The Top Omega Hunter Wants a Quiet Life [BL]-Chapter 36: Ch : What is this Monster? - Part 4

The hopeful look in Rhiner’s eyes almost made me feel bad for him. But there was no way I was going to partner up with him when I had already rejected two other people.

"Ah, I am afraid someone else already asked me about it. But I am going to be ’sick’ during that time, so I can’t make it."

I told the party and half of them looked annoyed and surprised.

"How can you say you are going to be ’sick’ already? You can’t know... ohhh."

Slowly, everyone realized that the ’sickness’ I mentioned was not actual sickness but my heat, and they all went red-faced, betraying their youth.

Only Rhiner looked professional. He looked a little disappointed but also relieved.

"I see. In that case, I guess I should find someone else to participate in my team. But do let me know if you change your mind. I can always have two civilians on my team."

Rhiner assured me and his team protested against this. But it was all done in jest.

They seemed like a close team which made me almost envious. Compared to Rhiner, all I did with my team was bicker and ask them to stop being overprotective.

’In the end, they all died and left me all alone here. I wonder if things would have been different if we had been close....’

Sometimes, I did regret the past and how things ended. But there was not much I could do to change the past anyway. So I decided to focus on the present.

I turned on the T.V. until it was time to open the café and the early morning did not have much news coverage... or so I thought. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

But as I flickered across the channels, I felt my hands freeze on a local news channel which showed the footage of a national museum nearby.

The museum had a sudden dungeon break that was handled quickly. But that was not what made me pause.

What made me pause was the face of the corpses looking back at me. They all looked so familiar to me and were human... or at least, the face was.

Jun, a female beta hunter. A-ranked and a part of my previous party that went to the final dungeon with me, stared back at me.

But if that was not disturbing enough, the message written in blood sure was.

[You shall come back and return our lord to us]

The message was cryptic and made no sense. But somewhere in my mind, I recalled the shaman in the dungeon and the story he told me.

At that time, that monster had told me that I ’helped’ their god return and break free, and I had chalked it up as nonsense... so was this nonsense as well?

’Or maybe, this is a message for someone else and the face is just a coincidence. I don’t have enough information to conclude anything right now.’

No matter what the reason was, my interest had been piqued. My curiosity told me to check out what was happening, but to do that, I needed dungeon access.

This would not have been a problem in the past when there was no check on the dungeons, but currently, there was too much security around dungeons. So I needed to find another way in...

’Maybe I should participate in the hunter’s championship. It will grant me access to a dungeon... don’t be stupid. This has nothing to do with you.’

I reminded myself as I forced myself to look away and work.

The fact that only a small and local channel was talking about this incident told me that there was something fishy going on around here.

There was no need for me to pay attention to such topics.

However, no matter how much I knew that this was a trap, I felt my mind heading back to the topic at hand.

Even work was not able to distract me from thinking about the monsters wearing Jun’s face.

"Kyle, are you alright? You look... angry and agitated. You are also not smiling as much as you used to. Are you sure you are fine?"

Emma asked me and I tried to force my smile on my face. But just as I tried, Jun’s face flashed in front of my eyes and the smile faded away.

"I am fine. I am just a little tired. I think I am coming down with something. Maybe sleeping would make me feel better."

I told Emma and she looked doubtful.

Thankfully, Theo walked over toward me and placed his arms around me before Emma could make another observation.

"Looks like Kyle is tired right now. I will take him back to his room and tuck him into bed. You don’t have to worry about anything, Emma."

Emma made a worried face, but ultimately, she decided that what Theo said was right. So she left things up to him.

"Alright, you both can go to bed now. I will clean up here with Ben and Dan. Kyle, tell me if you need anything from me."

Emma softly told me before she went back to work.

She was an amazing person to be able to handle the café as well as her employees this well. Most places wouldn’t have treated me half as kindly as Emma did.

Unfortunately, my problem was not one I could share with her. Especially not without telling her everything about myself.

"Well, shall we head to your room now? You look tired enough to collapse any second, and that’s the last thing I want for you."

Theo told me with a smile on his face. But concern was also evident on his face just as much.

I nodded and allowed him to drag me to bed. However, I drew the line at him joining me.

"B-But Kyle, won’t you feel safer having me around?"

The alpha asked, his puppy-like eyes widening as they looked at me. He looked really cute at the moment.

Unfortunately, it had no effect on me at the moment.

"Theo, you need to cultivate a habit of sleeping in your own room from now onwards. You can’t be too reliant on me, or you would face troubles in life when you need to be independent."

I reminded him but Theo looked confused.

"Why would I need to be independent from you? Are you going to abandon me? Please don’t do that. I won’t know what to do if you do. I-I might end up doing something wrong and I..."

The more Theo spoke, the more I felt his pheromones going out of control.

My body and mind felt intoxicated as I smelled those pheromones, but that was not all I felt.

There was a weird power coming from the alpha that made my instincts scream ’trouble’ at me. I had a feeling that something bad would happen if I don’t stop Theo now.

"H-Hey-! I am not abandoning you. I am just giving you a likely scenario... don’t get even angrier... Theo, you need to listen to me."

I tried to calm Theo down, but my attempts ended up worsening the situation as Theo placed his hands over his ears and refused to listen to a word anyone had to say.