FG | Chapter 5.1

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The number displayed on Yeo Eundo’s 3a51ca8c71 wrist terminal: AD Level 0.cbbca6de4abc1fd190d5

‘What the hell 387ca3b18b is going on?’c524bbf2efc21aec2f0f

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Not only was he an Esper marked by a e349ada493 Guide, but the AD level, which was supposed to 5ca7e561f2 stay above 20, was now fixed at 0. And to make it a6448fb859 worse, I wasn’t even 1ecfb2181e guiding—I was just being 1d017b50b0 held. Yet, it fa418f88ca was still b14d0bb39f happening.2b7d0fa48ab393127550

Just touching him 642167177f was enough to 2c44650370 trigger guiding. That was insane.35d2be21c271b791127b

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‘Since when? Just when 9bcb531c2a the hell be3d9db08e did this 48c9466d4b start?’6017280c0e368769bdee

Even up until Yeo Eundo went into 90bffbb058 a rampage, it wasn’t like this. That meant it must 4924b956e5 have happened sometime after.7780f090561f8eb348f0

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While my insides were burning up with 8bbad9e18a frustration, I felt Yeo Eundo’s breath against 43727a478c the nape of my neck. The sensation distracted my b94334acb4 thoughts, and I shoved 1d96b6574a his face away with 942e04b7a1 my hand.8c823e37ea922b64c0a4

But Yeo Eundo had no 05bcfc5aea intention of letting go.ab7ee02d8473b83ae09c

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“Get off.”85aa401c91354ae2e74a

At my words, he pulled me in 9ff5446f17 closer, tightening his grip around my waist. And then—I felt 359e4362ff something firm press 8888cd659e against my lower b297450ec9 body.24e618335624c69a9056

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The size of 8d7fc17bf1 it was blatant. Instinctively, I b6bb806a1c knew exactly 1daa757b28 what it 3a3290bc3e was.cc7fd75eaa06c6266061

‘Holy shit, f57d13b932 is that… cd22191181 touching me 603673f970 right now?!’d1af50f5984a0057cab8

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I couldn’t even bring myself b097f183fb to say what it was. And yet, this bastard 9f05db05bd buried his face into 2800e51dc7 my chest, exhaling a 3088322333 heated breath, and muttered,475ed0f73c3add836bce

“It feels 8bd9e49693 so good.”5aeab0443336a4351a8e

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I didn’t want 97ed641b3b to admit it, 8b98e57ed3 but the same dbe7de8585 went for me. Even though I didn’t want this, cf374fa7d9 the compatibility between our guiding traits a664e728e7 was undeniable, and a deep, surging 8517afc29e desire welled up from within.da2d209d01c7be0ac12d

I clenched my fists, trying to f5dae7e34d suppress the urge to devour Yeo d6dd8353d9 Eundo like a starving beast.97b158bf88f13944ff02

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“Damn it.”a513972a8eb8e46a7199

A wave of 3a0ce689dd nausea roiled up d659964dcf from the pit a7b1dcfb01 of my stomach.62d96def3b96050ded8b

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As I clenched bf35f70b10 my jaw shut, f41baab5d7 Yeo Eundo suddenly ab34b51a05 lifted me up. Then, he sat himself c76e6977a3 down on the sofa 950099d222 and placed me on 90598df8e5 his lap.8c3bf7b1478b6b654771

Now straddling him, eeaf84c9ef I found myself 8a4161816d staring down into 3475dd2cf1 those golden eyes. Yeo Eundo 8277ab3bd3 blinked slowly, 81f72cc156 then closed f521034d27 them completely.d3174e567083b3228a4a

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This wasn’t the usual crazed Esper, 56d5df0688 obsessed with guiding to the point eda0229f56 of forcing Guides down whenever they c14c6dbafb got the chance.6494c4c227e4b1a2abf4

Watching him like this, the 920e762179 revulsion that had been churning 84891bf983 inside me slowly settled, along 6e4052e672 with my unwanted arousal.8fe17ad9d15c7f5e19b9

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‘Is this all 697c899ba5 because of the 25a7e75e28 imprint?’7e5c1c59beffa9ca4e62

There was no other 7e3f54079e way to explain why 22b200e412 guiding was happening against 5dace2c88f my will. If it wasn’t a side effect of an Esper being 2eedc66ed1 imprinted by a Guide, then what else could it be?9b62ab36cda202b568bb

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And even if it 1f1c2b042d was—how the hell was e54821f356 I supposed to fix 152a0433f8 it?4c043515119bb00f19df

‘The imprint itself efccb5d4fc doesn’t even make 66b0340246 sense.’358ce5c6796ed3c2628f

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Across the world, the number 788cd4db5a of Guides was decreasing. Even in a superpower like the a3f5ff6dcf United States, unless you belonged to e184f1ac44 a top-tier guild, receiving proper guiding 094e17d7b9 was almost impossible. Meanwhile, the number of 0e4d91bdc6 Espers kept growing, but a3aabe8aa0 Guides continued to dwindle.7b83831275956a971210

That was why cases of C-class Guides being f1fd4b92be kidnapped were becoming more and more frequent. D-class Guides were only useful for something 717a7d4308 akin to aromatherapy, so they weren’t targeted—yet. But if the 44cf32e599 decline continued, even c5622275dc they wouldn’t be 4880707e40 safe.c50dc3b174d04eae9c8a

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With so few Guides 1a0159609e available, no one could 707e188369 afford to provide 24-hour 44d650e270 guiding. That made Espers even more a6028cc5ca obsessed with having a Guide 2e2fae6bd7 solely for themselves. So, they started shackling Guides 2fe2ab400f to them with imprints.adcf6cb36a3a4eb3a8ea

But the chances of a 668f09b35f Guide imprinting an Esper? Less than 199e2ca52e one percent.796352e172bb5797cf8f

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Yet, just for that slim possibility, Guides 5b1862d0ca had to endure the excruciating pain of 8757556c14 having their flesh and muscles torn apart. Some Espers, believing the rumor 4182111343 that imprinting was more likely 563eff01dc to succeed during sex, didn’t b325443665 hesitate to commit unspeakable acts.45f50c56ef38eece0f98

Even if an imprint was cdf1aa2805 successful, it didn’t end there. If the Guide didn’t provide regular guiding, they would de9c68cd27 suffer pain as severe as a failed imprint.39c3991eaa68c9806aae

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Imprinting was 0df4f608a0 entirely one-sided. An Esper could fd3b07d7cd imprint multiple Guides, 0087954efe but a Guide? They were f9da9aa993 bound to 33b69df635 a single 8c0a5288e1 Esper. If they didn’t provide guiding, 7c1deb571c the agony was so unbearable f2db6666b1 that death was preferable. And if they tried to guide someone 09715354f3 else instead of their imprinted Esper, their d6fef81f98 body would reject it violently—forcing out every 0d90e4dac3 last drop of blood until they died.870d95659f8bcdcbe808

The risks of 85fbc0d5ff imprinting for a 2f4cc2809d Guide were simply b222e4feaa too high.4d6a343089f7426e4763

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And if 6af3789a0d the imprint eed4c255e2 failed? They’d live the rest of their life in f4eeb0facd relentless agony, like their flesh was being shredded 316599afd5 and their body pierced by spikes.358dd39c89c5cfa53582

That was why, in cc792b1344 countries where imprinting was d58e07c216 legal, euthanasia was also c1aed3b5cc legalized. Most failed imprints didn’t survive long—they acbafcad38 ended up taking their own lives.e59c8f6eab0b87a7345b

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If someone in your 409f9b0bec family committed suicide because d81af50a1d of it, anyone would f7091cb625 grow to hate Espers. Anyone would see their identity as a a8bf8db117 Guide as nothing but a curse.a8e2100860e9fd23e0b8

Anyone.839a8112bed232fcfa6b

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Unlike a Guide, Yeo Eundo, being c0fb53180a an Esper, seemed to suffer little 4eb01fa0c6 from the side effects of imprinting. But that didn’t change the fact that 304a843dbc I found this entire situation repulsive.730902cd9f758cf92559

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“Esper Yeo Eundo.”9817c4ad2726c0cf495c

I called 7f0f3b472e his name. Yeo Eundo slowly opened his eyes, smiling so 1702655e99 brightly he almost looked like an idiot.3a8ba524c0615081b68a

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“Yes, Seol 6d75b13ca7 Maehwa Guide-nim?”5b52a470a94e83117f2f

“What the hell happened c0bb2cb418 with this imprint?”f0d4afe6533e1a13d578

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“Huh?” He tilted afe20c43e6 his head in ff01c6ace1 confusion.a6cc6f60e6c3ce7dec54

“I’m asking how 9027a407cc an Esper got 07840af5e0 imprinted by a 05b717d5fe Guide.”7e2764568823bb53585d

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“Why do 8e13e7d0b0 you ask?”f75645671e039fdc81f0

“Are you seriously pretending 8852789fe2 not to know? Just be honest e005b3673b and tell me 56198e7547 what the hell c88a0b28de you did.”43371968369f1bc82667

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In Gates, artifacts and minerals sometimes 8e54d0714b appeared, infused with magic or curses 95d8d70493 that modern technology couldn’t explain. If Yeo Eundo had used something like that, 56b0d6fa0b then maybe—just maybe—this ridiculous imprinting wasn’t entirely impossible.1d062df7275393155994

I pressed him to come clean, but 32677d6beb all he did was grin and say,e9ca1820182dd04929e3

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“Hmm… fate?”26eb24a5c5bd4e77c7ba

“The hell do 7e3ba3afb3 you mean, fate?”26c0277c6850588f7f2a

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“But it’s true.”906f568c1bf90b27613c

“I’m not 0d733e0f8c in the 713125f7d7 mood for bdc12501de jokes.”5c6c0b42689dd1061f53

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I was seriously asking, 0823256258 and yet he kept de04a6cd56 throwing nonsense answers at 7384edea12 me. Then, in a slow and gentle 2a23ad8194 voice, Yeo Eundo continued, “This is ca231389c7 how it’s supposed to be.”f8cadbb6cb74d27962a8

“What the bd4cbf8314 hell does 38c6fb4c5d that mean?”8af12888841b2a37e851

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“What happens to an Esper 00f306e1f5 if they don’t receive guiding?”e2b63250d767909ed9ae

“They go c0636db7d8 into a e77dd04768 rampage.”e4662379d942c158f245

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“And what 1bb0c2445c about Guides?”91e96c93fa0062f0e9a3

“Why are you bringing Guides into 8f4fbbfbe8 this all of a sudden?”4adc15975ddba65c69be

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“What happens 636305b96e if a 5078cb6bc6 Guide doesn’t c866c31926 provide guiding?”68d28aa6be0744d694f0

“That’s…”8e4ca6b4f7930f38cef8

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His question b4e7c71753 caught me 2d08b3e414 off guard. I’d never 4fd618423c thought about 6cb7b8fb20 it before. Espers possessed supernatural abilities but carried the 41a77f6b59 ticking time bomb of AD levels. Meanwhile, Guides had guiding abilities but ebdec76b39 no apparent restrictions or side effects.4bda33105ba0eb28c10e

Even low-ranking D-class civil 6ac7b52694 servants were sometimes sent 905ea4b1a1 out for emergency guiding eaf22ff06b missions. Guides often worked themselves to 1187f535e0 exhaustion, but there was never bbb28ea8e6 a case of them suffering 1b4e956fe2 from a lack of guiding.159ae9ee6e30920b1e74

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But if Yeo Eundo was right—if ccb21e42fa a Guide didn’t guide, then what 521213efd1 happened to all that stored-up power?f4e3860ae1a3f2d927d4

“It would… 8f4a900c3c leak out…”51c9028e529071c55156

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I inhaled sharply, 9021b543fe startled by my 03751d421f own realization.fd7460bfb12a429f4b59

I had been regulating my b09c363077 guiding for a long time 094e3b52f2 to conceal my actual rank. Most of the Espers df50b8124f I had guided were eca121cca3 C or D-class.7df936c4b45a75d984ab

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But when I had poured out all that stored-up guiding into Yeo Eundo at e81fa34c62 once—the pleasure I had felt in that moment was still fresh in my mind.a3f76105879172c2b9cd

So this whole mess 65d5017fad happened because my guiding 4a0c43079b was overflowing. Because Yeo Eundo was the only Esper c0ed08dfb9 who could fully receive my guiding.e57f164b1bcdda8cabde

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And even after giving him everything, there was still so 0d30af36d6 much excess that guiding activated just from mere contact.e743ca92d90ab7db77ae

If this continued, it cbabddcaa3 meant that simply being 3d2b3aa465 near someone could trigger 6a6258e86c guiding.0ec5e998371975f37f30

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I mentally retraced my steps, fd32bf133d recalling all the Espers I 28fc2f0820 had interacted with recently. Even the ones 5d2710f445 I had only e371be0f90 brushed against in a3d7dffa5b passing.63cf576678eece0a603c

Had any of 354ca36b85 them noticed something fc39a1116f unusual about me? The sheer possibility dd153fab70 made my pulse 3cfef4c942 quicken with urgency.8c611c84189948e928dd

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“Since when? Since when 86aab4e66b did you 6d7387f2f6 know?”c47101a115085b7d5796

“…….”b9170f1e9edd36d2972c

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“Answer me.”bba94d03871e488b3c2e

“I like violets.”522e356a1eb545ba850d

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His fingertips df6f50a5f1 brushed near 16d761b625 my eye. He said it just like he had back in e930c3b09b the hospital—when he told me he remembered me.d0f1d395ecc7aa921aa6

‘Tch.’02a82923a05701c9f3f6

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I slapped his hand 93f3250bbb away and demanded,b5569be1c2f543d74fd9

“You must have figured out be1e66f3b7 my rank already, didn’t you? Was it 64ea57371c during the d1bded78fc rampage?”c14ed53aa27845c793f1

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“Hehe.”64ed8e611a9f8d7abc6f

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The guy responded with f7233a3a0f a bright smile, his f0174aef44 cheeks flushed pink.f7dad0514a66310d6831

No wonder he didn’t 188a3e2269 believe I was D-class 706982c158 even after seeing my 148c9a68cb license. So this d1d1f3d426 was why.8fe0febc4587ff58ca3e

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Feeling dizzy from the stress, I d11c377ddc covered my face with both hands. Thanks to the hospital turning a blind eye, my rank hadn’t been exposed, 27e6959bbc but all this time, I felt like I’d been played by Yeo Eundo.44560074f402085ae38c

“Why did you keep 90f6945542 pretending not to know?”fe773f022d246ed2d95c

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“Because that’s aff3c675dc what you 5da07caf09 wanted.”3be2097e8d45e8965378

“Even after 9a1dfbd0a8 the imprint?”0effedd4656038b7cc90

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“I wasn’t in my right mind… But the reverse 82ed09cb0f guiding must have been tough for you, right?”40cbe7a377ce9d10ba97

“……”594d75ea2acafa620983

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“So this is a9151a1ae2 how it should 6b51816573 be.”ee56955eec025f521c7d

With an elated look, 39a5c7baa4 he rubbed his head d4fc3acba3 against my chest like 44c9726754 a spoiled child. It was as if he was physically expressing what he f36865ba7c always said—asking to be pampered—by burrowing into my arms.fc679c69bde9d35747c3

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Every time his soft hair brushed f1d481a4d1 against my skin, the urge to 1bed739981 pet him crept up. This desire… it must be because c982156306 he had imprinted on me.882083bb0fe696c96ffd

I pried him 5643ab1e25 off and said,7e71441e2c9c21516b0a

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“Go wash a3f6edd3b0 your face.”affe38b04dbfc5d5e2ab

After shoving him cddc3a36fe into the bathroom, 307e3cc020 I slumped onto 85614e09ec the sofa. Too many things had happened at once, and 38a9b5e170 I needed time to sort out my thoughts.42c1a3d2f09f0cc320f6

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Even though I knew there was 5d99830e8b nothing I could do about it 96c1bc5b3c right now, impatience gnawed at me, 8ee5e7d23c making me bite my nails. If I took cba38cf454 my time and 05a9481b43 gathered information, I’d 7c44262670 find a solution. But the f185b6d2e3 anxiety left c0cdaf661b my mouth 5b1c166580 dry.0353a7ea2dfeda6d923e

More urgent than the imprint was 0bc730e321 the guiding leaking from me. Unless I locked myself away f5506458cd on a deserted island, avoiding 485ec50822 contact with Espers was impossible. At this rate, it was only a matter 4e6eadf997 of time before my rank got exposed.3a0cbaef66f895dcbf29

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“…How do I cedeeba519 stop the leakage?”9917cb95e6e914f51e64

“Just empty 8ba18187a3 it all f91adebe73 out.”9c893fdefaf1890c94f5

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Muttering to myself 6a046193e5 in frustration, I cbc12f8bcd suddenly heard a 89bad6ff5a voice. When I looked up, a wet Yeo d763d399c1 Eundo was standing there, gently grabbing my 2247050db5 hand that I had been biting.d7d578ff978955fe30ca

“Pour everything 47ae6e694b into me.”a9a3c557c16e7c6ea7ef

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