In the Name of God - Chapter 95.2
I bit my lip while trying to move my bandage-wrapped fingers bit by bit. Since my hands were so ruined that it was difficult even to lift them properly, I couldn’t do anything alone in my current state.
Even if I had a thick skin, I was still human, and I felt nothing but sorry toward Lee Sunho, who was busily moving about for my sake. For the past few days, he hadn’t been able to stop using his ability for even a second, and he hadn’t been able to leave his spot because he was nursing me the whole time.
I… really hated the picture of someone sacrificing themselves for me as if it were natural.
“Sacrifice, huh…”
Lee Sunho, who chewed over the word “sacrifice” slowly, gently laid me back down on the bed. Even though the moisture on my back hadn’t been wiped away with a towel, it had already disappeared due to Lee Sunho’s warmth.
Lee Sunho pulled the blanket up to my neck, covered me, and gave a broad grin.
“Then let’s do this.”
Lee Sunho continued speaking, holding up a long, straight index finger.
“Give and take.”
His fingertip soon pointed toward Lee Sunho himself.
“You give a ‘wish coupon’ to Lee Sunho, who fights alongside you while taking risks and even provides sincere care when you’re sick like this. You’re paying a legitimate reward for my actions.”
The word “wish coupon” made me chuckle. With the wish coupon I gave Lee Sunho before, he had made that ridiculous demand for me to be his friend.
Thinking of the Lee Sunho from that time, I let out a short laugh and fell into thought.
‘Isn’t that okay?’
The two things that weighed on my mind most were that Lee Sunho could be in danger because of me, and his unrewarded devotion. If we reached an agreement on the former—that I would risk my life to protect him if a dangerous situation arose—then the latter could be solved by paying a legitimate reward as Lee Sunho suggested.
The resolve I had to push Lee Sunho away began to break.
‘What can I do?’
He insists that he’ll return even if he’s abandoned. At the very least, if we maintain the partnership while Lee Sunho holds the power of choice, I won’t have to feel blindly guilty anymore.
‘I guess I can think of it as a kind of… contract.’
Combat mercenaries usually move by contract. They weigh the magnitude of the danger against the weight of the task they must perform, and they find a convincing balance by placing rewards on the opposite side of the scale.
I, who had always been the underdog, would become the employer, and Lee Sunho would become the one who takes a legitimate reward after entering a contract, just like I used to be. Thinking that way, I felt the heavy burden in a corner of my heart significantly lightened.
“…Fine.”
I looked up at Lee Sunho and nodded.
“Then let’s do that. As for the wish coupons… I’m actually a bit…”
I looked away slightly. During my time with Lee Sunho, I had been indebted to his pain control ability countless times. My fingers were insufficient to count each instance, so it was practically impossible to give a wish coupon for every time. Honestly, I couldn’t even gauge what kind of reward he would want.
Looking down at me while I felt awkward, Lee Sunho smiled as if to tell me not to worry.
“Regardless of the frequency, I’m only going to demand exactly one thing.”
“Is just one thing enough?”
“Yes.”
A strange sense of anxiety seeped in at Lee Sunho’s answer. Since he was the guy who brightly asked to be friends with a wish coupon, I had no idea what kind of absurdly nonchalant condition he would set this time.
“What are you going to demand?”
At my question, Lee Sunho’s smile deepened further.
“Allowing me to engage in skinship whenever I want.”
“…What?”
Skinship? We just did that.
As I looked up with wide eyes, I saw Lee Sunho’s eyes turn strangely playful. It seemed this guy was thinking of something beyond just simple hugging.
“How far… is the range of skinship?”
When I asked anxiously, Lee Sunho’s hand slowly dug under the blanket. He gently caressed my bandage-wrapped hand.
“Starting from holding hands like this or stroking your hair…”
Lee Sunho’s hand, which was stroking the back of my hand, went in a bit further and caressed the inside of my thigh.
I met Lee Sunho’s eyes, fearing the worst. As if to confirm that he meant exactly what I was thinking, he curved his eyes and smiled suggestively.
“Up to doing dirty things.”
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