Since a game was a game and a penalty was a penalty, Siwoo put his hand into the paper box with his name written on it and stirred it around roughly. Countless pieces of paper that the fans who participated in today’s fan meeting had personally written and put in brushed past his fingertips. Siwoo picked one and immediately passed it to Sangjun without unfolding the paper.
“Now, the first question. ‘Siwoo oppa, do you like Rush? Or do you like Roxy?’ This is something I was curious about too. Who do you like?”
“You’ve asked quite a difficult question. I’m grateful that Rush and Roxy aren’t here right now. I like the cat Roxy just a little bit, just a little bit more.”
When he handed the next paper he picked to Sangjun, his expression changed subtly.
“This is the second question. ‘Coco-ya, so when are you going to marry Evan?’ Siwoo-ssi, I think you need to think carefully before answering this.”
As soon as Sangjun finished speaking, everyone’s gazes focused on Siwoo. This wasn’t an unfamiliar situation, but the slight difference was that instead of complete silence, murmuring sounds could be heard.
“Ah! I’m most curious about this. When are we getting married?”
At Evan’s words as he sat in the chair with his legs crossed, the murmuring turned into roaring laughter.
First of all, he’d already used ‘Not yet,’ and Siwoo, who had been pretending to think quite hard while touching his chin and blinking his big eyes, had a bright smile bloom on his face.
“Someday.”
At Siwoo’s answer, Evan covered his forehead with his hand and lowered his head, the members burst into laughter, and the fans were genuinely flustered. They had hoped against hope, they had wondered if maybe, but as expected, Coco didn’t say words of rejection. This was because more people had thought Evan’s proposal at the concert was a joke.
“Evan-ssi, cheer up. At least he didn’t reject you. Then this is the last question. ‘Do you prefer a daughter? Or a son?’ Looking at today’s questions, it seems everyone here watched the concert incident and even the live broadcast.”
At Sangjun’s witty remarks, the fans responded with cheers. This was why they had tried to win the game no matter what.
“Me, a daughter!”
“Doesn’t this hyung know about butting in? He’s trying to answer everything himself.”
Evan, who suddenly stood up from his seat and answered in Siwoo’s place, had to sit back down pushed by the force of Yechan grabbing and pulling his clothes while nagging.
“……He says a daughter.”
Beyond recovery. Let’s just live as things go.
Now that it had already become a public romance, denying it would be more troublesome.
Evan’s sudden proposal could be resented, but Siwoo, recalling the word ‘imprinting’ that he had uttered with his own mouth, answered quietly as he returned to his seat.
Following Siwoo, after Yechan, who lost the next game, answered three questions, they moved on to the last event.
After randomly drawing a number, the fan with that number would come up on stage and play a simple game with the members.
Siwoo made eye contact with the man standing next to him and lightly exchanged an eye greeting. It was the person who had gone down after just staring intently at his face without asking any questions during the one-on-one meeting earlier.
“Now, the teams are decided.”
After five fans came up and he exchanged what seemed like awkward light greetings with the fan who had accepted his eye greeting, Siwoo looked at Sangjun, who was proceeding with the game.
Siwoo, who had been standing comfortably without much thought, couldn’t even make a proper sound and staggered backward, roughly led by Evan’s sudden touch. Since it wasn’t his own will but pushed by Evan’s force, he had to stumble. In front of Siwoo, who had barely straightened his body, was Evan’s broad back.
“Fuck……”
He had never seen Evan use rough language. Along with the harsh curse, Evan had grabbed and lifted the collar of the man who had been standing next to Siwoo. The fan meeting venue became chaotic due to the sudden incident, and Siwoo moved his body, led by Chan’s hand grabbing his shoulder and pulling him further back.
“What omega. A beta subject talking about imprinting and shit. Someone like you doesn’t suit Evan……”
Security guards rushed in hastily, and as that man was dragged out, his voice spreading through the air as he laughed bizarrely and rambled on.
“What the……”
Siwoo, who couldn’t quite follow the situation, grabbed the collar of Chan, who was still covering his shoulder protectively while watching the situation being resolved with a hardened expression.
“That crazy bastard just released alpha pheromones. Aimed at you too.”
At Chan’s words, Siwoo let out a small sigh and raised his hand to cover his lower face. He had never felt pheromones like this from Evan until now.
When Evan sulked or got angry over trivial things, unstable pheromones did flow out. As the pheromones flowing from Evan gradually became more intense, Siwoo’s face turned pale.
“Ah, crazy bastards.”
Chan, who had been covering Siwoo, stood Siwoo behind him and stepped back a bit more. There were cases where omegas released pheromones and rushed at the alphas Chan, Evan, and Yechan. But since there had never been such an incident targeting Siwoo, everyone was flustered.
Several fans who had come to the fan meeting hurriedly covered their noses and mouths, and the sight of Yechan holding back Evan, who was trying to follow down behind the stage, appeared like a panorama, cut off in jerky fragments.
Evan’s pheromones, which had filled this place as if exploding, disappeared in an instant, but the aftermath didn’t easily fade.
“Are you okay?”
At Daehwan’s words as he jumped up onto the stage, Siwoo nodded but didn’t take his eyes off Evan. His hardened expression and tightly clenched fist fully conveyed his emotions.
“Evan and Siwoo. Let’s go down for a moment.”
At Daehwan’s words, Siwoo, who went down below the stage, obediently settled into the embrace of Evan pulling him in and patted his back. The sound of the members who remained on stage communicating with the fans and resolving the situation could be heard.
The person who had caused the disturbance was nowhere to be seen, having disappeared with the security guards, and startled staff could be seen moving busily.
“I’m okay.”
Although Evan hugged him so strongly that he couldn’t breathe and his waist and back hurt, Siwoo spoke as if whispering with sincerity. This was Evan, who got jealous even of the cute Katie.
The words shouted while being dragged away came to mind. Talk about traits. The words he had accidentally let slip had come back like this.
As an alpha, he seemed to have tried to confirm his trait by covering him with pheromones. No matter how much one tried to hide it, when exposed to strong pheromones for a short moment, if one was an alpha or omega, it was certain he had aimed for them to naturally reveal their pheromones, even defensively.
It was natural for Evan, who noticed him releasing pheromones, to react intensely. He already knew that Evan had marked him heavily with his pheromones, and now he didn’t stop him from doing so. No one would know, but right now Evan was also full of his plum scent.
And the opponent who had been standing right next to him might have done such an impulsive act after confirming that Evan’s pheromones were coming strongly from him.
He probably didn’t like this situation that seemed to acknowledge their relationship as Evan’s fan rather than his own fan. The comments he had seen during the live broadcast flickered before his eyes – they don’t suit each other, Evan is too good for him, break up.
“Isn’t this enough to stop now?”
Even at Evan’s whining as he buried his face in his shoulder and murmured, Siwoo didn’t stop the touch of stroking the back of his head and back. His dream of wanting to stand at the very top as an idol had been achieved, and even if regression continued to repeat, there was a lover who would stay with him.
It seemed his greed had made things turn out this way.
For the accident he had caused, Evan had presented several options. Hiding it to the end and living as a celebrity for as long as Siwoo wanted, revealing everything and quitting celebrity life. Or revealing their relationship and continuing celebrity life. And Evan had also honestly revealed his thought that he wanted to focus only on the two of them.
Siwoo said just a little more. Let’s do it just until twenty-five.
Basically, regression occurred at five-year intervals.
Although he couldn’t regress on the set day at twenty-three, he insisted that he might suddenly return on some day at twenty-five.
Perhaps the reason he couldn’t regress this time was because this timeline started at twenty years old.
And by that time, it seemed it wouldn’t cause much damage to Sangjun as a director, Chan as an actor, and Yechan, who was already showing prominence in variety shows.
“……Should we really stop?”
Siwoo, who couldn’t answer for a long time, opened his mouth while feeling Evan’s pheromones flowing along his body. Everything depended on his one word.
“No. Sorry for bringing up pointless talk again.”
At Evan’s words murmured while slowly letting him go, Siwoo slightly lifted his toes. And before Evan could get farther away, very briefly, he touched his lips to Evan’s lips.
“Let’s discuss it all together with the members after this promotion ends. This isn’t something just the two of us can decide.”
“Kim Siwoo, wrapping me around your finger is nothing now.”
Evan tilted his head back and put his lips on Siwoo’s lips again as he chattered while looking at him. If only there wasn’t the sound of Daehwan clearing his throat from the side…… Evan, who stopped at a peck instead of a kiss, looked at Daehwan with an annoyed expression.
How could the gaze that had been looking at Siwoo with eyes so sweet that honey seemed to drip change in such a short moment? But since this wasn’t the first or second time this happened, the shameless Daehwan raised his left hand and pointed to the watch on his wrist.
“We need to wrap up the fan meeting.”
“Evan-ssi, whose words and actions don’t match, let’s at least remove your hand.”
Siwoo firmly grabbed the wrist of Evan’s hand that had somehow entered inside his crop tee and was stroking his back, while reading Daehwan’s expression.
Due to the disgraceful commotion, the last game ended up being left unfinished, and after Evan and Siwoo returned to the stage and gave simple closing greetings, the fan meeting that had been precariously continuing came to a close.
