By Zephyria 
Kim Si-baek, who had been eating spotted beluga meat topped with mushrooms gathered from the field, nearly choked. Even the employee, who had been desperately trying to ignore them, momentarily lost their composure and looked at the two men. Sensing that the employee’s imagination was currently running wild with thoughts of a broken bed, Kim Si-baek was horrified.
“We’ll grill the rest.”
“Ah, but grilling for you is my job…”
“It’s fine.”
Whether it was to work hard or to eavesdrop on the unfolding story, the employee left the room with a look of lingering regret.
Kim Si-baek sighed and picked up the meat tongs.
“You asked that knowing I’d say I wasn’t leaving, didn’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Honestly.”
When he squeezed and shook Tae-un’s cheek with his other hand, Tae-un made a pouting face.
[Death and Beauty asks what on earth a ‘pouting face’ is.]
…Anyway, there is such a cute expression. After asking not to read his surface thoughts for the time being, Kim Si-baek finished grilling the meat.
“Where would you go when you’re sick? And, um…”
Tae-un chimed in, not missing the brief pause while Kim Si-baek pondered how to steer the conversation smoothly.
“And because we’re going to have sex? I ordered a box of condoms via direct overseas shipping. The ones sold domestically don’t fit the size.”
Pretending not to notice Biyendwe hiccuping, Kim Si-baek rubbed the back of his neck.
“Umm, well, yeah. I guess they wouldn’t fit… I mean, it could happen, but if it’s too sudden, it’s flustering, so let’s not be too sudden…”
“I get it, I get it. I’ll be well-behaved for a while. Hurry up and eat the rest of the meat.”
As Kim Si-baek began to ramble and stutter, Tae-un quickly snatched the tongs away.
“When you’re young, your parents or older brother grill for you, but as you get older, the younger person should show their filial piety, even if it’s only by one year.”
Kim Si-baek silently took the tongs back.
As Biyendwe grew accustomed to life on Earth and mustered the courage to sleep separately, Tae-un had agreed to give him one of the empty rooms in the penthouse and buy him the canopy bed he had his eye on.
Though Biyendwe had flared up, saying he wanted to hit Tae-un with a perch after Tae-un’s indifferent remark, “Wouldn’t a perch be enough?” Of course, he had been angry because Tae-un could not read divine utterances.
They were currently on their way back after spending an hour browsing a mart to complete a newly appeared quest while having dinner. Tae-un checked his phone and brought up a photo sent by the installation technician.
“They said the new bed I ordered this afternoon is finished being installed.”
“Already?”
“Money makes everything happen. I bought it with options that you’d like, Hyung.”
“….”
“Aren’t you going to ask why I bought options you’d like?”
Since Tae-un showed his disappointment without filter, Kim Si-baek barely managed to swallow the reflexive answer, ‘Why did you buy options I’d like?’ Even if he asked, he’d probably just get an answer like, ‘Because you’re the one using it.’
But what on earth does a bed need options for?
Curious, he returned home to find Tae-un’s bedroom, which had been messy with bed fragments, cleaned up. Along with a new bed in the same unchanging monotone. To be precise, along with a… very large bed.
“….”
“Until now, I was the only one sleeping in the room, so I didn’t need a big bed, but that’s not the case anymore.”
“….”
“Do you like the size?”
Whether Tae-un slept alone or did something else… in any case, a large bed wouldn’t be bad for him, so Kim Si-baek gave a strained nod.
“What are the options?”
“Just press this.”
Without even checking the remote Tae-un handed him, Kim Si-baek pressed a button on impulse. Then, the bed began to rotate slowly. Smoothly, without even a vibration sound.
Tae-un’s eyes sparkled like a child waiting for praise.
“How is it? You like it, right? Since it’s important to check if something like this fits your body, how about once on the bed? Deal?”
At that moment, the image that flashed through Kim Si-baek’s mind was the sight of the bed breaking while rotating, leaving him and Tae-un tangled together and sprawled on the floor.
“Throw it away.”
“Hyuuuuung.”
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Kim Si-baek’s senses were incredibly sharp, not only because he had spent a long time on the battlefield facing magical beasts, but also because he had not neglected his training even after succeeding the position of grand warrior to Gloiuken. Whether he was living as an unemployed person who rarely left the penthouse or when he became a hunter for the 7777 Guild, his wake-up time was precisely accurate.
Of course, Tae-un, who had been living with him for nearly three months, also knew when he woke up. He had never specifically asked, but as an S-class hunter, his sensory perception was also keen.
Thus, it was no coincidence that the bedroom door opened and someone entered exactly at the time he usually woke up. Kim Si-baek had been almost awake from the moment the person had been silently pacing in front of the door. If the person approaching the bed without hesitation had been an unidentified stranger, he would have grabbed them by the collar and slammed them down, but it was obvious who the owner of this presence was.
The bed creaked under a heavy weight. Kim Si-baek only faintly opened his eyes toward Tae-un, who was slowly crawling in.
“Are you awake already?”
“I missed you, Hyung.”
Whether he meant he woke up because he missed him, or he came because he missed him, or both—Tae-un gave an ambiguous answer as he slid under the covers.
As Kim Si-baek yawned and patted his back, their lips met as if they had been waiting. He reflexively checked the cushion beside him, but Biyendwe was not a cushion; he was sleeping in the next room, satisfied with the new canopy bed Tae-un had provided. …Could the purpose of giving him a separate room have been this?
Before the suspicion could grow, a moist tongue slid in smoothly. He spoke in a sleepy voice as if he had just woken up and come to find him, but the tongue movements invading him were vivid and messy. Being clung to while still half-asleep made him dizzy, so he pushed him away, but Tae-un, who seemed to pull back for a moment, entwined them again, sucking and pulling at his tongue.
“Huuph, ah…”
The wet, obscene sounds of kissing heated his ears. Tae-un’s actions, which involved raiding the inside of his mouth and sucking at will, became gentler once Kim Si-baek, having regained some consciousness, responded.
He swept the soft flesh inside the cheek with the tip of his tongue, then tickled the lips, licking them until a wet sound was made. When Kim Si-baek gasped for air, the tongue followed as if chasing him. The thick tongue, chasing deep inside, stimulated the back of the throat and the roof of the mouth, scraping against his tongue. Then, it wrapped around and pulled his tongue, making the lingual frenulum tingle.
As his lips grew numb, his breath quickened and he grew heated. His lower abdomen throbbed, and his pants gradually felt tight. Tae-un, who had climbed on top of him at some point, pushed his thighs wide apart and pulled his lips away. A transparent thread stretched long before snapping.
“Si-baek Hyung…”
A moist gaze looked down at him. The dim light of dawn breaking through the curtains illuminated Tae-un. It was a time that could be called dark, yet the red flesh slightly visible between his pale lips drew the gaze sharply. Kim Si-baek hadn’t known how to define this erotic redness that had previously overwhelmed him and blurred his vision. But now, he could give it a name.
As he wrapped his arm around the back of Tae-un’s neck and pulled him down, Tae-un swallowed his feverish breath and overlapped their lips. The tongue that entered, tracing the neat alignment of his teeth, was sweet. Rough breaths were crushed between their lips, and the sticky sound of flesh clashing and mixing echoed through the bedroom.
Had the sound of kissing ever been this stimulating? Even the breath scattering inside his mouth was sensitively detected. He could feel the blood rushing downward.
Feeling that he wouldn’t be able to stop if this continued from the morning, he tried to turn his face away, but instead, Tae-un pressed deeper between his thighs, rubbing vigorously with his own. When the size that didn’t fit domestic condoms pressed against his own beginning to erect, his mind snapped back to reality.
“Wa-wait. I said I wouldn’t do this any further…”
“You said you wouldn’t have sex; you didn’t say you wouldn’t do other things.”
“…?!”
Kim Si-baek was overwhelmed by the perfect logic. No, that’s not it. He shouldn’t fall for this kid’s cute excuse. Kim Si-baek hurriedly gathered his wits.
“I get what you mean, but it’s morning. You have to eat and go to work, right?”
“There’s time to get one off.”
“Get what off…”
Before he could finish his sentence, Tae-un pressed the remote he had brought. Remote? It wasn’t the light remote; was there something else in this room?
At that moment, the bed spun around.
“What, why is this bed rotating!”
“I changed your bed to a rotating one too, Hyung. There was one with the same specifications but with a rotation option added.”
“….”
“Ah, did I forget to mention it? Un-i’s mistake.”
The brazen and obvious trick of winking while pretending he had simply forgotten… was truly… truly… truly…
“Hyung. I’m so cute, right?”
“U-uh, yeah…”
The defensive wall melted away at the cute act of a child who knew he was cute, and Tae-un’s hand, not missing the opportunity, grabbed Kim Si-baek’s thigh, where a bulging outline was revealed.