It wasn’t telekinesis. Then could it be gravity-type? Those words erased all of Chris’s thoughts as he worried.
“How is this even possible, no.”
Chris’s eyes widened. Yuri had said this was guiding. However, he was still wearing gloves and wasn’t even touching Chris.
“That’s impossible. How can non-contact guiding……”
In the unbelievable situation, Chris shook his head.
He’d never heard or seen anything like this. Guiding in a non-contact state was a terrible waste. Not only was it as inefficient as pouring seawater into a cup of water, but the guide would become exhausted.
In the first place, the mechanisms by which guides’ and Espers’ powers worked were different, so guides couldn’t even draw out guiding energy outside their bodies. If anything, they’d be similar to enhancement-type Espers. In that they only circulated power within their own bodies.
This was no different from creating arms that didn’t exist. If it was guiding energy that dominated this entire area, it was an act similar to creating and simultaneously moving hundreds of those arms.
Chris didn’t know any Esper who could use this much power. Even Anong, called the guardian of the inner building, had the ability to move plants that were already planted according to her will, didn’t she? Her ability only worked limited to plants that had already grown.
S-rank, no. No, that’s not it.
Could a grade even be assigned to such a guide?
“You have to come back.”
Yuri extended his hand. Chris felt his hand wrap around the nape of his neck. The texture of leather touching his skin felt similar to the gloves that had previously given him shame, so Chris flinched unknowingly.
“Take it.”
Yuri handed Chris his coat. When he remained stiffly frozen and tried not to accept it, a sigh-like whisper flowed into his ear.
“You’ll wet your pants.”
Being able to do guiding without touching a single finger was ultimately consistent with being able to instill heat in Chris without touching a single finger.
Gritting his teeth, Chris had no choice but to obediently accept Yuri’s coat.
Once he draped the coat over his arm to cover his lower body, Yuri pulled Chris along.
Though he didn’t apply strong force, Chris’s body moved following Yuri. His feet, which had been stuck to this spot and wouldn’t budge, took steps without hesitation at Yuri’s guidance. It was like becoming a sailboat drifting in ocean currents.
It was a strange sensation. This feeling of his own body but under someone else’s control.
Chris was returning on his own two feet to the space he’d fled from.
Their side-by-side steps made the two look more like lovers than kidnapper and captive. Even while being dragged back, Chris kept observing Yuri.
Yuri, who wore only a thin shirt, showed no sign of being cold while walking through this frigid winter. Only the exposed skin reddened slightly, making one guess that the cold wind was scratching at Yuri too.
The main gate of that heavily guarded abandoned factory zone sent Yuri beyond the wall without even inspecting him. The guard he’d planned to knock unconscious in case of emergency showed himself offering a salute with his body tensed. Yuri passed indifferently in front of him.
Chris was being dragged along helplessly by Yuri’s hand. Though Chris’s hands and feet were free, none of those passing by showed any sign of concern about this.
Even when he was first captured, it had been hard to understand Yuri. Though a civilian was restrained, facing a trained Esper alone bordered on recklessness. An Esper’s basic physical condition was far superior to an ordinary person’s.
The same went for guides. The nature of the power they possessed only healed Espers, not the nature to attack and suppress others. Guides didn’t differ much from ordinary people, and this was one of the factors that made them difficult to find.
Now he knew that what Yuri possessed wasn’t arrogance but confidence.
No guide Chris knew could perform tricks like Yuri. Not only was non-contact guiding possible, but its range was enough to envelop an entire block.
Even an S-rank Esper would have difficulty escaping Yuri’s sphere of influence. Because guiding was a power that unconditionally worked on Espers.
He absolutely couldn’t forget that sensation of the density of the air surrounding him seeming to increase. Whether due to the guide’s will, that power made Chris feel pressure, powerlessness, and fear rather than bringing ecstasy or joy.
He’d known that a guide’s mood could seep in through guiding energy, but he hadn’t known it could be utilized to pressure the other person.
Perhaps among the reasons Northern Light withdrew from the November Continent was Yuri’s guiding. Every Esper unit they sent would have no choice but to submit to Yuri. Though it had no use against civilians, there would be no more powerful weapon against Espers.
Moreover, even if they tried to hire ordinary people who weren’t ability users to kill Yuri, Chris Danil was always by his side.
‘I’ve never heard at headquarters that Yuri Sobolev was a guide.’
It was probably classified information at a level Chris couldn’t reach. If not a single Esper had returned alive, the upper ranks would know this.
After all, agents like Solaria who had participated in the November Continent recapture war existed openly.
In the end, Northern Light couldn’t set foot on the November Continent as long as Yuri was alive. That’s why this mission came down.
To find out if Yuri Sobolev’s strongest shield had been broken.
Realizing the reason they’d attempted a reckless mission even dispatching a guide, Chris moved his steps along the building corridor as Yuri led.
However, the place he led Chris to wasn’t the initial warehouse-like location.
The door opened, and Yuri, who entered a relatively neat-looking room, released Chris. There was even a bed and a door that seemed to lead to a shower room.
Chris didn’t mistake that he was suddenly being treated as something more than a prisoner. Yuri had decided to use a different method than before.
As if to prove this, Yuri’s gaze was sharper than before. His hand pushed Chris to sit on the bed.
“I’ve been quite lenient with you until now.”
Yuri muttered quietly.
In fact, not putting a leash on him and dragging him in for interrogation the first day they met showed considerable patience for him. It was partly because he half-thought Rosenhower had created a spy copying Chris’s appearance, but… Yuri’s heart was softer than usual at the thought that he might be dead.
Yuri had seen the dog he’d personally killed become Chris, and seen him come back to life and stand before him again. That was quite a strange sensation. Though he was the one who destroyed Chris, Yuri was also the only one who lost him. Chris wasn’t tied to anywhere in this world. He was only his dog.
‘But he came back to life.’
Common sense from the old era had collapsed after the appearance of Espers. How could people who made fire come from their fingertips and struck down lightning be explained by existing theories?
However, as with scholars of every era, there also existed those who tried to explore this incomprehensibility.
Yuri’s parents were such scholars. From childhood, he’d learned not to draw boundaries between the impossible and possible. His mind was quite flexible and he could skillfully cope with unexpected situations.
Nevertheless, there occasionally existed unexpected situations that even snatched away Yuri’s soul.
Like this time.
Yuri, who had been watching what kind of tricks Chris, who had appeared as a Northern Light agent, was playing, had ultimately had to drag him before himself.
Perhaps from that night, from the moment he pulled the trigger in the wolf’s mouth, Yuri had been seized by an emotion he absolutely couldn’t deny.
“To think you’d dare run away when you go into heat and pant at just a touch……”
Yuri’s hand pressed on Chris’s Adam’s apple and slowly descended. The buttons popped open one by one as that hand passed.
“The fact that you learned how to break the leash and run away is also quite unbelievable. It makes me wonder if you really aren’t Danil.”
Your willpower is impressive. For an Esper, guiding is more addictive than drugs.
Every step taken with that guiding behind him must have been anguish and pain, yet Chris’s escape was quite proactive. Watching Chris, who had nearly reached the tram station without even outside help, Yuri was quite impressed.
“Whether your memories return or not, you’re bound to me.”
Yuri whispered. Chris’s body trembled with a shudder at that ticklish whisper. The outerwear he’d stolen from another was removed. With no way to refuse, he let both arms hang down, and the coat he’d still been holding slid to the floor with a thud. The swelling at the front of his pants was fully revealed. Chris’s member had been erect even before entering this place.
Yuri watched Chris squeeze his eyes shut. The sight of him stubbornly holding out while his body was fully aroused was quite desperate.
Even though he’d forgotten everything about what he’d wanted or not wanted.
“What are you trying to do?”
Chris asked at the shadow leaning over his body. Yuri was too close. Though not a heinous criminal, the sense of pressure Chris felt from Yuri was truly tremendous. In fact, Chris was using considerable patience just by not prostrating himself on the floor and begging to be allowed to lick his toes.
What he’d felt when dragged from the tram station was fear. However, from the moment he entered this room, Chris’s body became restless, remembering the initial heat.
Along with the weight heavily loaded onto the bed’s mattress, Yuri’s voice dropped into his ear.
“Since I’m your master, I should take responsibility for at least my dog’s heat cycle.”
As if struck by frost, Chris’s face rapidly paled. He’d become quite accustomed to the sensation of Yuri touching his penis after guiding. But that didn’t mean he felt no excitement.
Rather, each time he struggled to suppress the pleasure that sweetly heated his body while Yuri was away, he recalled Yuri’s touch caressing his penis.
He didn’t know how to erase this sense of immorality he felt each time he realized he was becoming disheveled in the enemy’s hands.
“I can handle it myself. Please…… Huk!”
