#09
For some reason, Eun Sajun’s warmth felt good. His body was more solid and thick than when seen with the naked eye. It felt like entering inside sturdy castle walls and being protected from external pressure. Perhaps it was because his body temperature was high that made him feel this way even more. Intoxicated by impulsive emotions, Yeoul hugged Eun Sajun tightly. While he was briefly immersed in a sense of security, his reason came alive and he thought “oh no.”
Eun Sajun had come here to save Baek Cheonhui, so he must have been surprised when he appeared.
Yeoul hurriedly stepped back. At the same time, he belatedly realized that Eun Sajun’s hand was wrapped around his waist. Contrary to his concerns, he was calm. Rather, as if facing something natural.
So it felt strange.
“I… CEO…”
Just as he was about to speak as if to explain why he was here.
“Are you alright?”
Eun Sajun asked about his well-being first.
“What? Yes…”
There had been hardships in escaping from that place, but he wasn’t seriously injured. However, Eun Sajun’s gaze was directed at Yeoul’s reddened wrists and nape, and at the same time he frowned deeply.
“You don’t seem alright at all.”
“What? I’m fine though?”
“No. Here and there.”
At Eun Sajun’s gestures, Yeoul finally touched his wrists and neck. His wrists were scraped because he had been bound with rope and forced to untie them, and his nape had scratches from the knife Jack had thrust earlier.
“These bastards…”
Eun Sajun’s low voice pierced through Yeoul’s ears. Sharp brilliance also blazed in his blue eyes.
“How did you get caught by these bastards?”
Yeoul was momentarily troubled by the wounds he hadn’t thought of, but felt he should explain the situation and began to speak.
“Ah… well… I came to meet you, CEO… I went to your house…”
“You came to meet me?”
Eun Sajun looked puzzled, his pupils dilating.
“Yes… I had something to tell you.”
When it came to actually asking him to take him in, Yeoul’s mouth wouldn’t open easily. So he ended up swallowing and hesitating.
“Let’s get out of here first.”
Eun Sajun also seemed to realize from Yeoul’s attitude that this wasn’t the situation for conversation right now, and took Yeoul’s hand. At the warm and cozy sensation, Yeoul unconsciously grasped his hand.
Then.
“That extremely dominant omega. He was here.”
Chris, Jack, and the men accompanying them had somehow followed. Yeoul felt gloomy and tense at the same time.
“Eun Sajun, you fucking poisonous snake bastard. Finally seeing you like this.”
Chris glared sharply at Eun Sajun. In contrast, Eun Sajun’s face showed composure. Soon the burly men who were with Chris approached Eun Sajun. At the same time, Yeoul’s face turned white. This was because they had sharp knives in their hands. Moreover, they were swarming with eyes crazed for killing.
Yeoul was stunned by that sight.
Then.
Eun Sajun put his hand into his suit’s inner pocket and immediately pulled out a black object. And before Yeoul could recognize that it was a pistol, the shooting began.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Loud sounds like thunder rang out along with hazy gunpowder smoke.
“Huk!”
Yeoul was so surprised that he ended up hiding behind Eun Sajun. Eun Sajun didn’t mind and continued shooting. In an instant, the men became bloody and collapsed on the stairs. Since they were all hit in the arms or legs, they couldn’t move anymore.
“Ha, fuck…”
Chris and Jack’s faces were blackened with bewilderment. They were also drenched in cold sweat.
“I… I can’t do this.”
Jack trembled and suddenly turned his body. Then he hurriedly ran to the opposite side. At the same time, Eun Sajun took out another gun from his suit’s inner pocket and shot at Jack’s leg. Bang! With one more sharp sound, Jack fell where he was. And as if he had fainted, his body didn’t move anymore.
Chris frowned as if enraged by the changed situation.
“What is it that you want?”
Eun Sajun asked Chris. Chris moved his parched lips and forced himself to speak.
“That code you know.”
Did this man also want the code that Shin Taeon was looking for? Seeing how everyone was searching for it, it must really be important. So Yeoul felt the mission given to him was tremendously weighty.
“Haha.”
Eun Sajun smiled elegantly with his eyes. It also felt like laughter close to madness.
“So you staged this kidnapping act for that?”
“……”
Chris only glared at Eun Sajun without answering. And Eun Sajun also gradually lost all traces of laughter from his face while shrugging his shoulders.
“What should I do? I don’t even know what that code is.”
“What do you mean you don’t know? You crazy bastard! Our unit almost disbanded because of you!”
Chris, who had shouted, approached Eun Sajun. He had a knife in his hand, though it was unclear when he had taken it out. Soon he stabbed right into the center of Eun Sajun’s chest.
At his sudden action, Yeoul’s gentle pupils widened as if destruction had come.
“Urk!”
Eun Sajun’s body, letting out a groan, collapsed forward.
“Haha… Fuck, they said he was a crazy poisonous snake, but he’s nothing special.”
Chris raised his lips wickedly toward the fallen Eun Sajun. He seemed to feel as if he had become a hero.
Yeoul fell into despair while taking in the collapsed Eun Sajun with his eyes.
He never thought a situation would arise where he would get hurt like this…
“Fuck! Since it’s come to this, the code is ruined, so you’ll have to come with us instead.”
Chris grabbed Yeoul’s wrist and pulled.
“I don’t want to…”
Yeoul tried to resist by putting strength in his feet. But Chris’s selfish brute force was no longer bearable. Moreover, he couldn’t bear to leave Eun Sajun behind.
His current appearance looked exactly like… his younger brother Yeojin from 8th grade.
Actually, after Yeojin manifested as an extremely dominant omega in 8th grade, he was targeted by Park Hyeonjin, who was a 9th grade delinquent at the time. He was a dominant alpha who was well over 180cm tall and was the grandson of a school board member, so even teachers couldn’t treat him carelessly.
So Park Hyeonjin’s abuse ran rampant. Naturally, that bullying was also transferred to Yeoul, Yeojin’s twin brother. Especially Yeoul was ostracized even more for being an extremely recessive omega.
But that day, Yeoul discovered a new side of himself.
On a rainy spring day, Yeoul received a call from Yeojin. Park Hyeonjin’s gang was trying to kill him behind the gymnasium. In desperation, Yeoul headed there alone with only the thought of saving his younger brother.
The sight of Yeojin being assaulted by Park Hyeonjin’s gang was misery itself. He was lying there covered in blood, and with the rain falling, he looked even more pitiful.
‘Geum Yeoul. What about your brother?’
‘Haha. He really has no strength but is so damn stubborn.’
Looking closely, Yeojin seemed to have been hit with a glass bottle, as glass fragments were scattered around like puzzle pieces. To Yeoul, Yeojin was no different from another part of himself. Uncontrollable anger rose like waves. Now was the same as then.
Although Eun Sajun wasn’t blood-related like Yeojin, he was also an important figure in the deal with Shin Taeon.
Actually, aside from all these issues, whether he mistook him for Baek Cheonhui or not, he had come to rescue him.
It couldn’t end like this.
Yeoul looked around. He could see Jack, who had been shot by Eun Sajun earlier, fallen. And a knife was sticking out from between his pockets. Taking in the blade of that knife with his eyes, Yeoul stomped on Chris’s foot.
“Urk!”
Then he quickly ran and grabbed Jack’s knife. And without hesitation, he stabbed Chris’s left eye.
Just like he had attacked Park Hyeonjin’s left eye with glass fragments that were around Yeojin in the past.
“Ahhh!”
Chris groaned and stepped back. He seemed to overlap with Park Hyeonjin’s writhing appearance.
‘Th… this is…’
At that time, Park Hyeonjin had grabbed Yeoul’s pinky finger hard to stop him. So Yeoul’s pinky finger was fractured, bending into an arch shape. Even so, Yeoul’s attack didn’t stop. He stabbed Park Hyeonjin’s eyes repeatedly until the squishy sensation became familiar. Eventually Park Hyeonjin became bloody and other students around fled in fear.
Park Hyeonjin also tried to run away with his corpse-like body. But Yeoul didn’t let Park Hyeonjin go. This time he grabbed Park Hyeonjin’s hair and stabbed his back several times.
Soon someone must have reported it because police came running, and Yeoul ran from that spot but was caught and stopped again.
When his parents learned of this fact, they judged that Yeoul’s aggression was not normal and sent him to psychiatry. According to the doctor’s diagnosis, Yeoul had intermittent explosive disorder. This disorder had symptoms of committing assault beyond normal limits due to inability to control anger-related emotions. Thus Yeoul had attacked Park Hyeonjin mercilessly.
Fortunately, Park Hyeonjin could save his life, but his left eye went blind. Due to this, Yeoul faced a crisis of expulsion. But for some reason, Park Hyeonjin’s parents stepped back and settled for transferring Yeoul to another school.
After that, Yeoul received treatment and took medication at the psychiatry clinic. Since Yeoul also knew his actions were excessive and wrong, he actively complied. And even if impulsive aggression flared up, he tried to suppress it as much as possible and think and act like a normal person.
But now.
“St… stop… urgh, urgh!”
Chris groaned. But Yeoul, as if possessed, couldn’t stop the hand holding the knife. He endlessly stabbed the man’s body. Blood spread and became a mess.
But he couldn’t continue the violence like when he had dealt with Park Hyeonjin before.
Because he could feel Eun Sajun’s gaze looking at him. Thinking “oh no,” Yeoul dropped the knife as if he had been doused with cold water, wondering what he had just done to the man. The knife covered in blood rolled and fell to the floor.
He had decided never to do such a thing again since Park Hyeonjin… He thought he was crazy. Wondering if he had killed someone, he put his hand to Chris’s nose. Fortunately, he could feel breathing. Yeoul felt relieved and strongly regretted the actions he had unconsciously committed.
“I… I… CEO… I… I have some circumstances…”
But although Eun Sajun had clearly been stabbed with a knife, he was fine. No, rather, vitality and heat could be felt in his blue pupils.
Why is he like that? Even if he was shocked and disgusted by my violent appearance, it wouldn’t be enough.
But then.
“Beautiful.”
Yeoul was even more shocked by the statement that came from Eun Sajun’s mouth. What was beautiful? Right now, only a miserable feast of blood remained in this building.
“What?”
Soon Eun Sajun grasped Yeoul’s hand.
“You’re so beautiful I think I’m going crazy.”
His voice seemed to contain even murky darkness. Yeoul couldn’t understand at all what was beautiful about him. He just seemed like a crazy person.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
