By Zephyria 
There was also the issue of his body temperature dropping, and he needed to loosen his clothes to breathe easier, even just a little. He was breathing again, but that didn’t mean Aegis’s condition had improved.
He had to get him out quickly and take him to a physician.
First, he would take off his wet clothes, put on his outer robe that he had taken off before entering the water, and then take him out…
“……?”
He paused while peeling off the layers of clothes stuck to Aegis’s body like a shell, soaked and heavy.
Actually, he had been able to see his flat chest slightly from earlier, but he couldn’t afford to pay attention to such things in this urgent situation. He only had the thought of quickly removing these wet clothes, putting his clothes on Aegis, and taking him out.
“……”
It wasn’t his first time seeing someone naked. He wasn’t so insensible as to blush and panic just because he saw something like that in this situation.
“……No, why……”
But this was different.
“This is……”
It was hard to see clearly because it was hidden by the wet clothes, but…… it was just hard to see, not that he couldn’t tell that something that shouldn’t be there was there.
He froze stiffly, blinking, then lowered the cloth he was holding and looked at her. Aegis’s closed eyes were as beautiful and pale as a wax doll made by a master craftsman over a lifetime.
“……”
He stared blankly at Aegis, then gasped and averted his gaze. He lifted the cloth he was holding and looked inside.
“Why is this here?”
He was shocked to see something that should never be between her legs, then looked up. He was flustered, but he didn’t want to keep looking at someone else’s private parts, so he was about to cover it up again.
“……”
“……”
Aegis, who had been closing his eyes with long, white eyelashes until just now, was looking at him. Aegis’s gaze, staring at him with red eyes like wet rubies, moved downwards.
Following her gaze, he saw his hand holding the wet cloth over his lower body.
“……No.”
“……”
“Um……”
“……”
He dropped the cloth with a flustered expression, picked up the outer robe that had fallen to the floor, and covered her naked lower body. Then, looking at Aegis, he said carefully in a trembling voice.
“You were lying about liking men.”
“……”
“I like women……”
“……”
He swore to the heavens that he was being sincere, but Aegis’s eyes were growing increasingly murderous.
Aegis, who had been holding the sword he had placed next to him to cut his palm earlier, swung his arm towards him in an instant. The sharp blade stopped just short of cutting his neck.
In fact, he could have avoided it if he wanted to, but he knew that he wasn’t swinging it with the intention of killing him, so he simply raised his arms to his sides and stood still.
“What are you?”
Aegis’s voice was much hoarser and weaker than usual. Moreover, his focus was blurred, as if he hadn’t fully regained his senses yet.
“What do you mean, what am I? I’m your husband.”
“You perverted bastard.”
“I know what you’re thinking, but it’s a misunderstanding.”
At his words, Aegis frowned and turned his head. Then, he flinched as he looked at the man sprawled out in a miserable state.
“Is he dead?”
“He’s not dead. But can you put the sword down? I rescued you from drowning, and this is what I get?”
“That’s because you…… Wait.”
Aegis, who was about to say something, widened his eyes and dropped the sword he was holding. He looked at the sword that had fallen to the floor with a clang for a moment, then looked at Aegis with a puzzled expression.
“Why? Are you not feeling well?”
“You……”
Aegis’s face was gradually turning into a crying face. Seeing his pained expression, he lowered his arms and approached him. Then, Aegis picked up the sword again and pointed it at him.
“You stopped breathing earlier.”
“Get away from me!”
“Okay, let’s get out of here first.”
“Let go of me!”
He answered Aegis’s words casually, grabbed his arm, and stood him up. But he couldn’t stand properly, staggering like a newborn animal, as if he had no strength in his body.
He snatched the sword, which he was waving around like a harmless wooden skewer, and threw it far away. He had no choice but to pick up Aegis.
“What did you do to me……”
“Let’s talk about it again after we get out of here.”
“No……”
“I’m telling you, you really weren’t breathing?”
He sighed and was about to move his legs when Aegis’s condition seemed strange. Of course, he couldn’t be in good condition after going through such an ordeal, but it was something different from that.
When he lowered his head, he saw that Aegis’s already pale face had become excessively pale. Aegis’s body was trembling, and he was biting his lip with his eyes closed, as if he didn’t even have the strength to speak.
“Is it hard to breathe?”
He asked in a worried voice at the increasingly rapid breathing, and Aegis opened his eyes. He didn’t know if it was his imagination, but Aegis’s eyes seemed to be even darker than before.
“To me……”
“It wasn’t me, it was them.”
“What, what did you feed me……”
“Huh?”
“Ugh……”
As if he couldn’t bear it any longer, a groan began to escape from Aegis’s mouth. The trembling of his body also became more and more severe, and the places he touched became hot, as if he had a fever.
“What’s wrong? Are you in a lot of pain?”
“Ugh, ugh…… Hng.”
“I’m going to get you out of here right now……”
He was about to readjust Aegis and move his steps. He heard a sobbing sound in his ear.
“Hic……”
“……”
“Hic, hic……”
“……”
The sound grew louder and turned into crying. With a pale face, he put Aegis back down on the floor for the time being. Aegis, who had collapsed on the floor almost lying down because he couldn’t stand properly, grabbed his chest and curled up into a ball.
“Aegis.”
He called his name with a flustered face, but all he heard was a sob mixed with a groan.
“Where does it hurt? Can’t you breathe?”
He reached out and carefully shook his shoulder, and Aegis said with difficulty, crying.
“It hurts.”
“Where? Where does it hurt?”
“It hurts…… Hic, it hurts. It hurts.”
“Does your chest hurt?”
He knelt down on the floor and asked, leaning his head towards Aegis’s face.
“Does your stomach hurt? Where does it hurt?”
When he asked again, Aegis slowly raised his head. His face, which had turned pale in that short time, was clearly that of a patient. Aegis, who was crying so hard that his body was shaking, his face covered with sweat or tears, squeezed his eyes shut, and tears fell in drops.
“I’ll carry you. I’ll move as carefully as possible, so please bear with it for a little while. We can go to the doctor as soon as we get out.”
He reached out his hand to Aegis, who was crouching and trembling. But Aegis just kept crying with his eyes closed. The sound was so painful and difficult to hear that he began to feel anxious.
“We can’t do anything here.”
“Hic, hng…… Hic.”
“I’m just going to carry you, so please bear with it for a little while. Okay? I’m going to pick you up?”
He reached out his hand as slowly as possible so as not to startle him, and a groan that seemed painful erupted again. It seemed too difficult to move, so he thought he might have suffered an external injury.
But he was fine until just now? Did he lose consciousness and become dull, and then gradually feel the pain?
“I’m moving?”
“Ha……”
At his words, Aegis breathed heavily and wrapped his arms around his neck. He paused for a moment because his chest suddenly fluttered at the small force wrapping around his neck. He frowned and stood there for a moment, but Aegis wriggled and began to hug him even more deeply.
“……”
Slender fingers touched his shoulder and slid weakly down, and warm breath touched his nape. The moment he stopped breathing as goosebumps rose on his back, he felt a stinging, small pain.
“……”
“……”
It was the place where he had been slightly cut when Aegis had pointed the sword at him earlier. He was frozen like a stone with Aegis in his arms when he felt the stinging pain again.
“……”
“……”
Again.
“……”
“……”
And again.
“……What are you doing?”
“……”
Aegis was licking the wound like a puppy. Goosebumps rose all over his body, and he even got hives.
Lick.
“S, stop it.”
Lick, lick.
“D, don’t do it……”
He finally put Aegis down on the floor quickly and safely, and had no choice but to step back ten steps. He covered the nape of his neck, which Aegis had licked a little while ago, with his hand and looked at Aegis, who was lying on the floor.
“What’s wrong? Are you crazy?”
“Hic……”
“No…… I mean, we can’t do anything here, can we? We need to get out quickly to get better.”
Looking at Aegis, who was sobbing in a painful voice, he was flustered and chattering.
“You can’t even walk by yourself. Just stay still unless you’re going to crawl. Okay?”
“Hic…… Hng, hng……”
The crying grew louder and became more and more sorrowful. It sounded like a child crying, so he cautiously approached Aegis.
“No, I’m not angry…… It’s just that if you suddenly do that while I’m holding you, I might lose strength in my arms…… Then it’s dangerous……”
“Hic, hic…… Hic, it hurts……”
“……”
“It hurts, it hurts…… It hurts, hic, it hurts.”
Aegis lowered his head and curled up into a ball, and began to cry out loud again. At first glance, he looked like a child throwing a tantrum, but the sound was so sad and painful that he was more worried than bewildered.
He finally approached Aegis again and placed his hand on his trembling back.
“So let’s get out of here quickly.”
“Hic, hic……”
“I’m not angry, really. I’m going to carry you, so stay still. Okay?”
“Just a moment……”
He reached out his arms to pick him up, but Aegis shook his head.
“Why?”
“J, just a moment, just…… Hic, hic. Jus……”
“Does it hurt to move?”
He couldn’t force Aegis to hug him because he looked so painful. In the worst case, he had no choice but to leave Aegis alone for a while and go out to get a doctor.
But is it really the right choice to leave Aegis alone in this place, in this condition?
He was about to reach out his hand again to try one more time when he suddenly saw a long, thin scratch on Aegis’s arm. Several lines of scratches, like fingernail marks, were on top of the Sealing Magic wrapped around his white arm.
“Hic……”
It wasn’t hard to tell that the scratches were made by setting his fingers like hooks to peel it off, scratching his arm several times, and scratching it again.
“Ah, hic……”
“……”
“S, save me……”
“……”
Aegis reached out his injured arm to him. The approaching hand was very slow and excessively trembling and weak, but he couldn’t avoid it.
Aegis, who was sitting on the floor, grabbed his shoulder and raised his upper body, came between his legs and hugged him. Then, he slowly straightened his back and buried his face in his neck.
He felt his lips touching the nape of his neck, which he had licked a little while ago. He reflexively grabbed Aegis’s shoulders, but he couldn’t push him away. He squeezed his eyes shut and stopped breathing at the sound of him licking again.
Aegis licked his neck a few times and suddenly bared his teeth. As if taking a bite, he put the flesh of his neck in his mouth and bit it without hurting him.
He chewed a few times as if he was gauging it, and at some point, the biting force became stronger. At first, it was bearable, but now it was starting to hurt so much that he couldn’t stand it anymore.
His neck felt hot, so it seemed like he was chewing so hard that he was bleeding. Perhaps because he had been bitten in so many places, the pain he felt in his neck was gradually spreading to his face and shoulders.
He frowned and seriously thought about why he was doing this, but he couldn’t bear it any longer and pushed Aegis’s shoulders away.
“How long……”
He was about to ask how long he was going to do this, but he had no choice but to shut his mouth the moment his eyes met.
“……”
“……”
Aegis, who had smeared his mouth with bright red blood, looked down at him with dark red eyes.