#51

 

“I’m back~.”

 

General, who was especially sensitive today, acted cute to me as soon as we reached near the house, becoming the world’s most gentle puppy again. It was only in front of me, and where the other gongs were around again, he barked, making me leave him in the kennel outside for a while.

 

“You’ve arrived, Chan-young ssi?”

 

“Oh, Seo Eun-soo ssi. There must be a first aid kit in the living room drawer, can you bring it with you?”

 

“Are you hurt?”

 

“Yes. I bumped into someone and fell down.”

 

Seo Eun-soo’s face hardened when I scratched my cheek and showed him my skinned palms and legs.

 

“Sit on the sofa right now. I’ll disinfect it and apply ointment.”

 

“What? No. I can do it…….”

 

The unexpected kindness baffled me. Although I waved away his hand, Seo Eun-soo quickly took the fuscidine, disinfectant, and band from the first aid kit and brought them to my front.

 

“Look, don’t sit on your knees like that. It’s too much pressure to do that in front of me.”

 

“Patient, please be quiet.”

 

“These abrasions can’t even fit on the patient’s axis. I’m fine…”

 

“I’ll spray the disinfectant.”

 

“Argh!”

 

Not long after the short notice, Seo Eun-soo rolled up my pants to my thighs with a skillful touch and sprayed disinfectant on the wound. It was not difficult to roll up because it was a loose tracksuit.

 

“Ah, it hurts.”

 

The wound was worse than I thought. Blood was flowing in some areas. Seo Eun-soo smiled quietly as I groaned at the tingling of the disinfectant.

 

“Are you still going to say you’re not a patient? You’ve scratched all the flesh on your legs. Your skin is white, so the wound looks more prominent.”

 

“I’m sorry. Doctor, give it a look.”

 

Seo Eun-soo’s smile deepened as I cried and kept up the act. I think I could see a halo with a flower background behind him. Seo Eun-soo would have been happier being the main character of a romance cartoon with that beauty.

 

“It’ll be over in a minute. Don’t exaggerate and stay still.”

 

“Yes…”

 

Seo Eun-soo wiped the area where the disinfectant was sprayed, squeezed a little Fucidin on a cotton swab and applied it to the wound. The area where it was applied was accompanied by a sharp pain and a slight tickling sensation.

 

“It’s all done. Don’t come down next time.”

 

“I didn’t fall because I wanted to.”

 

“Whatever the reason was. Part-timers need to pay attention to the safety of their employers.”

 

I shrugged off the feeling of being scolded by my mom. It was a bit unfair. 

 

What should I have done when Moon Kyung-sik suddenly popped out of the alley? I had no choice but to bump into him. People can fall down in their lives.

 

“It’s because I bumped into a new person who moved into this neighborhood. It’s not my fault.”

 

“Well, is that so? It was weird because there was an alpha pheromone I didn’t know. It must have been intentional.”

 

“What?”

 

What? Intentional? What does that have to do with pheromones?

 

When I was confused because I didn’t know the meaning, Seo Eun-soo explained it by attaching a band over the wound.

 

“When you meet an alpha or omega, pheromones can get on you just by encountering them. It’s like when you’re in the elevator with a person who’s wearing perfume, the smell is transferred a little bit.”

 

“I know. Why?”

 

“The problem is when Alpha deliberately buried his pheromone on someone else. As Chan-young probably knows, it is a method used when there is a good affinity.”

 

“Oh, by any chance…?”

 

“That’s right. The pheromone attached to you is not a minute amount carried by the wind and transferred, but a deliberate form of burial.”

 

Oh my God.

 

‘Is he crazy?’

 

Those who look normal may be more perverted. Is Moon Kyung-sik the same kind of guy?

 

I completely revised the evaluation of Moon Kyung-sik within me. Rice cake? The steamed rice cake made by Ajumma was really chewy and delicious, but I decided not to give it to that excuse of a human being.

 

General’s barking was science.

 

‘I must trust General from now on.’

 

I didn’t know anyone would try to hang their pheromone on me. I didn’t know I would get pheromones on my first encounter. What a complete hedonist.

 

“……Are you sure?”

 

“Otherwise, I wouldn’t have told Chan-young. I think he’s a human being who’s attracted to Beta since he buried his pheromones on a Beta.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

I became more depressed when I was confirmed dead. Didn’t you say you came to see your grandfather with dementia, so you’ll stay in this town for a while, and you’ll run into him a few times?

 

Since he buried pheromones in my first encounter, there was a possibility that he would do more in the future. How terrible.

 

“I like this town. I can’t move away just because of him.”

 

It was a neighborhood where I couldn’t leave, even when the gongs were coming. I didn’t want to pack up just because a loach-like guy ran unruly.

 

Seo Eun-soo stared at me grumbling.

 

“How about this?”

 

“What?”

 

“Pretend to have a fake lover. It’s kind of like creating a human shield.”

 

“Who? I’m a beta, so it’s hard to find the same beta woman in this neighborhood…….”

 

The method proposed by Seo Eun-soo was not bad, but it was difficult to find the right person here.

 

‘And I don’t want to go that far.’

 

It was unpleasant to have pheromones on me. However, because I’m known externally as a beta, having a fake lover could raise suspicions.

 

If a man named Moon Kyung-sik had done such a thing knowing that I was Seong Chan-young, the youngest grandson of the Seong Eun Group, it would have been more difficult to respond. It could have been reported in the column, “The youngest grandson of Seong Eun Group, C, turned out to have a hidden trait.”

 

‘Aigoo, my head is going to break.’

 

This was all because of the gongs who flocked to my house. With people hanging up the bounty and scattering wanted papers. I wanted to live a peaceful life, so why look for me? Aigoo.

 

“I think it’s better not to. Maybe it’s because he’s a foul person. If not, I’ll have to call Secretary Choi to take care of it.”

 

Thinking of Secretary Choi, an all-around secretary, made me feel at ease. To me, Secretary Choi was almost like a remote control to protect my comfortable life.

 

‘Should I ask for something like bread or a cake?’

 

The necessary items could be bought at the market or in a larger town, but it was hard to see the restaurants. The same was true of convenience stores. I could have set up a convenience store with the money in Seong Chan-young’s account or hired a patissier from a famous bakery, but I didn’t want to do it.

 

“I’ll ask if I can get bread for toast, sweet egg tarts, shaved ice and a wide crepe cake.”

 

Thinking of eating excitedly, I was making various demands to Secretary Choi in my head, while Seo Eun-soo put his hands over my cheeks and turned my head to him.

 

“Hmm? Seo Eun-soo ssi? What is it?”

 

“How about me?”

 

“…What?”

 

“Why don’t you put me up as a fake lover so that the suspicious alpha guy can no longer approach you?”

 

“Eh? Ehhhhh?”

 

I think I’ve heard something I shouldn’t have heard. Beyond the fluctuating pupils, I could hear the OST of the last drama playing automatically.

 

Why do you meet me, why do you hurt me…….

 

‘Seo, Seo Eun-soo must be crazy.”

 

He must have lost his taste when he mutated into Alpha. Is it because he didn’t take the inhibitor? I’ll tell him to eat it right away.

 

“Seo Eun-soo, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that. Baek Do-jun, Chae Yoon-chan, Joo Tae-kang and Yoo Yi-seo are in this house. How much do you think those people are going to hate me?”

 

I was scared that someone might have heard it. I’m sad. What are you all doing in my house? Like a mere Musuri ^[1] Musuri is a Korean term referring to female slaves in charge of odd chores in the court during the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty of Korea , I felt like a fly who was taken care of by the king and feared to be killed by his concubines.

 

 

However, Seo Eun-soo had no sense of crisis because he was in a heavy beloved position.

 

“They probably won’t. Although they’ll try to catch Chan-young in a different way.”

 

“You’re saying that I’m going to get caught after all.”

 

I took Seo Eun-soo’s hand in anger and used it to cover his mouth. Seo Eun-soo stared only at me with his eyes, shining like a shiny black gourd.

 

“I’ll accept that you were trying to make fun of me. I know that you did it because you’re worried since it’s a strong part-time job with high hourly wages and I’m your employer.”

 

“…….”

 

“But I don’t like it this way, either.”

 

Speaking flatly, I rose from the sofa. On the leg Seo Eun-soo treated, the sportswear came down to my ankle again.

 

“And just because four of the alphas remain here, Seo Eun-soo doesn’t have to stay here. I’ll send you away soon.”

 

Not listening to Seo Eun-soo’s answer, I came out of the house to work. Wearing work gloves, I brought a large rubber basin and poured water into it.

 

‘I didn’t hear anything. What happened earlier did not happen. <em>Red sun</em> ^[2] Red Sun’ is an informal term used by Dr. Kim Yeong-guk], who is famous for hypnotism, to hypnotize the other person. During GagCon’s popularity among the public, Lee Sang-goo became famous when he made a gag in which he fell asleep while shouting Red Sun in the reconstruction of a crime. .’

 

After pouring water into the rubber basin, rice seeds to be made into seedlings were poured in next. When these rice seeds sprouted, they were to be transformed to seedlings and planted in rice paddies later.

 

I bought rice seedlings because it was most convenient to buy them for money. I had to change the water every day, but I also wanted to grow them myself. It was only when I sprayed pesticides that I was full of thoughts to solve it.

 

“Grow well.”

 

My heart became happy when I imagined the rice paddies turning into golden colors in autumn. I was trying to chase away the shock from earlier with only good thoughts, but then I heard a crooked voice next to me.

 

“I heard you’ve got alpha pheromone on you.”

 

• 1. Musuri is a Korean term referring to female slaves in charge of odd chores in the court during the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty of Korea
• 2. Red Sun’ is an informal term used by Dr. Kim Yeong-guk], who is famous for hypnotism, to hypnotize the other person. During GagCon’s popularity among the public, Lee Sang-goo became famous when he made a gag in which he fell asleep while shouting Red Sun in the reconstruction of a crime.