# Chapter 25
At that time it had only been a slight tingling in the soles of his feet, but now he was certain. This was… in colloquial terms, a feeling of his soul resonating. If he had such a thing as a soul, that is. And he could look into Lee Seungwoo’s body as clearly as if he were examining the lines of his own palm. No other Esper’s body had ever come under his control as perfectly as Lee Seungwoo’s.
‘So this is what it means to have an Esper with the highest matching rate.’
With a sense of wonder, he checked the condition of Lee Seungwoo’s body. How twisted it was inside, how deficient in Guiding, and so on.
Overall, Lee Seungwoo’s condition was… very serious.
“Hmm…”
He couldn’t help but sigh. He had thought it was just a matter of missing a few months of Guiding, but that wasn’t it. This… looked like the body of an Esper who had never received Guiding before. He could tell as soon as he held his hand.
Had Lee Seungwoo been relying solely on medication and machines for Guiding all this time? Why hadn’t Ko Eungyo provided Guiding until now?
There were some Guiding records, though.
‘Or… were there none?’
He looked at Lee Seungwoo in confusion. Lee Seungwoo was still looking down at their clasped hands. This allowed him to see the soft eyelids covering Lee Seungwoo’s pupils and his long, dense eyelashes…
Feeling Ko Eungyo’s gaze, Lee Seungwoo raised his eyes, and they briefly made eye contact. He lowered his eyes as quickly as possible without appearing too strange, just as Lee Seungwoo had done earlier.
But knowing that Lee Seungwoo had been in Ko Eungyo’s ‘my’ for quite some time, his mind was troubled.
Above all, after their eyes had met once, he could feel that Lee Seungwoo was continuously watching him… He pretended as much as possible not to notice Lee Seungwoo’s gaze.
He experimentally moved his energy to scan every corner of Lee Seungwoo’s body. His purpose was only to diagnose how chaotic Lee Seungwoo’s body was internally, but even that was quite challenging.
Lee Seungwoo’s gaze had long been forgotten. That wasn’t what was important. How much time had passed? After concentrating with a furrowed brow for a while, he began to notice that the hand holding his was gradually increasing its grip.
As if they had never been loosely held, their clasped hands were now tightly gripped. He raised his eyebrows at Lee Seungwoo, meaning to loosen his grip a bit, but he only met an unwavering stare that didn’t even blink.
Lee Seungwoo seemed unaware of how desperately he was holding Ko Eungyo’s hand…
His physical condition warranted it. In that moment, Ko Eungyo pitied Lee Seungwoo. Any Guide who looked inside Lee Seungwoo’s chaotic body would feel sorry for him, regardless of what he might have done to them.
When he checked his wristwatch, 25 minutes had already passed. Not only himself, but Lee Seungwoo was also intensely focused on this act.
However…
‘This Guiding isn’t going to work…’
If he had to describe it, it was as if all the blood vessels were blocked. All he had done was thoroughly examine whether these dried-up pathways could return to normal. For the remaining 5 minutes, all he could do was… just extract all the energy he had and pour it through.
Guiding that way would probably mean the energy wouldn’t sufficiently permeate the body but would fill up and quickly flow away, yet it would still be better than not providing any Guiding at all.
So that’s what he did.
Clear Guiding energy spread and dispersed throughout every corner of Lee Seungwoo’s body through their hands. Though it was only a temporary measure, he hoped this act would provide at least some help to him.
The pitiful Esper sitting across from him bit his lip firmly.
Beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep.
The Guiding check clock on the desk rang noisily, right on time. It meant it was time to end the Guiding. Only upon hearing that sound did he realize how tense he had been. As he gradually released the tension in his body, his shoulders ached with stiffness.
It was understandable, as he had just provided solo care to a high-level Esper who had never properly received Guiding before. He was no longer an S-class Guide as he had been before, and this body was merely a B-class Guide, so the pressure transmitted was considerable.
“Good work, Esper Lee Seungwoo.”
It seemed they would need to meet frequently, if not daily, for Guiding in the near future. He wasn’t sure how to broach the subject. Alternatively, Lee Seungwoo could enter the ‘my’ of a Guide with a high matching rate as soon as possible.
But as far as he knew, there were no Guides with a good matching rate for Lee Seungwoo. Except Ko Eungyo. So… for the time being, it would be cost-effective in many ways for him to take responsibility.
He felt somewhat relieved at the thought of being able to resolve issues from the past. Although it felt a little unfair that Lee Seungwoo had no other options, what did it matter? It wasn’t like he intended to do anything to Lee Seungwoo.
He deliberately kept reminding himself that he had no personal interest in Lee Seungwoo. He had a good feeling that Lee Seungwoo must have been pleased with Ko Eungyo’s Guiding and would change his previously disrespectful attitude.
Since Guiding involved sharing energy, it couldn’t be cut off cleanly. The energy gradually subsided, but they needed to completely release hands to stop the Guiding.
He cleared his dry throat and spoke.
“You can let go of my hand now.”
“…”
But Lee Seungwoo didn’t release his hand.
That was when he sensed something was wrong.
“…Student Lee Seungwoo?”
When Ko Eungyo unconsciously called him “Student Lee Seungwoo” instead of “Esper Lee Seungwoo,” there was a thud as the desk and chair fell over. Simultaneously, something stormed in with tremendous force, pushing him backward.
Naturally, he fell backward helplessly, and before his buttocks could touch the floor, he was pulled up. In an instant, his body was pushed almost to the edge of the wall.
“…Ugh!”
He couldn’t even speak. His chin was already seized.
Since when had they been kissing?
By the time he came to his senses, their lips were touching, and when he opened his mouth in surprise, a tongue invaded through the gap. He couldn’t resist the madly pressing tongue.
They were still in the middle of Guiding. The energy that had been emitting through their hands was now being released through their lips and inner mucous membranes following the new contact. Led by Lee Seungwoo, they conducted Guiding through an act that felt more intimate and close. This indecent Esper was sucking on his mouth, tongue, and the mucous membrane under his tongue as if he wanted to devour him. Dissatisfied with how wide Ko Eungyo had opened his mouth, he pressed on his jaw to make him open it even wider.
The violent kiss naturally made him breathless. No, it wasn’t a kiss. It was a stress response unique to Espers who had lost their minds trying to receive more Guiding. The less Guiding they had, the more Espers lost their reason and clung to Guiding.
Though he knew this, he felt a very special sensation from this absurd act…
When Ko Eungyo didn’t push him away, the movement of his lips became a little gentler.
“Ah, haah. Hmmph…”
Chup, chup. The sound of sucking something soft and moist.
It stung like bruising wherever he was sucked, and all senses except for the kissing lips began to dull. Not only did his mind reel several times at the feeling of energy being absorbed and pulled in, but he was starting to feel mentally hazy.
‘Ah, damn it…’
Ko Eungyo’s body was so sensitive that it jerked up each time Lee Seungwoo changed the angle of his head to swallow saliva and suck his tongue. Though the physiological response felt too embarrassing, when he put his hands on Lee Seungwoo’s shoulders and applied pressure to stop him, he only got pushed further against the wall.
The embarrassing sounds like jjok, jjop, jjuup weren’t the usual sounds made during a kiss. They were closer to the sounds of obsessive devouring. His tongue swept across the roof of his mouth and tried to crawl down to his throat. Inevitably, oxygen became scarce. Ko Eungyo tapped Lee Seungwoo’s shoulder while gasping for breath.
Lee Seungwoo paid no attention. As if he wanted to finish things here, he tried to half-undress Ko Eungyo while sucking the soul out of him with his kiss. No, he was actually in the process of doing so. The t-shirt was rolled up, and hands came in to touch his waist, stomach, chest, and back. Not content with that, the disrespectful hands caressed the cleft of his firmly gripped buttocks.
Ko Eungyo was so shocked and surprised that he froze, but he came to his senses as his body was roughly handled.
‘This bastard, why are his hands so fast?’
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
