Correction Chapter 102

Thump, thump, thump–

The sound of his heart grew louder and his movements slowed.

—Pardon?

It was understandable that the doctor was surprised. A dominant alpha’s rut could be controlled by the alpha himself. However, with an extremely rare probability, a rut could occur naturally, and at such times, the alpha would run wild and become violent to the point of losing his sanity. To put it badly, he becomes a monster driven mad by sexual desire.

In this case, regular alpha rut suppressants did not work, and if he tried to resolve it alone, he would be engulfed in a heat so intense he would go insane, causing his ferocity to reach its peak. Therefore, the rut’s heat had to be resolved with an omega, but even a dominant omega would find it overwhelming, and it would take four or five regular omegas to barely endure it.

This was the second time Kim Joohwan had a naturally occurring rut. The memory of that time was so horrific that he had controlled it thoroughly afterward, releasing and resolving the rut intermittently.

Since then, a natural rut had never occurred, so he thought it would be the same in the future. But… for a rut to come so suddenly… and of all times, now, was bewildering even to Kim Joohwan.

—Do you have the suppressant with you now?

The Kalf-Front had developed a medicine for Joohwan in preparation for when a natural rut occurred. Its efficacy would decrease once the full-blown rut began, but if it was in the early stages with only signs showing, it was a drug that could suppress it by about 70%. Kim Joohwan took out the medicine that was being kept cold in the freezer inside his study’s safe.

“I have it.”

—It’s the initial stage, right?

“Yes. It seems the full-blown rut will begin within the next half-day.”

—Then administer it right now.

Kim Joohwan took out the syringe without delay and drew the medicine. It had to be administered into the body quickly because it would spoil rapidly if left at room temperature for too long.

—Will you not need an omega?

“I do not need one.”

—By any chance, you are not with an omega right now, are you?

“I am curious as to why you ask that.”

At Kim Joohwan’s question, the doctor was silent for a moment, then sighed.

—There was a recently published research result, and it says that when a dominant alpha or a superior alpha has a natural rut, it is due to the instinct to possess. For example, if there is an omega they consider their mate, they prepare for mating to possess that omega. As you know, dominant and superior alphas must have a natural rut to mate.

For the sake of mating… a natural rut occurs just to obtain a single omega? Isn’t that a rather trivial reason? Kim Joohwan let out a small laugh. If that was the case, then the reason he had not had a rut until now was not because he had made an effort, but because there was no omega he wanted to have… that made no sense. Because there was no ‘omega’ here right now.

“It seems that research result is bogus. I do not have an omega I want to mate with right now.”

—Yes, it is not yet certain. By the way, have you taken the injection?

Kim Joohwan confirmed that the air bubbles in the medicine had disappeared and picked up the syringe.

“I am about to take it now. Let’s end the call here.”

—I will call you again later. If you do not answer the phone…

“Please ensure that no one approaches my house for a few days.”

This building was his anyway, and Kim Joohwan was currently living in the penthouse at the very end, so no one would be able to enter without his permission.

—Yes, I understand.

Looking at the screen of the phone after the call ended, Kim Joohwan found it so absurd that he laughed again. Where on earth was such a ridiculous research result? He was a renowned doctor in alpha research, but the fact that he brought up such an unconfirmed research result and told him about it was just too absurd. He had known him since he was young, and he was a person who was of great help to the company, so he could laugh it off, but if it had been someone else, he would have fired him on the spot.

Kim Joohwan took a breath.

“Disgusting alpha smell.”

His body’s senses were extremely heightened compared to before. Thanks to that, he could even feel Shin Jungmin’s pheromones coming from his room, which was far away. No, he had actually been feeling his pheromones all day today. Perhaps because he was not taking suppressants or because he had taken the medicine, his pheromones were gradually flowing out loosely.

At first, he had covered it all with his own pheromones out of disgust. But for some reason, as the days went by, he found himself wanting to smell his pheromones a little more rather than finding them repulsive.

Was it simply because he had gotten used to it? He thought about it… but that couldn’t be right. How could an alpha get used to an alpha’s pheromones. That was instinctively impossible.

Kim Joohwan held the syringe needle to his forearm and took another breath. Shin Jungmin’s pheromones approached faintly again. Instead of pushing them away, he intertwined them with his own pheromones and drew them in.

He suddenly remembered the time Shin Jungmin first submitted to him, talking about ‘correction.’ When he first smelled this pheromone, he thought it was the pheromone of a corrected omega. But it was not.

The vivid disappointment he felt then. At the same time, all his interest in Shin Jungmin disappeared. Watching the limping man get in his car and go home, Kim Joohwan thought he would have nothing more to do with that alpha.

But that was not the case either.

That night, his first natural rut came. Not a rut he had deliberately induced, but one where he could not control himself, where desire consumed him, and he could do nothing of his own will…

How many omegas had come that night as he was locked in the isolation room, until he accepted this unfamiliar self? But Kim Joohwan did not hold a single one of those omegas. On the contrary, he found the omega pheromones repulsive.

Why was that…

The doctor he spoke with after the rut of several days ended also said it was an absurd symptom. That it was impossible. Kim Joohwan himself decided to think it was just because he was sensitive, experiencing a rut for the first time. Because he had never felt that way about omega pheromones since then.

“Disgusting… alpha.”

Thump. Thump. Thump.

His heart now sounded like the beat of a giant drum. He could feel his alpha instincts rising and consuming his reason. Kim Joohwan slowly headed to the bedroom.

Shin Jungmin was still passed out, lying limply on the bed. He took a breath in and out again. He could feel Shin Jungmin’s pheromones seeping deep into his body. It was the same pheromone he had felt when he first presented. Unchanged, just like him, then and now.

Clatter-

The syringe in Kim Joohwan’s hand fell to the floor and rolled away, disappearing into the deep darkness under the bed.

✽✽✽

Heavy. His whole body… like sleep paralysis… no, like being crushed by a huge rock. It was so heavy that his body would not move as he wished, and Jungmin groaned. He wanted to get up but he could not. Why was that?

“Ugh…”

Was it because he had been intimate with Kim Joohwan for so long? No, even so, this symptom in his body… he could feel cold sweat and his insides freezing. At the same time, he even felt fear. The hair on his entire body stood on end, and his instincts were telling him to run away… it was like when Kim Joohwan had released his pheromones a while ago.

“Damn it.”

Did this guy release his pheromones again? He was pretty sure he had hit him once before he left and told him never to do it again…

“You’re awake?”

A chilly voice fills the space. Jungmin blinked and barely managed to turn his head to look at the owner of the voice. On the sofa a little distance from the bed, Kim Joohwan was sitting, wearing only his pants.

“Kim Joohwan…”

“Yes.”

“Pheromones… I told you not to. It’s suffocating. Stop it.”

The words would not come out in a stream. They were choppy, and he could barely express his intentions.

Kim Joohwan gave a shallow smile and got up from his seat, approaching Jungmin. The closer he came, the more intense the pressure of the pheromones became. On top of that, the heat invading his body was bewildering. What is this?

“Sunbae.”

Kim Joohwan sat on the edge of the bed and looked down at Jungmin.

“Are you in pain?”

“Heok…”

Because of Kim Joohwan’s pheromones, it felt like his breath was rising to the tip of his chin. Jungmin forced his body up and vomited towards the floor of the bed. Since he had not eaten anything, only stomach acid came out. Watching the clear liquid fall to the floor with a splat, Kim Joohwan rubbed Jungmin’s back.

“It’s natural. It would be strange if you didn’t have this reaction after being directly confronted with a dominant alpha’s pheromones. Go ahead and vomit all you want.”

“Kim Joohwan… withdraw your pheromones.”

Jungmin said with difficulty, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

“Impossible.”

Kim Joohwan got up from his seat, brought water, and handed it to Jungmin. While Jungmin drank the water, Kim Joohwan brought a wet towel and wiped the back of Jungmin’s hand.

“Why is it impossible?”

“Because it’s a rut. Right now.”

“What? A rut… can’t you control it?”

“It’s a natural rut… so it’s uncontrollable. No, right now I’m barely… just barely suppressing it, but who knows when it will explode.”

After saying those meaningful words, Kim Joohwan took a small aluminum case that was on the table in front of the sofa he had been sitting on and sat on the bed again.

Inside that case, as expected, was a syringe. It was the last one.

“This is the last one. Sunbae.”

The last one… is this the end? Jungmin sighed and stuck the last syringe needle into his arm. He could feel the cool sensation of the medicine spreading through his body at the same time.

“As a special last gift, I also added a rut-inducing agent.”

“What?”

Kim Joohwan said as he tossed the aluminum case behind him. At the same time, his pheromones were released all at once. It was a terrifying and dreadful pheromone, enough to make the nausea he had barely suppressed rise again.

“It means both you and I, sunbae, are in a rut.”