By Zephyria 
To watch his dumbfounded expression, Seo Yun-chae confidently spouted nonsense.
“You’re just a poor D-Class Guide. But we Espers are A-Class, and our families are well-off.”
“……”
“Besides, you’re not even a better singer than me. You can’t rap like Tae-beom, or write lyrics and compose songs well, can you?”
“…So?”
“Anyone can see you’re a Guide forced in for a package deal. So who would like someone like you?”
“What…?”
At this point, Seo Yun-chae stopped smiling. He just looked down coldly, as if to freeze a person.
“As expected, you cause trouble as soon as you debut. You’re ruining our image too. I fully understand why Ho-yeon Hyung hit you when you woke up. Were you so desperate for attention that you even attempted suicide?”
“……”
“It’s pathetic. Secreety should have been formed with only Espers, without a Guide. You don’t even give us Guiding, but you’re just causing dirty rumors.”
Seo Yun-chae, who spat out everything he wanted to say without a moment’s hesitation, didn’t seem to have any guilt.
“Ah, if it’s hard to leave because of the penalty, should I give you the money? I won’t ask you to pay it back. I didn’t want to be associated with someone as low-level as you as a member either.”
“……”
If it were the real Yeon Yu-jin, how would he have reacted here?
‘It’s obvious that he wouldn’t have shown a good reaction, at least.’
He didn’t seem to think about how hurtful these harsh words would be to ‘Yeon Yu-jin,’ who hadn’t even been discharged from the hospital for long.
‘That’s a real crazy bastard.’
No matter how much he disliked him, to be able to spew out such violent words.
‘Did Yeon Yu-jin always live with such insults?’
Since it wasn’t my story, I was just unpleasant, but I wasn’t intimidated by Seo Yun-chae or anything. I could just forget the A-Class Esper’s malicious taunts.
As I continued to keep my mouth shut, Seo Yun-chae added in a slightly angry tone.
“Look. You’re still ignoring me. You’re the same before and after losing your memory. Isn’t losing your memory a lie?”
“It’s not a lie.”
“Huh?”
I stood up from my seat and glared at Seo Yun-chae.
“What?”
“Hmm……”
Unfortunately, Seo Yun-chae was taller than Yeon Yu-jin, so I was looking up at him.
‘Ha. My original height is taller than this.’
Hiding my disappointment, I spat out the words I had to say.
“Aren’t you admitting with your own mouth that you bullied Yeon Yu-jin right now? That makes you just as pathetic.”
“…What?”
Seo Yun-chae was taken aback by my words.
It was as if an earthworm that had been trampled on and struggling had shot out acidic poison, his face was surprised.
‘You have to return the same words to a guy who sees people as less than bugs.’
Yeon Yu-jin didn’t directly harm the members.
The fact that Shin Tae-beom and Seo Yun-chae were so hostile, but Yeon Yu-jin had never fought with them, meant that Yeon Yu-jin was afraid of them.
Unlike Yeon Yu-jin, I had no fear of the members at all, so I just laughed.
“I said you’re a pathetic guy too.”
At my words, Seo Yun-chae’s expression finally distorted.
“What?”
“It’s better to see you angry. I was annoyed because you kept grinning unpleasantly until just now.”
I was slowly reaching my limit, having to listen to such arrogant words from a young chick Esper.
“How dare you say that to me…!”
Seo Yun-chae raised his hand. I stared at that hand indifferently.
‘Slow……’
It was really strange.
Yeon Yu-jin’s body was said to be a D-Class Guide, but Seo Yun-chae’s actions that I was seeing now were so slow that I was about to yawn.
‘Is this… can I use the stats I originally had?’
This feeling was no different from when I was fighting on the field. The only difference was whether the target I was watching was a magical beast or an Esper.
I cracked my knuckles.
‘Is it possible?’
The reason I was judged as an SSS-Class Guide wasn’t just because I had the additional ability of Self-healing.
The skill to draw out maximum Guiding with minimum efficiency, regardless of the matching rate of any Esper.
And the most important thing was that I could inject Guiding energy, but at the same time, I could take the Esper’s energy back and make it my own.
It was called Reverse Guiding.
When I was alive, there was not a single Guide who could do Reverse Guiding other than me.
‘He’s a good enough target to test.’
Just before Seo Yun-chae’s hand was about to hit me, I grabbed his wrist and tried Reverse Guiding.
I could feel the Guiding energy that had been quietly dormant in Yeon Yu-jin’s body wriggling at my will.
“Ugh…! Wh-What!”
Swish.
The energy that had been filling Seo Yun-chae flowed into me.
I greedily absorbed that power and converted it into Guiding energy within me.
‘I can do Reverse Guiding without any close contact.’
I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to rub lips with this bastard. Good thing.
“Agh! What! What are you!”
“What else? I’m your Guide that you said was pathetic?”
Even as I spoke, Seo Yun-chae’s energy was being absorbed into me.
‘I didn’t lose my abilities. That’s a relief.’
Whether it was true that I had never Guiding with Yeon Yu-jin, the energy was somewhat tainted, so the aftertaste wasn’t good.
The energy’s aura was murky, like the air coming out of a smoker’s lungs.
“Tsk. That’s why Espers who grew up well are like this……”
Even I thought it sounded a bit like an old man’s grumbling.
Thud.
Seo Yun-chae’s legs gave way as I continued to do Reverse Guiding, taking away his energy, and he collapsed to the floor.
It was the moment when the perspective of looking down was reversed.
Seo Yun-chae gasped and asked.
“Huk… Huk Huk…. Wh-What the hell are you.”
“Is ‘what’s wrong’ all you can say since a while ago?”
“I asked what’s wrong!”
‘How noisy.’
I didn’t want to tell him more because he was looking at me like a monster with a face that looked like he was dying to know.
Because this guy was the one who bullied the weak Yeon Yu-jin.
“Well. I don’t really know either.”
“The Yeon Yu-jin I know was a useless guy with no such ridiculous ability! What are you! You’re not Yeon Yu-jin!”
Oh. It was like a cow stepping back and catching a rat.
He had guessed the answer, but I pretended not to know.
“If I’m not Yeon Yu-jin, then what am I?”
“Th-That’s……”
Seo Yun-chae lost his words and hesitated.
His body was Yeon Yu-jin, but the words he blurted out in a daze were so absurd even to him that he closed his mouth.
‘I don’t feel the need to deal with him anymore.’
Turning my back on Seo Yun-chae and heading to the elevator, he screamed from behind.
“Wait! You didn’t answer my question!”
“I don’t have an obligation to answer you. If I’m a pathetic guy like you said, then the smart you should find the answer yourself.”
“That… ! Hey!”
Abandoning his gentle face like a nobleman and screaming like a demon suited Seo Yun-chae better.
‘Ugh. To think they tied such a thing together as the same member.’
I had no idea what this company President was thinking.
Ignoring Seo Yun-chae’s shouts, I got on the elevator and turned my senses to the outside of the company.
‘Let’s see……’
It seems like there have been about two presences watching me recently.
One seems to be somewhere near this company, but the place where the presence is detected changes every day.
The remaining one seems to be felt inside the company…… But I was leaving it alone because it didn’t seem to be trying to approach me directly yet.
‘Who’s trying to monitor me?’
Did someone from the government side already come near here?
Without stopping to keenly activate my senses, I looked for a nearby multipurpose shop.
“Please give me an electric shocker. One that works on Ability Users too.”
Maybe they’re the guys who killed me and are still trying to find the Resurrection ability.
If so, I had to eliminate them before those guys reached out to me.
‘It’s a shame I don’t have a gun.’
At that time, when Yeon Yu-jin, or rather, An Ga-hyeon, the inner core, was worrying about how to deal with the guys who were monitoring him.
“……”
Hyeon Jae-ha was staring intently at one spot on the rooftop of the building facing HB Entertainment.
The target he was watching was Yeon Yu-jin.
‘I still feel strangely uneasy.’
Hyeon Jae-ha had safely escaped the underground vault and returned to the hideout, but he was not at ease.
The instinctive feeling that he shouldn’t forget the Guide who resembled An Ga-hyeon, Yeon Yu-jin, didn’t leave his heart.
“He’s just a D-Class Guide, and the only thing he has in common with Ga-hyeon is his way of speaking……”
But he still couldn’t forget.
Hyeon Jae-ha thought he had finally gone crazy.
When he hesitated and told his colleagues, who he had been with for over 20 years, that he would go out to monitor Yeon Yu-jin, they showed a similar reaction.
‘Are you crazy, Boss?’
‘What’s wrong with you?’
‘I fully understand your longing for Ga-hyeon, Boss. But even so…… Don’t you think it’s too far off to try to replace Ga-hyeon with a complete stranger who has a few similar aspects?’
‘…I know.’
But, I feel like I have to go out.