# Chapter 41
Kyun In seemed to know this fact too, and the moment he gave up, I approached the zombie, climbed onto its body, twisted and tore its arm before pulling it out.
“KUUEEEHK—!!”
Terrible screams erupted one after another, and as I rode on its back, I twisted the zombie’s neck.
When we exceeded the limit, the zombie’s neck finally broke completely, and I realized that it was truly over now.
Still, to be more certain, I stabbed a dagger into its back and cut all the way down, confirming that the zombie could no longer resist.
“I’ll take care of it now, Seo Eunwoo.”
I heard Byun Tae-young’s voice and stepped back.
Then, a completely different flame suddenly surged up, unlike anything we’d seen before.
The zombie didn’t even scream within that enormous blaze.
It had completely lost its life.
“It’s over……”
Kyun In whispered beside me.
Watching Byun Tae-young’s flames, I realized the extent of Lee Ha-min’s power.
I wasn’t the only one—everyone else simultaneously looked at Lee Ha-min.
Though Ha-min himself didn’t appear at the front throughout the entire raid, each of us could clearly understand how significant his contribution had been.
Only after it was over could I properly feel why I had been able to do so much.
The intense power I had never felt before—the feeling that things tore apart automatically when I touched them, that I didn’t get tired, and that my physical strength was much greater than usual—I realized it was all because of Lee Ha-min.
I turned to look at him, and our eyes met.
At that moment, Lee Ha-min, who had been gritting his teeth and enduring, collapsed to the ground.
“Lee Ha-min!”
As I tried to approach him, Shim Woo-jin, who was closer, quickly supported Ha-min.
Looking at Shim Woo-jin, I could understand that Ha-min, too, must have reached his limits periodically.
All the S-class Espers had been taking turns attacking and retreating, resting and recharging their strength, but Lee Ha-min couldn’t do that.
It seemed he had continuously used his ability to maximize the effectiveness of our attacks whenever we attempted to strike.
“Seo Eunwoo Esper. Can you handle it?”
We were too worried about Lee Ha-min to feel joy or excitement about completing the raid.
“It’s serious,” said Shim Woo-jin, who was supporting Lee Ha-min, and I could tell that was true.
When we went outside, besides the Espers guarding the dungeon, there were new Espers who had come from the Center.
“How… did it go?” asked someone who appeared to be from the Center’s leadership.
“The raid was successful,” Byun Tae-young replied, but they entered the dungeon without giving a proper response.
Even though Lee Ha-min was being carried out on Shim Woo-jin’s back, they didn’t say a word about him.
They didn’t thank us for our hard work either.
The S-class Espers didn’t say anything about it.
There was no need to speak.
Once they made their judgment, they could simply change things as they wished.
To not allow those without qualifications to occupy territories.
And to not leave a time bomb unattended until it exploded.
I was certain that the thoughts that came to my mind at that moment weren’t mine alone.
In the car on the way back, the S-class Espers were silent.
Byun Tae-young drove at a frightening, wild pace, but no one stopped him.
The return trip took less than half the time it had taken to get there, and we didn’t just waste time in the car either.
From the moment we got in the car, I sat with Lee Ha-min and held his hand.
I knew that level of guiding wouldn’t be enough to calm the raging Ha-min, so I turned his head and kissed his lips.
Even that didn’t show signs of calming his wavelengths, so I started undressing him.
While trying to unbutton Ha-min’s clothes as we sat in the car, Kyun In helped me.
None of us had time to feel embarrassed or ashamed.
The S-class Espers knew better than anyone what state Lee Ha-min was in and how dangerous it was, so they wouldn’t have had the mental space to assign any other meaning to the guiding.
They probably had no thoughts other than that Lee Ha-min could die if we delayed.
I took off my shirt and embraced Ha-min.
With both of us shirtless, I held him tightly without a single thread between us.
I desperately hoped for Ha-min to show a response, but as if that level wasn’t nearly enough, there was no reaction at all.
“He was too strong. There’s probably never been a dungeon left unattended for so long.”
When Kyun In spoke, Shim Woo-jin nodded.
“It was already a strong entity from the beginning, but it seems it grew stronger as the dungeon was neglected.”
“Lee Ha-min’s going to be okay, right, Seo Eunwoo?” Byun Tae-young asked worriedly as he drove.
He has to be okay.
He absolutely has to be okay.
Guiding in a moving car was difficult.
The S-class Espers were discussing that too.
“Passive guiding has its limits. Lee Ha-min needs to regain consciousness first. Once he does, he can guide in whatever way he wants. That’s how people did it.”
Listening to Kyun In’s words, I was learning something new.
“We didn’t do that… because we didn’t need to. Lee Ha-min knew what we needed and guided us on his own.”
Kyun In said dejectedly, and I realized that was my problem.
No, it would be more accurate to call it Lee Ha-min’s special quality.
It was something only Ha-min could do.
Byun Tae-young continued his dangerous driving, and finally, the car arrived at the Center.
Many people gathered, wondering what was happening, but Byun Tae-young drove straight to our quarters without stopping.
I carried Lee Ha-min, enhancing my physical abilities as I ran.
The S-class Espers followed me.
However, after watching me lay Ha-min down, they looked at each other and started discussing whether they should leave now.
I thought having the S-class Espers nearby might be helpful, but they hesitated and then went outside.
“We’ll be right outside, so if anything goes wrong, call us immediately, Seo Eunwoo Esper.”
Kyun In’s words finally reassured me.
If they said they’d help like that, I felt I could relax a little.
“Lee Ha-min. It’s okay. You’re going to be okay. I’ll make you okay.”
His eyes remained closed, and his red lips looked even redder than usual.
Heat radiated from his entire body, and I could tell how much pain he was in.
We were both shirtless, and I continued to give him mucous membrane kisses.
I devoured his lips, pushing my tongue in and sucking his tongue, but even that didn’t elicit any response from him.
I became terrified at the thought that Lee Ha-min might really die like this.
“Lee Ha-min. No. You can’t die. You know that, right? If it weren’t for you, I would never have started. I would have just hidden or avoided everything in this world. But I started because of you.”
He wouldn’t understand what I was saying.
Without realizing it, tears seemed to be flowing from my eyes.
My cheek itched, and I roughly wiped away the tears with the back of my hand.
“Lee Ha-min. What should I do? What do I need to do to calm you down?”
The wavelengths fluctuated wildly, and I felt like I was going crazy at the thought that he might die like this.
I remembered the first time I saw Lee Ha-min.
After I opened my eyes in Seo Eunwoo’s body when I came here.
I realized I had entered my sister’s novel after seeing Lee Ha-min.
Because he was exactly like the Lee Ha-min in the novel.
Even while thinking I should never compete with this guy, how much did I secretly admire him?
I wonder what I thought when my sister followed me around, reading her novel to me, as I listened to Lee Ha-min’s narrative.
It wasn’t a feeling of liking him.
I thought he was pitiful and wondered if he could be a little happy.
I wanted to say something to my sister.
Why are you treating him like that?
Would this guy ever get to be happy later?
Couldn’t you make all the S-class Espers die?
Couldn’t you make it so that when the S-class Espers enter the dungeon, none of them come out and they all die?
My sister had a pleased look on her face when she heard me.
That made sense.
My sister probably realized that at some point, I, who had been busy running away and being shocked when she forcibly read her novel to me, was now quietly listening to her novel and even waiting for it.
Even in those moments I wasn’t aware of.
After I no longer knew what was happening in my sister’s novel, through revisions upon revisions and after receiving reviews and feedback, I didn’t know how Lee Ha-min ended up or what happened to the S-class Espers in the final version.
That’s why my heart felt so urgent and burning.
“Lee Ha-min. What should I do for you? What should I do?”
Looking at the unresponsive Lee Ha-min, I wiped my tears again.
The Lee Ha-min lying there was motionless and impossibly beautiful.
All of this felt terribly unreal.
Once again, I held him tightly, pressing close to him.
I kissed him and sucked on his tongue.
At some point, my hands grabbed his belt buckle, and without a moment’s hesitation, I unfastened it.
In the car, when we removed his upper clothing, Kyun In had helped me, so my heart hadn’t pounded like this.
But now it was different.
Because removing his upper clothing and removing his lower clothing to expose his body were completely different matters.
From that moment, those emotions seemed to creep in bit by bit.
The embarrassment that wasn’t felt during the mucous membrane guiding gradually became conscious.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
