Chapter 49

The sensation on his lips could not be described as pleasant. The chapped and cracked lips felt rough like drought-stricken land.

Asad, whose senses were usually so sensitive that he couldn't even bear the creases in his bedsheets, felt nothing at this moment. His mind was just blank.

A moist tongue licked his lips. When he unconsciously parted his lips, the tongue suddenly plunged inside as if it had been waiting. Then it wrapped around and sucked on Asad's stiffly frozen tongue as if coaxing it.

Slurp, slurp, at the wet sounds, Asad came to his senses a beat late. His widely dilated eyes looked down at the human passionately exploring his mouth.

'This insane omega...'

Was it daring to molest the dragon right now?

It was a crime worthy of immediate execution. Blue electricity sparked from Asad's hand gripping the human's neck.

If he applied force now, the neck was thin enough to snap instantly.

A worthless, weak race that doesn't even live 100 years...

Asad's hand tightened.

"Ugh!"

The human, pushed back forcefully, let out a groan. The black eyes looking up at Asad from the bed were still dreamy as if in a dream.

"...Is this your survival method? Do you offer your lips first when your life is in danger?"

The human probably didn't understand the words muttered lowly. He was thoroughly intoxicated by the dream incense. Seeing the scent deeply permeated in his skin, it was clear he would feel like he was still dreaming even if his neck snapped and he died right now.

Glaring at the human as if he would kill him, Asad climbed onto the bed. He was still gripping the human's neck. The old bed creaked, unable to bear the weight of the man larger than average.

"Uh......."

The human flailed his arms. As if he wanted to somehow embrace the man before him and kiss him again. However, this time Asad wasn't caught off guard, so the human couldn't achieve what he wanted.

The dragon could make the human's hands immobile with just a blink of his eyes. When his hands wouldn't move as if frozen, without rope or handcuffs, the human blinked in confusion.

Asad, who had bound the human with magic, stared down at him. His own image was reflected in those eyes like black bedrock.

It was by no means the face of someone who had suffered something unpleasant. If anything, it was the face of someone who had been starving for a very long time.

"Damn it..."

Asad lowered his head, growling out a curse. What followed could hardly be described by the ticklish word "kiss." It was closer to an act of predation, as if trying to devour the other whole. He swallowed not just the lips but even the breath. Even the human intoxicated by dream incense seemed frightened by this act and tried to turn his head away to escape.

"Wait, mmph!"

The hand still choking the human's neck turned his jaw to hold it in place. The human instinctively struggled as all his breath was stolen, but the massive body didn't budge at all. As if what was on top of him was an enormous boulder.

Physiological tears welled up in the human's eyes. The tears that flowed down wet the dragon's lips. Only then did Asad pull away and wipe the moisture on his lips with the back of his hand.

"Cough! Huk...!"

Thanks to this, the human who found some respite urgently gasped for air.

"What, you can't even hold your breath?"

Asad clicked his tongue, watching the human suffering, unable to endure even a few minutes, while he could remain fine without breathing for an hour or two.

Asad left the human alone for a moment as he gasped painfully. And when the human's breathing returned to normal after a while, he kissed him again as if he had been waiting. Once again, there was no consideration for the other party whatsoever.

Tears flowed from the human's eyes again as he was given no chance to breathe, but Asad didn't stop. He was too focused on satisfying his own desire to care whether the human struggled in pain from lack of oxygen.

Damn it. It felt too good. So good that he wondered if anything this good had ever existed before.

It felt good enough that he wouldn't mind doing just this for the rest of his life.

"Ugh? Hnngh...!"

It was then. The moans coming from the human, who had been gasping with a contorted face, changed. A faint excitement began to mix with the pain.

Asad belatedly realized that he was pouring out pheromones towards the human. As his body heated up, he had instinctively started releasing alpha pheromones that excited omegas.

"Uugh..."

The dominant alpha's pheromones poured out at such close range were enough to blow away a recessive omega's reason. Even more so for the human whose mental barriers had already crumbled from the dream incense.

The human, his face flushed red, twisted his lower body as if unable to bear it. Those black eyes that had remained calm in any situation now looked at him, drenched in excitement.

"Ugh."

Asad felt a tingling sensation down his spine. His yellow pupils repeatedly split vertically like a reptile's before returning to their round shape.

Perhaps because the magic had been undone due to his excitement, the human reached out his hand. Unfortunately, it was the hand with broken fingers wrapped in bandages. Though moving it should have caused pain, the human's face showed no sign of feeling it. Well, if he had felt pain, he would have been screaming rather than doing this.

The carefully extended hand touched his right cheek. It felt strangely cold. Asad realized a beat late that it wasn't the human's skin that was cold, but that he himself was too hot.

The human moved his chapped lips. Asad unconsciously focused to hear what he was saying.

"...Don't go."

"..."

"You won't... leave, right?"

He was saying incomprehensible things in a completely hoarse voice. Asad looked down at the human with furrowed brows. He wasn't curious about what dream the human intoxicated by dream incense was having.

It's obvious. It must be a dream about an alpha he had relations with in the past. Probably the one named Helio.

"Ha, no surprise there."

After all, he had already guessed this omega's promiscuous past.

Hadn't he been extraordinary from the moment he first saw him at the Gold Pot? Bringing a lover as a guard, casually embracing and kissing the other... Even Asad, who had no experience, could tell how skilled that kiss was. It was a skillfulness that suggested he had kissed at least dozens, if not hundreds of times.

"In the human realm, don't they call this kind of thing a whore..."

A disgusting omega without any chastity. Moreover, a human he hated to the core.

Yet his own member was already in a fully erect state. Asad didn't find it strange that he was aroused by this human. The human's pheromones, drawn out in response to his own, had already seeped into him.

Though he had experienced it before, it was truly a pheromone with a scent too good for a mere human. There wouldn't be an alpha in either world who wouldn't be excited by this pheromone. The fact that it was stimulating even him, who had never been swayed by other omegas' pheromones, was proof enough.

"You were born with a talent for seducing alphas."

If there had been an alpha seduction test in the selection, this human would undoubtedly have come first. The human must have confidently participated in the selection believing in this talent of his.

Every time he touched the human, it felt like his mind and body were acting separately. His mind screamed that he hated this human to death, but his body kept wanting to touch him. He wanted to break the human's hand touching his cheek because it was disgusting, yet at the same time, he wanted to lean into it more deeply.

It's just the pheromones playing tricks. With an irritated face, Asad coldly removed the human's hand from his cheek. The human's eyes wavered greatly at this. As if he had been hurt.

The human spoke haltingly.

"Helio, there was a misunderstanding... That wasn't me."

"Yes, yes."

"I... mmph!"

Asad covered the human's mouth with one hand as he tried to continue speaking.

"Shut up."

"Mmph."

He didn't want to hear whatever the human was babbling to the man in his dreams.

Asad's irises were now perfectly vertical. Though it wasn't his rut, strangely, it felt like his brain was boiling just like during a rut.

Golden eyes mixed with lust and irrational anger looked down at the human.

"This is what you want anyway."

Asad undid his belt with the hand not covering the human's mouth. Hoo, exhaling hot breath, Asad pulled out his genitals from inside his underwear. The organ, with a ferocious appearance completely at odds with his beautiful face, twitched.

"If this is what you want, I'll give it to you... so just shut up."