Virtual Alpha and I

hing that came up to my mind when I heard Narumi’s story.
If they both thought of their partner as the one for them, it must be fate.

“Well, I never regretted my decision to become a pair with him, and Ten is very important to me.
I’m also aware that he treasured me too.
I think that’s about enough for a pair.”

“—How long have you two become a pair?”

“It’s been almost ten years.
We hit it off and started dating right after entering high school, then we became a pair after we both turned eighteen.
That brings back memories.”

It was way longer than I had imagined.

Moreover, they started dating when they were younger than me.
Maybe that’s why they have such a stable relationship.

I just saw them for a short time, but they seemed to not hold anything back with each other. 

“By the way, you said you go to a beta school.
You didn’t meet any alpha, right? What do you do about it?”

“About what?”

“When you’re in heat.
Do you just drink the meds and sleep?”

“…..What do omegas usually do during heat?”

“Hmm, in my case Ten has always been by my side since my first heat.
I’ve never had any problem with that, though.
It varies between people.
If there are people who do this and that with many partners, there are people like you who only drink meds and stay put.”

“This and that…”

“Haha.
I knew Sou would react that way.”

Perhaps he had anticipated what my reaction would be, Narumi said that and laughed.
I couldn’t really laugh about it, though. 

I’ve never talked about heat so openly like that before.
Because this topic is something I’d rather avoid.
I didn’t really like talking about sexual things.
Just as expected, I felt a bit put off by Narumi’s words.

Narumi patted me on the shoulder as if knowing I felt turned off.
He grinned, and I could tell that he was trying to lighten the atmosphere.

“…Well, Isn’t it fine for you to just stay this way? I think so.”

“Stay this way?”

“I mean staying as pure as you are now.”

This time, Narumi patted me gently on the head.
It felt like that hand was stroking me.

As I made an indescribable expression on my face while thinking about the meaning of Narumi’s words, my phone vibrated to inform an incoming message.

“Hm? An incoming message?”

“Ah— …Maybe.”

“Go ahead and look at it.
I’m a bit thirsty so I’ll go buy some drinks.”

Narumi said that and left the room, only taking his wallet with him.

As I was left alone, I pulled out my phone from my pocket.
The message was from my parent.
I replied “Yeah.” to the message that asked whether I’d have dinner or not.

While I was on my phone, I opened the chatting app with Yuugo.
Lately, it has become my habit to open the app.
Even if I didn’t have anything in particular that I want to ask, I ended up sending a message to Yuugo like this.

[What do you think about a pair, Yuugo?]

[Ah, no.
There’s just someone I know that was an omega, and I just met that person’s pair.]

[Yeah.
He seemed to hate me, though.]

Seriously, that was the only way to describe Amagi’s reaction to me.

He had glared at me from the start, and he always furrowed his eyebrows as if to show his annoyance.

No matter how I look at it, the fact that he hurriedly left after barely saying a word to me was the proof that he hated me.