By Zephyria 
The President’s office of HB Entertainment, a small to medium-sized entertainment agency.
There, the President was having a private meeting with an idol belonging to the agency.
The idol, with his black hair, gentle, drooping eyes, and puppy-like face, was carefully choosing his words in front of the President.
“Yes. Yujin, what’s so urgent that you wanted to see me?”
“I have an urgent matter.”
The name of the person the President was meeting with was Yeon Yujin, who had recently been in a major accident and had barely recovered in the hospital.
‘Could something have gone wrong?’
The President’s thoughts were entirely focused on that. It was extremely rare for Yeon Yujin to come to see the President like this.
Seeing Yeon Yujin, who was always timid, requesting a meeting so urgently, he expected it wouldn’t be good news.
However, the words that came out of Yeon Yujin’s mouth exceeded the President’s imagination.
“President.”
“What.”
“I want to leave this group.”
“…What?”
Yeon Yujin, or rather, An Ga-hyeon, the S-Class Guide inside him, thought as he looked at the President’s flustered face.
‘Am I crazy to live while being treated like this?’
An Ga-hyeon had no intention of continuing Yeon Yujin’s life like a fool.
His past life had been too difficult, and the Esper members of Yeon Yujin’s group were nothing but rude bastards.
‘I’m getting out no matter what.’
And after finding the culprit who killed ‘An Ga-hyeon’ and getting revenge… he would enjoy a peaceful era.
That was the sole goal of An Ga-hyeon, who had possessed Yeon Yujin’s body.
My name is An Ga-hyeon. I manifested as the youngest S-Class Guide at the age of only nineteen, and I was virtually the best Guide, evaluated as SSS-Class.
‘I didn’t know when I manifested the day after taking the college entrance exam.’
I never imagined I would be called by the nation and thrown into a Dungeon Gate.
At first, I didn’t know. I thought I was just sick from the fatigue accumulated from the grueling exam life, but it turned out to be the pain experienced in the process of manifesting as an Esper or Guide.
After suffering and losing consciousness for several days, I woke up to a different world.
A terrible Dungeon Break had occurred, and monsters had emerged, killing many people. The government mobilized the military to deal with the monsters, but it was useless.
Only Espers could fight them.
As the appearance of Dungeons and monsters was witnessed along with the scene of mutants, Espers and Guides, joining forces to defeat the monsters, the government changed its policy.
‘Capture all Espers and Guides nationwide and make them fight in the Dungeons. That’s the only way now.’
The government, judging that it was the only way to restore the paralyzed city, searched the entire country and found the manifested Espers and Guides. It was a tragedy caused by Espers and Guides who followed the government’s will.
They even found me, suffering from Manifestation Fever in the hospital emergency room, and measured my rank.
‘What is this? What are you doing?’
‘Oh my. As a result of the confirmation, An Ga-hyeon is a Guide, an S-Class Guide.’
Unfortunately, among the Espers loyal to the government, there was an Ability User who could measure the potential of Espers and Guides. He said words that would plunge my future into the mire with sparkling eyes.
‘It’s just S-Class in name, but it’s safe to say it’s SSS-Class. It’s an incredible figure.’
‘Is that good? I want to go home quickly.’
‘No, An Ga-hyeon. You have to go to the Dungeon for the sake of the country.’
‘Yes? No, I want to go home.’
You know how much a high school senior who has taken the college entrance exam wants to play. I was just a student who wanted to hang out with my friends right away.
The area where the Dungeon Break occurred was far from the capital, and the government tried to conceal the fact as much as possible, so I didn’t even know what had happened.
‘Drag him away. Train him to be ready to use immediately and take him to the Dungeon.’
‘Wh-what! Let go of me! This is kidnapping! Let go! Help me!’
But my opinion was completely ignored, and I was thrown into the front lines, full of Dungeons and monsters, that day.
In the face of a national crisis, Ability Users, whether children or adults, were drafted to solve Dungeon Gates, which was the reality at the time.
“Aaaagh!”
“S-save me!”
That place was hell. The Espers and Guides dragged in by the government fought and died to prevent monsters from coming out when the Dungeon broke.
Torn to death, trampled to death, burned to death by the fire spewed by monsters, I gradually became desensitized to death as I watched them lose their lives in various ways.
Casually calculating how likely I was to survive today.
“Damn it, the number of Guides keeps decreasing. At this rate, we’ll all be annihilated.”
Unlike Espers with special abilities, Guides were not much different from ordinary people without the protection of Espers.
Naturally, monsters targeted and killed the relatively weaker Guides, and accordingly, the number of living Guides gradually decreased.
What that meant was that I, An Ga-hyeon, the S-Class Guide who survived until the last moment when the Dungeon was subjugated, was every day acting as a Healing Potion for the Espers.
As the difficulty of the Dungeons increased, the number of Espers and Guides who died increased. The number of Espers one Guide was responsible for soared, and I, an S-Class Guide, was sucked dry of energy as I roamed the Gates.
“I’m going to die……”
My body and mind had long been in tatters. I was so tired after being stuck in the Dungeon area for several years, repeating only killing and saving.
“But let’s hold on a little longer. Now only the last Dungeon is left.”
“We have to. I’m going to survive and get out of this damn Dungeon no matter what.”
Hyeon Jae-ha, an S-Class Esper of the same rank as me, was there to protect my exhausted self. We were able to survive until we faced the last Dungeon, perhaps because we were of high rank, and we were able to be each other’s reliable partners.
But that was it.
“Ga-hyeon!”
When we entered the interior to clear the last Dungeon, I took the attack of the boss monster on my body instead of Hyeon Jae-ha.
“Shit……. Why did a Dragon bastard have to come out.”
A curse word burst out involuntarily.
My abdomen was blown open, and blood gushed from my mouth. It was a landscape I had seen countless times, but it felt unreal.
Today is my turn.
Hyeon Jae-ha held me and cried.
“Don’t talk. The… the medical team will arrive soon. You can live, Ga-hyeon.”
“Do you think I’d fall for that lie?”
Thanks to my sacrifice, Hyeon Jae-ha safely defeated the boss monster, the Dragon, and obtained the reward, but it would take a long time for the medical team to get here.
‘Because civilians are never allowed to enter a closed Dungeon until its safety is verified.’
That was generally the end of my departed colleagues. It was common for them to die from shock or excessive bleeding because the medical team didn’t arrive in time.
So Hyeon Jae-ha’s words were just a vain hope. It was a false hope to keep me alive even a little longer.
“Don’t… lie……”
I’m going to die here. I knew better than anyone else that death was approaching. I wasn’t in pain anymore, and my senses were dulled, so I thought I was going to die soon too.
‘I’m sleepy.’
My eyes were gradually closing. The approaching death quickly consumed my body.
It was a futile death.
“No, Ga-hyeon! There’s something I haven’t told you yet……”
Jae-ha cried and desperately shouted something, but his voice didn’t reach me.
The world was all black.
You bastard. You should have said that sooner.
‘It’s all useless when you die…….’
That was the end. I died without even leaving a will.
That’s what I thought.
“Here! The patient is awake!”
‘It’s noisy…….’
It was strange. I thought I was dead, but the surroundings were too bright. And there were too many people’s voices.
‘What is it? Am I in heaven?’
Of course, I believed I had come to heaven because I had gone through all sorts of hardships while living.
But it was too noisy for the heaven I had imagined.
‘…What?’
“Patient Yeon Yujin has finally regained consciousness!”
‘Yeon Yujin? Who is that?’
I was confused by the name I had never heard before, and someone forcibly lifted my eyelids to open my eyes.
“Hey, Yeon Yujin. I know you’re awake. Get up, don’t put on an act.”
A man with a very displeased expression was frowning as he looked down at me.
The young man’s forehead, which still had a youthful impression, was furrowed.
‘What’s with this young punk…….’
Why is he talking so dirty?
I could bet the last 10 years of fighting monsters that he wasn’t worried about me.
‘I died and came back to life, and now a rookie who’s not even a chick is talking back to a senior.’
Where’s Hyeon Jae-ha? Why is an untrained recruit by my side?
Perhaps it was because I had lost consciousness for a long time. It was the moment I was about to open my chapped, dry lips.
“What……”
“You have to fulfill the contract. You barely got into the group as our Guide, right?”
‘Contract? What contract?’
More than that, didn’t this bastard call me Yeon Yujin?
“As a Guide, you have to serve the Espers well. Stop pretending to be weak and get up quickly.”
Hearing those words made me angry. I felt like my head was spinning.
“…Hey.”
“What?”
“You rotten, ill-mannered bastard. What? A Guide exists to serve Espers well? Huh?”
I grabbed the head of the guy I could see. His flowing hair was a work of art.
I pulled it as if I was going to pull it all out.
“Ack! Yeon Yujin! You crazy bastard! What are you doing?!”
What else? I’m trying to educate an Esper brat who has no manners.
“How dare a chick Esper like you talk down to me in front of me?”
Crack.
“Kuaaaagh!”
A handful of lush hair was caught in my hand.
“Behave yourself, you bastard.”
No Esper could act carelessly in front of me, the most senior S-Class Guide.
Who do you think you are, acting up like that?