Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 14.1
As if most of the people in the pub shared the same impression as Ha-on, they began whispering while looking back and forth between Cha Jeongwon and Cha Seojun.
Ha-on lightly waved his hand toward Cha Seojun while muttering an inaudible monologue under his breath.
“How is this working out?”
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“Senior Cha Jeongwon!”
The freshmen’s reaction toward Cha Jeongwon was explosive.
When a freshman sitting in the front row sprang up to his feet, other freshmen next to him began to stand up as if riding the momentum.
“He really came!”
“Crazy. He is even more handsome in real life.”
They were practically like people who had seen a celebrity.
To the point that the word welcome party lost its meaning, the atmosphere became almost like Cha Jeongwon’s fan meeting. When someone cheered from that far end, the sound of laughter was heard from here and there.
Riding that surging air, Kim Hyeongyu stepped forward.
As if he should step up at times like this, he raised both hands high and calmed down the excited freshmen.
“Now, now. Quiet. Quiet.”
As the murmuring gradually settled down, only then did he speak toward Cha Jeongwon and Cha Seojun with a bright face.
“I knew you would come. Hi to you too, Seojun.”
“I had a really hard time bringing my older brother.”
Cha Seojun replied from the side while tilting his head back slightly.
His tone of voice was grumbling, but his expression was a smiling face, so the person listening did not feel too bad either. His slightly raised corners of the mouth and lowered outer corners of the eyes suited each other strangely well.
Although he said he was tired in words, it felt like he would blend in among people in no time.
Cha Seojun’s gaze naturally drifted to the side. He very subtly pointed with his chin toward Cha Jeongwon standing beside him.
Thanks to that, their similarities and differences came into view together.
Their straight, neat nose bridges as well as distinct facial features were similar, but their atmospheres were different.
If Cha Jeongwon was a firmly tempered blade, Cha Seojun was as if it had been wrapped once in silk over top. Their outlines were similar, but it was a face that made people less nervous by emphasizing softness.
“Good job.”
Kim Hyeongyu patted Cha Seojun’s shoulder and then looked at Cha Jeongwon.
His eyes were full of expectation.
“Let’s sit together over here.”
The seat Kim Hyeongyu pointed to with his chin was right in the middle of the pub.
The moment he sat in that seat, it meant becoming the main character of today’s welcome party.
Even before sitting down, an atmosphere felt as if cheers would burst out once more already. It was like a balloon right before popping.
Cha Jeongwon’s gaze briefly brushed past that seat. Just by him placing his eyes there, expectant breathing was heard from that side.
However, Cha Jeongwon turned his shoulders very naturally.
It was a sign that he would go somewhere else. An implicit refusal was clear.
“Huh?”
Air hissed out of the swollen balloon.
Kim Hyeongyu’s expression hardened for a moment, but he soon reclaimed a smiling face. Then he naturally set the mood again.
In the meantime, Cha Jeongwon made his way through the crowd leisurely.
Ha-on, who was following the direction he walked with his eyes, placed down the glass held in his hand very slowly.
With every step Jeongwon took, a new sense of tension was created. It was clearly a rubber balloon that had lost its air. Now it felt like pulling that rubber tautly.
‘No way, surely.’
There really was no way. In this wide pub, there was no reason to come over to this side of all places.
Besides, his table was far away from the table where the freshmen were sitting. He had chosen a corner seat on purpose.
‘He will just sit at another table.’
Ha-on picked up his glass for no reason once more and then set it down. Beer foam slid down the glass.
Although he tried to turn his gaze elsewhere, Ha-on’s attention was continuously directed toward Cha Jeongwon.
Then, realizing that Cha Jeongwon was truly approaching this side, he froze.
Thud.
The sound of placing a glass down on the table echoed.
Cha Jeongwon sat across from Ha-on.
As if he were a person scheduled to sit here from the very beginning, there was no particular movement either.
“There are plenty of seats…”
Ha-on muttered very quietly. It was an honest remark, surprising even to himself.
“I didn’t hear you. Say it louder.”
When Cha Jeongwon looked at him while raising his eyebrow ever so slightly, Ha-on hurriedly raised his glass.
“It’s nothing.”
He turned his head under the pretense of drinking beer.
‘You said you weren’t coming.’
He was a person who had flatly stated he would not come.
It seemed he was dragged along because of Cha Seojun, but if he came, he could sit somewhere else.
Why here, of all places?
Why across from me, of all places?
In one way or another, his mind felt uncomfortable.
Ha-on’s gaze naturally turned toward the main culprit who brought Cha Jeongwon along.
Whether he had been looking only at Ha-on from the start, the eyes of the two met in midair.
‘Cha Seojun, you…’
At Ha-on’s sharp gaze, Cha Seojun hesitated for a moment and then waved his hand as if glad to see him.
Even though he hadn’t seen him in a long time, the fact that he was acting cute with his still large and threatening body hadn’t changed.
Cha Seojun, wondering how he interpreted Ha-on’s gaze, tried to come over toward Ha-on’s direction. Ha-on glared his eyes as if to restrain him.
Don’t come. Attention is heavily focused here because of Cha Jeongwon as it is, so don’t come too.
However, Cha Seojun smiled even more brightly.
