Chapter 101 – GOY 101

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When ​I ​rejected ​even ​my ​last ​chance, Joo Seung-hyuk’s ​expression ​distorted ​miserably.

“Lee ​Yeon-soo, ​you said you wouldn’t ​leave ​me. You said ​you wouldn’t run ​away!”

He ​screamed ​as ​if ​wailing.

“Why ​did you do ​it! ​Why ​on earth!”

“You said ​you were marrying someone ​else. That’s ​why….”

“I was ​the one ​who asked ​you ​to ​marry me! I ​told you ​thousands of times that ​I wanted to marry ​Lee Yeon-soo! You believed ​the words ​of ​that bastard Ju Jeong-han, whom you ​met for the first ​time, ​but ​you ​didn’t ​believe me? I ​knew Lee ​Yeon-soo ​didn’t like me, ​but ​was your trust in me ​really that ​bottomed ​out?”

It was true. ​Joo ​Seung-hyuk ​had ​constantly ​whispered visit our siteabout ​marriage ​to unauthorized copyme. ​But I couldn’t believe his words.

Looking at ​Joo Seung-hyuk kneeling ​and pleading before ​me now, I realized ​that the ​talk of an ​arranged ​marriage with Lexington ​was a lie ​and that ​I ​had been ​completely ​deceived by ​Ju ​Jeong-han, but ​it ​was ​already too late.

“I’m ​sorry….”

“You ​should have ​just ​been ​bribed ​with money instead! Then I could have at least reflected on the fact that I didn’t give you enough. But to say you’ll leave because you need nothing, as if you’re avoiding a disgusting insect?”

“…….”

He knew not only the fact that I had met Ju Jeong-han, but also everything we had discussed. He had known all along and simply pretended not to.

“Why did you go to the amusement park? Was it fun playing with me? What were you thinking while you were there? Were you thinking, ‘I’ll put this bastard at ease and then bolt’?”

“I’m sorry….”

That was the only thing I could say.

When I was abandoned at the orphanage in my past life, I had those same thoughts. If I’m thrown away like this, I’ll keep hating them. stolen contentI resented [unauthorized copy]and cursed the auntie who had given me hope in my final moments.

Knowing that feeling, I couldn’t bring myself to offer clumsy excuses.

“Why doesn’t your method ever change? Why not just leave me in ignorance of joy, why drop me into the abyss from the peak of happiness! Did you think you could bolt again if you ran away like this? Did you think you could escape again!”

‘Again’?

This was the first time I had run away. However, I couldn’t even correct the fact for the man pouring out his rage.

“Lee Yeon-soo, you’re truly cunning. You haven’t changed a bit.”

Haven’t changed? I had absolutely no idea what Joo Seung-hyuk was talking about.

As I lowered my head amidst fear, apology, and confusion, Joo Seung-hyuk grabbed both of my shoulders.

“You can’t go anywhere! You’re mine! You’re my Guide! You’ve been mine since seven years ago! You are mine!!”

He shouted, drenched in madness. [Read on Read BL Novels]The moment I [unauthorized copy]saw Joo Seung-hyuk’s black [stolen content]eyes overflowing with possessiveness, I realized.

I thought the main seme’s obsession had turned toward me after our first sexual encounter while drunk. But I was wrong.

Joo Seung-hyuk’s obsession had begun from the very moment we first met seven years ago.

‘Seung-hyuk-ah, I’m not Shim Cheong. I didn’t come to be a sacrifice, but to be your Guide.’

‘…My Guide?’

‘Yes. Your Guide.’

Yes, since then.

Even before I realized this was the world of a novel, the original plot had already been altered.

I hadn’t been avoiding the original plot for the past seven years. I had already been caught in the clutches of the obsessive yandere.

I only realized that fact now.

Chapter 7

I was imprisoned.

Imprisoned as soon as vacation started….

The original plot had already gone awry seven years ago, yet somehow the progression was similar.

The place I was locked in was a basement without even a small window. This was likely where Kim Joon had been imprisoned in the original story.

I lay on the bed and looked at my hands. A ring sparkled on the ring finger of my left hand.

After I confessed the truth that I had tried to run away, Joo Seung-hyuk took everything from me.

My clothes, wallet, phone, and even the Pistol of Horaitron. But he did not take the ring.

I was currently wearing the ring, without a single shred of clothing on.

Ah, there’s one more thing. Handcuffs and shackles were fastened to my wrists and ankles.

They were the ‘Treasure of Alcantra’ that Joo Seung-hyuk had purchased at a special auction.

I felt uneasy from the moment he bought them, and in the end, I ended up wearing them.

I should have stopped him from buying them no matter what. But then again, I probably would have been wearing something else.

It is said that this treasure contains the power of obedience, allowing the owner to control the wearer’s posture at will.

If this were the original novel, various ‘things’ would have unfolded using this treasure.

I probably wouldn’t have been able to maintain my sanity like this. Because all sorts of drugs, tools, and hard 19+ acts would have followed.

Actually, the moment I was locked in the basement in handcuffs, I had prepared myself.

When I confessed the truth to Joo Seung-hyuk about stolen contentrunning away, I had even considered death. So, I considered it a relief to be [Read on Read BL Novels]locked in a cozy trash can instead of dying.

However, Joo Seung-hyuk did nothing.

He didn’t feed me suspicious drugs or force me into sexual relations, nor did he swear or commit acts of violence. Nor did he ask for excuses or demand that I say ‘I love you.’

He didn’t come to see me at all.

To the point where I wondered if he had perhaps forgotten the fact that he had locked me in the basement.

In the basement, there was only a bed, a pillow, a blanket, and a low-brightness stand light, like a mood lamp. Still, it seemed the space had originally been designed as a room, as it had an attached bathroom.

Since I hadn’t met anyone for over five days, and there were no books, phones, computers, or TVs, it was a space filled only with darkness and silence. Surprisingly, I wasn’t bored.

In the darkness, I looked back over the past seven years.

At the Blue House, Joo Seung-hyuk had been watching me. He had even saved me while I was being sexually harassed by an Esper.

Minors aren’t required to participate in national gate subjugations, but he had been running gates since his third year of middle school. And [visit our site]at the subjugation sites, he would stare at stolen contentme Read on Read BL Novelsintently, or sometimes hurriedly look away when our eyes met.

Until now, I thought it was a coincidence, or that he did it because he disliked me.

But knowing that Joo Seung-hyuk had been obsessed with me since seven years ago, the events of the past felt entirely different.

Come to think of it, could it be that he came for me back then as well…?

S-Class Awakened were required to participate in national gate raids twenty days a year or five times.

However, I was called out much more frequently than that. Well, I didn’t have any major complaints because I considered it a form of study. After all, running in the field was more helpful as a Guide than attending classes at school.

But once I became a high school senior, one problem arose.

“Lee Yeon-soo, are you only going to do Level 1 today too? You’re not a child anymore, why don’t you stop with the concept play?”

Here we go again….

Kim Seo-won, an A-Class Guide, started picking a fight again.

Kim Seo-won was a year older than me and had started participating in national gate subjugations this year after becoming an adult.

Since he was a High-rank Guide, we crossed paths often during national gate subjugations, and he seemed desperate to tear me apart whenever he saw me.

“Seriously, there’s a limit to how much we can overlook such sly behavior.”

“Doesn’t he know he’s ruining the mood for everyone else?”

Not only Kim Seo-won, but his group joined in to sneer.

“He probably thinks he’s something special just because the broadcast hyped him up a bit. It’s not like some of us can’t do it. We’re just sacrificing ourselves for the Espers.”

“Exactly. Anyway, he’s fucking selfish.”

“Guide Lee Yeon-soo is good at Guiding.”

When an Esper standing next to me spoke up, Kim Seo-won’s group glared and pounced.

“Are you saying we’re not good at it?”

“How can you say something like that!”

“I’m going to complain to the Association!”

It was always like that. Occasionally, there were people who took my side, but every time, Kim Seo-won’s group would fly into a rage.

“Sorry. Guide Kim Seo-won, I made a mistake.”

“It’s already too late. I’ll tell my grandfather everything, so be prepared!”

Kim Seo-won was said to be the eldest grandson of the Association Chairman. Since it wouldn’t be good to be on the wrong side of the Chairman, I had no choice but to yield whenever he got angry like that.

“Guide Kim Seo-won! I am truly sorry. I absolutely did not mean it that way. Please forgive me just this once.”

The Esper apologized repeatedly, flustered. That Esper would probably never take my side again. But it [visit our site]was already unauthorized copya blessing if they just stayed quiet and ignored Kim Seo-won’s provocations.

“Well, it’s not like Seo-won said anything wrong.”

Park Cheol-jin, an A-Class Esper, added in agreement.

“If you’re a Guide, you should have a sense of responsibility as a Guide. Because of Lee Yeon-soo, the Guide kids these days are learning only the bad things and are unnecessarily stiff.”

Park Cheol-jin had once tried to forcibly molest me while I was Guiding. I tried to report it to the Center, but he begged for forgiveness, saying it was an impulsive act caused by the Guiding, so I let it slide.

And now, he was subtly helping Kim Seo-won drive the atmosphere.

I should have reported him to the Center instead of letting it go. Anger surged within me, but it was already too late. Moreover, he wasn’t the only person who thought that way.

There were surprisingly many people dissatisfied with my insistence on Level 1 Guiding, which only involved holding hands. However, while they might talk behind my back, they rarely made it obvious in front of me. But because of Kim Seo-won, this topic had surfaced, and I was becoming rapidly isolated.

“Now, we will begin the Gate Raid! Espers, please gather in front of the entrance!”

When the Center employee [Read on Read BL Novels]in charge of this raid shouted from a distance, the Espers [stolen content][stolen content]began to move one by one.

“Hey, let’s just go eat.”

“Sure.”

Kim Seo-won’s group also left the Guiding tent. Perhaps because it was lunchtime, other Guides also began to stand up one by one.

But I remained sitting quietly in my chair. Then, Kang In-ho spoke to me.

“Lee Yeon-soo, aren’t you going to eat?”

“Ah, I’m going to stay on standby….”

Since one never knows what might happen during a Gate Raid, it was dangerous for all Guides to leave their posts.

Of course, it was a B-Class gate, but there was no guarantee that an incident like Horaitron wouldn’t occur. Besides, I had no appetite.

My appetite had completely vanished because Kim Seo-won had been grating on my nerves.

“Don’t pay attention to Kim Seo-won.”

“Huh? Oh. Thanks.”

My expression must have been quite severe for the usually indifferent Kang In-ho to offer comfort. I tried to smile, but my stiff face wouldn’t relax.

It wasn’t just Kim Seo-won’s clique. Unlike when I was in middle school, the number of people demanding Level 2 and Level 3 Guiding was gradually increasing. It would only get worse once I became an adult.

Then, suddenly, it became noisy outside.

Wondering what was happening, I stepped out of the tent and saw Joo Seung-hyuk walking steadily toward the gate, holding a long sword.

It was a B-Class gate and not a break crisis situation, so what was S-Class Joo Seung-hyuk doing here? Moreover, seeing him in his school uniform, it seemed he had come in a hurry from school.