A cold breeze was blowing, faintly humming. In a rocky bank, a little white pony kept nudging its little head to an unconscious figure who was laying on his stomach. After a few minutes, the tightly shut eyes slowly opened and stared at the dim sky for a few seconds.
"Prince Aiji...!"
Vince suddenly got up, not caring about his aching body.
"Prince Aiji!" He yelled, but there was only the sound of water falling in the distance, frogs croaking and insects chirping.
Vince stood and felt the vine that was tied on his wrist. He eagerly pulled the vine. There was resistance on the other end. With his aching body, he strode, tracing the vine.
Under the shade of a tree, a few meters where he laid, he found the unconscious prince. Little red was squatting and shaking on his side, unable to make any sounds. Vince immediately carried the prince to the rocky riverside.
Under the dim moonlight, Vince saw prince Aiji's pale face and felt his cold body.
"Prince Aiji, wake up...! Please wake up!" He yelled, but there was no sign of the prince waking up.
Vince's heart was jumping on his chest. He examined the prince's body closely.
"He is not... breathing! No, you cannot die!"
With shaky hands, Vince took off the prince's coat and pumped his chest, then opened the tightly shut mouth, to revive Prince Aiji.
As his mouth touched the prince's cold lips, Vince was frozen for a moment.
"Why does it feel... familiar? He was lost in his thoughts when Red, who followed them, faintly wailed. Vince's lost thoughts were pulled back and immediately resumed his act of reviving the unconscious prince. He repeated it twice, but there was still no sign of the Prince waking up.
Vince was getting desperate. He did it again until those innocent eyes slowly opened.
Prince Aiji slowly regained his consciousness while Vince was giving him mouth to mouth for the third time. After realizing what was going on, those innocent eyes opened wide.
"What are you...doing...?" After a light cough, a soft, weak voice asked.
"Prince Aiji, you're awake! How are you feeling?!"
"What did you do...?"
"I was trying to revive you. You didn't breathe, so I gave you some air, fortunately, it worked."
Those pairs of innocent eyes turned gloomy.
"How are you feeling?" Vince was still worried. The prince almost lost his life!
"I'm... fine."
"That was a ferocious ride, I'm glad we are okay, and the little animals too. But our raft is nowhere here, we lost our extra clothes and weapons."
The prince was still quiet. He was unusually quiet. Vince was anxious.
"Prince Aiji, I will make a fire, and find some food. Wait here for a while." Vince untied the vine that bound them, coiled and kept it. He left the uncommunicative prince to make a fire and find food. He thought that Prince Aiji was cold and hungry, hence, he was not feeling well.
A campfire was burning in a few minutes. Vince then roasted yams and crabs he picked at the riverbank. He then fed Red ripe bananas while Gorgeous weakly rested on the side.
The dinner was cooked but the prince was still dispirited on the corner. It bothered Vince. He was hoping that the prince didn't get some internal injuries.
"Prince Aiji, are you alright? If you feel any discomfort, please tell me."
"...I'm okay..." Sitting perfectly still in the corner, Prince Aiji faintly replied.
Vince placed the roasted food in front of the prince, while examining him closely.
"He looks fine, except for those bruises that I got too. Perhaps he's just too exhausted." Vince thought. The prince wasn't talking, so he peeled some yam and tried to feed him, but the prince grabbed it and ate it on his own.
"Prince Aiji, eat more. We need to replenish our energy." Vince smiled and started eating too.
After dinner, Vince was still feeling cold and remembered his wet clothes. He looked at the prince who was wearing back his wet coat.
"It's not good to sleep with wet clothes." Vince took his coat off and was about to take off his pants when a yell was heard.
"What... are you doing!?" Prince Aiji's faint voice asked.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I was mindless." Vince scratched his head. He forgot that he wasn't wearing underwear.
"I will go make my fire in the distance." He picked a burning wood and went a few meters away.
"I should find ways to make some underwear."
There were many things he wasn't used to in the ancient world, but he cannot complain. He was in ancient times, so he should adapt to the ancient lifestyle. He's a soldier, so fitting in isn't too difficult, but if he can find suitable materials, he will make these things in the future.
Not long later, another campfire was burning. Vince took off his clothes, washed them on the river, and hung them near the fire using a few sticks to dry. He picked two banana leaves and put them on the ground, he laid down and glanced at the distant prince who was also picking banana leaves. Prince Aiji put two leaves on the ground and tore one leaf into two. He picked one of the halves and tied it on his waist like a skirt before taking off his clothes.
"He is too shy." Vince giggled. He found the prince adorable.
Prince Aiji was too timid while he was just lying there naked. Vince wasn't conscious of his bare body, aside from the fact that no one would peep at him, he was also lying farther from the fire, under a tree that shades him from the moonlight. Not even the prince could see him.
Vince continued looking at the busy prince and it seems that he was enjoying this unethical peeping. The prince took off his coat, Vince saw his naked upper body.
"His waist is slender than mine." A tiny voice echoed in his thought. Vince didn't notice this minor detail earlier while saving him.
The prince carefully pulled off his pants.
"He's got perfect thighs too." A tiny voice echoed in his thoughts again!
Vince was getting nuts as he realized these naughty thoughts. He scolded himself, stopped his peeping, and quickly turned to the other side. But, something deep inside his crazy brain strongly urged him to turn back. It seemed that some force in his body kept telling him to continue looking, and this force was quite strong. Vince turned back and saw the prince walking towards the river to wash his clothes, but suddenly, the leaf tied to his waist fell!
It was a stupefying moment for the man under the shade who was unethically peeping.
The prince quickly picked up the leaf, but the image was perfectly recorded in Vince's mind. An enthusiastic tiny voice echoed in his mind again!
"A Perfect back, a perfect bottom, and a pair of perfect thighs!"
It was a disturbing and unfit reaction. A hot sensation was creeping all over his body. Something down there was reacting too, and it was in fact, overreacting!
Vince was stupefied. He tried calming his crazy mind, but his body's desire was beyond his control.
The prince came back from washing his clothes. Something in Vince's chaotic mind urged him to run towards the prince. The strange desire was driving him mad.
"I... What's wrong with me? What happened to me!"
Loaded with this crazy desire and confusion, Vince ran towards the river to take a cold dip.
"...Where are you going...?" The quiet prince was stunned looking at the naked figure that ran off.
"I...I'm going...to take a dip!" Vince said without glancing at Prince Aiji.
Prince Aiji's forehead furrowed. "Aren't you cold?"
"No... I'm in heat! I mean... I feel hot!