Because he’d ejaculated several times, Shim Iyul’s rear was messy with semen. Eun Seonmyeong felt his breath dry up watching Shim Iyul’s rear dripping his semen every time he lightly touched it.
‘A Fire Fox covered in marks I left all over his body while dripping my semen from behind.’
His fingertips tingled with an inexplicable sense of fulfillment.
Eun Seonmyeong roughly wiped Shim Iyul’s body with a towel moistened with water while tracing with his gaze the marks he’d left. Absurdly, his lower half stood up again every time he passed over the splotchy traces of intercourse remaining on the white, clean skin. Even the sight of Shim Iyul obediently receiving his touch, unlike usual, seemed to stimulate him instead.
Clearly he’d done it until there was nothing left to come out, yet his body heated up easily. It seemed like reason lost its value of existence in front of Shim Iyul. It was as if reason didn’t even exist.
He’d thought that if he did it one more time, the strange lust toward Shim Iyul would disappear, but it wasn’t the case. Rather, it felt more desperate.
Eun Seonmyeong let out a hollow laugh while rubbing Shim Iyul’s smooth thigh.
A useless waste of time and stamina. The time and stamina spent coming all the way here felt wasted. Seeing how his lower abdomen tightened again even after rolling around like a beast until just now, even if jeong-ansu flowed in his veins instead of blood, it was certain that the moment he faced Shim Iyul his head would become messy and sexual desire would explode.
‘Have I been properly captivated by a Fire Fox?’
Is this what happens when you’re captivated by a fox? Constantly wanting to roll around, thinking about them? As if your heart has been entirely mortgaged?
As he laughed self-deprecatingly, Shim Iyul pushed away Eun Seonmyeong’s hand and fumbled to put on his clothes.
“I need to wash. A towel won’t solve it.”
Eun Seonmyeong took the abruptly standing Shim Iyul toward the pond where they’d caught Gasaeo.
“Will you be okay? The water’s really cold. I warned you.”
“What are you talking about? You went in, so why can’t I?”
Shim Iyul snorted and stripped off his clothes, then jumped into the pond. And in that instant almost cursed “Fuck.” The water was a hundred times colder than he’d thought. Eun Seonmyeong, who followed into the water, looked at the pale Shim Iyul with eyes that seemed to say ‘I warned you, didn’t I?’
“This much is fine.”
He was being cocky, but it was cold. Even if he soaked his body in water all day, he wouldn’t fall sick with a cold, but Shim Iyul hated the cold. Having lived alone for long years and experienced cold countless times, he disliked coldness. Cold resembled loneliness and emptiness.
Shim Iyul, who had roughly washed his body, quickly exited the pond. As he was about to put on clothes, Eun Seonmyeong, who had followed out of the pond, said “Wait” and then made Shim Iyul get on all fours. Then he suddenly pushed fingers into his hole.
“What? Want to do it again?”
“I need to scrape out the semen. Why? Do you want to keep my stuff in there?”
Eun Seonmyeong pressed firmly on Shim Iyul’s inner wall. Actually, after wiping his body earlier, he’d tried to scrape out the semen too, but couldn’t because Shim Iyul had jumped up saying he’d wash himself.
“A-are you crazy?!”
Shim Iyul, who became embarrassed and ashamed for a moment, shouted. Keeping the hunter’s semen inside his body…
“Then stay still.”
Eun Seonmyeong inserted his finger deeply and meticulously scraped out the semen while rubbing the inner wall. Shim Iyul tensed his thighs and desperately held back the moans that kept trying to escape. Touching the inner walls that had become extremely sensitive since it hadn’t been long since they finished having sex made his breathing quicken again and his body try to heat up. His lower body felt like it would stand up, which was agonizing.
Fortunately, the finger withdrew before his lower half became fully erect. Shim Iyul hurriedly dried his body and put on his clothes, worried his slightly swollen groin would be discovered. Then he stood with his back to Eun Seonmyeong and steadied his breathing.
The situation was the same for Eun Seonmyeong. He too looked down at his slightly swollen lower half with difficulty before putting on his clothes.
The mountain weather was bitingly cold, but the air surrounding the two was hot and sticky like mucus. Standing with their backs to each other, the two only let out hot breaths and fell silent for a moment.
A moment later, Shim Iyul, feeling his body temperature return to normal, looked at Eun Seonmyeong suspiciously. Although it was long ago, because he’d chosen Mr. Park as his companion, Shim Iyul knew a fair amount about intercourse between men. Though he never knew his body had talent for being the bottom too, but anyway. The point is he knows that much—that it’s not good for the body to keep semen inside the rear. But it seemed suspicious that even that hunter who’d been a virgin knew this.
“Hey.”
“Why?”
“You weren’t a virgin.”
“Of course not. Did you already forget we were rolling around together until just now?”
Eun Seonmyeong laughed incredulously.
“No, I mean! You weren’t a virgin before doing it with me either, right?”
Even the first time, he did it so skillfully without hesitation that it was puzzling—it’s a bit suspicious after all.
“What nonsense is this? And I said virgin ban, eoppeop ban.”
“I won’t mention virgin or eoppeop starting 1 minute from now. Just 1 minute! Be honest. Were you really a virgin?”
Shim Iyul’s eyes narrowed like threads. While finding Shim Iyul’s question puzzling, thinking ‘Why is he like this?’, Eun Seonmyeong answered obediently.
“Yes.”
“But how do you know you need to scrape out the semen?”
“Just because I have no experience doesn’t mean I have no knowledge? How old am I?”
Not just anyone has knowledge about anal sex. The reason Eun Seonmyeong, despite being a virgin, gained that knowledge was because of the third commission he received after becoming gaju. A ghost who died in an accident while harboring an unrequited love for someone of the same sex had attached to the object of their unrequited love, and that ghost’s nyeom was precisely anal intercourse.
For a ghost, it talked so much—saying if they let it have anal intercourse just once with the object of their unrequited love they’d leave, chattering on and on about same-sex intercourse. He went to exorcise but only accumulated useless knowledge.
Eun Seonmyeong threatened ‘If you don’t get lost right now, I’ll shatter your soul’ and removed the ghost. He didn’t care about the whereabouts of the terrified ghost afterward. The commission fee was 100 million won, and at that time he thought he’d do anything if they paid a lot of money so he accepted it, but he remembers it as a commission that really dirtied his ears.
Even then, he thought it was knowledge he’d absolutely never use, but he never dreamed he’d use it on a Fire Fox. He really didn’t know he’d end up completely giving his body, which he’d protected while declaring non-marriage, to a fox. He truly didn’t know that sex, that pleasure, could drive a person’s reason insane. He never even dreamed he’d go crazy with sexual desire.
“So you’re saying you were definitely a virgin?”
Shim Iyul confirmed again.
“Should I write you an affidavit? ‘I was a virgin until such-and-such date’?”
“Why go as far as an affidavit? I believe you, I’ll believe you.”
Looking at Shim Iyul’s face, who seemed satisfied with the answer and was even humming while smiling, it felt like his chest was swelling. A strange emotion he’d felt for the first time in his life burrowed into his stomach. It was such an unfamiliar emotion that he absolutely couldn’t name it.
“I’m hungry.”
Shim Iyul rubbed his lower abdomen. Arriving at Jirisan early in the morning, all he’d eaten until late afternoon was a few pieces of Gasaeo sashimi. Though he’d caught 4 and Shim Iyul ate almost 3 of them, anyway, that amount wasn’t even a snack.
“You wait at the lodge. As soon as I draw jeong-ansu from Tiger Rock, let’s go down, eat dinner, and go up to Seoul.”
Since he realized being in Jirisan was useless, it would be better to go up without adding unnecessary hardship.
“Things like drawing jeong-ansu, make a bongshin do it. Why come yourself and make me suffer? I woke up at dawn to follow you so I’m dying of exhaustion. Really, no consideration. No consideration.”
Shaking his head, Shim Iyul went ahead first. Eun Seonmyeong looked at Shim Iyul’s back getting farther away and muttered “You said you didn’t follow me, but now you’re admitting it,” then ended up laughing. Then he went to the lodge, gathered containers, and drew jeong-ansu. Originally when he came once, he’d wait a day or two until the container filled completely before returning, but today his heart felt inexplicably impatient so he only filled 1/3. He knew he couldn’t last long with this amount and would have to come back soon, but thinking of Shim Iyul made his heart rush.
Running back to the lodge, he saw Shim Iyul with both hands in his pants pockets, stamping his feet. The tip of his nose, frozen from the cold, was red like a ripe strawberry. It seemed he’d been outside for quite a long time.
“Why are you being pitiful outside in the cold? Surely you weren’t waiting for me.”
Unlike the reproachful tone, Eun Seonmyeong’s eyes looking at Shim Iyul were warm.
“Of course. Why would I wait for you? I’m hungry. Hungry! If you’re done drawing it, let’s hurry down.”
Shim Iyul, who muttered like an excuse, urged him to hurry. The two gathered their things and came down from Jirisan. It had already been long since sunset and everywhere was so dark you couldn’t see an inch ahead, but the dark mountain path wasn’t a problem at all for the two.
After driving and having a late dinner at a restaurant called Jangsu Garden, the first one they saw, they arrived in Seoul at dawn. While Eun Seonmyeong was parking, Shim Iyul, who had entered the house first and naturally climbed up to the main building’s floor, discovered a memo stuck in front of Eun Seonmyeong’s room and flinched.
「Gaju, I fixed the boiler in the annex where Fox-nim is staying. Fox-nim, the call didn’t go through—where did you go?」
Taking out his phone, it was off. He didn’t know when it turned off, but it seemed to have turned off by itself when the battery died. Shim Iyul, standing with arms crossed and glaring at the memo, sensed Eun Seonmyeong’s presence entering through the gate and hurriedly tore it off and stuffed it in his pocket.
“What are you doing instead of going in?”
“I-I’m going in.”
Shim Iyul entered the room with one hand in his pocket crumpling the memo. There’s no particular meaning. It’s just that the hunter’s room is warmer, so he was planning to return to the annex when the extreme cold wave retreated.
If that cold-hearted hunter knew the boiler was fixed, he’d kick him out. Thinking that made him a little depressed.
