RP Chapter 9

Chapter 9 – Latent Omega

Volume 3, Resonance 1, Part 3

Novel Title: 共鳴熱情 オメガバース (Resonance Passion: Omegaverse)

Author：岩本薫 (Iwamoto Kaoru)

Illustrator：蓮川愛 (Hasukawa Ai)

Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)

Protagonists: MC- 遠峰一紗 (Toomine Kazusa), Lemur & ML- ゼロ (Zero)

*Please read at knoxt.space, the original site of translation. TQ*

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As Kazusa was lost in these idle thoughts, the department head stood up from his leather high-back chair. He walked around his impressive desk and gestured with one hand toward the sofa set on the right.

“Please, sit.”

“Oh, yes,” Kazusa replied.

He waited for the department head to sit on one side of the sofa before sitting across from him, with a low table between them. It was his first time sitting face-to-face, one-on-one, with the head of his department. The tension made his face break into a sweat, causing the nose pads of his glasses to slip. He quickly pushed his glasses back up with his finger while looking down.

Suddenly, Kazusa felt the weight of the department head’s gaze and raised his head. The department head’s piercing eyes were staring straight at him, a mix of mild curiosity and pity—an expression eerily similar to the one the veteran nurse had shown him earlier.

Unable to withstand the intense gaze, Kazusa forced open his dry throat and croaked out a hesitant, “Um…”

“Ah… I apologise,” the department head responded, exhaling a deep sigh. He fixed his gaze on Kazusa once more.

“―――Toomine-sensei, do you know why you’ve been called here?”

“No… I have no idea,” Kazusa answered honestly, as he truly had no clue.

“I see… According to the chief doctor, you took over the night shift last night for a resident who had the flu.”

“Yes.”

That much he remembered.

“And during your shift, you lost consciousness.”

So that’s what happened, Kazusa thought. Finally understanding the situation, he felt a slight sense of relief.

“Yeah… I have no memory of that. I assume I must have fainted, fallen, and hit my head, which led to a state of unconsciousness. While there are no obvious external injuries, I’m concerned about internal damage. I think I should get an MRI just to be safe…”

“There’s no need for that,” the department head cut in immediately, leaving Kazusa to respond with a surprised, “What?”

“What do you mean by that…?”

Ignoring Kazusa’s bewilderment, the department head’s expression shifted to something indescribably complicated. He remained silent for a moment. But then, as if coming to a conclusion, he spoke decisively.

“You didn’t hit your head. Therefore, there’s no damage to your brain.”

The certainty in the department head’s words felt off to Kazusa, and he couldn’t hold back his objection.

“Then why don’t I remember anything?”

“Because you went into heat last night.”

Kazusa’s mouth dropped open in shock.

(What did he just say?)

Heat? 

He understood the word. But couldn’t comprehend how it applied to him.

“Did I mishear? Did you just say I went into heat?”

The department head nodded silently in response, which astonished Kazusa. He hadn’t misheard?

(No, no, no, no…)

Half in disbelief, he argued inwardly. What is this man talking about?

Kazusa almost began to worry that the department head had hit his head instead.

As much as he didn’t want to defy his superior, he couldn’t stay silent any longer.

“I’m a Beta,” Kazusa stated, as if declaring the obvious. It was as natural to him as saying ‘I’m human’ or ‘I’m male’. The sheer certainty of this fact left him no room to imagine any disagreement. But to his utter astonishment, the department head shook his head.

“To be precise, you were a Beta.”

The tense shift to past tense made Kazusa blink rapidly in confusion.

“Last night, you went into heat in the examination room. A nurse in the adjacent treatment room noticed an unusual scent and entered the examination room. Nearly simultaneously with her entry, you lost consciousness. The room was so filled with pheromones that it became stifling,” the department head explained. His tone was deliberately detached, as if stripping away any emotion while recounting the events from last night into this morning. Kazusa listened, feeling dazed.

Despite having been desperate to know what had happened, the words simply passed from one ear out the other, unable to register. It all felt so distant, as if it hadn’t actually happened to him.

“You were unconscious and taken to the treatment room. Several doctors, myself included, were called in urgently. After arriving, an obstetrics specialist suspected the sudden onset of heat and took a blood sample. A category determination test was performed, and it was confirmed that you are a latent Omega.”

“…Latent… Omega?”

Kazusa repeated the words in a shaky voice.

He had learned in medical school that there were cases where people, originally classified as Alpha or Beta in their postnatal category tests, later entered heat during adolescence and were discovered to be Omegas instead. These individuals, possessing a rare condition, were commonly referred to as ‘latent Omegas’.

(Am I really one of those latent Omegas? No way… This can’t be happening…)

He couldn’t believe it. He was utterly stunned. As he sat in shock, the department head asked, “Your parents were both Betas, right?”

“Y-Yes,” Kazusa stammered.

“That makes this an extremely rare case.”

Typically, the conditions for giving birth to an Alpha were if both parents were Alpha, or if one parent was an Alpha. The same held true for Betas and Omegas. However, in rare instances, a Beta or Omega child might be born even if both parents were Alphas or Betas. This could occur due to a phenomenon known as atavism—a reversion to traits of an earlier ancestor.

(So, I’m a genetic mutation from atavism and… also a latent Omega?)

The idea that someone like him, who had lived an ordinary life as a Beta, could possess such an unusual genetic trait was far too overwhelming to accept right away.

“However… even if I were a ‘latent Omega,’ it should have been detected by adolescence. I’m already thirty,” Kazusa protested desperately, hoping the department head would deny it. He wanted to hear, ‘Then this doesn’t apply to you’. But that hope was quickly shattered.

“The specialist in obstetrics also said that this is an exceptionally rare case. In fact, they’re hoping to study you as a subject and write a paper on it.”

“…”

The sudden realisation that he had become an unexpected research subject left Kazusa speechless.

“I understand this is hard to believe all at once,” the department head continued, standing up. He walked back to his desk and returned with a file in hand.

“Here’s the data from your blood test.”

It seemed the department head thought Kazusa, as a fellow doctor, would only accept hard evidence. With trembling hands, Kazusa took the file and pulled out the report. He confirmed his name and ID number. It was undoubtedly his own data.

Next, he checked the results, which unmistakably showed that he was an Omega. The irrefutable evidence stared back at him. And he gazed at it in a daze.

“…”

For the first time, Kazusa fully understood how patients might feel when they receive a terminal diagnosis.

“Right now, you’re under a temporary suppressant drip to control the heat. There may be side effects. But honestly, this case is so rare that we have no way of predicting what might happen to you going forward.”

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*Translator’s Note: Toomine-sensei, didn’t you wonder before if you’ll have an exciting life if you are an omega? 😅 -K

Next update: 2025.03.25

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