# Chapter 89
Jaehee opened his eyes three days later. He couldn’t help but wake up, feeling as if a stifling heat was continuously swirling inside his body. He wasn’t feeling well.
“…”
After opening his eyes, Jaehee blinked until his blurry vision returned to normal, then slowly examined his surroundings. He was alone in the room. When Jaehee turned his head to the other side, the view outside the window filled his sight. It was a refreshing scene.
But there was no time to appreciate it. As soon as he heard the door opening behind him, Jaehee immediately raised his upper body. It was because he sensed an Esper’s wavelength. It was Geonwoo. He felt the presence of someone who shouldn’t be beside him.
“Ugh…!”
But before he could fully raise his body, a small groan escaped from his mouth. There was no strength in his entire body. Just the effort of trying to raise his upper body almost made cold sweat run down his forehead. His stomach also felt queasy. Jaehee barely managed to place his hand on the bed and raise his upper body.
“You shouldn’t force yourself to get up like that.”
Along with the sound of the door closing, Geonwoo’s voice was heard.
“You’re not feeling well.”
Jaehee could feel Geonwoo slowly approaching. He hunched his body.
“You need to be careful.”
Geonwoo, who had already approached near the bed, put something on the shelf beside the bed and sat down at the foot of Jaehee’s bed.
“Especially since it’s a dangerous time right now.”
As the voice got closer, Jaehee wanted to run away somewhere. Unconsciously pulling the blanket slightly to hide his body was an instinctive action stemming from that emotion.
‘What… what’s going on?’
Jaehee thought this without even raising his head. He couldn’t understand why Geonwoo was beside him. Similarly, he didn’t know where he was or what the situation was. He needed to figure out the situation.
“Guide-nim.”
In the midst of the confusing situation, Geonwoo moved his body closer and closer. Jaehee hunched his shoulders and lowered his head even more. It was because he was reminded of his last moment with Geonwoo.
The sound of wailing while looking at him, and the image of Geonwoo looking at him with the eyes of someone who had been betrayed were still vividly clear in his mind. He had also fully felt Geonwoo’s emotions as he scattered wavelengths that directly revealed his feelings while unable to open his eyes.
He must certainly resent and hate Jaehee. As much as it had hurt during the removal of the Bond, that emotion must have taken a significant place within Geonwoo.
Jaehee was afraid to face Geonwoo’s emotions. Even though he was the one who created those feelings, he was scared to confront them.
“Guide-nim.”
But why?
“Why are you lowering your head?”
His ears must be malfunctioning. Just as his body was sick, his ears seemed broken too.
“Show me your face.”
Or was he dreaming?
“I want to see your face.”
If not, there was no way to explain the current situation.
“You don’t know how worried I was when you wouldn’t wake up.”
This was strange.
‘This can’t be right…’
A gentle voice reached his ears.
“Guide-nim. Come on.”
I’ve been waiting only for you to wake up.
The affectionate voice asking to see him urged Jaehee on.
“…”
Unable to understand the situation, Jaehee couldn’t do anything. Hesitating, he gripped the blanket even more tightly. Geonwoo’s hand overlapped Jaehee’s hand. Geonwoo gently wrapped Jaehee’s startled hand and slowly shook it. It was telling him to raise his head. He wanted to see him.
“Guide-nim.”
Geonwoo called Jaehee in a voice as sweet as honey. It was as if he was saying there was nothing to be afraid of.
“Guide-nim.”
At the repeated call, Jaehee slowly raised his head. His eyes, full of complex emotions, shook violently. In front of such a Jaehee, Geonwoo was looking at him with a bright smile.
Geonwoo reached out his hand. At the touch approaching his face, Jaehee unconsciously closed his eyes. Geonwoo brushed back Jaehee’s fallen bangs and then picked up what he had placed on the shelf.
“You must be hungry?”
Geonwoo smiled sweetly.
“I made porridge.”
He looked as if he was seeking praise.
“…”
It was as if he was facing the Geonwoo from back then, who had completely opened his heart to Jaehee after hearing that he would become his partner.
“It’s egg porridge.”
Geonwoo had made porridge considering that Jaehee had only been on IV fluids until now. This was a food that hyung in his dreams had liked. It was also the food that he always made for hyung in his dreams when he was sick.
“What happened?”
But Jaehee pushed the bowl away. It wasn’t a situation where he could swallow anything. Moreover, the situation right before he collapsed also came to his mind.
The dangerous situation in the A-class Gate.
‘What about Dohyun? What about Yoo Jiwoon?’
He was worried about their well-being. He needed to check.
“Everyone is safe.”
Was it that he had noticed? At Jaehee’s refusal, Geonwoo put the porridge bowl down on the shelf and said,
“They were injured, but no one died.”
Everyone is receiving treatment, so you don’t need to worry, Geonwoo added.
“Even Esper Kang Dohyun didn’t die.”
Geonwoo said as if telling Jaehee to be at ease.
“…”
Jaehee looked at Geonwoo without saying anything. Geonwoo’s gentle appearance was different from what he had expected.
‘Has the Bond been removed?’
He couldn’t tell.
But regardless of what had happened, he shouldn’t be by Geonwoo’s side.
“I need to go.”
Jaehee said firmly, looking at the gentle face that was looking at him.
“I need to check if they’re safe in person…!”
But before he could finish speaking. His hand was grabbed, and an arm wrapped around Jaehee’s waist. When he came to his senses, his position had changed and he was in Geonwoo’s arms.
Geonwoo sat Jaehee on his lap and wrapped his arms around his body as if embracing him. Then he picked up the porridge bowl from the shelf again.
“Leaving will be for later.”
Unlike the gentle voice, the arm around his shoulder firmly held Jaehee’s hand and wouldn’t let go. The oppressive touch didn’t allow for any freedom.
“When your body gets better.”
Geonwoo restrained Jaehee with one arm while using the other hand to scoop up the porridge and blow on it.
“You’ll like the taste.”
Because I made it exactly as I saw in my dreams.
“Esper Choi Geonwoo. This!”
He was going to tell him to release his arm.
But Geonwoo bent the arm that was holding Jaehee in his arms and caressed the skin inside Jaehee’s sleeve.
“You have a fever, Guide-nim.”
And he spoke as if dealing with a child.
“It’s not possible right now. There are so many Espers outside.”
He was smiling but something was different. Jaehee finally realized it. Different from usual. Not the same.
“When it’s all over, then we’ll go out.”
Together with me.
Geonwoo held Jaehee in his arms and recalled a fragment of his dream. In the dream he recalled, hyung didn’t die from the Dark Elf in the Gate, and even after that, he wasn’t injured and was completely by his side. His dream self had made it so.
Such a hyung started suffering from a low-grade fever one day.
“Hyung? Jaehee hyung, are you okay?”
At Geonwoo’s call, hyung raised his clear face to look at him.
“Yes, of course! I’m fine.”
For someone who said that, both his cheeks were too red. He didn’t seem to be aware of it.
“Don’t go out for a while. Hyung.”
But Geonwoo could easily tell Jaehee’s current condition.
“Just stay here. Just in my room.”
It was something he had experienced himself.
“Why?”
Hyung asked with a face that seemed completely unaware.
“Because you have manifestation fever.”
At those words, hyung opened his eyes wide. He seemed to insist several times that he was a Beta, but gradually, as if strength wasn’t entering well, he pressed his already close body even closer.
Hyung, feeling stuffy from the heat inside his body, struggled to unbutton with hands that lacked strength. Despite it being an action done merely because he couldn’t bear the heat, Geonwoo blushed at hyung’s white, exposed body.
But he didn’t turn his gaze away. In that state, he said softly,
“You’ll soon manifest as an Omega.”
Strangely, even his dream self was so certain.
And now.
‘You’ll soon manifest as an Omega.’
Geonwoo mulled over the words he had said in his dream. But Geonwoo had no intention of reenacting the dream.
His dream self had merely formed a Bond with hyung, who was a Guide. It was because he hesitated, thinking that the small body wouldn’t endure fully accepting an Alpha. He had wanted to go slowly.
But as a result, he lost hyung.
‘If the dream becomes reality, if that scene depicts the future.’
Geonwoo wants to imprison the small body in front of him within his arms.
Even if Jaehee doesn’t want it.
