The evening has now come, Yao Qiu spent the afternoon practising his powers, it was and it is still pretty hard to activate them. He tried everything : thinking really hard for it to happen, thinking about someone he likes, someone he hates, etc... It only seemed to activate randomly, that's why he needs to practice more.

Yao Qiu is currently still practising in one of the hotel rooms while Lang Xinya is in the room next door, washing what is left of the tiger's blood off his face and clothes.

The hotel room Yao Qiu is in is also partially destroyed. For instance, the windows are completely non-existent, it is just holes in the walls, all of the furniture are damaged and some are even missing, it shows how violent the demons were when they were ordered to attack. Yao Qiu is halfway in the dark, the room is only lit with some candles, menaced to be extinguished because of the wind coming from the holes in the walls.

The demon master is sitting on the bed trying to manipulate his magic again, so he concentrates really hard, only thinking about his powers. Some light weakly comes out of his hands, at this moment he silently wonders :

-"When I threw that fireball, I wasn't even thinking about my magic. It just came naturally when I thought about saving Lang Xinya's life from that tiger. Does it activate only when I feel there is danger around ? Then it should activate now because of all the demons wandering around."

The light from his hands becomes slightly brighter, so he tries to form a sphere, as he did when attacking the tiger. He actually succeeds in forming a sphere, small enough to not damage more things in this room. After that the demon master aims for a rock coming from one of the walls, the magical sphere explodes the rock right when touching it.

Lang Xinya obviously heard that noise so he worries a bit and just asks from the other room :

-"Is everything okay ? What was that noise ?"

-"Erm.. Nothing, I'm just practising my powers."

Lang Xinya doesn't reply to this, the demon master just hears some water noises from the other one cleaning the tiger's blood off him as said before.

After a short time, the demon hunter finally gets out of the smaller room, he sees Yao Qiu on the poorly made bed, still practising his powers. After looking at him for a few seconds he notes :

-"You're getting better. That's nice. By the way, have you cleaned your wounds ?"

Yao Qiu stops using his powers to answer the demon hunter, he looks up and sees that Lang Xinya isn't wearing any top clothes, as he is used to doing to sleep. He is also still a bit wet from cleaning himself and has his hair tied in a bun. Yao Qiu is quite perturbed by that but he answers anyway :

-"No. They are almost healed, I don't think I need to clean them so often."

-"You should maybe clean it one more time, since it has been made by a demonic creature. It would be better for you to be healthy if you want to stop Pan Rong."

It doesn't take that long to convince Yao Qiu, by the way Lang Xinya is still wondering why a demon master would kill a god demon, they are in the same team. The demon master replies :

-"You are right. I don't want to turn into a demonic creature like that."

***

In the other room, where Liao Bo, the Angel of Darkness and Susu are, the demon killer looks at the demonic creature she tied in a corner of the room. After looking at it for a moment she mutters, so no one around can hear her :

-"I'll free you. It won't be any longer."

Susu hears those words, so it wonders and asks Liao Bo :

-"Why free a demon if you are against it ?"

Then she hesitates to give explanations, she does it anyway, since the small group of people will know sooner or later :

-"I used to know that person, before she turned into an Angel of Darkness. We were in fact... pretty close."

She says the two last words with a bit of hesitation, not sure to reveal the true nature of her relationship with the person who got turned into a demonic creature, that is why she isn’t afraid of it.

***

Back in the other room, Yao Qiu is still sitting on the bed but he is now cleaning his wounds one more time. Stating that his wounds are pretty much healed, he is relieved that it might be the last time he has to clean it.

While he is doing that, Lang Xinya is looking through the broken window. He admires the night sky full of stars and not polluted by some city lights. When admiring the sky, he makes sure that demons aren't coming to attack by surprise. By the way Lang Xinya still has the piece of fabric Yao Qiu gave him softly tied around his neck.

After looking outside for a few times he turns around to ask Yao Qiu :

-"Can I see how it is ?" asking about the wounds.

Yao Qiu accepts, so Lang Xinya gets closer and even sits on the bed to see Yao Qiu's torso from a closer point of view, slightly touching the wounds with the tip of his cold fingers. The demon master reacts quickly after that contact, he grabs Lang Xinya's hand to put it away. The latter says :

-"Did I hurt you ? I'm sorry."

-"No, it's just that your hands are cold. By the way, is the demon smell still strong enough ?" He asks that, using his other hand to designate the piece of fabric the one in front of him has around his neck by softly pulling it.

After this gesture, Lang Xinya weirdly lets a slight smile appear on his face. The demon hunter can't resist so he places one hand on the demon master's back and gets closer as Yao Qiu pulls the piece of fabric towards him then he answers the question, languidly whispering :

-"I don't know. I heard sweating makes the demonic odour smell stronger."

Yao Qiu instantly understands what Lang Xinya is talking about but he doesn't really know how to react after hearing that. He is indeed attracted to the man in front of him and also wants to get way closer to him but he just doesn't know how to do things since it is his first time getting so close to a man.

The demon master just gives up and listens to his thoughts, he pulls the piece of fabric even closer to him, so Lang Xinya's face is really close to his now. He gently grabs Lang Xinya's back of the neck with his free hand to end up kissing the other man on the lips. The one he is kissing accompanies him in this exchange, he even takes off Yao Qiu's top entirely, taken by the warm atmosphere which was quickly set up.

Then, Lang Xinya lets his cold hands slide on Yao Qiu's warm upper body, the demon master's muscles contract due to the cold, he slightly bites the other one’s upper lip due to his own body reaction.

After a few more seconds, they both take a short break from passionately kissing to catch their breath. Yao Qiu, halfway laying down on the destroyed bed genuinely asks, still holding the demon hunter's back of the neck :

-"Is it ok for you to be that close with a demon master ? I am meant to be your enemy, right ?"

-"Let's not care about that. People around me don't even know I like men. So don't worry, people won't suspect or expect us to be close."

Then, Lang Xinya lets his cold hands slide until the other one's thin waist and even lower. While sliding one of his hands lower, he grabs the demon master's pants and languidly takes it off. It is definitely not Lang Xinya's first time to do that.

After that, the demon hunter can sense that the demon smell is already getting stronger, Yao Qiu's body is indeed getting hotter.

Now that the demon master has no pants, Yao Qiu decides to softly push Lang Xinya, so the demon hunter is the one halfway laying down on that destroyed bed. Yao Qiu directly gets on the other one's lap then completely pushes the demon hunter on the bed, so Lang Xinya is now fully laying down having the demon master almost fully naked on top of him.

Lang Xinya is enjoying this moment. By the way, it doesn't seem to be Yao Qiu's first time as well, before getting reincarnated, the demon master must have had similar situations with men as well, the actual Yao Qiu is kind of led by his own body for this moment.

Yao Qiu doesn't wait any longer to lean on Lang Xinya's naked torso to end up kissing it. Then he goes down on the demon hunter's abs and keeps kissing it, he even slightly licks it. The demon master does that as if they are already really close.

Before Lang Xinya can move to take off his own pants, Yao Qiu is already untying it, the demon hunter smiles and helps the other one untying it. After taking off this piece of cloth, Yao Qiu directly kisses the other one's tights, Lang Xinya can't resist but to grab the demon master's hair. Feeling that his hair is being softly pulled, Yao Qiu decides to get back to Lang Xinya's lips to kiss it again. While kissing, Lang Xinya carefully pulls Yao Qiu's lower body part against his to show that he is ready to do more.

The demon master is a bit wondering about how to do those kinds of thing but since he feels like his muscle memory from Yao Qiu before dying is helping him, he decides to just let his own body show him the way.

Yao Qiu's hand automatically goes down to both of their underwear to take it off and, finally, both them are fully naked. Lang Xinya has no time to admire the demon master's fully tattooed body, he is too busy keeping on kissing with a lot of passion his supposed enemy.

Their intimate moment finally starts, Yao Qiu is still leading the way, as opposite of what he thought. In fact, he'd thought Lang Xinya would naturally take the lead because of his stronger body but it seems like there is no pattern in how two men can have intimate moments, it also seems like Lang Xinya isn't bothered about being led or not.

After a few minutes making the whole bedroom shake, the old broken wooden bed squeaks and their bodies sweat a lot, they finally both finish this intimate moment. Yao Qiu lays down right next to Lang Xinya, they are both sweating and out of breath. The demon hunter notices that the demonic smell is now way stronger than before since Yao Qiu is the one who sweat the most during this moment.

Lang Xinya finally takes off the necklace to softly rub it against Yao Qiu's wet skin to incorporate the demonic smell on it. Then he lets his hand on the demon master's tattooed torso, he also wonders :

-"What do those tattoos mean ?"

Yao Qiu wasn't really ready to hear that question, so he slightly panics and simply tells :

-"It is just demonic tattoos. By the way, is the demonic smell strong enough now ?" Yao Qiu quickly changes the subject of the conversation.

-"It is now really strong, so no need to worry about it." Lang Xinya replies, softly tracing on Yao Qiu's tattoos with his fingers, still holding the piece of cloth he'll have to tie back around his neck.

By the way, Lang Xinya feels like the demon master isn't telling the entire truth about those tattoos, he obviously can see that those are actual demonic tattoos but it doesn't give him an explanation about what those drawings mean. But he doesn't really care for the moment, he just wants to rest and sleep now.