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‘Ugh, my head…’
The terrible hangover made his temples throb, and his brain felt like mush. When he tried to raise his arm to touch his head, something felt off.
His limbs felt unnaturally restrained, as if tied up somewhere.
Jian frowned and blinked his eyes, then jolted upright in shock at the flesh-colored sight filling his vision.
Clank.
With a clear metallic sound, his shoulders were pulled back. His wavering gaze alternated between the chains connected to his wrists and Sehun sitting on his stomach.
Sehun met Jian’s eyes and grinned, the corners of his mouth curling up. His curved eye corners were filled with a satisfied expression.
There was even an air of childlike innocence, like a kid waking up on Christmas morning full of excitement about what gifts Santa might have left.
“Did you have a good dream? This is what happens when you drink alcohol you can’t handle. It’s already 8 AM. You usually wake up at 7, but you were sleeping like the dead.”
If you only looked at Sehun casually giving a morning greeting, all of this might seem normal, but Jian was aghast to discover shackles on his ankles as well.
Moreover, his body was completely naked, without a stitch of clothing. Unlike Sehun, who was at least wearing training pants despite his bare upper body.
Jian generally disliked having his body constrained, so he’d seen Sehun scantily clad quite often. But facing each other on the bed under reddish lighting felt like committing a grave sin.
The broad chest that couldn’t be covered even with a fully spread hand, and the perfectly curved abs were far too close.
When his gaze reached the faint blood vessels visible above the groin, his Adam’s apple bobbed up and down.
As a fellow man, it was an enviably perfect physique. The small mole next to the navel seemed to mock him.
Moreover, the area where blood rushes in the morning was being stimulated, pressed against rock-hard buttocks. For a moment, everything went black.
Had he ever regretted his deep-sleeping nature this much before? The current situation was beyond abnormal – it was bizarre.
Of all days, yesterday he had faced something shocking and ended up drinking alcohol he couldn’t handle before going to bed. Knowing that Hunters don’t get drunk easily on regular alcohol, he had even bought awakened-specific liquor.
Could he still be dreaming?
Jian bit the inside of his cheek hard. The stinging pain sadly confirmed this was reality. He closed his eyes tightly once, then opened them and put on a stern expression.
It was an expression he’d acquired over 10 years of parenting. Raising Sehun, who turned out to be quite the troublemaker, had taught him this look.
“What do you think you’re doing, our Sehun? If this is a joke, stop it. It’s not funny.”
Since Sehun often did shocking things, Jian tried to dismiss this as just another prank.
He felt he had to, or else things might take an unacceptable turn. This situation absolutely must not progress any further in this strange direction.
His heart was racing so fast his chest felt like it would burst. The reason Jian had been drinking was all because of Sehun. The bridge of his nose tingled at the vivid memory of blood-red eyes, clearly visible even in the dim bedroom.
However, despite Jian’s rather firm voice, Sehun tilted his head slightly, took Jian’s hand, and gently rubbed it against his cheek.
It was clear he was trying to smooth things over with aegyo, as he always did. This scenario had repeated hundreds of times, but each time Jian was helpless against it.
His fingertips involuntarily twitched at the soft sensation. Sehun’s downcast eyelashes were exceptionally long and thick.
Unlike when he was younger, his face now exuded masculinity, but traces of his angelic appearance remained here and there.
Was it because of the years spent raising him? Whenever Jian glimpsed traces of the past in Sehun, his heart would quickly soften.
But this was going too far. What kind of brother strips his hyung naked and ties him to a bed? Moreover, their age difference wasn’t just one or two years, but a whole decade.
Suddenly, he recalled the contents of a novel he had read before his possession.
[While Hyunsu was asleep, Sehun took him to a secret room that only he could open and bound his limbs. Meticulously, he had prepared restraint artifacts capable of subduing even S-rank Hunters, anticipating Hyunsu would wake up and struggle.]
Wait, isn’t this something you’re supposed to do to Su? Why are you doing it to me?
The confusion worsened his headache. The sensation of a sharp awl not just prodding his temples but digging into his brain made him involuntarily groan.
“Ugh…”
“Oh my. Hyung, does your head hurt a lot? I should give you some honey water to drink.”
The voice filled with concern gave him an ominous feeling. Sehun wiggled his fingers, and a glass of water floated up from somewhere, approaching the bed.
He seemed accustomed to using his abilities despite only awakening yesterday. Meanwhile, Jian still felt awkward just calling up his status window at times.
A sweet scent tickled his nose. Seeing the rippling water, he felt an intense thirst. Just as he thought he should drink the water first to clear his head, the glass changed direction towards Sehun’s lips.
Surely not…
Sehun took a sip of the honey water, then looked down at Jian with a smile that crinkled his eyes. It was a smile so charming Jian felt like offering up his liver and gall, but he also felt a chill.
As the face slowly approached, Jian’s eyes shook uncontrollably.
It seemed he was about to lose the purity he had preciously guarded for 30 years. And to the boy he had raised like a younger brother for 10 years, no less.