Chapter 7

When I finished changing my clothes and left the changing room, I saw Narumi standing in the hallway.

There was also someone next to him. It was someone I’ve never seen before. They’re not someone from our circle for sure.

That person noticed that I was looking at him and turned his gaze toward me. As soon as our eyes met, his eyebrows furrowed as if to express his annoyance.

Narumi also seemed to notice my gaze.

He smiled and waved his hand in the air, as if he was happy to see me. The difference in the temperature between them was amazing.

“Ten, don’t glare at him. He’s my cute little friend.”

“…You hugged him earlier.”

“Just that much is fine, isn’t it? I just want to touch a young and soft body once in a while. Ten’s is so hard after all. Ah, that wasn’t a dirty joke, okay?”

The other person seemed to be angry, but Narumi was just like usual. He smacked the shoulder of the other person with a lot of force while laughing joyfully.

…Doesn’t that hurt?

The man called “Ten” was a head taller than Narumi. He has a big body and looked like he would do some kind of martial art.

He’s definitely the type of guy you don’t want to get into a fight with.

“Besides, Sou is the same as me. So don’t intimidate him like that.”

“…Is that so.”

“That’s right. Sheesh, you’re too jealous of every little thing, Ten. Don’t blame me if I get tired of you because of that.”

“That won’t happen.”

“That’s a big confidence you have there.”

They seemed to be bickering, but Narumi looked happy like usual.

But, the conversation just now. Jealous? That means that person is—

“…Is he your partner, Narumi?”

“Yup. He’s my pair, Amagi. I call him Ten.”

“…I’m Isurugi Amagi.”

—A pair.

I froze still when I heard that word.

A pair is a contractual relationship between alpha and omega.

The relationship is formed when alpha bites the nape of an omega under a certain condition during the heat. Omega will make the alpha who bites them become their mate for life. Then their bodies will change. When that happens, omega won’t come into heat or release their pheromones to other alpha.

In exchange, it was said that if omega lost their alpha, they wouldn’t be able to live long. That was why an alpha pair was the most absolute existence for omega.

That person is Narumi’s alpha pair.

Now that he mentioned it, he really has the body of an alpha.

That hard-to-approach atmosphere must be because he was an alpha. When I’m conscious that the other person was an alpha, it simply made me don’t want to get close. There was also that incident that happened the other day.

I’m still a bit afraid of alpha.

But, since he had just told me his name, I couldn’t just walk away without saying anything.

I gathered up my courage and took a step toward Narumi and the other person.

“Don’t come any closer than that.”

“Huh…?”

Even though I was still two meters away from them, Amagi said that to me in a cold voice. I was surprised by that voice and stood still.

It wasn’t just me who was surprised, Narumi was too. He blinked his eyes and looked at Amagi.

Amagi looked away from me unnaturally and frowned again just like earlier.

His face clearly showed his annoyance.

I wonder why. Did I do something wrong?

“What’s wrong, Ten?”

“No… you-”

“…?”

“Nothing. I’ll be waiting outside.”

“Huh, wait… Ten?”

Amagi said that and turned his back to us, then left. It happened so fast that even Narumi didn’t have the time to stop him.

But, what’s going on all of a sudden? Was it because of me after all?

When he looked at me, he clearly made a displeased face. For a moment, he seemed like he was about to say something to me, but then he stopped and even left.

He seemed to hate me a lot.

Narumi also looked puzzled as he watched him walk away.

“I wonder what’s wrong with him.”

“I’m sorry, maybe… I-“

“No, I don’t think it’s your fault… But, I really wonder why. Did he get a stomachache?”

“…Are you sure you’re not going after him?”

“It’s fine, it’s fine. It’s not like he asked me to come with him, anyway. He said he’d be waiting so I’ll make him wait. Besides, I haven’t finished the laundry yet.”

Now that he mention it, there were laundry baskets at Narumi’s feet. Inside were the uniforms of all the circle members.

Laundry is the duty of the losing team. A punishment game, so to speak. Narumi’s team was the one that lose the most today, so he must have been put in charge of it.

“That’s right, Sou-chan. Give me a hand.”

“Huh…?”

“I also want to talk about something with you. Are you busy?”

“…I’m not really busy.”

He said he wanted to talk about something?

Could it be about Amagi?

I didn’t have anything to do even if I rushed to go home anyway. I nodded a little.

“Then, take care of this.”

Narumi said that and pushed one of the laundry baskets at his feet toward me.