IPDT 59

And with that, he immediately lowered his head. His breath grew closer, and it felt as if our lips would touch at any moment. Not having the courage to look, I squeezed my eyes shut. I even hunched my shoulders, waiting for the impending kiss, but even after a few seconds passed, it was quiet. When I cautiously opened my eyes, I saw Yul smiling.

“Why are you so scared?”

“I’m not scared…”

Before I could finish my sentence, Yul kissed me. It wasn’t a deep kiss like in the stable, but closer to a peck. I looked at Yul as he lightly pulled away and mumbled blankly.

“…Is that it?”

“Is there something more you wanted?”

“No! It’s not that, I just thought you would do something more…”

The smaller my voice became, the bigger Yul’s laugh grew. Yul, who had been suppressing his chuckles, lay down next to me and hugged me tightly. I felt a bit unsettled, thinking I was somehow being teased, but I didn’t feel like pushing him away. As I remained quietly in his arms, Yul rubbed his head against my shoulder.

“Pat my head.”

Patting Yul’s head was something I also enjoyed doing. There was no reason to refuse.

As I was stroking Yul’s hair without hesitation, I suddenly felt the urge to feel the arm he had wrapped around my waist. Not only that, but I also felt an impulse to lift his clothes and see his bare body. The hand patting his head gradually slowed down.

“You know, Yul.”

“Yeah.”

Yul had said that he was beaten until he bled at the ‘performance venue.’ So shouldn’t there be a scar left somewhere on this body? A scar that would remind him of his unfortunate past.

“I want to see your body, so… can you take off your clothes?”

The moment my words ended, a strange atmosphere flowed through the room. Why? I blinked blankly, then belatedly realized there was a problem with what I had said.

“It’s a misunderstanding!”

“What misunderstanding?”

The gaze on my face was stinging. I shook my head vigorously without even looking at Yul’s face.

“I was absolutely not trying to strip you! I was just, curious if you had any scars left on your body. If there are any, I want to erase them all… I don’t want to leave anything bad on you.”

After barely finishing my excuse, I glanced at Yul. Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, Yul’s expression wasn’t bad. In other words, it wasn’t good either.

“Fine, I understand.”

As I nervously awaited Yul’s answer, he let out a pleasant-sounding voice. I could tell my face had brightened without even looking in a mirror. I gripped the hem of Yul’s clothes and opened my mouth.

“So you’ll show me?”

“But there’s a condition.”

“A condition? What condition?”

Yul placed his hand over the back of mine.

“You have to be the one to take off my clothes.”

“Hmm, okay. I understand.”

Taking off his clothes wasn’t difficult. It was a simple act of just pulling the hem down. I nodded my head in affirmation. Then Yul added.

“And for as much as I take off, you have to take off too.”

“Huh?”

…Did I hear that correctly? Surprised by the completely unexpected condition, I blinked my eyes, and Yul’s lips curved into a faint smile.

“It’s not that hard. You’re the familiar of the great dragon.”

“…That’s right! Taking off clothes isn’t a hard thing to do. If I use magic, in a flash—!”

“No magic. You have to do it with your own hands.”

Yul squeezed my hand. I felt a pressure that said I ‘must’ do it with my own hands. I took a deep breath.

To be honest, I wasn’t confident about taking off Yul’s clothes with my own hands, and taking off my own as well. If it were just Yul who was naked it would be one thing, but if I was too, wouldn’t that be a little strange? I mean, I’m a dragon who feels sexual desire for Yul…

But since Yul himself had even said ‘great dragon,’ I didn’t want to show a weak side. Sigh. I let out a long sigh and met Yul’s eyes again.

“Fine. That’s not difficult either.”

“Really?”

Yul, whose eyes curved into a smile, let go of my hand with a slide. Then he sat up on the bed. It seemed he sat up because it would be difficult to take his clothes off while lying down.

I sat up to follow Yul, but for some reason, I felt nervous. A dry gulp went down my throat. I carefully gripped the bottom of Yul’s tunic shirt. It was a shirt without buttons, so I had no choice but to lift it up.

As I lifted the shirt slightly, his skin was revealed. His iliac crest visible above his pants and his well-defined stomach muscles. I was staring at it blankly, captivated, before I belatedly came to my senses.

I’m not taking his clothes off with some ulterior motive, so why am I acting like this? I widened my eyes. It was clear that my gaze was being diverted because I was hesitating. As I thought, hesitating was not good. Without further delay, I lifted Yul’s shirt up in one go.

As the single layer of the black shirt was peeled away, Yul’s firm, bare body was revealed. His broad shoulders and sturdy forearms, a perfectly sculpted body that matched his handsome face well enough to elicit admiration.

And on that body, scars remained. I reached out and touched Yul’s shoulder. It was uneven in that area, as if the flesh had been gouged out and then filled back in.

Moreover, the scars weren’t only there. A scar that started at his shoulder continued down to his back. It was probably a wound from being whipped.

As I traced Yul’s scar with my own hand, my heart churned. It was because of the anger towards a human who was already dead. I don’t know how he died, but he shouldn’t have died so early. I could feel the mana flowing around us responding to my emotions.

“…Yul?”

Yul snatched my hand with a jerk. The seething anger instantly subsided. As I stared blankly at Yul’s pretty face, he pressed his lips to the nape of my neck. Then he let out a low voice.

“You have to take yours off too.”

“Huh?”

Right, that was the deal. I had forgotten for a moment. I couldn’t hide my bewilderment and rolled my eyes.

“Y-Yeah, I’m going to take them off…”

I looked down at my clothes. Unlike Yul, who was only wearing a single shirt, I was wearing a cape, a vest, and a dress shirt. When was I going to take all this off? As I was just fidgeting with my hands in despair, Yul, before I could, unfastened the brooch holding my cape. The cape draped over my shoulders slipped off with a plop.

“Yul?”

Yul didn’t answer and unbuttoned my vest. Pop, pop. The sound of the buttons coming undone seemed to be heard starkly.

At the same time, Yul started to bite my neck. As if there was nothing holding him back, Yul bit and licked the area at the back of my neck where my hair grew scratchily. A shiver ran down my spine.

“Ngh.”

The moment I let out a suppressed moan, my vest was undone. Now, only a single shirt covered my body. But I could sense that even that would soon be gone. Yul had slipped his finger under the button fastened up to my neck.

One, two… As the buttons came undone, Yul’s lips also moved from the nape of my neck to my shoulder, and then to my collarbone. I looked at Yul’s head, which was now almost down to my chest, and felt at a loss for what to do.

Should I stop him from going down any further? But what if he asks back, ‘Why?’ Should I honestly say that I’m feeling strange…?

“Yul, ngh, wait a moment.”

Pop. The last button of the shirt came undone. The cool air touched my skin. I trembled for no reason, and Yul bared his teeth near my chest. My startled body flinched.

“Stop!”

Without realizing it, I grabbed Yul’s hair and pulled him away. Yul, with a displeased expression, stared at me fixedly. His eyes were mixed with a reproachful look, asking why I was doing that.

“…You’ve taken everything off, so stop biting me.”

“I haven’t taken this off yet.”

Yul pulled my hand and placed it on top of his pants. I averted my gaze slightly and mumbled.

“I was going to take that off too…”

I did intend to take his pants off too. It was absolutely not because I had any bad intentions, but because I wanted to check if he had scars below as well. But the problem was that if I took off Yul’s pants, I would have to take off mine too. In this situation, where I was conscious of having held Yul’s genitals yesterday.

“When are you going to do it?”

Yul asked with a pleasant smile. I stared at his face, entranced, then snapped to attention. I don’t know. Whatever happens, happens! I grabbed Yul’s pants and pulled them down. And then, he even helped me so that I could take them off easily. Yul was now in his underwear “…There aren’t any here.”

I placed my hands on Yul’s thighs and carefully checked for scars. Fortunately, in the midst of misfortune, there were no scarred areas on his legs. As I let out a sigh of relief, Yul suddenly thrust his face in front of mine.

“Are you done looking?”

“Huh? Yeah, I’m done.”

The moment I nodded, a hand slipped under the back of my knees. What the? There wasn’t even time to wonder. Yul had lifted my legs up in a flash. In an instant, I was in a lying position on the bed. I stared blankly at Yul, who placed my legs around his waist and grabbed my pants.

“Yul, what are you trying to do?”

“It’s your turn now.”

After he finished speaking, Yul smoothly pulled off my pants. At his slick movement, I could only open and close my mouth. I had to keep my promise to ‘take off my clothes,’ so I had nothing to say, but still, isn’t this strange? The position we’re in is also somewhat suspicious…?

“The thing we couldn’t finish just now, I want to continue it.”

“Huh? The thing we couldn’t finish?”

What was that? I don’t think there was anything we didn’t finish? As I was retracing my memory, Yul gave me a light peck on the lips. …Huh?

“Recovering energy.”

“That was.”

already finished earlier, is what I wanted to say. If only Yul hadn’t kissed me before I could. Yul’s large hand swept across my waist. I shuddered at the tingling ticklishness. Ngh. As I let out a small moan, Yul pushed his tongue deep into my mouth.

“Mm, ngh.”

My fingertips curled as he scraped the roof of my mouth. The inside of my mouth, where our tongues were entangled, was hot, and the hand traveling up my back made my legs twist. As if clinging to him, I wrapped my arms around the nape of his neck. Yul, who had flinched and paused for a moment, soon began to roughly explore the inside of my mouth.

“Ngh, hngh, mm…”

The more we kissed, the more a thrilling feeling washed over me. My head grew hot and my eyelids trembled. Saliva, so tangled I couldn’t tell whose was whose, slid down my throat. Yul’s hand, which had been lingering around my waist, stealthily made its way upwards.

The hand that had tickled its way over my ribs reached my chest. The hard tip of his finger poked the nub on my chest.

…Huh?

When Yul’s finger brushed against my nipple, I thought I felt a strange sensation, but I didn’t have time to question that feeling. I hurriedly pushed Yul away. Yul, who was suddenly pushed away, furrowed his brow like a beast whose hunt had been interrupted.

“Why?”

“Why, why are you touching my chest?”

My startled heart fluttered like a frightened bird. Yul, on the other hand, tilted his head as if he didn’t know what the problem was.

“You don’t like it?”

“It’s not that I don’t like it…”

That was certainly true. But wasn’t touching the chest a part of the foreplay before mating?

Yul and I mating, aside from the fact that I didn’t dislike it, was an act that didn’t align with the balance of the world. I was a dragon who had lived since the beginning of time, and Yul was merely a human who had lived for a little over twenty years. Besides, we were different species. My head felt like it was spinning in confusion.

“Then it doesn’t matter.”