Smallville Town.
East District.
Crowds streamed across the vast stretch of beach.
People in all sorts of shorts and skirts gathered on the sand.
Summer in Kansas was undoubtedly scorching.
"So, are you two seriously dressed like that?"
Standing on Smallville Beach, Lana Lang and Chloe looked at Jino and Clark in speechless disbelief.
The two stood side by side like a pair of fellow sufferers.
But what left everyone most speechless was what they were wearing.
Having used mysterious magic to conceal their true appearances, Jino and Clark were wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trunks and Patrick Star Trunks.
"What? I think they're pretty nice."
Jino shrugged. "There's a saying in the East: men remain boys until they die."
Given an anthill, they would probably dig up an ant queen too.
The sun hung high in the sky, and the air grew hotter by the minute.
Clark looked at the azure lake. By now, plenty of people were already enjoying the cold water, letting it wash away the heat clinging to their skin.
"I'm going in first."
Clark plunged into the water like a swordfish, sending a great spray flying.
"Come on in!"
Clark called out to the others.
Lana Lang and Chloe also rushed into the water impatiently.
"Jino!"
Clark bobbed up and down in the lake, staring at Jino on the shore.
The boy gave Jino a bright smile. "Why aren't you coming in?"
"Me?"
Jino glanced at the lake. There were too many people swimming in this area, and inevitably, some of them lacked basic decency and polluted the water.
So Jino had no interest in swimming in this lake.
"Fine, your loss."
Clark shrugged and dove back into the water.
"That's the deep-water area. Let's go swimming there!"
Lana Lang suggested it to Chloe, but Chloe, who