Don't You Need an Omega Lucky Charm - Chapter 9.1

Cha Jeongwon swept his eyes over the inside of the elevator with an expressionless face, as usual.

 

He looked at Haon. That was all.

 

“Do you live here?”

 

Was it because he was surprised? In his head, he thought he should greet him calmly, but Haon’s mouth blurted out different words first.

 

“What a coincidence. I live here too.”

 

This was sincere. He had no idea at all that he lived in the same building as Cha Jeongwon.

Cha Jeongwon knitted his brows as if displeased with something.

 

“Aren’t you getting on? Then I’m closing the door.”

 

Haon gently pressed the close button. The moment the door was closing, a hand reached in swiftly from outside and firmly grabbed the door. The sensor reacted and the door opened again.

 

Cha Jeongwon entered the elevator. He then stood close to the door and turned around.

 

Soon the door closed and it began to go straight down.

 

Haon pressed his body into the corner of the elevator as if he were going to become wallpaper. With two people riding, the space felt much narrower.

 

“I believe I warned you.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

Haon raised his head reflexively.

 

“Loitering around isn’t going to change anything.”

Cha Jeongwon said flatly with his gaze fixed straight ahead. That tone of voice felt even colder instead.

 

“When did I ever loiter around?”

 

An aggrieved feeling burst out on its own.

 

He was the one who went so far as to overhaul his own moving routes to desperately avoid him. Loitering, of all things.

 

“The library. The cafeteria. The classroom. The elevator.”

 

He pointed them out one by one.

 

“You followed me everywhere I went. Are you pretending that’s a coincidence? I saw everything, including how you panicked and rushed.”

 

As he continued speaking, his gaze touched Haon’s finger. So he saw him get hurt too.

 

“Throwing your body around like that must be your hobby. It makes me very uncomfortable just watching.”

 

A very subtle trace of laughter was mixed in at the end of his words. It was close to a sneer.

“It’s not that…”

 

Haon muttered in frustration.

 

All of that happened because he was trying to avoid him and things got twisted up, it really was just a coincidence.

 

“Are you going to pretend you’re fine again?”

 

“It’s true that I got hurt, though.”

 

“It’s because you move so recklessly.”

 

Haon’s mouth gaped open as he tried somehow to clear up this misunderstanding.

 

Talking about this was making him speechless. Was he scolding him right now?

 

“Senior, listen to what I have to say carefully, carefully!”

 

Haon tried to calm his rising excitement and explain somehow.

 

At that moment, the floor vibrated subtly.

 

Cha Jeongwon’s familiar pheromones slowly spread inside the narrow space.

 

‘Ah, here it goes again.’

 

Even as he tried to endure it while looking only at the floor, his body would not obey. Trying to take shallow breaths only made him dizzier.

 

“Senior, it’s all a misunderstanding. It’s not that I followed you around, and before that, your pheromones a bit…”

 

It was then.

 

Along with a short vibration, the elevator came to a sudden halt. The two raised their heads at the same time.

 

The floor indicator light flickered between 5 and 4.

 

“…No way.”

 

Haon muttered to himself unconsciously.

A squeaking sound came from above his head.

 

The ceiling light was fine. Instead, a sound like a warning beep soon rang out.

 

“It stopped.”

 

Cha Jeongwon said calmly. Saying it as if it were nothing made it even scarier.

 

“I-It should be fine. It will move again soon.”

 

Unlike Cha Jeongwon, Haon was experiencing a situation like this for the first time. Haon extended his finger toward the emergency button.

 

While he hesitated over whether to press it or not, thud, the elevator shook again.

 

This time, Haon almost lost his balance and slipped as well.

 

Instinctively, he reached out his hand, but what he grabbed was not the handrail attached to the elevator wall, but Cha Jeongwon’s shirt.

 

“Ah!”

 

Haon fell straight forward like that. Something hard yet soft touched his face.

 

“S-Sorry…”

 

Haon’s voice trailed off.

 

Breathing mixed together right in front of him.

 

What filled Haon’s field of vision was Cha Jeongwon’s neck and jawline. The hand he raised in the heat of the moment was resting on Cha Jeongwon’s chest.

 

“If you’re going to hold onto something, hold the wall. Don’t cling to me.”

 

A heavily dropping voice. Hearing it from up close, even its temperature seemed to have dropped.

 

“The elevator pushed me first.”

 

It was such a clueless excuse that he himself felt like he didn’t know what he was talking about.

 

Cha Jeongwon looked down at him for a moment and then let out a very subtle sigh.

 

“Just press the emergency button.”

 

As if his sigh were a signal, Haon’s body popped up. Haon barely grabbed hold of his sanity and pressed the emergency button firmly.

 

After a moment, a woman’s voice mixed with static came from the speaker.

 

Yes, what is the problem

 

“E-Excuse me. The elevator…, it stopped in the middle.”

 

His voice was half an octave higher than usual.

 

Haon, who glanced back briefly, muttered only inside his mind.

 

To be trapped together with Cha Jeongwon, Haon’s face turned pale white.

 

‘Am I caught up in Cha Jeongwon’s bad luck right now, or did I catch it from him?’

 

He was not sure, but it was not the time to figure that out either, so he forcefully suppressed his thoughts.