Omega Complex Novel (Completed) - Chapter 34

Detonation

For several days, a dizzying routine repeated itself. Was it the effect of the heat cycle, or the medication I was prescribed? My pheromones surged wildly, day and night, without distinction. During that time, Kim Dohyun received several calls, but not a single message came from Choi Taegyeom.

“……Haa.”

Heated breaths erupted uncontrollably. Since Choi Taegyeom left that day, every day has been a repetition of this. When I opened my eyes in the morning, my lower body was swollen, and it didn’t subside until I closed my eyes at night.

At first, I relieved it through masturbation. My fully erect penis ached, and only after ejaculating several times did my body cool down a little. But I finally understood why the doctor had told me to have sex if I had a lover. The sexual desire relieved by masturbation surged back to its limit again shortly after.

‘Did you only realize that now?’

Even amidst all this, my mind was filled with thoughts of Choi Taegyeom. The words he’d said, his hurt expression, and his final affirmative words to me.

Choi Taegyeom likes me.

This fact became a detonator for my body, already ravaged by the heat cycle. Every time I thought of him, pheromones flowed out, emotions surged, and sexual desire erupted.

Choi Taegyeom, likes me. So all the expectations and thoughts I’d had until now weren’t misunderstandings after all.

“Hmph…”

I wanted to talk to him about something. Even after several days, I regretted not holding onto him that day. Has the slamming door ever felt so resentful? To think that my delayed reaction would still feel so unfair.

Since when has he liked me? While suffering from the heat, I just kept thinking about that. Since when, why, and how did he come to like me? When the thought suddenly came to mind, that day was entirely about Choi Taegyeom.

Buzz, buzz, my phone vibrated. It was just after I had ejaculated once, lying sprawled on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

My phone was piled high with unread messages.

Park Sungjae: [Hyung, are you okay?] 01:22pm 

Park Sungjae: [Are you very sick?] 01:22pm 

Park Sungjae: [Did something happen? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ] 01:22pm 

Park Sungjae: [Kim Dohyun just says hyung is sick, but won’t say where] 01:23pm 

Park Sungjae: [Taegyeom sunbae ignores me when I talk to him ㅠㅠ] 01:23pm 

Park Sungjae: [Call me when you see this ㅠㅠㅠㅠ] 03:01pm 

Kim Minjeong: [Oppa, aren’t you coming to school? The professors are going crazy.] 10:22am 

Kim Minjeong: [Tomorrow’s the exam… nothing happened, right?] 03:56pm 

Kim Minjeong: [I sent you the notes and exam materials by email. Check them when you feel better.] 05:10pm

Park Sungjae and Minjeong, and occasionally others whose names I only knew. After not contacting them all weekend, there were over 300 unread messages. Kim Dohyun seemed to have sent a few messages too, but they were pushed down by the preview and couldn’t be seen.

“……None.”

And as expected, Choi Taegyeom’s name wasn’t there. The guy who had contacted me every day since we reunited had been silent since that day. Park Sungjae’s message, ‘Taegyeom sunbae ignores me when I talk to him,’ was the only news of Choi Taegyeom.

What was Choi Taegyeom thinking? He must have been hurt. Disappointed. The shock must have been great, so perhaps he disliked me now. He might even have resolved never to see me again.

“……”

My stomach was hot again. My heat cycle, oblivious to its place, reacted to the name Choi Taegyeom. Despite having ejaculated moments ago, my lower body stiffened.

For now, I intend to endure it. I had masturbated so many times that now just touching it was arousing. At this point, I even felt like an animal, not a human.

Do other Omegas experience this during their heat?

The unhelpful thought quickly vanished. Soon after, unable to control my excitement, I had to grasp my erect penis. My phone had long since fallen under the bed, and not just my front, but my back too was a mess from the fluid I’d leaked.

“Ah… hmph…”

The urge to touch my back increased daily. It was a part of my body I had never paid attention to before, but the heat cycle sparked curiosity. Wouldn’t it be better to just sleep with any Alpha? Such thoughts even crossed my mind.

I slowly moved my hand, clearing away distracting thoughts. Four days had passed since Choi Taegyeom left, four days since I had suffered from the heat cycle, and four days since I had been absent from school. I thought I should go to school tomorrow. No matter how many medical certificates I had, strict professors wouldn’t overlook such a long unauthorized absence. Moreover, tomorrow was the midterm exam for a major subject.

I must have fallen asleep without turning off the light. Early in the morning, when I woke up without an alarm, I was sprawled messily on the bed. For some reason, my body felt refreshed, and the pheromones that had tormented me were almost gone.

Is the heat over?

As soon as that thought crossed my mind, I sprang out of bed like a coiled spring. My lower body was swollen, but that was just a physiological erection due to it being morning.

First, I picked up my phone, which had fallen far away. It was 4 AM. It was too early to get up and prepare for school. Several more calls had come from my classmates while I was asleep, including the department assistant and my major professor.

“……I need to go to school.”

I put down my phone and got up. The blanket was a complete mess, and the house was in disarray. More importantly, my body wasn’t normal, so I planned to wash up, quickly tidy the house, and then go to school.

Fortunately, I woke up so early that there was plenty of time until the exam. There probably wouldn’t be any seats in the library, so it would be better to go to the club room and cram. It’s much better to at least skim through the material than not look at it at all when solving problems. And since Minjeong had sent the exam materials, there was nothing holding me back.

Once the thought was complete, I moved. I put the blanket in the washing machine and started cleaning the house thoroughly. I didn’t forget to ventilate the pheromone-filled interior and wash all the clothes I had been wearing. Finally, after finishing my shower, I felt as refreshed as if I had been reborn.

Before leaving the house, I habitually looked for cigarettes and suppressants. The cigarette pack was empty, but the suppressants were still in the cupboard. However, instead of taking the suppressants, I chose to close the cupboard door.

The heat cycle was over, and I had told Choi Taegyeom that I was an Omega. There was no longer any reason for me to take suppressants.

“……Lee Yoonwoo, student?”

When I arrived at school, it was a reasonably early hour. First, I stopped by the department office to show my face, then sought out the professors I considered particularly strict. About half of them hadn’t arrived yet, but the Alpha professor was at his desk, looking neat.

“A heat cycle medical certificate…”

The professor looked troubled and trailed off. He seemed very flustered that a student who had never shown any signs of being an Omega suddenly brought a heat diagnosis. Yet, it would be too absurd to call it a lie.

“I’m a recessive, so it doesn’t usually show, but the side effects of the suppressants caused a severe heat cycle.”

“Ah, suppressant side effects.”

At the mention of ‘suppressants,’ the professor’s gaze changed instantly. He pushed up his glasses and slowly nodded.

“No wonder I barely felt any pheromones… I’ll process your attendance, you may go. I was a bit flustered, not knowing the Yoonwoo student was an Omega.”

I expected him to be the strictest, but his reaction was surprisingly mild. There was even a hint of pity in his gaze. The professor waved his hand dismissively and called out to me softly.

“Be careful with your suppressants from now on. I’ll always approve of periodic absences.”

“……Yes, thank you.”

“Alright, take good care of yourself.”

I bowed and left the professor’s office. Perhaps because he was also an Omega, the conversation went too smoothly. I had never used periodic absences before, but I felt like I could use them without worry for this professor’s class.

Suddenly, I stopped walking. ‘Also an Omega.’ It was not an unfamiliar expression. Since when have I felt a sense of kinship with Omegas? The feeling was subtle.

Park Sungjae and Minjeong were in the club room. The two, who had been studying at the table in the middle, widened their eyes when the door burst open. Their gazes met, and Park Sungjae was the first to speak.

“……Hyung!”

It was almost a scream. To think that bear-like guy could make such a high-pitched sound. Minjeong crumpled her face, as if thinking something similar to me.

“Ah, Park Sungjae, quiet down.”

“No, but! Yoonwoo hyung, hyung!”

Park Sungjae sprang up and came towards me. The floor seemed to rumble with each of his heavy steps. His appearance was so aggressive that I felt an urge to close the door and leave again.

“Hyung!”

“……Quiet, you punk.”

“Really, is it really hyung?”

“Then would it be a fake?”

I brushed past Park Sungjae and entered the club room. I wondered what they were studying, and it turned out to be a subject with an exam this morning. I naturally took a seat next to Minjeong, who asked with a slightly worried tone.

“Oppa, were you sick?”

“Just a little. I’m fine now.”

For a moment, I had a thought. Should I tell them it was a heat cycle? What if they got angry if they found out I was an Omega? As various thoughts came to mind, Minjeong subtly spoke up.

“By any chance, did Kim Dohyun do something?”

“Why Kim Dohyun?”

It was such a sudden name. A name that hadn’t crossed my mind at all. If it weren’t for the occasional calls, I would have completely forgotten his existence.

“Nothing happened to him…”

So I was about to answer casually, but a memory suddenly flashed through my mind. The conversations I had exchanged with Kim Dohyun on the hospital emergency stairs.

‘Why are you going that far?’

That could be considered something. We had definitely fought because emotions ran high. Minjeong asked, ‘What did Kim Dohyun do?’, but I couldn’t readily say no.

“He did do something.”

Minjeong snorted. She put down the pen she was holding and frowned. Shaking her head, she seemed to think it was truly pathetic.

“By any chance, did he try to get back at you because he was rejected?”

“Of course not. He’s not that kind of person.”

I answered casually and took Park Sungjae’s book. I didn’t have high expectations, but as expected, it was clean without a single note. Should I just copy from Minjeong’s book…? As I thought that, I suddenly realized how quiet it was around me.

“……Why?”

Two gazes were fixed on me. One was an understanding gaze, the other filled with shock. Park Sungjae, whose eyes were wide as if they would pop out, shrieked in a high-pitched voice.

“Hyung, did someone confess to you?”