# Chapter 93
Dr. Yoon stopped by the medical ward where Dohyun was staying. It was to check on Dohyun’s condition.
“…”
Soon Dr. Yoon couldn’t help but contort his face. It was because Dohyun was gone, and only an empty bed greeted him.
“Where is Esper Kang Dohyun?”
Dr. Yoon asked, looking at the examiner who was touching a machine near the bed. He turned around, looked at Dr. Yoon’s face, and with a somewhat awkward expression, began to speak.
“Ah… well.”
The examiner explained that Dohyun had woken up a little while ago, and that Hyeono had taken him away briefly to calm him down as he was causing a disturbance.
“Haah…”
Hearing those words, Dr. Yoon created deep wrinkles between his eyebrows. Jaehee was like that, and now Dohyun too. It was frustrating because there was no proper way to help them.
“Ugh, urgh…!”
Just then, Dr. Yoon’s assistant, who had gone to deliver suppressants to the building where Choi Geonwoo was, appeared. He was entering the medical ward while continuously dry heaving as if his stomach was turning.
Staggering, he barely managed to grab the wall and stand, then slowly approached the bed. But unable to lie on the bed, he just grabbed the bedhead and slid down weakly, plopping onto the floor. Then he frowned deeply as if annoyed.
“Ah, that crazy, bas… tard… Urk! Seriously!”
He wanted to curse but his words kept breaking in the middle as if he kept dry heaving. The assistant, who was an Alpha, sat down and shook his body vigorously. He was trying to shake off the Alpha pheromones clinging to his body, even a little bit. A futile act, but still.
“Whew.”
The assistant took deep breaths for a while. It was to calm his queasy stomach. Then, in a somewhat calmer state, he continued speaking. His voice was quite elevated.
“He’s completely, wallpapered the place with pheromones!”
“…It’s worse than before?”
“Yes, the pheromones are very thick, spread all over.”
At those words, Dr. Yoon’s expression darkened. Dr. Yoon had been regularly sending his assistant to deliver medicine to Choi Geonwoo. Although it was unknown whether Jaehee would manifest as an Omega, he couldn’t leave the situation as it was after hearing Choi Geonwoo’s words.
So Dr. Yoon secretly included Alpha suppressants for Choi Geonwoo and Omega suppressants in Jaehee’s recovery medicine, so they would have less impact on each other. He didn’t know if they were taking them, but he didn’t want to miss even a small possibility.
“Well, you did a good job. Thank you for your hard work.”
Dr. Yoon said, trying to calm his assistant.
“How much pheromone is he spraying in that room for it to leak outside the door!”
But the assistant shouted loudly, as if his excitement hadn’t subsided. Just as Dr. Yoon was reaching out to cover the assistant’s mouth as if telling him to be quiet, the door behind them slid open.
The startled Dr. Yoon immediately turned toward the door. Fortunately, Yoo Jiwoon was standing there. Dr. Yoon exhaled in relief that it wasn’t Dohyun.
“Guide Yoo Jiwoon.”
Then, the examiner standing behind Dr. Yoon called out to Jiwoon.
“Have you already been to see the Center Director?”
Jiwoon quietly answered yes to the examiner’s question. At those words, Dr. Yoon’s eyes became strange. Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask Jiwoon something, the assistant cut in first.
“The pheromones are too strong. At this point, it’s no different from openly saying he’s preparing for Bonding. I’m telling you, this won’t be resolved just by delivering medicine. It doesn’t seem like he’s taking the medicine at all!”
The assistant spoke irritably, saying that’s why the pheromones are so strong!
“There’s no other way right now.”
Dr. Yoon spoke as if telling him to stop.
“For now, let’s continue with the suppressants…”
Dr. Yoon stopped in the middle of his sentence. He had belatedly noticed that there was a shadow behind Jiwoon.
“…!”
And that shadow gradually grew larger and soon revealed itself.
“I’d like to hear what all this is about.”
It was Dohyun.
“In detail.”
Dohyun looked at Dr. Yoon with cold, sunken eyes. Hyeono, behind him, was fidgeting nervously, watching Dr. Yoon’s reaction. It was because he couldn’t tell Dr. Yoon that they had been listening outside the door due to Dohyun’s restraint.
“Haah, well…”
Dr. Yoon frowned deeply, put his hand on his waist, and exhaled deeply. He had thought he would have to tell him someday, but he didn’t expect it to be now. He hadn’t wanted to inform Dohyun yet because he hadn’t found a clear way to help Jaehee.
Dr. Yoon momentarily showed a complex expression, then, as if he had made up his mind, opened his mouth.
“I’ll tell you everything, so calm down and listen.”
Dr. Yoon began to tell Dohyun the story so far in a calm voice. He revealed everything he had heard in Choi Geonwoo’s room and about his Alpha pheromones. Dohyun’s expression changed constantly as he listened.
By the time the story was finished, Dohyun’s eyes had changed to a color slightly tinged with red, as if showing a great emotional disturbance. This was because an Esper’s wavelength reacts sensitively to emotions, showing great disturbance.
“For now, I’m looking for a solution.”
Just as Dr. Yoon had said that far, Dohyun suddenly turned his body. Dr. Yoon’s eyes widened.
“Esper Kang Dohyun!”
Dr. Yoon stopped Dohyun, who was about to leave the room.
“Where are you going right now?”
“…”
“What are you going to do when you get there?”
“…”
Dohyun didn’t give any answer to Dr. Yoon’s questions. Dr. Yoon frowned even more.
“What would change if you just go? Are you a match for him?”
Dr. Yoon had heard that Dohyun was no match at all for Choi Geonwoo in the Gate. That’s why he had to stop Dohyun from going to Choi Geonwoo.
“Then…”
Dohyun, who had been quiet, opened his mouth. How tightly he was gritting his teeth while speaking was evident from the firmly hardened muscles protruding in his lower jaw.
“Like this!”
Just as Dohyun was about to continue, an Esper hurriedly entered the medical ward with urgent footsteps.
“Dr. Yoon!”
He was looking for Dr. Yoon.
“…I’ve come on the Center Director’s orders.”
After being momentarily taken aback by the tense atmosphere in the medical ward, he soon found his purpose and continued speaking, looking at Dr. Yoon.
“You need to evacuate right now!”
He said as he approached Dr. Yoon.
“Evacuate?”
“Yes, Gates are being formed around the Center. Orders have been issued for all non-ability users to evacuate.”
At those words, Dr. Yoon frowned.
“Haven’t Gates been continuously occurring recently?”
Gates that appeared with a certain periodicity in the same area had their formation periods shortened after the A-class Gate incident. Anyone at the Center couldn’t help but know this. Such a thing was happening peculiarly only around the Center.
It had been like that continuously since the A-class Gate incident, but suddenly an evacuation order? When Dr. Yoon showed a puzzled face, the Esper urgently added:
“This time the number is incomparably larger. They are occurring simultaneously!”
At those words, everyone looked surprised. The Esper’s words meant that in addition to the shortened creation cycle of the Gates, multiple were occurring simultaneously.
“So hurry, you must hurry!”
The Esper said as he approached, but Dr. Yoon didn’t move, as if he had something on his mind. Evacuation? He couldn’t do that yet. He couldn’t just leave Jaehee like this in a situation where it was unknown if he would manifest as an Omega. Moreover, if he was receiving that level of Alpha pheromones, his manifestation could be accelerated much more.
But the Esper was anxious at Dr. Yoon’s appearance.
“There’s no time for this! You must go quickly. With this number of Gates, it’s only a matter of time before monsters enter the Center!”
“I’m fine, so don’t mind me. I’ll stay with the Espers who will protect this place.”
“What? No, what are you saying now!”
That’s when it happened. Dohyun, who had been quietly, deeply lost in thought beside them, suddenly approached in front of the Esper. Then, looking down at the Esper, he brought up a completely different topic.
“Go now and open the west entrance of the Center immediately.”
“What? The west entrance?”
The Esper asked back with wide eyes. His expression seemed like he wanted to ask, ‘Captain, what crazy thing are you saying right now?’
It was already only a matter of time before monsters entered the Center, but according to Dohyun’s words, monsters that would enter from various places would pour in from the west entrance alone, making it more difficult to block.
“And close all the rest.”
But Dohyun just spoke firmly, as if telling him to follow his orders. The Esper was confused, unable to do either this or that.
“The west, that’s…!”
Meanwhile, Dr. Yoon, who had mulled over Dohyun’s words, looked out the window with a surprised face, as if he had realized something. The building closest to the west entrance of the Center.
“…!”
It was the building where Choi Geonwoo was.
No way!
Dr. Yoon, who had read Dohyun’s thoughts, showed an expression full of astonishment.
“Are you saying you’re going to use the monsters now?”
