⚠ Content note for this chapter: explicit sexual content.
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Chapter 195
“Your Highness, it hurts… It’s so hot…”
Asad rubbed his cheek against Kinain’s chest. Tear tracks were left on the sweat-slicked chest. Kinain, exhausted from being relentlessly taken, was clearly weary, but he reached out and stroked Asad’s hair. A tender touch.
“Asad, you know this way can’t end it.” Even in the dream, you are right. Asad nodded. He was already beyond coherent thought. It felt as though the heat had melted his brain entirely.
“So let me help you.”
Asad shook his head hard, as if trying to shake off the voice clinging to his ear like melted sugar.
“No. I can endure.”
“Why must you endure?”
“Because I’d break you.”
Even in the moment when reason had vanished and only instinct remained, Asad knew that fact. As if engraved on his soul, he never forgot it. That he was a being who could hurt Kinain.
That was when the gentle hand stroking his hair stopped. Instead, Kinain gripped Asad’s hair hard and pulled it away from his chest.
At the unexpected action, Asad blinked blankly.
“Asad, listen.”
“Yes…”
“We’re imprinted, right?”
“Yes.”
“They say imprinting lets us share each other’s senses. It seems the imprint was very weak before, so it wasn’t like that, but since the wedding it’s grown stronger than before. You saw it too, didn’t you?”
“Yes.”
“So now, if I’m in pain, you can feel it. And conversely, if you’re in pain, I feel the pain. Like right now.”
Kinain’s words seeped into Asad very slowly.
“So now, to protect each other, we have to protect ourselves. Understand?”
“…Yes.”
“Then tell me.” Kinain opened his mouth.
“Asad, where are you right now?”
***
The wine Hwei gave him worked well.
Having a lucid dream was a strange sensation. The sensations were so vivid he could have mistaken it for reality — vivid enough that he nearly forgot his purpose for a moment.
Kinain rose unsteadily from the bed. His whole body was soaked in sweat. For some reason the heat felt far worse than in the morning. As if he’d wrapped himself in a thick blanket in midsummer? But the pain Asad was feeling must be far worse than this. His heart grew urgent.
Fortunately, he didn’t need to go far. Kinain headed for the back of the bedroom. He’d never paid it attention before, but the wall was engraved with various intaglio patterns. When he pressed the circular one, there was a click, and the wall opened like a door. Kinain sighed softly.
“To think it was this close.”
Thinking about it, it was only natural. Asad would never go far from him. He knew that even while pretending otherwise, Asad held him every night and checked his heartbeat. Just as Kinain couldn’t sleep with the lights off, Asad too still carried an unhealed wound.
Inside was like a cave. It had a similar feel to the place where Maira had been, though fortunately it wasn’t very dark.
The problem was the mist that grew thicker the further in he went.
Steam?’
When it grew so thick he couldn’t see a foot ahead, Kinain finally stopped. Fortunately for him, he had no need to go further. The moment he reached out to gauge the obstacle before him, he felt the touch of smooth scales.
“Asad, so you were here.”
Then something abruptly popped out of the white mist. It was a round head covered in silver scales. It resembled a snake, but had antler-like horns, and its two eyes were a sun-evoking gold. In the round, lake-like pupils, Kinain’s figure was reflected.
Kinain brought his hand to the dragon’s nose bridge. The touch was unmistakably scales, yet it was hot as a heated iron plate.
‘But why are you like this?’
Because in his true form, he couldn’t put himself inside Kinain. Kinain didn’t know that this was the last leash Asad had put on himself, but he could roughly guess what he meant by it.
“Won’t you change into another form now?
You don’t want to? Then what should I do.” Kinain gently stroked the nose bridge.
“Shall we just… do it like this?”
At that moment there was a splash, and water poured down over his head. Asad had struck the lake with his tail. Thanks to that, Kinain instantly looked like a drowned rat.
Only then did Kinain realize there was a lake here too. This steam was made where the heat coming off Asad met the lake water.
He seemed to have been trying to cool the heat here, but judging by the heat he felt, it didn’t seem to be much use.
It was only natural. There was only one way to stop this heat.
“Why did you splash water?”
No answer came back. Tilting his head, Kinain lifted the hem of his wet upper garment to wipe his face. A huge eye stared holes through him.
As Kinain was wringing the water from his clothes, suddenly a foot like that of a great bird of prey shot out of the mist and lightly seized him.
“What…”
Before he could finish, Kinain was dunked into the water. The water was shallow — only up to his waist — so it wasn’t dangerous, but he couldn’t hide his bewilderment.
As Kinain stared blankly, the dragon folded its body into the lake. Splash! The lake water surged over Kinain like a wave from the weight.
“Ah.”
A solid arm caught his body as it toppled backward.
When Kinain turned his head, Asad was there, returned to human form at some point.
“Your Highness, I can’t stand it. You smell so good.”
“You weren’t trying to wash off your pheromones, were you? Pheromones won’t wash off with something like this.”
“So good. No, what do I do.”
He felt teeth gnawing at the nape of his neck. They licked him as if he were candy, then bit as if they couldn’t bear it. The back of his neck was soon full of teeth marks.
“I can’t stand it, I’m sorry.”
Something hard kept pressing against his back. It rubbed against him as if humping, seemingly without awareness of doing so. Reason was already nearly gone.
“Then… don’t hold back.”
Kinain began undressing himself. His trembling hands weren’t from fear.
‘Strange.’
From the moment he touched Asad, as if a spark had transferred, Kinain too felt the same heat.
Kinain looked down at his own cock, already erect and dripping pre-cum. It wasn’t only his cock that was wet. The sensation of fluid running between his thighs was so vivid it gave him goosebumps, and his body trembled.
The moment he drew close to Asad, the imprint’s power had strengthened and Asad’s arousal had transferred to him as it was, but Kinain couldn’t think that far. The heat melted his reason, and Kinain didn’t resist it. Reason was no longer necessary.
In this moment, Kinain could understand. How much the Asad of right now wanted to devour him. That realization sent a shiver from head to toe. But instead of running, Kinain wrapped his arms around his lover’s neck.
“Asad, I want you too.”
I want to do it with you. I want you to take me. Words he would never normally say slipped out of his mouth on their own.
“We’re married, aren’t we?”
“…Ngh.”
Asad’s body shuddered. Kinain knew that was Asad’s favorite thing to hear. Watching Asad pant like an aroused beast, Kinain whispered.
“So let’s do what married couples do now.”
Ah, huh, ngh. He heard something like a beast groaning somewhere. A beat later, Kinain realized it was coming from his own mouth.
Ah, could his bodily senses have broken from running such a high fever? Otherwise there was no way the pain of a huge mass of flesh churning his insides could feel horribly good.
“Hngh! Mmph!”
Even the breath he barely managed to exhale, Asad swallowed. With his throat filled by the tongue, Kinain thrashed, breathless. Meanwhile, below, thrusting hard enough to make slapping sounds, moisture gathered again in his already-wet eyelashes. Just when he thought he might suffocate, the hand gripping his jaw so he couldn’t move fell away.
Puhah! Only then did Kinain turn his head the other way and pant out the breath he’d been holding. He’d survived. In that moment of brief relief, the cock that had slipped out of his body pierced through him in a single stroke.
“Hngh, ahh! Ah! Ah!”
Light burst before Kinain’s eyes.
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