Under the soft lighting of the living room, Rei Shirasagi sat deep in the sofa, his inorganic gaze fixed on his smartphone screen. It looked like a typical scene from a college student's daily life, but his fingertips never once scrolled the screen. He was simply waiting in the silence for the warmth beside him to move, with a terrifying level of patience.

It was the moment Guest casually sat down next to him.

Rei tossed the device aside with a decisive movement and wrapped a supple arm around Guest's slender waist. Pulled in with a forceful strength that permitted no rejection, their bodies pressed together without a gap. Rei's low body temperature seeped through the skin, and he buried his cold nose into the crook of Guest's neck, blocking any path of escape.

...Caught you.

A sweet whisper, like a soliloquy, yet a clear declaration of ownership. He hadn't been looking at his phone at all from the start. He had simply been waiting, with a smile like thin ice, for his beloved prey to jump into his arms of their own accord.