# Chapter 63
“Ah, no… no. No…!!!”
Lee Ha-min had been so focused on seeing Seo Eunwoo that he hadn’t looked at Cha Yoon, but now he finally saw his condition.
“…”
He stared blankly, wondering who he had been worrying about all this time.
This seemed like a case where being alive was more pitiful.
“Eunwoo…”
“Hey. Don’t feel sorry for him just by looking at that. Do you know what that bastard did to me!”
But despite saying this, Eunwoo couldn’t remember what Cha Yoon had done to him.
All he remembered was sleeping for a very long time.
And having a strange dream.
In the dream, he met his sister.
He read a novel his sister wrote and seemed to have changed the ending.
‘Ah, right! That crazy person tried to kill Ha-min. The S-class Esper too. He wanted us to fight each other to death! Now I remember.’
He felt a surge of irritation.
To think he had longed for such a person and wanted to go back there.
“Argh!!”
“What… what’s wrong, Eunwoo?”
“Nothing. Just remembered a dream. A really annoying dream.”
Ha-min smiled broadly.
He thought only Eunwoo would vocalize his irritation about a dream in a situation like this.
“I’m glad you’re safe. You are safe, right? You’re not hurt anywhere?”
“Yeah. I think so.”
“Good. Let’s have him remove the verbal command first.”
Eunwoo stopped Ha-min.
“Don’t get close to him. You’re not an S-class Esper, so I don’t know what might happen. You’re similar to me.”
“I wonder if he placed a suggestion on me before too? Why would he do that to me when I’m a Guide?”
“I don’t know, but still, don’t go near him. He’s a perverted bastard.”
Seeing Eunwoo grab his hand to stop him, Ha-min felt an indescribable emotion.
The thought that Eunwoo had returned and was trying to protect him.
Ha-min nodded willingly.
The S-class Espers were coming anyway, so they could take care of it.
The Special Task Force members hesitated, wondering if they should step in, but remained where they were.
Having heard the conversation between the two, they understood the situation.
They had heard so much about Cha Yoon that they kept their distance and just monitored him.
And within less than five minutes, vehicles carrying the S-class Espers arrived.
They didn’t slow down until reaching the spot, and the car stopped with a tremendous noise.
The S-class Espers were in such a hurry that they seemed to be getting out even before the car stopped.
“Seo Eunwoo!!”
Byun Tae-young called out as if screaming and rushed forward, with Kyun In following.
Though he seemed a bit slower than Tae-young, it was Kyun In who embraced Eunwoo first.
Shim Woo-jin also got out of the car and approached him.
For Eunwoo, the relief of meeting S-class Espers outweighed the joy of seeing them again.
“That bastard seems to have put a suggestion on me. When I try to move away from him, my will disappears. Please fix that first.”
The faces of the S-class Espers, who had been overjoyed to see Eunwoo again, immediately changed.
Even though seeing Cha Yoon’s face, beaten to a pulp by Eunwoo, should have calmed their emotions a bit, it didn’t.
Kyun In used telekinesis to pull Cha Yoon over, and Cha Yoon flew like a feather into his grasp.
Trembling from the terrible pain felt with even the slightest movement, Cha Yoon couldn’t hold back his screams.
“I, I’ll…! I’ll catch those guys for you. The ones who demanded stabilizers while pretending to have Esper Seo Eunwoo.”
Cha Yoon barely managed to speak, and Kyun In nodded upon hearing this.
“Yes, you will. You’re going to do it anyway. You can do it after getting beaten. You need to clearly understand who you messed with. That way, other fools will learn their lesson.”
Eunwoo, who thought Kyun In might stop because of Cha Yoon’s words, finally felt relieved.
Kyun In, still angry at Cha Yoon, threw him against the building wall, and something shocking happened.
Eunwoo’s body flew away as if sliding on ice.
At first, Ha-min and the S-class Espers were confused about what was happening, but the next moment they understood.
“That, that son of a bitch…!!”
They understood Eunwoo’s earlier words about not being able to move away from Cha Yoon.
Ha-min went to Cha Yoon and kicked his body.
“Remove the suggestion you put on Eunwoo right now! Remove it completely. All of it, including the ones you put on before!”
Cha Yoon wanted to comply, but ultimately couldn’t.
He lost consciousness from the impact.
***
Yoon I-jae appeared with a full face of displeasure.
He was in a bad mood, wondering why they were making him do this task.
Guiding Cha Yoon.
When Yoon I-jae heard the news that Eunwoo had been found, he couldn’t hide his irritation.
No one had been as pleased as Yoon I-jae when Eunwoo disappeared.
He had been hopeful, thinking that without Eunwoo, Ha-min and the S-class Espers might depend on him.
He had been excited about that prospect, though he thought someone as exceptional as Eunwoo might return soon. But as time passed and numerous Espers were mobilized for the search operation without finding him, his hope grew.
But finally, Ha-min, along with the Special Task Force, found him.
He had been in a bad mood since then, and suddenly received a call.
He was told to prepare for Guiding.
He had signed a contract a few days ago and decided to stay at the Center as a resident Guide.
Although the terms weren’t as good as those offered by the most prestigious multinational management companies, they weren’t bad.
The contract included options to choose between resident and non-resident status, and whether the Guide would decide their Guiding targets or accept any Esper assigned by the Center.
Naturally, accepting any Esper assigned by the Center paid more—three times more than if the Guide chose their own.
The base compensation was not small, so three times that amount was comparable to what lower-class Espers received.
Yoon I-jae had chosen the latter option, and as a result, he was now stuck guiding Cha Yoon.
The S-class Espers were there with frightening expressions.
They continued discussing something without acknowledging Yoon I-jae’s entrance.
On the bed was Cha Yoon, who looked as if he had been terribly mauled by a monster.
Although Yoon I-jae had seen countless Espers on the brink of death, this appearance was so shocking that he couldn’t remember when he had last seen such a terrible condition.
He turned his head, trying not to show his surprise.
But there was no need for that from the beginning.
No one was paying attention to him.
Yoon I-jae looked at the S-class Espers, unable to understand what they were discussing so intensely.
“We can’t stay here during the Guiding. Is it not possible to leave the room for now?”
“We tried, but it doesn’t work. The distance we can separate seems to be about two meters.”
“Damn it!!”
“Stop it. Hitting him more will just make things more complicated. First, we need to wake him up. Then have him remove the verbal command. After that, we can kill him.”
Yoon I-jae couldn’t understand what Byun Tae-young and Kyun In were talking about.
“This is really awkward. We can’t just stand here and watch them do high-level Guiding.”
The “high-level Guiding” Shim Woo-jin was referring to presumably meant sex with Cha Yoon.
“How about this? We pull the bed near the door, and we wait in the hallway. It seems like we need to maintain a distance of at least two meters.”
When Ha-min suggested this, Eunwoo clapped his hands.
“That’s better. That will work.”
“Then it’s settled. Why didn’t you think of this earlier, Ha-min?”
Kyun In spoke, then raised his hand and moved the bed where Cha Yoon was lying.
The bed moved so quickly it was hard to believe someone was on it.
“Yoon I-jae. Finish this as quickly as possible. You don’t need to save him or heal him. Just make him regain consciousness.”
After saying this, Byun Tae-young left with the others.
Yoon I-jae was flabbergasted.
He wondered why they treated Ha-min so preciously while treating him so differently.
His anger now turned toward Eunwoo.
‘Die! Just die!!’
He thought that without Eunwoo, he could get close to Ha-min and manipulate him, but ever since Eunwoo got close to Ha-min, things had come to this.
That was the conclusion he reached after much thought.
If it weren’t for Eunwoo, Ha-min wouldn’t have acted so boldly and arrogantly in front of him…
‘How did things end up like this?’
It should have been a simple matter.
Things that should have unfolded smoothly.
Yet every time they seemed within reach, they slipped away at the last moment.
This time was no different.
He had heard rumors that the Center’s research team was developing a Guide stabilizer, but didn’t know the details.
When he heard that the S-class Espers, who had suddenly begun acting as protectors of Guide rights, were secretly creating stabilizers, he had mixed feelings.
Stabilizer.
It could liberate Guides while also potentially pushing them to the brink.
For Yoon I-jae, who as a high-ranking Guide had few complaints about his treatment at the Center, the negative aspects stood out much more.
Still, he initially didn’t think much of it, believing that stabilizers couldn’t replace Guides.
But when he heard that the effects produced when a C-class Guide does Guiding through physical intimacy could be replicated with the stabilizer, he felt dizzy.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
