#67
“Here, if you just sign this, you can start training from today.”
Starting today?
Ho-woo received the paper with a skeptical look and read it carefully. It was always necessary to read thoroughly any paper that required a signature.
Sa Jin-hyeok watched with a faint smile as Ho-woo read the document with furrowed brows.
“There’s nothing special in it.”
As he said, there wasn’t much content on the paper. It briefly stated the reason and details for entering the training center as a civilian. However, Ho-woo remained silent for a moment when he discovered a familiar name written near the bottom, almost on the last line.
Instructor in charge – Oh-yul.
“…”
“What’s wrong? Did you find a problem?”
“I think the name is written incorrectly.”
No matter how many times he rubbed his eyes and looked, it was definitely Oh-yul’s name. Ho-woo put down the paper and pointed at his name.
“Here, Yul’s name is written.”
“That’s right.”
“…?”
Is that all?
Ho-woo turned to look at Yul with a perplexed expression. He seemed busy. No, he looked busy. With so much to do, making such a mistake…
However, Yul calmly pulled the paper towards himself and signed the final instructor confirmation section with an elegant signature using the pen on the table.
Ho-woo blinked slowly. So this wasn’t a mistake after all.
“Now all we need is Ho-woo’s signature.”
Yul pushed the paper towards Ho-woo and handed him the pen he was holding.
“You can sign here.”
He even kindly pointed out the blank space where Ho-woo should sign, urging him. Under this gentle pressure, Ho-woo finally signed, and had to watch as the collected paper was put into a safe.
“I look forward to working with you for the next two months, Student Ho-woo.”
The man who was now his lover, his Esper, and his training instructor smiled brightly. Ho-woo could only laugh dryly, finding the situation incredulous.
It felt like he had been caught up in a well-orchestrated scam.
“Yul, aren’t you busy?”
Based on what Choi Seon-woo and Joo Si-yeo had said, Ho-woo could bet a month’s salary that Yul, who was above them, must be extremely busy.
But to be the instructor in charge? No, can an Esper even teach self-defense to an ordinary person? Their strength and physique are too different.
“Of course I’m busy.”
“Then why…”
“I couldn’t possibly leave Ho-woo alone, could I?”
His voice was affectionate, but the content of his words was chilling. Sa Jin-hyeok, sitting across from them, looked at them with an expression that seemed to say ‘This is why Espers are…’ before turning his head sideways. He looked disgusted.
From this reaction, Ho-woo realized that the dark obsession Yul was showing was quite normal and familiar in their world.
We still know so little about each other.
Ho-woo decided to think of this as the first step. The beginning of getting to know each other for two people who had been living behind high walls in their respective worlds.
“Now that it’s settled, you can call me Instructor here.”
And his preferences too.
So that’s the kind of thing he likes.
Yul, who vaguely read what Ho-woo was thinking, giggled with a mischievous laughter.
Sa Jin-hyeok, who had never seen Oh-yul laugh so lightly and innocently in all the time he had known him, gaped as if he had seen something unbelievable.
“Student Ho-woo.”
His playful voice was sweet. The voice overflowing with affection made Ho-woo’s heart flutter.
Oh, this feels quite nice…?
Was he into this kind of thing too? Ho-woo tried to deny it. No. He didn’t have such preferences. He was just going along with his lover’s taste.
Ho-woo cleared his throat.
“Instructor. Let’s go train.”
***
Ho-woo tightly closed his eyes.
“Ha… ugh…”
Heated breaths burst through his lips. His chest heaved up and down roughly, making his lungs feel as if they were being squeezed tight, but Ho-woo gritted his teeth.
Even though his trembling legs felt like they might collapse forward at any moment, he didn’t stop running towards the finish line. The adrenaline surging to the tips of his hair forced his tired body to move, pumping his heart vigorously.
“Ah… ungh…!”
The feeble voice that escaped while squeezing his lungs was sensual. At that voice, which was almost like a moan, the Esper running beside Ho-woo to encourage him clenched his fist.
How dare he show such a state to anyone. A sticky, swamp-like emotion briefly surfaced and then sank beneath his smile.
“I’m… I’m going to die.”
His clothes were already soaked with sweat as he ran along the edge of the training ground. As Oh-yul had suggested that the clothes he came in weren’t suitable for exercise, Ho-woo had changed into the basic gray gym clothes provided by the training center.
Fortunately, Espers developed better than ordinary people, so Ho-woo was able to find clothes that fit him perfectly.
Wearing those, Ho-woo was now running the last of 7 laps. The training ground was quite large, and for an office worker who had never exercised, 7 laps was quite an excessive workout.
Still, he didn’t say anything else and steadfastly completed his given task. When he stepped on the starting line that would be both his beginning and end, Ho-woo collapsed on the spot without putting any strength into his weakened legs.
His chest heaved greatly as he tried to catch his breath. Oh-yul’s gaze lingered for a long time on Ho-woo’s chest, where his sweat-soaked clothes clung, before forcibly tearing away.
As the cool-feeling floor touched his heated body, Ho-woo’s lips spread in satisfaction as if there was no greater heaven. As Ho-woo wriggled to press his body closer to the floor, he realized who was casting the shadow over his head.
“Is it very hard?”
“It might not be for you, Instructor, but it is for me.”
Yul’s lips curved up perfectly at being called “Instructor.”
Does he like being called Instructor that much?
Ho-woo looked up at the impeccable man who hadn’t even broken a sweat despite running with him, reminding himself of Yul’s unique tastes. Dressed in a black uniform on this hot day, he showed no signs of being hot or tired.
Rather, a comfortably cool chill emanated from him, and Ho-woo, still lying down, pulled down on his clothes to make him bend over. A tantalizing coolness, like sticking his head in a freezer, tickled his nose.
Enjoying that pleasant sensation, Ho-woo stretched out his languid body, closed his eyes, and patted the space next to him with his hand.
At Ho-woo’s bold request, Yul, who had been looking down at him in an awkward posture, lowered his body over Ho-woo’s.
He trapped the slender body, devoid of any visible muscle, between his legs, and leaned in deeply, bracing his hand on the ground next to Ho-woo’s head.
Ho-woo, who had been enjoying the approaching coolness with his eyes closed, gently opened them at the closely pressed presence and mingling breath.
Yul’s deeply bowed face was right in front of him.
The eyes, with a blue tinge spreading between the black pupils, were mysterious. The sea that Ho-woo loved was too beautiful, and he couldn’t see the rough waves lurking behind this beauty at all.
Without a trace of wariness, the clear brown eyes fully captured the black beast that was greedily scanning him.
Yul, with his eyes brimming with desire to devour the other from head to toe, stubbornly kept his nose tip touching Ho-woo’s and didn’t move.
Even when acting on his own whims, Yul’s eyes, which behaved like a polite gentleman during such contact, hid beneath his long eyelashes.
At the sight of him acting like a well-trained beast waiting for its master’s touch, Ho-woo wrapped his arms tightly around Yul’s neck.
The firm neck and shoulders, unmistakably male, pressed against his arms. The excitement-raised muscles, tightly tensed, could be felt clearly even through the clothes.
A growl, reminiscent of a beast’s, escaped from the Esper’s throat as he pressed down on the muscles drawn taut like a bowstring.
As if that was a signal, Ho-woo slightly tilted his head and firmly pressed his lips against the soft lips that were exhaling slightly rough breaths. The velvety sensation felt good. When he slightly opened his mouth and bit the lower lip, a low sigh rushed into his open mouth.
It was like bubbling lava, containing intense, hot excitement.
Ah…
That permission was enough. The hungry monster explored his pair’s mouth without hesitation.
In an instant, a violent tidal wave swallowed Ho-woo. The sea that had been sparkling with affection now growled with rough desire, bristling its fur.
“Ha…”
The Esper greedily claimed even the mouth that opened to catch a breath, pressing his body even closer.
Yul. Yul…
The satisfaction that the name rushing in ceaselessly through their pressed lips was his own surged to the tips of the Esper’s hair.
Barely suppressing the instinct to violently thrust energy into the body, he managed to let go of Ho-woo.
Fortunately, a thread-thin reason held him back, knowing that if he performed a deeper guiding here, he wouldn’t be able to control himself and would make Ho-woo faint.
The breathing that had just started to calm down became rapid again. Ho-woo rubbed his cheeks, which had become warm again from the rising heat.
Ho-woo seriously evaluated it as a clumsy but passionate kiss. The man who had said it was his first time in a relationship had learned quickly, as he had promised, after stumbling a bit at first.
Frighteningly fast.
