By Zephyria 
My mind is hazy.
I wanted to indulge in this sweet slumber a little longer, but a creaking sound kept disturbing my sleep. When I opened my eyes, feeling my body sway, Vasily was still moving his hips above me.
“Ugh! What is— ngh…”
Before I could even process the scene unfolding before my eyes, I reached a climax as he pierced my deepest spot. Overwhelmed by the peak sweeping through my entire body, I threw my head back and trembled violently.
The sensation of ejaculation filled me to the brim, but nothing more came from my member. It simply twitched and spasmed miserably.
By the time my mind, which had gone stark white, returned to normal, my eyes met Vasily’s as he swept his silver hair back.
He gave a thin, smiling squint of his eyes and casually offered a morning greeting.
“Are you awake?”
“W-what on earth are you doing… ngh…”
“Guide Kwon Gi-dam-ssi seemed tired and fell asleep, so I was receiving guiding without waking you.”
“I didn’t fall asleep, I fainted…”
My entire body aches from how much he played with me while I was unconscious. I could clearly envision a future of suffering from muscle pain for a while.
“Move…”
I pushed Vasily away with trembling arms. It was a laughably weak force, but he moved off me easily.
As Vasily withdrew, his member slid out from below. As the hole, unable to close, fluttered, the semen that had filled the inside trickled down.
Struggling to sit up, I noticed my lower abdomen was a mess of wetness. Since what was flowing between my buttocks was likely Vasily’s semen, the stuff wetting my stomach… must be the unidentified fluids I had released.
I almost died of pleasure in my sleep… no, I almost died of exhaustion. Is he determined to wear me down to death?
Looking down at my body, damp with sweat and bodily fluids, I muttered to myself.
“Just how much did you do…”
“Continuously since Guide Kwon Gi-dam-ssi fell asleep?”
“…I can tell just by looking.”
Knock, knock.
Just then, the sound of knocking cut through the quiet hospital room. Vasily’s and my gazes turned toward the door simultaneously.
“Esper Vasily-nim, it’s time for the morning rounds.”
It’s the Attending Physician.
The moment I recognized the owner of the voice, the door rattled. Fortunately, thanks to the thick layer of ice covering it, the misfortune of the door swinging open didn’t occur.
“Esper Vasily-nim, are you alright?”
However, it was too early to be relieved. The door continued to shake, and the worried voice followed incessantly. I hurriedly pushed Vasily’s back and whispered quietly.
“Put your clothes on, quickly…”
“You want to end it already? I’m still not satisfied.”
“I’ll keep guiding you once we get home, so just put on your pants first!”
He hurriedly picked up the clothes fallen beneath the bed, put them on, and lay back down. When I signaled to Vasily, who was now wearing only pants, that he could release his ability, the ice began to crack and shattered in an instant.
Soon the door opened, and the Attending Physician stepped cautiously into the room.
“Ah, you’ve regained cons—”
The Attending Physician froze the moment he stepped inside. The moment I noticed his bewildered gaze shifting between me and Vasily, I realized it too.
Our positions have swapped…
I was the one lying in bed, and Vasily, the owner of the room, was sitting perfectly fine beside me. I had taken over the bed while the person actually wearing the patient gown was standing next to me.
My body was aching all over, so I must have instinctively lain in the bed. It’s strange that Vasily didn’t question it once and just quietly let me lie there while he stood beside me.
I wanted to pull my hair out and demand an explanation from Vasily, but I didn’t have the luxury right now. First, I had to explain myself to the Attending Physician.
“Ah, no… this is just because I was a bit tired…”
I tried to get up belatedly, but my waist felt like a loose screw, lacking any strength. Seeing me unable to lift my body while trembling, Vasily spoke.
“As you can see, the patient changed overnight.”
“Ah, you received guiding. How is your injury?”
“Of course, it’s all healed.”
Vasily showed his perfectly fine shoulder to the Attending Physician and conversed nonchalantly. I pulled the blanket up, trying my best to hide my flushing face.
“We just need to remove the sutures. Could you follow me for a moment?”
“I will.”
Vasily nodded and stood up. Then, as he looked back at me with a gaze suggesting I come along, I waved my hand.
“Please go ahead. I’ll stay here.”
“You’ll wait patiently, right?”
“I’m not going anywhere. In this state, do you think I can even walk?”
“That’s true.”
Vasily’s gaze dropped toward the gap in my open collar. I cleared my throat quietly and straightened my clothes. Despite having just shared our bodies, a sudden wave of embarrassment washed over me.
“I’ll be back.”
Vasily lightly stroked my hair and left the room. Left alone, I looked around the quiet hospital room and let out a shallow sigh.
There were times when Vasily, showing such a tender side, felt unfamiliar, but he was definitely the same person as in the past.
If we had understood each other a bit sooner before the regression, would our future have been different? Knowing it was a useless hypothesis now, I still imagined it.
The reason I couldn’t easily answer the words he whispered just before collapsing was likely because I, too, had vaguely noticed it. The fact that the emotion of hating him had, at some point, mutated into something entirely different.
If we keep spending time together, will the day come when I can reveal my heart? I don’t know when it will be, but if I stay with him…
While lost in thought, the door opened and Vasily returned.
“Is it over already?”
“I came back immediately after removing the stitches.”
As he opened the door and entered, his shoulder, now clean without a single scar, was the first thing in my sight. On those broad, firm shoulders, there was no trace left of the injury.
It seems he’s completely fine now. But… why is he still not wearing a top? I asked him with a skeptical expression.
“Did you come all the way here like that?”
“I already threw my clothes away, and they said there were no spare patient gowns.”
He’s not some exhibitionist… I shook my head, imagining Vasily roaming the hospital half-naked in the middle of winter.
Anyway, this level of cold would be nothing to Vasily. I watched as he nonchalantly approached and sat on the edge of the bed, then I spoke.
“Vasily Kairov.”
Startled by his name being called, Vasily widened his eyes and looked at me. He wiped the smile from his face and asked.
“Are you angry?”
“…? No.”
“Then why call me like that?”
Vasily asked back in a low, sunken voice. I was equally flustered because it wasn’t the reaction I expected.
“We’ve been together for a long time… and you said the title ‘Esper-nim’ was too stiff, so I called you by your name. Do you not like it?”
“Who calls someone by their full name? It’s not like we had a marital spat.”
“What do you mean, marital spat… then, Vasily.”
Only when I called him without the surname did the corners of Vasily’s mouth lift.
“You told me your nickname last time, too. What about that?”
“I refuse.”
I rejected it flatly. I could call him that, but I wasn’t used to Vasily’s reaction—the way he would look at me as if I were adorable for using a nickname.
Even now, just by calling his name, Vasily clung to me in delight. As expected, this side of him was still unfamiliar and hard to adjust to.
Vasily wrapped his arms around my waist and began to nuzzle. I gently pushed him away and spoke.
“You may also call me by my name instead of ‘Guide Kwon Gi-dam-ssi’.”
Vasily paused. He slowly lifted his head and looked at me with an expression even more surprised than when I had mentioned his name.
I stealthily avoided his gaze, which seemed to be peering into my heart.
“Gi-dam.”
A voice filled with joy. At the two syllables of my name flowing from his lips, a corner of my chest tingled.
“Gi-dam. Look at me.”
Drawn by the low whisper brushing against my ear, I slowly turned my head and met the eyes of a brightly smiling Vasily. It was the first time I had seen him with such a happy expression, so I unconsciously held my breath.
I must have been making a pathetic face, but Vasily didn’t mock or tease me; he simply stroked my cheek gently.
Our lips overlapped. A cold, soft tongue carefully licked my tense lips before slowly parting them and entering inside.
“Ngh…”
“Haa…”
My body was lightly pressed down, and I fell back onto the blanket. A palm slid inside my clothes, bluntly groping my waist.
Recognizing the intent in his fingertips, I hurriedly pushed his shoulders away.
“Wait… no more.”
He seemed poised to cling persistently, but perhaps because he was in a good mood, Vasily let go surprisingly easily. He asked with a slight curl of his lips.
“Want to go home? We should continue what we were doing earlier.”
“…Understood. There should be spare clothes in the private room, so it would be best for you to stop by the association first and get dressed.”
Although we left the hospital room, Vasily’s shirtless state weighed on my mind. Since I had also thrown away my outer clothes contaminated with blood, I had nothing to give him to wear.
A shirtless Vasily. And me, unable to put strength in my legs and unable to walk without his support. Thinking of this utterly mismatched combination, I stealthily stepped backward.
“Wait… it’s a bit embarrassing, so would you mind going alone? I’ll wait here.”
“I don’t want to. We agreed to go together. Are you suddenly changing your mind?”
“Ugh… you’re heavy…”
Vasily playfully leaned his weight on me. Though I staggered, unable to withstand his heavy body, a laugh escaped me involuntarily.
Laughing, I bickered with Vasily in the middle of the hallway. To the eyes of other people walking nearby, we probably looked like crazy people, but I didn’t care and continued the scuffle.
Suddenly, Vasily reached out and hugged me tightly. He murmured quietly, as if happy.
“You’re warm.”
I felt his cool body temperature through the clothes. As I shared my warmth with him, my own body gradually cooled, but strangely, my heart grew warm.
Yes, it was just like…
As if spring had come.
I hadn’t pictured a future with Vasily, but I had never imagined a future without him either.
In the future, Vasily and I will likely clash over every little thing, and there will be no quiet days. Because our backgrounds are so different, we might fight, unable to understand each other.
Still… if it’s with Vasily, it might not be so bad.
Looking at Gi-dam, who was lost in thought, Vasily walked beside him, matching his pace.
The sunlight seeping through the window brightly illuminated the path the two were walking.
[The Ice Castle’s Guide – END]