#60
In an instant, the glass bottle body was shattered and glass fragments were rolling around on the floor.
“Ah… shit.”
Shin Taeon, holding his head with both hands, let out a groan and collapsed to the floor. His gray eyes were fixed on Yeoul and wouldn’t look away.
“How… how could you… do such a thing…”
He was filled with bewilderment as if he had been blindsided by something he never dreamed of. From this appearance of Shin Taeon, Yeoul felt a strange pleasure and his aggressive impulses were exploding.
“Hehe, fucking hell, really.”
Shin Taeon got up as if carrying a boulder. And he tried to approach Yeoul like a zombie. But perhaps because of the broken glass bottle in Yeoul’s hand, he couldn’t easily get close.
“Are you crazy? What the hell are you doing right now?”
“Right now, this is the only way to get out of this situation.”
“Shit? What did you say?”
Despite Shin Taeon’s shouting, Yeoul continued speaking with emotionless eyes.
“I’m standing at the worst crossroads right now. Eun Sajun, who found out my identity, will try to eliminate me, and you, Shin Taeon, are holding my neck and shaking it with Yeojin’s life.”
“So… so what?”
“If I get rid of you, both Yeojin and I can escape from this situation.”
Yeoul wanted to be liberated from this shithole-like reality. If he, the cause and villain of this situation, disappeared, his life might not be happy but it would be peaceful. So he had been looking for an opportunity to strangle Shin Taeon’s neck. In this situation, with even the knife being discovered by Eun Sajun and Shin Taeon being tracked, he thought the time had come to pass judgment on him.
However, even though he had Intermittent Explosive Disorder, taking someone’s life wasn’t an easy thing to do. So he planned to subdue Shin Taeon within his capabilities, find out which hospital Yeojin was confined in, then escape with Yeojin.
“Ha.”
Shin Taeon got up.
“What the hell are you saying? You bastard.”
He had pulled out a knife at some point and was holding it in his hand. But Yeoul’s expression was calm. He had expected this situation.
“Just because you have a mouth doesn’t mean you should spout such fucking nonsense, ptui.”
Shouting, he began swinging the knife.
Of course, Yeoul dodged nimbly. This made Shin Taeon even more rigid. It was bewilderment that came from how different this was from the image of Yeoul he had known until now.
“Fuck. What are you! This…”
Shin Taeon staggered. Perhaps because of the glass bottle Yeoul had hit him with earlier, his body was swaying back and forth. Looking closely, blood was also flowing from his forehead.
“Ha, fuck.”
His eyes became hazy and he immediately ran out of the office.
“What… why…?”
Yeoul, who had thought he would attack him, was bewildered and followed him by opening the door. Shin Taeon was running frantically down the corridor.
Did he run away in fear just because he got hit on the head with a glass bottle? Shin Taeon? That couldn’t be.
He couldn’t understand his scheme, but Yeoul followed with the broken glass bottle. He had to find out which hospital Yeojin was in as quickly as possible.
Shin Taeon seemed like he was going to go down the stairs but went up instead. It seemed like a movement to deceive Yeoul. Yeoul wasn’t someone who would fall for such a sloppy move of his. Yeoul tracked him even more persistently.
Shin Taeon kept climbing up the stairs. His breathing was rough and his movements became slower. In contrast, Yeoul showed no signs of fatigue at all. Rather, his body felt lighter with the pleasure of driving him to a cliff. As they climbed like this, Shin Taeon eventually reached the rooftop. Yeoul was the same.
“Haa… haa…”
Shin Taeon looked somewhat tired. His pupils were dilated and blood was flowing down from his head. Eventually, he slumped down in place.
Yeoul didn’t care much whether he bled or vomited blood. Right now, all his attention was focused on his younger brother Yeojin. Yeoul held the broken glass bottle to Shin Taeon’s neck. The sharp edge was ready to cut if Shin Taeon moved even slightly.
“Which hospital is Yeojin in?”
“……”
“Speak quickly!”
At Yeoul’s urging, Shin Taeon frowned and opened his mouth.
“I don’t want to?”
“What?”
At the same time, Shin Taeon pounced on Yeoul as if to overwhelm him. This caused Yeoul to fall. Soon Shin Taeon climbed on top of Yeoul. The tip of the knife in his hand was pointing toward Yeoul.
“Do you think I’m crazy enough to tell you? I know you’re acting recklessly because you’re cornered, but it’ll never go your way.”
Soon he tried to stab Yeoul’s chest.
“Huk.”
Yeoul dodged nimbly. And with the glass bottle he was holding, he struck his head once more, harder.
“Urgh!”
Shocked, Shin Taeon staggered with difficulty. Thinking this was his chance, Yeoul quickly pushed him. And naturally, Shin Taeon fell and Yeoul quickly climbed on top of him and stabbed his thigh. The sharp edge pierced through his flesh miserably.
“Kugh…”
Shin Taeon let out a groan. As intense pleasure came, fear also rushed over Yeoul at the same time. He felt disgusted with himself because these abnormal emotions of his seemed crazy. But now wasn’t the time to be caught in a dilemma from this aspect of himself. He barely grasped the sensation that felt like he was going insane.
“Tell me quickly. Where is Yeojin?”
“Kugh… heh… I won’t tell you…”
At his answer soaked in groans, Yeoul’s pupils became sharper. The aggression boiling inside him was now rising madly. At the same time, he stabbed his thigh once more.
“Speak quickly! If you want to live!”
Yeoul’s anger that had already burst couldn’t be suppressed. Would he end up killing Shin Taeon at this rate?
He absolutely must not commit murder. He must not.
But wouldn’t it be okay for a villain like Shin Taeon to disappear?
An unbearable dilemma collided and continued in Yeoul’s head.
“Geum Yeoul… shall I tell you a secret?”
“What?”
“If you knew this fact, you wouldn’t be able to protect Geum Yeojin like that?”
“What?”
Yeoul thought Shin Taeon was struggling desperately right now.
“Do you… really think you’re an extremely recessive omega?”
“What are you suddenly…”
At Shin Taeon’s statement, Yeoul’s body stiffened. Perhaps because he had heard about pregnancy at the hospital earlier, he felt even stranger.
“Geum Yeojin is a fox. He’s not a bastard worth protecting as much as you do.”
“Shut up.”
Yeoul shouted. He shouldn’t believe it. Shin Taeon was definitely saying this just to confuse Yeoul right now.
“Just tell me where Yeojin is quickly…”
That’s when it happened. The rooftop door began to slowly open. At the same time, a familiar scent caressed his nose. Yeoul looked there with his body stiffened. At the same time, he thought this moment was a dream.
“Well…”
Eun Sajun with black hair fluttering in the wind and blue eyes was staring at him.
In the end, he had been caught like this again. Now he would know that he was the one who brought the knife into the hospital room. Until now, he had overlooked small lies, but now it was over.
“……”
Eun Sajun slowly approached. The closer his steps came, the more Yeoul’s heart felt like it would be gnawed away and disappear.
So he would die like this, leaving Yeojin behind. It was so sad.
“Aren’t you pushing yourself too hard? When you’re not alone.”
“Pardon?”
What crazy thing was he saying about not being alone in this situation?
“Kheup… Eun… Sajun…”
In the midst of this, Shin Taeon’s voice was heard. Yeoul snapped back to his senses. Now wasn’t the time to worry about being alone or whatever. He couldn’t face death like this. Though the possibility was low, he thought he should beg Eun Sajun for forgiveness.
Yeoul let go of the bottle he was holding.
“I… I… CEO… I mean… I have circumstances…”
“Well done. Yeoul-ah.”
“…Pardon?”
At his voice calling his name, Yeoul’s heart dropped. It seemed he had not only tracked him but also found out his real identity. In a way, it was natural. Yeoul’s whole body trembled with embarrassment and fear.
But there wasn’t a trace of anger in Eun Sajun. He grasped the bottle stuck in Shin Taeon’s thigh.
“You can’t do it half-heartedly like this.”
Soon he stabbed Shin Taeon’s thigh deeply.
“Kugh…”
Shin Taeon groaned intensely. But Eun Sajun was calm as if handling a piece of meat.
“You have to mess him up this much. It’d be even better to kill him completely.”
“Huk!”
From his violent appearance, the image of him harming Baek Cheonhui last time overlapped. That moment was being reenacted again.
Soon he left Shin Taeon behind and approached Yeoul. Yeoul thought it was now his turn to become Shin Taeon and felt like he was going crazy.
But thinking of Yeojin, he had to survive somehow.
“I’m… I’m sorry… I couldn’t help deceiving my identity… Because of my parents’ debt, I used private loans. And they threatened my younger brother… So…”
Eun Sajun just stared intently at Yeoul like this. In Yeoul’s eyes, he looked quite angry. He hurriedly knelt down.
“It’s all my fault. I’m sorry. Please spare me…”
“Sorry?”
“Yes… yes…”
Soon Yeoul’s eyes became moist. Thinking he was going to die now, he felt like he was going crazy with injustice and fear.
“If you’re that sorry, go out with me.”
“Pardon?”
Yeoul was dumbfounded, wondering what he had just heard.
“I guess you didn’t hear.”
Eun Sajun soon sat down to match Yeoul’s eye level.
“I like you. So will you date me?”
At his unexpected confession, Yeoul felt like his mind would fly away to another world.
Wasn’t this something he shouldn’t be hearing in this situation right now?
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
