#97
Jin-ha lay sprawled, panting heavily.
Even as he collapsed, Riyekan slowly repeated his thrusts, enjoying Jin-ha’s convulsing insides.
After the ejaculation, the inside of his stomach had become extremely sensitive, and Jin-ha vividly felt the sensation of Riyekan’s penis pushing into the hole and rubbing against the inner wall.
Jin-ha, overwhelmed by pleasure, wiped his tear-streaked cheeks with the back of his hand and reached out to the man. He wanted to choke his neck even a little to relieve his frustration, but he couldn’t grab his collar. If only he could strangle his neck a little!
But the hand he stretched out, filled with sudden anger, was caught by Riyekan as it wobbled. Riyekan kissed the palm of Jin-ha’s hand.
“I’m glad we’re in a ‘serious relationship,’ Jin-ha.”
“Damn it…”
The kisses continued from his palm to his wrist, and then up his arm. Originally, Riyekan didn’t particularly enjoy such cute skin contact. This was Jin-ha’s preferred way. Now, Riyekan was soothing him in the way Jin-ha liked, even physically.
“Let me… go…”
“Are you trying to escape again?”
A low laugh spread. Jin-ha thought he would definitely punch him and collapsed.
“Good night, Jin-ha.”
Soon, a soft touch landed on his forehead.
* * *
In his dream, Jin-ha ran around and played on the sandy beach with Riri. The softness of the wet sand under his bare feet, the coldness of the wind brushing his cheeks, and the surprisingly clear warmth of Riri’s hand were vivid.
Opening his eyes to the sunlight shining on his eyelids, Jin-ha saw a silhouette standing by the window and unconsciously called out.
“Riri…?”
The person who turned around at that sound was Riyekan.
Jin-ha blinked blankly and tried to recall the face of his old friend overlapping with Riyekan’s face. Just a moment ago, in his dream, the child he had played with had purple hair and blue eyes. Come to think of it, he resembled Riyekan a bit.
But the difference between them was too great to overlap like this. That child was skinny and would collapse with just a little running. He was sickly and weak, so much so that it was hard to believe he was a few years older than Jin-ha.
When he ran into the forest alone, saying he was going to play, he would often sit down and cry. Then Jin-ha would quietly approach, pat him, and take his hand to go into the forest together. Surprisingly, his grip was incredibly strong, so once he held on, Jin-ha couldn’t let go as he pleased.
He had a cute face with a big, round eyes and a smiling face. Comparing such a child to Riyekan, with his upturned eyes, was absurd.
“Isn’t that a problem?”
“…Yes?”
“Why do you keep dreaming about other kids?”
Seeing him squinting with his legs spread, it seemed he was seriously upset.
Jin-ha asked back in disbelief.
“No… What does it have to do with you interfering in my dreams?”
“I have the right to interfere. We’re in a serious relationship, aren’t we?”
“It doesn’t seem so.”
What does interfering in dreams have to do with being in a serious relationship? And why is he saying it’s a problem just because he dreamed of a childhood friend?
Jin-ha looked at Riyekan with a bewildered feeling. For some reason, he felt uneasy.
Riyekan, looking at Jin-ha discontentedly, blurted out.
“I had one too.”
“Yes?”
“A childhood friend.”
He didn’t know why he suddenly brought up such a story, but Jin-ha obediently nodded and added interest.
“I see.”
“…”
“What kind of friend was he?”
Just before Riyekan’s lips curled up, Jin-ha quickly showed interest. Fortunately, it seemed to be the right answer, as the corner of Riyekan’s mouth slightly lifted.
Perhaps because he had spent a considerable amount of time with this sensitive and capricious man, Jin-ha could now read his emotions to some extent. Jin-ha sent a gaze as if he were very curious about the story of that friend to match Riyekan’s mood.
“He was a tiny kid with a round head, quite cute with his innocence and naivety. He used to follow me around.”
“Hmm, he must have been cute.”
“Yes, very. But we couldn’t play together for long. That kid was on a family trip with Master Senistry.”
“…Yes?”
“I mean, he was Master Senistry’s child. Oh, did I not tell you that I had met Master Senistry before?”
“I only heard that you had met Master Senistry…”
At Jin-ha’s answer, Riyekan nodded.
“At that time, that kid was there too.”
Master Senistry’s child?
At the thought, Jin-ha unconsciously clenched his fist. A complex confusion continued in his mind.
“By any chance, does Master Senistry have two or three children?”
“No, there was only one.”
“I see…”
If only it weren’t so.
According to the new information he learned on this island and his lost old memories, he clearly spent his childhood appearing to be Master Senistry’s child. Hearing the words ‘family trip’ vaguely reminded him of that.
They traveled together to many places in this world. Places with many people, places with few people, high places, low places, places with only trees, and places with only water.
He had met Riri during that trip.
‘Wait, then is this man Riri?’
It was unbelievable, but if Riyekan’s words were true, that’s how the story went. Was it because of that when he woke up from his dream, he unconsciously called Riyekan Riri?
But Riri… was Riri.
Suddenly, as if a light had turned on, a certain memory flashed in Jin-ha’s mind.
‘Riri!’
‘My name is Riyekan.’
‘Riehang…’
‘Ri, ye, kan.’
‘Ri, e, hang!’
‘…Just call me Riri.’
Riri sighed helplessly. Jin-ha couldn’t pronounce his name correctly, so he had no choice but to allow the cute nickname.
It was indeed the same person. Jin-ha blankly looked up at Riyekan’s face.
How could that cute and pretty face from childhood, like a fairy, change into such a handsome man with sharp features? They were completely different genres.
Wait. Now that he thought about it, when he first met Riyekan in the forest, he had thought he looked like a fairy. Even though he didn’t have a clear memory, had he instinctively felt the traces of his childhood friend?
“Jin-ha, what’s wrong?”
Jin-ha flinched and came out of his thoughts. Riyekan was looking at him with a worried gaze.
“No, it’s nothing. I was just… curious about that childhood friend.”
Unlike before, when he was pretending to be interested to soothe the man who was about to get upset, this time he was sincere.
He had regained many memories of his childhood in the forest, but all those memories were like a puzzle with missing pieces, unclear in shape. He didn’t have enough information to understand what had happened.
Given that he had just remembered why he started calling Riyekan Riri, it seemed that more memories might come back over time or with some trigger. But he couldn’t just wait forever.
Now, Riyekan was a good source of information. As Jin-ha looked at him, Riyekan opened his mouth willingly.
“Remember when I told you that Master Senistry told me about my soul and told me to go to the Noon Moon Tower? Actually, that day was when I had a ‘complicated problem.'”
He was talking about the day his first rut started. The day his dead father threw him into the omega’s side.
Jin-ha nodded firmly.
“That day, I tried to use magic to escape from that room, and my soul shattered. I didn’t even know that the pieces were all falling, and I escaped to this island. I thought I had to get out of there, so I used Blink several times to go further away. I only felt relieved after crossing the sea and collapsed. That’s when that kid found me.”
“Master Senistry’s child…”
It was clearly the story of the day he found Riri collapsed and covered in blood. Jin-ha swallowed dryly in tension.
“Yes. They said they came to this place to live quietly as a family.”
That day, Jin-ha was playing by picking up the sparkling things scattered here and there in the forest and found Riri. After that, he seemed to have begged Master Senistry to help Riyekan. And so, Jin-ha swallowed the sparkling things.
To be precise, the pieces of Riyekan’s shattered soul.
So that’s why this man’s soul is within me.
Previously, Jin-ha had predicted that he might have been near when Riyekan’s soul shattered. But he really didn’t think he had swallowed it himself.
Jin-ha silently held his breath at the truth he learned from an unexpected place.
“…It’s fortunate.”
“Hmm?”
“Thanks to that, you’re alive and well like this.”
That day, his personality was a bit broken, but considering the circumstances, it was fortunate that he was alive.
Even though he had lost those memories, he wanted to praise his past self who had found the man.
“Yes. And I became such a great magician.”
His personality was a bit broken, but…
Jin-ha muttered again in his mind, emphasizing. Not noticing his mood, Riyekan shrugged and boasted.
“If I meet him again, I’ll really take good care of him. I’ll make sure he can live without worries for the rest of his life. Since a considerable part of the wealth Master Senistry achieved has been confiscated by the tower, I’ll help him get it back…”
“Does Master Senistry’s wealth remain?”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
