Guide Me If You Dare novel Chapter 146

Chapter 146: NOH YIHUN (2)

WHEN THE apocalypse happened half a decade ago, South Korea was one of the few countries that didn’t fall completely. Most people all over the world thought it was thanks to the five natural S-Class Espers who awakened on the first day of the apocalypse.

While that was true, Yosef Lee thought differently.

Our country got back on its feet quicker than other countries because we have Kwak Hakjae.

Aka the ’System’s Representative.’

Kwak Hakjae got that title as the first Esper to enter and raid the first ever Gate that appeared in the world.

Yes, he did it alone.

As a reward, Kwak Hakjae received an Appraisal Skill— a skill that gave him the ability to see other people’s class and level.

Aside from that, the lucky man also received an Inventory full of useful things.

One of them was the ’System’s Heart.’

Apparently, the System’s Heart was damaged before it reached their world.

Hence, the Espers who awakened didn’t get the chance to have their own Status Window. It was supposed to help them navigate their newly awakened power.

Fortunately, the System’s Heart could still function as a ’motherboard.’

The government, led by President Moon Nam-il, established the Esper Association and made Kwak Hakjae the president of the new government branch.

Kwak Hakjae then put the System’s Heart in the Esper Association.

The System’s Heart took the form of a giant television monitor.

All Espers who awakened were required by the government to register their awakening to the System’s Heart.

Then, for the first and last time in their lives, the Espers would see a Status Window explaining their ability and additional skills (if there was any). Of course, the government would have a copy of that information.

You can only hide your new skills after the registration, and the government won’t mind as long as you have already registered your main ability. After all, the government understands that it’s necessary for an Esper to hide their skills for their survival.

Anyway, that was the role of the System’s Heart.

After that, Espers would have access to their Inventory— a spatial space where they could hide Items or other stuff that they might need when stuck in a dungeon.

It was a convenient skill.

Hence, many newly awakened Espers would often flock to the Esper Association.

However, the government soon realized that it was inconvenient and risky to gather all the newly awakened Espers in Seoul.

Hence, a year later, Kwak Hakjae managed to invent the ’System Fragments.’

They’re smaller versions of the System’s Heart, aka smaller TV monitors.

Those Fragments had a piece of the System’s Heart, so it worked the same. But, of course, it could only handle a small number of Espers at a time.

That was how branches of the Esper Association were established.

Only Espers who awakened as A-Class and S-Class were required to register in the main branch in Seoul.

And how would one know that they awakened?

Simple.

Red eyes.

Newly awakened people would wake up with red eyes, and they would feel a strong pull towards the System’s Heart of the Fragments— whichever is closer.

A-Class and S-Class Espers would be more drawn to the System’s Heart, though.

But what most people didn’t know was the fact that the System’s Heart didn’t only recognize Espers— it also recognized a class known to a select few as the ’Guides.’

A class that has been kept hidden from the public all this time.

The first S-Class Guide in South Korea awakened a little after the First Generation of Espers— Moon Noa, the grandson of President Moon Nam-il.

A full-blooded chaebol.

Hence, no matter how much Yosef Lee and the others tried to convince Moon Noa to help the Lab, they couldn’t touch him.

Not even President Moon could change his grandson’s mind.

Luckily, there was another Guide who was just as special as Moon Noa.

"That boy is special."

Red hair.

Red lips.

Red clothes.

Red dress.

Song Heejin’s glowing red eyes were glued at the monitor, her long and sharp red nail pointing at the young man who was currently taking the "entrance exam."

Today was the day the new batch of "baby chicks" would enter the Lab.

Yosef Lee and his team worked hard to find more Guides in the country.

Unlike Espers, awakened Guides wouldn’t awaken with red eyes— there would just be changes in their bodies and Mana.

Hence, the new device that Kwak Hakjae and Moon Noa invented was useful.

It was simply called the ’Guiding Scale.’

The new baby chicks would just have to put their hands on a machine that looked like a scanner, and then the machine would read their Mana.

It would then determine their rank.

So far, South Korea only had one S-Class Guide— and that would be Moon Noa.

But there were already a few A-Class, B-Class, C-Class, D-Class, and F-Class Guides.

It’s the same ranks as the Espers have.

I remember Noh Yihun-ssi because of his cheeky attitude.

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It’s clear that we have the worst amenities because we’re at the bottom.