To My Flower-Like S-Class Guide 91

Chapter 91:

He had never crossed that line, even though he knew that Guiding through a kiss was more effective.

Never, in eleven years.

A kiss on the forehead was his limit. He wasn’t Seo Jae-yi’s Guide.

If he went further, he might start desiring her, forgetting his place.

“…”

Kwon Yi-soo pressed his lips against her forehead, feeling the heat and sweat of her skin, and glanced at her receiver.

【Overload Progress — 65%】
【Warning! Warning!】
【Overload level has exceeded 60%. Cease using your ability immediately.】

Her level had slightly decreased thanks to the contact, but it remained stuck. Even if he deepened the contact, he would never be able to fully stabilize her.

“Seo Jae-yi!”

The only one who could do that was Baek Joo-won, running towards them.

Kwon Yi-soo looked at her again. He tried to wipe the soot off her cheek, but it only smudged further. He chuckled dryly.

This was all he would ever be to her. They would never be anything more.

But she was still his one and only Esper.

Baek Joo-won, having reached them, knelt beside Seo Jae-yi.

Kwon Yi-soo finally released her hand, the hand he had been holding all this time. He felt another surge of jealousy, seeing Baek Joo-won casually pull her into his arms.

But Seo Jae-yi needed him to survive, so Kwon Yi-soo silently stepped aside, as always.

“Her level reached 85% and then dropped to 65%. But it might exceed 70% again if we stop Guiding, so please hurry.”

That was the end of his role. There was nothing more for him to do now that Baek Joo-won was here.

Kwon Yi-soo, stepping back, glanced back as he approached Gong Ju-hyun, who was still unconscious.

He saw Baek Joo-won, his lips pressed against Seo Jae-yi’s forehead, his hand gently caressing her cheek. He was about to look away when…

‘What’s this?’

He felt a strange energy.

It was a life-force-filled energy, so refreshing that it felt like the air, thick with smoke and ash, had suddenly cleared.

What was this? There was no Esper with such energy here. It couldn’t be Baek Joo-won’s Guiding, as Guides couldn’t sense another Guide’s energy.

He was certain of that, but…

“Gasp.”

Seo Jae-yi suddenly inhaled sharply.

Kwon Yi-soo clearly saw the red that had been consuming her eyes fade, her pupils returning to their original color. As if she had received Guiding.

‘…What?’

Had he actually sensed Baek Joo-won’s Guiding?

That was impossible. Guides couldn’t sense another Guide’s Guiding.

Then what was this?

His suspicions towards Baek Joo-won, which he had suppressed for Seo Jae-yi’s safety, resurfaced.

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Baek Joo-won sat stiffly in Kim Yoo-sung’s car on their way to Mount Taebaek. The atmosphere was so tense that Kim Yoo-sung couldn’t even speak to him.

They arrived at Mount Taebaek.

He was surprised by the sight of black smoke billowing endlessly, by the rapidly shrinking flames that were visible even from afar, and by Chu Sung-won’s presence.

Kim Yoo-sung and Baek Joo-won immediately grasped the situation.

“It seems Gong Ju-hyun already went to Seo Jae-yi’s side, as he’s not here. Let’s go.”

“No. I’ll go to Seo Jae-yi; you extinguish the fire, Kim Yoo-sung.”

Baek Joo-won took Airok out of his bag and placed him in Kim Yoo-sung’s arms.

“He’s a dragon with water manipulation abilities, so he’ll be a great help in extinguishing the wildfire.”

“No! I can’t let you go alone! It’s too dangerous!”

“I’ll be fine.”

Baek Joo-won put on the gas mask he had brought from the shop. The gas mask Seo Won-yeong had made for him, Seo Jae-yi’s paired Guide.

“This will be enough for me to breathe.”

“But…”

“I’m going first. Please extinguish the fire quickly before it spreads further.”

Baek Joo-won ignored Kim Yoo-sung’s protests and started climbing the mountain.

He knew where Seo Jae-yi was! Kim Yoo-sung tried to guide him, but Airok stopped him.

“It’s fine, human. They’ll handle it. You focus on extinguishing the fire with me. Are you just going to leave this?”

His blue eyes stared at Kim Yoo-sung, his tone and the pressure he exuded unlike anything he had ever seen from him when he was with Seo Jae-yi.

Kim Yoo-sung, realizing that a dragon was indeed a dragon, bit his lip. They couldn’t waste any more time, so he headed towards the still-burning areas with Airok.

Baek Joo-won, who had started climbing first, ran towards Seo Jae-yi as fast as he could.

Unlike Kim Yoo-sung’s worries, he was confident he could find her quickly and accurately.

“Seo Jae-yi!”

He ran for a while and then sensed her presence in a cleared area. He sped up and then gasped involuntarily.

Seo Jae-yi’s condition, collapsed in Kwon Yi-soo’s arms, was worse than he had imagined.

You used your ability until you were like this? Knowing they sent you here to die, you extinguished the fire with your life?

Without even caring about your own well-being.

Perhaps this was why she had collapsed before.

“I didn’t know you were this foolish.”

Baek Joo-won, taking Seo Jae-yi from Kwon Yi-soo and holding her tightly, muttered, caressing her cheek.

He was angry. At the ash on her face, at the blood staining her clothes, at her unfocused, reddish eyes that didn’t seem to recognize him.

She didn’t deserve to be like this.

He had wanted to see her crave his Guiding, to see her cling to him desperately, not to see her dying without it.

So Baek Joo-won decided to change his plans.

To prevent Seo Jae-yi from ever being like this again, to make her completely rely on him instead of worrying about him, to make sure no one could ever touch her again.

He decided to reveal the secret he had been hiding from his Esper.

A clear green light flickered in his half-closed brown eyes.

“Gasp.”

Seo Jae-yi inhaled sharply. Her body twitched, and her eyes regained focus. The red that had been consuming her black pupils receded, and her receiver beeped.

【Overload Progress — 60%】

Their eyes met.

“…Huh?”

Seo Jae-yi instinctively grabbed his arm.

“What is this?”

“Are you back?”

“Baek Joo-won…? Wait a minute.”

Her other hand reached for her stomach. Baek Joo-won followed her gaze.

The energy in her stomach, the energy only she knew about, surged again.

Her receiver beeped again.

【Overload Progress — 55%】

Her overload level was dropping, even though he wasn’t Guiding her.

Her hands, one on her stomach and the other gripping his arm, trembled.

Seo Jae-yi stared at him with an incredulous expression. Or rather, she was staring at his eyes, which had turned a pale green.

“Your eyes…”

“You really didn’t know?”

Baek Joo-won smiled and pressed his lips against her forehead. His energy flowed into her through the contact.

Seo Jae-yi gasped again.

“Ah…”

His Guiding, through their contact, flowed through her entire body, slowly unraveling the tangled energy.

And then it seeped into the dungeon master’s power residing in her stomach, replenishing her depleted life force.

She instinctively clutched her stomach, feeling the refreshing energy gathering.

“The dungeon master’s power…”

She blinked, her body calming down at an incredible speed, and met his gaze again.

She had seen that intense green light mixed with brown before, a color that seemed to embody life force.

In the burning forest, on a day when her ability was raging out of control, a strange creature had appeared before her.

The dungeon master, who had saved her life. His eyes.

“…Hae-wi?”

Baek Joo-won smiled as she spoke the name she had only used a couple of times.

“I thought you forgot, but you remember.”

Hah. Her jaw dropped at his casual reply.

“It’s really you…?”

Hae-wi, the master of the forest dungeon.

She couldn’t believe it was Baek Joo-won.

She wondered if she was hallucinating because of her unstable condition, but the dungeon master’s power within her was more active than ever.

Especially when combined with Baek Joo-won’s Guiding, flowing through their contact.

Baek Joo-won was Hae-wi, Hae-wi was Baek Joo-won.

It was unbelievable.