"So did you beat him up?" asks Subaru between classes.

"No, he ran away."

"Did he? Thought I saw someone with his hair by the gate this morning."

"He wanted a rematch."

Snort. "After he ran away?"

"Dude's crazy."

"So don't go sticking your dick in it."

"I am not going to fuck an omega."

But there he is the next day. After class this time, though.

"Stop stalking me! Go home!"

"You were bitching about school so I waited until after it."

"Just go away, dude, I don't want anything to do with you."

"No! I'll keep coming here every day until you admit defeat! I will defeat all alphas!"

"...that it? Fine. I lose."

"—at least look me in the eye when you say it!" he growls, stepping up to Tōkan and grabbing him by the scruff of his T-shirt. "Or are you scared of me?"

He bats Yamada's hand away and takes a step back because pheromones or no Tōkan's mind has started to wander a bit too much whenever he's around this dude. The "addiction" theory is getting more and more likely. "I'm not scared of you."

"Then why won't you fight me!!" He doesn't get any closer but he's the birth of the phrase "if looks could kill". "All because of all that bullshit you said, your face keeps popping up in my head even though my heat is over! So I have to kill you!"

N n n n n nooooooo nope nuh uh not this shit he extremely very very much does not want to have this omega trailing after him trying to figure out that he has a crush, nope, no sir, get him the fuck outta here.

"Well, I don't want to see your face anymore," and part of that's a lie because he keeps fantasising about this shitty omega because of some Pavlovian conditioning bullshit or whatever. He will need to take an ice-cold shower after this. And destroy that cloth bag for good measure. And not jerk off for like a week. Or maybe jerk off five times a day for a week until he's got all of that horny dealt with, he's not sure. "So just fuck off and get out of my life already."

Inori opens his mouth for a retort—

—but before he can do that someone calls his name: "Hey, Yamada! Fancy meeting you here!"

He looks over Tōkan's shoulder at the source of the voice.

There's three people approaching from that direction, glaring at him. "How 'bout we finish what we started the other day?"

"...do I know you?"

Tōkan's turned around by then and is frowning at the three. "Jochi," he tells the leader of the little gang. "What are you doing here?"

"Your little boyfriend here needs to learn a lesson, Kokonoe."