Guide Me If You Dare novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224: A MONSTER AMONG MONSTERS

THIS THING is about to explode at any moment.

Tsk.

Since Ki Gayoon didn’t have enough time to find an empty building, he decided to finish things off mid-air.

He grabbed the thing by the neck with one hand.

And then he put his other hand in its mouth, forcing it to open wide until he could fit his fist in. The thing’s mouth ripped, and it looked disgusting. But he still continued what he was doing.

After that, he pulled the thing’s unusually long tongue with one tug.

Of course, Gayoon was only making it look easy because he was a natural S-Class Esper with an SS-Grade Poison Immunity.

If someone who didn’t have that skill touched the tongue, they’d die.

Moreover, the thing’s tongue wasn’t something you could simply severe using a bare hand.

It was only possible because he was Ki Gayoon.

There’s a reason why there’s a vast difference between a natural S-Class Espers and S-Class Espers.

This was one of those.

After Gayoon severed the thing’s tongue, he threw it upwards.

Then he snapped his fingers— trapping the severed tongue in a shield shaped like a cube.

He had to say that creating shields weren’t his forte.

In fact, it was only an S-Grade skill (the lowest grade among his abilities).

All of his skills were either SS-Grade or SSS-Grade.

That’s what makes natural S-Class Espers more special than the regular S-Class Espers— we don’t have a skill that’s graded below S.

But even if Gayoon’s shield-making skill was only S-Grade, it was still useful.

The thing’s poisonous tongue exploded inside the shield, making the cube shake like a vibrating phone.

It’s noisy.

The rattling sound was already muffled, though.

Fortunately, it soon stopped when the explosion finished. The tongue had been reduced to nothing but a violet substance similar to slime.

Disgusting.

Gayoon snapped his fingers, and then the shield containing the violet substance disappeared.

It went to his Inventory since he couldn’t just throw it away.

It’s dangerous if a Civilian or an ignorant Esper picks it up.

Anyway, now that the bomb had been taken care of...

"Hey, you."

Gayoon finally got to focus on the thing pretending to be human.

And he belatedly realized that...

"It’s dead."

Not because Gayoon severed its tongue, especially not because he snapped the thing’s neck when he grabbed it earlier.

It seemed like the thing had always been dead.

After all, it didn’t fight back in the first place.

It’s as if it was just programmed to blend in with the crowd.

But for what purpose?

Oh.

Was this thing trying to kill the Civilians earlier by self-sabotaging?

While he was in the middle of using his brain power, his Status Window suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Esper Ki Gayoon-nim, you may now extract the ’Unreliable Map.’]

Gayoon scoffed. "The name sounds useless."

[...]

He was about to dissect the thing to find the "map," but he didn’t have to.

The left eye...

Upon looking closer, Gayoon realized that the thing’s left eye had some strange markings in it.

His gut feeling told him it was the ’Unreliable Map.’

But he felt uncomfortable because everything was easy.

I thought Ryu Sungbin would make it hard for me to find the map I need— so, why do I feel like they’re giving it to me for free?

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"I’M NOT supposed to kill you, but it’s getting harder for me to hold back."

Tsk.

Ryu Sungbin was annoyed because he knew 17 wasn’t bluffing— the bastard was really holding back a lot.

If 17 was serious about killing me, I would have already died.

Look at him now.

Ryu Sungbin was almost toasted to death when 17 struck him with a powerful lightning bolt.

He only survived because he was a natural S-Class Esper.

If I didn’t have an SSS-Grade protection, I wouldn’t have recovered.

Actually, he didn’t recover that much.

Most parts of his skin were still burned and needed medical attention. It was already a miracle that he was able to get up, albeit he was barely standing.

"Hmm? You called your friends?"

Right.

Despite Ryu Sungbin’s current poor state, he still felt it— the appearance of a Special Dungeon.

The monsters.

Ah, they’re here.

Sharp bastard.

Heh.

17 is really a monster among monsters.

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