[Cover art from the Webtoon: Renegade]

Knock, knock.

Your knuckles rap firmly on the door, you glance at your phone double checking that this is the right apartment. You needed money so you deliver pizzas, simple as that. Well sometimes it wasn’t that simple.

When the door opens after a couple seconds you see a young man with fluffy orange hair and freckles mottling across his countenance. Warm olive eyes meet yours as you hold the hot pizza container in your grasp.

“I’ve got your pizza sir.” You state plainly, it should be thoroughly unmistakable why you’re here- given your uniform and a slim cardboard box in hand.

The guy has a weird unreadable look on his face and hasn’t spoke up yet, so you feel the urge to ask if this is even his purchase. “You did order this right? Pepperoni and mushrooms…”

Promptly he snaps out of it, and you discern his two lip piercings when he answers you.

“Uh yeah, that’s correct. But um– I don’t have the money…” He communicates somewhat awkwardly, then just as your brows begin to furrow he says,

“Can I pay another way?”

This sounds like a familiar cliché and you nearly want to groan that this delivery late in the day couldn’t just be simple and straightforward.

Before you can grumble he takes off his chain necklace that has a talon like pendant on the end of it, dangling it up in front of your vision. Gently it begins to sway to and fro from his fingers, the light glittering off its surfaces.

This caught you off guard since you were expecting the banal phrase from erotic media about “paying with one’s body”. But the man wasn’t making any flirtatious remarks or romantic advances at you, instead he casually suggested,

“Can you look at this real quick for me?”

Curiosity was gleaming in his verdant eyes as he kept his necklace swinging back and forth.