The Unbelievers

Chapter 102

Eunseong fell to the floor while trying to escape the bed due to Siwoon’s persistent advances throughout the night. Siwoon picked up Eunseong’s fallen body and placed it back on the bed. He buried his face in Eunseong’s backside as they lay face down, not stopping at just touching with his hands but also nibbling and biting at the prominent skin.

Eunseong’s dick discharged enough secretions to soak the bed. Their thighs were completely wet with moisture as Siwoon’s dick penetrated from behind, joining them in intense union.

Being held, bitten, nibbled, and penetrated by him, Eunseong lost consciousness near dawn.

Eunseong woke up first. Upon opening their eyes, they saw the muscular arm wrapped around them. The man’s breathing was steady behind Eunseong’s back, embracing them while conforming to Eunseong’s curved position.

“…”

Even after opening their eyes, it took Eunseong a while to come to their senses, looking with disbelief at his arm holding them and the tattoo that extended from his hand to his arm. When they managed to turn their head to look back, they saw Siwoon in deep sleep.

What happened last night—no, what happened until this dawn—wasn’t a dream but reality.

Turning over to face him while shifting position, Eunseong quietly gazed at his sleeping form. His ash-gray hair was disheveled, falling across his face. Eunseong stared in sequence at the man’s bare shoulders and chest, at the naked body and tattoos they had longed to see.

Having rarely examined him this closely before, Eunseong only now discovered the small scar above Siwoon’s eyebrow and the fine hair on his cheeks.

As Eunseong quietly observed him, his eyelids twitched, his eyebrows twisted, and his brow furrowed. Then Siwoon opened his eyes. Their eyes met with his deep gray pupils.

“…”

“…Did you sleep well?”

Siwoon’s low voice asked quietly. Eunseong nodded slightly. Using his arm as a pillow, even the small movement made Eunseong feel his skin against their cheek.

“Um…, I’m hungry.”

Their voice came out cracked. They had moaned all night until their throat was hoarse. Eunseong vaguely remembered the cries of pleasure they had made last night. They had accepted him while making sounds like those of a sex-crazed animal. Siwoon was the same. As if a different, baser personality had emerged, his tongue had panted savagely, and he had ejaculated with animal-like groans.

Looking lovingly at Eunseong who said they were hungry, his slightly smiling lips were the same ones that had hung obsessively between Eunseong’s thighs last night, where there were neither testicles nor pubic hair.

“Hungry?”

“I’m so hungry, it feels like my stomach is sticking to my back.”

Fortunately, Eunseong seemed to only remember fragments of last night. If they had remembered everything clearly, they wouldn’t have been able to stare directly at Siwoon’s face and say they were hungry.

“I’ll get you something. It’ll be hard for you to get up. Just lie down for a bit.”

“…”

Siwoon kissed Eunseong’s forehead. The dry skin strongly emanated his scent, their combined body odor.

He got up from the bed. His body, which had been sticky with sweat and semen, was now dry. He picked up his pants from the floor and put them on.

After briefly looking back at Eunseong lying motionless on the bed, Siwoon left the room. As he walked through the living room toward the kitchen, his movements suddenly stiffened.

“…”

Director Nam, who had been sitting on the living room sofa, stood up. He turned toward Siwoon and bowed his head in greeting. Time had already passed noon. The dark night had gone, morning had broken, and it was bright outside the window.

Having arrived at Siwoon’s residence in the morning as usual, Director Nam had been waiting for him to wake up. It had been a mistake to enter that room when he found it strange that there was no sign of Eunseong.

Director Nam had seen the two figures lying overlapped on the bed. After intensely mixing their bodies, they had been weighed down by sweet exhaustion in their limbs and were in deep sleep.

“Did you sleep well, sir.”

“…”

This was the same Siwoon who had declared he would absolutely never do such a thing to Eunseong. The same one who had sternly rejected Director Nam’s suggestion to even pretend to use Eunseong, saying he couldn’t tolerate the very idea. The one who had said he wouldn’t get aroused even if he had to undergo chemical castration, that he would never violate that body, never respond to those feelings. He was the one who had tried to betray his family by becoming a non-believer because he disliked such acts.

Rubbing his rough face with his hand, Siwoon sighed deeply. He knew this was an issue he could never hide from Director Nam, but he hadn’t expected it to be revealed so quickly.

“Did you confirm it?”

“…”

Director Nam asked. There was no sign of reproach for Siwoon’s complete change of stance. Siwoon hadn’t spent the night undressing and exploring Eunseong to confirm the group of snakes said to be in the abyss. In the bright daylight, facing another person while half-naked, he was realizing what he had done.

“Did you… confirm it?” Director Nam asked again. His voice trembled with tension.

“Yes.” Siwoon plainly admitted.

“Is it really true?”

Director Nam’s eyes widened.

“What significance does that have now?”

“Is Eunseong really that being? Did you see it?”

Despite hearing that Eunseong had reacted to the red cinnabar, Director Nam had vaguely hoped until the very end that they weren’t that being. If they definitely matched the prophecy, then the life ahead would be incomparably more arduous than the already difficult life they had led so far.

When he didn’t know Eunseong well and only saw them as the source of the problem, he had no human sympathy. There was even a time when he found Siwoon’s principled refusal to use Eunseong’s value frustrating.

Perhaps because Eunseong had grown up enduring hardship, they had many small emotional wounds. If Director Nam kept his distance, Eunseong would become defensive from feeling hurt, but with just a little kindness, those hurt feelings would easily dissolve, and they would approach him with such familiarity that it seemed they might reveal all their secrets—truly a twenty-year-old kid.

Director Nam realized he had engaged in too long and deep a human connection with Eunseong, and that he wished for Eunseong not to be the prophesied being but to maintain an ordinary life like any other young person of that age.

“That’s not an important issue to me. What happened last night… was unrelated to that.”

Siwoon had no intention when he embraced Eunseong. He had simply released what he had been suppressing and holding back all this time. He had merely opened his eyes to the emotions he had hidden in the depths of his heart without acknowledging them. It wasn’t because Eunseong was the “Great Rift” that he had developed feelings.

Though he himself knew best how he felt about Eunseong, Siwoon couldn’t confidently claim that there was no impure motive in what happened last night. It was because he had seen evidence of the prophecy.

The overwhelming emotion at that moment was beyond words. More than astonishment, a storm of amazement enveloped him. He wanted to shout wildly with joy. Burying his face between Eunseong’s legs and sucking at their flesh, Siwoon felt like tearing at his own hair.

“So it’s true.”

“…”

“It’s true after all.”

“…”

Despite Siwoon having told him multiple times, Director Nam only now acknowledged Eunseong. Even though he already knew, he felt chills down his spine.

Director Nam followed Siwoon as he headed to the kitchen with a pretense of indifference. He seemed to believe that Siwoon’s feelings had changed, that he had done this because Eunseong was the target.

While humbly accepting that Eunseong was the “Great Rift,” Director Nam had an awkward look that made it difficult to believe what Siwoon had done at face value. Despite having seen Siwoon half-naked many times, Director Nam couldn’t raise his head and kept his eyes lowered.

He was the one who had warned and consoled Eunseong, who claimed to like Siwoon, not to have any expectations, telling them that Siwoon was like a Buddha statue—someone who would never regard Eunseong with affection.

Siwoon didn’t need to make Director Nam understand, nor did he have any reason to seek his understanding. Ignoring Director Nam who seemed to want more explanations, he prepared food to take to Eunseong.

Their throat would be injured from moaning all night. Siwoon took out instant porridge that would be easy to swallow and heated it up.

“I’ll do it.”

“No. I will.”

Siwoon declined the helping hand. Looking briefly at Director Nam standing there awkwardly, he said:

“I’m thinking of going to the New York branch for a few years.”

“New York, you say?”

“With Eunseong.”

“…Ah. Yes.”

Since Eunseong had said they would never go alone, it was certainly a good choice for Siwoon to accompany them on the study abroad journey. Director Nam nodded in agreement but soon raised his eyes in doubt.

“For a few years? You don’t mean that you, the CEO, will be gone for a few years?”

“Why, is that not possible?”

“Of course it’s not. If you go with Eunseong, there’s no point in hiding them.”

“…”

“Moreover, what about your work? You’re not just staying with them briefly until they adjust, but you’re saying you want to be away for several years?”

Director Nam asked as if he couldn’t understand.

“That’s exactly what I mean.”

“…Pardon?”

“I think that would be best. I can oversee company matters from there, and with you here, there shouldn’t be any problems.”

He dismissed it as if it were as simple as going on a business trip. It wasn’t that simple. While briefly accompanying Eunseong’s escape might be possible, staying together for so long would effectively expose Eunseong’s location—it wouldn’t be an escape at all. And that wasn’t all.