“Actually… our noona is hyung’s fan… she kept telling me not to leave malicious comments, so I got even more pissed off……”
“……”
“I was pathetic…. I wanted to blame others for my life not working out…. There isn’t much time left anyway…, I don’t want to spend this precious time hating someone……”
“……Ha.”
Dohae was irritated by how a mere twenty-year-old kept saying things were ending, that there wasn’t much time left, such negative words. He had educated him that way, but it seemed he still hadn’t escaped from defeatist thinking.
Dohae’s life looked elegant and glamorous on the surface, but underneath the water, he was like a swan desperately flailing like crazy. Dohae opened his mouth in a sarcastic tone toward Pyeonghwa who dared to whine in front of him.
“Are you going to die in a year? A young punk saying such arrogant things……”
“Whoa! How did you know?”
“What?”
“One year. Two months have passed, so in ten months ■■… huh. ■■? ■■ ■■! ■■……huh?”
When he tried to say the word destruction, the sound came out strange like a stretched tape. Destruction, world destruction, apocalypse—he tried saying it with various words, but it was the same.
Watery nosebleed trickled down. Pyeonghwa fumbled to check the flowing nosebleed. The color was strange. Could a nosebleed be dark red? Ah, it’s a nosebleed. But why won’t it stop…….
“Hyuuung… I have a nosebleed…, gack, cough…!”
A clot of blood gushed out. It became increasingly hard to breathe. It was painful as if his lung capacity had shrunk. It felt like his breath would stop at this rate.
The frightened Pyeonghwa’s eyes met Dohae’s flustered eyes. Save me…… Pyeonghwa’s lips moved. Dohae, who slammed on the brakes, reached out to Pyeonghwa.
<Human Noh Pyeonghwa defies the providence of the universe.>
<Balance is being adjusted.>
<HumanNohPyeongwhaiseliminatederrorcode!>
<Constellation ■■■■ is eliminated.>
<Error code occurred!>
<……>
<Recovery 3%(￣﹏￣；)>
Through his blurred vision, he could see the numbers in the system window slowly rising. Once it passed 10%, he could finally breathe. As he hurriedly inhaled and coughed, bloody water gushed out again.
Crazy Constellation…… You should have told me not to say it…… The reason Pyeonghwa hadn’t brought up the destruction story to anyone for two months was because he didn’t have anyone close enough to talk about such things. If he tried to talk about it, it was obvious he’d be treated like a crazy person, so who could he tell?
But this happened because of the alcohol. This is all because the Constellation didn’t tell him in advance. Pyeonghwa glared at the system window resentfully while gasping for breath. His pupils were unfocused, so the system window appeared as two, three.
Then, a bright light sparkled and warmly enveloped his whole body. The recovery percentage rose several times faster. 20%…… 30%…….
“Noh Pyeonghwa, open your eyes! 119, fuck, where’s my phone……!”
“……Angel…?”
A beautiful angel with brilliant blonde hair and transparent blue eyes was mounted on top of him. Pyeonghwa, who blinked slowly, realized that Do Dohae had cast a recovery skill on him.
“Cough…! Re-covery… skill, you had one…… Cough! Then why my butt back then……! You bastard, my butt……!”
“Shut up! Is that important?”
“Important, cough……!”
“Ha!”
Dohae picked up his phone with his blood-covered hand. Then Pyeonghwa stretched out both hands and grabbed Dohae’s wrist.
“I don’t need to go to the hospital……!”
“Don’t be ridiculous. Do you know how much blood you just spilled in my car? You were purple earlier!”
“Purple? Uh… I’m fine now though. And there’s nothing the hospital can do about this anyway.”
“What? What do you mean……”
“Doooon’t ask me anything! Just… just cast the recovery skill one more time. Okay? Okay? Okay?”
Pyeonghwa was afraid he’d make another mistake and bring up words related to destruction. He cut off Dohae’s words and looked up with pleading eyes.
Dohae moved his lips as if to object, then looked down at his own body stained with Pyeonghwa’s blood. Why did he try to save him even while getting this dirty? Is it because of the ring? He couldn’t understand himself.
Dohae shut his mouth tight and placed his hand on Pyeonghwa’s chest. Warm light spread out as if surrounding Pyeonghwa’s entire body.
“Phew…… I’ll forgive you for not treating my butt.”
Dohae’s eyebrows twitched. Noh Pyeonghwa didn’t stop running his mouth even in this situation. If he fell in water, only his mouth would float around.
Dohae pulled out several wet wipes, placed them on Pyeonghwa’s body, and returned to the driver’s seat. His head throbbed from the bloody smell filling the car, so he opened the window slightly.
Meanwhile, Pyeonghwa, who had been wiping his face with wet wipes, fell asleep. Dohae confirmed that his chest was rising and falling steadily and gripped the steering wheel tightly.
*
“Honey, didn’t you say you found out Pyeonghwa is Pax and resolved it well through conversation?”
“Yeah.”
“But why are you still pretending to be a woman and texting him? Oh my, could it be… you enjoy it? If that’s the case, I can teach you well~.”
Byun Taehui sat next to Dohae and whispered subtly. Dohae narrowed his brows as if displeased.
“Shut up. I’m not doing it because I want to either.”
“Did Pyeonghwa blackmail you?”
Dohae looked down at the ring on his left hand. If it was blackmail, it was blackmail. He hadn’t had nightmares anymore since the day he swallowed his pride and apologized to Pyeonghwa. But the ring still wouldn’t come off. As if it wanted something more from him…….
“He’s terminally ill.”
“Terminally ill? Pyeonghwa?”
“Yeah.”
“He didn’t look sick though……”
“He doesn’t have much time left.”
If there was another problem with Haedo’s health, Byun Taehui would try to eliminate Pyeonghwa first, who had harbored malice once. So he needed to make him recognize that Pyeonghwa wasn’t dangerous. Though even he couldn’t be sure whether the unpredictable Noh Pyeonghwa was really not dangerous. Dohae began to explain Pyeonghwa’s condition in more detail.
“Noh Pyeonghwa doesn’t know that the woman he’s been contacting is me.”
“Mm-hmm, of course. How could you tell him with your personality?”
“I even gave him love advice, and he was relying on that woman more than I expected.”
“Well well. Even love advice? When you’ve never even done it yourself……”
“If I suddenly cut off contact, he might die from shock.”
“Huh?”
Byun Taehui doubted his ears. So… he was saying he continued to exchange texts pretending to be a woman because Pyeonghwa might die from shock. None other than the great Do Dohae himself.
Byun Taehui’s cheeks twitched. He managed to suppress the laughter that was about to burst out, but couldn’t overcome the urge to tease him.
“Oh my, wouldn’t he die faster if he found out the noona he likes is a man with a dick? You’ll have to be careful not to get caught, our honey~.”
“Fuck, won’t you shut up?”
When Dohae cursed and glared, Byun Taehui blushed on both cheeks and twisted his body. Dohae pushed the strange human who liked it more the angrier he got off the sofa.
“If you need a stand-in, you can use me. Bongsuk noona is always ready~.”
Byun Taehui, who had fallen on his butt on the floor, giggled with his legs spread wide. Dohae looked down at him with a gaze as if looking at something disgusting.
Byun Taehui’s head must have a dick inside instead of a brain. Even though he told him about the terminal illness, all he thinks about is doing something. That bastard isn’t even human!
For a moment, the Pyeonghwa from his dreams flashed through Dohae’s mind. If that innocent guy learned about pleasure, would he become vulgar like in the dream? He gritted his teeth at the rising unpleasantness. For his own mental health, Noh Pyeonghwa must not know anything until the day he dies.
“He’s only twenty years old. Don’t have strange thoughts.”
“It’s fine~ If I go somewhere, people see me as twenty-two? Twenty-three? Around that. Not aging like this is a blessing too, right? Among my classmates, there are already some balding, but with this face I only meet young ones like Pyeonghwa.”
“Ha, he’s a sick kid. He doesn’t know anything!”
“Hehe, if he doesn’t know, I should teach him. I like that sort of thing. Training them to my taste.”
Byun Taehui stopped aging at his most radiant period due to the Constellation’s influence. At 175cm, he was neither tall nor short as a man, but his frame was slender and soft, so there was no sense of incongruity even when he wore makeup and a skirt. Unless he said he was a man first, it was hard to notice his gender.
Actually, cross-dressing wasn’t originally his hobby. Until ten years ago he was an ordinary man, but suddenly he completely flipped. It was around the time when the family became a mess due to Dohae and Haedo’s matter.
Byun Taehui went around bragging that he thought he could get away with it if he revealed his unique taste while taking advantage of the chaos. It was known that his relationship with his father Byun Sejung became greatly strained because of that, but seeing them secretly contacting each other recently, that didn’t seem to be the case either.
