“That son of a bitch……”
“Ah, that fucking annoying bastard……!”
Woojae spat out curses through his teeth. And at the same time, the man who’d screamed stood up from his spot. As if it had never happened that he’d been staggering and rubbing against the big guy, he was stomping the ground with his feet and gasping for breath. As soon as he raised his head, he spotted Woojae. His flushed cheeks and unfocused eyes instantly contorted as if extremely displeased. Soon the man approached with an angry face and shouted at Woojae.
“What are you?”
“……What are you, ahjussi?”
Woojae had no intention of backing down either. If you got down to it, he’d done nothing wrong in this situation. Rather, his eyes had rotted and he’d even been pushed, so he felt like receiving an apology.
“Ha, ahjussi? Did you just call me ahjussi?”
The man who repeated Woojae’s address as if he couldn’t believe it had all the buttons of his shirt undone. He frowned and covered his nose at the smell of sweat coming from the man with his top disheveled.
“Ha, you’re covering your nose after smelling my pheromones right now?”
The man, not knowing Woojae was a beta, pushed him while going on about disgusting ‘pheromones’ or whatever. A rough sigh leaked from Woojae’s mouth. What even were those pheromones—New Humans and those who worshipped them all believed in those pheromones. To beta Woojae’s nose it was just a disgusting sweat smell, yet what was so good about that smell that pheromone perfumes and such sold like hotcakes on the market.
“I’m covering it because it smells like sweat. Go wash yourself.”
“What?”
“I said go wash yourself!”
Woojae pushed away the man who rushed at him like an angry Pomeranian and walked almost at a run. Because it seemed his temper would only be soothed if he beat up that trashy bastard who’d made insulting remarks to him earlier. He was so dumbfounded that he couldn’t say a word to that guy.
How vulgar it was, rubbing against someone in a public place in broad daylight. The thought briefly crossed his mind that it might have been a situation of one-sided molestation, but he was just angry because the remark made to him was so infuriating. He couldn’t know exactly where that big guy had gone, but judging by how he spoke, he must be a student at this school, and since it was the pre-semester dormitory move-in period, there was a high probability he was a dormitory resident like himself. And probably an alpha.
“He’s dead. That fucking bastard!”
Woojae ran with all his might. But the big guy had already hidden his traces. No matter how many times he looked around, he couldn’t even see anyone similar.
“Haa, haa…… So fucking fast. That crazy bastard……”
In the end, he had to give up and head to Magnolia Hall. When he entered after taking out his card key from his pocket, scanning it at the entrance while fuming with unsubsided anger.
“Oh my, done touring the school?”
“……Yes.”
“You’re fast too. Youth is good.”
That security guard from earlier spoke to him. Woojae answered while wiping his sweaty forehead with the back of his hand.
“Why are you sweating so much? Oh my, take this.”
“……Thank you.”
The security guard handed Woojae a towel. He received the towel and bowed his head to express his thanks.
“I’m saying this because it’s between us, but the students here have no humanity. The cold wind blows so fiercely, they must have never learned to say thank you. Tsk.”
“……I’ll wash this towel and bring it back to you.”
“Hey, just take it and use it! Don’t be so stiff. When an adult gives you something, you just say yes and receive it.”
At this point, it was difficult to refuse the kindness. Maybe because he’d just been completely ignored, he felt more choked up. Woojae answered with an awkward smile and turned to walk inside. And once again, he steeled his resolve with the anger rising from his core toward the big guy.
‘Just wait until I run into you. I’ll get revenge somehow.’
When he arrived in front of the elevator while repeating this like a vow, he saw the door just closing. If I miss this, I’ll have to wait a long time. Woojae, who’d grown urgent, walked briskly and pressed the elevator button while shouting.
“Wait a moment!”
And with Woojae’s cry, the closing door slowly opened again. The person who’d gotten on first probably had a very kind personality. It was fortunate.
“Thank you.”
What Woojae faced when he bowed his head in thanks and stepped into the elevator was, unexpectedly, that annoying big guy from earlier. It was a moment that made his previous thought of being fortunate meaningless. To be in a narrow elevator with a guy he wanted to punch.
“Fuck.”
“……What fuck?”
The big guy furrowed his thick eyebrows at Woojae’s naturally bursting profanity. Seeing him up close, he was bigger and more imposing, which made him heated. He himself wasn’t short either, yet having to feel this kind of pressure felt disgusting.
How do I beat this guy up? Woojae ground his teeth while glaring at the big guy. He wanted to beat him up if he could, but he couldn’t knock down a rich young master in a place with CCTV. The big guy spoke annoyingly with a very uncomfortable expression.
“Don’t you know how to press a button?”
At the big guy’s question gesturing at the elevator buttons, Woojae clenched his jaw and reached out to press the 7th floor. But wasn’t it already pressed? No way, the same floor? Woojae looked back at the big guy with a shocked expression. It was very unpleasant how he looked him up and down with strange eyes.
About 10 seconds after the elevator door closed, a strange sound came from behind. It was the sound of breathing in as if smelling something. But I washed my clothes well…… Woojae inconspicuously pulled his clothes to check the smell. There was no smell at all. And that was the moment.
The big guy who suddenly approached closely started sniffing like a dog. Woojae, startled by the breath touching near his nape, opened his eyes wide and pushed him away.
“Ugh, what are you doing?”
Meanwhile, the elevator had already arrived at the 7th floor. Isn’t he a crazy pervert bastard? Why is he like that?
Woojae got off the elevator faster than the big guy and strode across the corridor. Because he didn’t want to give the impression that he was following him, not even by chance. But the big guy was also walking after Woojae. The sound of footsteps ringing from behind continued in a creepy moment of hope against hope.
‘That bastard can’t be my roommate, right?’
And while Woojae stood in front of room 2709 confused, the big guy stood beside Woojae. No way. It can’t be. Absolutely not. Woojae froze while standing in front of the door.
“So you weren’t an employee?”
When he realized the low question mixed with laughter was directed at him, it was after the door to room 2710 had opened along with cheerful music. The big guy disappeared through the open doorway. Woojae, left alone in the corridor, screamed silently with a boiling stomach.
“Come out, you bastard!!”
And after a brief silence, Woojae raised his voice while roughly pounding on the door of room 2710. Bang bang bang, it was a knock as if the door would break. Because he thought he couldn’t stand it twice.
“Won’t you come out?!”
When Woojae roughly turned the doorknob, before long, the door to room 2710 opened along with a beep sound. In the meantime, Woojae was so angry to the top of his head that veins even stood out on his forehead.
“……What?”
The big guy who stuck his face out the door had an openly unpleasant expression. That was enough to make Woojae even more furious. This son of a bitch whose name he didn’t even know had already humiliated him twice.
“Apologize. I’m a student here, and treating me like an employee because I’m a beta is racial discrimination.”
Woojae criticized the racist piece of trash in front of him with an extremely righteous claim. The big guy who’d been staring blankly at such Woojae looked at Woojae with a stiff expression and opened his mouth.
“What if I don’t want to?”
It was truly an amazing answer.
***
“I’m going to kill him……”
Woojae muttered words filled with resentment while unpacking the delivery boxes that arrived belatedly one by one. It was already 9 PM. That annoying, trashy bastard next door. Should he be grateful that at least he wasn’t his roommate?
“Really…… I just want to punch him once.”
Truly, he wanted to throw a punch if his heart had its way. But it was a dormitory he’d entered after great hardship, and if he was kicked out from here it would be an unprecedented disgrace, plus he had nowhere else to go. In the end, the conclusion was that he couldn’t hit that hateful bastard.
Unless that guy hit first so he could beat him up in self-defense. He was obviously the son of some prestigious family, so even if he hit him in self-defense it might not work. Woojae barely finished organizing his bedding and sat in the desk chair with a deep sigh. Soon after, the room door opened with a mechanical sound.
“Oh, you were here first?”
What entered with a bright greeting was another alpha who would be Woojae’s roommate. Woojae looked him over from head to toe with tired eyes. His height seemed similar to his own, and his impression had a smiling face so it would win favor.
He wasn’t imposingly large-bodied like that guy, nor did he have a face handsome enough to hurt his self-esteem. Though his hat and padding were quite flashy. And why sunglasses at this hour? Woojae, unable to help his already rotten mood, looked at the alpha in front of him with eyes full of prejudice. Whether feeling that gaze, the roommate also couldn’t hide his embarrassment and showed an awkward smile.
“You look really…… in a bad mood. My name is Bang Minwook……”
Woojae relaxed his furrowed brow while watching Minwook come in bowing deeply. Judging by how he read others’ moods, he seemed to be a more sensible person than that guy earlier. At least Minwook didn’t seem to be lacking in luck or manners like the guy next door, so it was fortunate amidst misfortune. It was when Woojae was about to let down his guard.
“Don’t tell me you’re that beta? Wow, what a major incident.”
With that one sentence, his expression stiffened completely.
