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.”7e577245f9d93766

“But do you know 5ab5cb03b6 that the Guides are 4896d0d436 the only people who 0ed282b61d can hold the Esper’s cf13fee93c leash and control them? Guides can 11b59ce8fc live without 2184b6f67c the Espers, c3d6e45805 but Espers e1476422dc cannot survive 1d252ebf27 without Guides.”737e2c22e5a66d55

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I firmly d8d4d35af3 shook my 81aa95bcdd head at 78f6817a7a those words.d1274cb33f757e06

“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.”06a00bfa64a71a69

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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!”ca504dd0c466ec33

“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?”e812e10ab5182161

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“Uh… Sister, do 5f50e360e1 you perhaps hate cee0cb29af Awakened people?”e2f45097c07ae4a8

When I only expressed 986289bfb2 negative opinions, the female deac1b32a8 part-time worker started to 04d9ab4f83 subtly glance around, sensing 842e45da6f the atmosphere. The male part-time worker, 2ebc77e107 too, seemed to find 83ef54819f the situation strange and cdcb850c55 blinked in surprise.753a33f5144c5f75

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“Sister, you seem 53824ef925 to know more f283fd4963 about Awakened people 54327c5688 than I thought. You always 9c22e21697 seem uninterested, 94effd942f so I 6f94a455a9 thought you 03dc08aa84 didn’t know 70db561dc7 much. Did you f7df0cfd53 do research 1f6e8d68e0 on them b942e42593 or something?”d9b0f0c954ac2d43

“Oh, my friend works 96d1d5891b at a guild….”949e9be1160a3282

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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?”7461e3a92c555f3c

“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.”4cfc13da25b4b379

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“Really? How did you know that? I’ve never heard anything like that before.”c6193750d2370dcc

How did 7f75e84efb I know?615aaac8fe48b9f7

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Of course 543fdb0af9 I would 139fd800f5 know. Because I was 322f163c9c that Guide.66d179e6852aa5ca

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Since Han Siyoung 7b8a01c492 and Yang Hyunwoo 0c9f60dae1 belonged to a a0fb962b21 guild, it was 01dac114bd easy for them c166914c83 to access information 992fef1fe1 about the Awakened 03259219fd ones.ed992a87a6ad23c3

About eight 212016cb62 months ago, b28d7d91af I was f2e21cdf1b spending the 02528fa835 day leisurely 696f79fcd5 caught between abcc7b99ca the two f1a16921cc of them.f1d6b09cd5638bca

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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.0dbc0b84f56aef7e

‘Espers whose 9215d6ad77 lives are ccac7a06c3 at risk 30d04d58cb if they 4a3017a497 don’t receive b60e490b79 proper guidance, bcd1dd424f and Guides 03b8ab62bf who are 5de269f583 forced to 5915beb549 hold the fd6b5d2c2f thread of 9109b03951 life of 30a44470b1 another person…..’9c096d709f975482

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Many Awakeners 6cfe39ecac try to f3098d7277 keep their b07148ffed relationship as 44c4eefd58 professional as 0d4070f75c possible, but a17c988bcf since guiding ac9f1ceeb0 happens through e9019b1b80 physical contact, 2bc315ee16 there are 672aa187c1 also quite 6d1a4794bf a few 946d358950 cases where 5481816215 it develops 1bb1b1e3f7 into a 1114684954 romantic relationship.3b1b9209146d7a62

Because of c238b55106 that, the 0f3b74fefa matching rate 237cdbda88 between an 1ca7a19b5f Esper and 3faa745e5f a Guide ad393bec49 was often 19e44f99f4 compared to f05f87fae9 the ‘red afc3770c23 thread of e0ddbe2fb6 fate’.b783583d0c1d7fd8

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In a fdcbca5577 way, it 533c0311c7 wasn’t wrong. It’s just that it a53f997375 was closer to a ff6aada9d6 red thread woven with 8bcf3fa402 blood rather than a 8a13088f2a romantic one like fate.ddf71c546b660eef

However, all of them 6bbe98c459 were irrelevant to me. According to the results 81e6278eaf of the mandatory medical 6efda6ad4e examination I had taken 980769f151 before, I was classified 1dd1ff90b0 as a non-Awakened person.ab3388cff2048328

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In fact, 1754af35b7 the most b5e6e7d237 disconcerting part b21d6f8419 after returning b1bf980686 to the 75b67d78c5 original world cc205b654a was not 4723b48beb whether there 743e820b5d were any 0f17e23987 Awakened people aaa2261a89 or not, fa71bb9d9c but the 21d31c6179 absence of d032d6bec3 the abilities 2a8f06e53f I once 7ee56f7536 had.e8248d1f4928aaa9

Back when I was 2a0ef8f8b8 Amelia, I used to 143cf9252f be a healer in 3e52bd073d the war with the a6dcfcb919 ability to absorb and b273aafd06 release life force. But when I 0ec6ecf91a returned to my d7cfaae716 original self as e9cc7c7fb9 Kim Eujung, I f6dd168518 was no longer 394800cbab able to use 1a2a5612ac it.6d3d9c8255e8884d

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The fact 202e48e874 that it 59e0df4788 disappeared wasn’t 907f7e7399 the issue.efa6056c28dbdab3

Since it was Amelia’s ability from the beginning, it was only natural that Kim Eujung couldn’t use it. I could understand that.ac0a464dae555c16

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The problem was that, d5bc2efbeb while the healing ability 54421a8705 had disappeared, the feeling e0b24b935f of using the ability 84ed83ab67 remained.34800dc272d5c229

That day, I a8d542c518 was thinking about 9fa72eb35b it and peeling 9db4231134 a fruit with 9675bd36fc a fruit knife. I deliberately cut 554a2c56e7 the tip of d744fdcd00 my finger with 7929fcd5fb the knife.e0610c04694fcfc6

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Then I tried using c580093149 my ability on the 04859cce2f bleeding finger, but all 252e8bf3fc I felt was the b6a7762b45 sensation of it gathering, 00389fc158 and the wound remained 8703949d81 unhealed.caaa92d1ab68393e

For example, c02640dc61 it was ff237bfa0e similar to 54d0833f9c writing, you 927d104799 feel the 363312b4e2 sensation of 0ee14201e4 writing something, 599a219139 but nothing de372855e3 actually appears 34a7656b6b on the 6d8fee94a3 paper.ab4273d492bb2027

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“Euung! Why are you 2442b544b7 self-harming…!”e9a41357a80dfe28

Yang Hyunwoo, who had 7d7437c4be been talking to Han 5fbc8d6c33 Siyoung, hurriedly grabbed my 7732e29f0d arm.Clang, the knife fell b923525173 to the floor.aa850adc2afaec14

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“Look! You’re not hurt badly, are you?”28846695fe54e76d

“No. I accidentally cut my 9053830666 finger while cutting fruit.”2985b7f37a316fb2

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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.8c1d434c40ee1940

If that cc9f3a9954 happend, my 29dc42d73f parents would 6d527db5ab be called, 6103554604 and there’d 0231320c65 be a de6232ce04 whole commotion.6ea6b9c0cc30a2d4

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As I stared 71283112e0 at Yang Hyunwoo, 3dd7511faf thinking it would 897088354c be a hassle, 112dc70963 I saw pure a04779ba10 shock rippling in deb5cf0bf1 his eyes. His trembling 37cb294c86 pupils shifted dd10247643 from my ef124d4444 arm to 496f3b1560 my face.3cda0ca66e217077

“… Eujung, you are 95a3436757 a Guide?”b761f6643fd67d33

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And that’s how 98a3e433da I learned something 57398ef857 I didn’t even e7b7ab62e2 want to know.5bc1e40dd3941477

That I 0e397b3bca had become 8c691ccc97 an Awakened e06581cd5f one, and 28e477da9b even worse, 92c73613eb a Guide.f0b1b95bd9b73bd6

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That day, 13bfa2032d I realized 4d895cde4f that the ba1bff500a healing ability 1d22300051 I had a92efb96fe used when 33fc664690 I was cb2833c6fa Amelia had 24275e06fe been replaced a3ca45f5f7 by guiding.453dd241803f4a01

Since the truth came ebccf8ef0d out, I decided to b99c957ba7 experiment using Yang Hyunwoo, f697b19eba an Esper, as a 505ac2dc16 subject. I discovered that 1129d7d4ff my matching rate 41fd53c216 was quite high, c5d90885cc and that I cd9cf35d81 might actually belong d300d657ad to a high-ranking fa30ad4348 class of Guides.0de1d272455b1892

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“I think I’m going b55b8d8025 crazy….”02f29214c41b447c

“That’s amazing, Eujung!”8ae0e3d9395134aa

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…Surely I 7010886de0 must not d2cd5e4b0b be C-rank 63f1b46aff or higher, 8624665fbb right?5913a4776f2ceefb

The possibility of b97bf92f1c being a high 4117e4123b rank wasn’t a 31d1f705b7 good thing for 80df5a129b me at all. Espers of 01dd16dead C-rank or 3f0b73547e higher were 7f55129e7d required to ed321bf9bd serve a 7bf7ba6f73 3-year mandatory 984f405ceb service, unless 21a8c377fe there were bcfd5e5736 exceptional circumstances.b982dc01ee59e244

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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.6617ec12374c3c1a

The one thing 04b2a82775 I realized after bfa08675f0 rolling around in 74fa7b0547 the romance fantasy a5dcd7c090 world for 7 94289cea8a years was simple. It’s best to 768901cb09 live peacefully, doing ef5dac80e2 just enough of 619244f3ba what I want a3589dc9b1 to do, even 734ba53c63 if it’s not e4387b69e7 something extraordinary.3a535931c145bc41

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I had already been 19ad6f24f9 treated as a special 32023f1bb4 ability user for 7 fbf3c900bd years. And I also learned 545ff8b5fb the valuable lesson that 9eeaf7d873 the more skills a b76b3e9134 person has, the more 29366084a3 exhausting their life becomes.1dca76a64c5878de

I grabbed Yang Hyunwoo’s shoulder with a more serious expression than ever and met his gaze.44cc5faa8de69653

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“Hyunwoo, please keep it a secret that I’m an Awakener. Siyoung, you too.”281aab30c66c9201

“Yes? But if 5b50b6bb71 you get e7071f5e40 tested, you 8ad7722204 can get 25328d735d support from 450c7033bc the state…..”0b2b97cbc3813168

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It would have been ec42ee100b better if that support 95b6a302f0 had been free.f082d5df4229655d

“Please! You must! Keep it a secret. If you understand, nod your head.”fc52ed406fc90dbb

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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.04cf914b7e79fc49

The same was fc1ba6dbbc true for Han e8d4b0f30c Siyoung, and the 454ca253e9 promise has been 47bff5cfcd kept well to 589c029d8d this day.f6d1fc539b96fbe3

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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.c8b23a9a066d764c

As someone fbb03d2687 who had 1071ff9612 experience in 76cc2bb3f8 controlling their 20b9f81406 abilities, I 062b0946fd made sure 4cdf8eb862 to keep 54196c24ad my guide 69c7fdbeb2 wavelength low, 7dbd9138ee playing the 202044a505 part of 1be2f6d24d an ordinary ba3600a376 person and 10040056b6 maintaining peace.5f3c5c740174c2ff

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According to Yang Hyunwoo, 7d2ca71ed3 an Esper of D-rank, 981d53a487 on whom I had 5e838c816e experimented, couldn’t even tell f5c61f9a4d I was a Guide af63908e63 because of how low 515f2297bb my wavelength were.3372d6896d48a5b4

I shook 7957549e7d off my cb8419fd9b thoughts and 4e1d750d6d got back b0d645dde8 to moving bf7024d5a9 my body. Maybe because 4116c3d1f0 it was b40a8cf15a around lunchtime, 0c116e3f6f the café 22295f7b54 started to 6cf05d2edb get busier.2dc2ffe7e8384d78

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“Sister, I missed an order. Could you possibly take the basil pesto panini that was reheated instead?”14a4644ef3ff62c5

“What’s the table a66a212609 number?”e4764b014dbb37bb

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“Number 8!”7f614d20df41c9f4

Unusually, this cafe had f1a99c84e4 a bell attached to ceeaa54913 each seat.3282ca1bd9f03a73

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Except for takeout, we 417c51254a had to personally bring 2f10e8c68f the menu to the b4a2133a93 customers who were seated, 2db8ec52dd take their orders, and bc95f1c217 serve them.b2408d4637e7d50d

“Number 8… Ah.”61e1658bda82b806

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Carrying the 7115a19d8c tray of 778635e4d6 food, I 6a6943a87e scanned the 99a7c7da05 area, and c633018516 upon spotting 84afb5a7d2 the person 2ea1349119 on table cb2407eb09 8, I 05b5534542 furrowed my 5776aeefb5 brow slightly.500d0f53cab00d29

The man from cb6d082155 the rumor was ca9cb2f5fc there.cd41d2b26b68a538

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“…Excuse me. Your order is here.”ade948bb10101b1a

The man nodded c8faeaaf9e absentmindedly while staring 214ef4574a at his phone.5b2b21afc4595e7b

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Up close, although 2dabf62fb5 the lighting around 40f09b3320 this spot was c7bd2a2cf1 different, his face c154758e5c still looked like b3fbfd9147 someone who would 577c3aed79 cause a chaos f3bda82c9c simply by existing.0fbab2733f867f48

With that 8b085dca83 thought in 3fe79390d6 mind, I 9e3b5e9a5f placed the 8bd939aeb0 plate with 916250c8bd the panini 3087f28b29 on the 3442154590 table. I neatly 29a36b1a6d arranged the 5567321182 utensils and 58573573a8 started to 3ee058bb58 clear the d80cbced93 tray, only c23163c74f to notice, 2bd9a368cb a moment c5495e0db0 too late, 2a30590e59 that the eead80b01b fork was adf96f8f32 awkwardly resting 6f2cd2b70f on the 785599c875 edge of 21dfdde25e the table.ceb7e5e2d6c11e0c

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‘It’s going to fall 67c7f0f6ae over.’2690b1750119639f

Thinking it 66c6b3ea58 might fall, df412abc98 I reached 8e62f86ce1 out toward 0bf46aa678 the fork.eea8469697738ea5

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However, just f408ccc576 then, the f47b3958f3 man, still 1e4728de7b staring at 067bda74d2 his phone, 6f0fc904e7 raised his d52b827039 hand and bcf444d671 grabbed the b2a793cdd3 fork. In the 92a5fc2035 process, my 31aa95581f hand ended e9db5b8a18 up resting d0f583eae3 on top 18a6104951 of his.9bb63f826b212720

‘…Ah?’68cf70a6dbf26541

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My brain b2cc47089d malfunctioned for b7b68a134f a few b236f54155 seconds.e83aa3bb24ea1ac2

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.a2f8b463af59b969

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What I touched…. isn’t a fork? As soon as the 88d8f9d959 thought came to my, 83a8b1d982 I snapped back to c7560acefd my senses and pulled 27acb5b7ca my hand away.486c73d93f7cbc19

“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…”8a7f3dbf579e460c

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I hurriedly 9167e212f4 explained myself. There were often 02fcac0a3c women in the 8bb6dd424c café who would 66207fdbf6 ask men for 0f0784a248 their numbers or b469677982 flirt, and I 666d5508fb definitely didn’t want c27b171232 to be mistaken 314a5a5d55 for doing the 9d836a22b5 same.ca734b0430df7a1b

But as I 987274d85c thought about it 8d4b645379 more, it seemed 50f8d748ef even stranger to 0729016e17 be making such cc29c3af24 a long-winded excuse 74f3358b25 over something like b6a6e3b1a1 this.2b86b96fe664fc0a

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“…Haha, enjoy your meal.”c54a81f5eef4082d

I hurried fc057364f8 to leave, 6f08979de1 but at abc5c09616 that time, 3880c502c2 my hand edcd42ceed was suddenly 943712f658 grabbed. Hesitantly, I turned 7873223873 my head, and 0deb73f5e4 saw that the b63dd43f30 large hand from 9c61f2ba1d earlier was now 2a98a72740 wrapped around mine.8be075d471945c01

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The man, now having 8e50f11d92 taken his eyes off b5ca4beaf1 his phone, was staring 6ba12caf5a blankly at the hand 20c81c90c4 he was holding. For a moment, e634df70a8 I thought that b4a17118ba the sight of 7edaf56765 his long eyelashes 5af99fc49d casting a faint 35899edb12 shadow on his 7bc5094f80 cheek looked like d36c01678e some kind of af53df0ef8 work of art. But then, my 98e1661384 thoughts snapped back, 1c6cb6667e and my mind fd096cec23 went cold.60db1488f00875ca

─No matter what the cc26d42588 reason, the moment I de7ad119b2 get caught like this, 7a93a7df90 I’ll be the one 274227d377 at the center of 22e9ae0e2e the gossip.b5ef95929bc545eb

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Whish.9752ec17113dd6fb

I quickly pulled my c4b2a8b2d3 hand away with a 0ed85b359f firm jerk and immediately 50ebb8feae looked around.865652f17d523aca

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Fortunately, the café 8330d84366 seemed busy, so 094a21d81a no one was fc612c069c paying attention to d8aebaeedd us.0c9dd19f9bb21235

But being 839aff3b30 with the dc7d3f4305 person of 0fee43810a the center 0aa084e09d of attention, 417e13bb3f I couldn’t 50e16abd9c completely relax, 58e9c1b521 so I 3aaea9a976 asked casually 1226494a23 to try 975ef51708 and smooth 52c3975ef4 things over.57dd249e00ec6db1

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“Is there something on 31345699fe my hand?”5fef0c4a426ffb69

Normally, you bae830d1b4 don’t just 824d614ca2 grab a 8e6d73e066 stranger’s hand 0b63de7cec for no f5e432f55f reason. But at this 31639160a9 point, I almost 5be474acdb wished he would 84fab83f76 just say that 745bddb6bf was the reason.9e4f9ec08292c5bc

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“Ah, I guess something must have been on between my fingers.”c20acf087bf5a56f

“….”0806db8cb23e7321

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However, he just 215b9007a1 stared at my f8c79e31e0 hand that was dac856b203 pulled away, without b4aee9308a saying a word.1ec6d62c228c0206

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