Beyond The Control

Chapter 69

Grrrr….

As we faced off against the monster a few meters away, each waiting for an opportunity, a massive water pillar suddenly shot towards the monster from a distant side. After the collision, there was nothing left in the space that reappeared. No, pieces of what had been a monster just seconds ago were scattered everywhere.

From the dark blue energy color and its power, I could immediately tell who it was. Sure enough, when I turned my head, Song Ji-hyeok was standing there. The area around him was completely devastated, like a barren field. He approached me with quick steps. Soon, he asked fiercely:

“Are you hurt?”

“No, I’m fine.”

“The stuff on your face, it looks like your blood, senior.”

Face? …Ah.

Thinking I might have scratched my cheek somewhere, I quickly remembered something.

“I had a nosebleed, but it stopped a while ago.”

To be precise, I made it stop. While severe injuries were impossible, I could self-clot minor wounds or nosebleeds by controlling energy flow. Song Ji-hyeok then grabbed my chin and turned it left and right to check my condition.

What’s this, is my credibility that low? It shouldn’t be.

“Be careful not to get hurt. It shouldn’t interfere with guiding.”

“I know.”

I’m more concerned about that than anyone. In fact, Song Ji-hyeok seemed to want me to stay quietly in a corner, and no one would blame him for that. But my conscience wouldn’t allow it. Knowing it was an all-kill dungeon, I wanted to at least face C-rank monsters to contribute to the team.

As more time passed, the terrible noises stopped. Looking around, the countless monsters were all lying on the ground, and only our team members were standing here and there. No, just as I thought that, a monster that had been lying near the team leader suddenly flashed its eyes and bared its eerie teeth.

“Team leader!”

My surprised shout was slower than the team leader’s reaction. With an invisible movement, the monster’s body split open, and bright red blood gushed out like a fountain. As I watched the monster’s head being crushed, I couldn’t close my gaping mouth.

It wasn’t because I witnessed a brutal scene. It was astounding that these orc-like creatures would go so far as to play dead and ambush us.

“Are they crazy…?”

Someone’s murmur echoed quietly. At the team leader’s words “Let’s go,” as he maintained his composure almost uniquely, I tried to grip my mental state and headed towards the opposite door.

After clearing three more rooms, we decided to spend the night there. Being a small room, there were only a few monsters, making it relatively less contaminated.

When Jae-young hyung blew the monsters’ corpses into the opposite corridor and closed the door, the smell seemed to diminish a bit. But the stuffiness peculiar to enclosed spaces remained. As they say, you only realize the value of something when you lose it – I missed the ground’s air that I had taken for granted so much.

On the other hand, since we weren’t outdoors, we didn’t need to set up tents. After each of us roughly spread out our sleeping bags to make our beds, we gathered in the center. It was our first meal time in the dungeon.

Although we had brought bread and jerky, perhaps due to the unexpectedly tough difficulty we had struggled with, we didn’t have much appetite. But if we starved ourselves, it was obvious that the team leader would nag, so I forcibly took a bite of bread. It’s good that I brought cream bread; if I had brought soboro or baguette, it would have been too dry and stuck in my throat.

As I was chewing absent-mindedly, a thought suddenly struck me.

‘Come to think of it, I’ve been lucky for a while.’

To be precise, it was thanks to Song Ji-hyeok that I had been living comfortably. Although guiding consumes a lot of energy in its own way, I couldn’t deny that it was much easier both physically and mentally compared to fighting in the dungeon.

Even though I knew this, I had followed along happily with a full stomach, not realizing such a hard mode was waiting for me.

As I was spacing out, the team leader handed me a water bottle and spoke to me.

“Drink some water. Watching from the side, it looks like you’re chewing rubber.”

“Thank you.”

“It’s tough, isn’t it?”

“…A little.”

It was a lie that wouldn’t fool anyone even if I tried to act tough. The team leader ruffled the back of my head and tried to cheer me up.

“Still, we survived thanks to you, Su-hyeon. If it wasn’t for you, we wouldn’t have made it even halfway.”

I realized why I felt mentally more tired at those words. Having memorized the dungeon structure as we advanced and even acting as a human navigation system, it was no wonder I was overloaded.

“Please write that well in the report.”

Half-jokingly and half-seriously, I bowed my head slightly and then stuffed the remaining bread in my mouth. As I was spacing out again while chewing, something was suddenly held out in front of me.

“Eat this.”

It was Song Ji-hyeok. I was slightly shocked to see the chocolate bar he offered. To forget to eat a chocolate bar of all things, how could this be? No wonder I felt weak.

“Thanks.”

I put it in my mouth as soon as I received it and chewed. After eating two more in quick succession while sitting, I dusted off my bottom and stood up.

“Let’s go. I’ll guide you.”

I walked towards the door, but no one particularly paid attention to us. They continued chatting and eating or lying down in their sleeping bags to rest. I also suggested guiding first, intending to rest early.

“Where are we going?”

“Just to that corner over there.”

Probably no one would come out, but you never know. Even though guiding was natural between pairs, I didn’t want to show the process to others if possible, so I only overlapped my lips with Song Ji-hyeok after turning the corridor corner.

“…!”

But not long after, I frowned. I suddenly felt a headache as if someone was pressing down on the back of my head.

The pain that started from the back of my head spread larger and larger. Eventually, even my eyeballs felt sore, but I endured it and focused on guiding.

Fortunately, Song Ji-hyeok’s interior wasn’t dangerous. Although energy was heavily clumped here and there, it seemed that it could be resolved with mucosal guiding, perhaps because it was still the first day.

Song Ji-hyeok, who was engrossed in kissing while holding my waist, moved his hands to my buttocks. Just seeing him blatantly rubbing the hole between the bones made it clear what he wanted.

As I separated our locked lips, I gently grabbed his wrist as if to restrain him. Then, moving my hand to the front of his pants and pulling down the zipper, I said:

“I’ll do it with my hand.”

“That’s not enough.”

It is enough, you fool.

I know Song Ji-hyeok’s current state as well as he does himself. I dare say I know better than him about the flow of internal energy and how much damage has been done where.

As befitting the strongest Esper in the team, Song Ji-hyeok’s performance today was amazing. He killed B-rank and higher monsters, which I was desperately trying to avoid, with a single skill dozens of times.

Considering that, his internal state wasn’t too bad. It was still the first day, and the so-called quality and quantity of energy were incomparably enormous compared to mine. In short, it was at a level that could be covered with just kissing or petting without necessarily having sex.

Above all, the throbbing headache persisted. I could probably endure and do it, but I couldn’t concentrate at all. I didn’t want to be misunderstood as being arrogant or neglecting my duties already, so I decided to use a second-best option.

After fondling Song Ji-hyeok’s fully erect dick, I unbuckled my pants and pulled them down along with my underwear to about mid-thigh. Then, supporting myself against the wall with one arm, I looked back at him and said:

“Come closer.”

It made me smile a bit as he approached like an obedient child. I grabbed his shaft again as he was about to rub it against the wrong place, and guided it lower, between my thighs, then pressed my legs tightly together.

“Let’s do it here today.”

“…I see. I thought it was strange that you’d let me put it in without preparing.”

This guy, he’s saying something outrageous just because it’s not his hole.

“It wouldn’t go in without preparation anyway, you know?”

“Why don’t we try and see if it works or not?”

Contrary to his words, Song Ji-hyeok started to gently thrust while inserted between my thighs. But after a short while, I felt him pulling out his dick. I tensed up, thinking he might try to insert it into my hole now, but what followed was different from my expectation.

“The skin’s going to peel off.”

Grumbling, he spat into his palm. He then wrapped his erect dick with that hand, rubbing it, before pushing it back between my thighs.

Thinking I might have squeezed too tightly, I slightly spread my legs to the side. As soon as I braced myself against the wall with both arms, Song Ji-hyeok resumed his thrusting. Maybe it was just my imagination, but his movements seemed smoother.

A faint pleasure arose from where we touched. I could clearly feel the thick, hard shaft rubbing against my perineum as it moved in and out, and the sensation of the deeply penetrating glans pushing up my scrotum.

However, the sharp, throbbing headache at the back of my head persisted. As I stood there enduring these conflicting sensations, Song Ji-hyeok pulled me close with one arm and set his teeth on my nape.