I Became the Only Omega in a Makjang Novel - C95

95

Hui-yul’s body swayed heavily.

“Customer!”

Beom-soo at the counter shouted in shock. His vision spun and his head felt dizzy. Amidst all this, the status window synchronization percentage increased again.

[Synchronizing… 98%]

Was it the aftereffect of that?

His body couldn’t maintain balance properly, as if another heat had come.

Unable to center his body, he waved his hands and braced himself on the table.

“Uh…?”

Kim Chan-ik looked at Hui-yul with a startled expression, despite having hit him himself. He hadn’t hit that hard. Though anger had made him resort to violence, it was only meant as a threat, not to seriously injure.

“Are you crazy? How could you hit someone like that?”

“No… I didn’t hit him that hard.”

Kang Woo-ryeon shouted in shock. Just as Kim Chan-ik was trying to explain in an aggrieved voice, someone immediately entered the cafe and strode towards them.

Kang Woo-ryeon, who first noticed the presence behind her, checked who it was.

She opened her mouth, forgetting to manage her expression at the sudden appearance of an unexpected figure. Looking up, she saw Do Seung-jo’s face, who had come right up to them with a frightening aura.

Thud.

Do Seung-jo firmly grabbed Hui-yul’s arm. Only then did Hui-yul check behind him and smile awkwardly.

‘Did he see?’

He planned to gloss over it if Do Seung-jo hadn’t directly seen the hitting. Even while dizzy, Hui-yul observed Do Seung-jo’s expression.

“I thought you said you take care of yourself well.”

“…Did you see?”

“…”

Do Seung-jo didn’t answer, but his silence was as good as an answer.

“When did you come?”

“…Just now.”

“You came at a bad time.”

He felt embarrassed to have shown such a scene.

He recalled the conversation they had at Do Seung-jo’s house.

Though he hadn’t explained anything yet, Do Seung-jo had asked as if reading Hui-yul’s thoughts:

[I hope you don’t worry too much. I don’t like getting caught in the crossfire of things you’re involved in.]

[What would I have to get involved in?]

[Still.]

[You’re the one who shouldn’t get hurt. Who’s the one always injured when I see them?]

[Don’t get hurt.]

[I won’t. You know how well I take care of myself.]

Hui-yul had said this while lightly slapping Do Seung-jo’s cheek, and he had buried his head in Hui-yul’s shoulder as if understanding, and they spent a long night together.

Do Seung-jo must have been thinking of that conversation too, as he reprimanded Hui-yul in a lowered tone:

“What if I hadn’t seen? Would you have pretended nothing happened?”

“It was nothing. Just suddenly-“

He thought he was getting better, but suddenly his head spun again.

“Hey.”

“…Seems it’s not as okay as you thought.”

After that, his vision suddenly turned black.

“Uh oh?”

Kim Chan-ik, who had hit him, tried to catch Hui-yul as he fell backwards in panic, but Do Seung-jo was faster.

Do Seung-jo caught and supported the suddenly limp Hui-yul. Then soon, he slipped his hand under Hui-yul’s knees and lightly lifted him.

If Hui-yul had been conscious, he would have been terrified by this position.

“…Instead of doing that, I think it would be better to call an ambulance. I’ll go as the guardian first, and contact the actual guardian on the way.”

Since she had been present for the whole situation, Kang Woo-ryeon prioritized damage control and spoke to Do Seung-jo.

Kang Woo-ryeon’s top priority was to get out of this situation. It was fortunate that man had collapsed. She didn’t have to show Do Seung-jo her being alone with Kim Chan-ik, and it seemed Kim Chan-ik wasn’t paying attention to the collapsed person even now.

Do Seung-jo’s voice, lowered from suppressing his anger, rang out calmly.

“I can go as his guardian.”

His protruding jaw showed how much anger he was holding back.

“Really? Then I’ll go with you too. We need to do the paperwork.”

“No.”

“…I’m not going to eat you, why are you being so hostile?”

“Father is quite stupid too. You say you can’t trust people, but it seems you didn’t investigate her background separately.”

Even though they’re meeting like this openly. Do Seung-jo looked between the two and smiled sardonically.

“I don’t know what you’re suddenly talking about.”

Kang Woo-ryeon feigned ignorance.

“But I’m not an idiot like Father.”

“…”

“If you think you can gloss over this, save yourself the trouble.”

Do Seung-jo spoke coldly and turned his gaze to Kim Chan-ik, whose shoulders flinched.

Kang Woo-ryeon openly showed her dismayed expression at how he didn’t even ask who Kim Chan-ik was, as if he already knew.

But she quickly changed her attitude. As if she was truly wronged by Do Seung-jo’s threatening words.

“I really had no ulterior motive. Someone collapsed right in front of me, do you think I would calculate while speaking? I was just worried since he said he’s Hae-na’s brother.”

“…”

“By the way, seeing how close you are with Hae-na’s brother, you must know Hae-na well too?”

Though she had heard Hae-na had a birth mother, she couldn’t suddenly change her mind based on just that one statement.

So for now, the best move was to have Hae-na stay by Do Seung-jo’s side.

Kang Woo-ryeon quickly took out her phone, but Do Seung-jo left the cafe first, still carrying Hui-yul.

It was better for him to take Hui-yul than to call an ambulance.

‘It’s not simply that he collapsed from being hit.’

Do Seung-jo let out a deep sigh while unbuttoning the top button of his shirt.

Though he was holding back, Eom Hui-yul’s pheromones were wafting out strongly enough to permeate his clothes. Before, he had thought it was just a scent, but now Do Seung-jo could easily distinguish between pheromones and regular scents.

“Hah.”

The veins on the back of his clenched fist stood out. Feeling like he might get drunk on the pheromones, he opened the window slightly. Then, worried Hui-yul might get cold, he took off his outer shirt and covered him with it.

He had heard briefly from Chairman Do about the conditions for omegas and alphas to awaken. It was a conversation they had when Chairman Do keenly noticed Do Seung-jo had changed and had him tested, while waiting for the test results.

[To properly awaken, you need to receive a kind of shock.]

[A shock?]

[Whether mental or physical. The kind of shock ordinary people rarely experience. Well, I heard the best method is to awaken through shock from pheromones.]

[…]

[They say you’re not in a fully awakened state. But your pheromone control skills are exceptional in the meantime.]

[Is that so?]

[If anything comes to mind, be honest with the doctor.]

[Yes, I will.]

Of course, Do Seung-jo had not yet told Chairman Do about Eom Hui-yul’s existence. His safety hadn’t been acknowledged yet, and he hadn’t said anything, worried it would be too sudden for Hui-yul to accept, but now there was no other choice.

Instead of starting the car right away, Do Seung-jo called Secretary Jo.

Not long after the dial tone, there was a click and the sound of someone answering.

-Yes, young master.

“Call the personnel the Chairman brought immediately to the hospital.”

Secretary Jo seemed momentarily flustered by Do Seung-jo’s urgent voice, but quickly regained composure.

-The Chairman is with me, is it urgent?

“Yes.”

At Do Seung-jo’s resolute answer, Secretary Jo didn’t ask further. After a brief silence as he covered the phone to ask the Chairman’s opinion, an answer came:

-…I’ll have them come directly to Isung Hospital.

“Yes.”

-They’ll arrive within an hour at the latest.

With Secretary Jo’s reply that he would handle things quickly, prioritizing the situation over understanding it, Do Seung-jo ended the call and immediately grabbed the steering wheel.

The car sped out of the parking lot.

* * *

Hui-yul was sitting in a swing chair in the middle of a lush green garden. A cool breeze brushed past his hair.

“This is nice…”

Savoring the peaceful moment, he moved the swing chair by bending and straightening his knees. Though it was an unfamiliar place, he strangely felt at ease.

But soon, a cry broke the peacefulness.

“Waaah!”

Hui-yul naturally stood up and picked up the baby he had left in the stroller beside him. As he held the baby and patted its back familiarly, the baby’s cries gradually subsided.

Suddenly he felt a sense of dissonance.

‘Was I this good at soothing babies?’

Why did this situation feel familiar? It’s not like Hui-yul knew any babies around him. Then whose baby was this?

Once doubt sprouted, memories of before he came here suddenly flooded back.

‘What was I doing before I came here?’

He had definitely been working his part-time job, and had intervened in Kim Chan-ik and Kang Woo-ryeon’s conversation and was slapped-

“How did I get here?”

At that moment, his deeply sunken consciousness was suddenly pulled up.

Blink.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a familiar white ceiling. It was the ceiling he had seen when he first opened his eyes after the possession.

“He’s awake!”

Someone whose face he didn’t know shouted loudly in an excited voice after seeing Hui-yul open his eyes. At the same time, several people crowded around Hui-yul.

Multiple people bustled about, taking turns moving around him. He lay still, without even the strength to move a finger, when someone told him in a voice full of emotion:

“Congratulations! You’re pregnant.”

‘Is this a dream too?’

Hui-yul tightly closed his eyes again, trying to wake up from this dream.