“Wait…the barrier comes fi—” Aresh broke their lips apart to say, only for Seiichirou to glare at him balefully.
He brought his mouth to Aresh’s ear, and…
“Ow—?!”
More shocked than actually pained by having his ear bitten, Aresh could only gaze up at Seiichirou.
“I’m saying I can’t wait.”
Lust brimmed in those narrowed, insolent eyes. In the face of such naked desire, Aresh summoned all his strength as a knight to lift both himself and Seiichirou off the chair.
“Whoa?!” Seiichirou yelped as Aresh hurled him onto the bed. He didn’t even have time to voice a complaint.
Aresh climbed onto the bed too and ripped off his shirt. Then he stripped Seiichirou of his outer garments, pressing their bodies together the moment his shirt was off.
“You’ve lost weight again…,” Aresh grumbled between panting breaths.
“Not that much, surely,” Seiichirou answered sullenly as his hands trailed over Aresh. As always, his partner’s body was slender and muscular.
Aresh’s large hand tracing Seiichirou’s skin was already sticky with sweat. As their lips met incessantly, Aresh’s hand stroked Seiichirou’s chest, making a jolt run through his entire body.
“Ah…!”
As if to confirm something to himself, Aresh pressed his thumb against Seiichirou’s nipples. Then, before Seiichirou knew it, Aresh’s hands were around his wrists, and it was his turn to have his ear licked.
“Ngh… Guh…”
Unlike Seiichirou, Aresh seemed to be in clear control of himself even as he continued his gentle ministrations. Seiichirou lifted his hips, still not ready to go out without a fight.
“Hey…”
Feeling the proof of Seiichirou’s arousal brushing against his body, Aresh’s expression changed. A satisfied smile flitted across Seiichirou’s face, only for Aresh to immediately crush their lips together, stopping his breath short.
Seiichirou tumbled to his side, and Aresh used his legs to pin him in place as he stroked Seiichirou’s chest and crotch at the same time. The kisses kept raining down on him. A moan threatened to leave Seiichirou’s throat, though he suppressed it. For all his physical inferiority, today was the one day he did not want Aresh taking the lead.
Unfortunately for him, Aresh chanted a spell between his kisses, and the magic made Seiichirou’s head spin.
“I told you…to do that later…” Seiichirou tried to object, but Aresh was having none of it.
“You’ll just faint if I keep going without it,” he insisted as he took off Seiichirou’s shoes and pressed their bodies together.
Aresh did have a point, but Seiichirou felt like gnashing his teeth—he wanted to be fully conscious from start to finish this time. Ah, but…
Aresh’s song-like chant.
His beautiful, husky voice.
His magical power, flowing through Seiichirou.
“…This is so unfair…”
All of it made Seiichirou’s mind melt. Perhaps part of it was because of the synergy he had with the man who had saved his life.
The suspension bridge effect.
Imprinting.
Regardless of what it was, it all came down to Aresh himself. He was the one who saved Seiichirou’s life. Who continued to care about his health. Who got annoyingly insistent about Seiichirou’s bad habits. Who respected the man’s thoughts and feelings. Whose endless concern gave him a tendency to get stuck in his own head and act on his own. Who was so fatally clumsy with words. Who was quick to get huffy and pout.
Aresh. It was all Aresh.
Seiichirou did not love Aresh because Aresh loved him. That wasn’t the extent of it. This capable yet clumsy man was so deeply adorable that it was impossible not to love him.
Such feelings belonged to Seiichirou alone.
“Ah! Ah! Aahhh!”
Sweet moans escaped Seiichirou’s lips every time he experienced a thrust from behind.
The barrier and healing spells were already in place. In other words, their bodies were joining again and again in earnest. Yet Aresh’s energy never flagged. Likewise, Seiichirou should have been experiencing magic-sickness from the healing, but he never once lost consciousness.
The sheets were drenched with sweat and a different kind of bodily fluid. Seiichirou wondered if an Egorovan maid would have to deal with this tomorrow.
“Ngh?!”
His drifting thoughts were interrupted by Aresh slamming powerfully into his deepest part.
“So…you can still think…”
Seiichirou felt Aresh’s arms wrap themselves around him.
“No…I…ngh…” As he trembled from the penetration, the breath caught in his throat and his answer died on his lips.
“…I’m close,” Aresh whispered into his ear.
His strong arms held Seiichirou in place, and then his heat filled Seiichirou completely.
“Ohhh… Ah…hah…”
As Seiichirou’s body trembled within Aresh’s embrace, he felt as if the man’s breath was also flowing into his ear.
“Haaah…hah…”
It took a long time for Aresh to finish his release. As he accepted it all, Seiichirou began to feel the onset of magic-sickness along with the fatigue of his overtaxed mind and body. He looked up hazily, and the man above him gazed back with gleaming eyes.
In a way, I…feel like I’ve come home to Romany, a part of Seiichirou thought as he languidly curled up against Aresh’s shoulder.