Chapter 112: Hangover

From the moment he couldn’t break the reinforced wall erected by the Crow in one go, Tae Hwan’s mood had been off.

He, who had lived a smooth life except for manifesting as an Esper, was not accustomed to difficulties.

If he hadn’t had something he wanted to protect, he wouldn’t have been this anxious.

“Why. Does your head hurt?”

Bodam cupped Tae Hwan’s face, who had said he felt like he was going to lose his mind, with both hands.

As he lifted his head to make him look straight at him, Bodam’s alcohol-hazy eyes widened.

‘Lee Tae Hwan is crying. The noisy guy, without a sound.’

Bodam, who was so surprised that he sent out guiding first, slid off the bed.

He sat close to Tae Hwan, examined his complexion, and wiped his tears.

“Are you crying because you’re in pain? Does it hurt?”

Tae Hwan, who squeezed his eyes shut as Bodam’s warm energy seeped into his body, tried to bow his head again.

‘Why is Yoon Bodam so, kind and pretty.’ ‘I’m going crazy with anxiety because he’s a guide that every Esper in the world would covet.

What if someone snatches him away. What if the Crow bastard who disappeared even from Team 1’s annex, which is covered in barriers, kidnaps you.’

“Where does it hurt. Tell me. Lift your head.”

Bodam grabbed Tae Hwan’s bangs and pulled them up, forcing him to make eye contact.

The Esper’s rapidly beating heart was sucking up the guiding even more strongly.

‘It means his condition is that bad.’

“I’m here. Lee Tae Hwan.”

Bodam held Tae Hwan’s slightly trembling hand and placed it on his own cheek, confirming his presence.

He could feel the Esper’s anxious energy even while receiving guiding.

It was a gaze that seemed to be searching for him, who was right in front of his eyes.

His fear made even Bodam’s heart beat faster.

“Don’t cry.”

Peck. Bodam, who kissed the cheek where a tear had fallen, whispered.

He continued to speak, not taking his lips off Tae Hwan’s face.

“You’re scaring me. I’m afraid you’ll rampage.”

At the word “rampage” that he had uttered, the choked-up Bodam’s eyes also reddened.

Just like when his heart had raced and tears had come when Lee Tae Hwan had shouted.

“I’m, scared…”

The heart that he thought had fully recovered easily collapsed at a small stimulus.

Tears burst out as if to say that a wound that had accumulated for a long time could not be healed in one go.

“Don’t curse, at me…!”

Bodam, whose thin shoulders were shaking, cried much more loudly than Tae Hwan.

Trying to comfort him, he ended up punching Tae Hwan again, telling him not to get angry.

He poured out his accumulated sorrow, telling him not to yell or curse.

“I’m, in pain. You Lee Tae Hwan bastard.”

Tae Hwan, who had been shedding tears along with him out of guilt, was startled by the words “in pain” and his eyes widened.

“Where.”

He whispered in a very small voice that only Bodam, who was right in front of him, could hear, and examined every part of his body.

“Are you hurt? Hmm? Where does it hurt.”

At Tae Hwan’s serious question, Bodam beat his own chest and poured out tears.

He cried so much that he couldn’t see Tae Hwan’s face properly, so he even flailed his hands and sobbed.

He sought out Tae Hwan, who was sitting stuck to him, and threw a drunken fit.

“Where are you. Where.”

“I’m here. I’m right here.”

Bodam, who had been closing the already close distance, bumped lips with Tae Hwan.

Tae Hwan didn’t avoid the approaching Bodam and just watched.

The two, whose lips and chins had bumped, flinched for a moment, but soon Bodam was the first to press his lips against his.

His heartbeat was so tumultuous that it felt like he had to put it to sleep right away.

Even with pouring out guiding, Tae Hwan’s anxiety didn’t seem to subside.

He also felt a sense of camaraderie in that they were crying together.

Anyway, the alcohol was the problem.

Sitting on Lee Tae Hwan’s lap was all led by the alcohol.

“Yoon Bodam…”

Tae Hwan, who swallowed the rest of his words, received Bodam who was opening his lips with the tip of his tongue.

His heart stopped for a moment and then started beating again at the sensual gaze that was looking down at him with glazed eyes.

‘It was already driving me crazy that he was pretty and cute, but now he’s even sexy.’

Bodam, who wrapped his arms around Tae Hwan’s hardened neck, felt his subsiding drunkenness rising again.

The heat that came in deeply as he tilted his head little by little was excessively hot.

It felt like his body heat was making the alcohol rise.

The smell of Tae Hwan that seeped in every time he took a ragged breath made him feel strange.

It felt like his lower abdomen was tickling.

“Ah…!”

Tae Hwan, who had raised his knees, pushed Bodam onto the bed.

Even Tae Hwan’s hand on his waist was burning hot.

A tingling sensation arose in all the parts of his body that were touching him.

‘I don’t think we should go any further than this. But, I started it. It’s weird to stop too… No, but still, this is.’

“Wait, haa, just a moment.”

Bodam pushed against Tae Hwan’s chest, which felt like his heart was about to pop out, and pulled his lips away.

Because only his upper body was on the bed, he struggled with his legs entangled with Tae Hwan’s, trying to create a gap.

“It hurts, be gentle…”

“It hurts?”

“I said be gentle.”

Tae Hwan, who was so heated up that his body was in pain, barely listened to Bodam’s words.

Gentle. Okay, gentle.

“Like this?”

Tae Hwan, who had pressed and pulled his lips away with a wet sound, looked down at Bodam.

He was on the verge of losing his reason at the sight of him panting on the white sheets that looked just like him.

“More gently?”

Tae Hwan just pecked him like stamping a seal and waited for an answer on his lips.

He bit his tongue, hoping that the words “let’s stop here” wouldn’t come out.

To avoid making a mistake.

“Not gently…”

“Hmm?”

Tae Hwan, who had straightened his back at the sensation of their lips brushing every time he spoke, followed the ensuing whisper.

‘Be soft. So it doesn’t hurt.’

“…If it hurts, hit me. Poke my eye.”

Tae Hwan, who continued the kiss as gently as possible according to Bodam’s words, clasped his hands.

He intertwined their fingers and pulled them towards his eyes, ready to be hit at any moment.

Trying to somehow correct his thoughts that were heading down a lewd path.

Bodam, who didn’t know Tae Hwan’s inner turmoil of exploding fireworks, just felt good.

The sensation of Tae Hwan, who always sucked on his lips until they were tingling after mucous membrane guiding, gently filling his mouth was thrilling.

‘Did it always feel like this? What is this feeling?’

“Lee Tae, hwan.”

Bodam’s faint voice slipped in between the sound of tender flesh meeting.

Tae Hwan came down below his chin so he could speak and buried his lips in his neck.

“You, taste like blood.”

“…Blood?”

“There’s blood. Lee Tae Hwan, blood.”

Puzzled by the sudden talk of blood, Tae Hwan lifted his head only after leaving a red mark on his pale neck.

Bodam was already asleep.

“You’re asleep?”

Tae Hwan, who tied the reins of his reason even tighter, laid the softly breathing Bodam down properly.

He pecked the lips that were letting out even breaths for a moment, then came to his senses and covered him with the blanket.

“Yoon Bodam.”

He lay down next to the deeply sleeping Bodam and whispered, brushing back his fallen hair.

“Bodam.”

He shyly put the familiar address, which he had never called him before, on his lips and called him until he was sick of it.

Then, with a sunken voice, he made a wish that would not be delivered.

‘Stay with me. Don’t go. Please stay with me. I’ll do better.’

Bodam, who couldn’t hear Tae Hwan’s wish, slept soundly, his moist mouth slightly open.

Tae Hwan, who was watching him as if mesmerized, pecked his lips one last time.

***

Bodam didn’t wake up until the sun was high in the sky the next day.

While their exclusive guide was sleeping soundly, the Espers, who had each taken a rest, gathered at the table to prepare for their meeting with Aram.

Their attention was all on the upper floor where Bodam was sleeping, but they were participating in the meeting with a certain degree of seriousness.

“Hyung, do you think Kang Yi Jun has gone over too? That bastard isn’t the type to stick to anyone.”

Ji Oh, who had given up on memorizing the data on the Crow, asked, taking a sip of strong liquor.

Ji Oh, who had been drained from searching for Yoon Bodam last night, had been sipping alcohol ever since he had detected the thick guiding emanating from Tae Hwan.

“The important thing is that he’s with the Crow, so just focus on catching him.”

Seung Ho had a premonition that Kang Yi Jun would appear again.

It was clear that he would show himself, whether he returned alone or with the Crow.

Because what he wanted was not freedom, but Yoon Bodam.

“Lee Tae Hwan, you just focus on Aram.”

Today was the D-day designated by Tae Hwan.

The 3-day deadline he had given the twin brother was until this morning.

Attack Team 1, which was in charge of this operation, expected that if Aram appeared, the Crow would also move.

The unregistered individuals, who had recently been acting conspicuously on purpose, were drawing the Center’s attention.

They thought that now that they had infiltrated the Center and even taken a mind-type Esper, they would show a bigger action.

Tae Hwan had set the stage at a timely moment.

“The Crow.”

“You just worry about Aram. You don’t know how the rampage ability is activated, so don’t rush in like you usually do.”

“Will Team 1 be enough to handle him? At best, only Team Leader Baek is useful there. Even if hyung joins, it’s just one B-class barrier.”

Tae Hwan showed a defiant attitude throughout the meeting.

He had been very sensitive since he had left Bodam’s room.

Conscious of the Crow who could appear at any moment, he had been opening Bodam’s door every 10 minutes to check on him.

It was to the point where even Ji Oh, who had been getting annoyed by his side, was infected by Tae Hwan’s anxiety.

“Don’t make me say it multiple times.”

“I’ll take Yoon Bodam.”

They had judged that it was safer to be with Bodam at the site than to leave him alone at the Center.

Tae Hwan, who had reached a point where his heartbeat became unstable if Bodam was not in front of his eyes, stubbornly insisted that he would take him.

He was slightly out of his mind.

“No. What’s more dangerous than the Crow right now is Aram.”

No matter how S-class he was, it was safer to be with the barrier ability user Seung Ho than Tae Hwan.

Even Ji Oh, who had been put in an ambiguous neutral position, thought that if he had to be with one of them, Han Seung Ho was the best.

‘Though his pride is f*cking hurt, judging rationally.’

“Hyung is dangerous too. How do you know you won’t use Yoon Bodam as bait for the Crow.”

At Tae Hwan’s sharp remark, Ji Oh, who reacted with an “ah, right,” glared at Seung Ho.

If it was Han Seung Ho, who would do anything to complete a mission, he would have more than enough reason to sacrifice a guide.

“Stop with the nonsense and just do your job properly.”

“What’s nonsense. Why would I trust you with Yoon Bodam.”

Tae Hwan, who was more sensitive than ever, was even suspicious of Min Ji Oh.

It was possible that the Crow, who was said to change his appearance frequently, was sitting there wearing Min Ji Oh’s mask.

And Han Seung Ho was a target worth being wary of even if he wasn’t the Crow.

“The deployment of the guide is under my authority as team leader.”

“Bullshit. A team leader who’s not even A-class.”

“I’m better than you, who can’t multi-task.”

“Ha, can you even put up a proper barrier with that one right arm?!”

“At least I’ve never let a guide get injured on site.”

Thump!

Ji Oh, who had been excluded from Tae Hwan and Seung Ho’s childish pissing contest, slammed the table.

“Let Yoon Bodam choose! Shit, it’s his decision, is it for us to decide?!”

Creak.

As soon as Ji Oh’s shout, which had broken the table, finished, the door upstairs opened.

After that, the three frozen Espers only moved their eyes at the sound of footsteps stomping down the stairs.

The blushing Bodam came down, flapping the new pajamas he had been changed into.

With a painful hangover.