jo Euishin rolled within their grasps in laughter.
Jo Euishin gasped as Jeokho moved this other foot after deeming that he was getting desensitized to all his strokes and scratches on the other. Hwangho took a break from tickling his belly to jabbing his sides in a way that made Jo Euishin jolt as if he had been zapped. Eunho found a place that Jo Euishin had never known about near his neck. And Baekho kept tickling him under his arm before, like Jeokho, moving to his other arm.
Jo Euishin was crying as it became hard to breathe from how hard he was laughing and wriggling under their hands. He felt like a flopping fish. He felt like he was being gutted from how it was starting to hurt from how hard he was wheezing and giggling, but thankfully, the Tigers seemed to sense his limits and stop just before it was truly too much.
They patted him and helped him calm down as he twitched with phantom giggles and sensations.
Hyangrok, who was somehow still here, beamed, saying proudly, "See! Within a few minutes!"
Eunho indulged the little doctor, happy from having found out that his hyung was ticklish and seeing him laugh so much, especially since Jo Euishin was normally calm and even stoic.
"Yes, yes, your elixirs worked wonders as always, Hyangrok-nim." Eunho praised. "And as expected of such a great doctor, your ideas were wonderful."
Hyangrok stood even more proudly.
Meanwhile, Jo Euishin continued wheezing and recovering from where he laid on the mattress in the background.