# 2
Jin-ha choked up and was about to bite the man’s tongue when the man firmly gripped his jaw.
“Ugh…!”
“I’m out of patience too, Lee Jin-ha.”
Riyekan released Jin-ha, then slipped his hand under one of Jin-ha’s knees and lifted it up. Jin-ha’s back slid up against the wall. Having lost his footing, Jin-ha stumbled and grabbed Riyekan’s shoulders. Though his hands were now free, being lifted off the ground had put him in an even more precarious position.
“Wait, let me go, ugh…!”
As he twisted his body trying to get down to the floor, his knee twisted. Riyekan smiled coldly, pushing him further against the wall and lifting him higher. Now Jin-ha had both knees over Riyekan’s shoulders, his back against the wall. The only thing he could grab was Riyekan’s head, but he couldn’t bring himself to grab the man’s hair.
Jin-ha was afraid of what would happen next.
Riyekan casually reached out and began undoing Jin-ha’s waistband.
Jin-ha screamed out, “Ri-Riyekan!”
“I’ll make you feel good.”
Jin-ha flinched, not knowing what to do. He was now suspended in midair, and if he pulled his legs in, he would be squeezing Riyekan’s head with his thighs, but if he spread them to avoid that, he would be exposing his groin to Riyekan.
“Ah…!”
Finally, when Riyekan had completely undone his waistband and taken what he wanted into his mouth, Jin-ha shuddered and desperately clutched at whatever he could grab. He had no other way to endure it. Riyekan paid no mind and sucked on Jin-ha’s dick like it was candy.
“Ah, ah, ahh…!”
When Riyekan’s canine teeth grazed the tip of his dick, Jin-ha barely managed to hold back from climaxing. He tensed the muscles in his buttocks and thighs to resist, but that only resulted in him squeezing Riyekan’s head tightly between his legs.
He heard Riyekan laugh from below. Even his breath was stimulating.
Jin-ha twisted his hips helplessly before finally pleading.
“Please…”
“Please what?”
“I’m begging you, not like this… let’s go to the bed… the bed…”
“So, we’re in a serious relationship now?”
At that teasing question, Jin-ha gritted his teeth and nodded.
Suddenly his body plummeted. Riyekan caught him effortlessly and whispered sweetly in his ear.
“You should have said so from the beginning. Don’t you think?”
Damn it.
Jin-ha trembled and squeezed his eyes shut. Riyekan hummed a tune as he lifted Jin-ha in his arms and began walking.
After climbing stairs and walking down a hallway, they soon arrived at Riyekan’s room. There was a sudden gust of wind, and the door opened by itself. Candles lit one after another, quickly brightening the dark room. It was Riyekan’s magic.
Jin-ha wondered how he had ended up like this and recalled the day he first met Riyekan.
Back then, he never imagined he would have this kind of relationship with this man.
* * *
Weeeeeeee—
The high-pitched siren blared everywhere. Despite the heavy rain pouring late at night, citizens were busy evacuating. Some were in cars, but others, seeing the congested roads, abandoned their luggage and boarded buses with only backpacks.
Even in times like these—no, especially in times like these—bus lanes were strictly maintained to transport people to other cities.
Jin-ha was looking down at the city from a helicopter, which was noisy despite the darkness, when he felt a vibration and checked his phone.
“Are you serious about what you asked for? Once we start, there might be traces left. Do you really want to proceed?”
Jin-ha stared at these words blankly before replying with a simple “Yes.”
“Jin-ha, the radar status check is complete…”
Section Chief Nam Hyun-seok, sitting next to him, turned the tablet to show Jin-ha the screen. At the very bottom of the complex display, the words “Status Good” were clearly visible.
“The radar is fine, but it didn’t detect the gate right before connection…”
“What if it’s a new type of gate that can’t be detected?”
Jin-ha’s expression darkened at those words.
Throughout the helicopter ride from Seoul to Chuncheon in Gangwon Province, he had hoped it was just a radar management oversight. If the radar was functioning properly but still failed to detect the gate, similar problems might occur worldwide in the future. And now it seemed that was indeed the case.
No, it was too early to make conclusions.
Jin-ha decided not to draw any conclusions until he had seen it with his own eyes.
“Passengers, please hold on tight.”
With the pilot’s calm warning, Jin-ha grabbed the handle beside his seat. The aircraft tilted sharply to the left, just as a surfboard whizzed by on the right. Following it were a plastic bottle, an umbrella, and what looked like tent debris. The helicopter skillfully navigated toward its destination through the storm with flying debris.
“The wind is getting stronger, so we must be almost there.”
Indeed, Mount Yonghwa was now visible. Fierce winds rode the rough magical currents pushing from somewhere on the mountainside. This was a phenomenon that occurred when a gate had accumulated enough magical power and was about to burst.
Jin-ha looked down at the mountain with worried eyes. The densely grown forest, soaked and swaying in the rain and wind, resembled a wavy sea. The swaying leaves gleamed like ripples in the moonlight, but rather than being beautiful, there was something eerie about it, as if something was lurking behind.
Looking carefully, he could glimpse building rooftops and artificial lights through the forest.
“This place was quite a nice recreational forest during my father’s time.”
A recreational forest. That was a term whose meaning was barely understood in the current era.
It was all because of the Great World Cataclysm that occurred 42 years ago.
The Great World Cataclysm brought gates and dungeons to this world. Earth became a completely different place. Many people died in the process, and even now, the damage from that time had not been fully recovered—recreational forests were a luxury.
The fortunate thing was that humans had also undergone changes. Among humans, there appeared those called “Hunters” who had the power to fight against monsters.
In fact, the reason they could fly safely in this helicopter despite the unsuitable conditions was because the helicopter was an artifact made by a Hunter, and the pilot was also a Hunter with special flying abilities.
And Jin-ha, being a Hunter himself, had been called to Mount Yonghwa in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province, on this night. More precisely, because he was a Hunter dispatched to the National Anomaly Management Office, the government agency that managed gates and dungeons in Korea.
“Here’s our landing point.”
At the pilot’s words, Jin-ha unbuckled his safety belt and stood up. When he opened the door, strong winds swirled inside the hovering helicopter.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“It’s nothing. It’s my job.”
Jin-ha, wearing a disposable floating artifact, jumped out first. His falling speed gradually slowed, to the point where gravity was barely felt by the time he touched the ground. Soon after, Section Chief Nam followed, and the two hurried toward the building that was once called a lodge.
Following the artificial light, they quickly reached their destination, Lodge C. Amidst civil servants in raincoats bustling around, organizing the surroundings and setting up antennas and performing other duties, Jin-ha spotted an unexpected face.
“Jin-ha!”
“Doctor.”
The man surrounded by bodyguards was Dr. Jo Sung-hyun, a scientist belonging to the same World Gate Information Association as Jin-ha. It was strange. Dr. Jo Sung-hyun was a high-level member of the association and not someone who would be in such harsh conditions on a rainy day.
“What brings you here?”
“I discovered this gate.”
“You did, Doctor?”
He gestured for Jin-ha to enter the tent and showed him some sample specimens.
“Here, this used to be a site where a fairy realm dungeon appeared. I came to see if there might be some fairy wing powder samples since I urgently needed them. I did find the samples I wanted, but there was also a gate.”
Dungeons referred to places where parts of other realms were transferred to this land, and gates were passages to other realms.
Both appeared suddenly after the Great World Cataclysm, threatening people regardless of Earth’s inhabitants’ wishes. They were a major threat during the early days of the Great World Cataclysm, but fortunately, by now, they could be somewhat dealt with through radar.
Dr. Jo Sung-hyun seemed to have come looking for traces of the fairy realm dungeon that had been conquered at that time.
“Thanks to you, we had time to evacuate the citizens. I’m truly grateful.”
“What do you have to thank me for, Jin-ha? Anyway, before you go, take a look at this.”
There were two samples. One was a dull pink powder that Jin-ha was familiar with, and the other sparkled as if it were a mixture of finely ground diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and various other jewels.
“Could you look at this with your eyes, Jin-ha?”
“Yes.”
Jin-ha examined the samples for a moment before sighing.
“Both are… fairy wing powder. The sparkling one is of a higher grade.”
“Traces of this new wing powder were only found right in front of the gate. You know what that means, Jin-ha?”
“This gate is… a fairy realm gate, and it’s already connected.”
A state where it was perfectly connected to another realm, allowing invasions from their side to ours at any time. On the other side was a high-grade fairy that had never been encountered on Earth before. However, for some reason, the fairy had crossed over to this side and then returned. The sample that Dr. Jo Sung-hyun presented was evidence of this fact.
Coming over and going straight back—what could be the reason?
