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“Where the hell are you!”
Then a child’s cry cut through the fog.
Visibility was almost zero, so Haejin ran toward the sound.
A blurry silhouette finally appeared.
“What the—”
Haejin stumbled back in shock.
There was no monster; only the child, floating in mid-air, bawling.
“If I attack blindly the kid will get hurt.”
He shot a telepathic message to Jaehyung.
“Jaehyung, you seeing this? How do I hit it without hitting the kid?”
Reply came instantly.
Haejin focused on the coordinates Jaehyung sent.
Far from the child, a single point glowed in his mind.
He gathered power.
And then collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut.
“Guh—!”
What the hell?
His legs gave out before he could even finish charging.
The attack that had been effortless seconds ago fizzled out completely.
“Haa… haa…”
Heat surged from his toes, pooled in his chest, and refused to leave.
His racing heart stuttered.
Pain stabbed through his sternum.
Haejin clawed at the ground, gasping.
“Did the monster attack?”
“F*ck! Why now of all times!”
“Gui… ding…”
The connection snapped.
D-class guides were useless in combat.
The nation didn’t support them, so they had to survive on their own.
The lucky few born into rich families could leech off their parents forever.
The rest either became high-rank espers’ toys or lived like regular civilians.
Jung Lee Chae had neither money nor any desire to be anyone’s plaything.
So he lived like a normal person, except he’d clawed his way into the Awakened Management University.
Not to become a famous guide, but because the diploma let him take the civil-service exam for headquarters.
He couldn’t give up when he had useless parents and a little sibling to feed.
In a world where half the country was rubble and most people survived on government rations, even a D-class slot in this university was a miracle.
After classes, Lee Chae worked part-time at a cleanup clan, healing minor wounds from shadow remnants.
Then he studied like mad for the civil-service exam.
“Already this late…”
He stuffed books into his bag and hurried out of the library.
He had to make it to his part-time job on time.
The moment he stepped outside, the air felt wrong.
The area in front of the library was always quiet, but today it was dead silent.
Too silent.
“This energy… something’s off…”
It felt like the killing fields outside the gates.
He hesitated: go back inside or run?
Thinking of tonight’s food, he chose to run.
He sprinted without looking back.
But no matter how far he ran, he couldn’t leave the library grounds.
What the hell? Why am I still here?
Panic rising, he kept running until his lungs burned.
Then he spotted movement near the library pavilion.
A low, guttural growl drilled into his ears.
He didn’t have time to see what it was.
Whatever it was, a D-class couldn’t fight it.
Run first, think later.
The entrance never appeared.
Desperate, he turned back toward the library.
He reached the doors and yanked with everything he had.
Locked.
People inside had sealed it for their own safety.
Please… please open…
He pounded and pulled, but the doors didn’t budge.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
Something was scraping the ground, getting closer.
If I die here, my family dies too…
Heart hammering, he bolted toward the nearest building.
By some miracle, it was the one where all the high-rank espers had taken shelter.
He slammed his fists against the door.
“P-please help!”
The door cracked open.
Right as a shadow lunged, Jinwoo yanked him inside by the arm.
Boom!
A deafening explosion shook the walls.
Lee Chae collapsed, gasping, and looked around.
Every person in the room radiated terrifying power.
High-rank espers.
He instinctively shrank back.
“Relax. You’re obviously low-rank. No one here is interested.”
“How reassuring.”
He picked the farthest corner and safest corner.
That’s when Jaehyung, face pale as paper, shouted.
“We’re screwed! Hyung is…”
“What? Already down? What about the kid?”
“He wasn’t attacked… but he literally can’t attack. I asked why and he could barely speak…”
Jinwoo spat a curse before Jaehyung even finished.
“That idiot refused guiding again. Rampage from guiding deficiency, and it had to be right now!”
“What do we do?”
Every pair of eyes in the room swiveled to Lee Chae.
“If he needs guiding, just have a guide do it.”
“The guy who just came in is a guide, right?”
Jinwoo strode over.
Lee Chae recoiled, face twisting.
Jinwoo grabbed his shoulder.
“Look, I don’t like asking a low-rank either, but we’re out of options.”
“W-what’s going on?”
“Listen carefully. Some never-before-seen monster kidnapped a little kid and is holding it hostage. It demanded only one esper stay. Then, right on cue, our S-class started rampaging from lack of guiding. We need guiding now.”
Lee Chae’s eyes shook.
Everything sounded insane.
A new monster, a child hostage, shadows attacking the safest university in the country, and an S-class who supposedly hated guiding so much he was willing to rampage rather than accept it.
He couldn’t process it.
Jinwoo exhaled sharply.
“We don’t have time for this. You want the kid to die?”
“I’m D-class… it probably won’t even work. Get a high-rank guide—”
“Shut up about ranks! You think the monster cares about our circumstances? You think I’m doing this for the esper?”
Lee Chae wanted to refuse.
But the thought of a child in a monster’s grasp…
He’d seen too many kids die.
He couldn’t ignore this one.
“I… I’ve only ever done non-contact guiding on remnant cleanup crews. It might not work on him.”
“We’re past picking hot or cold rice.”
Jinwoo grabbed his wrist and dragged him toward the door.
“We’ll guard you to the edge. Just get in there, guide him, and get out.”
Another esper spoke up.
“Didn’t it say only one esper? What if the guide dies too?”
“Yeah, scout, what’s the situation?”
Jaehyung closed his eyes, reconnecting the broken link.
“It’s completely quiet over there. It’s not attacking. Wait… new message. Says the esper is too weak now, no fun. Send a proper esper or send the guide.”
“What a f*cking lunatic monster.”
“Form?”
“I can’t see it either! But we have to hurry. The baby’s condition is getting worse.”
“Move!”
High-rank espers formed a protective circle around Lee Chae and marched him out.
They could only take him only to the edge of the library zone.
After that, Lee Chae was thrown alone into the heart of the danger.
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