My Alpha Era Began with Gongjindan Chapter 46

After much deliberation, I reached a conclusion.

Let’s go back to the family home.

I know this isn’t a good choice either. First of all, the distance between my family home and our clinic is too great. Right now I walk to work, but if I go down to the family home, I’ll have to take the KTX to commute.

I could drive, but I’m still not confident behind the wheel. I’d be fine, but the other cars on the road would be in danger.

So realistically, if I go down to the family home, I’ll have no choice but to leave the clinic’s operations entirely to Kim Miyoung and Nam Jungyoon. They’re both trustworthy employees, but that aside, I’d be neglecting my duties.

That’s why I don’t want to go down to the family home either if I can help it. A clinic without its director. That’s just absurd. It’s no different from fish bread without red bean paste, takoyaki without octopus… anyway, so on and so forth, et cetera.

But there was no other way. Because if I’m here, Jung Pureum will be ruined. Our clinic won’t collapse immediately without me, but Jung Pureum will be ruined if I stay.

“Prohibited from participating in the selection trials?”

“…Yes.”

This morning, I ran into the auntie next door in front of the elevator. She greeted me with her already charismatic face tightly hardened.

Her aura was so imposing that I almost dropped to my knees and said, “I’m truly sorry for devouring your son.”

But the one who had made the auntie angry wasn’t me—it was the coach.

That coach bastard really does all sorts of things. After pinning all kinds of expectations on Jung Pureum, the moment Jung Pureum didn’t go his way, he used the national team selection trials as leverage to shake him down.

I had no idea what the senior who had approached me so kindly had tattled about this time. Gasp—could it be that he caught us doing… that… in the lecture hall?

My wrist suddenly felt cold. It felt like an invisible silver bracelet was restraining me. Public indecency! An act that good university students shouldn’t do!

“By any chance, is Jung Pureum the coach’s nemesis from a past life?”

“That’s not entirely impossible, but probably not.”

“Then why on earth is he doing this? He’s really tormenting the poor guy.”

“Sigh… The time has come for me to tell you this long story too.”

While I was trembling on my own with my own guilty conscience, the auntie told me the whole story. It was about why the coach had been giving Jung Pureum such a hard time.

It wasn’t really the kind of conversation to have in front of an apartment elevator, but I listened to every word. The auntie is the taciturn type, so if not now, I might never have heard this story.

The coach, though also a Beta, had been obsessed with Jung Pureum, who unlike him was a talented swimmer. Anyway, what a disgusting bastard. But when Jung Pureum became an Alpha, that obsession turned into a kind of jealousy.

It was a predictable and repulsive story. He’d thought Jung Pureum’s life would be as dark as his own, but when he saw light entering it, he felt resentful.

As a result, the coach derived satisfaction from grinding down and harassing Jung Pureum, and while he wanted him to succeed, he also dreamed of him failing despite acquiring a good secondary gender—it had evolved into something bizarre.

“No, why do they keep someone like that?”

“He’s important to the university and the association.”

“…”

“That’s the biggest reason Pureum was fine even after messing up his college entrance exam…”

Crazy.

Korea is rotten… I shut my mouth at the admissions corruption happening next door. To be fair, athletes on the elite track usually get in as special talent admissions anyway. This probably doesn’t even count as corruption.

Anyway, the coach is a disgusting and irritating bastard, but he’s ultimately someone who will definitely help Jung Pureum’s future career. I heard his influence would also play a role in Olympic participation.

And now that very man has issued a ban on Jung Pureum participating in the national team selection trials.

I grabbed the back of my neck and staggered on behalf of the auntie. I’ve lived my whole life with low blood pressure, but the moment I heard about the selection trial ban, I developed high blood pressure.

Wouldn’t it be good for him too if his own student made the national team? It was truly impressive to see him kicking away an opportunity that would benefit him as well, all because his jealousy toward his student had deepened.

“What’s the reason for the ban?”

“…”

“Surely there’s no reason at all?”

“No.”

The auntie seemed reluctant to tell me the reason for the ban.

But I actually had a fair idea. Jung Saebom had already told me, and Jung Pureum’s university senior had confirmed it.

“…Active Alpha athletes are often regulated when it comes to dating omegas.”

“…”

“It’s not just about the issue—pheromone problems are the biggest concern.”

I remembered Jung Pureum’s words—that if something happened to him, it would be his own fault, not mine.

Not your fault… This is entirely my fault.