龙巢 (Dragon's Nest)

Chapter 4

Upon slowly seeing the dim light of a candle, Nobu woke up in utter shock. He had slipped up earlier and hadn't noticed two people sneaking up on him - to be fair, he was already having a hard time walking to the lights up ahead, as he felt himself getting dizzier and weaker by the second. But that still didn't give whoever decided to kidnap him an excuse to do it. 

But now, he was back to square one again, as his attempt to run out of whatever place he was in now had clearly failed when some burly man manhandled him. 

Yet, thinking of that burly man... he happened to be right in front of him. 

Okay. 

Maybe he wasn't burly. 

At all. 

He actually had long, flowing black hair tied up in a traditional style. He had pale skin and beautiful deep ocean blue eyes and he wore an extremely stressed out face. Unsuitable for someone so beautiful. 

Upon seeing him, Nobu realized he was ogling him while lying down. He quickly sat up to face the stranger. 

"You should stop moving so abruptly," the stranger spoke. "You're in an extremely troubled state at the moment. Take some time to rest and get better." 

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Nobu didn't think life could get any weirder for him, but this had definitely made its way to the weirdest experience by far.

He lived an orthodox life back in modern Tokyo, but this experience by far was just something that proved his childhood theories correct - he really didn't belong there. 

Was it just a coincidence that Nobu happened to wake up in a forest, get kidnapped by 2 strange men, probably sold off, and now get kidnapped by another stranger? This acted out exactly like the story he read a few years back. 

The man in front of him looked exactly like a fairytale dream. He had extremely attractive facial features and he looked extremely well-built. He had beautiful slick and long black hair, yet retained an extremely masculine face. You could never mistake him for a woman, despite that hair of his. 

His face looked stiff, filled with stress, yet there was something kind about it. Something like... oh. Like he was waiting for Nobu to say something because of his ogling. 

"...oh." 

The man sighed. "Let's start with introductions, shall we?" 

Nobu felt his gaze getting blurrier and blurrier, as his head began heating up even more than before. "...yeah." 

"I'm Emperor Mochizuki, but you may call me Raiden. Please skip the formalities." 

"Nobu Hisashi." 

"I understand that you seem to be... in a bit of a dilemma here, with your physical condition. Now, there are two ways to solve it, yet one will be a bit more difficult." 

"Difficult?" Nobu felt himself getting hotter by the second and unexplainably wet in a spot that he did not want to speak of. "Let's go with the easy and efficient method then." 

The emperor that sat before him sighed. "The easy way is to simply have intercourse." 

Nobu's eyes widened at what the man had just said. This was starting to become too surreal. It was just like his fever dreams at this point. 

"Are... are you lying?" Nobu looked at the man skeptically. 

"I would not lie about such. I bought you from the slave market. If I was truly to be of deceit to you, I would be beating you and having you mop the floor as of now."