By Zephyria “Anyway, everyone did a great job, so it was fun and enjoyable! By the way, what about the others?”
“Chan-ha and Seung-ryong went to do government-related work, and Yakrin and Ho-young went to clean up a Rift. Today, it’s just the two of us leaving work.”
Yohan nodded. He didn’t know what the government-related work entailed, but he understood why they were cleaning up the Rift. It was because tomorrow, Yohan was going on his first Rift exploration with the Little Sheep team. So, it seemed they were checking to see if there were any overly dangerous monsters, just in case.
“Then let’s go home now!”
The two left work through the underground parking lot. After debating what to eat for dinner, they decided to cook for themselves and headed to a nearby supermarket. Lee Chan-ha had always cast an illusion to prevent others from drawing attention, but since she couldn’t this time, both of them pulled their hats and masks down tightly. Despite this, surprisingly, a few people recognized Lee Hyun-muk….
Photos were being taken from all over, but Lee Hyun-muk seemed unfazed, as if he had experienced this many times before. Meanwhile, Yohan’s face was also photographed a few times, but the people who checked the photos were all bewildered. Their companion’s face was strangely shadowed, so dark that his features were almost indistinguishable.
After shopping, they returned to the office building. The house, still quite unfamiliar, now had a lived-in atmosphere, unlike when they had first moved in. The two fumbled through cooking while looking at recipes found online, and eventually, they ate the somewhat imperfectly tasting food with enjoyment. They argued over who would do the dishes, neither willing to back down, until Lee Hyun-muk ended up doing the dishes while Yohan cut fruit.
After opening and fiddling with the survival bag, they sat on the sofa side-by-side watching the news, and Yohan, with his cheeks flushed, chattered,
“This is my first time dating someone seriously like this. Or living together.”
“This is my first time too.”
“That sounds like a lie….”
Yohan muttered suspiciously, scanning Lee Hyun-muk from head to toe. In his opinion, someone with Lee Hyun-muk’s handsome face, good physique, and kind personality would find it stranger not to have a lover.
“Am I your first boyfriend?”
“You’re the first cute boyfriend I’ve had.”
“Eek!”
At the cheesy words, Yohan shrieked and moved away, only to return to Lee Hyun-muk a moment later. Then, pretending not to notice, he sat very close to Lee Hyun-muk, pretending to focus on the news again. No, there was no need to pretend. Shocking news was about to break.
“…Park Seung-min joined the Sunrise Guild?”
“So he did.”
The government had contracted the High-level Awakener Park Seung-min, sending him to the number one guild in the country, Sunrise, and stated that similar benefits could be offered to other allied guilds. Yohan’s eyes widened as he said,
“Wow. So now people who are about to go bankrupt have banded together nicely?”
In the news footage, Go Jae-won and Park Seung-min stood side-by-side, smiling brightly under the reporters’ spotlights. Even as he watched them, Lee Hyun-muk simply smiled leisurely. Unlike his other teammates, he didn’t show overt hatred towards Go Jae-won, but Yohan felt bothered anyway and changed the channel. Then he made an excuse,
“Because I don’t like looking at Park Seung-min.”
This was partly true. Coincidentally, a variety show was airing on one channel, and as he watched it with Lee Hyun-muk, a thought suddenly occurred to him. Leaving work together, shopping, cooking, watching TV together…. This ordinary daily life felt so precious and cherished. If he, who had only spent a year in the Abyss, felt this way, how much more deeply would the other person be moved?
Thinking so, Yohan’s nose suddenly felt a prickle, and he turned his head to the side, burying his nose in Lee Hyun-muk’s chest. Lee Hyun-muk’s hand gently stroked the back of Yohan’s head.
‘Oh, but… the smell is so good.’
Unconsciously, Yohan buried his nose deeper and inhaled the scent. Surely, Lee Hyun-muk and he used the same body wash, so why did it smell so good? Moreover, being like this, he felt his body stir, as expected of someone in their twenties. Yohan glanced up, and Lee Hyun-muk, sensing his gaze, quickly lowered his head and asked,
“What is it, Yohan-ah?”
“Nothing….”
While mumbling “nothing,” Yohan slyly placed his hand on Lee Hyun-muk’s thigh. He wanted to set the mood, but everything felt awkward and stiff, so he gave up and, like a cat climbing onto the hearth, plopped himself onto his lap.
“Um….”
Having climbed onto his lap, Yohan was at a loss, hesitating.
Considering the time they had been dating Lee Hyun-muk, it had been over half a year. However, they were always accompanied by others, so physical contact, let alone kissing, was often limited to pecks, especially after coming from the Abyss. Perhaps because of this, even after they had been intimate once, Yohan still felt awkward, unfamiliar, and endlessly shy about this.
As if reading Yohan’s mind, Lee Hyun-muk’s eyebrows relaxed, and he smiled. He reached out and pulled Yohan closer to him. Then, to Yohan’s surprised wide eyes, he gently asked,
“Will you kiss me?”
Yohan swallowed dryly and leaned forward. He carefully pressed his lips onto Lee Hyun-muk’s. He could feel the corners of his partner’s lips turn up in a smile.
Stroking his stiffening lover’s waist, Lee Hyun-muk licked between his closed lips with his tongue. He slowly traced the soft, yielding upper and lower lips with his tongue tip. As he persistently licked only the gap between their lips, Yohan, unable to resist, opened his mouth.
Lee Hyun-muk’s tongue plunged in as if it had been waiting. Without going too deep, it sweetly licked the particularly soft part inside his lips, up and down, then gently sucked. Slurp, smack… As wet sounds filled the air, Yohan’s ears began to turn red.
“Mmm….”
Lost in the kiss, Yohan closed his eyes. In doing so, he didn’t notice Lee Hyun-muk’s unusually dark and deep shadow completely covering his own. He was simply completely engrossed in his lover. Unconsciously, his hands went up to Lee Hyun-muk’s shoulders, pressing his body even closer.
Kissing is this good. This time, without any worries or concerns, he could peacefully and warmly focus on his partner’s warmth and breath…. Tongues intertwined through their parted lips. Their lips met and separated, then playfully rubbed and sucked again. Sometimes, he inserted his tongue a little too deeply, and other times, as if nothing had happened, he just gently licked their lips repeatedly.
During the long, drawn-out kiss, Yohan’s body gradually grew warm. The laughter of the studio audience from the variety show sounded infinitely distant. As Lee Hyun-muk’s hands, which had been caressing his shoulders and waist, moved forward, Yohan flinched.
While continuously kissing and meeting his gaze, Lee Hyun-muk unbuckled Yohan’s pants. He nuzzled Yohan’s cheeks, ears, and neck with his lips, then unzipped them with a zzzzzip. Yohan trembled and looked at Lee Hyun-muk’s hands with expectant eyes, then swallowed dryly.
Lee Hyun-muk lightly lifted Yohan with one arm and removed his pants and underwear. Then, as he gently cupped his lover’s noticeably hard erection in his hand during their kiss, Yohan held his breath. Just that was enough to make him unable to contain his joy, and he leaned into Lee Hyun-muk as if collapsing.
“Hyun-mook, Hyung, I like it… I like you.”
Yohan clumsily mimicked the caresses he had received, kissing Lee Hyun-muk’s cheeks and neck. As Lee Hyun-muk began to move his hand, Yohan buried his face in his shoulder and wriggled his feet. Despite spending so long in the Abyss, his soft fingers and palms, free of calluses, rubbed against the glans and shaft. He squeezed and moved with just the right amount of pressure.
“Ah, ah….”
Yohan gasped, overwhelmed by how good it felt to have his lover touch him. Just a little more, just a little more…. He was urging silently when Lee Hyun-muk stopped his hand. Yohan let out a sound of disappointment.
“…Why?”
Lee Hyun-muk chuckled at Yohan’s desperate action of rubbing his legs together with his own, and said gently,
“I want to see you do it yourself.”
“By myself…?”
Yohan’s face turned bright red. He wanted to see him do it by himself? Wasn’t it already not by himself the moment he accepted Lee Hyun-muk’s hand? Hesitating, Yohan eventually moved his hips, chasing the pleasure. Moaning softly, he rubbed himself into Lee Hyun-muk’s cupped palm.
“Yes, that’s right….”
He kept encouraging him, saying he was doing well. Panting heavily, Yohan thrust himself repeatedly into Lee Hyun-muk’s hand. The glans pushed against the inside of his little finger, poking Lee Hyun-muk’s lower abdomen. Yohan’s eyes became a little moist from embarrassment. But even that embarrassment was converted into arousal, and he rapidly surged towards climax.
“Ah…!”
Yohan gasped for breath in a hurry, his body stiffening, and soon, semen was scattered messily on Lee Hyun-muk’s abdomen and palm. Glancing at it, Yohan scrambled to find tissues and stood up. Or, he tried to stand up. If Lee Hyun-muk hadn’t simply lifted Yohan and thrown him onto the sofa.
“Where are you going, Yohan-ah?”
“No, I need to wipe myself first… Ah! No!”
Seeing his partner lick the bodily fluid from his palm, Yohan screamed. Even when Yohan tried to hold his wrist to stop him, Lee Hyun-muk licked it clean without hesitation and smiled with twinkling eyes. He cast a dark shadow over the crestfallen Yohan and said,
“It’s okay for now. It’s going to get a lot dirtier after this anyway.”