Cold City Romance Chapter 11.9

He slowly traced with pale fingertips as if capturing the picture-like refined man’s face: the sleek eyebrows like drawn, the long curved eye lines, the high and sharp nose bridge, the refreshing lip line, and even the sharp yet strong jawline.

The salt body finally had a gentle and fulfilled expression, having obtained everything it had so desired.

Cha Dokyung’s salt body had changed 180 degrees from the previous time, when it had blatantly seduced Hyun Jaehwi and violently resisted, being lewd and violent.

The salt body had an astonishingly peaceful and lovable face. It was probably because Hyun Jaehwi had ultimately gone as far as knotting in the pheromone intercourse with Cha Dokyung just moments ago, fully satisfying what the salt body desired.

What the thought body desired was only that.

Obtaining not the fake pheromones that had failed to satisfy Cha Dokyung, an extreme recessive omega until now, but the ‘real pheromones’ of correspondingly high purity…….

That unquenched desperate thirst and longing was precisely the origin and sole reason for the birth of the salt body.

Since Hyun Jaehwi, a dominant alpha, had performed knotting, called the supreme and ultimate of pheromone intercourse, on Cha Dokyung’s body, the salt body was no different from having all its desperate desires and ideals, which it had longed for until now, fully satisfied.

The hand of the salt body, which had been touching Hyun Jaehwi’s face, slid down while sweeping over the sensually spread solid chest muscles.

“Why did you call me again?”

“……”

“You know? Today too, I threw a tantrum saying to call you here. That if you didn’t bring you, it would all be useless……. I made a fuss saying I no longer needed those trivial things.”

“……”

“You did well, right? Praise me.”

The salt body with Cha Dokyung’s face burrowed into Hyun Jaehwi’s embrace like nestling into the arms of a beloved lover, with a coquettish and endearing expression.

That meltingly lovable and happy smile was exactly the appearance that Hyun Jaehwi had so desired from the ‘real Cha Dokyung’. The dream-like sight was being shown right before his eyes by Cha Dokyung’s salt body.

“I can’t do without your pheromones. From long ago, what I truly wanted was you. Now, I need nothing else.”

Hyun Jaehwi looked down chillingly at the salt body babbling while nestled in his embrace.

“So, no matter where you are…… Even there, every time, I’ll definitely make sure to bring you, just like today.”

Hyun Jaehwi asked, sharply opening his long eyes at the salt body embracing his waist and nestled in his arms.

“That place?”

“Taebaek Mountain, I mean. You’re going to stay there for a year……. How would I endure without you. I’d die of thirst from the longing.”

“Haa……”

“Why? Isn’t that why you sealed me away too?”

“……”

“To take me out and use me whenever you want, as per your taste. Under the excuse of disturbance, to make Cha Dokyung want you like this……. I can do that forever.”

However, Hyun Jaehwi refused with a single cut, with eyes cold-blooded like frost and unfeeling.

“No, there’s no need for that.”

“……”

“I called you to give Cha Dokyung a final farewell gift today.”

The salt body looked at him with bated breath at his meaningful words.

“I’ve completely sorted out my feelings now. So, for the real me to physically sort out Cha Dokyung, now you need to disappear.”

I’ll give you the final farewell gift. Cha Dokyung, you are now liberated from the disturbance.

“……”

The salt body opened its eyes wide in frightened surprise and asked.

“What do you mean?”

“Disappearance……”

Cha Dokyung’s salt body trembled with fear.

“Anyway, everything you wanted until now, I’ve fully satisfied. Since the salt body has realized all its wishes……. In this fulfilled state where the wishes are achieved like now, even if it disappears right away, there won’t be any regrets left.”

An elemental, that is, salt body, realizing the wish it had so desired and longed for means that the reason for its existence has vanished.

“You don’t need me anymore? You’re really going to leave Cha Dokyung?”

Cha Dokyung’s salt body looked at Hyun Jaehwi with a drained face and asked.

“If you really wanted me to disappear, you could have just done real knotting.”

“……”

“If a child, the crystallization of pheromones, is born from pheromone intercourse with you, the dominant one, I would naturally disappear.”

“……”

“Why didn’t you do real knotting?”

Hyun Jaehwi shouted sharply.

“Because I knew that once Cha Dokyung regains his reason, he would surely say that!”

The salt body could not even retort, trembling its shoulders with a pitiful face.

“Me leaving is what the real Cha Dokyung with reason desperately wants.”

“……”

“In the state dominated by instinct, he makes such sincere and affectionate promises to me……. But once he regains reason, he is the person who turns around, takes the pill, erases and aborts what’s in his belly, and abandons me!”

“……”

“I can’t force someone who has far more realistically important things than me to stay by my side like clinging to a dead person.”

The pale and elegant face trembled pitifully.

“Really, do I have to go?”

Hyun Jaehwi answered firmly with eyes resolute like a honed blade.

“Cha Dokyung begs me and promises together to have a child even during sex dominated by instinct. But once he regains reason, he changes and can abandon me and abort the child several times.”

“……”

“I absolutely can’t endure that. The last remaining expectation has collapsed, and I’ve made up my mind. I won’t waver anymore.”

The man who had hardened his resolve was resolute to the point where not a drop of blood would come out even if stabbed. Before that merciless cold-blooded and ironclad energy, the salt body obediently submitted.

“Yes. As you say, I am in the state where I have obtained everything I wished for. I have no more desires, so even if I disappear now, I have no regrets.”

The salt body reached out its hand to Hyun Jaehwi’s face again.

“But, why do you look so sad.”

“……”

“Do you know how obtuse he is?”

“……”

“Even while wandering in Messiah searching for what he wanted, he didn’t know why he was like that, and for years, he didn’t even know what he needed for himself. Until I got frustrated and created a voice to whisper directly into his ear, he had no idea at all.”

“……”

“Because he’s too accustomed to enduring and holding back alone for a very long time because of people’s gazes, he only realizes when the fire is burning at his feet.”

Ironically, the salt body with Cha Dokyung’s face comforted Hyun Jaehwi with a warm and gentle face. It was astonishing that it could change so much just from the wish being fulfilled.

“He likes you a lot too. It’s just that he’s never truly liked anyone before, so he doesn’t know it well.”

It was even defending Cha Dokyung as if pitying him.

That was what a salt body with fulfilled wishes was like. There was no longer any need to hurt its origin and host body, which was its womb.

The wicked and ferocious salt bodies, once the wishes they had longed for were perfectly fulfilled and the reason for their birth and existence disappeared, ultimately converted into pure energy.

However, he could not afford to pity a mere salt body that was not even real.

Born as a perfect dominant and controller, Hyun Jaehwi was far from indecisiveness. Once he carefully considered and hardened his mind on a matter, there were absolutely no exceptions or changes. He himself had returned to Korea with that firm resolve and deliberately approached Cha Dokyung. However, this plan had failed miserably. A plan that failed in control had no choice but to be humbly acknowledged and withdrawn.

Now that he had resolved to part from Cha Dokyung and sorted his feelings, he did not want to hear any more words that would weaken his heart.

Hyun Jaehwi revealed his ability to the salt body. He changed the amplitude of the pheromone energy with a murderous sensory perception. A fierce aura of solemn killing enveloped the salt body without a gap, surrounding it.

“Don’t, it’s scary……”

It seemed to instinctively sense that a mere low-grade salt body like itself could not endure the terrifying murderous intent that had erased and massacred countless powerful salt bodies.

The salt body, foreseeing its disappearance as an inevitable necessity, astonishingly did not resist and was yielding to fate. Cha Dokyung’s salt body looked at Hyun Jaehwi with a pitiful face and said.

“I understand, if I have to disappear anyway. Will you grant one last request of mine?”

As if granting mercy one last time to the salt body he had used until now, Hyun Jaehwi nodded with pity.

“Yes, say it.”

“Will you kiss me one last time?”

At that absurd demand, Hyun Jaehwi was dumbfounded. He stared at the salt body spouting words with Cha Dokyung’s face with his pitch-black pupils without a word.

“Haa, why on earth would you wish for something like that from me as the last thing?”

“I’m ultimately a part of Cha Dokyung too. I want what he desperately wants.”

“……”

“I can’t feel or think on my own. Everything comes from him.”

“……”

“He desperately wants your kiss.”

A brief quiet silence followed. Hyun Jaehwi swept over Cha Dokyung’s red and pretty lips with sharp eyes.

While coercively controlling and embracing Cha Dokyung, he had deliberately never given a kiss or lip touch. Because if he kissed, his heart would weaken, and he feared returning to that immature boy who had longed for first love. He feared his heart weakening again, being led by what he wanted, and degenerating into a mere dildo for relieving sexual desire.

“Yes, there’s no reason not to give a kiss on the occasion of disappearing.”

Muttering that, Hyun Jaehwi strongly pulled Cha Dokyung’s waist, who was naked. Anyway, a salt body was not a different being but a part of Cha Dokyung. There was no reason not to give a final farewell kiss.

Hyun Jaehwi touched the red lips and then bestowed a lip touch. The salt body wrapped its arms around his solid neck and back line.

The soft lip touch deepened into something fierce and deep as the salt body actively responded by inserting its tongue. As Hyun Jaehwi roughly licked the plump upper lip, the salt body wrapped its arms around and desperately embraced his neck. Affectionate and dense breaths swelled with effort and pushed into his nose tip. Hyun Jaehwi controlled the sobbing salt body and barely parted his lips. Thick saliva stretched like a thread.

There was no time to indulge like a mad bastard and relieve lust on the occasion of performing the disappearance ritual.

“Haa, don’t resent it. A salt body that has fulfilled its wish goes to a good place.”

He had performed the ritual of removing and disappearing elementals countless times, but salt bodies that had fully realized their wishes were extremely rare. It was perhaps close to a miracle in probability.

Even in the institution, Hyun Jaehwi had done this countless times during investigations or interrogations. Most were operations to forcibly suppress and subdue salt bodies that had not realized their wishes, extract confessions about secrets, or remove them.

However, Cha Dokyung’s salt body had received an absurdly special treatment from Hyun Jaehwi until now. Hyun Jaehwi had ceaselessly strived to satisfy and fulfill that thirst and wish through pheromone intercourse with Cha Dokyung. Because it was Cha Dokyung’s and a part of Cha Dokyung, he had done so as if it were a mission or duty.