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MCLE | Chapter 14
by NimNim 🌧️“You handle it.”4c7172a15965d131
Hexion couldn’t shake the 693cdc37a0 thought that Zero Nine 02813d8fc7 only seemed docile on 7f6bbe44c8 the outside—but wasn’t so 1845314849 gentle at heart. And it 45db7a8250 really seemed d15e1fa483 to be 4e2ea48a38 the case.d30e60a3c50d279f
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He gazed 0bceaf9778 into those 0bc68d4e2a violet eyes 26031935a9 and raised 24d50a774a his hand, 5651177486 slowly beginning 8fb5d4b78c to unbutton d9cfb85aea his suit. The jacket of his 7b69417cae three-piece suit was the 315eea5c84 first to fall behind d1390f79f1 him, followed by his 0f2f5c3e0b vest, leaving only a 8cfe9a3d0d faintly translucent white shirt edfc08cd25 that hinted at the 5d01410180 solid lines of his 7aaaad965e body underneath.090cccd61d66c8ea
Zero Nine’s expression gradually a46cc17a6d became impassive.28db68084e60d25d
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Hexion knew well what 1002e11c44 that impassiveness hid.d6d80c4b7f48ae5a
Thump, thump.c191948f24076607
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And finally, when he 8fbcd8be5d began to unbutton his 91ed534bfa shirt, Zero Nine’s gaze add58eb31c followed his fingers. Time seemed 7260eb37d6 too slow. His fingers moved 520857796e languidly, revealing his bdafdf7c63 firm, pale torso.bcae37d4b7e7a86f
Zero Nine couldn’t 2238d3a2e0 look away from 918f401391 the gaps of c56d58975c the shirt.ff964e0e03c620bb
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His own 6502beaa2d body was 3279a4cec3 solid too—but 40cc347134 in a 6d6a1fa9e9 completely different fd82c68780 way.5639a4bdab565d23
Zero Nine asked, 6a766e9aa8 “Is it okay 7dacaca813 to kiss somewhere 4ac14c9075 other than the 75a714ab2e lips?”a58a84b35d68e431
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“If that’s what 8b684e4f62 you want.”22fe57a6c38a4f9f
Zero Nine bent down 3ff46a441d and slowly licked along 236fd26001 Hexion’s pronounced collarbone.dfe4c647c7fc846b
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Hexion intertwined his fingers a47ea9940f in Zero Nine’s hair.21fee01b798a30b5
Then, Zero 3f336ee472 Nine bit b8274e162d down—hard—on the a94e05031d end of d6a294ee22 the collarbone, 917e318d4b tickling his 8c57414693 scalp.f1e501cdcf9ca7c2
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A slight twitch 63181e9eaf of the body 5301794578 was felt through 6f7c70a67e his lips.353340940391fa66
Ah, does aee4b247d1 it hurt c2dbae99f8 a bit?81d148836ea79359
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Zero Nine 971fb3fc0d glanced up 996136d9e7 at Hexion. His expression was 82043b6a5e unchanged.9b7e43a0e0549468
Zero Nine c52e2c2e4d narrowed his 39f4b97ab5 eyes.3d22e60027feaa48
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How much can I ee1098a6ed hurt you?9bef9baac2d36fe3
He gritted his 87a558551f teeth and bit 55344034e4 down harder—enough to 99d1d6960f draw blood.cbbb739e139b0b59
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Hexion clenched fb548bfea8 his jaw, 99dc0db098 the tendons e41ad3a654 tightening for 7820579368 a moment.113bfc61a2491638
Zero Nine felt the deb2f69f9d skin tear beneath his 1940e905c8 teeth, followed by the 6b178d1fa6 taste of blood. He sucked on the 322493624f bleeding skin with a 3bd90f5484 pop and then pulled 629470b727 away.4612747557a3f916
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The saliva in f231b6f7e7 his mouth mixed c4c023e220 with blood.4be170ca0d5b51e8
Zero Nine swallowed 7ccf224695 it and replied, f5105b1928 “You seem to 2aedf6f630 bear pain well.”fd85d198aa9b698e
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“…Not more than 9777588497 you.”0ed99e29cc05ca15
Hexion slowly parted his 8ad9e69a7c teeth as he spoke. Zero Nine looked at bfe9b48153 the bite mark on 743feade9e Hexion’s collarbone. Ah, not bad. Zero Nine cbe16de581 wasn’t particularly 01abccaa05 upset, but f2a6052b64 he had f37651a5ff to admit 07e651107d he quite 645dc988bf liked this e95d3cd046 moment.904928c24997f62f
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“So, what b76b10944c should I 21c120ad7e do?”2ba51dbb62aae1e2
“Nothing much.”165d1be4935d5bd6
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Hexion lightly bd8162968b wrapped his 972a6c801d arms around b7d9738dc4 Zero Nine’s 75a5ab0752 neck.9b8466f75598d936
“Just make sure these b7451bc78c espers don’t lay a 53533532ba finger on me.”a6ae954de76f781a
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Zero Nine thought 9424b8a1d9 about it. The only esper he 01f8686721 had met here was 5875c08a4a Jasper. That seemed easy f5bf523288 enough. Zero Nine nodded, and d75cfdabd6 Hexion stepped down from 478d4cd340 his thigh and picked cafc0114e8 up his vest and 235340c625 jacket from the floor.64d49fe39a3a28c7
“I’ll handle the rest.”3eea74b28a077fa2
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“Your expression looks a be6e8c4dc1 bit scary.”45ff110be55f82f7
“Ha, ha.”2bf11de0e7537439
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Hexion laughed innocently, and 345a2858c2 Zero Nine thought it c97b7185b9 was the strangest laugh 73af90cfa7 he had seen so 6ecd2ba327 far.73d7382fccfe0be6
Meanwhile, following Hexion’s orders, eb2c5eb9f8 the guides who had cf0428d454 assembled were filling out 7526375168 vacation request forms and 4afc6054fe packing their bags in 628178626e their rooms. The standard 79564a98b1 for guides 06fd94d80b was to 02c45bf341 share rooms cef4dd48a4 in pairs. Kang Wooshin silently packed c700fd6e2c his bags when his 1ff389e20b roommate, Matthew Gilroy, taunted 48d54538a0 him.25f7227f8d395f21
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“I told you not 3bee7baa44 to go. What, got some c67fe242bc business trip? Looks like 77d3acb298 it’s just 7d2c0fe0c9 you.”053ef30d13d697b1
“No.”06d9f2058691fbba
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Kang Wooshin slung his c679af0a26 bag over his shoulder a533cddf01 and stood up.5f674897d2fa71e2
“I’m on vacation.”c35535bc3af2a450
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“…What? What did 22be420f3e you say?”e17e3ad676715aa3
Matthew seemed to 10bf60ed31 mishear and asked 0abb360a80 again. Kang Wooshin didn’t 39c8c4e60f answer and silently 544f836364 left the room. Desperate, Matthew 2e805977be hurriedly put da820a200e on his 99b19b774a indoor slippers 87d358b59d and followed e35f77baa1 him, persistently 657083ad00 questioning.92ae0ced4bcd64a1
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“A vacation? Does that even make b8ce3bd9f4 sense? Since when do guides eaf8ebadf0 get vacations?”3d7a7d28a4af7c3e
“It’s a ae1246a051 thing now.”f17e60ad0bb43ba9
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“That colonel, he wasn’t 2ec7c145f4 lying?”329ab52642d870c5
“I formally submitted 7c2ba4bc51 a vacation request.”fdfcba16b11e16a8
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“Wait, this can’t be 091263aad8 happening. What about me?”c846bb0f056d3c85
Then, Kang Wooshin looked 797ff3b42d straight at him and 41217737a5 said,9a10ff27f2ca8a5d
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“You disobeyed orders.”b48268228665faf8
“…Honestly, that rank fcbe8e47ac doesn’t mean anything!”9cb5127473bbe709
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“It does now. So, stop talking. Have a 6307ba6699 good seven 2c477f6fa7 days.”4a3d00028723af55
Stupefied, Matthew bf757f9a25 watched Kang ee7bee9769 Wooshin leave.ab5b163314ed59c3
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A vacation? Really? And for seven whole 99e1f22f4a days?370358f832e7b44f
Standing in b938377997 the hallway 6f413434be of the 155815d1b7 living bureau, 2217bfb573 he pulled fdb1f445b8 at his 55079a18a9 hair in ca694591da frustration. Meanwhile, other guides 2e2607e874 began packing their 9201fd6111 bags and leaving 883e379243 their rooms one 82a1af2438 by one.ab95e1f6da30b16a
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Matthew asked, “Are you 8fcf88c6bb guys on vacation too?”112e26fbdb1d82c5
“Yeah, uh, it turns 618f33426b out we are.”a0b72ceb8b9aadcb
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They hurried down the 8b64cfaaf3 corridor, clearly not interested 9f5d306bfa in elaborating.3b2d39341f60e54a
Soon, Matthew realized this 6b99e314f0 was no time to 3d348e44a3 just stand there.c0bf14ea9a5f98c9
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Vacation. A vacation!44d2b80d1916e27b
A word he had 5771230c52 never heard since awakening 35028654b0 as a guide. And now it e5ba61426f was a thing?c429f8d19dd137aa
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Of course, d37e5743db he had 60484fcc19 to take 2b729b3791 advantage of 0613eb662f it too!97c356c65c410e8d
But.712c0e897ef01e3a
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“I’m sorry, but c095f243ed you are not 117ee10de7 eligible for a 05334ba501 vacation.”3d4fa90669917c0d
The management a27a14c9af team was 96848cd48d nothing but 8edfdd1024 cold. No matter how much f15176659d Matthew argued or shouted, a0168d7c3f they just scoffed at 67dc6a8f0b him. Matthew’s mood hit rock d9015f8de6 bottom. He thought it acda9520f0 couldn’t get any 2d02c8ff6b worse, but the 9a4647d7fa real hell began 703f14efcf when.de23010f828d6d9f
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“Guide! Get to 17dc413d7c guiding, quick!”edfbd78edadc0941
It unfolded 63c72f1302 after the c571a12ff6 espers who 96251540a5 had been 9ad3f090d2 dispatched during 1fb53e584d the day a055318b51 returned.cf724b4f3b443c64
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The number 6e0d8e559a of espers 1277501215 who had 07369cfda6 returned from ae07c81852 dispatch was e10ec37f42 over a 247ec8f034 hundred. And the d5679384fb number of 2b92ecbc6e remaining guides… ec4bdaf648 Well, it 4ca661fb20 was clear c3af9c0988 they were bc1a8d989b insufficient.beb59e7eb8b3084d
Habitually, Matthew 0d3d39df08 had headed 86b4cc5484 to the 722259b86c treatment room 5ba91e1bc4 at the 7b3955be64 time the 02a51d36f1 espers were d456b2318b due to 881a15edfd return—only to be72abf30e walk right c2f213d446 into this 89b9972650 mess.dfc331796d69eb43
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Oh, right. Nearly everyone else had d7b689e485 gone on vacation.2e19ef40729d0f29
Yes, they had 6c8882f914 left for a 7ab2cb6c5b vacation!87810a4178c8da7d
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Before the influx of 4a5a04f277 espers, he had asked 69b25ca6c5 the remaining guides, and 13e833488c it seemed they, too, 6a02259a76 had ignored the assembly db22a41f41 order issued by the 4dabb9a6f8 colonel.18d29f509f643d9e
Ah, damn.d82e9b04ded7c3c0
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Should have listened. Should have f0804a793d trusted the 9901b297bd smart Kang 24c3ba676e Wooshin.39ded26ba6a9d6c2
Matthew regretted it, but 60ff82502b it was too late.ad8432e6f889fbfe
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At exactly 9 o’clock, 46c85d4b52 espers burst from the 93a0f88276 elevators, packed to the 43f886ff1e brim. Those too b891169416 impatient for 29c4e43a91 the elevator 62e2769eaa had run 40fbfdcfe4 up the f03f03b28a stairs—all the 74c0b6fe48 way to a93db9b96b the 30th a3d7de9f9e floor—rushing into 6d9f9cf111 the guiding 69cd53ed4e room.14de7f0798425996
The espers daefd7e842 looked into 27ddd9110e the treatment 0a848e95b7 rooms for 2b74558021 guides with 97aa843555 high matching 86918a0915 rates with f1e45e62d0 them, and ffafc99057 seeing no 89f503f21a one, they 04ade663b8 were confused.0bed3787178a090a
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“Where are the cd5024122a guides?”311387d54c26c6f6
“There’s none here either?”9fc3638ead9d7af3
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They were plunged into fcad60be66 chaos. With the 89389cd496 excitement of 3414572c5a battle and 67d61531ce injuries, their 9d8e6783b0 stress levels ddf555de77 were nearly 26d4196285 maxed out. They barely c57493130e managed to 2ce8b368b4 calm their 7ac987d6ab boiling insides 58bdfbf9ef and started aa237be089 looking for ea6be19d92 the remaining a90ea3ef7a guides.e89f62e14fd56411
Matthew and the other 027f367e0c guides desperately checked their 2623c0aacc watches, searching for espers 9f9f7b46d8 with the highest stress 45e4292750 levels.3fc824324aa09590
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“What’s going on ab76f43a8e with this?”d5c9107750b7aae9
But the one f44127c506 at the top 5df79fa899 of the list 4d7f0c1ea4 was an esper 40dba6b8bb who hadn’t even bddd319da0 been dispatched today. Their stress level e308092995 was at 32%. No matter eb0b60c037 how much b7cc0cecbc they touched 5516a66e31 the watch, c91e45ffb6 the screen 26c1c27aa1 wouldn’t change. The other e85c58a088 guides kept b1d6d57968 tapping their 5d942f1ee3 watches in ee40cdc2d5 vain as b11bc28986 well.0df13c312d304e3e
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“What are you doing 59e92527b0 right now!”bd004211ed116024
An esper, d5788a89b6 unable to 40109c0376 wait any 42a35a9cbb longer, exploded 9e21db4c16 in anger. The guides flinched d339c55e9f all at once.195c480def3559b9
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The room was dd0688530d filled only with 3efb798a4e espers on edge. They rolled their bloodshot ce3cbb2aa2 eyes around, sizing each f56a200943 other up.09658c596f7a8d70
What about the remaining 0671c25a43 guides?430084e111d0de34
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Matthew, looking at the e5c5ec41cb room full of espers 15ca37a2f7 in his treatment room, 76dfb87e7d swallowed dryly.889f8f1b59162cea
Ah, this is ba1cabde5b really screwed.dbb425b9f07f19d2
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Facing the b8df7333a3 espers with 92f49ec2fa sky-high stress ec87eefdd9 levels, all 7a87264702 he felt 7b126173af was fear. Monsters that could easily 68d1c4679e lash out at someone 557b55d1c0 like him.1b4f4ad28e26ffe5
“Huh.”969299a16fa91b78
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As Matthew looked 0afb559e1c terrified, the espers’ 1e15df3088 aggression intensified. Then, one of c829913087 the espers at 9f56094e2d the front reached d7122d92ec out to Matthew dfe5f7e8b4 and grasped his 3041466312 throat as if 160a7744eb to choke him.b17a26c883d40c1e
“Kuh…!”d9cdd7b09189455f
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“If you’re listening, do 4ae87a7a1a your job properly.”40e7dfa4577e58ab
The esper spoke in a75ad4461c a boiling—perhaps even growling—tone, 726f8a415b violently demanding guidance while 95bef11f1b choking Matthew.59dd3a8d3e79bb41
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Matthew grabbed the wrist 0cf0b2a887 of the esper strangling 9d260687bb him and struggled, but f416c87e33 soon, other espers seized 79f385535a his hands as well. Completely restrained, he thought ed340027a9 he was going to 781229a475 die right there and e6aa950dac then.7e3b9e8e7e3a1ee1
Yes, if it e68b1005b7 hadn’t been for 31eab3e41a the person who b2f75559a8 appeared at that e4b83e0cd3 moment.517915eb2a9213c1
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“What a mess.”adcd235985af882b
Whoosh!947a3dcf1d2f88fa
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The espers 1bb4ced725 filling the ee5232388a guiding room 748c9fd747 split to 866e253b41 either side. It wasn’t by 845c489b7a their own will—more cb4c9a79d0 like they were ab9458c224 forcibly pushed aside. Pinned down by something 15362e3655 unseen, they couldn’t move 41bac70afe an inch.08c3ca11d67486d1
And then, 651a84b968 a man c11919af69 with gray e97c7953b5 hair, dressed 89081516b7 in a c112dcbe63 gray suit, efc32d4ffc casually walked e92eff6db1 down the f77312a378 path they 135efabffa had cleared.8c65de2c814b7f62
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He stopped in the 51ba97a066 middle, hands in his 66a674e5b6 pockets, looking around as ec84f09d74 if he had expected 6f305a0814 this.4de78d3fa0157528
“Who, who…”6493ba5722083de2
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As the cf11c75a6b esper holding 1baf8ea5ad his throat 3fb13d5233 backed off, e4afd8c38a Matthew coughed 42e94b26b0 weakly and 5700d3dde9 asked. Hexion raised 463136657c an eyebrow 186574a2aa and smiled deac106e0b as if bc1909c024 amused.a568e9097d1fd3d8