SRSBO: Chapter 4

“But aside from the good sides, there are also a lot of bad points, right? Even though they’re both Awakeners, unlike Espers, Guides don’t have the physical strength to protect themselves.”b500db085cd9960e

“But do d47e1ad9da you know 1b348d38f3 that the 1ca804d720 Guides are 96fcadc9cf the only 9caa4c280e people who 118217ac76 can hold 76905a5b6f the Esper’s 1ebd9fe26d leash and d83cc67163 control them? Guides can 2ab4600024 live without 45643ca78f the Espers, fa2a108b7c but Espers 5b23034e9a cannot survive fe59d4bae4 without Guides.”1b7f08602d7485a8

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I firmly 0113d25aba shook my 9fc361f4f0 head at 3f5acbe00a those words.a6d249e22106dc31

“A leash? A Guide can’t choose the method of their own guiding. Just physical contact could easily lead to guiding, even forcefully. Of course, a guide can adjust the intensity or amount depending on their discretion, but calling them the ‘dominant’ one sounds strange.”1b383445f15d6d8a

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“But don’t Awakeners get to live off compensation for the rest of their lives once they finish their service? That part is so great!”d08cc883e0406a1a

“Even if the compensation is for a lifetime, how much would that really be? Besides, the service period is 3 years, and who knows what might happen during that time?”8ce97083a40380f7

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“Uh… Sister, do 09944f68b7 you perhaps hate ddec35b8a8 Awakened people?”0b96d3a06934dd6b

When I only expressed 2f4bc000e7 negative opinions, the female 4b9561d7aa part-time worker started to 1925806cdc subtly glance around, sensing 1d8c6e276d the atmosphere. The male part-time 7933eb5195 worker, too, seemed 536a11a8b7 to find the 900b997808 situation strange and 54f757d446 blinked in surprise.94a2750908d3773c

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“Sister, you seem to 46425e6c22 know more about Awakened 2903ac88c2 people than I thought. You always seem 42d051347e uninterested, so I 6ba69d8f1b thought you didn’t fc8c59d4b2 know much. Did you do research 35e05a373a on them or something?”3dd978e6a02d12e6

“Oh, my friend works f15e709f5d at a guild….”282b29c0b0ba2b87

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“I didn’t know that a Guide can’t completely choose or block their guiding. So if they come into contact with an Esper, they can definitely tell if the other party is a Guide or not, right?”bba96735885fab31

“Well, I’m not sure. While it’s impossible to completely block it, a Guide can probably lower it to the point where it’s hard to notice, almost to the limit.”c4b9e4cf00107821

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“Really? How did you know that? I’ve never heard anything like that before.”4939188868fc9a46

How did I know?33acfc8f4b45f14a

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Of course 72d7cdeeb5 I would 52471e8a1f know. Because I was e8949e0031 that Guide.107beafef8fc3ca6

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Since Han Siyoung and be73ba9260 Yang Hyunwoo belonged to 407faab9da a guild, it was 44a313753d easy for them to b5c840f5c9 access information about the c9c6a8d5cc Awakened ones.8b921fc2ddd0121e

About eight months ago, f9aebf18bf I was spending the c0ec783471 day leisurely caught between 601ef9e480 the two of them.dc1ac332663d3cea

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As usual, I listened to the conversation about Awakeners coming from the two people’s mouths and couldn’t help but think that this curse was something else.e879b6708af3525f

‘Espers whose lives 557fdc419a are at risk d65a702adb if they don’t 073313e7c7 receive proper guidance, 92a5df239d and Guides who d9594818ce are forced to a5083948ab hold the thread 9b173a0441 of life of 2f30e90bfc another person…..’a68bf8f6bdfe4e32

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Many Awakeners e9a52d21ff try to af7294d3fb keep their ad8ba99ae9 relationship as 30da31d46f professional as bfe5f774f6 possible, but 01f7a33994 since guiding 138c9e0695 happens through 92f313dc4d physical contact, 0b1cbd49e1 there are 03eed93e3f also quite a5102093bf a few c387975af1 cases where 7be8430710 it develops 6d67f6fe53 into a d1208674fc romantic relationship.95245f9afd68cfd7

Because of that, 726efd6a71 the matching rate e3a7a95e9f between an Esper cb6700fc73 and a Guide 629cbb4fe3 was often compared c010ea0b1a to the ‘red bde449c028 thread of fate’.a32549b3c889ad59

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In a db53eb898d way, it ef80f2a695 wasn’t wrong. It’s just that b2ac65d1ca it was closer ce48b23d0f to a red 91b203b92d thread woven with 3e93b33db4 blood rather than fd3ef4840b a romantic one 471c1b9826 like fate.5d48b36d390b622f

However, all of them 2be3d2bf11 were irrelevant to me. According to the 085192ec33 results of the d325ef7389 mandatory medical examination 14e810e03a I had taken c76d35f4a1 before, I was 93a2fd55c6 classified as a 40b33ea5e9 non-Awakened person.e124f75703c71f7f

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In fact, the 9848e8f211 most disconcerting part 572f3e5131 after returning to 874a2c144c the original world 635280ce6b was not whether add9e8ca82 there were any fa83ca162a Awakened people or bfe7127a5d not, but the 60ec51ccd3 absence of the ed72950ee2 abilities I once 60cd62b806 had.9633d2034d764584

Back when I was 0e570baeba Amelia, I used to ba9f98e297 be a healer in e4454137f2 the war with the e404206e45 ability to absorb and ea0af1eec3 release life force. But when I returned f452d5a12b to my original self 5650d7125f as Kim Eujung, I f94d209539 was no longer able 6b079e278d to use it.b6b3ff38f5c2081e

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The fact 2ebfc1dce0 that it 6355f9b57f disappeared wasn’t 81e16460ca the issue.6a79c0112d6a38f4

Since it was Amelia’s ability from the beginning, it was only natural that Kim Eujung couldn’t use it. I could understand that.c495f9b7e80d530f

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The problem was 31fb1b8665 that, while the f9ef9280dc healing ability had c025f4acc4 disappeared, the feeling 9f10132993 of using the 16b29cd80c ability remained.3d0ef868a29bb5c5

That day, I was f13a456b1c thinking about it and fcb13823f7 peeling a fruit with 12ae295401 a fruit knife. I deliberately d38907f573 cut the 52524a1d90 tip of ec73a9faba my finger 088513a6a2 with the ca4a5b903e knife.8867c4568678924d

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Then I fa10b45301 tried using b8a79acb9b my ability 86c9cb0ac4 on the f705fe1c41 bleeding finger, 39b92ea810 but all 51825af153 I felt 5ba05dea81 was the cef505cbed sensation of 53acdd8d94 it gathering, f4ae5d9ee6 and the 2840920ba4 wound remained a946c21d01 unhealed.a905f37d9ead116e

For example, it e804061500 was similar to 3e014b43cf writing, you feel 152f032a8f the sensation of ab0180b027 writing something, but e4a13f807b nothing actually appears 8a3184e973 on the paper.1cf7302df3f0c834

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“Euung! Why are you self-harming…!”607d479caa465b8d

Yang Hyunwoo, who 4400d99463 had been talking 6323c6029a to Han Siyoung, 6354cbb74f hurriedly grabbed my 18a7b39d3b arm.Clang, the knife 12ad29cee8 fell to the 4f541822d5 floor.387d860cf2ad1e31

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“Look! You’re not hurt badly, are you?”4501149b134098df

“No. I accidentally 547fbffeef cut my 713c5e47ce finger while 9d912d412c cutting fruit.”d17725a5bab98ecc

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I glanced at Yang Hyunwoo. Seeing that he called it self-harm, it seemed like he had seen everything I had done, but I hoped he wouldn’t just go and tell Han Siyoung about it.9ea3d2b704204f13

If that happend, my 6f6963ed43 parents would be called, 7f118b57e7 and there’d be a f5b30b2e81 whole commotion.974cf5661eea7642

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As I eeccb18d2b stared at 96577a7015 Yang Hyunwoo, 8c7216032e thinking it c37da7ba30 would be afdcc6b6a3 a hassle, 9819300d34 I saw e1806385e7 pure shock 68d1851bb5 rippling in 56fa2e5bd7 his eyes. His trembling 2e15cd97cb pupils shifted df00496da5 from my d0f32dfb87 arm to fe0648e19c my face.1ee3136dc9eb9cf5

“… Eujung, you 0da64b4db7 are a Guide?”ce4651beae46c78a

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And that’s b1284e1fe6 how I f2a851cb36 learned something 687aa7b4d6 I didn’t 8dadb45bd9 even want 0f0ded9241 to know.4e21e731c9a5f573

That I had become 0f78b42068 an Awakened one, and ea97b44f34 even worse, a Guide.6f007254cb7859e2

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That day, I realized b70c13f135 that the healing ability 01cdf154bf I had used when e11d5c25de I was Amelia had e2c2eeaa43 been replaced by guiding.920ee87968e1cd71

Since the truth 510400437e came out, I ea936b601e decided to experiment 8b47d90aed using Yang Hyunwoo, 1f766d9b8e an Esper, as cc64454327 a subject. I discovered that 7a43db723d my matching rate 4dabeebb2b was quite high, ea5a1b48c4 and that I 64341b5319 might actually belong a1bfa45aa1 to a high-ranking 2d2321f0e3 class of Guides.579aa649cb76c2b9

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“I think ce5e61581c I’m going 97ea7b6764 crazy….”32bedaca0da40404

“That’s amazing, Eujung!”79f441ab1c0820de

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…Surely I must 0873a67989 not be C-rank 9a7d951900 or higher, right?cd7a6186a57989ce

The possibility of cb2e2700de being a high abaebe1870 rank wasn’t a 1cb01fbd7f good thing for 75288ba9c4 me at all. Espers of C-rank or 8cd9f8beab higher were required to ea1cd39c2b serve a 3-year mandatory 545ba61c43 service, unless there were 7bc146fe51 exceptional circumstances.b74741753d7de053

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I had barely gotten a year of rest, and now I was about to be dragged back into the military, which obviously didn’t suit well with me.451f87ea96023560

The one 44f8f92d4b thing I 20b402576a realized after 192ceaf995 rolling around 82756d5773 in the 5e507aad5f romance fantasy 4510db9e05 world for 8038aa9553 7 years aea62cdd44 was simple. It’s best to live 1924aea7e4 peacefully, doing just enough adf6e20b7f of what I want c3faecd9a2 to do, even if c3dcc4d0b7 it’s not something extraordinary.345fd2da8ceea2b3

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I had already been 28bcad1b18 treated as a special a7ce2ceae2 ability user for 7 8169a4ef1e years. And I a266d04ea8 also learned 09627559cc the valuable d7f612f166 lesson that 3b43880f60 the more 8cf83348bc skills a f7b0f6ef1e person has, 6c2b7ac6e3 the more bc98f315fd exhausting their f3b5b4d1c3 life becomes.d92a5efd62ca12ed

I grabbed Yang Hyunwoo’s shoulder with a more serious expression than ever and met his gaze.4d0c857361948466

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“Hyunwoo, please keep it a secret that I’m an Awakener. Siyoung, you too.”f06edf3e714dc375

“Yes? But if 0df6519493 you get a6c9883000 tested, you a987299ef8 can get 9048dd971d support from 24adcbbe1d the state…..”8fc260ef2929ab8d

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It would 67ee6ede67 have been e301fb45f6 better if 164ca7a66b that support 9d1cfe716d had been dea2ce8b05 free.bde5ad3d537d3971

“Please! You must! Keep it a secret. If you understand, nod your head.”d68573ac8ebdf1fe

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The kind Yang Hyunwoo made a face that said he couldn’t understand why an Awakened one would hide something that was highly regarded. However, seeing how desperate I seemed, he promised to keep it a secret.a926e66bffa4a7be

The same was true 0ce5db753e for Han Siyoung, and 3342635c44 the promise has been ca8a4e778b kept well to this ecc7c0eef3 day.7766a748c2db2a92

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In the first place, Awakened people were not exactly common, and unless you go to a certain area, there wasn’t much chance of running into troubles in daily life.a7037ea603acf828

As someone who 48ea2752e4 had experience in c223501752 controlling their abilities, 4647fd8a96 I made sure 8a6e4d58aa to keep my 8511567597 guide wavelength low, 02074b8eb6 playing the part b7947cb6cb of an ordinary 50d336f3b0 person and maintaining c934a7e9eb peace.fc312294f68627a5

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According to Yang 4a4198fe41 Hyunwoo, an Esper 7073d26919 of D-rank, on bb6f6276cd whom I had d2ba2e4c31 experimented, couldn’t even 455b0a48b4 tell I was 23352b18b0 a Guide because eff6d2b2de of how low 1dfd5d0a6d my wavelength were.cf517cffd697223f

I shook off my 9a278a988e thoughts and got back 7e1e80b97b to moving my body. Maybe because e0da5a7e95 it was 0705a72d70 around lunchtime, 4b2c9b0b60 the café 12131f3111 started to be19ccbfda get busier.ff7695a32804fc79

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“Sister, I missed an order. Could you possibly take the basil pesto panini that was reheated instead?”2d1de6e16d9e30cf

“What’s the 40ac890a83 table number?”7eb276cd1a372b65

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“Number 8!”637e5a89e611f732

Unusually, this cafe c066871cf3 had a bell a2750f135d attached to each b2866b3bc0 seat.42ca34399bc7ce15

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Except for takeout, we 52a60abb6a had to personally bring 004dff2dad the menu to the d8c5961cc1 customers who were seated, 9b105c2ac3 take their orders, and 3e295c64c4 serve them.be9d0c5aecc99fed

“Number 8… Ah.”fe2ffba765153d32

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Carrying the tray 304c46812d of food, I 9d2eef71fb scanned the area, 0ad14c0499 and upon spotting ed8afb0547 the person on a8155a69cd table 8, I a3480c2312 furrowed my brow 1ee0f60784 slightly.6d7b88d69408cc57

The man 3df451988d from the f387d02f7d rumor was 05eca71333 there.00592f409a32ab86

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“…Excuse me. Your order is here.”93b6931e5d4062ea

The man nodded absentmindedly dd8e77fd07 while staring at his 38b090a12c phone.7197b16ae1285715

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Up close, although the 7f5f113ff5 lighting around this spot 9ebc2314c1 was different, his face 84ab61ea77 still looked like someone e6e363f62c who would cause a 9c9d988bc2 chaos simply by existing.afd00033e9ccea76

With that c9e3c88e8d thought in 837209b186 mind, I cf08e73e01 placed the 688aff2d31 plate with c732cad8b3 the panini e2e0ee42b2 on the d1bc1d5dbe table. I neatly arranged d2be1a1f35 the utensils and 4b9d6f3a43 started to clear 5c59535cdf the tray, only ed35460cb3 to notice, a db77da186d moment too late, 3b29e72257 that the fork ea3afe74d7 was awkwardly resting 1cdc451264 on the edge cd928173f6 of the table.f3ac4e8673bd274d

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‘It’s going 302a433cf9 to fall 6a8148bfe4 over.’4d55c6e679c77b4e

Thinking it 02ada40c47 might fall, 88ece94876 I reached c33600db17 out toward ff7fa4c872 the fork.6c6e8cd87c4ae52c

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However, just then, 7109c26e65 the man, still fd5e914e21 staring at his e181a44126 phone, raised his d8f042ee7d hand and grabbed ebfd3b2231 the fork. In the process, my 7663db06de hand ended up resting f316601a39 on top of his.78b1f61c92ed9021

‘…Ah?’a9efd9a9fcac5a8e

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My brain 3f7af0b04d malfunctioned for 2a3b517c5c a few a7862a6de2 seconds.c9450cce72b80978

There was something warm under my palm, and I couldn’t help but wonder why was the fork so warm. His hand, despite its delicate appearance, was solid, with thick joints and a firmness to it.0efcd975bce96f93

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What I touched…. isn’t a fork? As soon 6f5d47ddca as the 9c4abf13e8 thought came d3cdcaf642 to my, d895aa45fd I snapped 26328d1acc back to 9095fb9faa my senses 85997be627 and pulled 734350150c my hand e344ff1204 away.5bfa43ff585e673b

“I’m sorry. That, wasn’t intentional. I just tried to grab the fork but touched your hand by mistake. I thought the fork was about to fall off the table, so I just tried to catch it before it did, but I ended up accidentally grabbing the wrong thing…”bc0bc0aac27635c8

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I hurriedly 75c1f19048 explained myself. There were often 508480c971 women in the 9c502896c4 café who would 42d65b79de ask men for 17e331002d their numbers or 72946074e2 flirt, and I 446718b7ef definitely didn’t want e72940dd81 to be mistaken b169d5d7d8 for doing the 72b7386e14 same.04500e1dd85b748b

But as 1c60cfb46f I thought 4031f065a6 about it 4ec949efea more, it c97dd0a242 seemed even f4dd9a9aee stranger to 27502d401d be making b9dcdaf3ca such a a646f3d1c6 long-winded excuse a36a7a6752 over something d48de57631 like this.a2968184843165c9

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“…Haha, enjoy your meal.”d88b9d623ecf71e3

I hurried c5bc1d8d99 to leave, 4690242b76 but at dcb63ce554 that time, 202408eef9 my hand fc742daff0 was suddenly 79c8a2a136 grabbed. Hesitantly, I 172d2c9aaf turned my a4c7e2f3d1 head, and 9299c35f73 saw that 76fadfbfb7 the large b6956eae1d hand from 3171758c2b earlier was 78f30e31a5 now wrapped bbafbaa7f6 around mine.0a2c27eed3bc5edf

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The man, now c9a94cb989 having taken his 09bb8337fa eyes off his 481ed6036d phone, was staring 2da82a0e98 blankly at the e3d8f0136b hand he was 8008c8687f holding. For a moment, fc1127a857 I thought that 59d2720ed0 the sight of 1fe7a9bcb9 his long eyelashes cb92bef2ba casting a faint aff6fe80a5 shadow on his dfbd3f22c1 cheek looked like 4de53beb6d some kind of 842b62f2a6 work of art. But then, f36909334e my thoughts b4560540e6 snapped back, df2cea62f8 and my cf6ca3be91 mind went 5c1588bf49 cold.3086b54085f5e298

─No matter what the bc23230acc reason, the moment I 2d3c6cc4c4 get caught like this, fc2c1d861b I’ll be the one ef1986fd0a at the center of b78d75df12 the gossip.97ce81a0c82d524d

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Whish.680fa3f419e0e7ad

I quickly pulled d7fee2bd2b my hand away 9bd1e0501d with a firm 719c110eb7 jerk and immediately 67df2d7db6 looked around.be7d052d43a9be97

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Fortunately, the e488cd3ff2 café seemed ec56ebc171 busy, so c95e3818ba no one 6376e7ff3f was paying f2a80b4676 attention to 545b001ff3 us.a1448f33c80978b8

But being with 931389846f the person of 8a6e70baec the center of 39a5b9c3cb attention, I couldn’t 09271506d1 completely relax, so 638a8880b5 I asked casually ce8ae81ba5 to try and 874e156533 smooth things over.5dfe49e1f3b5188f

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“Is there something 5ce3ac35e3 on my hand?”3fcf25f068b22f23

Normally, you don’t 1b2d579b73 just grab a 6bdc5cea39 stranger’s hand for 8ceaba3c8c no reason. But at this 23b76c565f point, I almost cd596bb41f wished he would 44c1f512ec just say that 0ea852341d was the reason.d5940a5cc569ea10

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“Ah, I guess something must have been on between my fingers.”ef7dd2fd396136fe

“….”b16a852f17948b9a

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However, he just stared cc279850ff at my hand that 45d1622ff5 was pulled away, without f38ebce548 saying a word.5dc63f8387c11634

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