Guide Me If You Dare novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2: ESPER X GUIDE

Author's Note: Hi! I changed the main character's name from Noh Yihun to Noh Yuno because I realized 'Yihun' sounded similar to 'Sihun' (a character I don't really like from my other novel 'Time-Limited F-Class Housewife'). :>

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RAMPAGE.

Ki Gayoon would be the strongest Hunter in Korea if only he could stop himself from going insane.

But what could he do?

I hate Guides.

Gayoon awakened as an S-Class Hunter on the very day the 'Doomsday' happened.

He was only fifteen years old back then.

Only two years after using his abilities to raid and clear dungeons, it happened to him— a phenomenon where he almost lost his mind after reaching past his limits.

It wasn't just him.

Every single high-ranking and combatant Espers experienced the same thing.

'Rampage.'

That was the simple yet frightening term that the "experts" used to describe the phenomenon.

Around the time Espers all over the world started going crazy, they emerged.

Guides.

A new kind of Awakened People appeared.

Guides didn't have the power to fight monsters— but they were blessed with the ability to purify the 'Madness' in Espers.

Well, that was how it was supposed to be.

Gayoon couldn't relate, though.

Every single Guide who tried to guide him in the past only brought him pain instead of relief.

Yes— every. Single. One.

During every Guiding Session, Gayoon would feel like his skin was being pricked by hundreds of sharp needles.

Not even high-class Guides could give him a pleasant Guiding Session.

Everything was just painful— and he already made that clear several times.

That was why Gayoon couldn't understand why the government kept sending Guides his way.

He could control his Rampage better if he wasn't pissed.

And yet those stupid higher-ups wouldn't leave him alone.

Now they even sent two Guides.

Hah!

Gayoon smirked bitterly when the unfamiliar Guide suddenly threw himself at him.

Haaah.

He just let the unfamiliar Guide crash into his chest— while cursing under his breath even though it was Gayoon who should be cursing— since the punk would die soon anyway.

Let's go insane and kill them all.

He closed his eyes, allowing himself to let loose this time instead of controlling his Rampage.

Then he felt it.

His unstable Mana quickly gathered in his Core— aka the Mana 'storage' embedded in his heart— threatening to explode.

Once my Core gets shattered, it's over.

Gayoon was already prepared to kill even his "brothers" in the entire building.

I'll see you all in hell, everyone.

He should have felt like he was drowning by this time.

That was how he felt every time he was on the verge of a Rampage, after all.

Anytime now.

Yeah, he should be going crazy by this time.

Right?

In three, two, one...

Hmm?

His trains of thought were interrupted when he realized that his Rampage was taking too long to snap his sanity.

Then Gayoon belatedly realized it: his mind was still clear.

What the fuck?

"Esper Ki Gayoon-ssi, our Guiding Session is over."

What?!

Gayoon opened his eyes, shocked and bewildered.

But the scene that greeted him just confused him even more.

The unfamiliar Guide with light brown hair was holding Gayoon's left pinky finger with his thumb and index finger.

This punk is acting like he's picking up trash...!

Yes, the unfamiliar brunette Guide was holding Gayoon's finger as if he was holding a bag of dog poop.

Worse, the unfamiliar Guide even had a disgusted look on his face.

I should be the one acting disgusted here... wait, what?

... and it didn't hurt.

It feels empty.

For the first time in a long while, I feel refreshed.

No, fuck it.

Heck, he didn't even feel another intruder coming. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}

As if I'd let that pervert slip away...!