By Zephyria 
Ak Mujin, who had been sleeping soundly as if he had fainted, opened his eyes, feeling the warm sunlight. He thought he had slept very well and woken up refreshed, but something felt unfamiliar yet familiar… He felt muscle pain surging through his back, waist, and lower body, and blinked once, then opened and closed his eyes again.
…Something feels ominous?
No sooner had that thought crossed his mind than the memory of just before he fell asleep mercilessly struck the top of his head.
‘Fill me inside….’
His own voice, close to begging, and then Jin Geum-ryeon’s panting breaths came to mind, and at the same time, Jin Geum-ryeon’s bewildered and excited face flickered before his eyes.
“Ah… uh…?”
Is this a real situation?
‘Fill me inside…’
Is this a real situation?
“Uh…?”
This is a real situation…
Yes. Ak Mujin had done it again.
Again….
His upper body, as if struck by lightning, bounced up like a fish pulled out of the water. His whole body seemed to scream because of the sudden use of muscles, but even more vivid than that was the sensation of cold sweat trickling down his back, making his hair stand on end.
What on earth have I done?
He would have preferred not to remember anything. But the memories in Ak Mujin’s head were so vivid that it felt as if the sensations of Jin Geum-ryeon caressing and kissing him last night were engraved on his skin. Even his lower body, where that huge phallus had been going in and out, still had a burning sensation.
No, how can a person make a mistake that they might make once in their lifetime, a whopping two times? No matter how much the hormones are playing tricks, isn’t this going too far? What kind of body is this that loses its reason and craves only pleasure like a beast whenever the heat cycle comes around?!
Ak Mujin was going crazy because he remembered one by one what his condition was like last night and how he acted, even though he didn’t try to face it properly.
Jin Geum-ryeon’s Body fragrance, which he had so longed for and drawn whenever he faced the heat cycle inside the Spirit Mausoleum, was so sweet that he couldn’t dare to refuse it. It was as if he only knew how to have sex, as if his goal in life was only to receive the seed of a Yang Person, his head at the time was filled only with thoughts of ‘intercourse’.
He was too complacent. As soon as he came out of the Spirit Mausoleum, he should have gotten a heat cycle suppressant, but suddenly Jin Geum-ryeon stepped forward to take revenge on the Martial Alliance, and that thought disappeared from his mind.
He tried to distance himself from Jin Geum-ryeon, but why didn’t he think of going to the pharmacy?
Maybe… wasn’t he not even thinking of doing that in the first place?
Ak Mujin’s face turned pale as soon as he reached that thought.
That can’t be. Since reuniting with Jin Geum-ryeon, he had been trying to put him back on track. What kind of nonsense is that…
Anyway, what happened last night has already happened. Ak Mujin groaned softly as if in pain and clenched the blanket tightly. He thought that the Spirit Mausoleum, where he would never meet a living person, was better.
As he tore at the blanket, the shape of the blanket felt strangely unfamiliar. Come to think of it, he seemed to have lost consciousness while leaving the inn, but isn’t this indoors?
Ak Mujin looked around and realized that this was not an inn, and at the same time, all sorts of thoughts quickly flashed through his mind. While shuddering at the fact that he had made a huge mistake, he searched every nook and cranny.
The well-organized small private chamber seemed to be used only as a bedroom, with only one bed he was lying on and a small table placed at the head of the bed. On the table were a water bowl and a Spirit Wipe, and if he concentrated, he could smell a faint herbal scent in the room. It seemed that this was a room for patients. He had lost consciousness and collapsed on the street, so Jin Geum-ryeon must have taken him to a doctor.
That meant that it wouldn’t be strange for Jin Geum-ryeon to come into this room soon. Ak Mujin returned to thinking about Jin Geum-ryeon, and his eyes were dizzy and his back was cold. Ha, should I just run away like this? I think I can go out through the window? No matter how much he thought about it, sticking with him to find Jin Geum-ryeon’s real partner didn’t seem like a good thing.
Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. Just as he was thinking about Jin Geum-ryeon, he heard the voices of two or three people talking outside the inner chamber, along with Jin Geum-ryeon’s voice. Ak Mujin hurriedly lay down again, closed his eyes, and pretended to be asleep. The door opened, and Jin Geum-ryeon and a person presumed to be a doctor came inside. There was a clattering sound at Ak Mujin’s bedside.
“That’s strange. It’s about time he woke up.”
The voice was that of the old doctor who had come to Wang Jin at the inn. He stared intently at Ak Mujin’s face, then put the herbal medicine on the table and pulled up a folding chair to sit down. Then Jin Geum-ryeon urged him impatiently.
“Please check his pulse. Is there something wrong? Maybe I overdid it yesterday….”
The doctor looked up at Jin Geum-ryeon with a sullen face, then obediently grabbed Ak Mujin’s hand and checked his pulse.
“Oh, he’s fine. He’s not only healthy, but he’s also full of energy! Even if he were to get pregnant, he would have an easy delivery, that’s what this pulse is like!”
No sooner had those words been spoken than Ak Mujin almost swallowed his saliva the wrong way and coughed as he tried to get up. Pregnancy? Easy delivery? Just the words made his whole body crawl with goosebumps, and it felt like his hair was standing on end.
Jin Geum-ryeon hesitated and said to the doctor.
“But… I don’t think he would want that.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, but you imprinted?”
“……”
Jin Geum-ryeon didn’t answer the doctor’s blunt question.
Imprint? What imprint all of a sudden? A question mark floated in Ak Mujin’s head, but it seemed that this imprint was not a very good word in the situation he was in.
When Jin Geum-ryeon still didn’t answer, the doctor continued instead.
“I told you. I thought this person’s heat cycle was near, but since it looked like you two had imprinted, I didn’t bother to interfere.”
“…I, I didn’t know we were imprinted.”
“You couldn’t have not known!”
Ak Mujin was intimidated by the doctor’s rebuke. He continued to pretend to be asleep quietly.
“Even when the heat cycle comes, the herbal medicine won’t work, and you’ll only think of the other person, so you couldn’t have not known that!”
…So that’s what it was?
He didn’t know why he only thought of Jin Geum-ryeon’s Body fragrance during the three years in the Spirit Mausoleum, but he thought that the pain he suffered from the heat cycle inside was simply something he had to endure because there was no medicine. And he believed that everything would be resolved when he went outside.
But what he said meant that even if he went outside and got a suppressant, it would be useless? In the end, Ak Mujin’s head spun at the fact that he would have to go through this ordeal in the future.
Besides, if the doctor’s words were true, it meant that Jin Geum-ryeon also had to endure the cycle without finding a partner outside. What is this? Does this mean that if Ak Mujin had died, Jin Geum-ryeon would have been tormented by sexual torture for the rest of his life? Well, Ak Mujin doesn’t intend to mix bodies with Jin Geum-ryeon for the rest of his life anymore, so it’s not much different now!
Anyway, this will cause a big setback in Ak Mujin’s plan. This imprint seems to be a device that is usually made between the main characters in the first place. Even if he goes through a lot of hardships to find Jin Geum-ryeon’s partner, it won’t be good if a foreign substance gets involved because of the imprint.
Ah, I’m really screwed!
Ak Mujin made a silent struggle under his calm face.
“…Was that, so?”
Jin Geum-ryeon’s voice trembled as he asked back, and it seemed that he didn’t know this fact in advance either. He hesitated and continued.
“I didn’t know. I didn’t even know how to imprint in the first place.”
Yes! I don’t know either! This is why sex education is important. Why did Mae-yeong send Jin Geum-ryeon out without giving him sex education? If Jin Geum-ryeon had known, this situation wouldn’t have happened.
“…I now know why you suddenly asked me to make a heat cycle suppressant that wouldn’t work.”
As if he didn’t want to hear the answer, the doctor sighed deeply and pressed his eyes hard.
“I don’t know what kind of environment you grew up in that you didn’t even get basic sex education, but… if you two aren’t really going to be responsible for each other for the rest of your lives, break the imprint now.”
…It can be broken.
Ak Mujin breathed a long sigh of relief inside. His head was spinning from how much his mood was swinging.