Chapter 217 - 211. First Time
"Well...there’s this one thing..."
Bassena asked in a quiet voice, which got Zein to raise his brow. He knew what Bassena would say though, but he pulled away so he could see the esper’s face clearly.
"What?"
"Umm..." Bassena frowned slightly, eyes darted to the side like every time he was nervous and rather uncomfortable with the topic. "About that man...the leader of the Scarlet Moon,"
"What about him?" Zein asked dryly, stepping away to shed his uniform jacket and taking off his mask. As he turned his back on Bassena to drape the uniform on an armchair, he smiled subtly.
Bassena must have been holding it back so much since the morning. Zein said they should talk later--but later came so late since they kept doing something else.
"So that’s the guy? The one who taught you...something else?" Bassena asked cautiously. Zein could feel the dilemma of curiosity and uncomfortableness of finding out about his past partner in the esper’s voice.
Suppressing his smile, Zein turned around and crossed his arms, looking into the amber eyes with a firm gaze. "Say it like an adult, Bas."
"...he’s your first?" the esper asked after chewing the inside of his cheek for a while. "The one who...took your virginity?"
"Of my dick, yes."
Zein replied nonchalantly, flatly. Not because he didn’t consider Bassena’s feelings in all of this--actually, he commended the esper for holding back so patiently for the whole day.