Chapter 43: I may not look it but it’s true

Chapter 43 - I may not look it but it's true Okay, I have no idea where I took up that courage to speak all that nonsense to that mad man but one thing was for sure. He had taken an interest in me. There was passion blazing in his eyes and his curiosity about me was at its peak. "How did I not know that the Omega I put my money into has such a way with words?" He asked. "You amaze me, honestly. I came up here thinking I would once again see your flustered and scared self but to think you would sharpen your claws while in the bathroom... You're truly a wonder. Where did your fear run to, scared kitten?" He finally let go of my chin and caressed my cheek, his gloves rubbing me the wrong way. If it were his bare hands, then it would've definitely felt warm, but I did not feel anything because of his gloves. "Your Pheromones said it all. It said you were scared of the man before me even before you admitted it, so why do I no longer sense that fear?" He asked and I gulped. Was this another test? I know I had gotten him to have interest in me but it doesn't mean he'll change his old ways. He was still looking for ways to mess with me. "When in the bathroom, I asked myself why I was so scared of my master? And if I needed to be scared of him? You were nice and I..." I shook my head. "I concluded that it was just my imagination and I had been scared for nothing. So, I decided it wasn't ideal to be scared of my master. After all, he was one of the people who saved me from my condemned fate. So... Instead of being scared of him..." I grabbed his hand and looked him straight in the eye, showing him my 'deep admiration' and 'gratitude' for how he changed my life. "I would honor my master and adore him." "Ah, you're going to adore me? How peculiar or you." He said and chuckled. "But how do you plan to do that?" "Sorry to say but I have not the slightest clue," I said and cleared my throat. "But I plan to do the best of my abilities and make you happy so... Please relay all of your concerns to me because... I am a very good listener." Jin-Yeok looked at me, dazed for a few seconds and then he burst out laughing. I know, even I would burst into laughter after hearing what I said. I tried to exclude the part that I would help him relieve his desire as an Alpha to the best of my ability so he wouldn't mistake my intentions for me submitting my body to him. That would just make things complicated. "You said you're a good listener and I should relay all my problems to you?" He asked and I nodded. "I may not look it but it's true." "What? Are you a therapist or something?" He asked and I darted my eyes away. "No, but if you'd like to think of me like that, even better." "Then are you able to provide verbal solutions after listening to me?" He asked but I went silent. There was something Jin-Yeok did not know. In the near future, the 'drugs' he was taking would lead to his condemnation. Right, here's something you should know about. Let me start with Jin-Yeok's past. Jin-Yeok was an illegitimate child born from an Italian mother to the master of the Shin family. And we all know how illegitimate children are often treated. They're mistreated, condemned, and, most times, neglected. To make matters worse, Jin-Yeok was such a gloomy child whose eyes held no light or vigor. So, he was fun to pick on by the kids of his stepmother. He was just a quiet, gloomy kid who didn't have anything to live for until he met 'her' who climbed into the compound through the tree outside whose branch extended over the fence. She fell directly on top of him and even though she was hurting, she was smiling so brightly and said these words, "Wow, your eyes are green. They're so pretty but I bet they'd look even prettier if you smiled." Yeah, it was the old classic plot where the gloomy and abandoned kid gets a positive comment for the first time that changes his life. Ah, what was I talking about again? Ah, right. Jin-Yeok tried to smile from then on. He asked himself several times why he was trying so hard to smile when he heard the words from a girl he had never seen before. She was a stranger. But strangely, her words left a huge impact on his life, and he broke free from his gloomy self. He started smiling, and this infuriated his stepmother and her kids even more. No matter what they did, he kept smiling and started to act a little more brilliantly. The worst they could do was kill him but since they didn't even have the guts to do so, he decided he would be the one to kill them first. A little bizarre, right? But that was how he cultivated his mind, keeping his inner demon in check while smiling to the public to hide his true intentions until the day he was finally able to get rid of his siblings one by one till the only one left opposing him was his mother. Now, it would only be normal to point fingers at Jin-Yeok for all this mishap, but who would dare do that when he was such a sweet and cheerful soul? The image he had cultivated in the public helped him a lot while keeping his evil in the dark. He joined the underworld and made his way to the top after much effort. He was a madman who ran around killing people unrestrained whenever he felt like it. That identity clashed with his pure identity, and he noticed he was often getting angry for no reason, so he began to take sedatives. The sedatives calmed him down, and there were no side effects. He was able to live both identities without an issue but in the near future, he would understand that the symptoms have been accumulating for quite a while and would explode like a bomb had been set off in him, causing him to kill everyone in the area including the girl he treasured. And I know I said the author did not put too much emphasis on the other characters and wrote the story from Jo-Pil's point of view, but the reason why we were able to know all this was because, at that time, Jo-Pil had been in the building. He watched Jin-Yeok go mad, and the way he was able to save himself was through the high-voltage teaser he started carrying around at that time of the novel. Yeah, so many things happened, leading him to carry a teaser around, but I don't think that's going to happen while I'm in this body.