The Outsider Omega Wants to Be Alone! Chapter 19

The inside of the refrigerator was completely empty. His foot was in this state, and he had been doing a part-time job he wasn’t used to, so he hadn’t had the wits about him to go grocery shopping.

Ordering delivery felt like a waste of the delivery fee. Besides, with prices rising these days, delivery food was excessively expensive.

If so, there was only one option.

Whether he went out to buy groceries or to get takeout, he had to go outside no matter what.

Lee Yuseong, who had resolved just five minutes ago not to leave the house—no, not to leave the bed—was faced with a crisis. He had to go outside even on the weekend.

What a bother. Incredibly bothersome. Even getting up was bothersome. Fixing his hair, which must look like a magpie’s nest, was bothersome. Putting on clothes was bothersome. Opening the door, going outside, and walking around—he really hated it.

“Uuuu…”

Grrrrrowl.

“Hungry…”

After murmuring quietly, he felt the hunger even more keenly. On top of that, he was starting to get thirsty too.

To make matters worse, with the room so dark, all sorts of thoughts came to mind. For example, a news headline like this:

/ Omega college student in his 20s found dead from starvation in studio apartment….

/ Apparently too bothered, didn’t even leave a suicide note….

‘A young omega starved to death… That’s the worst.’

That was truly awful. He did not want to meet such a death.

After mulling over these worries and dawdling in bed for another 30 minutes, Lee Yuseong reached the conclusion that this simply wouldn’t do. Slowly crawling out of bed, the first thing he did was open the blackout curtains.

Having put on his glasses, Lee Yuseong roughly threw on black training pants, a black sweatshirt, and a black windbreaker jacket. Finally, pressing a black cap down over his head, the perfect cockroach look was complete.

What is the cockroach look?

It was an all-black look from head to toe, named by Lee Yuseong to mean going unnoticed, like a cockroach that adeptly darts and weaves through people.

“…I’ll take the shortest route there and back.”

He wouldn’t go far. Just to the nearest fast food joint to simply get a Bacon Beef Deluxe Cheese Double Max set large, a milkshake, and an apple pie. And then, his goal was to buy a week’s worth of groceries at the Ssadassa Mart located behind it.

‘I should buy some pineapple for dessert.’

It was a truly perfect plan. After taking two deep breaths, Lee Yuseong boldly flung the door open with a fairly improved gait.

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“Your saju has alpha misfortune mixed into it.”

“…Excuse me?”

“Alpha misfortune!”

So startled, Lee Yuseong nearly dropped the Hard ice cream he was holding.

“I said your saju is teeming with alphas!”

He almost even spat out the Hard ice cream that was in his mouth after taking a bite. It was ice cream he had bought as a gift to himself while grocery shopping at the mart.

Barely swallowing the half-melted Hard ice cream, Lee Yuseong took a step back.

Seeing this, the elderly woman’s eyes shone even more intensely. It was a gaze that seemed to see right through everything.

He had eaten well and was on his way home in a good mood, and what was all this? Yuseong couldn’t help but be startled by the elderly woman who suddenly began reciting his saju in a secluded alleyway.

He wasn’t scared. He was just startled. Anyone would be startled. Really.

Still, one should respect the elderly. A little frightened—no, he wasn’t frightened—Yuseong spoke politely in a small voice.

“Um, I’m sorry but I don’t have money for a fortune-telling.”

“Who said anything about fortune-telling? As if you’d get your fortune told when your living expenses are so tight. That’d be like trying to extract liver from a flea.”

Lee Yuseong’s pupils shook greatly.

How did she know my living expenses are tight?

“You be careful. Because of that alpha misfortune, you’ll be put through the wringer for a good year.”

Lee Yuseong was confused. He felt awkward ignoring the elderly woman’s words and running away while she was talking, but by the same token, he couldn’t just stand there and, as she put it, have the liver extracted from a flea.

Lee Yuseong didn’t know this, but at this point, with people of the “do you believe in the Way” persuasion, he was already more than half hooked.

“What is this alpha misfortune…?”

“I told you earlier. It means alphas are swarming around you. Think carefully. Haven’t alphas been bothering you lately?”

Yuseong, who had shut his mouth like a closed shell, quietly nodded his head. How does she know all this? It was truly amazing.

“If you get pushed around here and there, your life and everything else will be gone. Keep your center and pick just one, and do it right.”

“…Excuse me?”

“Ah, do you want me to keep repeating what I already said?”

The elderly woman, who had been speaking ominously, suddenly burst out yelling. Eek. Lee Yuseong flinched and then protested quietly. Lee Yuseong was the type who still said what he had to say.

“I have no intention of picking anyone…”

When it came to the alphas who had swarmed around Lee Yuseong, only three faces inevitably came to mind.

Those who had appeared in Lee Yuseong’s dream. The three from Momento.

Lee Yuseong had not the slightest intention of getting entangled with those three. He was counting the days, looking for a chance to bolt.

“Ha! Someone like you spent a night like that?”

Thud. Lee Yuseong ended up dropping the Hard ice cream. He couldn’t not drop it.

‘Scary.’

“Judging by your reaction, it all seems to be true. Tsk. Tch.”

The elderly woman clicked her tongue and got up from her spot. She had started the conversation herself, yet she was radiating an atmosphere of finding it too bothersome to talk any further.

At that point, one logical error in this conversation struck Lee Yuseong.

“But how do you know my saju? I never told you my date of birth…”

“…”

He wasn’t well-versed in things like saju or shinjeom, but his mom had occasionally told him stories about following her friends to meet fortune-tellers. Thanks to that, Yuseong at least knew that reading saju alone and shinjeom were quite different domains, and that to read saju, one had to state their date of birth and time of birth.

The strange elderly woman came closer. Seen up close, her pupils had no focus. Her whitened, faded pupils just stared blankly at one point.

“There’s a way to see and hear everything, without seeing or hearing it directly.”

Having said that much, the elderly woman walked past Yuseong with slow steps.

Standing there blankly, Lee Yuseong belatedly turned around, but the elderly woman had vanished.

“What is all this supposed to mean…”

Goosebumps rose eerily, and he hugged his own shoulders. As he adjusted his grip on his shopping bag and stepped forward, he stepped on something sticky.

“Ah, my ice cream…”

Nothing to be done. Lee Yuseong turned his body back toward the mart to buy another Hard ice cream.

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/ Title: What is alpha misfortune?

Someone like a fortune-teller told me I have alpha misfortune

I’m not well-versed in saju, so what exactly does alpha misfortune mean?

It’s not something bad, right?

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〈Comments〉

1 It’s like dohwa misfortune but the alpha version

⤷ What’s dohwa misfortune

⤷ It’s when people keep swarming around you in relation to romance

⤷ The comment above seems to have misunderstood something, dohwa misfortune isn’t limited to romance. Why do they say celebrities have dohwa misfortune? It just simply means people keep swarming around you and you receive love from people, it can also be seen in connection with becoming the subject of gossip

⤷ The subject of gossip?

⤷ Means being talked about by others, yeah

2 You hit the jackpot, congrats congrats. Are you an omega?

⤷ Yes

⤷ Then that’s great, I’m jealous

⤷ What’s great about it?

⤷ They said alphas swarm around an omega, so you’ve hit it big

⤷ I don’t like it though

⤷ ;;

3 Coordinates of the fortune-telling place, please

⤷ ? Coordinates?

⤷ Can’t you share the location????? I’ve been looking for a fortune-teller because of my love fortuneㅠ

⤷ I’d like to, but she disappeared

⤷ ???? It closed down?

⤷ No, I mean she disappeared

⤷ Isn’t that the same thing??;;

⤷ She disappeared

⤷ -.-

4 Famous omega celebrities of the past especially are known to all carry alpha misfortune. Due to the nature of the industry, if you land a dominant alpha sponsor well, success is just a matter of time.

⤷ Continuing) It’s a famous story among omegas who go around getting their saju read a lot, but it seems the original poster is hearing it for the first time.