By Zephyria 
‘What is this?’
I wondered, picking up the jewel from my pocket, and Potato shouted at me.
[Use that jewel!]
‘Huh?’
But could I, not Jae-ha, really use this properly?
As I hesitated, Potato stuck to my finger as if frustrated and urged me on.
[You idiot! You’re the only SSS-Class Guide who can use Reverse Guiding!]
“……!”
[And according to Hyeon Jae-ha, that Jin-irang or whatever also used the red jewel without any problems. If even a terrible Ability User close to an ordinary person used it, you can definitely do it too!]
Is that really true?
There was no basis, but listening to Potato’s confident scolding, I felt a surge of courage that made me think I could do anything.
‘Okay, let’s do it!’
Since I was already facing the Management Bureau head-on, it was now or never.
I fearlessly took out the red jewel that was sending out mysterious vibrations and clenched it tightly in my hand.
Even at that moment, Director Shin Yun-hui and the Management Bureau employees were holding their heads in pain.
“Why are we… here?”
“Hyeon Jae-ha… We were clearly ordered to… capture him….”
“But who… gave this order…?”
Watching the employees, who were severely confused by the influence of mental Ability, I desperately wished.
‘Please, let this red jewel open a path to overcome this situation!’
Perhaps that wish was heard.
A faint green light began to emanate from the red jewel.
Potato said to me, delighted.
[Eureka! This is the Ability you need right now!]
‘What? What kind of Ability is it?’
[It’s the power to completely nullify mental Abilities! Illusions, Brainwashing, curses…! Before this powerful Ability, the mental Abilities that Ban No-ah put in place will all return to nothing!]
It was great news.
Without delay, I held up the red jewel towards the suffering Management Bureau employees.
“Look here!”
When I shouted loudly and focused everyone’s attention on me, Jae-ha’s face turned blue.
“Ga-hyeon, why are you doing this? If this happens, the plan to make you look like a hostage and escape safely will be ruined….”
Jae-ha still only thought of disguising me as a civilian caught up in this fight and sending me to a safe place.
I knew it was a tearful consideration related to Jae-ha’s trauma, because of the terrible experience of losing me before his eyes, he was trying to get me out of here at all costs.
But I didn’t want to run away from this place now.
This was the battlefield where I would fight, and I had not yet beheaded my enemy.
So where would I run away to?
In this chicken game that wouldn’t end until one side died.
With my free hand, I grabbed Jae-ha by the collar and shouted.
“Stop talking nonsense!”
“…What?”
“You’re only trying to save me? What’s the point of that?”
Even though Bonding was severed, we were still a team and partners.
“I’m really sorry that I died before you. But that doesn’t mean I can stand by and watch you sacrifice yourself for me!”
Jae-ha’s lapis lazuli eyes widened.
‘Ah.’
Then something hot flowed down my cheek.
When did I start crying?
But none of that mattered.
Because imprinting this sincerity on Jae-ha was considered the most important and urgent thing in this world.
“Listen carefully! Hyeon Jae-ha! You may not know it, but from the moment you chose me as your partner, we became a community bound by fate, dying together and living together!”
“…….”
“So I can’t watch you die in front of my eyes, sacrificing yourself!”
Live!
“Even if things go wrong and we end up being chased together for the rest of our lives! We’re going to the end together!”
“…Ga-hyeon.”
“I’ll take your silence as an agreement. Don’t you ever say anything like you’re going to sacrifice yourself coolly again! I’ll chase you to the end of the earth!”
I grabbed him by the collar and screamed, but Jae-ha’s face gradually began to glow with brilliant sunlight.
“Ahahaha.”
The sea in Jae-ha’s eyes cleared up.
“Okay. If that’s what you want. Even if we fall into hell together, it won’t be boring.”
“Hell my ass. We’re not going to hell. Neither are we going to heaven. The place for us is this world, not the afterlife.”
At this point, Jae-ha noticed that I had something that could change the unfavorable flow of the situation.
“Ga-hyeon, could it be that red jewel you’re holding…?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
I smiled and held up the red jewel high.
As soon as I decided that I wanted to use the Ability contained in that jewel, the green light that had been dripping out became even stronger.
Uuuuuung-.
Soon, the bright red jewel was completely dyed in the blue-green light of its complementary color.
‘Ah.’
I instinctively knew how to use the Ability of this jewel.
Knowledge that poured into my head without anyone telling me whispered to me.
At the end of it, I faintly heard a small, weak whisper.
‘Please use this jewel properly to release the Abilities sealed in other jewels and the vengeful spirits of the Ability Users.’
Perhaps it was the will left by the real owner of this mental nullification Ability.
‘I will.’
Then, a strong beam of light soared into the sky from the raised jewel, and a rain of green light began to pour down.
“What is this…?”
The bewildered Management Bureau employees initially tried to avoid the rain that looked like falling emerald fragments.
“…Wait. This is not an Ability that intends to harm us.”
Director Shin Yun-hui, who was holding her forehead with a severe headache, stopped those who were trying to avoid the rain.
Another employee next to the Director said that this rain was not harmful and urged them to actively embrace it.
“This rain will wash away the unpleasant Abilities that have penetrated our minds.”
“Bu, but….”
“Hurry.”
I chimed in and added an explanation.
“The rain falling now has the effect of reversing the Brainwashing Ability cast on you to nothing. If you don’t want to be played by a shady guy who tries to Brainwash others and use them like puppets, then take a chance and get rained on.”
Trembling glances were exchanged among the Management Bureau employees, but the person who sided with me nodded with a look of conviction, and they finally agreed.
Shuaaa-.
The light green, mysterious rain enveloped the devastated city center.
The rain did not wet people’s bodies. It only purified the brain, which had been clouded by mental Brainwashing.
Perhaps realizing that slowly, the eyes of the Management Bureau employees, including Director Shin Yun-hui, sparkled with life.
“My head doesn’t hurt anymore.”
“The blurry memories have become clear.”
“The one who ordered us was not a superior in the Management Bureau. It was a brat who didn’t even have the blood dried on his head, who had that superior next to him and was using him like a puppet.”
At the end, Director Shin Yun-hui gnashed her teeth and became enraged.
“I remember everything clearly. A guy named Ban No-ah told me and my team the location of Hyeon Jae-ha and his party. He ordered us to eliminate them, even if we died in battle, if they were alive.”
The Director continued in an angry voice.
“He even told us to destroy the Dungeon if they were trapped inside, and to take the Ability Cores from them.”
So Ban No-ah’s trickery had spread to the Management Bureau….
‘I was lucky.’
Ban No-ah had made a big mistake.
He tried to starve us to death by pushing us into the Modified Dungeon, but I recklessly ran at him and stole only the most important red jewels, ruining all his plans.
As I clutched the red jewel that had brought me the good fortune of turning misfortune into blessing like a talisman, Director Shin Yun-hui turned her gaze towards me and Jae-ha.
“To order such unfair orders…. I knew that the higher-ups who occupied key positions in the Management Bureau were corrupt, but to order such dirty work that only contract killers would do!”
Shin Yun-hui, filled with anger, threw away the official Ability User badge that was attached to her jacket like a medal.
At the same time, she cast a stern gaze at us.
“Did you know?”
“What are you talking about?”
Even though Hyeon Jae-ha, a wanted man who should be arrested from the Management Bureau’s point of view, was asking a question, Director Shin Yun-hui remained calm.
“I’m asking if you knew about the existence of that arrogant brat who was playing with the higher-ups of the Management Bureau. And that he caused the current situation only to achieve his own private purposes.”
“Wouldn’t it be quicker to ask the Psychometry that you have with you than to talk about it?”
At Jae-ha’s words, Director Shin Yun-hui turned to another employee standing behind her.
“Head of section Park Ha-na, I think you’ll have to use your Psychometry Ability.”
“Yes?”
That person was the one who sided with me when I was raining down the rain of nullification with the red jewel.