# Chapter 66
Hajin blamed himself for not being more thorough.
“D-don’t look at me like that. This is w-what you wanted, Hajin-ssi.”
Despite Hajin’s fierce glare, Choi Jihyung reached out toward him while breathing heavily. When he grabbed Hajin’s ice-cold hand, a tingling sensation spread throughout his entire arm, and his vision turned white.
“Ugh!”
Unable to hold back, Hajin let out a groan of pain, which only made Choi Jihyung look more ecstatic. He kneaded and fondled Hajin’s corpse-like cold hand, satisfying his own desires as if it were nothing unusual.
“Hajin-ssi’s hands are so soft…”
Choi Jihyung finally lowered his face, rubbing it against Hajin’s hand before burying his face in it and breathing deeply.
Hajin grimaced at the hot, moist breath he felt on his palm.
He tried to pull away his arm, which stung with pain at every movement, but each time he tried, Choi Jihyung would grip his bloodless hand more tightly, forcing Hajin to give up.
It was beyond what could be simply described as tingling hands and feet. That stage had been passed long ago; now it felt like his hands and feet might fall off.
It would be better if all sensation disappeared, but the problem was that whenever Choi Jihyung kneaded his hands, the stinging pain would return.
“Get off…!”
Finally, Hajin, who had shed physiologically induced tears, tried to push Choi Jihyung away. Although it hurt his pride to have cried from pain at the age of thirty-two, he also hoped that the shock of making a Guide cry might make Choi Jihyung back off.
“Ah… Hajin-ssi, y-you’re so beautiful when you cry.”
But far from feeling guilty, it seemed to stimulate Choi Jihyung’s perversion even more, as he trembled in ecstasy at the sight of Hajin’s tears.
“Y-you’re crying because of m-me, right? That’s wonderful… H-Hajin-ssi, you only n-need me.”
He even pressed down on Hajin’s body and extended his tongue to lick the tear trails.
“What the…!”
Though Hajin shuddered at the sensation of the tongue and struggled despite the pain, Choi Jihyung instead grabbed Hajin’s face and methodically licked upward all the way to his eyes.
Hajin squeezed his eyes shut at the wet feeling near them.
‘Damn it…! Why can’t I guide?!’
He had been trying to guide since the moment he opened his eyes, but whatever trick had been used, guiding wouldn’t even initiate. It felt as if it was being forcibly blocked by someone.
While recoiling from Choi Jihyung, who was attached to him like he was going to lick up all his tears like a dog, Hajin continued to think.
‘Did he drug me?’
The first thing that came to mind was a drug that inhibited guiding, but Hajin shook his head.
‘No. That’s impossible.’
If he had carelessly administered a drug that caused any harm, it would be to their disadvantage. So no matter how much of a crazy, perverse bastard Choi Jihyung was, he couldn’t be that thoughtless.
‘Then could it be related to how my limbs are tied?’
He couldn’t be certain of that either, but it was the most likely possibility at the moment. Because of that damned meticulous pervert, Hajin could only bite his own lip in frustration.
‘How do I get out of this?’
How could he persuade this pervert who was panting that it was good to see him cry? It seemed hopeless. Meanwhile, apparently having licked enough, Choi Jihyung pulled away.
But it wasn’t over. Choi Jihyung got up and climbed on top of Hajin as if to pin him down. The intention behind that action was clear.
“Hajin-ssi… I-I became like this because of you. T-take responsibility.”
Choi Jihyung moved his hips as if he could no longer hold back. Though it was just the friction of clothes against clothes, the heaviness and the bulge he felt beneath it was disgusting.
Hajin couldn’t even resist because whenever he moved his body to escape, Choi Jihyung would close his eyes, tremble, and enjoy it even more.
“…Choi Jihyung-ssi. Please don’t do this.”
He strongly felt that at this rate, he might be taken by Choi Jihyung. He had to prevent that at all costs.
Hajin restrained his urge to curse and spit, and tried to persuade Choi Jihyung.
“At the very least, please untie these restraints. I feel like my hands and feet are going to fall off. I’ll guide you, so please, these ties…”
When Hajin pleaded, Choi Jihyung’s movements stopped. Seeing this, Hajin drooped his eyebrows even more, pretending to be in greater pain.
“Could it be… that the guiding isn’t working because of these restraints? I won’t run away, so please untie me. Or at least loosen them a little…”
Despite Hajin’s performance—perhaps the best acting of his life—Choi Jihyung, who had seemed like he might give in, remained firm.
“That’s not possible.”
At the resolute denial, Hajin nearly lost his patience but, not giving up on persuasion until the very end, he suppressed his anger once more.
“Why not? If these restraints prevent me from guiding you, what’s the point of having sex?”
Hajin didn’t think Choi Jihyung would give up on guiding after having tasted radiative guiding once. However, Hajin’s assumption was spectacularly wrong.
“I-it doesn’t matter. As long as I have H-Hajin-ssi, that’s g-good enough for me.”
Choi Jihyung was more perverted than Hajin had imagined. Choi Jihyung gently cupped the cheek of the shocked Hajin and looked into his eyes.
“B-because between people who love each other, g-guiding isn’t important.”
It was a mystery when he and Choi Jihyung had become people who loved each other. But before he could even question that, Choi Jihyung’s face, with eyes carefully closed, drew closer little by little.
With his lips about to touch Hajin’s at any moment, Hajin tried with all his might to turn his head away, but it didn’t budge at all. Instead, the force holding him in place so he couldn’t avoid the kiss only made tears well up.
‘Damn it. This bastard and that one…!’
Now they were so close that he could feel Choi Jihyung’s breath. Hajin couldn’t bear to watch this situation with his eyes open, so he closed them instead. That’s when it happened.
“Choi Jihyung, you son of a bitch! You took Lee Hajin, didn’t you?!”
With a sound like a bomb exploding, one part of the wall crumbled, and the puppy appeared. Hajin could say with certainty that he had never been so glad to see the puppy.
Without even needing to call him, the puppy’s gaze immediately fixed on Hajin and Choi Jihyung, who was on top of him.
Seeing the position of the two, the puppy gritted his teeth so hard that a grinding sound could be heard, and in an instant, he grabbed Choi Jihyung by the collar.
He moved so fast that to Hajin’s eyes, it looked like he had teleported. As the heavy weight pressing down on him disappeared, Hajin once again wiggled his hands and feet, trying somehow to get the blood flowing.
Meanwhile, the puppy, who had lifted Choi Jihyung—who was of similar height—by the neck, barked in a low voice:
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Keck, cough!”
“Speak, you bastard! What the fuck are you doing?!”
How could he expect him to speak while choking him by the neck? Though this thought occurred to Hajin, because of his lingering resentment toward Choi Jihyung, he didn’t voice it.
The puppy, after staring at the choking and coughing Choi Jihyung with disgust, eventually dropped him like he was throwing something away. Unable to maintain his balance, Choi Jihyung fell face-first and coughed for a long time.
“Mr. Puppy!”
Taking advantage of the moment, Hajin called out to the puppy. Choi Jihyung’s ability was brainwashing and hypnosis. Given the precedent, it was uncertain whether even the puppy could avoid that ability.
“Hey! Are you okay?”
At Hajin’s call, the puppy quickly turned his head and stood firmly by his side, as if he were a hero who had come to save the heroine.
If it weren’t for the current situation, Hajin would have scoffed at the kidnapper’s pretense, but right now, the puppy truly felt like a reliable presence.
“Please untie these. It feels like my hands and feet are going to fall off.”
Hajin painfully raised his arms to show him. His palms were already darkened, and his forearms were swollen. The puppy’s eyes widened at the sight of harm to Hajin’s precious body.
“What the fuck! That crazy bastard!”
At this rate, Hajin’s claim that his hands and feet might fall off would soon become reality. The puppy shuddered at the mere thought of it.
“I’ll cut them off right away.”
‘Finally…!’
Once the restraints were removed, he would escape immediately, regardless of any plans. Even the researchers with guns didn’t come to mind at that moment. Anyway, once he put these two to sleep, he couldn’t stay here anymore.
‘I’d rather hide from anti-Esper groups than stay here.’
That was better than being with a pervert who wanted to cut off his hands and feet.
“He tied them really tight. Must be painful.”
Just as the puppy raised his hand to cut through the tightly bound knots:
“Cough, n-no…”
Choi Jihyung, who had calmed his coughing, spoke up. With anxiety about what nonsense he might spout, Hajin urged the puppy:
“Aji-ssi, I’m in pain.”
Deliberately dropping the honorific, Hajin called him by name, and the puppy’s head turned back to him. Despite the situation, he seemed pleased to be called by his name, grinning broadly.
“Yeah! I’ll cut them right away!”
“If you untie those restraints now, he’ll run away.”
The grinning puppy’s face stiffened. The hand that seemed about to cut the restraints lost its strength, and his head turned back to Choi Jihyung.
“Mr. Puppy…!”
Though Hajin urgently called out to the puppy, Choi Jihyung’s words continued first:
“If he runs away, can you catch him?”
At those words, delivered smoothly without even stuttering, the puppy finally removed his hand completely. Hajin gritted his teeth.
He found it ridiculous that he felt betrayed by them. It was absurd that after letting down his guard and ending up like this, he still found himself trusting them.
Meanwhile, the conversation between the puppy and Choi Jihyung continued.
“What are you planning to do?”
Though persuaded by Choi Jihyung to abandon rescuing Hajin, the puppy still couldn’t understand him.
If he had intended to monopolize Hajin, he should have taken him and run away.
At the puppy’s question, Choi Jihyung let out a deep sigh. The timid and gloomy Choi Jihyung was nowhere to be found.
“Originally, I planned to have Hajin-ssi all to myself… But you caught me. I should have just run away.”
Hajin couldn’t even laugh at Choi Jihyung’s transformation, which was like having a split personality. It was clear that at this rate, they would join hands and happily violate him together.