“What’s wrong? Is it difficult?”
Lucas kissed Iberis’s trembling fingers while examining him with his eyes. The mana that had been raging out of control had almost settled after nearly two hours of lovemaking.
With the sudden chills gone, Iberis’s previously corpse-like pallor had turned rosy like a ripe peach, and his once ice-cold body had not only regained normal temperature but become quite warm.
However, Lucas couldn’t let his guard down. Even for him, today’s events were completely unexpected.
So Lucas remained acutely aware of every reaction Iberis showed. All the while, he suppressed the fierce impulses bubbling up from where they were joined.
Although his condition had improved considerably through guiding, Iberis was still undeniably a patient. Given that they needed to proceed with imprinting once his internal mana calmed, they had to be extra careful today.
“No, it’s… it’s not that…”
Iberis mumbled in response to Lucas’s question, trailing off. He wanted something, but was reluctant to ask for it. Biting his lip as if unsure what to do, Iberis kept glancing at Lucas. He wasn’t sure if Lucas would grant his request even if he voiced it.
‘Since severe stimulation could cause problems… I’ll go as slowly as possible to avoid straining your body, Major. If anything feels strange or painful, tell me immediately.’
After deciding to imprint, Lucas had warned Iberis that today would be different from usual. And he had strictly kept his word.
Their intimacy, which began in the bathroom, continued even after moving to the bed. Not knowing when another mana outburst might occur, he excited Iberis very slowly.
His lips on Iberis’s heated skin were as light as feathers, and his hands caressing Iberis’s waist were as delicate as if handling fragile crafts. The mana enveloping Iberis’s entire body was as gentle as a spring breeze.
Forehead, nose, chin, collarbone, chest, navel, waist, thighs, knees, ankles… Lucas kissed every inch of Iberis from head to toe as if intending to taste all of him. Occasionally, he would give light nips.
Leaving faint teeth marks and light kiss marks here and there as he moved from top to bottom, he eventually even took Iberis’s toes into his mouth.
Naturally, Iberis was startled and tried to pull his leg away. No matter how clean he had washed, it was hard to watch Lucas sucking on his feet with a clear mind. The visual stimulation was overwhelming.
Even more torturous was how the tongue probing between his toes and the lips sucking on his toes as if they were sweet candy made his inner thighs tingle. To feel pleasure from such an act was so embarrassing and shameful.
‘S-stop. Ngh, that’s… dirty…’
‘It’s not dirty at all. We just washed, remember?’
‘Still…’
‘Hmm, why are you suddenly acting like this? We do this often, you know?’
‘What? Liar! That’s impossible, w-when did we ever do this?’
Iberis asked accusingly, flustered. Despite his words of denial, his expression suggested he had some idea. Often during prolonged sex, he would sob in Lucas’s arms before briefly passing out or dozing off. Naturally, this led to gaps in his memory.
‘Well… I suppose you wouldn’t remember since I usually did it when you were out of it.’
Lucas murmured understandingly. Even as he spoke, his hands and mouth were busy caressing Iberis’s feet. He gently nibbled on the top of Iberis’s foot while rubbing the Name on his ankle with his thumb.
‘Stop… ah!’
Iberis’s toes twitched wildly at the unfamiliar pleasure. Then, as if he couldn’t bear it anymore, he struggled to break free from Lucas.
‘This is troublesome… We haven’t even properly started yet.’
Lucas smiled mischievously, keeping Iberis’s right leg over his shoulder as Iberis tried to escape. As Iberis froze at the devilish smile, Lucas’s large hand grasped his left knee and spread his legs wide.
‘If you don’t like the feet, how about here?’
‘Wait, what are you- ah!’
Iberis, startled, hurriedly tried to lower his hands, but Lucas was faster. Bending down, he pressed firmly on Iberis’s inner thighs with his hands to prevent him from closing his legs. Then he buried his face there.
‘Hah, stop, hii, aah… nnh, aah…’
At the sudden surge of pleasure, Iberis’s fingers, which had been trying to push Lucas away, curled. Gradually, erotic moans mixed with the cries leaking from his parted lips. Iberis squeezed his eyes shut, unable to bear the rising shame.
‘Luke, ah, Lucas… please…’
It didn’t take long for his body, which had been a mix of pain and pleasure, cold and heat, to fall into ecstasy. Powerless against the intense pleasure, all Iberis could do was repeat his pleas like a parrot. He panted, for a different reason now, at the endless stimulation. Eventually, he even wished Lucas would just enter him. He actually whined for Lucas to embrace him soon.
But Lucas didn’t give in to Iberis’s whimpering and persistently explored him. As a result, Iberis was completely exhausted before they even properly began. And now they were at this point.
“Why can’t you speak?”
“Ngh…!”
Iberis snapped out of his reverie at Lucas’s actions, pressing for an answer while thrusting his hips.
“You have to tell me what you want, right? Do you want to stop? Are you very tired?”
Lucas asked in a slow tone matching his movements.
“No, it’s, when you move, I can’t… Wait, stay still for a moment…”
“Hmm, then I’ll stay still, so answer quickly.”
Iberis, who had been groaning, pouted his lower lip as Lucas stopped moving and stared at him. It was annoying how Lucas acted on his own whims earlier, but now he was being so obedient.
“Major?”
“So, uh, that is…”
At Lucas’s urging, Iberis’s lips quivered. Now that he was trying to say it out loud, he felt like he would die of embarrassment. It felt like he was becoming an incredibly lustful person.
But at this point, it was also difficult to brush it off as nothing. Given Lucas’s personality, he definitely wouldn’t let it go. He would surely find out one way or another.
Backed into a corner, Iberis let out a pained groan. Unable to look directly at Lucas, he lowered his eyes and slightly parted his lips.
“A bit… more…”
A whisper so faint it could be missed if not listening carefully escaped from his barely parted lips. This was the best he could manage, even after forcing his voice out. Feeling his cheeks burn, Iberis fidgeted with his toes.
“A little more?”
“Uh……”
Overcome with desire, Iberis finally wrapped his legs around Lucas’s firm waist. Then, pulling Lucas’s strong neck with both arms, he looked up at him with burning eyes.
“C-can’t you be a little rougher?”
“What?”
“It’s so different from usual, I can’t adjust… I’d like it if you were stronger than now…”
Lucas hesitated at Iberis’s most explicit expression possible. An awkward silence fell between them.
“…I forgot for a moment.”
When Iberis, embarrassed by the sudden silence, regretted speaking and rolled his eyes, Lucas opened his mouth.
“Hm?”
“That you prefer it rough.”
“What? What do you… Ah, no, ah! Ahh!”
“I was desperately holding back because I didn’t want to hurt the patient… I didn’t expect to be provoked like this.”
“When did I… ugh, hnngh!”
“I was planning to calm down more before doing this, but… maybe this is fine…”
Lucas muttered something Iberis could hardly understand as he grabbed his waist, which now had reddish handprints. Then he pulled him sharply towards himself. Unlike usual, he had been restraining his desires due to mana that wouldn’t easily calm down, but now that it was almost back to normal, he thought he could indulge a little.
“Ah, aah!”
Iberis kept crying out in pleasure as Lucas’s movements became violent.
“How is it, satisfying? Or should I be rougher?”
“Haa, hic…”
“Answer me, Iberis. How do you want me to do it?”
“Hnn, I-I don’t know…”
“Again, not speaking clearly.”
Lucas bit Iberis’s plump, swollen lips hard as if scolding him for not being honest, then released them.
“Ugh! It hurts…”
“If you say you don’t know one more time, I’ll go slowly again.”
“Uuu…”
Iberis glared at Lucas with resentful eyes as he made his mischievous threat. But in the end, the one who wants more always loses. Iberis brought his lips to Lucas’s ear and whispered in a faint voice.
“Do it harder…”
“Alright.”
Lucas’s eyes crinkled as if to say ‘well done’ and he showered Iberis’s face with kisses. All the while, he ravished him even more fiercely.
“Aah, ah, hic…!”
Unable to withstand the overwhelming pleasure, Iberis dug his nails into Lucas’s shoulders, scratching them. At that moment, Lucas stopped moving and lifted Iberis to sit on top of him. Just then, an intense golden energy burst from his body, enough to fill the entire bedroom.
“Ah…”
Iberis, engulfed by Lucas’s mana as if submerged in water, let out a gasp. But soon his eyes widened as if surprised by something.
“Hot, it’s hot, hnngh… Luke…”
Iberis couldn’t come to his senses due to the endless surge of energy from where he was connected with Lucas. It felt like his insides were not just hot, but melting. His right ankle, where Lucas’s name was engraved, also stung as if burned.
“Lucas, hnn, this is strange, hngg.”
Iberis made a tearful face at the bizarre heat spreading throughout his body. He often felt like his body was turning to mush when embraced by Lucas, but this was different. He was so terrified, feeling as if his entire body was burning up, that he could hardly breathe.
“It’s okay, it’s not strange.”
Lucas comforted Iberis as he crumbled into his arms, not knowing what to do.
“I told you before, about how to imprint.”
“Imprint…?”
“Yes. We need to mix our mana like this.”
Lucas gently explained while giving butterfly kisses to Iberis, who was breathing heavily. The key to imprinting was to make two mana of different natures into one. To do this, he had to pour his mana into him until Iberis’s body was filled with his energy, just like now.
“This should be enough…”
Lucas lowered his hand and grasped Iberis’s slender ankle. Then, caressing his skin that had become twice as hot as usual, he traced over the name engraved above his ankle bone with his finger.
“Now it’s your turn, Iberis.”