Perhaps my condition had collapsed—I slept all day long, then woke up wanting to go to the bathroom and discovered Lee Hyeonseok in the living room reading something intently for quite a while. Too lazy to ask, I ignored him and after briefly stopping by the bathroom on the way out, I tried to go back into the room to sleep some more. What stopped me was one word from Lee Hyeonseok.
“What good scent?”
“Hm?”
“This.”
When I asked back at Lee Hyeonseok’s question that had no beginning or end, he thrust a notebook directly in front of my eyes. It was my diary. This thief bastard had read my diary and was asking about it. At that brazenly shameless sight, I almost had the illusion for a moment that I’d given Lee Hyeonseok permission to read that diary. My body had been so tired and my mind so scattered these past few days that I couldn’t study properly, so I wondered if I’d given permission and forgotten, but even thinking deeply about it once more, that wasn’t it either.
“……”
My exhausted body had no energy to say anything to Lee Hyeonseok, so I let out a long sigh deep enough to make the ground cave in and tried to enter the room, but Lee Hyeonseok grabbed my wrist and stopped me.
“What kind of scent is it?”
“Ah, I don’t know. What good scent would it be, shi…!”
When I got irritated at Lee Hyeonseok who kept interfering when I wanted to quickly lie down on the bed, he strongly grabbed my cheek with his remaining hand. Instead of properly finishing my words, my spirit that had briefly left home returned. Lee Hyeonseok’s expression didn’t look bad. If anything, he looked like someone filled with anticipation, but it was an emotion that didn’t match the situation, so it was rather scary.
“Answer.”
“A heavy scent? A bitter scent?”
However, instead of asking if he’d gone crazy, I decided to answer Lee Hyeonseok’s question sincerely. Though the content was poor anyway. Naturally, Lee Hyeonseok, whether my answer wasn’t to his liking, began to slowly scrunch up his expression.
“I don’t know much about scents, so I can’t explain properly…. Ah, you can just ask Imo-nim.”
I was anxious thinking he might think I was deliberately not saying, but fortunately Lee Hyeonseok didn’t say anything more to me.
“Smell it.”
“Yes…. What?”
At the words to smell it, I tried to answer without thinking. In that moment, Lee Hyeonseok lowered his body toward me and brought his nape to my nose. Surprised, I naturally raised my voice. Flustered, I pushed Lee Hyeonseok’s body just like that, but he stood firm without budging. There’s a scent in the house, so why is he shoving a person at me?
“No, what the hell….”
There seemed to be no sign of him backing down, so in the end I suppressed my absurdity and carefully inhaled toward Lee Hyeonseok’s nape.
“?”
“How is it?”
“…It was a scent coming from you?”
I thought it was a scent coming from the house, but apparently it was a scent coming from Lee Hyeonseok. The scent I’d been subtly feeling throughout the house was coming from Lee Hyeonseok. Does he use some exclusive bath product? As befitting a bastard from a wealthy family, the scent was very nice. When I unknowingly smelled the scent once more, Lee Hyeonseok asked with a smile.
“Do you like it?”
“Yeah.”
It wasn’t wrong, so when I answered obediently, Lee Hyeonseok stroked my head. He was still a bastard whose emotional ups and downs I couldn’t understand.
“Go in and sleep.”
“…I’ll sleep first.”
“Okay.”
When I obediently received Lee Hyeonseok’s touch, he kissed my nape and cheek and said goodbye. I almost got fucking goosebumps and cursed, but I passed it off with a stupid smile and entered the room.
“What is it, really… What kind of scent is it?”
It was a bolt from the blue. Even as I was dumbfounded, when I recalled the scent I’d smelled right before my nose, I somehow restlessly paced around the room in circles. It was a scent I wanted to keep smelling. Enough that I wanted to ask him in return later what kind of scent it was.
“Let’s just sleep first.”
I’d slept and slept like that for several days, yet it wasn’t enough. I felt feverish and also dazed, and if I was like this tomorrow too, I wondered if I’d really need to go to the hospital.
“Mm…”
My body was too uncomfortable. I was sleeping well when it got hot, itchy, and I couldn’t stand it without twisting my body all around, ultimately opening my eyes. At first, my physical condition hadn’t been good recently as if I’d caught a cold, and now I wondered if I couldn’t even sleep properly, but that didn’t seem to be it either.
“Hng… Ha…”
Whether I was now a fresh 20-year-old or by my original age 28, I wasn’t stupid enough not to know what my current physical state was at twenty-eight. I didn’t know why, but my body was heating up right now.
“Haah…”
Even though no one was touching me, I kept spitting out moans like sighs, getting feverish alone and finding it hard to come to my senses. Did I have a lewd dream or something? When I looked around with a hazy mind, Lee Hyeonseok wasn’t there and I was alone. After coming to this house, for Lee Hyeonseok’s convenience, we always slept together, but seeing he wasn’t here, he must have gone out or it wasn’t time to sleep yet.
They say even dog shit is nowhere to be found when you need it for medicine. Right now, I could willingly spend the night with Lee Hyeonseok, but he happened to be absent at a time like this. However, if Lee Hyeonseok were here, it seemed like I’d be the one humiliated in my own way, so in the long run, it might have been better that he wasn’t here.
“……”
I stared blankly at my right hand. It was a hand I hadn’t relied on since meeting Lee Hyeonseok. It felt like reason and emotion were fighting in my head. Reason in the form of an angel was shouting that it didn’t make sense to do such a thing in someone else’s house, and was I really going to do it on Lee Hyeonseok’s bed at that, telling me to stop immediately, but emotion in the form of a devil said you don’t get it, that immorality is what’s important. That devil was sneering at the angel asking where the pretense came from when we’d already done everything together.
‘If by any chance Lee Hyeonseok catches me, there’s no humiliation like that humiliation, let’s just endure and sleep….’
‘No, fuck. That bastard Lee Hyeonseok pounces on me regardless of my will, so why do I alone have to act proper?’
‘Still, becoming the same kind of human as that is a bit.’
‘Well, that’s true.’
“……”
Both reason and emotion entered a truce, as if they didn’t want to be on the same level as Lee Hyeonseok. However, the body, not reason and emotion. In other words, instinct’s opinion was different. Even though I hadn’t done anything yet, mine was already half-erect. About the time my hand, defeated by instinct, trembled and was about to put my hand under the blanket, I found a reasonable answer. Of course, it was bullshit to call it reasonable—it was quite natural if anything, but for me who was having difficulty thinking right now, it was a miraculous solution.
“Bathroom…. Go to the bathroom… Ah…!”
As soon as I raised my body from the bed with difficulty, strength left my legs and I ended up sitting down on the floor. I suddenly had no idea what was going on.
“What the hell, what is this… Huh…?”
Too surprised to even think of getting up, sitting on the floor flustered, my head went blank for a moment. Because I felt something escaping from a place it shouldn’t flow out of.
“Wh-what….”
I hoped it wasn’t, I hoped it was my imagination, but it was asserting its existence intensely. Even as I hesitated with a confused mind, when I touched it, I only came to know it was reality.
“Hng…!”
What was driving me crazy was my body that kept getting excited without tiring even in the midst of being bewildered, not knowing what was going on. While being horrified at the current situation, I was rather being stimulated by it.
“Huk…. Heok…. Huk…. Heu-huk….”
It was too much now. Even though I was scared and strange, I wanted someone to be here right now. In a state difficult even for myself to explain, I kept spitting out moans, then began to cry from an inexplicable sadness.
That’s when it happened.
“…Seo Jiwoo?”
“Eu-huk…. L-Lee Hyeonseok…?”
Whether the timing was good or bad, Lee Hyeonseok opened the door and came in. Because of tears, I couldn’t see what expression Lee Hyeonseok was making, but seeing how his voice was full of surprise, he seemed quite shocked unlike himself. However, perhaps it was just my mood, but I could feel gloominess along with satisfaction in his voice.
“Why are you in heat alone?”
“In, heat?”
“Yeah. Making a fuss while dripping pheromones all over.”
Lee Hyeonseok quickly erased his surprised emotion and teased me with an arrogant and lascivious voice. I felt Lee Hyeonseok approaching me closely. I felt that the closer Lee Hyeonseok approached, the more a pleasant scent came from him and my body heated up even more.
“Hng…. No, it’s not…”
“What do you mean it’s not? Even now, if I just lightly touch you like this.”
“Ah…!”
“You’re about to swoon.”
“Hng…. N-no, it’s not…. Huk, it’s not…”
I said it wasn’t no matter what in response to Lee Hyeonseok’s words, but it was just as he said. With just Lee Hyeonseok’s small gesture, I burst into moans and tried hard to seek pleasure. Such a self was too strange. I was scared. Even while crying in fear, I even shook my head denying it.
“Good boy.”
“…Huh?”
Lee Hyeonseok put his hands under my armpits, lifted me up, and pulled me into his arms. I didn’t understand my body, but I didn’t understand Lee Hyeonseok either. It was truly neck and neck. I was so flustered that my crying stopped abruptly, and when I made a stupid sound, Lee Hyeonseok kissed my eyes, cheeks, and all sorts of places.
“W-wait, just…! Ah…!”
“It’s okay. When has anything bad happened from listening to me?”
My body began to react to kisses that normally wouldn’t have any feeling. Moans also kept bursting out regardless of my will. I felt like I’d cry again at the feeling of my whole body becoming sensitive, but Lee Hyeonseok coaxed me gently like a crazy person. He was gentler than when he first mixed flesh with me. I should have gotten goosebumps at that sight, but I felt relieved. It was also because my heart kept wanting to loosen, intoxicated by the pleasant scent coming from Lee Hyeonseok.
“I-it’s ticklish.”
“Shh, it’s okay.”
When Lee Hyeonseok soothed me, my body was ticklish. When I rubbed my legs together and moaned, he laughed and said obscene things, but I couldn’t properly recognize what he was saying. I didn’t know what Lee Hyeonseok was saying, and just saw the fact that he looked relaxed.
“I-I’m strange…. Lee Hyeonseok, something’s strange with me…. I think I’m sick somewhere, I-I’m scared…!”
At Lee Hyeonseok’s continued relaxed appearance, I finally couldn’t stand it and trembled in fear like a child, tightly hugging him myself. I was so scared. My appearance—throbbing, itchy, and panting—was so disgusting that it was fortunate I wasn’t in my right mind.
“You’re not strange. You’re not sick anywhere, just….”
“Just…?”
“You manifested as an Omega.”
“…What…?”
Until now I hadn’t understood a single thing Lee Hyeonseok was saying, but at just that one sentence that I’d manifested as an Omega, all thought stopped.
