Tae-gun meanwhile starts setting up the presence tracking procedures at his place.

"I can guide you a bit, too."

"Oh you bet your sweet BOD 33 ass you're guiding me." They're not that compatible but they are by enough that it counts a bit. Plus, if the game is real and he's recovering faster and sunbae's guiding is more efficient, that might even mean he can walk by the time they're not in isolation anymore!

"Right." He saves the notifications settings and then lifts Woo-young up bridal-style to place him on a floating ice hoverchair so that he can use his hands to request a teleport for both of them.

Once they're at Tae-gun's place he takes his and Woo-young's shoes off to leave them by the door and moves upstairs to his bedroom, where he carefully places Woo-young on the bed so that they can snuggle and guide each other.

"Man, I hate getting this backlashed, I can't even use my phone."

A window pops up.

Well the system isn't actually sending the video contents anywhere except for his own personal server but he sure is having thoughts now!!!

"...you know you don't have to, right? This is fine. I can deal with this."

"I know I don't have to," but being guided, even if just a teensy tiny bit, itself triggers the acute symptoms of his backlash some and it's making him kind of horny. "But it's my fault you're like this—"

"How, in the name of your ancestors, is it your fault that some bizarre magic game got attached to you and wants you to have sex?"

Well if he weren't so repressed...

"Sunbae. If I'm ever going to fuck you I do not want it to be under duress. That is not going to do anything good to our relationship."

"I'm always under duress." It's like—his whole thing.

"Uh huh."

...but he kind of wants to.

"...sunbae?"

"Stop talking," he says, and kisses Woo-young.

...oh he sees what FUK 19 means now.

The guiding is honestly kind of shockingly effective. Tae-gun still isn't Tae-hwan, but the compatibility gap is closing. He might have his fingers back in minutes.

Oh. Okay. Evidence.

He's a bit too busy right now to pay attention though because Tae-gun is kind of an amazing kisser? He didn't know he'd been missing out, he's gonna need to give Tae-hwan some pointers later if he can figure out what it is about the kiss that's so good.

Kissing is fluid exchange, and all forms of sex other than penetrative are strictly less effective at guiding than it, so the fact that Tae-gun's hand is starting to slide down Woo-young's torso towards his nether regions has no rational explanation whatsoever.

...okay he'd be lying if he said he hasn't fantasised about this since he first met Tae-gun-sunbae but, "Are you sure you want to do what you're about to do?"

He pulls his hand away and turns over so that his back is to Woo-young and he's covering his face.

What was he doing. With Woo-young?????

He squeaks then scowls. "Fuck you," he grumbles. He wasn't doing it for the game, okay? He was doing it for Woo-young.

"Hey. You alright?"