I Just Wanted to Avoid Death - Chapter 140

Trying to hide his mortification, Yeshion asked cautiously. Eldis’s hand, which had been resting at his back, slowly slid down his spine.

“An imprinting.”

“A… what?”

“Imprinting. It means regularly embedding my divine power into your body. That way, your body no longer recognizes my power as ‘foreign.’”

Wait, what is this? This sounded familiar.

As an eerie sense of dread settled over him, Eldis’s hand paused at the base of Yeshion’s spine. Eldis went on, even as Yeshion grabbed his arm, worried about where it might go down his body.

“Once the imprinting is done, my power will always work on you. Your body’s divine energy won’t resist mine anymore.”

For a priest, divine power was life force, and too much foreign power would be rejected—the body, striving for harmony, naturally resisted intrusion.

But imprinting would override all that.

Becoming one under the divine.

“There are stages to imprinting. There are three in total… and if we complete the final one, I’ll even be able to use your divine power.”

“…..”

“But if you don’t want that, I won’t ask for the final stage. Still, the first stage is absolutely necessary.”

“But if you don’t wish to, I won’t ask for the final step. However, the first step is something you must agree to.”

The first step of imprinting removes the restrictions on healing the marked partner. And it prevents both from ever committing the forbidden act of draining each other’s divine power to death.

“……Do we really have to?”

It wasn’t that he disliked the offer. 

But things never go as planned. What if he agreed too quickly now, and something happened again that forced him to save Eldis later?

Then he’d surely regret this decision.

“This isn’t a suggestion, Yeshion.”

“……Then you mean you’re forcing it on me?”

“The word ‘force’ doesn’t sound very nice. Let’s say it’s a ‘requirement.’ Because if you refuse, you won’t be able to live on your own anymore.”

“……What?”

‘Not able to live alone?’

When he looked up as if asking what that meant, Eldis pulled him closer and replied,

“Because I haven’t found any other way to save you yet.”

“……”

“Until we find another method, you must stay by my side. When eating, when bathing, even when sleeping. Always.”

Thump, thump.

After pondering for a while, Yeshion asked.

“……If I do the imprint, will you let me go outside the temple alone?”

“Yes. Once we’re imprinted, I’ll never interfere with your actions again.”

In the end, Yeshion let out a long sigh.

The reason Eldis was pushing for imprinting was ultimately because he was afraid Yeshion might die like last time.

Even if Eldis truly was obsessed with him, the cause was Yeshion’s own actions. And obsessed or not, what he was suggesting wasn’t something that would hurt Yeshion.

“Fine. Let’s do it.”

“……Are you sure?”

“Yes. I hate being in pain, and I hate dying even more. Not that I can promise I won’t get into trouble.”

But there was one thing bothering him.

The method of imprinting.

He remembered there was an explanation about imprinting in the original work, but the problem was—he couldn’t recall it clearly.

Yeshion looked toward Eldis, who was already smiling in satisfaction, and asked.

“By the way, how do we do the imprinting? Do we pray together or something?”

“Of course not. Imprinting……”

Murmuring, Eldis slowly moved his hand.

The hand that had stopped near Yeshion’s tailbone moved lower, sliding slowly between the cleft of his b******s.

The moment Yeshion’s eyes widened in shock, Eldis spoke.

“By pushing my member into your hole.”

“……”

“And starting by releasing my c*m inside.”

……I’m fucked.