Inori drops Tōkan back to his feet and starts stalking off again. "I decide what happens to me. You're not just an alpha, you're you. And I'm me, not just an omega." He stops walking again and turns around, lowering his mask and glaring at Tōkan. "And of all alphas I've met, you're... acceptable."

"...acceptable."

"And yeah I guess it sucks you had sex you didn't want to have, but shit's like that. I dunno what the big deal is though it's not like it means anything—"

And Tōkan finds himself kissing Inori.

Inori is not in heat. And Tōkan is not in rut. So why...?

What.

What??

What's happening, he's not in heat, he's sure of it.

And why is he kissing this shitty alpha back???

He pushes Tōkan away and takes a step back, staring at him. "What the hell! Why did you do that?"

"I—I—I—"

"Fuck off!"

And now he's running away again.

Oh he's in so much trouble.

"So it was the two of you in the storeroom last week," confirms Subaru.

"Yep."

"And he dragged you over to meet his parents."

"Mmhm."

"So that whole thing about not fucking omegas..."

He looks away. "I don't have an excuse."

Sigh. "You're not superhuman, Tōkan. He wasn't using suppressants and you were locked in a room with him. And he clearly wanted it."

"Doesn't this sound like bullshit to you? I couldn't help myself? He wanted it? Like I'm some base animal, like we didn't evolve a goddamn frontal lobe just for shit like this."

"Very enlightened of you, and also in complete denial of reality."

"I hate it."

"But you like him."

"What?"

"Maybe it started with pheromones but it's not just that anymore, is it? So you fall right into his trap."

"Subaru."

"I'm just saying, it's very convenient that this public school omega with pheromone levels off the charts can't take suppressants and then runs into the heir of the Kokonoe family—"

"We were the ones who came after him."

"So he's opportunistic. He's got a kink, he's waiting for an alpha strong enough to take him and impregnate him—"