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Damn it…

Kiryu’s desperate tapping echoes through all of Survive, though his companions try to ignore it. They understand, considering they’re just as desperate now that they don’t know what to do next.

Damn it…

The tapping becomes louder, and everyone flinches. They want to say something to him, but the uncertainty makes them even not want to touch their drinks. What can they say? What can they do?

“Damn it!” Kiryu lets his fist fall hard on the table as he finally snaps and almost spills his own drink. They can’t ignore him now.

“Please calm down, Kiryu-san.” Saeko reaches for him and pats his shoulder. “There’s probably something we can do…”

“Sa-chan’s right.” Nanba interjects as he takes a sit beside Kiryu. “There´s no need to get hasty just yet…”

“I know, it’s just…” Kiryu takes a somewhat deep breath and turns his eyes to the floor. “Bryce and Ebina keep gaining more power as we speak, and we got…nothing against them.”

He is right and they know it. Bryce and Ebina are using Palekana and the Seiryu Clan to expand their influence, making them almost an unstoppable force. Meanwhile, Kiryu and his friends are pretty much helpless, with half the manpower in Hawaii, and no help from Daigo, Majima and Saejima to stop the farce that is the second great dissolution.

Not to mention, they got the general public all over them now that it´s been revealed that not only is Kazuma Kiryu alive and kicking, but he is also planning to resurrect the extinct Tojo Clan. That´s what the rumors say, at least.

“Everyone will be in great danger if we don’t act fast. You guys, Kasuga, the remaining Yakuza…” Kiryu lifts his face and sees his reflection on the remaining alcohol in his glass. His reflection, old and spent, makes him grimace and he remembers the one person that will suffer the most. The real reason he feels like shit. “Lani…”

The bar falls silent once more. It’s true that, at the end of the day, an innocent little girl is going through a lot of undeserved pain, and they feel just as bummed-out as Kiryu, though they also sense there is something more to his words that they can’t put their finger on. Something more personal.

“Kiryu-san.” To everyone’s surprise, Seonhee leaves her sit and speaks up. She approaches Kiryu and takes his hand into hers. “Let´s go upstairs.”

Kiryu’s face shows confusion, but he figures Seonhee is not one of those people who do something without a good reason, no matter how mundane it may seem. He leaves his sit and lets her lead the way.

They’re now sitting on the futon, and Seonhee looks deeply into Kiryu’s eyes. He knows she is a big fan of his, but even so, it feels like a little too much. The intensity in her eyes diminishes and her face softens.

“Kiryu-san, I know you’re desperate to jump into action…” She crosses her arms and frowns. “But you need to get your head straight if you don’t want to make a mistake.”

“But, if we don’t do something soon, then Lani-”

“Lani and Haruka Sawamura’s cases are not the same.” Seonhee cuts Kiryu off as she gets closer to him. Her eyes have this odd flare to them now.

“How’d you…?” He stops and thinks about what he is going to ask more carefully. She is her fan and the queen of Geomijul, after all. It would be weirder if she didn’t know about Haruka at all. “How’d you figure?”

“Because this time around…” Seonhee takes a deep breath, and she hopes what she is about to say doesn’t sound as corny as it sounds in her head. She looks at Kiryu with determination and gets even closer to him. “You have us.”

Kiryu’s eyes open wide at Seonhee’s words. It’s true that, with Haruka, he basically had no one that could help him protect her. This time, however, there are more people willing to help but the stakes are higher.

“I appreciate your words, Seonhee, but…” Kiryu gives her a sad smile that lasts nothing before he goes back to grimacing. “I don’t know if that will be enough.”

“Then let me make it more clear to you.” And Seonhee touches Kiryu’s cheek with her hand, which makes him look at her and he can see the shine in her eyes, accompanied by a small smile. “You have me.”

The gasp that came out of Kiryu’s mouth is so not him. It’s the only way he can react to what Seonhee just told him. Something so kind. So intimate.

“So stop stressing over the little things.” She keeps her hand on his cheek. Her eyes light with determination and her smile grows. “You won’t fail. I won’t let that happen.”

“Seonhee…” Kiryu can only let out her name as a sigh after hearing how this woman places her entire trust in him.

It’s then when he realizes how close they really are now, face to face, feeling the other’s breath on their faces. He becomes more self-conscious of the gloved hand on his cheek and then a burning desire of feeling her bare hand on his skin rises within him.

As if on instinct, Kiryu mimics Seonhee and places a hand on her cheek. The color red doesn’t take much to appear on her face, with her eyes widening at the contact. “K-Kiryu-san?”

His gaze becomes more intense, and heat starts to pool in her stomach. The feeling of his big hand, calloused from years and years of fighting, and his natural scent entering her nostrils is too much for her to keep her cool, the cool that made everyone that came across her bow down and respect her. Kiryu is about to shatter that into pieces.

She is about to call his name again when, in just an instant, time stops as he crashes his lips against hers and her mind starts spinning from the sudden, chaste kiss he gives her. She moans into his mouth just to give in and reciprocate, closing her eyes and pushing her lips against his.

It’s too much and he licks her bottom lip asking to let his tongue in, to which she obliges and now their tongues dance with each other as the kiss grows more passionate, hungrier. The heat inside her does nothing but get more and more unbearable and now she knows.

Kissing is not enough.

Kiryu pulls away from the kiss before Seonhee does, like he just read her mind, with a thin string of saliva still connecting their lips and their faces completely flushed. Their breathing growing more erratic, hotter.

“Seonhee, I need…” Kiryu’s voice inevitably breaks as his heart and mind are still racing from the kiss.

“I know…Me too.” Seonhee gives him what she hopes is a sexy smile. Please don’t let me embarrass myself in front of him.

They lock in yet another hungry kiss and Seonhee starts taking her gloves off and discards them without care to finally feel Kiryu’s skin directly. She places her bare hands on both cheeks. It’s so rough and warm, she thinks as she travels from his face to the small space of his chest accessible thanks to his half-buttoned shirt. So firm…

Her touch sends jolts of electricity to every corner of Kiryu’s body, including his groin. Without breaking the kiss, he reaches for her jacket and helps her take it off but, unfortunately, it gets stuck just below her elbows and he struggles.

With an annoyed groan, Seonhee pulls away from the kiss and finishes the job as she throws the jacket behind her. They resume their passionate kiss, but she doesn’t stay on his lips for long as she slides hers along his jaw and down his throat, which earns her a heated moan from the stoic Dragon of Dojima. She’d be lying if she said that didn’t give her a sense of pride.

Kiryu tries to take his shirt off and Seonhee helps him with the buttons on the front. Once she is done with the last one, he takes it off in one swift movement and now his upper body is bare to her.

She takes a moment to take a good look at him. His body looks really nice, taking in his perfect muscles and toned abs, as expected from someone who spends most of his days fighting and she thinks it will probably look a bit nicer if it weren’t for the whole cancer thing.

The heat in her body is reaching its boiling point as she feels her sex pulsating at the sight before her. Kazuma Kiryu, half-naked, and then an idea pops into her head.

“Kiryu-san, would you mind standing up for just a sec?” Seonhee says, but the sultry tone in her voice as she said that, as well as the darkness in her eyes don’t go unnoticed by Kiryu.

“Sure…” He decides to humor her and stands up straight.

Before he can even react, Seonhee is already trying to undo his belt and, to his surprise, she succeeds. She takes the chance to grab the waistband of both his pants and his underwear and she takes a deep breath to then proceed to pull them down.

Once his pants are at his ankles, she looks up and gapes at what she sees. Kiryu, fully bare and his length half erect. So…big! Seonhee can only wonder how it will look like fully erect.

Just one way to find out, right?

Decided to act on her revelation, she takes a hold of Kiryu’s cock which gets an involuntary jerk of his hips and gasp from him. A devilish smile forms on her face as she starts jerking him off slowly, taking in the sight of his usual ice-cold expression melting with each pump. She starts to increase the speed and his reaction is almost immediate.

“S-Seonhee…” Kiryu manages to gasp her name as her hand keeps stimulating him, getting faster with each stroke. Her touch is soft, and his dick reacts to it without fail.

His expression tells Seonhee he is enjoying this as much as she is. She loves how, as she keeps working him, his cock grows longer, thicker. Kiryu is almost fully erect, all that’s left are the finishing touches. She gets right in front of his head and gives it a small lick to test his reaction. She hears him whimper and it’s exactly what she was looking for.

“Kiryu-san, you seem to have a lot of pent-up tension…” Seonhee doesn’t even try to hide the lust in her eyes and the teasing tone in her voice anymore. She gives him another lick on the head, this time covering almost all of it and finishing with a bit of pressure on the tip of her tongue as she licks upwards. It makes Kiryu hiss, and his hips jerk forward. Seonhee feels like she has made him wait long enough, but she is about to fix that. “Let me help you with that.”

If she is being honest, she can’t wait any longer either. His cock’s thick musk has been taunting her for a while now and her desire only grew bigger with the first lick she gave to his head. She licks her lips and stops wasting time as she envelopes his head with her mouth. She can feel his grunt through all her body and how it goes directly to her already soaked sex.

Seonhee starts simple, with a few bobs on Kiryu’s head but each time she tries to take him deeper little by little. Kiryu takes this as chance to take off his shoes and, with each movement, she can feel his dick hit deeper. He is fully erect now and too big for her that she can’t help but choke a little. He notices this and resumes his previous position as he waits patiently until she can take him as deep as she can.

Seonhee reaches her limit, and can’t take more of Kiryu into her mouth, so she starts stroking the rest of his shaft. She increases her speed now that she feels more comfortable with his size and it doesn’t take long for her to become addicted to his taste, his warmth, the sounds he makes.

“Fuck, Seonhee…” Kiryu grunts as her movements become faster and sloppier. He starts trusting into her mouth in sync with her head and his mind begins to get clouded with pure lust.

Seonhee’s pace is too much and not enough at the same time, with the feeling of her tongue on the lower part of his aching cock not helping at all. The lewd sound she makes as she takes him deeper, faster is enough for him to finally lose it. He starts caressing her head, which makes her look up at him, getting to see her eyes lost in desire. It’s then when Kiryu grabs a fistful of her pink hair and thrusts hard into her mouth.

Seonhee’s eyes open wide at his action, and she chokes from the feeling of his big shaft hitting the back of her throat so suddenly, tears forming in the corners of her eyes. Kiryu does it again and starts to pick up the pace as he goes in and out of her mouth hard. It doesn’t take long for Seonhee to go from uncomfortable to aroused. She gets one hand inside her skirt and another under her shirt. She moves her panties to the side and starts, rubbing her swollen clit at a desperate pace. She then reaches for her bra, pulls it down from one side, grabs one of her hard nipples and twists it between her fingers with noticeable strength.

“Your mouth feels so good…”  Her answer to his words comes out as a gag. Kiryu’s praise only arouses Seonhee more, which makes her increase her ministrations as she lets him fuck her mouth roughly.

Fuck, I’m so wet is the only thing Seonhee can think about as Kiryu keeps assaulting her throat. Her makeup is starting to get slightly ruined but she couldn’t give a fuck even if she wanted to. Something salty and humid touches her tongue and she realizes it’s his precum. She swallows it however she can and she can’t believe how good it -he- tastes. Yeah, I can see myself getting used to this.

Kiryu suddenly pulls out of her mouth, leaving Seonhee somewhat confused and, frankly, a bit disappointed. She doesn’t fail to notice the thick string of saliva connecting her lips to his still hard length, and she feels she could cum from that sight alone. She is panting and coughs a little, still missing his member being down her now sore throat. “What’s wrong? I could tell you were close…”

“I know, but I don’t wanna cum just yet.” Kiryu, just as worked up, kicks his pants from his ankles onto the floor. He gets on his knees and presses his lips against Seonhee’s, not wasting any time in letting their tongues meet again. She puts her arms around him as he reaches for the back of her head, trying to pull her closer to him.

They become more drunk with each other, and their kiss becomes more heated, moaning into it and becoming desperate to take it even further. He reaches for the hem of her blouse and pulls it over her head with zero effort, breaking the kiss momentarily. He takes a quick glance at her toned body, the swollen nipple taking most of his attention. He goes for her back and undoes her black bra, letting it fall to the floor carelessly. Now her breasts are fully bare to him and his cock twitches at how perfect they look.

“You’re staring.” Seonhee brings Kiryu back with that teasing voice and sexy smile of hers. “See something you like?”

“Yeah, you’re beautiful.” Kiryu’s comment makes her blush hard, and it takes a lot of her not to yelp the same way she did when he offered to try out the Ferris wheel together. She looks away to hide her red cheeks from him and takes a moment to recompose.

“W-Well then…” Seonhee clears her throat as she looks back at Kiryu, putting on her sexy façade again. “Would you like to see more?”

Before he could give her a straight answer, she was already on her feet taking off her heels and then went to grab the waistband of both her skirt and panties. She pulls them down without difficulties and Kiryu was in awe of the wetness running down her thighs.

“You’re…that wet already?” And Kiryu can’t help but stare at the beauty of Seonhee’s pussy, dripping and wanting.

It gets a small chuckle out of her, seeing how his demeanor starts to change little by little, nothing like how he was when they first got here. She bites her bottom lip, and her eyes darken a bit more. “What can I say? This is the effect you have on me, Kiryu-san.”

As soon as he hears that, he pulls her back down and starts kissing her hungrily again. She gasps from his sudden urgence, and she doesn’t have time to react when he is already leaving kisses along her jaw, down her throat to rest a bit on the crook of her neck, taking in her delicious sent. Feeling his hot breath directly on her skin makes her moan and she presses herself more to him, wanting to be completely taken by him.

Kiryu brings one hand to Seonhee’s breast, the one whose nipple she was playing with just a moment ago and covers it entirely as he massages it slowly. She starts whimpering at the contact, but her body is barely ready for more when he puts her nipple between his thick fingers and starts twisting it. The moan that escapes her mouth bounces around the room and she aches her back from the contact.

He brings his mouth to her other nipple and starts licking it. He is becoming rougher by the second, unforgiving of Seonhee’s moans as they become louder, but those sounds she is making is what is turning him on more and more. He switches between nipples, sucking hard on one and twisting on the other with just as much enthusiasm. It’s too much for her, making her sex throb as he keeps going.

“Sit on my face.” Kiryu’s voice, hoarse and muffled on Seonhee’s chest, vibrates through all her body making her pussy throb.

“I thought you’d never ask.” She goes for another kiss as she starts lowering him onto the futon. The anticipation of what’s to come is agonizing.

She climbs over his body with a kiss to his torso, then she runs her lips all the way to his throat and licks the hollow space there. It makes Kiryu moan and reach for Seonhee’s hip, making it clear he can’t wait any longer. He needs to taste her.

She complies as she is also getting very desperate to feel his hot mouth on her. Seonhee moves her body until her sex is just above Kiryu’s mouth, letting it drop some of her juices right on it as she watches him swallow them with those needy beautiful eyes of his. So fucking hot.

She begins lowering herself little by little until finally, after what it seemed like an eternity, her wet pussy rests on his mouth. They moan and groan in unison at the contact, and Seonhee starts moving her hips. Kiryu sticks out his tongue and starts giving her aching nub attention, licking up and down as she grinds on him.

“Fuck…” Seonhee loves the way Kiryu is pleasing her with his mouth as she sets the pace. Need more. As she realizes this, she increases the speed of her grinding, and it doesn’t take long for him to catch up.

His tongue licks her entirely, from her wet lips all the way to her hot clit. Her moaning becomes louder, and she still hasn’t had enough.

She reaches for his grey hair and grabs it hard, making him groan loud and lick even faster. Seonhee buries her pussy deep in Kiryu’s face and she almost loses it when her clit hits the tip of his nose. She uses that to her advantage and starts grinding harder on him. It doesn’t take long for her hips to lose their rhythm as she gets closer to her climax.

“K-Kiryu-san, I-I’m gonna-” She hears Kiryu groan in acknowledgment and that’s all she needs to know.

Seonhee’s grinding becomes more erratic until finally, she lets out a drowned moan as she cums hard on Kiryu’s face. She gives a few more, rougher, grinds, wanting him to get all of her sweet juices without missing even a drop.

She lowers her body and slides down until her breasts are pressing against his lean chest. She catches a glimpse of him getting some of her cum that fell down his cheek with his finger and put it in her mouth, licking it clean until there is nothing left. Seeing Kiryu like that reignites that heat inside Seonhee’s body. Still need more.

“Seonhee, please…” Kiryu starts sliding his hard erection between her asscheeks, hoping she gets the message. She lets out a gasp and he feels like he is about to snap.

“Well this isn’t like you, Kiryu-san. Looking so needy for me.” Seonhee tries to taunt him but she can tell he barely cares about the way he looks anymore. She won’t be able to keep up her cool act any longer, either so she finally gives in. “Very well, then. I’ve actually been wanting this to happen for years now.”

She lifts her hips and brings them down slowly, until the head of his cock makes contact with her wet folds. She whimpers at the sensation, but it makes her excitement grow. With the head now inside her, Seonhee lets her hips slam on Kiryu and the air is taken out of her lungs. S-So b-big! Seonhee’s insides taking Kiryu this deep so suddenly is so hypnotizing that she missed his animalistic groan.

She takes a moment, and her insides are now used to his size. She starts slow, sliding up and down but each thrust sends waves of electricity through her skin until she can’t take it anymore. Slow becomes fast, and sliding becomes slamming as she takes him harder into her, their hips making very lewd sounds every time they hit.

“Fuck, you’re so tight…” Kiryu growls as he watches Seonhee, with her hands now on his abs for support, go up and down his dick. Her beautiful tits bouncing and creamy skin now shinning with sweat is almost too much for him to take.

“I love the way you feel inside me, Kiryu-san!” She can barely talk between moans, and she can no longer tell if she is being loud or not, but right now that’s the least of her worries. All she cares about is fucking her long-time hero until they’re both at the edge of unconsciousness.

The position is getting uncomfortable for Seonhee, so she lowers her upper body until it’s pressed against Kiryu’s. With their lips so close, she can’t help but go for a kiss, which he gives back. She can taste herself on him when their tongues clash and this is yet another thing she is getting quickly addicted to. Getting to taste her juices on Kiryu’s tongue on a daily basis would be amazing.

She slides her hips along his shaft as they keep tangled in their languid kiss, the new position hitting a sweet spot within her and she drowns her moans in his mouth. With both hands, he reaches for her asscheeks and squeezes them strongly as he separates them, forcing her to stop and let him thrust hard into her.

It makes Seonhee’s eyes roll to the back of her head, and she knows that will leave bruises later, but damn it, she would be lying if she said Kiryu’s roughness wasn’t turning her on even more.

He then comes to a stop and she looks at him with a frustrated expression, grinding her hips on his cock to chase the pleasure he is suddenly denying her. Before she can say anything, he leans forward until she is resting her back on the futon, with Kiryu on top of her.

Seonhee cries out as he slams back into her in one hard thrust. His pace is frenetic, and it makes her head spin, feeling him so buried deep inside her. She knows it’s normal for people to have heroes and she also knows it’s normal to feel attracted to them sometimes, whether it’s sexually or romantically. Or both.

She does wonder, however, how many of them got to actually hang out with their heroes and even fuck them the same way she and Kiryu are doing right now. The answer doesn’t come to Seonhee in time as he brings her leg and keeps it on his hip with his arm. With the new position, she feels his cock hitting a lot of places inside her at the same time and she swears she has never felt this good in her life.

“K-Kiryu-san…Fuck!” Seonhee can only scream as she reaches out for Kiryu’s back and buries her nails hard on his skin, knowing she will leave marks on the scales of his dragon tattoo. She can feel him groan as he slams into her faster, harder.

“You like it?” Kiryu already knows the answer to that, judging by Seonhee’s lewd noises coming from her mouth and her sex as he keeps going in and out of her. He just wants to hear her say it with that sexy voice of hers.

“God yes! You fuck me so good!” Seonhee has no shame in admitting out loud how she loves the way he is handling her body. She starts to reminisce about the times she has thought about this moment: In her dreams, whenever she was alone in her office, during a much-needed shower or in the privacy of her bedroom, getting wet and reaching her peak as she imagined the legendary Dragon of Dojima fucking her senseless and sometimes, maybe…something beyond sex.

Kiryu pulls her out of her daydream as he brings his lips to one of his hard nipples, sucking hard on it and she yelps from the sensation. He does the same thing with the other nipple, pounding hard into her and she is now on fire. He leaves her swollen buds and presses her lips against hers, her tongue already out waiting for him.

The smell of sex becomes thicker, the sounds of it become louder and the sweat transpiring from their bodies mix as they become enraptured in pleasure. They both wished they had indulged sooner, but that doesn’t stop this from feeling incredible. The tension in Kiryu’s shaft starts to build up again and this time he is more than ready.

“S-Seonhee…I need to cum.” Kiryu’s voice is so hoarse now he can barely talk, focusing more on the way he slides in and out of Seonhee at an inhuman pace.

“Do it! Give it to me!” And it’s all Seonhee needs to say to make him mess up the pace of his thrusting, pushing her over the edge for a second time.

He grabs her hips and slams hard into her, burying his shaft as deep as he can one last time. His mind suddenly goes white, and his mouth can only let out a groan as he spills himself inside her, painting her insides white and filling her to the brim with his hot cum.

The sensation of being filled completely by none other than Kiryu makes Seonhee follow suit, cumming hard on his now sensitive cock with a ferocious cry, leaving it now completely soaked with her own release.

Kiryu takes a moment to catch his breath and he pulls out of Seonhee slowly and falls to her side, making her pussy spill the mix of their releases. The aftershocks she is feeling from what they just did start to die down, but her legs still feel like jelly. They’re both breathing hard, grasping for the air they took away from each other.

“Sorry about that…” Suddenly, Kiryu speaks up, making Seonhee turn her head and look at him with a confused expression on her face. “The cancer really affected my stamina considerably…”

And his words send a chill down Seonhee’s spine. If he was able to fuck her until she saw stars in his current state, she can only imagine what it would be like if he was healthy.

“It’s okay. I still had a great time.” Seonhee says, still trying to catch her breath, and she means that. She knows she’ll think about this moment for a long time while she touches herself, reminiscing about the warmth of his body and how good he felt inside her. Then, she remembers the whole reason this happened in the first place, and she fully turns to face Kiryu and gives him a sincere smile. “So, feeling better now?”

“Huh?” It takes a moment before Kiryu’s mind comes back to earth and understands what she is talking about. “Oh, yeah I do. You were right, I really needed to relax. Thank you, Seonhee.”

“I meant what I said earlier.” The flare on Seonhee’s eyes comes back but the look on her face is sincere. “You won’t be fighting alone this time. You have us…and you have me.”

“It’s nice to know I can count on you for anything.” Kiryu chuckles and the look on his face softens.

“You bet! If anyone gets in your way, I’ll put a bullet in their skull, no matter who it is.” He thinks she says that jokingly, but she knows she means it. After gaining some strength back on her legs, she sits on the futon. “So, wanna go get some drinks?”

“Actually, I’d rather take a nap right now.” Intense activities like this wear Kiryu out thanks to his disease, and he is in disbelief that he is putting having sex with Seonhee on the same level as fighting Yamai and his men when it comes to things that drain his energy completely.

“Okay, then. I’ll be waiting for you downstairs.” Seonhee is disappointed that this precious moment alone with Kiryu had to come to an end, but she understands.

She grabs some tissues from the table to clean herself. She is done, but just as she is about to grab her panties, she feels a strong hand grabbing her by the wrist. She looks over her shoulder, to see Kiryu staring at her with those eyes of his. Has anyone ever told him how fucking beautiful they are?

“You mind joining me?” Kiryu asks, with that stoic expression of his now back in full display.

“E-Eh?” It grabs Seonhee by surprise, and her cheeks turn red from his sudden proposal. She looks away and makes her decision. “O-Oh, sure…”

She gets under the sheets with Kiryu and she really feels like an idiot right now. They just had some really wild sex and this is what makes her feel embarrassed. Intimate moments like this where she is so close to him she can almost hear his heartbeat. Seonhee looks up at him only to find out he is already sleeping soundly and snoring a bit.

So cute. She smiles fondly at him and decides to indulge herself, letting Kiryu’s warmth lull her into sleep with a satisfied expression on her face.

As they go downstairs, they realize the bar is almost silent. It’s just before the last three steps that they start to hear noise. Now on the first floor, they notice their friends are rather busy chilling. On the table beside them, they see Saeko and Nanba talking, though it seems more like she is complaining to him. Something about Ichiban being a total ass for the way he proposed to her or whatever. They notice Zhao at the bar playing on his phone and the bartender cleaning the glasses.

The scenery looks like nothing out of the ordinary, yet both Kiryu and Seonhee look at each other as they can’t help but feel something is off about all this.

Then, out of nowhere, Zhao starts laughing his ass off, hitting his fist on the bar and almost dropping his phone. They notice at the corner of their eyes Saeko and Nanba tensing up.

“What’s up with you?” Seonhee asks Zhao and he turns to face them, but she can tell he is trying to hold his laughter.

“Eh? Oh it’s nothing.” He clears his throat and deviates his eyes to the person beside her. “So, how you doin’, Kiryu-san? Feeling better now?”

“Yeah, it’s all thanks to Seonhee…” Kiryu turns his face to her and a smile appears on his face. “She knew exactly what I needed.”

Seonhee’s mouth starts to feel dry and she looks away, hoping no one saw how red her face is.

“Yeah, I’m sure she did.” Zhao replies with a rather teasing tone in his voice, which doesn’t go unnoticed by Seonhee.

“H-Hey, what’s that supposed to mean?” She doesn’t get a straight answer as the former leader of the Liumang starts cracking up hard again.

She is about to snap at him when she notices Nanba looking away while scratching the back of his head and Saeko’s face red as a tomato. Kiryu seems to notice it too as he gives her a puzzled look.

“What’s going on here?” Kiryu asks but none of his friends is in condition to answer him.

“Quick note for you two.” The bartender approaches them from behind the bar as he puts a glass down. “If you two are set on banging upstairs, I’m gonna ask that you either keep it down or just go to a hotel instead.”

Seonhee’s heart stops at his words and she can see Kiryu is getting nervous as well. “W-What?”

“You’re disturbing the other bars in the district, you know?” The bartender is starting to become annoyed, and it brings Kiryu a rather strong sense of nostalgia seeing him getting worked up like that. Heh, just like when me and Nishiki would screw up a job. “I already had 3 different owners knocking at the door to complain about you two.”

Quickly, that nostalgia is replaced with nothing but shame and he can tell Seonhee is feeling just as embarrassed. The bartender goes back to work as Zhao is on the verge of pissing his pants from how funny he finds the whole deal, Nanba refusing to make eye contact with them and Saeko burying her face on the table, and it looks like steam is coming out of her head.

As good as it was, the two may have to find a better way to chill out in the future.