There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL)
Chapter 92 - 89. Sensitivity (M)

Chapter 92: Chapter 89. Sensitivity (M)

"Ahh..." Zein bit his lips, half holding back a laugh and half restraining moans.

Yeah, he truly underestimated the esper.

To be precise, he underestimated that godly tongue.

It was fine at the start, watching Bassena relaxedly use his mouth to undo his pants. How the hell the esper could do that, Zein had no idea. But it was quite interesting--perhaps he’d know if the lighting was a bit better. The next thing he knew, he felt a slight breeze upon his pelvis as his pants opened.

Was the man trying to brag? He didn’t stop there, continued using his mouth to pull the black underwear down, showing Zein’s half-hard member.

Zein sighed slightly at the coldness assaulting his skin suddenly. Bassena did not immediately play with the guide’s genitals though, pressing his lips on the flesh above, the slight expanse of fair skin from the gap between the black uniform.

It wasn’t a kiss--the esper pressed his whole face there, inhaling deeply. "You smell the same even here," he chuckled. The scent of fresh spring water that permanently stayed on the guide’s skin. Even after venturing inside the dungeon for half a day, the nice smell was still there.

Bassena took a deep breath, kissing the flesh he had never touched before--with his lips, at least. He had no idea when he would get this opportunity again, feasting on Zein’s flesh. Of the ten the guide gave him, he took a full minute just to absorb that scent into his system, caressing with worship.

He felt a grip on his hair then, and flocked his gaze upward. Zein was looking at him with narrowed eyes--was he getting bored, or getting impatient? Bassena couldn’t tell from below, but either way, he didn’t mean to stall anymore anyway.

With a slight chuckle, Bassena trailed his lips down, finally touching the half-hard flesh. Well, at least Zein was aroused somewhat, despite his aloofness. Bassena pressed his lips to the side, following the slowly pulsing vein--softly, tenderly, feathery kisses that felt ticklish. But it seemed to be working wonderfully, since the length was fully erect by the time his lips touch the tip.

And then, he attacked.

Zein wasn’t small by any means, but Bassena put the whole length inside all at once, right down to his throat, prompting an airy gasp from the guide. No more playful licking, or stimulating sucking. He grasped the guide’s hip with one sturdy arm and pulled Zein even deeper, gazing at the way those blue eyes narrowed and the red lips parted.

"Haa--crazy bastard..." Zein let out a breathy chuckle, hands grasping tight on the platinum strands and wide shoulder. He never thought that Bassena would be this proficient--the man seemed like the type to receive fellatio more than give it.

The esper even had the nerve to respond with a hum, making his throat delightfully vibrate. Zein threw his head back, leaning into the cave and laughed, feeling the warm mouth kneading his length as Bassena started to suck. It had been a while since he put his erection into anything, and while he wasn’t particularly horny, he wouldn’t deny how pleasurable it felt.

Bassena raised his brow at the melodic sound of laughter, amber eyes narrowed in annoyance. So you can still laugh, huh...

"Ugh--" Zein gasped, long eyelashes fluttering as he felt a warm, wet bed of red flesh coiled around his shaft, licking every side, while the wall continued to suck him. "What...the hell..."

Somehow, even with Zein stuffing his mouth, Bassena could smirk, the corner of his lips lifted and the amber orbs gleaming in delight. Zein bit his lips, grasping the esper’s head even tighter as Bassena went harder on him.

"Ahh--mmh!" Zein hissed as Bassena grazed a particularly good place below his glans, and then continued to treat that place even more after hearing the sounds. "Fuck--your tongue...!"

As if showing his appreciation for the praise, the tongue and mouth worked even harder; sucking, licking, moving back and forth at increased speed. Zein sucked a deep breath, feeling his legs wobble a little bit. Thankfully, the esper had a steady grip on his hips and a strong hand grasping his waist, so Zein didn’t need to be concerned about falling.

Yeah, he truly underestimated Bassena. It didn’t take long for the heat to intensify, steadily climbing his length. Looking down, he saw amber eyes staring straight at him through silvery lashes, the bronze cheek getting darker in color, just like the slight red blooming on Zein’s fair one. The wet sound that filled the cavern didn’t just come from Zein, but from Bassena too, stroking his own while pleasuring the guide.

Somehow, the thought of Bassena getting off from blowing him got Zein straight to the edge.

"Ah--fuck! Hey, I’m--"

Rather than letting go, Bassena gripped Zein tighter, pulling away just slightly so the guide’s tip rested in his tongue rather than his throat. With a last stroke of his tongue, Zein threw his head back and shuddered with a restrained moan, spilling into the esper’s mouth.

Bassena didn’t pull away even then, keeping the pulsing shaft in his mouth, savoring the taste before swallowing. His tongue did not rest, licking the leftover fluid, cleaning the slowly deflating length while stroking his own below. It was only after he came himself that he let go, staring at the guide’s slightly flushed face with a satisfied smile.

"Well? Is it to your satisfaction?"

Zein looked down while Bassena tucked him back into his pants, lips stretched into a smirk, fingers stroking the esper’s hardworking jaw.

It took him only half of that ten minutes.

* * *

"In that case, the guild will take care of the processing and marketing. We will inform you after each step, so if you want to have a finished product, you can take it before we send it out to the auction," the surveyor explained to Zein after they finished extracting the aetherite. "If you have a particular request you’d like to commission, please contact me immediately."

Zein just nodded while watching the sealed box containing the newly extracted aetherite enter the guild’s dimensional vault.

"Wow...so you really went there because you sense a treasure..." the raid Captain, Florence, commented in astonishment.

Zein turned his head to glance at the esper in confusion. What did you think I went there for, then?

At the tall guide’s inquisitive stare, the brazen girl Dheera chimed in a quiet voice. "You know, Cap...I thought..."

Zein raised his brow slightly at the sheepish expression in the three guides and the raid Captain. "What?"

After a few seconds of glancing between themselves with twitching lips, Nadine cleared his throat and replied carefully. "We thought you were there for...ahem..."

The tall guide tilted his head, blue eyes narrowed for a bit and the timider B-class offered a safe answer. "...guiding...maybe?"

Looking at the face of those four, Zein kind of understood their curiosity. After all, he knew that the talk about his supposed relationship with Bassena was still ongoing.

With a smirk that was hidden behind his mask but translated to his eyes, he asked with a casual tone. "You thought I was there for a fuck?"

Cough--the four curious stares shifted away, looking at anyone but Zein. The tall guide just ignored them, smiling to himself. That was what was funny about the whole rumor; it started from a talk about seeing Bassena and Zein kissing, but it wasn’t enough to make them blatantly label them.

Was it a guiding? Was it a lover’s frolicking? Were they romantically involved? Were they just an esper and a guide in the middle of cleansing?

Since it happened in a corner of a basement and was only seen by one or two pairs of eyes, no one could give a definite answer. They could be lovers, they could be very close esper and guide pairs. The only way to find out exactly was to ask them about it directly.

But who--who would dare bring out such personal question to the merciless Serpent Lord and the cold-looking A-class guide?

Zein himself, if asked, wouldn’t be able to give an answer. They certainly weren’t guiding, but they also weren’t exactly fucking. They weren’t just working esper and guide, but they also weren’t lovers.

Well, it was for those people to speculate.

"But...you really sense the mana wave from here, Cap?" Dheera exclaimed as they got ready to move again. "Isn’t that really amazing?"

"It is," the surveyor responded from the side. "Not even a mana detector can find it from this distance. Perhaps if we turn it on inside the cave..." the man looked at Zein and then at the three other guides with interest. "Is it something all guides can do?"

"Of course not," Nadine swatted her hand in the air. "Our boss is just build different."

At that, the two younger guides nodded in firm agreement. But Zein just threw them a glance and casually said, "Yes, it is. All guides should be able to do that."

The three guides and the surveyor paused before staring at Zein. Actually, all the people in the near vicinity stopped what they were doing to listen.

"...us too?" Dheera replied with a confused blink.

"All guides are born with inherent sensitivity to mana flow. It’s because they need to be able to sense other beings’ state of corruption," Zein explained. "But just like with the cleansing process, that sensitivity needs to be trained in proficiency to become really useful."

"What about esper then? We also can sense mana," one of the support magicians near them asked.

Zein threw a glance toward Bassena, who was in the middle of giving instructions for the boss battle to the vanguard. "Esper can do it too. But esper also uses mana in their daily life, and have mana all over their body. They become desensitized to a delicate mana flow because they got used to it so much," Zein tightened his gauntlet while thinking of an analogy. "Like...how you can’t smell slightly rotten food in your home if you lived right next to a public dumpster?"

The green-zoners winced at that, but the magician who asked the question nodded. "That’s disgusting, but I get what you mean."

"So you mean...since guides can sense mana but don’t have it in their body, they naturally can pick up the slight flow or wave that others couldn’t?" the surveyor concluded with bright eyes and nodding head.

"That’s about it,"

"Really? Truly? Can we find these treasures like you too, Cap?" Dheera asked enthusiastically.

"As long as you trained your proficiency,"

Dheera and Allen looked at each other with a grin, whispering a wow and a plan to train that. But Nadine, the more grounded and realistic one, asked Zein with a smile. "How long did it take for you to get proficient, Captain?"

"Hmm..." Zein looked up to recall his memory while taking a drink before they started marching again. "I found my first mana stone when I was eighteen, so..." he hid it so carefully then, just a tiny stone, but it managed to get him buying the twins a new set of uniforms and those books they really needed for their exams.

He looked back at the energetic duo that started to deflate. "About eight years?"

Again, the three hopeful guides sighed at the tall wall that getting taller every time.