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"The vice-captain is not half-wrong, you know," Rei mused, a playful smirk pulling at his lips while he watched Eiden fume after another banter with Edmond. After all this time, Edmond still held the skin to blow Eiden's ego right where it hurt the most — what a pitiful lack of self-confidence, Rei though, resting his head in one of his hands as he laid comfortably in Eiden's bed.
All he wanted was a quickie, to come to the 'Grand Sorcerer' — or the Fraudulent Grand Sorcerer, in Edmond's words —, get Eiden in the mood, do it and leave him. Rei thought it would be the perfect activity for a quick break from his experiments, one that would keep him away from complicated things.
What a ugly, nasty mistake. Now, here he was, being forced to listen Eiden complain about other men that he also didn't really care about. He should've done it himself, Rei thought.
"How can you say that?!" Eiden hissed, stomping a little harder and turning to Rei in disbelief. His face was a bit red already and it looked like he was at the very edge of crying, just about to burst. "After all we went through, how can he still think I'm just a fake?!"
"Ugh," Rei groaned, burying his face in his arms. Maybe getting undressed first would make Eiden stop talking and start acting? No, he was way to agitated for that. At this point, it would already be a lucky strike to get himself out of that room, Rei thought. "I don't mean you're a fraud. You do understand how the Essence works and get the job done," 'in more than a way', he wanted to add, but didn't. "Maybe he meant that you can't do sorcery? Blasting magic like Huey did."
"I-" Eiden stopped, giving Rei the hopes that the ranting was over, but shattering then seconds after as his from got work. "Well, I can perform magic. You people are just a hard crowd."
"Playing with cards are a trick at best, that when you not mess them up," Rei huffed, impatient. He shot Eiden an uninterested look. "Do you even have anything else besides those lame plays? The king's jest might be the next Grand Sorcerer candidate if that's where we are setting the bar."
Eiden gasped, now twice as offended than before. "You're so mean," he pouted, finally walking closer to Rei, as if admitting his defeat. "Maybe you're right, though, and I can't really do anything…" He sighed, plopping himself on the bed, next to Rei.
Sigh. He really should've stayed at his lab.
"Well," Rei mumbled, his tone a bit softer, and turned himself over, spreading his legs a bit to make sure Eiden would catch the hint. "There is a trick that only you can do to me right now, Grand Sorcerer…"
Eiden widened his eyes slightly and let out a small chuckle. "Oh," he giggled, leaning closer to Rei's body in response, "yeah, I think I figure out, but you know it's no real sorcery, right? It's really easy, you needed to ask if you wanted it so bad…"
Finally!
"You're so slow sometimes thahat— w-wahait, Eiden!" Rei stopped his track of through, quickly reaching for Eiden's hand and trying to dislodge it from his bare hip. "Whahat do you— hey! Stohohop it!"
"Hm? Didn't you come here for my tickle magic? You looked as upset as me, so you wanted something to smile about, right?"
"Y-you ahahare so lahame!" Rei groaned, weakly kicking Eiden's leg as he tried to squirm away, "gehehet off me! I dohohon't want it anymohohore!"
"Eh?" Eiden giggled, now straddling Rei's legs and latching both his hands onto his body. He wiggled his fingers around the exposed stomach, prodding and massaging those sensitive hips, "I think I don't know how to stop it, Rei ~ Help me ~"
"N-NOHoh, you— ahAHAH, gehEHet ohohoff!"