Chapter 5. Haetae (7)
While covering his face with both arms and chewing over resentment toward the Grand Duke who had made his body this way and anger at himself for ultimately being unable to overcome it, he felt Eckart getting down from the bed. Soon he heard the sound of water splashing, then something cold touched his bare skin.
“Mmph…”
When startled Ronen moved his arms away and looked down, Eckart was sitting in front of the bed, wiping his body with a cloth he had wrung out. Besides Eckart’s hand, his stomach and thighs were completely covered in semen. Having held back for several days, the amount was quite substantial.
Overcome with embarrassment, Ronen hurriedly grabbed Eckart’s arm.
“I’ll do it myself.”
He snatched the cloth away and wiped his body. With clumsy hand movements, the semen spread even wider and got on his hands too. Eckart, who had been holding his hand up in the air in the position it was snatched from, gently stopped Ronen who was holding the cloth.
“Let me help you.”
Ronen’s face instantly flushed red. It was because he remembered Eckart from just a few minutes ago, who had said the exact same words while grasping his cock without hesitation.
Others might have laughed if they saw. A male prostitute who had engaged in all sorts of acts, someone so worn and experienced that he could guarantee there was no act he hadn’t tried, was being shy like an inexperienced boy. For some reason, he couldn’t act nonchalant as usual, nor could he kill his feelings as he had done with the Grand Duke.
Since Eckart remained calm with only slightly reddened eyes, his own disgraceful behavior felt even more pronounced.
Ronen wiped Eckart’s hand with the cloth he was holding. He saw Eckart flinch.
“It’s because I’m too lewd that I dragged you into this. You only helped me, so the price of sin is mine to…”
“It’s mine.”
Eckart cut off his words, grasping Ronen’s hand to stop him, and spoke again.
“It’s my desire.”
Ronen looked at Eckart with wide, surprised eyes. He was still looking down at Ronen’s hand that he was holding.
Of course, Ronen had also noticed that Eckart was aroused. At least during that moment when he had grasped and rubbed his cock, he had looked at him with hotter eyes than anyone else’s. There was also the fact that he had become more excited by that gaze that seemed like it would devour him, that seemed to suffer as if unable to bear it.
But that had been an unavoidable situation. It was no different from him seducing Eckart. Since he had lured an upright knight with his lewd body, how could he blame him? Moreover, there must have been no small amount of sympathy for himself, who didn’t know what to do.
Sigh. Ronen let out a low sigh and spoke.
“…You. That position suits you very well, yet you seem burdened by it. That’s probably because you’re far too good to walk God’s merciless path. Good enough to offer sympathy even to sinners…”
A weak and pitiful servant of God who, though he wouldn’t waver at Satan’s temptation, would find it difficult to completely turn away from those suffering from Satan’s deception.
“So that’s why you’re hiding me like this.”
After a moment of silence, Eckart got up. He snatched away the wet cloth Ronen was holding and threw it on the floor, then began taking off his jacket. At Eckart’s sudden action, Ronen couldn’t hide his puzzled expression. Just as a hint of excited anticipation was visible, Eckart’s coat settled over Ronen’s body.
The sharply tailored uniform jacket was long enough to cover even Eckart’s buttocks with room to spare, so it roughly covered Ronen’s body. It was heavy enough that as he grasped it with both hands to lift it, Eckart leaned toward the blinking Ronen.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Eckart untied the cloth bound around his wrist, then suddenly pushed his hands under Ronen’s shoulders and legs and lightly lifted him up. It happened so quickly that by the time he came to his senses, he was already held in Eckart’s arms along with his coat.
Even without having to embrace Eckart’s neck, the firmly secured feeling was stable. He just felt embarrassed to be held like this by another man and lowered his head deeply. And so lightly, as if holding a woman. Eckart’s body touching his face was strong and warm as expected.
Carrying Ronen, Eckart opened the door and walked straight out of the building. After opening the front door, he briefly surveyed the surroundings, but it was a quiet village, and since it was late at night, there was no sign of people, not even the sound of animals.
Nevertheless, Eckart moved secretly only through particularly dark places. Since he only sought out secluded paths where people wouldn’t walk, Ronen couldn’t predict at all where he was being taken.
How long had they walked like that? Beyond randomly grown trees, shimmering moon waves revealed themselves. It was a lake sitting quietly under the dim moonlight hidden by clouds.
Eckart walked right up to the lake before setting Ronen down. Ronen, who had been captivated by the quite scenic view, slowly extended his foot. Since it was night, the air was even colder, and though he had only dipped his toes, it was bitingly cold as if it would freeze.
As he hesitated and tried to step back, Eckart, who had been watching him, spoke.
“There’s also the method of drawing water and heating it, so you don’t need to push yourself.”
As he pointed somewhere, Ronen also turned his head. Under the trees, buckets of various sizes and shapes were lined up randomly.
Ronen turned his gaze back toward the lake. Even if it was a bit reckless, he wanted to try it first.
When he threw off Eckart’s coat, the cold air touched his bare skin and his body shrank. With his arms crossed, he stepped forward one step at a time. When the water finally reached his calves, Ronen asked while trembling violently.
“If the water is this cold, couldn’t someone freeze to death?”
“I’ve seen people who drowned, but I haven’t seen anyone freeze to death yet.”
“Really? It’s not that there were no idiots who jumped into water in this weather?”
“I often did such things.”
That idiot was right in front of him. Ronen looked back at Eckart with an incredulous expression. Just because it was okay by his standards didn’t mean it would be for others too, but he seemed to have forgotten this simple fact.
“I didn’t know it would be that bad, it would be better to just draw water and go back.”
“No, no.”
Having a conversation seemed to help him adapt. Ronen said that at most he would just die anyway and strode through the water, cutting through the waves. His teeth chattered and his body grew cold and trembled, but he didn’t stop until the water reached his waist.
Ronen let out an amazed laugh.
“Ha… This is manageable.”
Actually, as Eckart had said, no one died from just this much. Human vitality was surprisingly tenacious.
As an example, Ronen had times when he ate and slept outside even on colder days than this. There were times when he jumped into water without hesitation to pick up bread crumbs floating on the water, whether someone had dropped them while eating, spilled them, or they were bird food.
Since being forced to live in confinement, he had completely forgotten cold and hunger. It was the price he gained for giving up being human.
His body kept trembling but it was bearable. Ronen took off his clothes entirely. His naked body absorbed the hazy moonlight and shone white. The movement of rubbing his body with wet clothes was vivid even in the darkness.
Eckart, who had at some point sat by the water’s edge with his hands in the water, caught his gaze that kept trying to turn in that direction. Instead, he looked down at his hands submerged in water. Moving his fingers slowly, he felt the current.
Clearly cold water was flowing between his fingers, but he remembered a different sensation. The feeling of grasping and shaking the hot, pulsing, meltingly soft intimate flesh was still vivid. All his senses remembered the skin that had brushed his palm, the shaft that swelled even more with excitement, and the twitching movement just before climax.
The skin that had flushed red with excitement at his touch, the twitching thighs and stomach, the face wet with sweat and tears, the lips that had let out sobbing moans—everything had been erotic. It was tempting enough to be a trial to endure.
Eckart pulled out his hands and clasped them together as if in prayer, pressing his forehead against them. Whether his hands had grown cold or his face had heated up, the temperature difference where they met was stark.
Maintaining that position while composing himself until the washing was finished, Eckart made an effort not to look at the wet naked body approaching the shore and handed over his coat.
Ronen roughly dried his body with the clothes he had worn, then put on the coat. The coat buttons were merely decorative, so he had no choice but to hold it closed with his hands. Fortunately, the size difference between the two men made the clothing very large.
Before Ronen’s feet touched the shore, Eckart embraced him in his arms just as when they had come. His steps were still steady, but he was moving faster than when they came. They arrived so quickly it seemed surprisingly close, and the two entered the much warmer room. As soon as he set him down on the bed, he pushed more logs into the fireplace.
Then, while heating milk to warm his insides, Eckart paused at the sound of approaching footsteps. Ronen, who had been roughly hanging his hand-washed white cloth garment over a chair, walked to the front of the fireplace and crouched down.
Eckart looked at Ronen warming himself by the fire while wearing his coat. His face was still calm, but if you looked closely, his eyes were blazing hot like flames devouring logs.
Ronen, already pale from being wet, was too erotic. In addition to that, he was wearing his coat and embracing his body with slender fingers. What fit perfectly when he wore it was large enough to cover Ronen’s calves. The shoulders, waist, and even sleeves had too much room, making Ronen appear even more delicate in comparison.
“I hope the clothes dry quickly.”
Eckart muttered without realizing it. Ronen agreed with him.
“…Me too.”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
