Conditions of the Guide

Choi Tae-hoon, who had been identified as a Guide at the age of five but failed to find his Esper even by the time he turned twenty-eight, ends up meeting him for the first time at a fan signing event for top star Ji Gwan-young—after being dragged there by his younger sibling.

 

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“As expected, I’ll have to make you, Choi Tae-hoon, be the one to say ‘let’s have sex’ first.”

The Guide’s face flushed crimson, belatedly. It was already humiliating enough that everyone in the Center knew he’d been held by another man last night… What, was he supposed to beg and cry about it? Was his body acting without his brain? Tae-hoon shrieked, wrenching himself away from the man who had held him the night before. His voice cracked slightly, his face burning, but he couldn’t not scream.

“I—I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely will not be gay!” 

“Feel free to say that.”

“We’re only doing this out of necessity! You, Ji Gwan-young, you’re the Esper! And I’m the Guide!” 

“Yes, yes.”

Ji Gwan-young wore a dazzling smile. Tae-hoon glared at him, teeth clenched, his face still flushed, while the other man just smirked with shameless amusement. The back of his neck, where Ji Gwan-young’s name was now imprinted, burned fiercely.