Dirty Sweet Baby Chapter 118

“Wait. Just calm down…! What are you saying right now? This isn’t something to get this worked up about.”

“Ha, not something to get worked up about?”

“That dedicated guide thing was just an offer made as a colleague. You agreed on the helicopter just a moment ago that we need to focus on the mission right in front of us. Why are you being like this again?”

“Every time that son of a bitch desires you, hyung, I feel like throwing up.”

Cha Moogyul spat out each word as if he were chewing and tearing it apart. Though his voice was low and subdued, it rang as loudly as a shout against Heeheon’s chest. He seemed to be standing on a cliff with a thundering waterfall, screaming his lungs out.

“It feels like I’m watching Baek Heeheon get devoured by insects right before my eyes. It’s useless to try to calm down when my vision goes white. I wonder if this is what jealousy is… So what now? Decide quickly. We don’t have much time.”

Cha Moogyul was once again forcing an ultimatum on Heeheon. Heeheon slowly shook his head and clutched at his clothes.

“No. Neither I nor Captain Sung can give up this mission. There’s not a single person here who would meekly turn back. This is my last mission, and for Captain Sung, how much he went through to return to this place…”

“So, you want me to understand?”

In that moment, the wire fence shook with a cold metallic sound.

With his fist clenched, Cha Moogyul slammed it against the wire fence while still holding Heeheon. The tightly woven mesh caved in as if it would break and vibrated wildly.

“While we’re at it, should I say everything? The two of you were quite affectionate in the infirmary.”

Heeheon, who had been speaking, snapped his mouth shut.

He had run into Captain Sung Ahwon in the infirmary, but Cha Moogyul couldn’t possibly have seen that. So how did he know?

‘Don’t tell me he checked the central management system separately? The surveillance cameras in the infirmary hallway?’

He couldn’t even let it go when he was gone for just a moment? Heeheon knew Cha Moogyul had obsessive tendencies, but he never imagined he had gone as far as to get his hands on the Center’s camera system to check on him. To think he had been monitoring his every move to that extent.

“Did you run a background check on me?”

“You think I wouldn’t have? That fucking bastard held your hand, even kissed the back of it, and why did you just let him, hyung?”

“It’s not what you think. As colleagues… we were both at our weakest, and that’s just what happened while having a serious conversation.”

“As colleagues? Ha… What kind of colleague, after he even confessed to you?”

“The 2nd Special Mission Unit was annihilated in the last mission. Captain Sung was the sole survivor. He was going to erase that memory, so how could I, how could anyone, push that hand away?”

So he knew about the confession too.

Even before Captain Sung revealed it on the helicopter a little while ago, Cha Moogyul must have known every detail of what had happened between them for a long time. If he had gone so far as to view the infirmary cameras, he would have naturally looked at the cameras in the conference room hallway as well.

That wasn’t all. Before reuniting with Baek Heeheon, he must have dug through Heeheon’s entire past from the five years he spent as a guide. Because he’s Cha Moogyul. Of course, because he’s that bastard.

“Good excuse. Do you pity him that much? You could never take your eyes off Sung Ahwon. Even during the last Level 4 sortie, you were tailing that bastard on the broadcast screen the entire time we were on standby.”

“Because we’re colleagues, comrades in arms! Captain Sung and I have the same goal. We can trust each other because our wills align, and I feel a bond with him. A sense of belonging and kinship, of course. Isn’t it only natural to worry about someone like that?”

“Too bad. I’m the complete opposite of Sung Ahwon. If he’d met him, Baek Heeheon would have been happy. They think exactly alike, and their ranks are both A-rank. If that bastard had shoved his dick at you before I did, you would have given in long ago.”

“Cha Moogyul… watch your mouth. Captain Sung is not that kind of vulgar person. Besides, how many times have I said no? I refused, and I never gave him any reason to hope. I swear I’ve never done anything to deserve being interrogated by you like this! So why, why do you keep doing this to the end?”

“Be honest. Weren’t you actually tempted by the offer?”

His black hair scattered through the heavy air. Simmering like an active volcano on the verge of eruption, he finally unleashed his passion.

“You want to be Sung Ahwon’s dedicated guide.”

Flames danced dangerously in his black eyes, followed by a precarious tremor. In tune with Cha Moogyul’s emotional turmoil, a blueish ability leaked from him. The power, erupting unconsciously beyond his control, seemed ready to tear the world to shreds.

“You must want to go into the field with that bastard. To fight, risking your life, to have your noble values recognized, you admire heroic sacrifice and devotion and all that.”

“…”

“There’s no need to deny it. You resent me. I controlled your life and made you give up, so you must be furious. On the other hand, you must also feel relieved. How fortunate it must have been that the imprinting failed. If you had been imprinted, you would have been trapped by me, your life held hostage. This must be your last chance.”

A fierce headwind blew. The entire sky seemed to turn black in an instant, as if a storm was rolling in.

“If I just die, Baek Heeheon is free. It’s the last chance you’ll ever have.”

Cha Moogyul, engulfed in fury, was like a rose blooming in flames. Something unreal and fatal that could not exist.

“If you want it, say so now. I will die for you, hyung.”

Cha Moogyul lifted the fist he had slammed against the wire fence and opened his palm. Before Heeheon’s eyes, the blueish ability swirled and was sucked into his hand. The power, concentrated on a single point, turned from blue to white, and as more energy gathered, it heated up to a fiery red.

The core inside Heeheon’s chest responded to that power, resonating and trembling with a terrifying intensity. The vibrations were so severe he couldn’t even think straight.

The heated power soon passed another critical point and coalesced into a light so bright and white it was difficult to look at with open eyes. It was almost as if a core was undergoing fusion in his palm.

“You know. Suicide is easy for an Awakened.”

Heeheon’s gaze wavered, then crumbled in an instant.

It was because he had read the sincerity in Cha Moogyul.

He was truly trying to end his own life, with his own hands, right in front of Heeheon, if that was what Heeheon wanted. This wasn’t some elaborate plan or a fabricated act; it was his pure, genuine heart. So impulsive and so unlike Cha Moogyul.

Realizing all of this, Heeheon had no choice but to break down. Just as a dam bursts and a river overflows, the passion Heeheon had been holding back erupted just like Cha Moogyul’s. Heeheon was on the verge of going mad, resenting him enough to kill him and loving him enough to kill for him.

“You, Cha Moogyul, you would die for me?”

Heeheon shouted at him, gasping for breath. It was almost a scream.

“If you’re willing to throw your life away like that, then you can just die with me.”

It was so agonizing he felt like he would pass out. It felt like his brain would explode into a million pieces at this very moment.

“You know what I admire, how wretched I feel, you read me so thoroughly down to the bone, so why are you planning to leave the field? Just imprint with me, let’s fight together, and then we can just die together, in the field or wherever. What the hell is the problem, you stupid bastard…!”

To think the day would come in his life when he’d call Cha Moogyul stupid.

Heeheon punched him in the chest. Thinking it would be fine since he was wearing a bulletproof combat suit, he put all his strength into the blow.

“Why are you getting jealous over nothing! When you were going to do this anyway, why, why do you have to confuse me too!”

Cha Moogyul really was a son of a bitch.

Wouldn’t it have been fine if he had just been clear from the start? That he had been anxious. That the way he had taken Heeheon was twisted, so he lacked faith and trust, and he tried to bear the relationship all by himself.

If you’re going to regret it, regret it openly.

If you’re going to admit it, admit it honestly.

“If you were so desperate to have my life, my very soul, you should have just asked for it! You could have cried and begged, huh? Or maybe gotten on your knees!”

“…”

“You should have just been upfront and asked me to imprint with you from the beginning. If you wanted to be loved, you should have just said you wanted to be loved… Did I, did I ever say I didn’t want to love you, you fucking idiot!”

Baek Heeheon didn’t know how hard he had struggled, trying so desperately to not love Cha Moogyul, to escape him. And yet, in the end, it was still Cha Moogyul. Even at this very moment, all he could see was Cha Moogyul.

“I… for my part, I can die for you. Because.”

Baek Heeheon had always, Cha Moogyul.

For eight years. No, from the very beginning.

At first sight of him…

“You.”

Beep, beep, bee-beep!

Bee-beep, beep, bee-beep!

At the same time, their pagers went off.

The coordinates for α—93362pe4x had been found.

The momentum was cut as if a cold blade had sliced through the space. Heeheon’s grayish-brown eyes trembled slightly, then he slowly lowered his head like an animal caught in a light rain and gripped his pager.

The summons order was flashing red.