Omega Complex Novel (Completed) - Chapter 36

Blink, blink, the time I spent with my eyes closed grew longer. My consciousness kept breaking off intermittently as I squinted. Would Choi Taegyeom come to the club meeting? The unlikely thought was fleeting.

Indeed, it would be better to sleep. With that decision, I plunged into the depths of sleep.

For four days, Choi Taegyeom appeared in my dreams. I hoped he wouldn’t appear this time, since it was just a nap. But as expected, the first thing I saw was Choi Taegyeom’s face.

In the dream, Choi Taegyeom was being confessed to. Judging by his clothes, he looked about a second-year high school student, and the other person was a female student famous for being popular in school. The female student’s cheeks, like glutinous rice cakes, blushed as she confessed to Choi Taegyeom.

‘I like you, Taegyeom.’

As far as I knew, he had never once spoken to Choi Taegyeom. They had never been in the same class, nor had they ever accidentally met. Since it was a face I didn’t know, there was a high possibility that Choi Taegyeom was seeing her for the first time too.

‘……I’m sorry, but.’

I like someone else. Choi Taegyeom’s rejection was obvious. A magic spell that made nine out of ten people give up.

‘I don’t like Omegas.’

But contrary to expectations, different words came out this time. Both the confessing female student and I, who was watching, were dumbfounded by the suddenness of the remark.

And for good reason, the other person was a Beta, not an Omega.

‘……Isn’t she a Beta?’

The moment I questioned it, the space changed. The female student disappeared, and the surroundings melted away. The secluded backyard space had transformed into Choi Taegyeom’s room. I was on the bed, and Choi Taegyeom was sitting in a desk chair, our gazes meeting.

‘She was an Omega.’

Choi Taegyeom replied casually. He had no hesitation in saying that the student everyone knew as a Beta was an Omega. He frowned slightly and added briefly.

‘Recessive.’

Ah, recessive. It was a meaningless murmur. Recessive, dominant, at that time I felt no difference. I just mumbled it as if to say I understood Choi Taegyeom’s words.

Choi Taegyeom quickly noticed that I hadn’t understood.

‘My pheromones were weak because I was recessive.’

The voice that added the explanation was gentle. He got up from the desk chair and came towards me, climbing onto the bed on his knees.

‘That’s probably why the rumor spread that I was a Beta.’

But how did you know? There was no need to ask that. He grabbed my shoulder, laid me down on the bed, and his face crumpled.

‘Omega pheromones are unpleasant, even if they’re recessive.’

‘…….’

‘It gives me goosebumps when I get close. I hate it so much I can’t stand it.’

Choi Taegyeom said that and burrowed into my arms. Despite being half a handspan taller than me, the way he nestled completely in my embrace was like a small child. Just as large dogs, no matter how old they get, seem to think they’re small, perhaps he thought he was a five or six-year-old kid.

‘Stroke my head.’

After encountering an Omega, he would often act childish like this. I vaguely heard it was to erase Omega pheromones, but what meaning was there in him clinging to me, who had no pheromones?

‘Such a child, such a child.’

I grumbled but stroked Choi Taegyeom’s head. His fine hair flowed through my fingers. When I wrapped my other arm around his back, he let out a faint groan and hugged me tightly.

‘It’s a good thing you can’t feel pheromones.’

Are Omega pheromones really that bad? When I smelled perfume that supposedly mimicked a similar scent, it didn’t seem so bad. Perhaps a fake and the real thing truly can’t be compared.

‘Lee Yoonwoo…….’

His low growling voice was strange. Are you sick? I wanted to ask, but the moment I opened my mouth, I choked. His pheromones were rawly felt on every inch of my skin.

‘…….’

Perhaps the words “It’s a good thing you can’t feel pheromones” actually meant this. The all-too-familiar pheromones awakened an even more familiar sensation. My lower body stiffened, and it wasn’t long before hidden pheromones began to flow out.

‘Yoonwoo.’

No, this is a dream. It was no use trying to think that. The pheromones covering my entire body penetrated deep into my chest, pulling out my own pheromones.

Thump, the moment Choi Taegyeom’s pheromones unlocked the mechanism. Pheromones overflowed like a bursting flood.

“Haaah…!”

When I woke from the dream, my whole body felt like it was burning. The heat, which had begun to rise at some point, enveloped me from head to toe. Removing the blanket and pulling at the front of my T-shirt made no difference. Instead, the surging heat scattered everywhere with my pheromones.

I opened my eyes wide and looked around. The quiet surroundings, the dim ceiling. Sunlight streaming in from outside the window and a solitary table in the center. It was the club room where I had fallen asleep.

“……Haa.”

A heated breath escaped. My lower abdomen was tingling, a mess. The arousal, which had risen from deep within my belly, seemed to have concentrated entirely in my lower body. It was a sensation I had grown accustomed to over the past few days, and this was clearly a heat cycle.

“……No.”

An instinctive unease surged. This was the club room, a space accessible to any club member. Although there were no Alphas among them except for Choi Taegyeom and Kim Dohyun, showing myself in this state was absolutely out of the question.

“No……”

Gasping for breath, I turned my body sideways. My lower body was already damp and heavy. Without realizing it, a copious amount of Omega pheromones had also leaked out.

I was perfectly fine this morning. Having lived in heat for four days, I naturally thought I would be fine by today. So I hadn’t taken the hospital medication I regularly consumed, and I had comfortably sought sleep in the club room.

“Hmph……”

My chest was hot. Suppressants, or pheromone cigarettes. I desperately needed one of the two. Or rather, I should just lock the club room door and masturbate.

But the suppressants were safely tucked away in my studio apartment cupboard, and it had been four days since I’d finished all my pheromone cigarettes. Even if I wanted to lock the club room door, getting off the bed was too much in this condition.

“……Hmph.”

The sheet in my hand was crumpled beyond recognition. My phone, which had fallen under the bed at some point, was miserably rolling on the floor. Buzz, buzz, the intermittent vibration told me someone was calling.

What time was it? Eleven? Or twelve? Then, how long until the club members arrive?

I exerted superhuman strength and lowered my legs from the bed. Fortunately, the cot wasn’t very high, and the moment my feet touched the floor, I could collapse onto it. My trembling fingertips reached the phone on the floor.

[Kim Dohyun]

The caller was Kim Dohyun. He was the one I had told to give up today, and I had no shame left to ask for his help again in this situation.

“……Hello?”