# Chapter 10
As Do Jihoon raised his eyebrow and asked again, I lowered my head like a crumpled earthworm.
‘Oh? An earthworm.’
Damn. Just thinking about earthworms made a string of strange memories come flooding back.
“Thanks to you, my worries are gone.”
“…What?”
“Worry about you cheating.”
“…”
“Seeing how much you were babbling about your Alpha and whatnot.”
I wanted to pour out a whole bucket of curses, but it was as if I had no mouth. I just quietly took the criticism.
“So. How are you going to repay me?”
“…”
“Why are you silent? Yesterday you wouldn’t stop talking even when told to shut up.”
“…Should I give you dry cleaning money?”
He looked at me like I was an amoeba or a water flea. I quickly changed my words.
“I’ll do what you want.”
“Yes. That’s the answer I needed.”
Such a petty bastard. Even as I grumbled, I realized that if the situation were reversed, I would have acted exactly the same way. No, if it were me, I would have just thrown up on Do Jihoon and left him to deal with it. I didn’t want to get involved.
But damn, I was completely entangled now. And in a bad way.
“I’ll keep this debt safe. I don’t have any use for it yet.”
“…”
“Your eyes look disrespectful?”
“No, sir.”
I quickly lowered my eyes. He patted my hair as if petting a dog.
At that moment, a knock was heard. My body stiffened. That meant it was either my sister or my parents.
I was doomed. My situation was already at the point of getting beaten with a broom. Not only did I come home completely drunk before graduating, but I also caused trouble for my future fiancé.
Trying to avoid garbage, I ended up covered in shit.
“Yes.”
Do Jihoon, that bastard! He answered before I had time to think. The moment the gates of hell opened was clearly visible.
“…Noona.”
I called my sister while feeling a chill. However, my sister, as if she couldn’t see me, looked only at Do Jihoon and opened her mouth.
“Jihoon. You can go now. Yuri is awake. Sorry for the trouble.”
“No, it’s fine. I’m actually happy that Yuri seems to trust me that much.”
What am I seeing right now? Am I still not sober?
Look at Do Jihoon’s face. Blushing as if embarrassed, smiling brightly as he speaks.
This was a bizarre scene that I couldn’t accept unless it was a dream. My brain refused to assess the situation and declared a strike.
“I’ll watch Yuri eat and then leave. I don’t have much to do today anyway.”
“Thank you for saying that. You eat too before you go. I’ll tell the housekeeper.”
“Thank you.”
“It’s nothing. Then come down in about ten minutes.”
“Yes, Noona.”
As soon as my sister went out and the door closed, Do Jihoon’s expression disappeared.
“Crazy split personality bastard…”
“Yuri. Can’t you control your mouth?”
“No, sir. What’s attached to my mouth is actually not a mouth but an anus, so I only shit. I’m sorry.”
He brushed his hair once and sat on the handle of a chair far from the bed. Under his messy hair, his black eyes were soaked with fatigue.
“Couldn’t you sleep?”
“If you have a brain, think about it. Could I sleep? My whole body was covered in vomit smell.”
“You could have washed…”
“Are you an amoeba? How could I go wash when you were spraying pheromones all over as soon as I let go of your hand?”
“There’s neutralizer…”
“For a dominant Omega’s pheromones? And ones that keep coming out? Even using all the neutralizers in your house wouldn’t be enough, right?”
He answered very calmly, but clearly enough to convey his annoyance. Somehow, the more I talked, the more I felt like I was becoming a single-celled organism as Do Jihoon said, so I just shut up.
I was completely entangled with Do Jihoon. With that hard-to-break debt relationship. It felt refreshing to be one step closer to death. To survive, the one method of “not being obsessed with Do Jihoon” wasn’t enough. I realized that too late.
“Damn…”
While I was depressedly pulling my hair, Do Jihoon stood up, opened the door, and looked at me. Looking at the clock, 10 minutes had passed. I followed Do Jihoon downstairs like a puppy.
In the dining room, the delicious smell of pollack soup was spreading. It smells so good… My sister must have asked the housekeeper to make hangover soup. I showed my sister a grateful expression as she sat across from me at the table. My sister frowned deeply.
“Hot, hot…”
“Yuri. You should be careful. It’s very hot, so let it cool down before eating.”
“…”
Is this guy really not having a split personality? With reasonable suspicion, I mixed rice into the soup and ate the delicious pollack soup.
After the meal, my sister suggested that Do Jihoon wash up before leaving. But he very politely declined, saying he had no clothes to change into. Actually, I had a king-level godly suspicion that he just didn’t want to stay with me any longer.
After sending Do Jihoon back home in our family car, I faced my sister who had transformed into a demon.
“You crazy bastard!”
“Ahh! Ahh! It hurts, Noona. Ahh!”
And then the broom came flying.
“Do you really want to get kicked out? You’ve only known him for three weeks. Do you have a brain or not? Chairman Do and his wife saw Do Jihoon going out to pick you up when you were completely wasted! You’re dead to Mom and Dad. Dead.”
“…Do Mom and Dad know?”
The blood drained from my face. If my parents knew, I was finished. Maybe there would be a curfew. Or my card would be blocked…
“Not yet.”
“Noona… I love you…”
“I’m about to tell them now.”
“Noona…! Please don’t tell them…”
“Then let’s make one promise. Promise me this won’t happen again.”
“Yes, yes. Of course I promise.”
“Drink only as much as you can handle. Just to the point where you feel good. That’s your limit. Understand?”
“Yes, yes. I understand.”
“Good. Go to your room and wash up. You smell like alcohol.”
“I’ll wash up right away. Love you.”
I blew a heart with both arms to my sister and escaped to my room. Then I grabbed my nose as the stench hit me. It was a complete mess with all kinds of pheromone smells mixed with waste smells. I sprayed pheromone neutralizer and air freshener all over the room while opening the windows for ventilation. It felt like I was going to freeze to death, but it was much better than being caught by my parents and kicked out.
“Ahh… so warm.”
The warm water filling the bathtub and the scent of bath salts wrapped around me comfortably. My aching body was gradually unwinding. I decided to stay in the bathtub until the room was completely ventilated.
As I watched the bubbles popping up quietly, I suddenly remembered the bastard who had given me this huge mess.
I immediately picked up my phone and called that bastard Kim Bojin. It was almost noon now. It should be enough time for someone who didn’t even drink much to wake up.
“But this bastard is ignoring my call…?”
Let’s see who wins. I kept calling. Kim Bojin answered when I pressed the call button for the 59th time.
“…You’re persistent.”
“The one who farted gets angry first. Our ancestors’ words are never wrong. Did you just curse at me, you bastard?”
“That’s why I told you! You were the one who said not to call your sister! I didn’t know what to do so I called Do Jihoon!”
“Couldn’t you… have thought of… taking me home yourself?”
“…”
There was no response from Kim Bojin.
“Of course, the root cause is me. I shit. But you didn’t give me toilet paper.”
“…Damn.”
“I’m the one who drank until I was wasted. But how could you think of calling Do Jihoon? If I hadn’t told you I had a fiancé, you would have taken me home safely, right?”
“…”
“Is the hole in your mouth just decoration? Your mouth is there to distinguish when to open it and when not to. Say something, you bastard.”
“Ah, what do you want me to do!”
I spoke very earnestly and seriously.
“Help me clean up the shit I made.”
“Are you crazy? Your Honor, the punishment is too severe for my crime.”
“Why are you like this… We’re… best buds…”
“Best buds my ass.”
“Bojin. If you want a happy graduation ceremony, help me?”
“Fine, fine. I do have some conscience, unlike your pathetic League of Legends tier.”
“My League tier is?”
“Bronze.”
“Let’s hang up.”
I’ve got a good friend in Yeon Yuri. After finishing the call with Kim Bojin, I noticed the water had already cooled down. I put on a robe and returned to my room.
“It’s damn cold.”
I closed the windows one by one while shivering. Fortunately, all the disgusting smells that could make my nausea rise again were gone. The sheets and blankets had also been replaced with new ones.
I happily dove onto the bed. Just as I was enjoying the comfort of the bed, I received a KakaoTalk message from Kim Bojin.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
