Correction Chapter 28

After finishing the difficult but rewarding work, they entered the community center, which served as their accommodation—though calling it a community center was generous, as it was a renovated, rather large, closed elementary school. The sunbaes who arrived later had prepared a mountain of alcohol. The villagers, expressing their gratitude, brought a feast, and everyone began to relax, feeling like the night was just beginning.

As soon as the room assignments were finished, everyone gathered together as if by prior agreement and started drinking without even washing up. Jungmin, being a second-year, had to attend to the sunbaes and take care of the juniors, but it was manageable.

“Jungmin.”

“Yeah?”

While checking to see if they were running low on snacks, a classmate called Jungmin cautiously.

“Why? Want more drinks?”

“No, it’s not that. Go see Hojun sunbae.”

Saying “Go see Hojun sunbae” was really his classmate’s way of saying “Go see your brother.”

He didn’t need to see it to know. Every time he walked around, he had to separate them, but with the alcohol added to the mix, their actions were becoming increasingly suggestive, and it seemed his classmate had come to ask him to intervene.

The two were in the room where the sunbaes were gathered. Sure enough, they were practically glued together, about to film a cheap porno. One of the fourth-years, unable to stand the sight, snapped at Hojun, telling them to go to an empty room if they were going to do that. As if waiting for those words, the two jumped up. Watching them head off to a corner room, giggling and saying they’d use that room, Jungmin felt a chill. A bad premonition washed over him, and he quickly ran and grabbed Youngmin’s arm.

“Hey, what are you doing!”

Youngmin snapped. At that moment, Jungmin inhaled sharply at the sudden rush of pheromones. So many pheromones. It was definitely a heat cycle. What was going on? He had taken the medicine earlier.

“Did you not take the suppressants I gave you earlier?”

“I took it.”

He was so confident, so he must have taken it.

“Then why are your pheromones so strong?”

“Just, you know.”

His trailing off made it clear that there was something more to it.

“Shin Youngmin.”

“Ah, it hurts. Let go of my arm!”

“Jungmin, what are you doing?”

Hojun sunbae quickly approached and grabbed Jungmin’s arm. Jungmin glared at him.

“Sunbae, it seems Youngmin is in heat, so I’m sending him back to Seoul.”

Jungmin spoke slowly and deliberately, as if giving a warning.

“No, Youngmin isn’t a child…”

“Are you going to take responsibility?”

“Ah, no. I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen… of course.”

“Sunbae, I’m sorry, but we’re on a club retreat. This isn’t a motel retreat. Aren’t you here as the club president? If you wanted to spend a heat cycle with your lover, you should have gone to a hotel. Do you want to cause trouble in a rural community center that we paid for with our hard-earned money? How cheap.”

“You! You have no respect for your sunbae!”

“Shin Youngmin, is that what you want? Do you want your future to be decided in a place like this?”

Jungmin prided himself on knowing his twin brother better than their parents. He knew that Hojun sunbae came from a good family and had enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his life even if he did nothing. Since Youngmin wanted to marry a rich Alpha, it was perhaps natural that he was on his radar. But if he thought about it carefully, it was humiliating. Youngmin wouldn’t be satisfied with just spending his heat cycle here.

“You’re disgusting.”

Youngmin trembled and glared at Jungmin. He hit a nerve, as expected.

“I’ll call a driver. Go with him.”

Jungmin dragged Youngmin to a corner room, shoved him inside, and locked the door. Then he quickly called the driver in Seoul. It would take four hours for him to get here, but it couldn’t be helped. He couldn’t keep watching Youngmin here, and he couldn’t ask Shinwoo for help.

“The driver is coming soon. Where are your suppressants?”

“I don’t have them! I don’t! Do you think I would bring them?”

“Shin Youngmin! You’re being a nuisance to everyone!”

He hung up the phone and entered the room. Youngmin was throwing a tantrum, swinging his fists. Even as he took the blows, Jungmin pushed Youngmin into a corner. He could feel the pheromones getting stronger. It seemed like the heat cycle had fully set in. He was afraid the pheromones would leak out of the room.

“Are you really going to act so immaturely?!”

“What? I’m not a kid anymore. I’m the same age as you. I’ll decide my own path!”

“What if you get pregnant!”

“That’s what I want!!”

“Youngmin.”

“Let me out. I’m going crazy. Huh? Jungmin. Huh?”

Youngmin pleaded with Jungmin, tears welling up in his eyes. He could feel Youngmin’s face flushing and his temperature rising. Despite this, Jungmin coldly turned his back. Youngmin’s sobs grew louder. Each time, the pheromones intensified. The sweet, estrus-filled pheromones, the pheromones that opened the door to pregnancy, grew stronger, and Youngmin sank to the floor, writhing and moaning.

With tear-filled eyes, Youngmin begged Jungmin. He asked him to call Hojun sunbae. He begged him to call his Alpha, but Jungmin didn’t budge. He closed the door, went out, and guarded it so no one could approach.

‘I’m exhausted.’

Leaning against the door, he just stared at his watch, wishing time would pass quickly.

“Jungmin sunbae?”

Damn it, why was he hearing this guy’s voice again? Jungmin frowned and looked at the owner of the voice. He had come out of a nearby room. And then, seeing a sunbae who looked like an Omega rush out with a flushed face, Jungmin felt irritated. Everyone was just a rutting animal.

“What the hell?”

Jungmin clicked his tongue and muttered, and Joohwan shrugged.

“I don’t know why you’re annoyed with me.”

“Did you clean the room?”

“We did it inside, so there’s nothing to clean. I didn’t spill.”

Information he really didn’t want to know.

“In a public place…”

“Jealous?”

The playful tone of his voice made Jungmin’s head spin. Forget it.

Jungmin ignored him and turned his head.

“By the way.”

On the other hand, Kim Joohwan stepped closer to Jungmin and placed his hand on the door. Too close. Their bodies were so close that their noses almost touched. Kim Joohwan’s eyes gleamed somewhat fiercely.

“I was wondering what you were guarding… so it’s Youngmin sunbae.”

At those words, Jungmin’s hair stood on end. Kim Joohwan was a Dominant Alpha. Dominants could sense pheromones more acutely than those with regular secondary genders, so they could be more strongly affected.

“Back off.”

Jungmin said warningly, threatening him with his pheromones. It wouldn’t work on a Dominant Alpha, but he still had to get him away from this door.

“Not interested.”

Kim Joohwan took a couple of steps back, raising his hands.

“As you know, I just did it once, so I don’t want to do it again. I’m not an animal.”

Jungmin refrained from saying, “That doesn’t make you any better than an animal.”

“And like I said, I’m not interested in the sunbaes. One is too bland, and the other is too spicy.”

After spewing annoying remarks, Kim Joohwan patted Jungmin’s shoulder.

“Are you going to stay here all night? Want some company? I’m not affected by heat cycles.”

So he was saying he could control everything if he didn’t want it. As expected of a Dominant. He didn’t seem like an ordinary human. Jungmin brushed Kim Joohwan’s hand away.

“No, thanks.”

Kim Joohwan, looking at his rejected hand, smiled faintly.

“I’m sending him to Seoul.”

“Are you going to take him?”

“The driver is coming. So don’t worry about it.”

“Okay, then. Ah, there’s a back door behind the first-floor bathroom. Even though there aren’t many Alphas, it wouldn’t be good if something happened if he went out the front door.”

Joohwan nodded to Jungmin, said goodbye, and disappeared somewhere. He was tired. He hoped the driver would arrive soon. He slid down the door and sat heavily on the floor.

Youngmin’s whimpering moans could be heard from inside. In a way, Omegas were pitiful beings. They seemed like beings created for the sole purpose of procreation, just like God. But he envied them.

Jungmin wanted to be like that. Youngmin had an inferiority complex towards him, but Jungmin, the subject of that complex, felt inferior to Youngmin. It was truly ironic. Why did he present as the opposite of what he desired?

“Sigh….”

How much time had passed? When Youngmin, soaked from head to toe, was crying and yearning for an Alpha, Jungmin received a saving phone call. It was the driver.

Jungmin supported the now irrational Youngmin, took him out through the back door that Kim Joohwan had told him about, and had the driver (a Beta) take him back to Seoul. Of course, he didn’t forget to have the driver administer the suppressants he had brought along so that Youngmin wouldn’t suffer as much on the way back.