His waist still felt like it would be pulled out, and the place where Ha Daehoon’s huge penis had been stuck in felt uncomfortable. This morning too, Ilkyung had carefully traced his folds wondering if his hole was open. After doing so, he didn’t know what to do with himself from the embarrassment that rushed in.
This morning too, Ilkyung had ground his teeth saying if he had sex with a man again, he’d change his surname. Really, how did life end up like this? Right now he was just enduring it because he was too busy, but he would definitely get revenge on that shaman bastard! Ilkyung had been sharpening the blade of revenge since morning.
“Give me a massage?”
“This is the Center. What are you doing?”
When Ilkyung looked at him with an expression asking if he was crazy, Daehoon shrugged his shoulders without making any expression. Daehoon’s expression subtly made him irritated.
“But what would be nice?”
“It’s nothing.”
“Tell me, what is it?”
“Just the Espers. When they receive Guiding from Guides, their injured places and depleted stamina recover quickly.”
Ha Daehoon chuckled. As always, Woo Ilkyung envied ability users. Even though at home he acted as if being the only one without abilities didn’t matter anymore, the signs of envy kept popping out here and there.
“It would be nice if I could give you Guiding, but it’s a shame.”
At Daehoon’s words, Ilkyung couldn’t particularly find words to answer, so he just wrinkled his nose. The two of them had broken up anyway. It was a contract relationship, but since they’d broken up, he no longer wanted to meet personally, let alone have skinship. Ilkyung was originally someone who couldn’t date Hollywood-style anyway, and he had no desire to be outed. And he wanted to return to daily life.
“Ah, right. Director-nim, why didn’t you take the pair test?”
“Form a pair with who?”
Director Ha asked. Ilkyung almost answered carelessly, “Anyone.” He grabbed hold of his departing mind for a moment and Ilkyung traced his thoughts.
Espers Lee Seonju and Yoon Bomi were no good because they’d already had their pairs broken before, and his noona Minkyung wasn’t a pair but lately had a Guide she received Guiding from quite often. Moreover, it was a waste to attach an S-rank Guide to an A-rank Esper.
“Henry?”
“Hm?”
Ilkyung made a face after he blurted out the words, wondering what he’d said.
“I have no intention of forming a pair for the time being.”
“Why? Isn’t it efficient to form pairs for big accidents or projects like this? That way you can dispatch to the scene together and do Guiding right there on the spot.”
“Assistant Manager Woo speaks as if hoping incidents will continue.”
“No, it’s not that, I’m just saying it because I think Director-nim’s manpower as an S-rank Guide is a waste.”
Daehoon looked at Ilkyung quietly. Daehoon was choosing his words about what to say, then stopped.
“I have no intention of forming a pair for the time being. And just because I’m not forming a pair doesn’t mean I’m thinking of asking Assistant Manager Woo to date again, so you can be relieved.”
“Wh-who said it was for that reason? And now that the contract relationship is over, stop bringing private matters into official work.”
At Ilkyung’s words, Director Ha chuckled. And that was when it happened.
“Assistant Manager Woo, you were here? Ah, Director-nim. Hello. All the Espers have returned now? I think you need to tell them about the Guiding rooms.”
At Section Chief Kang Juyoung’s words, Woo Ilkyung snapped to attention.
“Yes, I’ll go right away.”
Ilkyung bowed his head slightly to Daehoon in greeting and left the break room. As soon as he came out, Henry was walking from far away.
“Oh, Daehoon.”
As soon as he spotted Daehoon coming out behind Ilkyung, Henry greeted him warmly. With his tall height and blonde hair fluttering, he approached. As befitting an S-rank Esper, he seemed to have done a lot of work—his neat appearance was nowhere to be seen, covered here and there with dust and soot. Even so, perhaps because he was so handsome and tall, it wasn’t really noticeable enough to matter.
Henry saw Ilkyung and raised his hand in greeting. Ilkyung waved his hand and bowed his head in return. From behind Ilkyung, he heard Daehoon chuckle softly. When he turned around with a displeased face, Daehoon had an expression as if he hadn’t done anything, which made him even more irritated.
“Assistant Manager Woo!”
Section Chief Kang called Ilkyung again.
“Yes, I’m coming. Ah, Henry-nim, you can go to Room 1.”
“Okay! Daehoon.”
Henry answered Ilkyung and immediately called Director Ha. Just being able to call his name like that seemed to indicate they weren’t ordinarily close. What kind of relationship did these two have? Ilkyung carried this great curiosity as he ran to the Espers who had just arrived.
The accident was larger in scale than what had been reported on the news. Until now, there had been no fatalities in the accidents that had occurred. Even if cars were completely burned, there had been no casualties. But this time, the tour bus driver had died. It wasn’t due to the fire but because a freight truck had crashed into them. The news had already shown the driver’s seat side of the tour bus caved in deeply. Watching that, he’d expected there would be serious injuries, but it seemed it had ultimately led to death. The other people had moderate to serious injuries and were all transported to the hospital, they said.
“Noona!”
He saw Minkyung at the end of the corridor. As soon as Ilkyung confirmed there were no people around, he called Minkyung and ran over.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah.”
His noona’s face looked pitiful. She was full of signs of fatigue.
“Get guiding quickly and go home.”
“I don’t think I can go home quickly.”
“Why?”
Ilkyung had thought everyone would go home quickly after receiving guiding, but he was surprised by the unexpected answer.
“Henry seems to have figured something out. Wow, but really Henry is on a different level. I was amazed at how he did the work of several people alone.”
Ilkyung looked at Room 1 where Henry had entered with indifferent eyes, but inside he was actually a bit noisy.
“But Henry figured something out?”
“I think we need to look into it more, but this time neither of the accident vehicles were tanker trucks or gas trucks. And the accident pattern is a bit different too. The scale seems to be gradually increasing, so I think we need to catch them quickly. There’s also the investigation that Director Ha and others have been doing continuously, so I think we need to have a meeting based on that.”
“But does that need to be done today? Everyone must be exhausted.”
Ilkyung furrowed his brow looking at his noona’s haggard appearance.
“Espers will be fine soon after receiving guiding. After receiving guiding and washing up, they’ll be fresh and clean again.”
It was a world Ilkyung could never know. As a non-ability user, Ilkyung was sufficiently tired just from working past 6 o’clock. And his body had been continuously unwell. It seemed to be because of what happened over the weekend, but if so, do ability users not hurt like this even after having sex?
“Ilkyung-ah, hurry and go in.”
While he was spacing out thinking about other things for a moment, his noona spoke. Ilkyung, who quickly grabbed his wandering mind, nodded.
“Ah, noona. Today you didn’t assign Director Ha’s guiding, so is Director Ha also staying late?”
“Yeah, he’s the team’s general manager.”
He’ll be with Henry the whole time? Will they eat together? Will they have a drink? Will they talk all night? And won’t the two of them get tired? They’re ability users and they can just receive guiding.
Ilkyung’s feelings were complicated. He became depressed for no reason.
“Noona, I’m going.”
Ilkyung roughly waved his hand and turned around. Had Henry entered Room 1? Then where did Director Ha go? Feeling strange for no reason, Ilkyung wanted to leave the Center quickly.
* * *
Guiding took roughly 30 minutes to an hour. That was the usual. The higher the matching rate, the more the guiding time was shortened, and Woo Ilkyung had assigned them so brilliantly that guiding didn’t even take 30 minutes.
All the Espers who received guiding and washed up gathered in the conference room 30 minutes after entering the guiding room. Ha Daehoon chuckled thinking about Woo Ilkyung’s matching skills.
Woo Ilkyung didn’t call himself for any guiding today. Probably because it was awkward to see his face after a one-night stand. When did he always use him like a guiding machine, but today he completely excluded him because it was awkward. Despite that, he paired people with high matching rates and sent them to the guiding room, so Assistant Manager Woo Ilkyung’s skills were acknowledged.
