Ijin sipped at his milk passively as his friends joked and messed around. He was staying quiet, but he was enjoying himself either way.

They were making jokes, they were funny. But after at least eight years of listening to older men making both dirty and graphic jokes, he found them to be rather tame. Nowhere near as vulgar as the ones he had heard over the years, but still funny.

It was going well until Hyeokjin turned to him and asked," Ijin, you got any jokes?"

That made him think. He certainly had a lot of dirty jokes in his arsenal.

But they were all in the language native to Grian. he didn't have the vocabulary range to translate them into Korean so his friends could understand," ...I have some," He slowly admitted," but they're not appropriate."

Hyeokjin gasped playfully as he slung his arm around his neck," Ijin tells dirty jokes?"

That made Ijin chuckle as he extracted himself from his friend's hold," I grew up around grown men. Those are the only jokes I know off the top of my head." 012 had always been one to whisper all types of jokes to him in hopes of getting a smile out of him.

Not that it ever worked.

Jaehyung made a 'give me' motion with his hands as he said," Well let us have it."

Hyeokjin was right behind him," Yeah!"

Surprisingly, Seokju seemed open to the idea as he said," Come on Ijin, it's your turn to tell a joke for once." His fellow bodyguard had a grin on his face. Ijin was sure that he was open to the idea since Yeona had gone back to her house to get some sleep and wouldn't be able to overhear them.

Ijin huffed as he ceded to them.

"Hm..." Ijin trailed off as he tried to translate them.

This was going to be hard.

He must have been taking too long because Yeongchan asked," What's taking so long?"

He waved his hand around flippantly, still trying to figure out the translation to some of the jokes he's heard," I have to translate them. Give me a minute."

Yeah, he was blanking out.

He didn't have the Korean vocabulary to translate most of them properly. Sighing, he dismissed the thought," Never mind." There were still a lot of Korean words that he had to learn, words such as oral wouldn't come up casually in a conversation.

His friends did not accept that as an answer," Nah nah, just tell us!" Hyeokjin said with a wide grin. Almost leaning forward in his seat as he tried to convince Ijin to just go ahead and say it.

Jaehyung was right behind him," Don't hold out on us man!"

Ijin huffed as he admitted," I don't know how to say it in Korean."

They didn't miss a beat," Just use the Google translate function." Seokju suggested without hesitation. He was even taking out his own phone so Ijin could use it.

He sighed in defeat,"...Fine." he took out his phone, and after a few taps on the screen, he was holding down the microphone button as he spoke into the google translate function." *#& &$[÷*= =,% *÷*$. " he got a few weird looks from their classmates as he said that. No doubt, it was their first time hearing him speak another language.

Ijin ignored the looks as he waited for google to show the results.

As soon as he saw the translated sentence, he knew that it didn't work. The resulting Korean sentence was a garbled mess of nonsense that wasn't even close to what he tried to say.

Well, that didn't help in the slightest.

He frowned at the screen, making his friends lean forward as they tried to get a look at the screen to see what was making him frown," What does it say?"'

"Nowhere near to what I said. "

"Hm," Ijin turned the screen, letting the others get a look at the failure that the translator produced," Maybe the language you learned is a dialect?" Jaehyung suggested.

Ijin thought over it for a few seconds.

It probably was a dialect, there were times when he had worked with a client and had difficulty understanding them due to their accent or different words.

" Maybe." He should probably ask 006 what language they spoke in Grian.

Next time.

"So are you going to tell us the joke or not. " Yeongchan asked almost hopefully.

Ijin resisted the urge to let out another huff of annoyance," I don't know how to translate it."

His friends seem to be rather adamant about hearing him say a joke.

Maybe it was because he never told jokes and the fact that he knew dirty jokes piqued their interest.
Jaehyung's smile was blinding as he said," Well explain it to us, maybe we can get it!" Seokju, Hyeokjin, and Yeongchan nodded along with him, even leaning forward a little bit in their seats to further show their excitement.

Fine.

"Ok…hm," He mulled over some jokes in his head, finally landing on a joke that was more or less easy to translate, he just needed to know a few more words," What's the name of that fairytale of that girl who loses her shoe?"

They answered immediately," Cinderella. "

Ah, so that's what it was called.

Maybe it would be easier than he thought?

"Ok…what do you call it when it's a fancy party and people are dancing?"

He knew it was going to be a little bit harder when they scrunched up their nose.

"A recital?"

"No that's not it."

"A reception?"

"No." he should have known that there was going to be more than one word to describe the party Cinderella attended.

"A party."

"No. Er, fancier."

Now they were starting to get a little bit impatient.

"How fancy are we talking about Ijin."

"Suit and dresses fancy."

"That sounds like a reception."

This reminds him of the time he was hired to escort migrating families that had kids that were far too curious. When the little ones would ask too many questions to the point where even he had started to get annoyed.

"Its not. Its…its those big parties that they show in those period pieces that Dayeon and Yeona watch together."

Seokju answered almost immediately after he got that little tidbit of information, "Ball. It's called a ball."
Ball.

He would have never figured out that a fancy dancing party was called a ball of all the things.

Nonetheless, he thanked his friend, "Thank you Seokju. You are truly being helpful today."

As expected, the others didn't miss the little jab he had in his words. They gasped as if they were offended," Did you just call us worthless?!"

He couldn't keep the corner of his mouth from turning upward as he said," Take it as you will. "

He continued as if he hadn't just offended his friends. Blatantly ignoring their weak glares," Uh…I know the word, but I can't remember right now. "

"Pretty sure you don't know the word then." Jaehyung snarked out.

He answered without thinking, waving his hand around as he said," Quiet small one."

"I'm not small!"

The fact that the others were answering made it funnier.

"You're pretty small Jaehyung."

"You're one of the shortest."

"You're small."

Jaehyung whipped around to look at Yeongchan with an offended look on his face," You're smaller than me Yeongchan! You shouldn't be talking!"

"Its because I'm smaller than you that I can call you small. You're small."

Seokju had a smile tugging on his lips," Just continue Ijin."

"Ok. What's it called when you," he made a vague motion with his hands, his fingers curling in as he demonstrated for them.

It was much easier for them to guess.

"Strangling."

Close, but that wasn't it either," No, the other word. "

" Choking?"

"Yes, thank you. Um…" they watched as Ijin went over the words in his head. Quietly muttering the words under his breath as he figured out the proper word order to say it in Korean.

"What did Cinderella do when she got to the ball?"

They rose their eyebrows, and when they didn't answer him, he continued.

"Make choking sounds."

That got a chuckle out of them.

"I thought it was going to be dirtier." Seokju admitted. Amused by the joke, but slightly let down

Ijin shrugged his shoulder dismissively, "It doesn't translate well. Its funnier in the original language."

"Well do you have any others." Hyeokjin asked hopefully.

"I do. "

"Tell us!"

"No. I don't know how to translate them either."

"We can help you. "

Yeah…

He was going to pass on that.

He was probably going to embarrass himself, as well as his friends. Solely because it was going to be awkward trying to find the words he needed to translate because some of them were extremely inappropriate.

"I'll ask the major for help next chance I get. "

"Is it that dirty?"

Absolutely.

"Yes. And I'm not going to try and figure it out with you guys." That would probably take forever.

Jaehyung dramatically grabbed onto his chest as he almost yelled out, "Ah! How you wound me Ijin!"

Ijin smiled at the way he was acting.

"Suffer."