Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
The curses that burst from his mouth scattered as he ran at flying speed. In his impatience, his ability nearly burst out precariously, but thanks to the control device that grew stronger the closer he got to the isolation room, only his heart was impatient.
Beep beep.
“Fuck, Han Seoha!”
At the message notifying the isolation room’s status, Ryu Jaegeon’s anger exploded.
About ten minutes ago, when S-rank Baek Uihyeon’s waves became abnormal and were transmitted even to nearby Espers, Ryu Jaegeon hadn’t cared. Baek Uihyeon was busier than anyone and often used power to his limits, causing his numbers to soar. It was also the reason they’d assigned as many as five A-rank and B-rank guides to calm the S-rank Esper.
Warnings had become routine, and Ryu Jaegeon, who had been glancing at the continuing noisy alarm, stood up urgently.
Emergency Guiding Request
Main Building Isolation Room
S Baek Uihyeon 83↓
Guide Support Status
C Han Seoha
Who do you think you are to go there?
Han Seoha wasn’t even Baek Uihyeon’s partner. He must have felt some sense of responsibility just because he had some experience guiding Baek Uihyeon. Because Han Seoha was that kind of guide.
Objectively speaking, the number initially announced as 84 was slowly but steadily going down. If it had been dangerous from the start, they would have used the rampage preparation facility rather than the main building isolation room that anyone could easily access.
More than anything, guiding was being conducted in some way with a C-rank guide. Before Ryu Jaegeon could even think about what might happen to Han Seoha, his body moved first.
“Fucking far.”
It took longer than usual to reach the main building isolation room where the control device was operating stronger than usual. Climbing the emergency stairs to find the shortest route, he became more anxious than ever before.
An A-rank guide loitering in the isolation room corridor noticed Ryu Jaegeon and welcomed him.
“Oh, did an A-rank come to guard?”
“Move.”
Ryu Jaegeon, who would normally have greeted the A-rank guide with a smiling face, pushed past and charged at the Esper standing guard at the isolation room. At Ryu Jaegeon’s appearance, murderous rather than supportive, the Espers wearing protective gear also reflexively blocked him.
“Ugh! Esper Ryu Jaegeon, what are you doing?”
“I said move.”
“What? Why are you so heated and making a fuss?”
“Han Seoha’s inside. Tell him to come out.”
At the fierce momentum of Ryu Jaegeon, acting as if his guide had been stolen, the Espers who blocked him were dumbfounded.
“Didn’t you get an alarm? It hasn’t hit 80 yet.”
“Are you guys in your right mind? Pushing a C-rank guide into an isolation room?”
“We tried to stop him too. What can we do when a guide says he’ll do it?”
The Espers’ response was reasonable, but to Ryu Jaegeon, it was just an obstacle.
“Fuck, move!”
“If you do this, we have no choice but to restrain you.”
“Ah, really, why are you here making a scene? After even terminating your partnership.”
“Han Seoha, come out!”
At Ryu Jaegeon’s violent resistance as if he’d caught a cheating scene, the Espers hesitated over whether they should call the suppression team for this. More than anything, they were also flustered by Ryu Jaegeon’s attitude, which differed from the rumors.
They’d heard he switched as soon as an A-rank guide appeared, but his actions were like a wronged legal wife coming to find her cheating spouse.
“Come out, Han Seoha!”
The isolation room’s thick walls should have blocked outside noise. In fact, the Esper Baek Uihyeon felt displeasure at Ryu Jaegeon’s voice, but the guide Han Seoha shouldn’t have been able to hear it. For some reason, when Ryu Jaegeon started making a commotion, all of Han Seoha’s nerves turned toward the door.
Perhaps the delicacy that enabled guiding in a different way from other guides reacted sensitively even in times like this. Either way, it was too late to pretend not to notice.
“Your hand stopped.”
“Ah, I’m sorry.”
“Please focus on me.”
“Y-yes.”
Instead of reproaching the wet hand gripping his member for stopping after moving clumsily, Baek Uihyeon gently kissed him. When their lips touched, the hand that jerked in surprise and moved awkwardly was slippery thanks to the semen, but it wasn’t arousing because Han Seoha’s attention was elsewhere.
Forcing it here would only backfire.
“Seoha-ssi, wait a moment.”
“Yes?”
Leaving the flustered Han Seoha on the bed, Baek Uihyeon stood up, roughly adjusted only his pants, and stood in front of the isolation room door. Ryu Jaegeon, whose eyes met his through the small window, raised his momentum as if he’d burst his waves at any moment. Though it was a meaningless action anyway.
“Could you open it for a moment?”
At Baek Uihyeon’s request after pressing the call button, the Espers blocking the door hesitated. Baek Uihyeon’s number was still 82. It was insufficient to lower their guard.
At Baek Uihyeon’s calm demeanor quietly watching their dilemma, the Espers recalled how he’d endured even in worse situations and opened the door.
When the door opened, the smell that spread out made anyone imagine intercourse, so Ryu Jaegeon reacted fiercely.
“You, what did you do to Seoha?”
“I received guiding. Are you making a fuss in an emergency situation just to ask that?”
Because Baek Uihyeon perfectly blocked the half-open door gap, he couldn’t see the situation inside at all. Instead, the faint traces remaining on Baek Uihyeon’s exposed upper body seemed to have transferred Han Seoha’s shyness as is, and Ryu Jaegeon’s teeth ground.
“After fucking a C-rank guide, what bullshit are you spouting so plausibly? Fuck. Han Seoha, come out!”
“Seoha-ssi is in a difficult situation to move.”
At Baek Uihyeon’s calmness, which didn’t look like the stage before rampage, Ryu Jaegeon’s waves became increasingly rough. Even though using abilities here was nearly impossible, his waves boiled with surging anger.
If necessary, Baek Uihyeon was also thinking of pulling up the waves that had just calmed down to respond, but his lips curved up at the sensation of his shirt hem being tugged slightly. When Baek Uihyeon, who had only turned his head to check on Han Seoha at the small hand gesture seeking him, confirmed him, his smile quickly sank. Because the watery eyes that looked ready to cry at any moment were fixed on Ryu Jaegeon beyond the door gap blocked by Baek Uihyeon.
“Seoha-ssi, I told you to wait.”
“Um, please let me see Jaegeon for just a moment.”
He knew it would be like this. Because he’s someone who can never abandon someone once he’s embraced them.
Han Seoha’s body, barely clutching together the front of his torn uniform, was in a state where the colorful marks were fully exposed. Because they were traces exchanged at Baek Uihyeon’s request, he even wanted to show them, but Han Seoha’s earnest wish disturbed his mood.
“No. The promise to focus only on me during guiding—did you forget it already?”
“I’ll just talk. Just for a moment is fine.”
Though just raising his voice would transmit it right away, asking for Baek Uihyeon’s permission also meant respecting the promise. When Baek Uihyeon waited silently, Han Seoha gathered courage toward the invisible Ryu Jaegeon.
“Why did you come?”
Without any meaning to the effort put into strengthening his voice, it contained expectation and trembling, and the affection toward the other person could be felt intact. At the absurdly rising displeasure, Baek Uihyeon had to resist the urge to close the door.
“Did you decide to die? You couldn’t even properly guide me, an A-rank, so what are you doing jumping in here? Or are you suddenly short on money now? If you’re thinking of selling yourself, borrow from me instead.”
At Ryu Jaegeon’s words that only gave harsh criticism, everyone present sent looks saying, What’s with this idiot?
In front of whom is he bragging about money right now? Baek Uihyeon, who had been thinking of putting down Ryu Jaegeon, who didn’t know how the world worked and thought only he was great, hesitated at Han Seoha’s sadness wetting his back.
If he left Ryu Jaegeon, who was ruining things with his mouth, alone, Han Seoha would be hurt even more. That was an opportunity for Baek Uihyeon.
Though it was a relationship that would self-destruct if left alone, every time the faint force gripping his shirt hem wavered, all of Baek Uihyeon’s nerves focused on it.
“An A-rank guide will come. Don’t linger with regrets and come out quickly.”
“I’m not leaving.”
“What?”
“No one has come yet. Baek Uihyeon-nim needs guiding right now. Even someone like me can help. No matter what happens to me, I’ll guide him.”
“Hey, Han Seoha.”
“It’s not something for you to interfere with. Don’t come looking for me anymore, Jaegeon-ah.”
The pushing-away voice was endlessly affectionate, so he couldn’t watch any longer. Though it was such a gentle rejection, he closed the door without hesitation right in front of Ryu Jaegeon’s face, shocked as if he’d had filth poured over him.
Baek Uihyeon, who left behind the door that closed heavily with a thud, lifted Han Seoha up in his arms. He wrapped him in the blanket and imprisoned him in his arms so Han Seoha couldn’t be stolen a glimpse of even through the small glass.
“You did well, Seoha-ssi.”
Han Seoha, who had been desperate to push Ryu Jaegeon away with words he didn’t mean, had his fists clenched tight. Baek Uihyeon kissed the palm full of nail marks that he unfolded and gently soothed him.
“You worked hard.”
“I really… came to guide you. I know I’m not much help, but really…”
“To me, you’re more helpful than anyone. You have to acknowledge this too, Seoha-ssi.”
The guiding that came through between the interlocked palms wasn’t as stimulating as when gripping the intimate place. Instead, the gentleness that even soothed the rampaging waves saying it was okay slowly permeated deep inside.
The body that had been stimulated until just moments ago quickly heated up. He licked Han Seoha’s wet cheek that looked dazed. He chased after the lips that turned away in confusion and swallowed even his breath. Greed rose like flames to take as his own everything—the tears shed for another person and the voice calling for someone else.
Other fingers also entwined with Baek Uihyeon’s hand that had been impatiently groping his body. At the guiding that pushed in between the touching fingers, Baek Uihyeon released Han Seoha’s lips that he’d been swallowing frantically. What dwelt in the face that was still flushed red with moisture remaining was devotion for an unknown reason.
“When the numbers reach 80, other guides will come too.”
Han Seoha, who had been conveying the situation after checking his watch, felt threatened by Baek Uihyeon’s gaze looking at him coldly. At the body pressed close and the atmosphere ready to pounce at any moment, Han Seoha urgently wrapped his remaining arm around Baek Uihyeon’s neck.
“I-I’ll continue mucous membrane guiding too.”
With his emotions all directed toward Ryu Jaegeon while feeling uncomfortable with this situation, he still overlapped lips with Baek Uihyeon and clumsily mixed tongues. Han Seoha’s actions of continuing guiding through the plain kiss just for mucous membrane contact and the tightly held hands couldn’t be explained by any other words.
Unlike when he had frantically requested kisses to get through the situation, though it was for efficiency, Baek Uihyeon’s chest stung a little at Han Seoha approaching first.
Not yet aware of what emotion this was, he could only welcome Han Seoha’s clumsy kiss.
