By Zephyria 
I felt like I was suffocating. There was no room for misunderstanding. This was definitely the heat of the heat cycle. Even I myself was chilled by the strong rose scent that rose from my whole body. I put strength into my teeth and bit my lip. To come this far, to put me in this predicament and still… Is there not enough to ridicule and laugh at?
“It’s a gift I gave you to enjoy, but I’d be sad if you just passed it over like this.”
With my collar still in his grasp, the pink lips that were close to my eyes slowly moved. The more he talked, the more, the more. My eyes became hot and my mind became hazy. Moisture filled my panting breath.
If there had been even a trace of excitement, base satisfaction, or, unlike him, lust in the arrogant eyes that looked down on me, I wouldn’t have been as ashamed as I am now.
“Is it painful?”
“Eut…, euueuk, heuk…”
“You brought it on yourself. You wanted to drag your fate into this sewer, and you’re in pain from just this?”
There was no sign of primal desire for me in Allen’s expression as he dryly listed incomprehensible resentment. I knew for sure there. He has no intention of holding me. Even forcibly pulling out the heat cycle is just a welcome ridicule for me, nothing more and nothing less. That fact felt so natural.
“You, what, eut, what are you plotting…”
“Plotting? There’s no way.”
“What on earth do you want from this kind of prank…!”
It was hard to even say each syllable. I clenched my fist painfully and bit the soft flesh in my mouth, and I barely managed to speak. If he was just trying to ridicule me, he wouldn’t have bothered to grab my collar. He could have just admired this funny sight from afar.
Hahaha, a faint laughter burst out in front of my eyes as fresh and soft as the spring breeze. It was from the end of those seemingly kind lips, still dyed a beautiful pink.
“It’s a relief that you have that much sense. Yes. There’s something I want. Apart from our holy bet.”
“Tell me, tell me right away…, get lost…”
“If I tell you? Are you going to listen?”
“Just try saying it…!”
Allen then let go of my collar and took a few steps back. I staggered and fell. I couldn’t put any more strength into my body. Even the feel of the bedding touching my skin was unusual. No. No more, somehow, at least I didn’t want to show him a sight he couldn’t see.
“Okay. Then I’ll cut to the chase.”
You, throw that damn marble away right now. Allen continued to speak clearly without any delay.
“If you don’t want to throw it away, you can keep it. It doesn’t matter, just take it off your body.”
The blue eyes, which had been leisurely and relaxed until now, were now full of murderous intent. The marble, which was said to contain the power of the Ancient God that even the omnipotent current God could not freely approach, had never been taken off my body since I received it from Lennox. The marble, which had a long string attached to it like a necklace, vibrated strangely.
Even though I didn’t fix it in particular, the marble was stuck to my body on its own. In fact, I didn’t even need a necklace string. Since I thought I would keep it, the marble was attached to me like a magnet, whether it was in my pocket or anywhere else. Seeing that even the great God didn’t even think of forcibly taking it off and was using such a base trick, it seemed that my will was important after all.
“Ha…, that was all?”
“That was all? That’s harsh. Think back, Noah. All our happy moments. If you didn’t have that marble, we could go back. I’ll invade your deepest parts and stay by your side forever. Can physical union chase after that noble spiritual union?”
He packaged well the shameful times when he had cut into my mind as the ‘System’ and swayed me as he pleased. I won’t deny it. I was sometimes lonely without him, and I was satisfied that he was watching over me. Before I knew his identity, I thought of him as someone I could rely on, even if I couldn’t trust him.
But that was before I knew the truth. It was before the view that had been trapped in a thick curtain was clearly opened.
I have no intention of going back.
I didn’t want to be manipulated by any being anymore.
“…Try it. Go ahead, do as you please.”
A voice full of resentment, as if grinding his teeth, was pulled up from deep down, squeezing through his vocal cords.
“Haha, is that your decision? You’re going to defy me after all?”
Allen laughed as if he was dumbfounded.
“I get confused sometimes. Whether you’re smart or foolish… Do you really think you can handle it? Trapped in the weak human body that collapses in desire?”
He had been reading my mind all along, so he would know better than anyone how much I hated the situation of losing my reason and being pushed away by the instincts of the body that was boiling over. So he dared to forcibly pull out the heat cycle as a threat, or at best, as an unreasonable condition for forced sale.
However, it was better to lose my mind and wallow shamefully in front of him. It was far better than having my sovereignty taken away by Easy once again, entrusting my entire world to his manipulation and control.
“Cocky… you’re still cocky…”
I gritted my teeth, burning my wick without answering, and Allen scoffed, stepping back a few paces. Then, he crossed his legs and sat on the plush sofa by the window, as if to show off.
“Alright. If that’s your choice, I have to respect it. I’ve always respected you, haven’t I?”
I didn’t even have time to get angry at the humming, insulting words.
“Try to handle it well, as you’re so confident. I have no intention of stopping until you cry and admit you’ve lost first.”
The face of the beautiful demon, standing on the boundary between boy and man, like a feather cloud, smiles kindly. His head nodded languidly.
“Hngh…!”
Right at that moment. An intense heat, incomparable to anything before, swept over my entire body as if burning it. It was the hellfire that would finally devour me.
*
My vision was blurred. I couldn’t tell if it was day or night, or even the dawning of dawn. I could clearly see the window, but I didn’t have the mental capacity to distinguish the color of the vast sky spread out beyond it. All I could feel now was an endless thirst and the heat of the air. Or rather, it wasn’t the air that was hot. It was my own body that was burning up.
“Hiss, eugh…”
My whole body was simmering with heat. I was familiar with the heat of a heat cycle, but had there ever been a time when it was this intense and blatant? Even across the countless lives I had lived, this was truly the first time. The blurring of my vision was just the beginning. Even my consciousness was fading, fading away. My trembling hand was already clumsily groping at my lower body. I took a deep breath. All that was released into the air was a pungent rose scent.
What I needed was an Alpha’s pheromone. Where is it, where could it be…? The blind lust of the Alphas I had experienced so far seemed to be chaotically intertwined in my head. Any Alpha would do. I needed an Alpha to force their way inside me right now and ejaculate pheromones to the point of overflowing. I was so desperate that saliva was dripping down.
“…”
I wasn’t even aware that someone was watching my vulgar appearance. At this moment, I was just an Omega, stripping off my lower body and groping at my soaked hole, busy searching for an Alpha nearby. Even the sharp air, with its taut tension barely grazing my skin, was a breathtaking stimulation.
An Alpha… I need one…
Only that one sentence floated in my dazed mind. Adrian, who used to kiss me voraciously, and Andrew, who used to pour pheromones all over me, were not here. The fact that they weren’t made me feel so sad that tears started to flow on their own.
“Hic, hngh, end…”
Where on earth are they? An Alpha who can satisfy me, an Alpha who can fill me with pheromones… I was writhing on the bed, sobbing sorrowfully. It was then that I felt a very faint Alpha pheromone, which I would not have noticed and passed by in normal times, lingering faintly like a trace from a long time ago. It was from the fountain pen placed on the bedside table right next to the bed.
This room that I am using now was Andrew’s room in the small palace before Allen took over my room. The fountain pen on the bedside table must have been the one he used. There was a very, very faint Alpha pheromone remaining on the handle of the fountain pen. My whole body, simmering with heat, craved even a single drop of pheromone that was only a trace. I almost crawled to grab the fountain pen. I buried my nose in the handle that Andrew must have held to sign documents, feeling ecstatic. I swallowed hard. What should I do with this, I wanted to suck on it, I wanted to put it inside me… My flown-away reason did not even recognize that this was not a proper Alpha.
“Ah, Andrew… Andrew…”
I wish you were here right now. I wish you would soak my body with that pheromone I’ve felt so many times. I cried sorrowfully, looking for Andrew. Even as I did so, I was diligently caressing the handle of the fountain pen with my lips.
“Stop there.”
A sharp voice was heard at that moment.
“Sniffle, who…? Andrew…? Is that Andrew…?”
Was there someone else in this room besides me? That didn’t matter. What mattered was that person. Was he Andrew, with the pheromones to conquer me right now, or not?
“I’ve been watching, and I’m starting to get annoyed.”
“Andrew, hic, Andr…!”
“I’m right in front of you. Who are you looking for?”
My nape was grabbed roughly. Even the stinging sensation on my scalp was electrifying, and I shuddered, letting out a gasp…!
“This is more… disgusting than I thought.”
The eyes of the figure standing in front of me were simply blue. Just like Andrew’s. Without hesitation, I hugged the other person’s neck and kissed them first. Andrew had finally come. All I could see was that fact.