“Let go. I just need to go to the bathroom for a moment…”
Iberis, reflexively hunching his shoulders as he felt his hair standing on end, struggled to break free from Lucas. However, the more he struggled, the tighter the grip around his waist became.
“I said let go.”
“Why are you trying to go to the bathroom?”
“That’s…”
“Because of this?”
“What, ugh!”
Before Iberis could react, Lucas’s muscular thigh wedged between his legs. Then, raising his knee, he gently touched the slightly swollen area below. It was such a sensual stimulation that Iberis’s waist momentarily trembled.
He found out.
Iberis hastily bit his lip, but it was too late. Lucas’s thigh, now firmly positioned between his legs, began to gently press against the tender flesh.
“Were you going to take care of it alone?”
“No, ugh!”
Lucas, as if protesting Iberis’s bewilderment, bit his pale nape. As he left a clear teeth mark and deliberately made a sucking sound on the skin, he felt the body trapped in his arms flinch.
“D-Don’t bite. I was just going to wash my face… If you leave it alone, it’ll calm down on its own.”
“Ah, you were planning to cool your body with cold water?”
Lucas muttered in a strangely mocking tone, this time capturing the tip of Iberis’s ear peeking out from his black hair between his lips. Then, as if telling a secret, he whispered intimately.
“You could just ask me for help.”
“That’s, nonsense, hah…”
Iberis let out a groan as Lucas’s moist lips gently nibbled on his sensitive ear and his damp breath tickled his earlobe. The heat below his already hot waist intensified. Consequently, the front of his clothes swelled even more.
“Hng, no, don’t do that.”
As Lucas’s firm knee stimulated his groin, Iberis’s hips jerked upward. His breath quickened with the shame of being discovered by Lucas and the pleasure creeping up his spine. He desperately tried to close his thighs, knowing it was futile.
In response, Lucas pressed his body closer, embracing Iberis from behind. Clinging to him completely as if trying to become one, Lucas whispered in a voice tinged with light playfulness.
“Don’t try to hide it. It’s evidence that you’ve become healthier than before, Major. There’s no need to be embarrassed.”
“How can I not be embarrassed! You might be used to this, but I…”
Iberis’s voice rose momentarily in frustration. But soon it gradually softened as if nothing had happened.
If he were alone, it wouldn’t have been this embarrassing. He might have been flustered by the unfamiliar bodily change, but he would have dismissed it as a natural physiological phenomenon.
However, showing this side of himself to Lucas was a different matter entirely. Since the kiss at the memorial service, Iberis had been more shaken by Lucas than before.
Unlike Iberis, Lucas acted as usual. How thick and tough were his nerves? Iberis felt wronged, feeling like he was the only one conscious of Lucas, given Lucas’s nonchalant attitude no matter what he did.
“It’s something every man experiences. I’m in the same state as you right now, Major.”
“The same state? Ah.”
Iberis finally realized Lucas’s condition and let out a gasp. He could feel something much larger and heavier than his own poking near his buttocks.
“This makes us even, right?”
“No, um… hmm.”
Is it really okay? Iberis, at a loss for words due to Lucas’s confident attitude, stuttered like a broken machine. He wondered how Lucas could be so bold when he should feel shame like anyone else, even if he was less sensitive than others.
“Besides, it’s not always good to just endure these things.”
“What?”
“If it keeps building up, it can cause problems. It’s better to release it occasionally.”
“That’s a lie. There haven’t been any problems until now… This only started happening since I’ve been living with you…”
“Until now, you didn’t have morning erections at all, so it was fine. But that’s not the case anymore, is it?”
Lucas cut off Iberis’s words and raised his knee a bit more, pressing against his lower region.
“Stop, hah! Don’t stimulate it.”
“You said it’s because of me, so I’ll take responsibility.”
“What do you…”
“You probably can’t do it alone, Major, so I’ll help you like last time.”
“Last time…? Ah.”
Iberis’s gray eyes wavered greatly as he realized what Lucas was referring to. As the memory of that time resurfaced, the sensations etched in his body awakened as well.
“Last time, we could only do level 1 guiding, so we stopped at doing it over your clothes, but today we could do it for real.”
“For real…”
Iberis trailed off, unconsciously swallowing hard. If he had felt like he was going crazy when Lucas had just kneaded and rubbed over his clothes, he couldn’t imagine what it would be like if Lucas’s hands touched him directly.
The most disconcerting fact was that Iberis felt anticipation rather than aversion to Lucas’s proposal. It was proof of how much he was being swayed by him.
“Of course, that would be level 3 guiding, so I’d need your permission, Major.”
The hand that had been warmly wrapped around Iberis’s stomach moved up to his chest and grasped his slender chin. Lucas turned Iberis’s face towards him and asked languidly. His expression was unusually calm for someone suggesting such an intimate act.
“What would you like to do?”
Iberis silently mouthed words as he looked at Lucas asking for his permission. He just needed to choose either yes or no, but the answer wouldn’t come readily.
The boundary between level 2 and level 3 is somewhat vague. Often, Espers and Guides immersed in level 2 guiding naturally progress further, unable to contain their excitement.
If one had to differentiate, level 2 mainly involves kissing and upper body skinship, while level 3 includes lower body skinship and foreplay just short of penetration. Lucas was essentially asking Iberis for permission to move to the next level.
“Will you allow me to help you?”
Could this be the devil’s whisper? Iberis felt a strange thirst and swallowed hard. He felt annoyed at Lucas for seeming so composed unlike himself. A few days ago, he might have flatly refused in alarm, but now it was different. A curiosity arose, wondering if it might be okay just this once.
Over the past few months, Iberis had gradually become addicted to Lucas’s guiding and skinship, like someone hooked on sweet desserts. Since the day of the memorial service, it wasn’t just his body being drawn in, but his heart as well. In such a situation, it was impossible for him to firmly reject Lucas.
Perhaps Lucas had also noticed Iberis’s wavering. No, it was highly likely. This was evident in how he was seducing more actively than before. He was confident that Iberis wouldn’t easily refuse him.
“Major?”
When Iberis didn’t answer immediately, Lucas called out to him, urging a response. Though he was pretending to be composed on the outside, he was just as impatient inside.
As Iberis had guessed, Lucas knew that he was becoming increasingly conscious of him. That’s why he was getting eager. He kept wanting more, feeling that with just a little more, Iberis would give in to him.
“…Alright.”
“Pardon?”
“I said… it’s okay…”
Iberis gave permission in a voice close to a mumble, then quickly turned his head away as if unable to look directly at Lucas’s face. He felt like he had been led on by Lucas again.
“Are you sure it’s okay?”
“…Just for today.”
Iberis added a condition when Lucas asked as if he couldn’t believe it.
“Hmm, understood.”
Snapping to attention at those words, Lucas moved his hand before Iberis could change his mind. As he slightly pulled down the soft pajama pants along with the underwear, Iberis’s manhood, boasting a decent thickness, revealed itself as if it had been waiting.
“Ugh.”
Iberis shuddered as his fully aroused member sprang out of his pants. It was fortunate that he had turned his body away. At least he didn’t have to show Lucas his embarrassed face.
“It’s pretty.”
“P-Pretty…?”
Iberis recoiled as if he had heard something outrageous at the unexpected compliment.
“I’m not just saying that, it’s true. Even here, you’re clean and white, Major.”
Lucas murmured with a mixture of slight elation and admiration, resting his chin on Iberis’s shoulder. The moment he saw the pre-cum beading at the tip of the white, slender flesh, an intense hunger surged within him.
“That kind of praise, hng!”
Iberis gasped as Lucas gently wrapped his hand around the straight shaft and lightly stroked it. His slim waist also tensed up.
“Nng, hah…”
A moan mixed with nasality escaped from between Iberis’s round, parted lips at the pleasure he was experiencing for the first time in his life. As the warm hand gently kneaded the sensitive area, and the firm thumb rubbed the slit at the tip dripping with transparent fluid, an electrifying thrill ran up his spine to the top of his head.
“Hah… wait, this is weird… Ah!”
Unable to withstand the intense sensation washing over him, Iberis twisted his waist wildly. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, he curled his body into a ball. His vision flickered like a blinking light with each movement of Lucas’s hand.
“Don’t avoid it, it’s not weird…”
“No, no. This is, hah! Hn, n-no… stop.”
Iberis shook his head vigorously and squirmed in Lucas’s arms. It felt like his insides were boiling. In contrast, his nape felt chilly.
“Shh… It’s okay, just relax and enjoy it.”
Smooch. Lucas kissed Iberis’s earlobe as he writhed from the unfamiliar pleasure, soothing him with a voice clouded by desire. Meanwhile, his hand stimulating Iberis’s front became increasingly rough.
