I Became a Foreign Element in the Guideverse 54

# Chapter 54

At first, I thought it didn’t make sense.

Then I realized how naive I had been.

Mental Division Esper.

‘This isn’t right. I need to find out about Cha Yoon.’

This was possible because it was my sister’s novel.

Like how Lee Ha-min’s level wasn’t measured but he was actually an S-class Guide, or how I was a D-class Esper on the surface but actually an S-class Esper—in my sister’s novel, there were cases where the outward rank and actual ability level were different.

I thought there would be something like that about Cha Yoon too.

But while I was wondering where to find it, thinking I couldn’t possibly read through all that vast content, my sister, who seemed to have finally finished brushing her teeth, threw her toothbrush aside, kicked the door, and called out to me.

“Hey!”

“Noona!”

When I called her instead of running away in fear, my sister flinched for a moment.

Looking at her face, she seemed somewhat proud.

She might have been thinking, is her novel so interesting that I’d steal her phone to read it despite her threats?

She probably thought that was the only reason I’d take her smartphone and run off with it rather than using my own.

“Noona!”

As I approached, my sister looked at me with suspicious eyes as if wondering what I was doing.

“You… what’s wrong with you?”

“Noona. Is Cha Yoon like that too? Is he like Lee Ha-min and Seo Eunwoo? Outwardly an ordinary Esper but actually an S-class Esper or something?”

My sister looked at me as if shocked.

“How… do you know that?”

Really?

No. Why would she throw that out there so casually?

Did she get a good response from readers when she revealed that someone thought to be an ordinary Esper was actually an S-class Esper?

So she turned Lee Ha-min, who was a Guide, into an Esper, and encouraged by that success, decided to do the same with Cha Yoon?

This sister of mine!!

“Are you in your right mind?!!”

My sister looked dumbfounded, as if she hadn’t expected to hear such words from me suddenly.

“Anyway, tell me.”

“Tell you what!”

“About Cha Yoon! What kind of person he is!!”

After saying it, I realized how absurd this must seem.

I had suddenly appeared, snatched her smartphone, run away, secretly read her novel, and now I was interrogating her about a character in the story.

However, instead of being suspicious about my strange behavior, my sister seemed pleased that I was so immersed in the character she created. Her expression brightened as she rattled off the story.

“You know, at first I just wrote whatever came to mind. I didn’t know it would get such a good response or that I’d even get offers for publication. But as I continued writing, more and more people started reading it, and the response was great. The rankings were high too. Did you know? This was even ranked #1 in the entire genre.”

“No. None of that matters, so I don’t need any other information, just tell me about Cha Yoon.”

“You’re kind of funny… but you should know why that setting was introduced.”

“I said it doesn’t matter!”

“What do you mean it doesn’t matter? Just listen first!”

My sister was being stubborn.

Since she was the type of person who would do whatever she set her mind to anyway, I finally nodded, thinking that letting her speak would be the fastest way to hear about Cha Yoon.

“Since you’re curious, I’ll tell you. Cha Yoon is an S-class Esper. You might feel like there are too many S-class Espers appearing, but it’s not really that many. Those that appear are all the S-class Espers in our country. It’s just that the camera is focused on them, so all those characters in that place happen to be S-class Espers.”

I barely registered what she was saying.

S-class Esper.

Cha Yoon is an S-class Esper.

What had happened because my sister thought it would be interesting to make him that way?

‘But wait. Whatever happened in the novel, it doesn’t have anything to do with me now, right? I’ve come out of the novel. That’s right, isn’t it? I did come out of the novel, right?’

It was strange, hazy, and confusing.

Meanwhile, my sister continued talking without stopping.

My sister, who already had a hobby of unleashing her fantasies, must have been so excited to discover a brother who was interested in the story she created.

“At first, the response was pretty good. People were amazed and surprised. ‘Oh, he’s a Guide but became an Esper?’ ‘Oh, he was an Esper but also a Guide?’ They were amazed and enjoyed it along with me. But then it was like I started hearing voices. It felt like I had mixed all sorts of things too impulsively, and I could imagine readers somewhere writing such comments.”

To imagine people writing comments to that extent.

What kind of life had my sister been living?

Undeterred, she continued her story.

“So I thought I needed to create a more intricate device. That’s how I created Cha Yoon. S-class Espers are immune to Cha Yoon’s mental attacks, but Lee Ha-min and Seo Eunwoo are not.”

“Why? Seo Eunwoo is an S-class Esper too.”

“You’ve already read that far? You read incredibly fast.”

I felt a pang of guilt at those words.

Fortunately, it seemed the story had progressed that far in reality.

“Yes, that’s right. But Cha Yoon had been working on it long before that. Seo Eunwoo changes once, right? When the character who had reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship in the game world possessed him. Seo Eunwoo really became strong and became an S-class Esper from that point, right? Before that, Seo Eunwoo had a low rank and was a kid who bullied Lee Ha-min out of jealousy.”

I stared blankly at my sister, wondering what she was talking about.

It was so familiar to me that I hadn’t felt any sense of dissonance about the novel changing that way.

It had completely changed to the content after I possessed him.

The Seo Eunwoo in the novel was a character who had lived in a martial arts game, came here hiding his power, tried to keep a proper distance from Lee Ha-min, and somehow became Lee Ha-min’s best friend.

And that was me…

Sweat seemed to be dripping from my forehead.

My sister, completely unaware of who that Seo Eunwoo was, spoke with an excited face.

“Actually, that was a setting collapse. Like with Shim Woo-jin. Shim Woo-jin was also saved because the response suddenly became good. After writing about Seo Eunwoo for a while, I realized he wasn’t a strong character from the beginning. He became strong after being possessed. If the possession hadn’t happened, he would have been a kid who kept bullying Lee Ha-min until the end and then died.”

“So did Seo Eunwoo experience a mental attack from Cha Yoon before? And that continued to affect him?”

“You understand quickly! But it didn’t continue constantly. The setting is that he was attacked once mentally, and from then on, he became easily susceptible. It’s like a platform was created because of the previous attack. So when Cha Yoon tries to control his mind again, he falls victim easily.”

“Why… did you do that?”

“Seo Eunwoo is the protagonist now. But he’s too strong. Events need to happen, but he’s so strong there’s no room for them.”

“What kind of event… were you planning to create that way?”

I swallowed hard.

Not knowing what my sister was about to say, I stared at her mouth.

“He gets imprisoned by Cha Yoon. I’m going for an extremely sad ending. Seo Eunwoo, Lee Ha-min, and all the S-class Espers die. Seo Eunwoo is imprisoned by Cha Yoon, has his mind altered, and fights with Lee Ha-min and the S-class Espers while going crazy and forgetting who he is. They came to rescue Seo Eunwoo, you know.”

“Don’t be ridiculous!”

It was natural for my sister to be surprised.

After shouting out in anger and seeing my sister’s face, I realized the situation.

But I couldn’t help it.

Who decides?

Who decides to create it like that?

An extremely sad ending?

Has this sister of mine lost her mind!

“That’s absurd. Change it. Change it right now! You haven’t written it that way yet, right? It’s not finished yet, right?”

Only then did my sister look at me as if I were strange.

“Hey. Are you okay? Are you sick or something?”

“Yes, I’m sick. I’m sick, so change it. Change the manuscript. Don’t kill me…”

No, that’s not right.

I shouldn’t say “me.”

“Don’t kill Seo Eunwoo. Don’t kill Lee Ha-min either, and don’t touch the S-class Espers!!”

“Hey…”

My sister looked at me softly as if wondering what to do with this pitiful sight, then suddenly approached and hugged me tightly.

“Were you that sad?”

What is she saying?

“Did you really immerse yourself that deeply? I must have succeeded. Other people will feel the same way, right? Then the impression will last a long time, and if it can remain in people’s hearts for a long time in this era flooded with web novels, that’s a great achievement, isn’t it?”

“No, it’s not. It absolutely cannot happen. That kind of ending is absolutely not acceptable!”

She mustn’t think I’m just being willful.

I had to make her understand that I was speaking with genuine sincerity.

But I didn’t know how to make my sister believe me and grant my request.

‘Should I kneel?’

In front of my sister?

That was something I had never even imagined doing before, but the deliberation didn’t last long.

At least I had a chance to change the ending.

“Hey… what are you doing? Why are you acting like this? What’s wrong with him, really?”

My sister seemed greatly shocked to see me kneeling before her.

“Please. Save them.”

I never thought I’d say such words with my own mouth.