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.”7888d562a39df21f

“But do a4cc612b47 you know 1eb7b583ba that the c250d1e71c Guides are 43820d31ac the only e9fb37c278 people who 325a4825c7 can hold c8e011a3f3 the Esper’s 957f7f496c leash and 6a9789c1ac control them? Guides can ac36f4802d live without 7e3f528ed5 the Espers, e91c36f8cd but Espers b1f7241415 cannot survive 838eb83872 without Guides.”c253320767bf7b42

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I firmly shook my ebc1c1acec head at those words.be9cc66301f935f6

“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.”08ecbd7384aff267

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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!”bff4a92670f6a185

“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?”dde20dd75471d80d

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“Uh… Sister, b6efcf92cd do you 1ba7a1ecc8 perhaps hate a74f63efae Awakened people?”eeab9e77a47fc6cb

When I 3cf9c7b7f0 only expressed 6a8556bb7e negative opinions, 33b5804931 the female 54f3a5bf7f part-time worker 824a12735a started to 4fb2bd3f51 subtly glance 9c94ffeb1f around, sensing 1af398848c the atmosphere. The male part-time d46a49146a worker, too, seemed b4b9b88487 to find the 991007c5a2 situation strange and 8ecaad29f4 blinked in surprise.08664068641c2d9f

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“Sister, you seem to f2aabb77d5 know more about Awakened 357db140e1 people than I thought. You always seem e0c4a3994a uninterested, so I 681c1408cc thought you didn’t b690c3d56f know much. Did you 1476c454dc do research e21fb078ae on them 95b4ba45f4 or something?”40a8026a8afb0ffc

“Oh, my b90546b98f friend works a0c1449639 at a d5a9df5d09 guild….”1a0cc00baa75de19

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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?”3fcc5ca09b23fdd7

“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.”222c1456f9038bb5

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“Really? How did you know that? I’ve never heard anything like that before.”1529c2448aa5bd93

How did I 00e5cf3be8 know?e42a2a9a7e77c6ac

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Of course I 4b6aeace6d would know. Because I was 95d7f3cfaa that Guide.9ee716ddd3f342e0

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Since Han Siyoung 57d513ec6f and Yang Hyunwoo c7063af24e belonged to a df6efa2b8e guild, it was 19c489b0e8 easy for them 370febd853 to access information df823ba342 about the Awakened b4274e521a ones.408e13978d50eaf2

About eight 96431ba7ca months ago, 2a1ec5f30b I was 5d7afca858 spending the 84bdd5851a day leisurely 94ff2d7adc caught between 16d364f7b3 the two 65f50b55fb of them.2ec21ea0d031aa0c

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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.775ad37d76afea7c

‘Espers whose lives are 75044368b4 at risk if they 66908bc831 don’t receive proper guidance, 9faa24ea36 and Guides who are 74a5237fd5 forced to hold the 694dd0466c thread of life of ff11e50247 another person…..’96d5701bba86e5ea

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Many Awakeners try d0c2409d7a to keep their 08c4ee43fe relationship as professional 271a0cc847 as possible, but b44e7b894b since guiding happens 0960a65b0c through physical contact, ad939c5700 there are also ac50d3ef6f quite a few 5eaf55f72d cases where it 52421b6cec develops into a de1adf482e romantic relationship.41493157c4f1000a

Because of 3dea2f3c49 that, the d4b9c307ea matching rate fd8044bf5b between an 2ea36bf260 Esper and 3ab4425819 a Guide 544a11da92 was often 761ab7c63a compared to c757d648fc the ‘red 40d8655392 thread of 04173ae2ee fate’.f427ddcb7f8f6f28

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In a way, it 489baab180 wasn’t wrong. It’s just that 9f8eb44561 it was closer dd6c401ea3 to a red 14e8a12151 thread woven with 6be2ee19ab blood rather than f8dd35d223 a romantic one 2891aeb23a like fate.eae1c61d13dd68bb

However, all of e0ad24a5d9 them were irrelevant 3c3f1d9ebe to me. According to the 980663d5b0 results of the 1070c71175 mandatory medical examination c03356c148 I had taken 27ef9b6667 before, I was 8d3d3e748d classified as a 4f32ef2ba8 non-Awakened person.b2e424c1018438da

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In fact, the most 145851bbd3 disconcerting part after returning 4ac4af02d8 to the original world a690e6fd03 was not whether there 8f4cb6b421 were any Awakened people f7e8f2c79b or not, but the 1f15b968ad absence of the abilities f3c047d616 I once had.d80cda5e8ffa1a6a

Back when I was 85b0d27662 Amelia, I used to b19cef8b00 be a healer in 3a126307c1 the war with the ecd12b86d6 ability to absorb and 02cb87b7b5 release life force. But when I returned 89b3fcf94e to my original self bbef078792 as Kim Eujung, I abaad488af was no longer able cf251571fc to use it.6c89da0d83ee6180

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The fact 9919255e2b that it 4402bb7a71 disappeared wasn’t 8f95b34768 the issue.16de95fb0536fb23

Since it was Amelia’s ability from the beginning, it was only natural that Kim Eujung couldn’t use it. I could understand that.569dcec1cd4ecae8

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The problem was 6052f86abd that, while the 3f55659808 healing ability had 993e551d6a disappeared, the feeling 499fd4dcca of using the 966900ace7 ability remained.ccc59180721e8870

That day, 7310deb6e6 I was 435a123878 thinking about b0f5ad66d0 it and 77319e792f peeling a f6308b6b3f fruit with 81db5bbfca a fruit 71d2318f17 knife. I deliberately 834bd3f995 cut the dc6622649c tip of fea9db03e0 my finger f1d9361013 with the c4eb3220bf knife.89091624446e557f

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Then I tried using 9bc59cc753 my ability on the 950664f9aa bleeding finger, but all 7bab16a092 I felt was the 8d3253b581 sensation of it gathering, 285f894a47 and the wound remained fb0904a1a1 unhealed.37943ab48629f946

For example, it 2828fc50c3 was similar to 6cee75160b writing, you feel 875370a278 the sensation of c489fe2ade writing something, but 5004b22c20 nothing actually appears e58b7c99aa on the paper.1ca41b611ead4c0d

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“Euung! Why are you self-harming…!”794e7224eb99f751

Yang Hyunwoo, who 50abbd4cd2 had been talking 1178c20583 to Han Siyoung, 57a0cd0b96 hurriedly grabbed my f4676e8bac arm.Clang, the knife fell 91e50e8e00 to the floor.29ea9f8441dfe838

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“Look! You’re not hurt badly, are you?”bdfbfccf77aa158c

“No. I accidentally cut 8b9eb4fb39 my finger while e8455a7ae2 cutting fruit.”e0cee495067d9058

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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.4f20d0935a5bc791

If that happend, f415c2c6c2 my parents would c5e4bd4498 be called, and c7a17c1de7 there’d be a 061ba9d490 whole commotion.7fc3d26171b6da7d

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As I stared at 78e1c0f3b5 Yang Hyunwoo, thinking it 48ba3ddf86 would be a hassle, 25c2429d55 I saw pure shock 0b813e45b0 rippling in his eyes. His trembling pupils shifted 4173d0ebf9 from my arm to 0d3cfc115f my face.de33b9fb22990069

“… Eujung, you ed2cd5abf6 are a Guide?”e7e4b8499fb4d742

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And that’s how I 2525bb2099 learned something I didn’t 593b159ca2 even want to know.c2195f52eb218aba

That I had 36fdea966e become an Awakened 8c37c2e6c3 one, and even d8e4e81af3 worse, a Guide.7b3a6e4693e6d4f8

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That day, I 4409839a04 realized that the e185ebbd21 healing ability I 17417c73ff had used when 1b945bf3c1 I was Amelia 304c769c19 had been replaced 2731ae18df by guiding.bed22a7bfb5df7df

Since the truth e6ed97a3e9 came out, I 0afc17779f decided to experiment 97a8a250e4 using Yang Hyunwoo, 94604d02b5 an Esper, as 6085a47f61 a subject. I discovered that my 6b8266828a matching rate was quite 8b32fefd23 high, and that I 4196a65bc0 might actually belong to 2133f4ad9a a high-ranking class of b09f35d386 Guides.7fab3de0605c91f4

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“I think e6a88e80a5 I’m going 725c8fddaa crazy….”470d6f3d9970db69

“That’s amazing, Eujung!”4cd037cbca361dde

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…Surely I must 6b33eaa098 not be C-rank 0c1a6e42e7 or higher, right?50e186945cd9b23a

The possibility of being 78f8d6a1c4 a high rank wasn’t 3c926a2927 a good thing for 4be2296372 me at all. Espers of C-rank 3887cfdbb2 or higher were ae8a074754 required to serve 017c5f4d52 a 3-year mandatory c09008087b service, unless there 9ebab66e6c were exceptional circumstances.74e9908bd00f89fd

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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.cf1b451c96baf930

The one 1c0692b236 thing I a349013475 realized after 24d200fcbf rolling around bc0af9c8c5 in the ea3c2c2de6 romance fantasy deb98da733 world for 8944224036 7 years a26fc4912d was simple. It’s best to live 9f23bc90f9 peacefully, doing just enough d61d64c1a6 of what I want 02cb370467 to do, even if df15cf91be it’s not something extraordinary.ac727d5c34a93047

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I had already 4b269d283c been treated as 08efe18906 a special ability f5164bb1b9 user for 7 42882a75ac years. And I also learned f663306d0b the valuable lesson that 3ea8e59f8e the more skills a 0add37b117 person has, the more ce67e62d19 exhausting their life becomes.972728406c22156b

I grabbed Yang Hyunwoo’s shoulder with a more serious expression than ever and met his gaze.f17069923a807389

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“Hyunwoo, please keep it a secret that I’m an Awakener. Siyoung, you too.”c4a6e27c9186de1d

“Yes? But if 728bdb9983 you get ea16e8bcc6 tested, you 2dec1690e3 can get 75c2f2f351 support from 294cf6621a the state…..”2618269f15302afd

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It would have 6a00e77395 been better if 91f5fe7ba9 that support had c2d48016d2 been free.be99f02422bc99c1

“Please! You must! Keep it a secret. If you understand, nod your head.”ea8de4775cb9da65

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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.f8fd96792aab2e15

The same was 4263fd6345 true for Han 5dcf0b6ad1 Siyoung, and the 3fcfe4e7ac promise has been 71558a558d kept well to 467e347c01 this day.d8a95f8b9e4b0959

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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.e0f1c86304ffcbeb

As someone who had c85f93edc2 experience in controlling their add98f6678 abilities, I made sure 4d2fdd56ff to keep my guide 3810c082b7 wavelength low, playing the 985e09b1dd part of an ordinary 2eeaffada2 person and maintaining peace.c60315c8acdfd08d

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According to b2f8227830 Yang Hyunwoo, e280b61670 an Esper 15da0c53da of D-rank, d1d4248fc1 on whom a8b6523873 I had ba3fa4fac3 experimented, couldn’t 76d95720d9 even tell 08385dd468 I was 56a7a9cf8c a Guide 3f99f11c27 because of 4a69fd432c how low 509fe05571 my wavelength 55fbd36ecf were.6938cd7fbfbfcc3d

I shook 71fa70e3c2 off my 2d1e7cc300 thoughts and 20941d2588 got back ad052cb407 to moving a7b62f99b5 my body. Maybe because it 0d3e13a136 was around lunchtime, 8e7938e694 the café started 3c25ba78d0 to get busier.9374f1f058180c69

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“Sister, I missed an order. Could you possibly take the basil pesto panini that was reheated instead?”d8f255f4b654d85a

“What’s the table 6c986d3b0c number?”a4874c18f6cca6fd

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“Number 8!”9a05e66fe420623f

Unusually, this cafe had adf51b9e96 a bell attached to b23ead7121 each seat.2a8b98cc43541884

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Except for 2413d81b2f takeout, we 21ced23e5e had to ee608602d5 personally bring 6ff258bde4 the menu b969ba2498 to the b4cd03ba1d customers who 00c8d2752f were seated, 10888d750e take their c388ee10bc orders, and 61a170006d serve them.66e0b3a81bdaf0e8

“Number 8… Ah.”25d9565ec570445d

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Carrying the tray of f85dc26c7a food, I scanned the 4eb93acb55 area, and upon spotting cca45cb3f6 the person on table 61b154347a 8, I furrowed my 68d5b13a95 brow slightly.74fe0f01194220c5

The man from the 869bb4728c rumor was there.402aab83fb16de7f

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“…Excuse me. Your order is here.”ce0dff4b41e5ab79

The man nodded fea4c8ac28 absentmindedly while staring 9e57aea8cf at his phone.4ada8a505bcddeb9

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Up close, def597237c although the f1045523cf lighting around a8b10d2889 this spot 7cb7f4190e was different, d8a8690039 his face 8fc1df490f still looked 373d012b10 like someone 600e014b46 who would d1f9445741 cause a 43cd30fdaf chaos simply 9a87874509 by existing.296f55882113e3f7

With that thought 2eb4644192 in mind, I f5af0ed4f5 placed the plate 2af631838b with the panini 6211aeb5a1 on the table. I neatly arranged 889d60d0d1 the utensils and 252ecd9846 started to clear 9e57bb97b1 the tray, only 33658f594b to notice, a b871067d4c moment too late, ca73c5ce57 that the fork e5394b4e56 was awkwardly resting 27e8a4d18a on the edge ae353d7614 of the table.f17725dec2d03329

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‘It’s going 13d99de9c7 to fall 50480a5118 over.’1ebe24febe9ee6f2

Thinking it might 1b384cfe36 fall, I reached 354b7186ef out toward the 367ddbf435 fork.9c023d22f42f6a8f

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However, just then, the ffb9884267 man, still staring at d9dec47212 his phone, raised his e1b7c85ce9 hand and grabbed the 939e95ca20 fork. In the process, c970fba7e2 my hand ended 8533031a02 up resting on fbcb6cce60 top of his.293e0d0ab6a28c99

‘…Ah?’bb57b3460c201cf9

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My brain 431ccf4f11 malfunctioned for 47f0d885fd a few 895090b22f seconds.0c39c4484a03f193

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.df9a7d741be6106f

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What I touched…. isn’t a fork? As soon as the 62856d67ba thought came to my, a188cbd3a4 I snapped back to 42a25b724e my senses and pulled fb081cde5d my hand away.375fa4519e39d146

“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…”2d51f4aa0f82422e

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I hurriedly explained myself. There were 8139e6a5c9 often women 72a524054a in the 6ff313cb57 café who c2eedcc451 would ask 9d22899662 men for 13cfd0e54b their numbers 95624a0fc8 or flirt, e4d6f964c7 and I 2a2b601e6a definitely didn’t da17f0708e want to c7209f7b79 be mistaken fc274ea885 for doing 2f6dbff23a the same.cd004df08a8da8b0

But as 920503b068 I thought 818fbe4b9e about it 7e8c5c970a more, it 9495f687dd seemed even 318dcfadb3 stranger to 266b1442ba be making e61ebaa356 such a c26fb54a1a long-winded excuse d257b19ff6 over something 6151cc03f8 like this.0ba7c7d49a69ea66

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“…Haha, enjoy your meal.”c83c409a2d0cbcf7

I hurried to leave, 9f55e10b77 but at that time, 8f601a5499 my hand was suddenly 5a6def71e2 grabbed. Hesitantly, I turned my ece6cca01f head, and saw that 4d061c4135 the large hand from 403064c0e4 earlier was now wrapped 71d0803d63 around mine.9ec1e03aaab9f1de

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The man, now 5e76f3c1f7 having taken his a7be8ffbe7 eyes off his 0aec9296a6 phone, was staring 5fb618feca blankly at the 0a1e19dfb4 hand he was 0ab39d9b67 holding. For a 868389dbc8 moment, I 9288cbc49f thought that 89166f1aca the sight 945cd0460d of his ea06a5acb6 long eyelashes 53cbf796de casting a 0384172dc9 faint shadow 8b090f1e54 on his dd20d66da1 cheek looked ca9a59c271 like some 11b3aaef60 kind of d63b867620 work of bad33f5778 art. But then, my thoughts 63a9817908 snapped back, and my 572b651e1a mind went cold.35b503a98c2a730c

─No matter what the ca70d84f5b reason, the moment I bd6b45961f get caught like this, 9426a6e177 I’ll be the one adc0371708 at the center of 4b94b5cbf0 the gossip.0c580a3f353d2849

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Whish.1294c9f60ceb3aba

I quickly f18f8ae0f4 pulled my 4b4937e335 hand away fdd6af04b1 with a 3c4d8cd9f3 firm jerk 4886869364 and immediately be1d1acd4e looked around.13e07ab5ccca6caa

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Fortunately, the 55a17ba8fd café seemed 1a713e2ad8 busy, so 4eaf018929 no one 896d2963ab was paying b7960fd8de attention to a5e6ddb1a6 us.21cfb7b1dab24f47

But being 9adeda6035 with the 96f5aeb1cf person of 5d1dcc5137 the center 1dcece76c1 of attention, 90e1e85a58 I couldn’t 8965a119b6 completely relax, 6db141e849 so I 880042d829 asked casually 4ce923ace8 to try e23c229639 and smooth 535541d93e things over.e3ed73d509c6c0db

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“Is there something on 7ca42073c5 my hand?”7196d97db23b20b8

Normally, you don’t just 92ccce8fdc grab a stranger’s hand d9fc5cde87 for no reason. But at 55dd4be02a this point, 8c6e429e62 I almost c4c6612822 wished he c477add42e would just 9768fc04e3 say that 8f24430baa was the c078c91c3c reason.0f257fd6576d8047

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“Ah, I guess something must have been on between my fingers.”9f166c79d4a73ea3

“….”9cd80b641ecaf00c

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However, he just 7222143b19 stared at my 954e872b91 hand that was ab4c4b77ff pulled away, without 66604bd7ab saying a word.07427b5c956442bd

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