Recall Guide 30

# Chapter 30

In any case, Ko Eungyo had become a Guide and used his matching rate with Woo Sihyun to put him in his ‘my’. His friend Lee Seungwoo tried to help Woo Sihyun, but Ko Eungyo knew the Center’s rules thoroughly and knew how to use them. He probably received help from a lawyer. Of course, Lee Seungwoo’s family wasn’t easy to deal with either, so they were in sharp conflict with Ko Eungyo. As far as Woo Sihyun knew, several interests had gone back and forth between them.

Eventually, Woo Sihyun decided to give up on this tiresome power struggle. He determined that Ko Eungyo wasn’t worth the headache of wrangling over rules and having a power struggle. If he completely ignored him, what could Ko Eungyo do anyway?

Although he was forcibly placed in Ko Eungyo’s ‘my’ list, whatever happened, he could just ignore it. Ko Eungyo was a Guide but still an ordinary person. He never had enough power to control Woo Sihyun as he pleased. Besides, it didn’t feel good that Lee Seungwoo was suffering instead of himself, who didn’t have a decent family background.

But when Woo Sihyun started ignoring him, Ko Eungyo tormented him even more desperately.

To what extent? He even forcibly put Lee Seungwoo in his ‘my’ because he was upset that Lee Seungwoo had interfered in his relationship with Woo Sihyun. It was the same method he had used to put Woo Sihyun in his ‘my’ before. Naturally, Ko Eungyo never gave Guiding to either him or Lee Seungwoo. Lee Seungwoo laughed, saying there was no need to feel sorry because he couldn’t find a Guide with matching wavelengths anyway, so nothing had changed for him.

But feeling sorry was still feeling sorry. If not for him, Lee Seungwoo would never have been entangled with a lunatic like Ko Eungyo. That day, Woo Sihyun went to see Ko Eungyo on his own for the first time.

‘You son of a bitch, do you even know how to do Guiding?’

‘Is that important?’

‘What?’

‘What’s important, Sihyun, is that you’re mine.’

Even when he cursed at him, even when he beat him so badly that he couldn’t move, Ko Eungyo just smiled as if he enjoyed Woo Sihyun paying attention to him. He couldn’t describe how creepy and horrifying that felt.

When Ko Eungyo, whom he had been deliberately avoiding for a while, appeared as a liberal arts external lecturer, he really wanted to beat that small body to death.

His intention was obvious. He was planning to see Woo Sihyun under the pretext of class and use grades as leverage to touch Woo Sihyun here and there. Why wouldn’t he? After having all his fun, he would probably fail Woo Sihyun to postpone his graduation. On and on, as much as possible.

But…

Ko Eungyo, who had been acting so disgustingly, suddenly started behaving as if he had lost interest in Woo Sihyun.

At first, of course, he thought this guy was up to something again. After all, he couldn’t suddenly come to his senses now. He thought that while Ko Eungyo might pretend to teach properly at first, he absolutely couldn’t actually do it properly.

There was a reason to think that. As far as Woo Sihyun knew, Ko Eungyo was incompetent. From the beginning, he had become a Guide with the backing of his family, just because only ‘Guides’ could have Espers.

According to Lee Seungwoo’s research, Ko Eungyo was a Guide, but he had never learned how to do Guiding. Therefore, Ko Eungyo didn’t know how to perform Guiding; he was just a guy who rubbed his body against others, using Guiding as a pretext to do dirty things.

This bastard actually despised and looked down on field ability users. Saying why would they do such menial labor.

Every word he said made him a detestable piece of trash. Because of Ko Eungyo, Woo Sihyun hadn’t received proper Guiding for a long time, so his head ached and his body felt heavy every day. In the midst of that, when Ko Eungyo told him with a face of complete ignorance to go to another Guide for Guiding help, he really almost blew a fuse.

But, Ko Eungyo freed him from his ‘my’.

Even until the Director informed him of this fact, he thought it wouldn’t happen… Surprisingly, it was really possible to withdraw from Ko Eungyo’s ‘my’ list. Moreover, Woo Sihyun was freed from Ko Eungyo and matched with another Guide who wasn’t Ko Eungyo. Although the matching rate was only 20%, he was a normal Guide who couldn’t even be compared with the likes of Ko Eungyo.

Repeatedly checking the new ‘my’ list, he thought that Ko Eungyo might have really decided to forget about him. His heart softened a little. For those few days.

It was a huge misconception.

The freedom didn’t last even a few days. The matching with the new Guide was forcibly cut off, and for Woo Sihyun, an Esper in the high-risk group who needed Guiding, the Guide with the best wavelength match and the fewest assigned Espers was forcibly matched. Of course, it was Ko Eungyo.

Would he have experienced this kind of thing just once or twice? The new Guide who had been matched with Woo Sihyun quit the Center. This time too, it was for unspecified personal reasons. He didn’t know how many times this filthy act had been repeated. So naturally, Woo Sihyun knew this was Ko Eungyo’s doing.

The joy of feeling liberated from Ko Eungyo was short-lived. Just as he was truly thinking that Ko Eungyo was letting him go, a strange uneasiness followed. Woo Sihyun had known this would happen.

And… despite the anger rising within him now, he felt a strange sense of relief, which was probably for the same reason he had felt that uneasiness before. That’s why Woo Sihyun was even more angry.

The fact that he felt more awkward not being tied to Ko Eungyo—wasn’t that truly unacceptable?

All of this was Ko Eungyo’s fault. It was what this crazy lunatic Ko Eungyo had been doing to Woo Sihyun. Just as before, Ko Eungyo would not willingly let go of Woo Sihyun in the future.

He very easily directed his anger toward Ko Eungyo.

“You should play with people within limits. Right?”

Woo Sihyun didn’t just speak, unlike Lee Seungwoo.

Suddenly there was a flash of fire before his eyes. The realization that he had been slapped only came after it happened. At first, he didn’t even know he had been hit, just feeling bewildered. Only when his cheek burned hot along with the eerie sound of flesh hitting flesh did he realize he had been struck.

After slapping Ko Eungyo’s face two more times, Woo Sihyun kicked his chair.

The chair, unable to withstand the Esper’s strength, toppled backward, and Ko Eungyo, who had been sitting on it, fell to the floor with a great impact. He tried to get up immediately, but Woo Sihyun stepped firmly on his neck to prevent him from rising.

“Hgnk…”

He quickly grew accustomed to the pain.

If Woo Sihyun, an Esper, had truly hit with all his might, his face would have been crushed and he would have died instantly. Therefore, what Woo Sihyun was doing was simply venting. Woo Sihyun had no sincere intention of killing him.

Even in the midst of pain, his mind coldly calculated the possibility of surviving this place. Compared to the pain he had experienced in his previous life, this was nothing. He wasn’t even angry, as this was the first time he had been hit so rudely.

He was just curious.

“Where do you get off acting nice?”

What button got pushed for this bastard?

“M-move…”

When he struggled painfully to speak, Woo Sihyun instead sneered and pressed down harder with his foot. Just that made it difficult to breathe as his airway was blocked. If Woo Sihyun applied just a little more force, his neck would break with a cracking sound. A human’s neck is nothing more than a worm before an Esper.

Only then did he feel truly scared. This wasn’t his body. It wasn’t a body he could allow to die. But he simply couldn’t stop Woo Sihyun with his strength.

Would he… die at Woo Sihyun’s hands like this?

Instinctively trying to survive, he stretched out his hand and scratched at Woo Sihyun’s ankle, but the foot filled with murderous intent didn’t move at all. Woo Sihyun seemed to find Ko Eungyo’s desperate struggle quite laughable.

A Guide being beaten by an Esper in the Guiding room. What the hell was the Center doing?

Physiological tears welled up. No matter how desperately he struggled to escape from Woo Sihyun, it was just a futile struggle.

“…Huk! Huhk, huhk…”

Looking down at Ko Eungyo, who was trying to survive like an insect, Woo Sihyun suddenly removed his foot. As Ko Eungyo immediately touched his neck and tried to get up, Woo Sihyun kicked his upper body with a thud. Hit in the chest, Ko Eungyo collapsed.

After that, he couldn’t even think of getting up. Pain, pain broke all motivation. All thoughts instantly evaporated. The only thought dominating his mind was that he needed to get away from Woo Sihyun somehow, to escape from this room.

As Ko Eungyo tried to crawl out of the room while lying face down, Woo Sihyun grabbed him by the hair and dragged him in a different direction.