How the Sidekick Prince Lives Again

Warning: This chapter contains brief implications of NSFW content. Please proceed with caution.

“Haa, hu, ah, huu……”

Engulfed in immense exhaustion, Renato took deep breaths, his shoulders shaking. His head was spinning and his heart was pounding.

“……Are you okay?”

Khalid cautiously asked, kissing the tip of Renato’s ear exposed behind his sweat-drenched silver hair. When his reason returned with Renato’s fatigued appearance in his embrace, he realized what he had done. A tearful voice immediately answered his question.

“I’m, not okay.”

“……I’m sorry. I couldn’t control myself for a moment.”

In response to the resentful reply, Khalid apologized with a hint of shame. It was certainly his fault that he couldn’t stop in the middle despite knowing Renato was having a hard time.

“……No.”

Renato buried his forehead in Khalid’s firm shoulder to hide his face, embarrassed by the man’s apology. He continued to mumble.

“I permitted it, so please don’t apologize. Huu, I was just a little surprised. Uhm, I’ve never felt this kind of thing before, so…… Huuu.”

Renato took a deep breath to calm his still-excited body before turning his head to the side. He then saw Khalid pull out a handkerchief and wipe his wet hand. Quickly realizing why his hand was wet and why he was wiping his hand, Renato let out a silent scream.

“What, what are you doing?”

“Uhm? Ah, do you feel uncomfortable? After I wipe this off, I’ll also wipe for you……”

“I’m fine! I can do it myself!”

Startled, Renato shook his head. He wanted to raise his body, but drained of energy, he didn’t have the strength to even lift a hand. How can he be so calm? He looked at Khalid in disbelief.

“……You really don’t have any experience, right?”

Renato was amazed at Khalid’s nonchalant attitude despite having done such a shameful thing just now. Am I the only one embarrassed? Feeling unhappy for some reason, he looked at Khalid with suspicious eyes.

“Pardon? Haha, I don’t lie about that. Everything I do with you is my first time, too.”

Khalid laughed out loud, tilted his head toward Renato, and lightly nibbled the still-warm ear with his lips. Then he softly whispered.

“Trust me, hmm?”

“Ugh, I, I trust you. I didn’t doubt you……”

As the breath tickled his auricle, Renato let out a short groan, his shoulder flinching. He could feel his body, where the heat hadn’t cooled off, reacting.

First time.

Repeating Khalid’s answer in his mind, Renato pressed his lips together. Hearing Khalid say that everything they did together was also his first time made his heart pound for no reason. He also felt a bit better.

“I just think I’m the only one who is clumsy all the time. It’s the first time for both of us, but you are good at everything, your highness……”

Worried that he might have been a little rude, Renato carefully explained the reason for his question. He suddenly remembered the day he first kissed Khalid. Even back then, the man was very skillful, unlike him who couldn’t even breathe properly.

Did he say he was good at everything he did with his body because he was a knight?

Renato held back a sigh as he recalled what Khalid had said. He thought there was still a long way for him to be better at kissing than Khalid.

He was also worried about the future. Could he properly fulfill his companion’s duty to the end, when he was like this just by being touched and stimulated by hand? Would his heart even remain once they did something more erotic than this? He already had a thousand worries.

More than anything else, he wasn’t confident to hide his feelings from Khalid. Every time he was intoxicated with the man’s kiss, messed up from his touch, and sobbed in his arms as they shared warmth, Renato became more and more afraid of the future.

Thinking that perhaps his feelings for Khalid would be inadvertently revealed on his face and body, he was afraid that his affection would be found out by the quick-witted man.

“I’m not good at everything. If so, I would have stopped when you told me to stop. Anyway, you are calling me ‘your highness’ again.”

“Pardon? Ah.”

Renato came back to his senses when Khalid pointed out, blinking his eyes. The man looking down at him with smiling eyes entered his clear vision.

“You called me Khalid just now, so why did you turn back to ‘your highness’ again?”

“I……”

Renato mumbled and rolled his eyes. He thought it would be okay to call Khalid by name earlier because the man was closing his eyes. Since Khalid couldn’t see his eyes or his expression, he was greedy. But he couldn’t do so when they looked at each other like this. Even the slightest mistake could reveal the hidden feelings deep in his heart.

“Well, we still have a lot of time. But I won’t let you off after our wedding ceremony.”

Khalid meekly withdrew when Renato was troubled. But he still hinted that the grace period they promised each other was running out.

After the wedding ceremony, they had to unconditionally call each other by name or couple’s endearment.

It was something the two had agreed to a while ago. It was to give Renato, who could hardly call Khalid’s name, some spare time and set up a deadline at the same time.

“I know…… I will practice diligently.”

Feeling a bit discouraged, Renato muttered a promise. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to call Khalid intimately. He just couldn’t help it as whenever he called Khalid by name, his emotions would keep emerging.

“Please don’t be too burdened. We’re doing this only because I want you to treat me more comfortably than now, so I don’t wish to force you to do something difficult.”

Khalid, seeing Renato’s noticeably darkened face, opened his mouth out of concern. He had a desire for Renato to call him by name, but he didn’t want to unnecessarily burden him with that.

“I’m sure the meal will be ready soon. Should we clear up before others come?”

Khalid intentionally raised his voice to ventilate the slightly awkward air, sitting Renato upright on his thighs and reaching down to pick up the cape from the floor.

Only then could Renato properly see what state he was in. He looked down and was shocked. His shirt was almost all unbuttoned and wide open, exposing his chest, and his pants were also open with the buckle undone.

Extremely perplexed, Renato grasped the open shirt with one hand. He was so startled that his hand was shaking. The thought of him talking to Khalid in the man’s embrace in this state made him feel like dying of embarrassment. He hurriedly buttoned up his shirt. Then, sensing a heavy heat near his thighs, he paused.

……What is this?

Renato tilted his head as he felt a lump of flesh poking the inside of his thighs before quickly realizing its identity and bursting into a small exclamation. Upon recalling, unlike him, Khalid didn’t relieve his excitement. Realizing that made him feel both sorry and embarrassed.

“Ex, excuse me……”

“Uhm? What’s wrong?”

At Renato’s call, Khalid, who was dusting off the cape with his hand, turned to him. The man was so calm that it was unbelievable for someone who was still excited.

“That, uhm, is it okay if you don’t do that, your highness?”

Renato gulped and stuttered a question. His voice trembled and his cheeks were flushed.

“……What do you mean?”

“I mean, uhm, I can feel, something hot, below……”

When Khalid didn’t immediately understand his question and asked again, Renato said a bit more specifically. But he couldn’t say it directly. This was his limit.

“Aah, it’s alright.”

Fortunately, Khalid understood what Renato was saying. He wrinkled his nose and smiled bashfully.

“I don’t think it’s alright, though……”

Renato glanced down and muttered in a small voice. Once he recognized its existence, it kept bothering him. And in the first place, its presence could not be ignored. After briefly pondering, he made up his mind and squirmingly lowered his hand.

“I can’t do it like you, your highness, but…… if you don’t mind, I can……”

“Pardon? Wait, please wait.”

Realizing what Renato was about to do, Khalid hurriedly grabbed his wrist.

“You don’t have to. I’m really alright.”

“But……”

Renato, stopped by Khalid without even being able to try, slurred his words with a depressed face. He had mustered up his courage, but when rejected, his confidence that never existed was dampened even more. Does he think it won’t feel good? Thinking so, he was saddened.

“It was because I was greedy earlier and wanted to do more. Please do it for me next time. You don’t have to force yourself.”

“I’m not forcing myself. And…… I don’t want it to end when I’m the only one feeling good. It’s not fair.”

Renato was unusually stubborn. At times like this, he felt that Khalid considered him a child, so he didn’t want to yield. On the other hand, he also felt a bit reassured. Because Khalid got excited by touching him.

“I don’t want your highness to put up with or suppress what you want to do just because you are considerate of me.”

“Renato.”

“I don’t have the confidence to do what you did, but still……”

Renato trailed off his words and cautiously glanced at Khalid. He then recalled Khalid’s hand gestures. Just thinking about it made his body heat up again. Renato, whose thighs unwittingly twitched, moved the hand not caught by Khalid with a determined expression.

“If, if you don’t hate it, I’d like to do it for you.”

Smooch. Renato bowed his head and kissed Khalid, gently stroking the man’s waist. At the tip of his fingers, he felt robust muscles different from his own.

How did he do it?

Renato fiddled with Khalid’s thighs just like how the man did to him. His touch was clumsy, but Khalid immediately reacted. Feeling the solid thighs stiffen and wriggle, Renato’s hand faltered. At that moment, a strong pain arose in his other wrist held by Khalid.

“……I’m going nuts.”

“Pardon? Agh! Mmph……!”

Khalid spat out an incomprehensible curse and grabbed Renato’s wrist strong enough to crush it before pulling it toward himself. Suddenly dragged in, Renato widened his eyes, startled by the heat roughly penetrating his mouth. Without having time to react to the kiss, his body twirled to one side, the soft leather touching his back.