Cold City Romance Chapter 6.7

“If a control trait user like us relaxes the other person’s pheromones just a little bit……. most people fall asleep easily.”

Cha Dokyung had been suffering from chronic insomnia since his debut. The symptoms became especially severe when a disturbance occurred, leading him to periodically receive pheromone relaxants at Professor Yoo Jinseo’s hospital.

According to Professor Yoo, a Dominant trait holder can relax, tense, suppress, amplify, and dominate another person’s pheromones at will to control them. If so, his words seemed to have a point.

Come to think of it, if he could easily relax another’s pheromones, there would be no need to receive pheromone relaxants through an intravenous injection at a hospital.

“Yes…, I want to sleep quickly, so go ahead and try it.”

Administering a pheromone relaxant is a cumbersome and rather tricky process. You cannot get it whenever you want, even with money. It was the kind of drug that had to be administered on a regular cycle for fear of addiction to its potent effects.

But now he was offering to give him a natural pheromone relaxant, so there was no reason to refuse such a good thing.

“Close your eyes.”

For me, who was always sleep-deprived due to insomnia and never felt refreshed even after sleeping, it was a tempting offer.

As I closed my eyes, he slowly approached.

Hyun Jaehwi gently stroked Cha Dokyung’s hair and forehead with his long, large hands. The touch of his large hands was rough but cool, which felt good. At that cool sensation, Cha Dokyung unknowingly flinched and shivered at the nape of his neck.

“Are you just touching my hair? Like a scalp massage or something?”

Even as Hyun Jaehwi swept his hair up and touched his forehead, Cha Dokyung, perhaps because he was used to being touched by others for makeup and hair, obediently entrusted his body to the other’s touch with a familiar attitude.

“Are my pheromones really relaxing? I just feel a little…… ticklish.”

No strange energy was felt from Hyun Jaehwi’s touch. It was because, just as he had told me, he seemed to have no such intention. And Cha Dokyung genuinely believed his words.

I, a dominant omega with powerful, high-concentration pheromones, had never seen anyone who could suppress and endure their desires so nonchalantly, even when I fully released my pheromones, deliberately seduced him, and exuded vulgarly erotic pheromones. Until now, there had not been a single person other than Hyun Jaehwi.

“Jaehwi, how long do I have to keep my eyes closed?”

Hyun Jaehwi stared down at Cha Dokyung’s face, thinking that the pure forehead and clear face revealed beneath the swept-up hair were like a masterpiece painting.

A long while later, a cool breath came close to Cha Dokyung’s face.

“Sweet dreams.”

He gave him a baby kiss on the forehead.

As time passed, my whole body unknowingly became languid and relaxed. I tried to open my eyes at the sensation of his lips, but Hyun Jaehwi’s final words were like a powerful spell.

My eyelids were so heavy that I could not open them at all. The effect of the natural pheromone relaxant was stronger than I had thought. In an instant, Cha Dokyung fell into a deep sleep, as if by a lie.

*

4 AM, it was nearly an hour after Cha Dokyung had fallen asleep.

The bedroom door was closed. Hyun Jaehwi, who had been waiting quietly in the living room, knocked meaninglessly on his own bedroom door, where Cha Dokyung was asleep.

“Sorry. There’s something I want to check.”

However, there was no trace of caution in his voice. Hyun Jaehwi was not at all conscious of waking Cha Dokyung up.

It was not a stealthy or careful knock, as if worried about waking the sleeping person. On the contrary, Hyun Jaehwi deliberately knocked hard on the bedroom door, making loud, continuous knocks as if to make a point.

But Cha Dokyung, deep in sleep, gave no response to the loud noise. Hyun Jaehwi boldly opened his own bedroom door.

In the middle of the empty bedroom, which was just a blank space with no luggage, a man lay alone on a large bed, sleeping soundly and prettily. With his eyes closed in a deep slumber, he looked like a noble angel sculpted by God.

The tall man standing by the open door deliberately knocked loudly on the door again, even after opening it, and then suddenly began to whistle skillfully, as if to wake the sleeping person.

There was no rhythm to the whistling sound.

It was very mechanical, precise, and extremely regular. It sounded exactly like a signal to summon someone. However, Hyun Jaehwi did not utter a single word in the darkness.

Next, he even turned on the low-intensity lamp on the nightstand next to the bed. In an instant, a soft light filled the bedroom. However, the brightness of the light was not enough to disturb one’s sleep.

He was doing everything to wake a person up, except for speaking. But Cha Dokyung remained soundly asleep, not even stirring or flinching at the noise or the light.

Hyun Jaehwi leisurely sat down, leaning his tall body into the full-length armchair with armrests at the foot of the bed, stretching out his long legs.

He continued to whistle skillfully, a sound close to a suggestion. It was so skilled and regular that it almost did not seem like whistling. It was like a mechanical sound made with his lips.

Sleep that comes right after a disturbance, once the pheromones are controlled, is not something a person can be woken from by being shaken. There was only one way to wake a sleeping person in this state.

Hyun Jaehwi, who had been leaning his body languidly in the armchair with his long legs stretched out, deliberately released his own pheromones in the darkness.

Hyun Jaehwi, who had always lived under the complete and thorough control of his body and mind, could not even remember how long it had been since he had so completely released his pheromones.

A cold and rough desire was emitted. In the darkness, he puffed up the volume of his thick, broad chest and let out a rough breath like a beast.

Then, not long after, the angelic person sleeping soundly on the bed began to show a slight reaction.

In the soft light of the turned-on lamp, Cha Dokyung rose up as if in a trance.

The slipped T-shirt revealed his pale, flawless skin, his long, elegant neckline, and his shoulders and collarbones. However, unlike before, Cha Dokyung seemed to have no thought of adjusting it or pulling up the collar.

Cha Dokyung got out of bed by himself, without a word, as if by magic. Though no one had ordered him to and not a word had been spoken, he relied on the faint whistling sound in the midst of the soft darkness and walked very slowly toward the man, like someone possessed.

Outside the bedroom’s glass window, which had a balcony, the tumultuous rain was still falling without stopping.

Cha Dokyung slowly approached the man who was leaning in the chair, exuding pheromones that were chillingly seductive and destructive.

The skilled and mechanical whistling stopped.

Hyun Jaehwi watched Cha Dokyung without saying a single word. Instead, his cool, sharp face maintained a quiet silence over the scene with an observant gaze.

It was Cha Dokyung who approached the sensual body sitting in the darkness, knelt as if pleading, and first moved his red lips.

“The real one came to find me on his own two feet…….”

At Cha Dokyung’s monologue, the man’s long eyes curved coldly.

The indifferent man, who had prided himself on his high-nosed loftiness, knelt submissively at Hyun Jaehwi’s feet and leaned against him. Cha Dokyung rubbed his soft cheek against Hyun Jaehwi’s pheromone-emitting leg, acting coquettishly.

The coquettish display, with one shoulder and collarbone exposed and a haughty face, made the man’s lower body, where blood was pooling so intensely that his hard, muscular limbs tingled, feel tight and strained.

At the tantalizing gesture, Hyun Jaehwi creased his smooth brow. The supple movements felt like a dream. To the point where he should control and gather his own pheromones right about now, but he did not want to at all.

Under the soft light, the face, beautifully flushed and intoxicated by the absolute and seductive pheromones, let out an erotic breath, the corners of its red, moist eyes disheveled even though Hyun Jaehwi had not touched him.

However, Hyun Jaehwi merely leaned back in his chair and observed the scene coolly with his pitch-black eyes.

Cha Dokyung’s long, white fingers, like fine jade, sensually traced up Hyun Jaehwi’s thick muscles and sought his lips.

Hyun Jaehwi called his name in a languid voice.

“Cha Dokyung…….”

“……Yes?”

“Hah, Dokyung……”

When he touched his face, Cha Dokyung whined, touching his well-toned thigh muscles as if throwing a tantrum. The thighs, hard as steel, and the explicit outline of the thick, enormous penis pressed against the slacks convulsed minutely at Cha Dokyung’s touch.

“Uunh…… Ah, Jaehwi, quickly……”

Hyun Jaehwi’s breathing grew rough.

“I’m going crazy, hah……”

Again, Cha Dokyung whispered affectionately in his ear.

“You like me, don’t you. So, hurry.”

Hyun Jaehwi stood up from the chair he had been leaning his entire body against, straightening his fierce, well-built frame.

However, despite Cha Dokyung’s seduction, Hyun Jaehwi coldly and sharply gathered his pheromones. His cool eyes looked down at Cha Dokyung, who had frozen on the spot, and flatly expressed his refusal.

“No. I have no intention of playing around like this here and now.”

But Hyun Jaehwi’s refusal was futile. The prim, cold beauty with an indifferent impression looked at him intently and sneered haughtily.

Cha Dokyung moved closer to Hyun Jaehwi and, without hesitation, threw off the large T-shirt that exposed one shoulder. At this sudden action, Hyun Jaehwi stood there dumbfounded, forgetting even to restrain his pheromones.

Under the soft light, Cha Dokyung’s bare upper body was revealed.

On his white, pale skin was an elegant body line like a work of art, a well-proportioned figure, a beautiful bone structure, and lean, fine muscles that clung smoothly. The slender waist, which contrasted stimulatingly with the shoulder line that was sexily spread due to his graceful bone structure, elicited a strangely erotic excitement.

Gazing at Cha Dokyung’s sleek and obscene body, Hyun Jaehwi instantly felt the space between his groin become uncontrollably hard and heavy. It was a sensation of blood rushing so fast and tight that his lower body felt hot as a ball of fire and throbbed.

Because of his slender waist with sexy muscles, the loose pants hanging on his pelvis were precariously perched on the upper part of his beautifully raised buttocks, looking like they would slip down.

Hyun Jaehwi, unable to tear his eyes away from Cha Dokyung’s body, held his head stiffly high and let out a turbid breath of self-control.

“Fuck, haah……”

Cha Dokyung’s naked body was filthy and lewd. To the point where it was unbearably infuriating that he had such a lewd body attached to a clean and neat face.

His broad, firm chest muscles swelled with excitement and then deflated, over and over. Hyun Jaehwi, unable to hold back, let out a rough breath and chattered like a madman, lost in a daze.

“This pretty and lewd body……. you’ve been passing it around like a slut to any random guy, haven’t you?”

Cha Dokyung was provocation itself. His skillful and obscene movements showed no hint of embarrassment. While caressing the handsome face of the man, now a mess with turbid passion, he unhesitatingly pulled the man’s large hand to his own bare chest. And then he made him touch his soft, milky-white chest.

“……You want to touch it, don’t you, hmm?”

Hyun Jaehwi’s hand touched the tip of a pointed nipple. Even in the soft light, it had a pretty red color.

The man’s long eyes distorted with an explosive lust. Cha Dokyung, with a pretty smile, traced the ferocious lower body of Hyun Jaehwi, where the outline of his penis was thickly pronounced over his slacks, with his fingertips.

“Cute……. Did you get like this just from touching my chest?”

Cha Dokyung laughed sensually, then glanced seductively with the corners of his eyes and whispered in Hyun Jaehwi’s ear.

“Let’s have sex, Jaehwi…… hmm? Put it in me. I want to come with this.”

However, for some reason, Hyun Jaehwi, who had forgotten his restraint and had been faintly leaking his pheromones, once again perfectly controlled and gathered them. He cut off his pheromones at once without mercy.

It was a powerful and perfect control, so much so that not even a trace of the pheromones could be felt, as if one wouldn’t know where they had disappeared. As he sharply sealed off even the minute, intermittently leaking pheromones, Cha Dokyung showed a bewildered reaction.

“What’s wrong, heuk…… Don’t do that!”

The man with the handsome face transformed into a cold and cruel one, and in one swift motion, he bent his taut, muscular waist down to his feet.

Absurdly, Hyun Jaehwi picked up the T-shirt that Cha Dokyung had thrown off and which had fallen to the floor moments ago, and began to put it back on Cha Dokyung’s naked body.

“No. Let go……! Heuk, don’t put it on me!”

But Hyun Jaehwi, with silent hands, neatly tucked the collar up to Cha Dokyung’s shoulders to ensure no bare skin was exposed.

“Hold me. I want to do that with you……! Hauk, release those pheromones right now!”

When Cha Dokyung shouted and commanded, Hyun Jaehwi grabbed the small, sulking face with his large hand at once and muttered crudely.

“So this is how you seduced those low-life alpha bastards and fucked them vulgarly. Acting like a cheap whore who’s crazy for alpha dick, for fuck’s sake.”

The small face held by Hyun Jaehwi looked up with startled eyes and commanded violently.

“Ju-just hurry up and release your pheromones!”

Hyun Jaehwi glared fiercely and whispered a threatening curse lowly.

“Shut that mouth while I’m being nice, you fucker……”

Cha Dokyung’s body trembled at the violent voice and rough gestures.

“You, you’re making a big mistake right now. Are you allowed to curse at me so crudely and act so violently?”

“Who do you think you are, acting like the master.”

Hyun Jaehwi sneered with a contemptuous sneer, his cool eyes glaring.

“You’re not even Cha Dokyung, are you?”

The expression of shock and horror on its face at those words was quite a sight.

“……What?”

“Cut the act right here. I can’t stand to watch you cowardly exploit my weakness for Cha Dokyung like this any longer.”

“……”

“Hah, for fuck’s sake……, do I have to treat a disturbance thought-form like you with human dignity and even use honorifics?”

The fierce and heavy voice continued like a roar of anger.

“Who do you think you are to imitate Cha Dokyung?! You are not Cha Dokyung, you are just a mere thought-form created by Cha Dokyung’s pheromones!”

The disturbance, which had been holding its breath, barely managed to speak.

“What the hell…… are you? What is your identity?”

He tapped its flushed cheek mockingly and answered.

“A worthless being like you doesn’t need to know that.”

Cha Dokyung’s thought-form, failing to grasp its place, brazenly raised its eyes.

“Haha, right……. What does something like that matter? Shall I tell you what’s really important? You’ll find it tempting too.”

“……”

“The truth is, he…… likes you too.”

Hyun Jaehwi, as if intrigued, leaned in, thrusting his sharp, prominent nose forward. Then, with a sly look in his eyes, he urged it to continue.

“He’s a complete bundle of pretense. I’m telling you, he tumbled around thinking about getting fucked by you and a guy who looks like you. With a low-class, mixed-breed alpha who isn’t even a dominant……”

“……”

“That his smile slightly resembled yours……. for just that one reason.”

The handsome man’s brow furrowed in an instant.

“Damn it, stop your bullshit.”

“……”

“That was your doing too, wasn’t it.”

I know. A pheromone elemental (念體) is not a being completely different from the main body. That thing is also, in the end, a part of him, created by the thoughts and hidden instinctual desires contained in Cha Dokyung’s pheromones. Although it is merely a separated thought-form that has failed to perfectly merge and mix.

Hyun Jaehwi’s angry body violently pushed Cha Dokyung’s body against the wall and bound it.

“Shut up and stay quietly trapped in this body! I’m telling you not to treat that pretty body recklessly. Don’t think about slutting around, obscenely seducing other bastards.”

“……”

“Before I get rid of you at the slightest provocation.”

The bound being’s eyes fluttered open in shock. The transparent pupils trembled violently with fear.

“……Get rid of? Me?”

Hyun Jaehwi’s fierce eyes, his true nature revealed, smiled leisurely as he whispered in a soft voice into the elemental’s ear.

“Why? You think I can’t do it? Getting rid of something like you is nothing to me.”

He had encountered pheromones and disturbance thought-forms to the point of being sick of them at the Organization and in the unit. Hyun Jaehwi could distinguish them with his eyes closed. He could also easily make them vanish and eliminate them.

“Me…… how on earth could you? Because you’re a Dominant Alpha? Is that why it’s possible for you to get rid of me?”

Hyun Jaehwi let out a twisted sneer.

“Haha, Dominant? Fuck, that kind of childish wordplay……”

Strictly speaking, ‘Dominant Alpha’ is nothing more than wordplay to deceive the public. It is merely a pan-social smokescreen to refer to ‘Pheromone Espers’ in disguise.

Most people do not know the fact that above them exist ‘Control Trait Users,’ a massive ‘Control Organization,’ and an invisible ‘Controlling Power,’ and they even refuse to acknowledge that fact.

Control and domination was originally an evil law from the past when a trait-based class system existed, and it was abolished as an outdated relic and a bad custom that disappeared when human rights laws were revised. However, that power evolved into a completely different form and has been maintained and solidified in modern society.

The majority of the population are trait holders, and they feel a vague fear and dread towards the special and superior beings who possess the ‘Control Ability’ to control their own pheromones.

That is also the reason why the existence of ‘Control Ability Users’ like Hyun Jaehwi, that is, Dominant trait holders, is kept strictly confidential and they belong to the Central Intelligence Dominant agency ‘CID,’ an independent international military organization.

The form of the existing system is still divided by nation. However, at the center of the world order, which has in fact been integrated and reorganized into a ‘Pheromone City,’ exists the ‘Dominant Center,’ an independent central confidential control agency and an international military organization.

International Central Dominant Intelligence Agency

The ‘CID,’ for short, is responsible for nurturing the very few Pheromone Espers of humanity and serves as a general hub for dispatching them to the armies and special agencies of each country. Strictly speaking, it is an international military organization not tied to any specific country.

Hyun Jaehwi, the top-tier Dominant Esper of the ‘CID,’ found it easier and faster than anyone to distinguish between a main body and a thought-form.

Not only the distinction of elementals (念體), or élémental, but at the Central Intelligence Dominant agency, Pheromone Abilities beyond imagination are secretly used in control intelligence warfare and top-secret ESP investigations.

Despite his young age, Hyun Jaehwi had repeatedly passed the top-tier ESP promotion examinations over the past few years with his special ability test alone, and came to command one of the confidential units composed of ‘Pheromone Espers,’ also known as ‘Pheromone Espers.’ He has been active as the youngest core officer of the Control Esper unit in the intelligence agency through top-secret investigative cooperation using pheromones.

‘Extreme Dominant Trait Holders,’ who possess powerful, ultra-high concentration pheromones that transcend medical detection standards and go beyond the range of general dominant trait holders, sometimes create thought-forms (思念體), elementals (念體), or in international terms, élémentals, because they cannot endure the gap or disturbance between instinct and reason.

Judging from the pheromone spectrum Hyun Jaehwi saw, Cha Dokyung was not just a dominant omega but an ‘Extreme Dominant Omega’ with ultra-high concentration pheromones whose limit was medically unmeasurable. It seemed to be a special case where, precisely because of that, the main body could not handle the pheromone disturbance and created a thought-form (思念體) on its own.

These elementals, a part of one’s own personality and a disturbed thought-form born that way, can cause crimes or accidents without the main body’s knowledge when they become uncontrollable.

Personality disturbance and pheromone rampage are among the most common and typical signs.

Of course, for the past ten years, he had never once thought that Cha Dokyung himself would have an elemental, a thought-form, that he created.

Hyun Jaehwi used his Pheromone Ability to form a sensory-type attack perception pheromone that elementals fear the most.

At that, Cha Dokyung’s disturbance thought-form sensed the overwhelming aura and, pitifully, with the beautiful face of Cha Dokyung, was seized by extreme fear and trembled.