# Chapter 114
Jaehee immediately tried to follow Dohyun. He couldn’t stay still due to anxiety about what Jiwoon might do next and concern that Dohyun might be used by him.
“Hyung.”
But Jaehee couldn’t take even one step outside the door. It was because the door was firmly closed before he could even approach it.
“Where are you trying to go?”
It was Geonwoo. Geonwoo, who had firmly closed the door, looked down at Jaehee while blocking the door with his large body.
Jaehee looked up at Geonwoo and said.
“I think I need to talk to Dohyun again.”
But Geonwoo didn’t open the door. Instead, he looked at Jaehee with hardened eyes and asked.
“Before that, you have something to tell me, don’t you?”
“Huh?”
“Those words from just now, what do they mean?”
“What… words?”
“To be careful of Jiwoon.”
Geonwoo asked again. There was no backing down.
“What does that mean?”
“…That is…”
“Hyung. There’s something you haven’t told me… right?”
Geonwoo looked at Jaehee with distorted eyes and said.
“You said you had something to confirm with Guide Yoo Jiwoon. That’s why you asked me to step aside.”
Geonwoo took one step closer to Jaehee.
“What is it? Why are you telling Esper Kang Dohyun to be careful of Jiwoon?”
Geonwoo recalled previous memories. Throughout numerous regressions, Jiwoon had been a quiet character who only cried silently behind others.
But what was it? Strange incidents had been occurring one after another since entering this cycle.
‘…Yoo… Ji… Woon… Be… Careful…’
Geonwoo also remembered the words that Minhun had said to Jaehee before dying. Geonwoo had also been by Jaehee’s side when those words were spoken. Moreover, because his senses were more sensitive than others, he could hear that small sound. And now, those words were coming from Jaehee’s mouth as well.
“Hyung. Tell me. We agreed to do everything together.”
Because nothing was certain yet, Jaehee hesitated to speak.
“A way to change fate…”
But since he had agreed to be with Geonwoo, Jaehee decided to share everything.
“I thought that Jiwoon might be the key to that method.”
At those words, Geonwoo’s eyes widened.
“Why?”
At that question, Jaehee hesitantly lowered his gaze for a moment, then met Geonwoo’s eyes again and slowly asked.
“If I say that I know the predetermined fate… can you believe me?”
Since what he was about to say was something that would be hard to believe, Jaehee cautiously broached the subject.
“I’ll believe anything hyung says.”
But the answer came back without even a trace of hesitation.
“So…”
At Geonwoo’s words, Jaehee gathered courage. He began to tell a story he hadn’t been able to tell anyone. Geonwoo quietly listened to what Jaehee was saying.
The predetermined fate.
Choi Geonwoo, who is connected to Yoo Jiwoon by that fate.
Lee Jaehee, awaiting an unhappy end.
‘So that’s why.’
After hearing Jaehee’s story, Geonwoo recalled the past.
‘Geonwoo, your match is… not me.’
When hyung was drunk, he often revealed his hidden true feelings without even knowing what he was saying.
‘Then who is my match?’
Geonwoo, feeling hurt, asked back.
‘…Yoo, Jiwoon.’
But instead, hyung made an even more sorrowful face and said that.
‘Why do you think that? Why do you think my match is Guide Yoo Jiwoon?’
‘Because fate… says so.’
Seeing hyung speaking as if he knew the predetermined future and feeling depressed, Geonwoo didn’t know what to do.
So he drew a line with Jiwoon even more firmly. Because he didn’t want to make Jaehee anxious, because he wanted to let him know that the direction of his emotions was solely towards Jaehee.
Hoping that hyung would say that Choi Geonwoo’s match was Lee Jaehee.
“What kind of fate is that.”
Geonwoo looked at Jaehee, who had finished his story, and said.
“It’s all wrong.”
A resolute voice continued.
“You won’t die, you won’t be unhappy, and you’ll be happy for a long time.”
“…”
“And my match is you, hyung. Not Jiwoon.”
“Geonwoo.”
“For me, there’s only you, hyung. From the beginning to the end. Only you.”
Having learned the reason behind those words that Jaehee always said when drunk, Geonwoo spoke even more certainly. That his only match was Lee Jaehee.
“Now let’s find out together. What Jiwoon knows, what he’s hiding.”
Hearing that, Jaehee’s expression changed a bit. Just as Jaehee was about to open his mouth to say something.
“Are you in there? Urgent message!”
An Esper urgently knocked on the door and shouted. Geonwoo stepped away from the door to allow the Esper to enter. Soon the door opened, and the Esper who entered the room looked at Jaehee and Geonwoo and urgently said.
“Guide Lee Jaehee! Esper Choi Geonwoo! Emergency assembly!”
It was a sudden assembly order. Geonwoo and Jaehee hurriedly followed the Esper to the assembly location.
But it wasn’t just Jaehee and Geonwoo. All Espers and Guides in the Center responded to the emergency assembly and gathered in one place. One of the examiners shouted loudly as he looked at the people gathering one by one.
“There will be an explanation regarding the gate soon, so please take your seats.”
At those words, the venue buzzed. The only ones who remained calm here were Geonwoo and Jaehee, who had memories of the previous cycle. The current situation was reenacting the previous cycle exactly. The reason for assembling all ability users like this was because of the S-class gate that was currently being created.
“Please wait a moment as there are still people who haven’t arrived. We will begin once everyone is here.”
As he said, ability users entered one by one belatedly through the open door. Meanwhile, Jaehee looked around. He grew worried as he couldn’t see Jiwoon, and Dohyun wasn’t visible either. But no matter where he looked, the two people were nowhere to be seen.
Then the last person appeared. The one who opened the door last and entered was Kang Dohyun, whom Jaehee had been looking for for quite some time.
“Dohyun…!”
But Jaehee’s gaze soon shifted away from Dohyun. He stared at the person behind him. It wasn’t just Jaehee. Most of the Espers focused their attention on the person behind Dohyun. They couldn’t help it. Because it was none other than the S-class Guide Yoo Jiwoon who was behind Kang Dohyun.
“…”
When Dohyun, who had been looking at Jiwoon, raised his eyes, he immediately met Jaehee’s gaze. Perhaps surprised to see him appearing with Jiwoon, Jaehee’s pupils were greatly dilated. Jaehee was about to rise from his seat as if about to approach immediately.
But there was someone who stopped that.
“Everyone, please be seated! It seems everyone has gathered, so we will begin the explanation about the gate immediately.”
As the Center Director and Dr. Yoon all gathered, the examiner shouted while looking at everyone.
“…”
Jaehee had no choice but to sit back in the chair. He turned his gaze to look ahead. Jaehee’s hands were tightly gripping the armrests of the chair. The entity he was most worried about was next to Dohyun.
Geonwoo’s gaze shifted as he saw Jaehee’s hands. To Dohyun, and past Dohyun to Jiwoon.
And he reached out and placed his hand on top of Jaehee’s, enveloping Jaehee’s hand. To prevent Jaehee’s anxiety from growing.
“It has been confirmed that a massive gate is being generated around the Center.”
The examiner began talking about the gate, looking at the ability users.
“The wavelength values that have been identified…”
And the gist of the following words was that it was a misjudgment.
The faint wavelength flowing out as the gate was being generated was a situation that the Center side was also detecting. But because lower-grade gates were frequently generated normally, and the detected wavelength values were not high, they had been careless. They had naturally judged it would be a lower-grade gate.
But suddenly, the wavelength value rose exponentially. The once faint wavelength had increased in an instant, and it was still ongoing. The value was continuing to increase to a threatening degree.
The Center side could no longer ignore this situation. They had to gather ability users to explain this situation and warn them.
“The wavelength values coming from the gate are rising at a rapid pace.”
The examiner spoke with a tense face, looking at the ability users.
“The currently measured wavelength value has risen to a value similar to the A-class gate that opened previously.”
At those words, everyone murmured. The venue quickly became chaotic.
“At present, we are judging that it could be at least an A-class, and assuming the worst, it could be an S-class gate.”
