By Zephyria 
“I don’t want to… Why should I take something like that?”
His mind was a complete whirlwind of confusion.
How could that aphrodisiac possibly cost a million won? It was just a bit of powder. He couldn’t wrap his head around the idea of paying such a huge sum for it.
Moreover.
“Why are you making me take something that costs a million won?”
Why on earth was he being forced to take something so expensive? Eun-myeong looked up at Blue Hair, his eyes shaking incessantly.
“Why else? Because it’s fucking hilarious.”
Blue Hair grinned. He kept smirking, looking like a complete lunatic even while unable to steady his own body.
“Hilarious… you say.”
A strange feeling washed over Eun-myeong. He felt as if he had become a lab rat.
In a way, it was a feeling of inferiority.
Every single day, he painstakingly wove his life together like a cast net. And the money he received for that cast net was, at most, two thousand won.
Yet, this guy treated a million won as nothing for a mere handful of powder. To Eun-myeong, money was nothing short of a shackle, but to this man, it was so effortless.
“Anyway, the ones with plump asses and pretty faces always act so fucking expensive. Even beggars have some pride.”
Blue Hair didn’t know how to stop talking nonsense.
“But damn, you’re fucking cute for a dimwit.”
Blue Hair scanned Eun-myeong from head to toe. His filthy gaze touched every part of Eun-myeong’s face. It was a look that felt like insects were eating away at him.
“Are you good at sucking? Have you ever sucked a man’s cock?”
Unlike his usual self, Eun-myeong put strength into his eyes and glared at the man. I hate this, it’s filthy… He truly didn’t want anything to do with him.
“Huh? I asked if you’ve sucked cock.”
Unable to bring himself to answer no, he instead clamped his lips shut. It was because the events from a few days ago at the sauna flashed through his mind. The man who had grabbed the back of his head and pressed him down toward his waist…
The sensation of the thick glans being sucked into his mouth and the shaft, as thick as a water bottle, remained etched in his brain.
He had to get back to the hotel quickly. The man might be waiting for him. If the man happened to visit the sashimi restaurant wondering why he was so late, it would be a disaster. He would be caught lying again.
“I can just give you money too. What, would a hundred and fifty be enough for you?”
Blue Hair continued to babble. Eun-myeong’s face froze as hard as blanched tofu.
“I’m not an Omega, so it’s useless even if I take it. It’s just a waste of money.”
A hundred and fifty thousand won was an enormous amount of money to Eun-myeong. A wave of agitation surged within him, but he soon calmed down.
He wasn’t an Omega. Therefore, taking that wouldn’t put him in heat or cause any major incident.
But even so, to reach out his hand… Eun-myeong shook his head violently in refusal.
“I won’t take it.”
He shouldn’t be fooled by such words. Eun-myeong had learned one thing in his short life: you never know where life will twist and warp. It was better not to choose the wrong path in the first place.
What if the man turned the tables after he took it? If he were threatened with the claim that since he took it, he had to pay for it, he would be in a situation with no way out.
“I don’t want to, I won’t take it! Look at him throwing a fucking fit.”
Blue Hair giggled, mimicking him in a babyish voice.
“The baby’s gonna cry, he’s gonna cry.”
The sound of several people clutching their stomachs and laughing echoed loudly through the high ceiling. Eun-myeong stood blankly among them. He felt like a zoo monkey being teased by having a banana held out and then snatched away.
“Hey, Jjong-myeong.”
Just then, Jjangja stepped forward. He rummaged through his jacket pocket and pulled out a few packets.
“Don’t ruin the mood and just play along, okay?”
While pretending to smile, his eyes gleamed menacingly.
“Or should I just call her right now?”
Jjangja picked up his cell phone with one hand. Eun-joo noona’s phone number was displayed on the screen.
“Huh? You gonna call her right now?”
Asking “Huh? Huh?” repeatedly, he tightened the leash around Eun-myeong’s mind. Whenever the word ‘noona’ was mentioned, Eun-myeong was dragged along like a dog on a leash.
Eventually, Eun-myeong slowly shook his head.
“No, don’t do that.”
“Damn, you should’ve just done that from the start.”
Jjangja ripped open one of the packets with a snap. He poured the powder into a glass containing a yellow liquid. A shhhhh sound could be heard. The white powder failed to dissolve and sank thickly to the bottom of the glass.
“Here.”
The glass was placed in front of him. Eun-myeong clenched his teeth. Internally, he kept hypnotizing himself. No matter what anyone says, I am a Beta. Nothing will happen if I take this.
Eun-myeong then picked up the glass with trembling hands.
“Ooh!”
Expectant cheers erupted from around him.
Eun-myeong pressed his lips to the glass and tilted his head back.
Gulp, guuulp, gulp.
The taste of the alcohol was horrific. A flavor he couldn’t even identify felt like it was sharply slicing his tongue. His throat sizzled and boiled.
As he swallowed the last drop, cheers burst out from the crowd.
“Wow, crazy.”
Then, they all stared with sparkling eyes, as if expecting a reaction.
His vision was terribly dizzy. However, that was merely the intoxication from the alcohol; no other reaction appeared in his body. Eun-myeong blinked blankly, his long eyelashes fluttering vacantly.
“What, is that it?”
Comments about it being boring followed.
“Aw, what? The mood is ruined.”
“How can someone who looks like that not be an Omega?”
He heard them complaining, but the words didn’t reach his ears clearly. He had only swallowed one glass.
“…Ugh.”
His head hurt terribly, as if it were splitting open. Unable to bear the spinning vision, he crouched down beside the sofa.
“Hey, give me the million won.”
Jjangja held out his palm to Blue Hair, telling him to hand over the money quickly.
“Ah, fuck, I wasted my money for nothing.”
Blue Hair cursed and pulled a wad of bills from his wallet. He handed them to Jjangja with a look of utter annoyance. Even so, he smacked his lips in regret.
Thus, interest in Eun-myeong began to fade one by one. The sounds of liquor bottles being popped echoed, and they began drinking, mixing the powdered medicine as they pleased.
Blue Hair fed the drug to a guy who was clinging to his side like a mushroom. He placed it on a spoon like cold medicine and gently stirred it into water with his pinky finger before feeding it to him.
“Ugh….”
The guy, who was an Omega, began to lose focus in his eyes. As if truly in heat, he started rubbing his buttocks against Blue Hair’s body, making a scene.
Eun-myeong just sat crumpled in a corner like a piece of scrap tissue.
His consciousness was shattering like shards of glass. Occasionally, the realization that he had to get up and return to the hotel surfaced, but he couldn’t put any strength into his toes. His vision began to fade.
Vrrr, vrrr. His cell phone rang. As he slowly slid his hand into his pocket and pulled it out, a call was coming through. Eun-myeong slowly read the caller’s name. Boss.
He tried to press the call button, but his finger slipped several times. Finally, with a firm press, he succeeded in answering.
“Bo….”
He tried to call him Boss. Eun-myeong had so much he wanted to say. But his pronunciation kept slipping.
Boss, Boss… please come pick me up. My head hurts so much it feels like it’s splitting, I’m scared, I want to go back to the room and sleep in bed, if you feel like it, please hold me again…
But the only sound Eun-myeong could produce was something like this.
“Boss….”
As he called out desperately to the man,
—You’re not there?
A voice returned. It was a terribly low, eerie, and chilling voice, the kind that would be heard in a deserted abandoned factory.
—You lied to me again.
The man’s voice was intermittently cut off by the boisterous noise surrounding him. Eun-myeong wanted to make an excuse. He wanted to say that he didn’t lie on purpose, but that there were circumstances.
The strength kept leaving his tongue. His head kept dropping forward, over and over.
…And then.
“Who is this?”
A shadow cast over Eun-myeong’s head.
“What are you doing here, cutie?”
In his dizzy vision, a blue color wavered. It wasn’t a clear light like a wave, but a color so excessively bright it pierced the eyes. It was that Blue Hair from before.
What a truly annoying bastard, Eun-myeong grumbled internally.
“Hurry up and stuff me from below, okay? Stuff me until I’m a rag, bang bang.”
The one speaking such vulgar words with a twisted tongue while clinging tightly to such a man was that pretty boy. Having been given the aphrodisiac, he had lost all sense of propriety and was rubbing his buttocks against Blue Hair’s instep.
“Ah, you, just fuck off for a second.”
Blue Hair gave the Omega a sharp nudge to the back of the head with his elbow. The Omega let out a groan and collapsed to the floor.
“Who is it? A boyfriend?”
Then, Blue Hair began to stroke Eun-myeong’s hair.
“Truly a nuisance.”
He intended to keep it to himself, but in his intoxication, the words slipped out.
“Bwahaha, look at him throwing a fit, so fucking cute.”
Blue Hair laughed so hard he bent at the waist. I don’t want to talk. Eun-myeong slowly turned his eyes away. But the cell phone he had been holding was suddenly snatched away.
“Give me my phone!”
Eun-myeong reached upward, asking for it back. However, due to the height difference, his hand couldn’t possibly reach.
“Boss?”
After reading the saved name on the phone, Blue Hair’s eyes widened.
“Hey, fuck! Are you being sponsored?”
At the loud exclamation, the other guys turned their attention this way.
“What? Sponsored?”
“Wow, this is my first time seeing a sponsored kid in real life.”
“Hey, but that must be convenient. If he’s a Beta, he won’t even get pregnant.”
They added comments one by one. The following words felt like they were repeatedly slapping Eun-myeong’s cheeks.
A brief silence followed, and from somewhere, the sound of someone swallowing hard was heard.
“This is fucking hilarious. So you were really just playing hard to get?”
Blue Hair burst into laughter and shoved Eun-myeong’s body backward. Before he knew it, Eun-myeong fell helplessly beside the sofa.
Blue Hair immediately pounced on top of him.