# Chapter 65
Looking up from below, Geonwoo’s body appeared terrifyingly massive. His large frame cast a dark shadow, restraining Jaehee’s body so he couldn’t move an inch.
“…It won’t be erased.”
Geonwoo looked down at Jaehee beneath him and said.
“I absolutely won’t erase it!”
It was a desperate cry, a vow to himself.
“You promised to form a bond with me.”
And Geonwoo warned Jaehee as well.
“That promise, Guide-nim must keep it. I’ll make sure of that.”
Geonwoo’s voice was resolute as he spoke.
“So don’t think about getting away from me.”
Due to his excitement, Geonwoo’s vision flickered.
“I’ll never let you go.”
Unable to control his intense emotions, his vision blurred, then reddened, his mind in chaos. This was why he failed to notice that Jaehee’s gaze was focused elsewhere.
Jaehee was looking at Geonwoo’s wound. Whether it had been injured while holding Jaehee, or if the wound had reopened. Blood was faintly seeping through Geonwoo’s bandage. Jaehee’s eyes held pain as he observed this.
But Geonwoo didn’t see it. His vision unclear, he simply waited for Jaehee’s response. But no words came. At that, Geonwoo reached out his hand.
“Once the bond is complete, you won’t be able to think of anything else.”
Contact guiding in a situation where another guide’s guiding energy is present would normally erase a bond, but in the current situation—after destroying all the machines and receiving Jaehee’s guiding at its strongest—that effect would be reversed.
For the first time, Geonwoo initiated touching Jaehee’s body.
That’s when it happened.
Crash-!
All the remaining objects fell to the floor. The building had shaken. Everyone’s startled gazes fell on Geonwoo. But this wasn’t Geonwoo’s power. A much more vast force was gradually approaching.
BOOM-!
With a tremendous sound, the examination room door fell in a miserable heap. At the same time, Geonwoo’s body, which had been holding Jaehee, flew at high speed. Geonwoo’s body slammed into the wall, then immediately crashed to the floor with a loud thud.
Through the dust and hazy air, heavy footsteps were heard.
“Ha.”
A short laugh expressing disbelief filled the room. Jaehee, who had been watching Geonwoo fly against the distant wall, immediately turned his head at that familiar voice. A man who had somehow already approached the bed stood in front of Jaehee, showing his broad back while glaring at Geonwoo.
“Lee Jaehee.”
Jaehee looked up. He saw a large back. It was Dohyun, wearing a black shirt.
“Is this what you call ‘fine’?”
Dohyun grabbed the collar of his shirt and yanked it. With his strong force, all the buttons fell off with popping sounds. Dohyun then took off his shirt and threw it at Jaehee. It meant not to show his body to Choi Geonwoo anymore. It was also a warning that he would no longer tolerate Jaehee guiding Choi Geonwoo.
“You said don’t worry because you were going to erase the bond.”
Dohyun glanced around with sidelong eyes.
“This situation.”
The examination room in shambles. The intensity of waves that an undeveloped Esper shouldn’t be able to produce. Add to that the healing Espers who couldn’t subdue Choi Geonwoo out of concern for an undeveloped Esper’s rampage. Dohyun was irritated by all of it.
“How can you tell me not to worry when things are like this?”
Dohyun approached Geonwoo one step at a time. With each step, the intensity of the waves emanating from Dohyun grew stronger. The angry waves of a fully-developed Esper engulfed the examination room. Geonwoo’s waves were crushed under Dohyun’s. They flattened and disappeared under the more dominant force.
Dohyun didn’t stop there. He drew out even more of his ability.
“Do…!”
Seeing this, Jaehee tried to call out to Dohyun. But Dohyun moved faster than that call. Suddenly standing in front of Geonwoo, Dohyun lifted his foot and stomped on Geonwoo’s wound. Then he said in a low voice to the guides behind him.
“Radiant Guiding. Begin.”
Everyone concentrated on those quiet words. No, they had no choice. Everyone was being crushed by Dohyun’s waves. In that state, Dohyun focused his ability on one leg. The force, now several times stronger, pressed down on Geonwoo’s wound.
“Ugh!”
The sound of bones breaking spread throughout the examination room.
“Accept the guiding energy.”
A flat, eerie voice made the examination room feel chilly.
“Kang Dohyun!”
Jaehee shouted. But Dohyun showed no reaction.
“Guiding energy. I said accept it.”
Dohyun used his telekinesis to increasingly pressure Geonwoo. Blood seeped thickly from the bandage under Dohyun’s foot. The wound had burst open. But Dohyun didn’t even blink. If he paid attention to every little thing, Jaehee would end up getting hurt. So Dohyun pressed down harder with his leg.
“Dohyun!”
Jaehee urgently got up. Getting off the bed, he approached Dohyun. But that was only a few steps. He couldn’t fully approach Dohyun. It was because Dohyun was using his ability to prevent anyone from coming near him.
So Jaehee shouted.
“Kang Dohyun!”
“Lee Jaehee!”
But Jaehee’s call was drowned out by Dohyun’s voice, which was loud enough to swallow it whole.
“I told you clearly back then.”
Words burst from Dohyun’s mouth as if spitting them out.
“If you couldn’t do it, I would.”
To that, Jaehee urgently replied.
“I was erasing the bond! I was in the middle of erasing the bond. So…”
“This?”
Dohyun turned his head and scanned the surroundings with his eyes. The panorama of the examination room, destroyed by Geonwoo’s ability, came into view. Dohyun burst into incredulous laughter.
“This is erasing it? Not making the bond even stronger?”
Having said that, Dohyun opened up his ability even more. Enormous pressure crushed Geonwoo’s entire body.
“Ugh…!”
Dohyun had no intention of killing Geonwoo. However, if he persisted in refusing to erase the bond…
“Urgh!”
Dohyun looked down at Geonwoo, recalling the time before he left the Center.
“If I had known it would come to this, I should have just taken you with me then.”
Dohyun said self-mockingly, then grabbed Geonwoo’s neck and lifted him up. Geonwoo seemed to have difficulty breathing, as he clawed at Dohyun’s hand. But Dohyun paid no attention to that and just looked at Geonwoo.
‘…An Esper with top-tier potential.’
Dohyun slowly lowered his gaze, examining Geonwoo’s entire body. Large frame. Firmly defined muscles. The robust physique that ordinary people could never possess showed just how much power this body could contain.
‘He hasn’t developed yet. And he’s already like this.’
Dohyun looked at Geonwoo and imagined what he would be like after development.
‘At least A-class.’
Geonwoo’s body already possessed a vessel surpassing most Espers. It was even putting Dohyun’s gaze on the same level. Dohyun’s brow furrowed at this.
‘…S-class.’
An anxious assumption overcame Dohyun.
‘What if Choi Geonwoo develops as S-class? Will I be able to protect Jaehee?’
That question frightened Kang Dohyun, who had been untouchable within the Center. Over his own image of hurting Jaehee in the past, Geonwoo’s image took its place. That terrible scene occupied Dohyun’s mind completely.
‘That must never happen again.’
Dohyun applied more force with his hand. But Geonwoo didn’t yield either. He stared at Dohyun with murderous intent. While being crushed under a wave more enormous than his own, normal people would be trembling like the others in the examination room, but Choi Geonwoo’s spirit didn’t diminish.
It couldn’t help but be so.
‘Kang Dohyun!’
That was an unforgettable name for Geonwoo. The person on the phone who had pressured Jaehee to erase the bond. Perhaps because of that, Geonwoo’s waves, which had been suppressed by Dohyun’s enormous waves, were gradually growing stronger. Dohyun’s eyes turned savage as he felt it.
“Kang Dohyun!”
Sensing the waves between the two, Jaehee called out to Dohyun. Jaehee tried to approach Dohyun. He had to stop Dohyun somehow! That’s when it happened. Esper waves scattered throughout the examination room. Dohyun concentrated his ability in his hand and pressed Geonwoo down to the floor. In that state, he swallowed Geonwoo’s waves with his own.
But at that moment.
“Ugh!”
Dohyun suddenly let out a pain-filled groan, then covered his face with his hands. With that, Dohyun’s ability that had been preventing Jaehee from approaching was released.
“Dohyun!”
Jaehee immediately ran over and grabbed Dohyun’s arm.
But soon Jaehee’s expression changed.
“You…”
Jaehee’s body flinched. Jaehee looked at Dohyun’s hand, then raised his head to look at Dohyun, who was covering his face. Something was wrong with Dohyun’s body. Through their touching skin, waves so strong they made his body tingle rose up.
“…You, your body…”
Jaehee couldn’t properly get the words out.
‘Why…’
A warning strongly echoed in his mind. Jaehee’s eyes gradually widened, and his pupils filled with shock.
“You, this… what is this!”
Jaehee looked up. He reached out his hand to grab Dohyun’s face and make him look at himself. Then slowly, he removed Dohyun’s hand that was covering his eyes.
Their eyes met. But Dohyun’s eyes were different from usual.
Brilliantly red.
The harbinger of a rampage.
Red eyes signaling imminent rampage stared at Jaehee.
