Pheromone Off Chapter 27

Therefore, even as the youngest son of that grand group, this kind of treatment was a first. Though he liked it in a snobbish way, the awkwardness occupied a larger place, wondering if it was okay to be like this. Throughout the entire movie, his original lines were a mere three lines. And with the role changed at once, the increased lines and scenes were more than double. Even if people who didn’t know well considered it no big deal, this level of change from an existence that was no different from an invisible person on the filming set was tremendous.

On top of that, even the director called his name, coordinating the filming and tossing light advice once in a while. It changed all at once. Because he had the background of a person named Kwon Sayoung at his back, that is.

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“Is it because of hyung?”

It seemed he wasn’t the only one who felt this change in his treatment. Kwon Sabin, whom he ran into on the filming set, tossed the words casually in a spot where there were no people. Whether he had been waiting for him to come out of the restroom, he was occupying his position squarely outside.

Hajin’s face, which had been in a good condition, sank quite a bit at his appearance. It was a face as if he had run into a bothersome fellow.

“…What is.”

“What do you mean what. You got a manager?”

“…Yeah.”

Hajin replied small with a slightly sheepish face. Whether he fundamentally liked that fact, a faint flush of heat rose on his cheeks. Looking down at that appearance as if dissatisfied, the space between Kwon Sabin’s eyebrows wrinkled slightly.

“Your scenes increased too?”

“…You saw?”

“While passing by. I saw while passing by, why.”

Even at the partner’s way of speaking, which replied textually blunt, Hajin let out a faint laugh and map-read the back of his neck.

“The lines also… increased a bit?”

When Hajin spoke with a quite fluttering face, Kwon Sabin let out a ha, absurd breath.

“You like it?”

“…I do like it, of course….”

Whether he was embarrassed by his snobbish appearance, Hajin replied with a small mumble.

“Hyung’s backing is great, indeed. Transferring companies in one fell swoop.”

“It’s not like I asked him to do it, though…”

“You’re all loose and smiling because you like it so much. If you were going to be like that, why didn’t you ask your father long ago? Seongsan must have plenty of connections in this direction too.”

At his words that came out without thought, Hajin pressed down tightly on his fingertips with a slightly hardened face.

“Do you know why I’m trying to do this work?”

Hajin suddenly tossed a question. All the signs of fluttering on his asking face had vanished. Kwon Sabin narrowed the space between his brows and briefly countered, “What.”

“…To independent from that house.”

“…”

“To independent… and live without ever seeing them for eternity.”

Throughout the entire three years of high school, he only drew up that plan. Therefore, he didn’t even dream of something like studying, which required a lot of support. However, there was no way he could independent in this high-inflation era just by drifting around part-time jobs either. Then, what he came to encounter was this work. Even if talent was required and competitiveness was high, it was work where he could try attempting something.

“To that extent? Because of that bastard Seong Suhyun?”

“…”

“Listen to you talk about independent. My goodness. Hey, do you think that’s easy?”

“…”

“And what, do you think if you do this work, you’ll earn money well enough to independent just like that?”

“…”

“In this field where Omegas and Alphas who are better and finer than you are rampant?”

Kwon Sabin let out a scoff and spat out his characteristic statements that put down the opponent without hesitation.

“Even now, you barely got a few lines because of Kwon Sayoung.”

Kwon Sabin knew roughly what kind of treatment Hajin received in that house. However, he didn’t know the details. What kind of events had occurred during the span of over twenty years.

“That bastard, you could just strike back against him. Like a kid, talking about leaving the house or not because of him.”

Kwon Sabin tossed it lightly like usual, as if speaking of someone else’s business.

“I do know that bastard is an idiot, but still, it’s better to hold the Seongsan title….”

“Did you know Seong Suhyun pushed me from the second-floor stairs?”

Hajin also tossed the words with an indifferent face as if speaking of someone else’s business and looked at Kwon Sabin. At the sudden statement, a flustered expression crossed his face for an instant.

“What?”

At the words asking back, Hajin continued his speech once more.

“What about stripping me naked in the dead of winter and locking me on the second-floor terrace for several hours?”

At Kwon Sabin’s statement that lightly dismissed Seong Suhyun’s actions as a mere nothing, Hajin felt a surge of emotion and tossed the rising events to him one by one. No matter how close their families were, there was no way Kwon Sabin would know such trivial incidents down to each detail, and his face gradually hardened.

“The time he suddenly beat me while I was sleeping, saying he was pissed off because his engagement was broken.”

“…”

“…The time my eardrum on one side ruptured because of that matter.”

Because of that matter, his hearing in one ear was weak even now. There were inconvenient points, but it was a stroke of absolute luck just that he hadn’t lost his hearing completely. Although it was a relief, it was true that it had been dangerous. However, the events he spoke of were all a drop in the bucket. If it were simple violence, he would try to endure it with physical stamina, but his tracks became more severe as the days went by.

“Gathering with his friends and calling me into Seohyeonjae…”

Hajin suddenly shut his mouth tightly. He barely managed to close his mouth against the words that had burst out from a surge of emotion. Among the countless atrocities, the one he could not bear the most was him continuously calling him into Seohyeonjae. Making him watch him engage in collective debauchery with Omegas with his friends, and the fact that even when his friends, who touched people without discrimination, sexually harassed him and tried to touch him, he didn’t particularly restrain them. In the first place, he called him in because he wanted Hajin to suffer that insult. It seemed Seong Suhyun wanted to present him with a disgrace beyond violence.

The friends he associated with were also exactly like himself. Rude, ignorant humans who relied only on their own backgrounds to mistreat and look down on people. While calling themselves the children of grand houses who received high-level education, the acts they did were worse than dogs roaming the streets.

“…Never mind. I’ll go first.”

Hajin passed Kwon Sabin, who was standing like a person who had been struck a blow. However, he was caught straight away. As if wondering what further business he had, Hajin looked at him quite crossly.

“Why, again.”

“And.”

“…”

“What about Seohyeonjae.”

“…”

“Why do you stop talking midway. Did that bastard call you into Seohyeonjae?”

Kwon Sabin also knew what kind of place that was. Whether he wanted to hear the unfinished words behind, Kwon Sabin asked back once more. Hajin twisted his captured arm to pull it out.

“Let go.”

“Speak. What did he do after calling you in.”

“…Let go, just.”

“What kind of act did he do?”

Kwon Sabin’s gaze was strange for some reason. It was neither the gaze that always looked crossly nor a gaze full of dissatisfaction. It was chilly somewhere. At that chilly coldness, for some reason, Kwon Sayoung’s figure crossed his mind. It seemed they were brothers indeed. Making that kind of face, they looked quite alike.

“…You don’t need to know. Just let go quickly—.”

“Fuck, what kind of act did he do!”

When he even raised his voice abruptly, Hajin stared at him with surprised eyes. At the appearance of throwing a temper blindly, he let out an absurd breath.

“…Why are you getting angry?”

“Do I look like I wouldn’t get angry?”

“…Why does it make you angry?”

Because he couldn’t comprehend at what part he was getting angry, Hajin asked with a dumbfounded face, and Kwon Sabin hesitated for a moment. The appearance of faltering was visible enough to be seen with both eyes.

“Y-You stop talking midway, don’t you!”

“…Ha.”

At the breath-taking reason, Hajin was so dumbfounded that words wouldn’t come out. He thought he knew Kwon Sabin well. They collided throughout the entire three years of high school, and there was no fellow whose mind was visible exactly as it was like Kwon Sabin. Because he had a simple personality that was ill-mannered and self-indulgent, getting angry when angry and cross when cross, it was impossible not to know. However, he couldn’t comprehend when he threw this kind of unreasonableness once in a while.

“…I wonder if your fans know.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

I wonder if your fans know you’re such a childish fellow. Shaking his head quietly, Hajin personally grabbed his hand and pulled it away.

“Ah… this piece, I’m not finished talking yet?”

“People are coming.”

When Hajin nodded his head toward the people flocking from the end of the corner, Kwon Sabin muttered a curse mixed with irritation.

“…Phew… I’ll let it slide just for today.”

And he continued the words behind like a person who was stepping back because he had no choice. It seemed he hated having the appearance of being together with him caught in people’s eyes. The moment Kwon Sabin passed Hajin, Kwon Sabin’s managers approached urgently from the opposite hallway. “You were here? We looked for you tremendously!” At the words of the managers who chided him with a voice that felt like they had a narrow escape from death, Kwon Sabin shouted as if venting his anger, “What do you expect me to do!” and walked on. Staring at the back profile that was exceptionally long, Hajin quietly shook his head once more.

Will a day come for that fellow to grow up…? Such a doubt crossed his mind all of a sudden.

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Finishing filming on time for the first time, Hajin obediently followed the manager’s words that they had to go to the company. Because a transportation vehicle had even appeared and he merely had to sit quietly, there was nothing heavily difficult either. He heard that if they went to the company, they had to write the contract again, and there were lessons the company looked after individually, so there was a lot to introduce to him. And at the words that among several scripts the company had received, they could secure an audition for a role that seemed likely to suit him, Hajin’s eyes grew round. Because the power of the company seemed even stronger than he thought, Hajin was still in a daze.

The company building was one of the numerous high-rise buildings in Yeoksam-dong. On the company electronic display board, Kwon Sabin’s pictorial, who had taken on the high jewelry ambassadorship famous as a world-class luxury, was displayed. Hajin looked up at that video, which changed frequently, with his mouth open. He felt firsthand anew what a large company this place was.

“When there is no work, you can just come out to the company.”

Entrusting the parking to the valet employee, the manager explained kindly.