SMT 67

“Are you going to break the door with your sword?”

“It’s useless to make a scene inside if no one outside knows. We have to make Zav open the door himself.”

Then he pointed at the gem embedded beneath the sword’s hilt. When I looked closer, I saw an amber-colored gem set in the center of a spider-shaped ornament.

“There’s tracking magic on it. When aura appears on the sword, the gem’s magic activates, and my location is sent to Kun’s chief mage.”

So it was a kind of tracker! It was worth keeping Tairok alive and bringing him all the way here. For the first time, he felt useful. He noticed my expression and gave a ridiculous laugh.

“You’re that happy over something like this.”

“Something like this? It’s the only way to escape. But it’s not working right now? Why?”

Maybe he found the direct question rude, because he stared at me. There was a trace of authority in his gaze, but now wasn’t the time to bow my head and act polite.

Hurry and answer. When I didn’t back down and stared at him too, a smile appeared in his eyes. Was he in a good mood? It looked like that for a moment, but it immediately vanished.

“It’s my problem.”

“Are you unwell?”

Tairok only looked at me and avoided the answer. Ah, so he wasn’t fine. He could move and talk, but maybe he had been overdoing it. He took a deep breath and sat on the floor like he was going into meditation.

“What are you doing?”

“Training.”

Now? I couldn’t understand it.

“If not, then we can look for another way. If you can move at all, we can at least try to get out…”

“No.”

[No.]

What the hell? Both of them rejected my words and agreed with each other.

“I accepted it unwillingly, but now that it’s inside me, I can’t let it fade away. I have to use the divine beast’s power properly.”

[Properly use.]

Oh, really?

“But we don’t have time right now.”

“It’s more important than time.”

[Time not important.]

You two get along so well. When was it that you were cursing each other?

“How long will it take?”

Tairok clenched and unclenched his fist, and he spoke indifferently.

“A week.”

“…You know this place is a tomb, right?”

“I don’t have enough power. It’s small, so I have to use every bit of it to be able to hold the sword.”

[Give power.]

The divine beast’s tail joined in. I looked at the little body of the beast with worry. It looked like its main body was trapped and only a small portion of its power had escaped.

“Can you give more power?”

I asked the divine beast, but Tairok heard it and looked at me. However, it was hard to relay what the divine beast said next.

[Big contact, big power.]

“Contact? How?”

[Sex.]

…You’ve got to be kidding me!!!

“No way!”

I shouted and jumped to my feet, and the tail swayed flamboyantly again.

[Why not?]

Why not?! Because why the hell would I be the one getting pinned down… Wait, no, that’s not it. I’d be the one putting it in Tairok…

“Damn it. That’s even worse!”

“What is?”

“There is. Something like that.”

“If there’s something worse, that means there’s something better?”

“There isn’t anything better…”

I answered without thinking, and then I stopped when I saw his face properly. …Why was he smiling like he knew everything? I quickly changed my expression and lowered my voice.

“There’s no way. Do your training.”

“There is a way. Contact with me. Are you scared of that?”

Ha. I laughed, dumbfounded.

“It’s not fear, it’s disgust. I’m not scared of anything in the world.”

“Ah, so the divine beast really did tell you to make contact with me.”

It was a trap. Tairok looked down at the divine beast for a moment, then raised his eyes to me. His golden eyes shone like grains of sand.

“For me, a week of training is nothing. But can you endure it?”

[Can’t endure.]

[Can’t endure.]

The divine beast said it, and even Mo repeated the same words. I clenched my fist in betrayal.

“What if I can endure?”

“Then endure.”

Tairok turned away like he didn’t care and sat down again. When he started meditating, I felt strangely offended. Why did it feel like I lost? The divine beast and Mo made that feeling worse.

[Human contact required.]

[The humans of Tubain can share energy and strengthen their own through intimate contact with others. There are many records of people surviving by receiving another’s energy when their life was in danger, and it is still used as a form of treatment today.]

At this point, I felt like some kind of obsessive germaphobe.

[Shall I remind you of the time you sought counseling for your obsessive symptoms?]

Mo hit me right where it hurt. I only went for a few counseling sessions, why bring that up? I grumbled as I walked toward Tairok.

“Let’s kiss.”

He opened his closed eyes and looked up at me. I faced his indifferent gaze that showed no emotion.

“And shorten it to one day.”

“You’re asking for too much from a simple kiss.”

“Then let’s say it’s a kiss worth that much.”

One of his eyebrows rose.

“They say the only thing you can do with your lips is suck another man’s cock.”

“…That’s a false rumor.”

“From my experience, your kissing wasn’t impressive either.”

Ah, the maze garden. I let out a dry laugh as I remembered that kiss.

“It’ll definitely be different this time.”

He tilted his head slightly, he was a little interested. I was standing over him and gave a condition.

“You have to keep one thing.”

“Say it.”

“You can’t fall for me.”

I could tell he found that ridiculous, but I ignored it and spoke to the divine beast as well.

“You have to give proper power to Grand Duke Kun.”

Its head, only the size of a finger, nodded.

[As much as possible.]

Even though only a fraction of its power had escaped, it said it would give as much as it could. Then I had to do my best too.

‘Mo, count ten minutes.’

I ordered Mo and knelt in front of Tairok. Because of our size difference, that alone made our eye level even.

He’s disgustingly big. I didn’t avoid his heavy gaze. I put my hands on his shoulders and climbed on his thighs. He didn’t move his hands, as if deciding to just watch what I’d do. That was exactly what I wanted.

I spread my legs and wrapped them around his waist to pull him closer. I could clearly feel Tairok’s center between my thighs. Why is it so… big?

I hid my surprise by wrapping my arms around his neck and turning my eyes away. I moved my hips once, rubbing back and forth. The stimulation of a kiss heightens through full-body contact that brushes close like this.

With clothes still between us, or with the teasing friction that comes from not touching directly.

The effect appeared immediately. The center between my legs seemed to emit heat.

His sex had already reacted, but he still didn’t lay a hand on me. I leaned closer to his face and whispered.

“Stay still. Don’t move.”

A cold light flickered in his golden eyes, like cruelty leaking out from someone who held immense power.

But I didn’t feel afraid, just as I had said. Instead, I felt that Tairok was more interesting than I thought, and I lowered my lips.

At first, our lips just softly brushed together. My lips touched his, reading their shape, texture, and warmth.

While my lips moved slowly, I pressed my body closer. I spread my legs wider and pushed my hips forward until my sex touched his lower abdomen, and his sex settled naturally between my buttocks.

While my lips explored him, I began to move my hips slowly back and forth.

Then, instead of brushing, his lips pulled at mine. Again slowly. I turned my head and pressed my lips against his and rubbed them together.

Twitch.

The neck and shoulders under my arms reacted for a moment. But he still obeyed my order to stay still.

I adjusted the rhythm and sucked on his lips in earnest. Moist air and saliva mixed, and every time they parted, a wet sound echoed.

At some point I found myself focused on the act, but I never increased the pace. Instead, I slightly parted my lips and slid my tongue in a little.

The humid heat inside his mouth felt like it would melt me. As my tongue entered, the kiss deepened, and I exhaled heavily.

“Ha.”

Our joined bodies trembled again. This time even his wide chest rose and fell. It was only a small movement, but I could feel he was impatient and dissatisfied from it.

I knew it too, that I was too slow. But that’s exactly how you make someone burn more and crave more. That way, it’ll be even better later.

I tightened my arms around his neck and kissed him deeper. Instead of being satisfied with lips alone, I moved my hips on top of him. I started to rock my waist.