“Re, really? You’ll go into a room with me……?”
Rather than the rooftop or cold emergency stairs, it’s obviously more advantageous to lie down and rest on a king-size bed.
When I nodded readily, the one who had suggested it first frantically waved his hands.
“Think about it again! You’re going in with me?”
“Why is that a problem?”
“Be, because. You’re an alpha! And I’m an omega……!”
“So why is that a problem?”
I really didn’t understand, so I asked Lee Yeongwoo back.
“We’re friends.”
“…….”
Lee Yeongwoo scrunched up his reddened face with a subtle expression.
It was an ambiguous face—unclear whether he liked it or disliked it.
‘Did I act too friendly just because we played together briefly in elementary school?’
In my own way, I’d spoken honestly, but perhaps it made Lee Yeongwoo uncomfortable.
After all, he’s…… an omega.
Modern society aspires to gender equality without distinction between men and women or alphas and omegas, but to me, alphas and omegas were truly equal in that they were the same species emitting the same foul odor.
So as a result, there were times when I became insensitive in areas that required consideration. Just like right now.
“If you’re uncomfortable, I can go in alone.”
“Hu, huh?”
“I feel bad for holding you up any longer. Thanks for lending me the room. I’ll clean up and leave as soon as Baek Jeongwoo contacts me.”
“N, no…….”
“Should I settle the lodging fee at the first-floor lobby?”
“No! That’s not it! It’s absolutely not because you make me uncomfortable! I, I’m just worried about your constitution……! Don’t worry about the cost either!”
As expected, Lee Yeongwoo has a kind heart. It seemed like he was somehow choosing his words so I wouldn’t feel uncomfortable.
Just as Lee Yeongwoo was about to add something more.
“……Ugh, seriously! Let’s go inside and do it!”
“Why? There’s no one here.”
The elevator door at the end of the corridor opened and two pairs of men and women…… no, two men got off.
Half-naked.
“Kyaa! There are people here!”
“So what? Isn’t this side more exciting?”
“Are you a pervert?”
“Then don’t be so sexy.”
“Aah!”
The man put his arm inside the other man’s clothes and groped his chest.
Even though there was no chest to grope.
‘Damn it.’
I cursed inwardly for the first time in a while.
“……Huh? Wait. Yeongwoo? Is that Yeongwoo?”
At that moment, the man who was having his chest groped looked surprised when he saw Lee Yeongwoo, then ran over with a smile.
“Wow, how are we meeting again? I came all the way down here because the rooms up there were full.”
“……Jiho.”
When Lee Yeongwoo gave his attention to another person, the man called Jiho shrugged his shoulders.
“Hm? Oh, this person? He’s a rookie that Baekil Enter is pushing these days. He kept clinging to me saying my face was totally his type, so I was going to play with him once and dump him. Ugh, I dressed up a bit and all sorts of things are getting attached, it’s really annoying to death.”
“…….”
“Oh, right! Our Yeongwoo said he’s never even held hands with an alpha, right? Was that too stimulating a sight for you? Sorry!”
His nose gradually rising and his shoulders swaggering. A high-pitched voice mixed with laughter.
It was obvious. A power struggle.
‘A man having a power struggle with a man as men…….’
Dizzying.
But it seemed I wasn’t the only one feeling dizzy.
Lee Yeongwoo’s expression wasn’t very good either.
“You’re really strange too, Yeongwoo. How is it that as a dominant, you’ve never met with an alpha even once? Was there really not a single person who would meet you? See, I told you to dress up a long time ago!”
The voice that was gradually changing to a reproachful tone finally transformed into mockery.
“Because you don’t put anything on your face, your skin is all ruined. You’re a dominant, yet what is this state?”
There was no sign of the conversation ending.
So I casually walked a few steps forward and stood next to Yeongwoo.
“Don’t worry. If you get some care like me, and pick out clothes to wear, you’ll soon find a good person…… fi, fi, fi, fi, find…….”
Only then did the person called Jiho notice my existence.
“Wh, wh, who is this person?!”
“Wow. A beauty.”
“Do, don’t tell me he’s with you?!”
Not only him, but even the man who was supposedly a rookie actor or singer blushed. No, why are you blushing? Aren’t you also an alpha?
“Lee Yeongwoo! What the hell is that! Tell me right now! How are you, you stuck together with a, a handsome man like that?!”
From the way he was pointing at me as if I were some object without personality, I could roughly guess what kind of upbringing he’d received.
Under continued pressure, Lee Yeongwoo spoke with difficulty.
“He’s just an old classmate…….”
“We’re close.”
But I stepped forward first.
I couldn’t stand it any longer.
“Clo, close……?”
“Very close, in fact.”
When I firmly wrapped my arm around Lee Yeongwoo’s shoulder and pulled him close so our bodies touched, I heard a flustered voice.
“Bae, Baek Gunho! What are you doing……!”
“Right, Yeongwoo-ya?”
I didn’t give Lee Yeongwoo a chance to respond and raised one corner of my mouth. Just like I’d acted in front of Yu Gojun earlier.
His already red face ripened to a deep crimson with embarrassment. Apologizing for that apple-like face is for later.
“We’re busy, so we’ll be going first.”
“…….”
“Excuse us.”
With that smiling face, I flung open the door to room 3001.
Bang.
“…….”
“…….”
We entered inside.
Together with Lee Yeongwoo.
“……Gu, Gunho-ya.”
Lee Yeongwoo looked up at me cautiously with a thoroughly reddened face, seemingly quite flustered.
“Wh, why did you just do that……?”
So I smiled at Lee Yeongwoo again.
The moment Lee Yeongwoo pulled his shoulders up tensely.
I immediately rushed to the bathroom and stuck my face in the toilet.
“Bweeeegh.”
“Aaaaah! Gunho-yaaaa!”
That’s right. I couldn’t hold it in any longer.
……The vomiting.
About 5 minutes later.
I deeply bowed my water-soaked face.
“Sorry, Yeongwoo-ya. I was in a hurry…….”
“O, okay……. Be, because of pheromones?”
“It’s the first time I’ve smelled that kind of pheromone…….”
The pheromones I usually smelled were all equally foul odors that stung my nose.
However, perhaps thanks to the results of the special training I recently received from Lee Haram? Now I could roughly distinguish even the grain of emotions mixed in pheromones.
Lee Haram’s worry, or Yu Gojun’s mockery.
Depending on the emotion, there were subtle differences in the pressure felt on the skin and the smell felt in the nasal passages.
“That kind of pheromone? What pheromone are you talking about?”
“…….”
Among them, the identity of the unknown foul smell that had been subtly mixed in from the rooftop. I was certain after seeing the male-male couple just now.
The identity of the intense emotion clinging to the pheromone that seemed ready to commit the deed at any moment was.
“Lewd…… pheromone?”
“Le, lewd?!”
Sexual desire.
In other words, I had been smelling only fair and equal foul odors all along, but now I could feel various foul odors mixed with all sorts of emotions.
What great progress.
“Gu, Gunho-ya. Should I get you some water? There’s juice and cola here too.”
“Water is fine. Thanks…….”
“Don’t you have medicine or something? Should I get you something? Do you want to lie down?”
“No, I’m fine. I’ll use the bed…….”
“N, no. Somehow I feel more sorry…….”
And so, in awkward silence, I flopped onto the bed.
Looking around, it was a luxurious suite room with floor-to-ceiling windows, a spa bathtub, and even a king-size bed—fitting for a newlywed couple’s honeymoon.
A slightly uncomfortable place to stay alone with an elementary school classmate I met after 10 years.
‘So that’s why Yeongwoo tried to stop me earlier.’
Lee Yeongwoo stood awkwardly at a distance from the bed, just fidgeting with his hands.
This is already the second time I’ve vomited in front of this guy.
What should I do about this awkward atmosphere?
“Gu, Gunho-ya.”
At that moment, Lee Yeongwoo spoke first.
“Your pheromones……. Can’t I do something about them?”
“Hm?”
My pheromones?
At the sudden question, I lifted my head and looked at Lee Yeongwoo.
I hadn’t paid much attention to my pheromones since Lee Haram dealt well with the ‘mysterious pheromone.’
As long as I wasn’t in class, I was always taking medication, so it was hard to know what my pheromones were like unless I consciously focused on them.
“Why? Is there a problem?”
“Do, don’t tell me you don’t know? Your condition?”
After brief consideration, I informed him about the medication I was taking and the fact that my pheromone control was terrible.
“Ah, right. You had constitution issues, of course……. The pheromones that were rippling from the first time we met, they were just unstable because your control was clumsy. I understand now.”
Lee Yeongwoo hesitated, then continued while avoiding my gaze.
“Gunho-ya, so I have something to tell you…… you’re also…… releasing them right now.”
“So, releasing what?”
And he squeezed his eyes shut.
“Lewd pheromones……!”
“Huh?”
Lee Yeongwoo blinked as if dumbfounded, then continued his explanation.
“I think you’re intoxicated. By Jiho and that person’s…… sexual…… pheromones earlier.”
Intoxicated? This isn’t alcohol, you can get intoxicated by it too?
Right now, my stomach is churning and I’m dizzy like I’ve drunk too much, but I don’t particularly feel sexual……, I thought at that moment.
“……?”
Suddenly, I started feeling a slight fever in my body.
My breathing quickened, my heart pounded fiercely, my blood flow increased, and heat rose to my face.
This situation. This sensation. It’s quite familiar……!
‘Pheromone rampage?!’
Once I started being conscious of my pheromones, I felt them running wild like an unbridled colt.
It was similar to the situation where you believe you’re fine, but once you belatedly discover a cut, it starts to sting and hurt from then on.
My pheromones were also different from usual. A fishy smell. Subtle differences in pressure.
Similar unpleasant pheromones to what the male-male couple had been emitting earlier were enveloping my entire body.
The foul smell was secondary.
What was even more unbearable than that was…….
‘Am I crazy?’
The tingling sensation in my lower body.
Fortunately, compared to last time when my pheromones ran completely wild, less was coming out now. So it was less painful than then, and an embarrassing situation hadn’t occurred yet.
……Not yet.
“Gu, Gunho-ya. Are you okay?”
If I show such a disgraceful sight not only in front of my younger brother but also in front of a classmate I met after a long time, I’d fail as a human and pass as a beast.
I wanted to suppress my pheromones as much as possible, but I didn’t know where to apply force, so only the veins in my neck stood out.
“……Sorry. This is my first time in a situation like this too…….”
“Do, don’t worry too much! If you’re an alpha or omega, being swayed by other people’s pheromones happens often! Even middle schoolers who are clumsy at control experience this frequently!”
“Middle schoolers…….”
“Especially elementary schoolers really get intoxicated at the drop of a hat! For Gunho, it can’t be helped! Yeah!”
“Elementary schoolers…….”
“If, if you need time alone, tell me! I’ll go out!”
What crazy bastard would kick out a classmate and relieve himself alone in the room?
My stomach is churning, my body is heating up, and I don’t know when Baek Jeongwoo will call. I worked my brain hard to resolve this situation.
‘What should I do……?’
Then suddenly. An appropriate treatment came to mind.
My decision was quick.
“Yeongwoo-ya.”
“Y, yeah?”
“Wait a minute.”
“Where are you going?”
“I’m going to shower.”
“Ah, shower……. Huh? Shower?”
The emergency treatment Seolheon had given me.
A cold shower.
