When the Black Moon Rises - Side Story 26
Side Story 26
Noticing her gaze, he hurriedly closed the drawer.
"It's really nothing. I just drank a medicine to protect my energy. Don't be like this, let's hurry up and continue-."
"Aren't you going to tell me the truth?"
As much as he knew her, she now knew him well too.
'He's taking medicine to protect his energy? I'd sooner believe a rumor that a frog spoke human words.'
As her gaze sharpened, he stealthily put away the bottle he was holding.
"What is this that you've put so much of in the drawer?"
"Is it really medicine to protect your energy?"
"......."
"Alright. Then I'll drink one too."
Bending down, she opened the drawer again. The man flew over like the wind and hurriedly blocked her hand, pushing the drawer shut.
"......The truth is."
"......Um."
"Hurry up and tell me. I feel like I'm going to suffocate from frustration."
"......Um. The truth is, the child."
"The child?"
"Um. So."
"......The child, so, it's to prevent having a child."
Hearing the correct answer, she opened the drawer again. This time, he didn't stop her.
Since she had it open, she counted; there were one hundred and twenty bottles, each the size of two fingers.
On the lids, small pieces of paper with dates written on them were tied with string.
It seemed he hadn't brought them all at once, but had been continuously replenishing them and discarding the old ones.
Did he feel guilty for handling things alone without consulting her?
With the front of his robe all undone, he squeezed his eyes shut and kept his mouth firmly closed.
"You."
He looked as if he was bracing himself to be scolded, but she just smiled slightly and didn't reprimand him.
In fact, she understood his actions.
Having lost consciousness for half a year while giving birth, he might have been afraid of repeating such an event.
Besides, she had been frustrated that he seemed to be constantly avoiding contact, but seeing these collected bottles made her want to laugh a little.
'How cute.'
Suppressing the urge to laugh, she closed the drawer again, and his puzzled gaze followed her.
"That's a lot of bottles."
"Well. Just in case. I didn't know when it would be, so I ended up collecting them one by one."
"Should I drink one too?"
"You can't do that. It might be harmful to you. It's fine since I drank it."
"Does the effect appear that quickly? Then isn't it dangerous for you too?"
"It was made concentrated so that the medicinal effect would appear immediately even in a Divine Beast's body, so................"
"......Um. Then. Um."
"Then, there's no problem now, right?"
"Huh?"
Sehwa approached him, who was staring at her, and bit his lip.
Baek Giha's eyes narrowed at once.
As if asking when there had ever been a gap in their intimacy, he climbed on top of her.
He overlapped their lips without a gap, sucking in all words and moans.
Meanwhile, his hot hands caressed every part of her exposed body.
Mixing their wet breaths, he moved down her tilted neckline, branding her.
He lingered long at the tip of the white, round mound, and persistently tormented the places where she reacted a little more.
Red teeth marks were left on her snow-like skin.
Every part of her was revealed before his eyes, and there was no place his hand did not touch.
"Hngh, ......Ah."
Sehwa twisted her waist at the tingling heat running down her spine.
Baek Giha's leg immediately dug between her legs.
His hand, which had moved down, caressed her most sensitive spot, inciting her senses.
"Ugh......."
She also reached out and finished removing his clothes, which were not yet fully off.
The hotly flushed, hard muscles were rubbed under her palm.
With just that small stimulus, his patience reached its limit. He had no strength left to endure.
He parted her body and overlapped his sensitized body with hers.
At the stimulus after such a long time, goosebumps ran to the tips of their hair, and they both held their breath at the same time.
And soon, they began to shake uncontrollably fast.
"Hngh, ·Hk."
"Sehwa....... Sehwa."
Baek Giha stared without blinking as she swayed beneath him.
The process of Sehwa's breath clinging to his jaw was thrillingly good.
He reached out, found her hand, and intertwined their fingers. He brought it to his lips and pressed them against it, engraving his helplessly rising affection.
At the edge of the couple's bed, where they shared a heated passion until their lips swelled, the cumbersome blanket soon fell to the floor.
As it was their first ecstasy in a long time, the heat in the room only continued to grow hotter, as long as the time they had waited.
In the end, the dinner tray, and the next day's breakfast tray, were left neglected in front of the door, and neither of them came out of the room.
Reins once loosened are harder to tighten than the first time.
Especially if someone was beside him, cutting the barely re-tightened reins with scissors every time.
Thus, Baek Giha's anguish was endless.
He had to make her eat at the right times.
He had to make her nap at the right times and take her to the garden to see the flowers when the sun was nice.
He had to cool her head, which would focus on work indefinitely if left alone, and delight her heart.
Despite all those plans, whenever she kissed him deeply on the lips, his eyes would squeeze shut.
As if that alone made them one body, the afterglow of climax rose up the back of his neck.
His patience was now no different from a candle whose wick had burned all the way down.
Even if he tried to revive the embers, they would soon go out, and sometimes they wouldn't even light at all.
Just making eye contact, he would undress her, and even while combing her hair, his hand would unknowingly delve into her undergarments.
When he sat her on his lap and hugged her, every curve and hollow fit perfectly.
He loved that fact like crazy. So heat always gathered around his eyes.
He didn't even want to keep her dressed, and even acted on that desire, so it reached a point where even the three sisters couldn't be called into the room.
Thus, their bedroom door was always firmly closed.
Occasionally, only a disheveled Baek Giha would open the door and come out to bring in or take out the bathtub, receive meals, or give instructions to an attendant.
Then the attendant would rush down the hallway.
The destination was the medical office.
Elder Jinhyun, the head of the Baek Clan's medical office, was utterly bewildered.
"......A-already, you're saying you've drunk it all? N-no, that's not how you're supposed to drink it. If you drink that much..."
Then again, medicinal or poisonous herbs didn't work well on a Divine Beast anyway. Plus, there was the special healing power a Divine Beast possessed.
'Even if he drinks a lot, there probably won't be a major problem, but.........'
"Still, that's not how you're supposed to drink it. Is it okay to give him more of this?"
It was an amount that would have been a big problem for an ordinary person, so he couldn't help but hesitate.
However, the speed at which Baek Giha's thin patience snapped was faster than the speed at which he made a decision.
"Master. The Clan Head has ordered me to fetch the prepared medicine."
The first attendant sent to fetch the medicine was still in front of him, but a second attendant had already arrived.
In the end, the elder placed ten new bottles of medicine on a tray and held it out.
'It's a good thing they are both Divine Beasts. If only one of them were a Divine Beast, it would have been a disaster!'
That thought was brief. The pale-faced Elder Jinhyun opened the medicine drawer again.
'The medicine bottles I gave him today surely won't last long either.'
To meet the amount the Clan Head demanded, he would have to brew medicine without sleeping.
'Who on earth made the rule that only the head of the medical office should know the formula for medicine that works on a Divine Beast?'
Following that rule was too difficult.
'Can't I just have one assistant under the pretext of selecting and training the next head? I wonder how many days it's been since I've done nothing but brew medicine...............'
He had already felt their good marital relations from the sight of the Clan Head carrying the Mystic Ruler on his back and walking among the flowers in the garden.
'I thought they'd calm down after a few days of that, but it's already been over a month.'
Aigoo, my fate.
Regardless of those various thoughts, he had to make a reserve supply right away.
That way, whether the Clan Head sent two attendants or three, he could show that he was still earning his keep.
Thus, Elder Jinhyun's hands were busy as he picked up the medicinal herbs.
Soon, warm steam began to gently flow from the medicine pot.
Meanwhile, as the task of rooting out traitors by Elder Yeonggong was underway, the entire Baek Clan was in a state of heightened discipline.
Besides, wasn't their Mystic Ruler someone with clairvoyance?
In truth, the current Sehwa had to minimize her use of power to calm her spiritual energy, but those who didn't know this were careful on their own.
Whatever they saw or heard, they remained silent and fulfilled their roles, and they developed a habit of thinking once more before speaking.
Yes, it was certainly like that, but.
Even so, it was hard not to know about the Clan Head and his wife, who hadn't stepped out of their bedroom for over a month.
"......Surely, they didn't come out today either?"
"Yes. The breakfast tray just went in and came out, and that was it."
"Goodness, is, is the Mystic Ruler alright?"
It was so astonishing that such a conversation briefly took place before stopping again.
And five days later, a similar conversation was had again.
"Today too? ...... They're still in the bedroom?"
"......Wow."
"A Divine Beast."
Thus, one of the protagonists of the topic, Sehwa, who was inside the bedroom, was also gradually feeling awkward.
'....... I should probably go out soon, but how on earth do I go out?'
No matter what she said as she left, it seemed the situation of her already non-existent dignity rolling on the floor would be the same.
Of course, Baek Giha, lying diagonally behind Sehwa and scattering kisses on her exposed shoulder, had no thoughts at all.
Not only that, but every time he pressed his lips to her smooth skin, her sweet scent flew in abundantly.
Unable to endure, he hugged her bare waist and pulled her tightly against him.
"Again?"
The hand that was fumbling for the medicine bottle thrown in the corner of the bed flinched.
"Are you tired?"
"No, it's not that. Shouldn't we go out now? If we stay here any longer, I think it'll become embarrassing to show ourselves."
"Why be embarrassed? Is it embarrassing for a married couple to have good relations?"
"Still."
As Sehwa lowered her head as if hesitating, her long black hair flowed down her white shoulders like a waterfall.
Watching that sight, Baek Giha's self-control plummeted helplessly again.
He half-raised his body and pressed his wet lips to Sehwa's back as if pleading.
"Then just one more time before we go out. Huh?"
Opening the lid of the medicine bottle he had found with his other hand, he emptied it into his mouth in one go.
He had no interest in how much time had passed.
Because he only thought that no matter how much more time passed, it would be a long way off for this thirst in his throat to disappear.
"You're the one who provoked me while I was enduring. So. Huh?"
But if she said she didn't want to, he had no choice but to endure, so he looked up at her while taking her white earlobe into his mouth.
"I can't help it. Come here."
She was smiling. As if she would never give an answer of refusal, no matter when or where.
He clung to her as if burying himself in her small embrace.
The satisfaction conveyed by her faint body heat repeatedly struck his heart fiercely.
It was so good he couldn't stand it.
"Did I already say it today?"
"What?"
"That I love you."
In case she hadn't heard him, he buried his forehead in her white shoulder and confessed again.
"That I truly love my master."
At that moment, her heartbeat, which began to beat at the same speed as his, was transmitted to him.
Outside the window, it was the season when flowers were in full bloom, but his spring, summer, autumn, and winter were all here, so he had no desire to go out at all.
No matter how good the weather was outside, the man kissing her hotly was now only interested in how many bottles of medicine were left.
By smiling and wrapping her arms around such a man's neck, Sehwa agreed with his opinion that he didn't want to go outside yet.
Thanks to that, the day the servants of Baekseokjeo could see the Clan Head and his wife was pushed even further away.
That is, if Youngchae hadn't come one day, shouting loudly and delivering some news.
"B-big, big trouble! The eggs...............!!"
Perhaps the already perfect happiness was about to become a little more perfect.
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