By Zephyria 
94
Ho-eun’s ears subtly reddened at that.
“No, it’s not, is it? Then please let go of my foot. It’s uncomfortable.”
Holding up one leg while sitting was a first for him. His inner thighs throbbed, and his lower back ached from the unfamiliar position. And yet.
“If I let go.”
Tae-muk said something cryptic.
“Yes?”
Ho-eun waited for the rest of the sentence.
“……”
But Tae-muk remained silent. Ho-eun blinked, trying to guess what would follow. If I let go… If I let go… What could possibly come after that? ‘What will you do for me if I let go?’ That seemed the most likely, didn’t it?
“……”
Ho-eun glanced at Tae-muk’s upper body. The smaller, shallower wounds seemed to have disappeared, but the larger ones remained. It seemed holding hands or feet wasn’t enough to heal them. Which meant a more intimate act was needed…
‘Before I go crazy and pin you down, it’d be easier for you if you did what you need to do.’
Tae-muk’s earlier words came to mind. Doing ‘what needs to be done’ before Tae-muk ‘goes crazy.’ ‘What needs to be done.’ That ‘what needs to be done’ had to be something that was appropriate for both Tae-muk and himself. Holding hands wasn’t enough for Tae-muk, and receiving him with his buttocks was too much for him. So, an act in between would be…
As if calculating a math problem, Ho-eun finally came up with an answer after a long delay, adding and subtracting acts.
“Shall we… kiss?”
“……”
At that moment, Tae-muk’s chest swelled. His wounds opened, and blood trickled out, but Tae-muk didn’t care in the slightest. He pretended to ponder something, then nodded.
“Not bad.”
He released Ho-eun’s foot just like that. His foot splashed into the water. Ho-eun, unprepared, almost fell backward again. As he floundered like a grasshopper, Tae-muk grabbed his arm and steadied him, looking disgusted.
“Ahem…”
Ho-eun cleared his throat unnecessarily. He cupped water in his hands to wash his face and tucked his disheveled hair behind his ears. Then, he swallowed once and raised his head toward Tae-muk’s lips.
“……”
Because of the height difference, their lips didn’t meet. Even with his neck stretched out, his lips only hovered around Tae-muk’s Adam’s apple. It would be nice if Tae-muk lowered his head. But judging from the subtle smile on his face, he had no intention of helping. Ho-eun sighed deeply.
“E-excuse me.”
He carefully placed his hands on Tae-muk’s shoulders. His shoulders were so broad that he couldn’t even grasp them fully with one hand. But they were firm, perfect for using as support.
Ho-eun held onto Tae-muk’s shoulders with his hands, braced his knees against his thighs, and carefully raised himself. Only after rising halfway could he finally look him in the eye.
“Then… I-I’ll kiss you now.”
Ho-eun unnecessarily asked for permission politely. Then, he squeezed his eyes shut and moved toward Tae-muk’s lips. Soon, their lips met with a firm press. It was just a touch, literally.
“……”
Ho-eun pressed his lips together, took three breaths—softly, softly, softly—and then pulled back. Then, he looked at Tae-muk with sparkling eyes. How was it? All done? All healed now? That was the expression he wore.
Tae-muk scoffed in disbelief at that.
“That’s it?”
“……Yes?”
“Is that all?”
“Um… S-shall we do it again?”
Ho-eun asked back with an innocent face. At that sight, Tae-muk let out a frustrated breath. Then, he abruptly grabbed Ho-eun’s chin and pulled him closer, shoving his index finger into his small mouth.
Ho-eun twisted his head at the unexpected action, but Tae-muk firmly gripped his chin and successively shoved his middle finger in as well.
“Hmph…”
Ho-eun stared at Tae-muk with wide eyes. Tae-muk stirred Ho-eun’s mouth roughly and said,
“I think I said it before.”
“……Mph?”
“I was born low, so I like vulgar things.”
“……”
“A kiss like that can’t satisfy my worn-out body or my lust.”
Tae-muk pressed down on Ho-eun’s tongue with his index and middle fingers, and sometimes lifted his tongue like chopsticks. Whenever he touched the root of his tongue, Ho-eun gagged as if he were about to vomit, which Tae-muk enjoyed, so he deliberately inserted his fingers deeper.
Ho-eun, so skinny, yet with a plump tongue, seemed so lewd and cheap at the same time. Like a tongue made to be subjected to such things. It was the vulgarity that Tae-muk loved.
Tae-muk rummaged through, stirred up, and mixed Ho-eun’s mouth recklessly. Each time, sounds of splashing, smacking, and clicking echoed incessantly. Ho-eun’s back arched at the embarrassing sounds.
“Hngh, uh, ooh…”
He shook his head, as if telling him to stop. When that didn’t work, he grabbed Tae-muk’s wrist and tried to pull his fingers out. But the wrist, thick from the bone, didn’t budge. So, this time, he tried to pull his head back.
“Just try to pull away. I’ll shove something else in.”
Tae-muk warned in a low voice.
“……”
Ho-eun froze. ‘Something else.’ It was a phrase that could mean many things, but unfortunately, Tae-muk’s genitals came to mind first. It was partly because he had taken his member into his mouth before, and partly because his stiff, erect member was poking at his groin.
Ho-eun, watching Tae-muk’s expression, wriggled the fingers that had been half-ejected back into his mouth. After all, if he had to choose between sucking on his member or his fingers, he would definitely choose the latter.
Tae-muk raised the corner of his lips as if he had expected it. Then, as if giving him a great opportunity, he said with a generous expression.
“Suck it. As vulgarly as possible.”
“……”
Vulgarly. Ho-eun chewed on Tae-muk’s fingers, pondering the word. But he couldn’t figure out what he had to do to be vulgar.
It wasn’t that he didn’t know what vulgarity was. Insulting parents, harming others, turning a blind eye to injustice, treating women and children carelessly—that was the vulgarity Ho-eun knew, but the vulgarity Tae-muk was talking about now didn’t seem to be that.
As Ho-eun looked at Tae-muk with a face that said he didn’t understand at all, that is, with the face of an upright scholar, Tae-muk chuckled. Then, he shook the fingers in Ho-eun’s mouth and said,
“Then just try sucking it.”
Only then did Ho-eun nod. He carefully held Tae-muk’s wrist with both hands and began to suck on the fingers in his mouth. He had sucked on it several times before, so he knew how to do it well.
Ho-eun pursed his lips, covered Tae-muk’s fingers, and tightened his mouth, sucking and slurping on his member.
“……”
Tae-muk’s eyebrows twitched. Ho-eun watched Tae-muk’s expression. He wondered if it wasn’t what he wanted, but judging from the fact that he didn’t tell him to stop, it seemed he had guessed correctly this time.
Feeling somehow excited, Ho-eun sucked on Tae-muk’s fingers even harder. He sucked so hard that his cheeks became hollow, his palate stiff, and his lips numb.
As he did so, his weak stamina quickly ran out. It was definitely easier than biting Tae-muk’s member, but it was still hard. He barely ate a few spoonfuls of rice because he had a small appetite, so how could sucking on fingers that didn’t produce anything be easy?
“……”
Ho-eun pondered for a moment with Tae-muk’s fingers full in his mouth. Then, he pulled his head back and spat out his fingers. Tae-muk’s brow furrowed immediately at that.
Lick.
Ho-eun licked Tae-muk’s fingers with his tongue. He licked from the base of the fingers to the tips, drawing his tongue up along the length. He spread his tongue wide and licked both fingers at once, and then licked them separately. Then, he sucked only on the fingertips, and then tilted his head slightly and licked the sides of his fingers.
Ho-eun was just doing as he had been taught. Tae-muk had taught him to suck his member like this. The fingers were just a different size, but they had the same long shape, so he thought he could suck them in a similar way.
Then, at some point, Ho-eun put his entire fingers back in his mouth and sucked them up.
“……”
Tae-muk exhaled sharply. The hot, dense breath touched Ho-eun’s eyelids. In the instant that Ho-eun fluttered his eyelashes and blinked.
Drip, drip, slurp.
Tae-muk’s fingers slipped out of his mouth. His lower lip, caught on the tips of his fingers, flipped inside out and then returned to normal.
In the empty mouth, Ho-eun unconsciously smacked his lips, and Tae-muk wrapped his hand around the back of Ho-eun’s head and pulled him toward himself. Ho-eun was helplessly pulled toward him. With the rough movement, the entire pool of water rippled at the same time.
“Hmph…”
Their lips met. Tae-muk immediately forced his tongue into Ho-eun’s mouth. Ho-eun’s mouth, which had been warmed by sucking on Tae-muk’s fingers with all his heart and soul, was hot. In addition, there was more saliva than usual, making it as moist and sticky as possible.
“Ha…”
Tae-muk’s eyes crinkled. The blood vessels in his entire body cheered in unison at the moment of contact with Ho-eun’s secret inner walls. His head, which had been throbbing as if it were melting from the rising heat, also cleared up. The pain disappeared, and lust took its place.
Tae-muk kept pulling on the back of Ho-eun’s head, savoring his mouth. Tongues rubbed together, and saliva intertwined. Their lips were pressed together so hard that they became flat. Occasionally, their teeth clacked, but Tae-muk continued the kiss without paying attention.