# Chapter 26
This shouldn’t be happening. The Guiding time had already exceeded, and he couldn’t let the Esper develop bad habits from the beginning. If he allowed it now, Lee Seungwoo would try to touch and kiss Ko Eungyo without restraint in the future.
As he tried to cut off the Guiding, the wildly drawing energy gradually subsided. Whether he found that regrettable or not, Lee Seungwoo let out a faint sigh and kept licking his lower lip with his tongue. Thinking he might have calmed down a bit, Ko Eungyo tapped his shoulder, but Lee Seungwoo tilted his head toward him again.
This isn’t a signal to continue. Why does he keep trying to kiss me?
Finally, he grabbed the back of Lee Seungwoo’s head and pulled it away as if tearing it off. With the sound of lips separating, his head was forcibly lifted.
“…Stop it.”
But there was no answer. Lee Seungwoo’s face was completely dazed, and he was staring so intensely at Ko Eungyo’s lips that they seemed to tingle.
At this rate, something really might happen.
A strange tension arose. He couldn’t keep clutching Lee Seungwoo’s hair, but if he let go, the storm-like kissing from earlier would likely resume.
Inevitably, he widened his eyes and pressed Lee Seungwoo for an answer.
“Huh? I said stop.”
For a long time, those pitch-black eyes stared persistently at Ko Eungyo.
How much time had passed?
“…Yes.”
Finally, a reluctant answer flowed from Lee Seungwoo’s lips. At least since he verbally agreed to stop, it seemed safe to let go.
He hastily released Lee Seungwoo’s head and stood up. He pulled down his wrinkled t-shirt and properly re-wore his half-loosened pants. When he looked back, Lee Seungwoo was silently watching him while fiddling with his grabbed hair. Seeing the thoroughly disheveled hair made him feel awkward, but he cleared his throat and said what he needed to say.
“I’m leaving.”
“…”
“Next time, make a reservation through your Center app.”
He had wanted to ask about many things… Along with receiving an apology for the previous threats, asking about Woo Sihyun, and discussing how their relationship would proceed from now on…
But perhaps because of the unexpected kiss, all such thoughts had evaporated. For now, he just wanted to leave the Guiding room as quickly as possible. It felt like too many thoughts were tangled in his head at once, numbing him.
Just as he was about to go outside, holding his coat without even putting it on, something pulled him from behind… Of course… Naturally, the only person who could do that now was Lee Seungwoo.
He needed to strengthen his legs. He was pulled in almost like being embraced. The tall man was right behind him.
He involuntarily swallowed dryly.
When he turned around slightly, there was a dark face shadowed by backlighting. Holding Ko Eungyo with that dark face, Lee Seungwoo whispered.
“Shall I take you home?”
“…”
“I brought my car.”
His ear tickled. The way Lee Seungwoo tempted him with such a soft voice made him feel like goosebumps would rise all over his body.
It was common for some Espers who hadn’t met with a matching Guide for a long time to cling obsessively to high-level Guides after receiving a “rhythm game.” They would maintain an almost insolent attitude before receiving Guiding, but afterward, they would act as if they had fallen in love.
Of course, such a reaction wasn’t normal. The reason they behaved this way was simply because they craved the Guiding that had filled them up and then ebbed away like a tide, as if it were a drug. Once the body started absorbing Guiding, this symptom would continue to worsen until the body’s condition was completely normalized. Therefore, this was a natural phenomenon rather than an issue with the Esper’s humanity.
Moreover, what Lee Seungwoo had received wasn’t even a “rhythm game,” but purely Guiding with a highly matched Guide, so it was natural that even someone as cool-headed as him couldn’t maintain his sanity.
It’s okay. To prevent accidents, only one of them needed to keep their senses. Ko Eungyo took a long, deep breath while pressing down on his rapidly beating heart.
‘What do you mean take me home…’
But in this situation, he could only sigh deeply. Something hard was poking his buttocks. Right behind him was this pervert who got an erection while receiving Guiding.
“You should cool down before you go.”
Shaking him off wasn’t an easy task. A silent, subtle exchange of strength took place. He tried to twist his body to escape somehow, while Lee Seungwoo was trying not to let him go.
Lee Seungwoo wasn’t really showing off his strength to Ko Eungyo. When an Esper set their mind to it, it wasn’t easy to resist with an ordinary person’s body, even at such close range. So even though he knew Lee Seungwoo was being considerably lenient, the clear difference in strength was irritating.
“I want to take you home.”
It was obvious he wouldn’t just “take him home.” Lying without even wetting his lips. Of course, his face showed no awareness that he was lying.
He spoke in the most resolute manner he could.
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
Lee Seungwoo released Ko Eungyo with a very regretful attitude.
*
This is an accident. Definitely an accident. It was an accident. It couldn’t be anything but an accident…
‘Haah.’
It wasn’t that he had never done mucous membrane Guiding when he was Jang Iju. But he didn’t do mucous membrane Guiding routinely. Such things were truly only done in emergencies or if the Guide and Esper were in a “romantic” relationship.
However, with mucous membrane Guiding… since it involved connecting flesh to flesh, the Guiding efficiency was greatly enhanced, so Espers lacking Guiding instinctively tried to engage in mucous membrane Guiding.
In other words, for them, mucous membrane Guiding was literally just “Guiding.”
He tried hard to stay calm.
Since Lee Seungwoo seemed to have never received Guiding before, it must have been difficult for him to control his impulses. It was right after receiving Guiding, and the Guiding he had given Lee Seungwoo was little more than instant Guiding.
When Guiding was suddenly filled into a body depleted of it, only to disappear instantly… he must have wanted to somehow refill that Guiding. So he started with a kiss. Among the visible mucous membranes—eyes, nose, and mouth—he must have instinctively judged that opening the lips would be easier than sticking a finger in the nose.
Yes, Lee Seungwoo’s condition was that bad. So he understood the forceful kiss. Even the touching… yes, well. It was an accident.
Ko Eungyo thought he couldn’t tell whether this was good or bad. If he had hated it enough to die, that would be one thing, but he had a memory of not pushing Lee Seungwoo away and kissing him back because he actually liked it. This probably had something to do with when he first saw Lee Seungwoo and thought he was his destiny.
After touching his lips that had been rubbed so hotly and sighing several times, he flopped onto the bed and idly checked the Center application.
Naturally, he expected the notification for Guiding calls to go crazy starting the next day.
He was willing to go if Lee Seungwoo called him again. Since Lee Seungwoo seemed to want Ko Eungyo’s Guiding, he planned to tell him, “If you’re okay with it, I’ll give you Guiding regularly. But please don’t do Guiding like that anymore in the future.”
If only the call would come.
‘Why?’
But Lee Seungwoo didn’t call him…
‘Why not?’
He remembered how desperate Lee Seungwoo had been, trying not to let him go after being entranced by the Guiding.
One day, two days, a week—the longer he waited, all kinds of thoughts wandered through his mind. He had heard that the thought patterns of Espers depleted of Guiding were difficult for ordinary people to follow. It was very rare, but he had heard that some Espers so despised their transformation into someone desperately clinging to Guiding that they resolved never to receive Guiding from a Guide again.
But usually, once they experienced Guiding, it was difficult to go back to not knowing it. So Lee Seungwoo must have kissed “that” Ko Eungyo whom he had hated so much, and if he regretted it, then probably…
He wouldn’t contact Ko Eungyo anymore. If he didn’t want to cling to Ko Eungyo under the pretext of Guiding, the person he had avoided and disliked so much. If that was Lee Seungwoo’s pride… then…
Though he was very perplexed… anyway… he decided to respect Lee Seungwoo’s attitude.
Despite being the one forcibly kissed, somehow it felt like he was the one being rejected.
‘Hmph.’
Unexpectedly giving mucous membrane Guiding, and here he was not expecting anything more, but rather hoping that their relationship wouldn’t worsen further.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
