# Chapter 104
Dr. Yoon came to where Jaehee was. Dohyun, judging that going to the Center might expose them to Choi Geonwoo, had called Dr. Yoon here.
But contrary to Dohyun’s expectation, Dr. Yoon wasn’t alone. Behind him was a large shadow. It was Choi Geonwoo. The faces of the Espers guarding Jaehee instantly froze with tension.
Geonwoo approached Jaehee, ignoring those people. Yet no one moved to stop him.
Geonwoo only looked at Jaehee. His eyes twisted in pain. Almost no guiding energy could be felt from Jaehee’s body. His pheromones too were flowing out weakly, affected by his body’s condition.
Geonwoo’s lips trembled.
“Is this…”
A voice steeped in pain emerged.
“Is this what you meant… when you said you would take responsibility for his safety?”
Geonwoo’s face was contorted, as if he couldn’t believe the reality before his eyes.
At the same time, the Espers’ eyes widened. Everyone tensed. The energy waves flowing from Geonwoo’s body were far from ordinary.
“Treat Guide-nim right now.”
At Geonwoo’s words, Dr. Yoon immediately approached Jaehee. He hurriedly collected blood and conducted tests. But Dr. Yoon’s face soon turned ashen. It was because the components of poison that destroy pheromone glands were detected in Jaehee’s body during manifestation.
And since the poison had been absorbed again while Jaehee’s body was already damaged for a long time, there was nothing Dr. Yoon could do. All he could do was wait and see…
“…”
Dr. Yoon helplessly dropped his hands and backed away from Jaehee. Everyone around understood what that action meant.
“What are you doing?”
However, only one person, Geonwoo, couldn’t accept it.
“Why aren’t you treating him?”
Geonwoo’s energy waves instantly enveloped the surroundings.
“How can you just stand there when Guide-nim is in this state!”
Unrefined, rough energy waves filled the room as if about to devour everyone. At that moment, Jaehee’s energy became even fainter. Geonwoo immediately turned his head toward Jaehee.
“Guide-nim.”
Geonwoo reached out to Jaehee. His fingertips trembled violently.
“No…”
His large hand caressed Jaehee’s cheek. In that state, Geonwoo released his pheromones. He could feel Jaehee’s pheromones faintly responding to the alpha’s pheromones.
But that was only for a moment. Soon, Jaehee’s pheromones dispersed fleetingly. Geonwoo reached out to the pheromones he couldn’t grasp and cried.
“Everyone, get out.”
As Geonwoo said this, he tore open the front of his shirt. Simultaneously, vast alpha pheromones filled the room.
Dohyun’s eyes widened as he sensed Choi Geonwoo’s intention. Choi Geonwoo was now trying to form a bond with Jaehee. Dohyun immediately tried to stop him. The other Espers also exchanged glances and joined in.
But they were no match. The moment Geonwoo used his ability on everyone, all except Jaehee and himself were thrown outside the building.
Soon it became difficult to even enter the building. This was because energy waves, signaling the brink of going berserk, were swirling too violently.
“Guide-nim.”
Geonwoo looked down at Jaehee and cried.
“I’m sorry. For leaving you alone…”
Countless teardrops fell on Jaehee’s face. Trembling hands caressed Jaehee’s cheeks.
As that touch continued, Jaehee gradually opened his eyes. But his already blurred pupils were sunken. They seemed unable to contain anything. Geonwoo’s face twisted even more at this.
Jaehee’s body temperature was gradually falling. It felt like he was dying.
Geonwoo regretted. He shouldn’t have hesitated.
‘What… did I believe in?’
He could see Jaehee’s lips turning increasingly blue. In that moment, several dreams of Jaehee dying flashed simultaneously. Among all the deaths he had seen in dreams, none were like this. Geonwoo was afraid that a new death of Jaehee might be added. He feared that these thoughts of his might become reality.
“Guide-nim… don’t leave me behind.”
The energy waves grew uncontrollably massive. The suppression by machines had only temporarily subdued his berserker state. In such a state, seeing Jaehee like this dropped Geonwoo’s emotions into an abyss. It made him consumed by fear.
The massive emotional turbulence instantly pushed Geonwoo to his limits. His body, unable to withstand the energy waves, was injured all over. Blood flowed from every opening—eyes, nose, mouth—without exception.
In contrast, Jaehee’s body trembled slightly, as if responding to Geonwoo’s energy waves.
“…Geon…woo…ya.”
And then a small voice reached his ears. But Jaehee didn’t seem to be in his right mind. He was just responding to the all-too-familiar energy waves of his Esper.
“Guide-nim.”
Geonwoo immediately grabbed Jaehee’s hand. Jaehee gripped Geonwoo’s hand back with minimal strength. Before Jaehee’s eyes, scenes from before the regression were flashing by. The situations then and now were so similar after all.
The final moment at the S-class gate.
Himself, who kept regretting being useless, unable to guide Geonwoo.
That moment when he wished it was him who died, not Geonwoo.
Jaehee was lost in the illusion that he could turn back that moment.
He wanted to save Geonwoo. He wanted to guide him.
“…!”
Soon Geonwoo’s eyes widened. From their joined hands, very faint guiding energy flowed in. Jaehee’s last life force spread inside Geonwoo.
“Be… happy, Geon…woo-ya.”
A faintly smiling Jaehee appeared with those soft words. His hyung’s dreamlike appearance. The image of his young hyung saying to be happy overlapped with Jaehee’s current appearance. At that moment, numerous dreams flashed before Geonwoo’s eyes. Countless memories surfaced. Even incomprehensible memories mixed together, causing confusion.
The turbulent energy waves lost their way, wandered, and shook. The waves that had been tearing his entire body gradually subsided. The guiding energy that Jaehee had exchanged for his own life. And the memories that surfaced. These put a brake on Geonwoo’s berserker state.
And Geonwoo didn’t forget what he needed to do now. He fully released his pheromones. Alpha pheromones filled the room completely, without any gaps.
Alpha and omega. Their bond accompanies each other’s lives. It was uncertain whether Geonwoo would follow the dying Jaehee, or whether Jaehee would follow Geonwoo’s life that Jaehee had saved. Nevertheless, there wasn’t a trace of hesitation in Geonwoo.
“Guide-nim.”
Countless dreams flashed before his eyes.
“…Hyung.”
Those countless dreams settled inside Geonwoo as complete memories.
“Jaehee… hyung.”
At the call of his Esper calling him, Jaehee’s body languidly relaxed.
“We… promised to be happy together, didn’t we?”
The promise made between 13-year-old Lee Jaehee and 10-year-old young Geonwoo.
That moment that became the beginning of countless regressions.
Once again, tears fell incessantly. Teardrops filled with emotion fell without pause.
The memories that were finding their complete form, like a tape rewinding, drove Geonwoo into endless sorrow.
“I’m sorry for… making things difficult, hyung.”
Geonwoo understood why Jaehee had pushed him away, and yet why he had shown such a painful face at Geonwoo’s pain.
Jaehee, who shouldn’t have known about the regression, had remembered his last moments from his previous life. He had pushed Geonwoo away to save him. To not repeat the future.
Geonwoo embraced Jaehee.
“No, hyung.”
Geonwoo couldn’t send Jaehee anywhere.
“You can’t go…”
Geonwoo begged. He desperately pleaded for Jaehee not to leave him behind.
“Where are you trying to go… without me…”
A world without his hyung, a time without Jaehee—Geonwoo had no need for such things.
His mind, gradually consumed by repeating the regressions, had made the time to recover memories from previous lives increasingly delayed. It was as if the opportunities to regress were gradually decreasing.
And it didn’t matter if this moment was the last. Even if he could no longer regress and would die like this, a world without Jaehee held no meaning for Geonwoo.
Geonwoo opened the small body and entered inside.
The bond between omega and alpha, only possible when their hearts are fully connected.
A bond that shares each other’s lives.
Geonwoo was now trying to form that.
To protect Jaehee.
To keep his oath.
For himself, who couldn’t live without Jaehee.
“…Jaehee hyung.”
A tear-soaked cry spread throughout the room.
