After exchanging various remarks back and forth for a moment, Secretary Park soon hung up and spoke.
“His name is Yu Eunseong. He’s a D-rank guide who has reportedly belonged to a civilian organization for about a month. However, due to personal circumstances, this gate was supposedly his first time being officially dispatched on a mission.”
Koo Hyukjun tilted his head slightly at Secretary Park’s report.
“…Hryum, is that so.”
“Shall I look into it a bit more?”
“No, that’s fine.”
His eyes were still brimming with interest, yet his reply was the exact opposite.
As Secretary Park looked on with an unexpected expression, Koo Hyukjun casually curved the corners of his lips and said.
“Even if we dig further, nothing more is going to come out. Just put a tail on him right now. Let’s see how he plays it out.”
“Understood.”
While Secretary Park answered and made another call, Koo Hyukjun’s gaze shifted back to the guide cradled in Kim Sungchan’s arms.
This scent he was catching even now was terribly familiar.
This sweet yet erotic and vulgar scent—there was no mistake, it was that bastard.
Go Yeonwoo, the one who had ended up a failed product after years of experiments, the one who originally should have been discarded.
Koo Hyukjun’s heart pounded heavily and rapidly.
Excitement flared up as he confirmed with his own two eyes at last that Go Yeonwoo was alive.
In truth, Koo Hyukjun possessed one more ability that Secretary Park didn’t know about.
It was an ability directly related to his exceptional intuition.
When espers awakened, it was normal for them to have a single type of ability.
But on rare occasions, there were exceptions.
Park Jaerim, an S-rank esper, fell into that category.
The ability Koo Hyukjun was known for publicly was hallucinations, one of the mental-type abilities.
It was an ability that conjured unreal phantoms before the eyes to induce confusion and disorientation in the target.
In short, it was an ability capable of inflicting mental damage, not just simply showing hallucinations.
Koo Hyukjun’s ability was remarkably useful.
Especially whenever he was scheming behind the scenes.
However, because there was a limitation to the ability, it came with a time limit.
Since the ability wore off after a certain period, Koo Hyukjun’s tier had never been rated above A-rank.
It didn’t matter.
Being A-rank alone was enough to ascend to the position of center director, and since he actually possessed an undisclosed ability besides that, he had nothing to regret.
Koo Hyukjun’s hidden supernatural ability was a type similar to precognition, allowing him to foresee the immediate future.
That didn’t mean he could truly prophesy or see the future, though.
It was simply getting a vague feeling regarding specific phenomena.
If he looked at a certain target and got the feeling ‘Ah, this is going to be like this’, it would genuinely turn out to be true.
The probability was high as well.
His guesses were always identical to or close to the truth, and Koo Hyukjun profited handsomely from that boon.
Therefore, getting that kind of feeling from that guide who looked like anything other than Go Yeonwoo virtually amounted to a certainty.
“Right, I figured he’d be alive. As expected, I was right this time too.”
Koo Hyukjun curved the corners of his lips in satisfaction.
Since he was a weathered whore, he had a premonition that if he offered up his backdoor, he would manage to preserve his life somehow.
Even if he wasn’t a guide, but an esper instead.
“…No, wait.”
Koo Hyukjun’s voice trailed off, his eyes narrowing like a snake’s.
By this point, his brain began spinning at full throttle.
If that appearance was indeed Go Yeonwoo, he must have used a high-tier transformation item to change his appearance.
After all, if it were Team 1’s bastards, acquiring an S-rank item wouldn’t be difficult.
Right, anyone could easily deduce up to this point.
But a question arose from here.
Why on earth were Team 1’s bastards keeping Go Yeonwoo alive instead of killing him until now?
Of course, they might have kept him alive out of a desire for revenge over him killing their dedicated guide.
However, Koo Hyukjun was certain it wasn’t simply for that reason.
There was definitely another reason.
Koo Hyukjun’s thought circuits spun ceaselessly.
But by this point, a vague intuition should have kicked in.
This time, however, his ability didn’t provide even a single hint.
There had to be a reason why they went as far as risking the danger of getting caught, disguising Go Yeonwoo and bringing him into this gate.
There was definitely a reason…
“What if Go Yeonwoo awakened as a guide…?”
Koo Hyukjun, who had been muttering to himself, soon shook his head.
He knew that guiding energy lay dormant inside Go Yeonwoo.
Even after years of experiments, the guiding energy could not be extracted in the end.
It remained permanently dormant, refusing to emit any energy whatsoever.
It was nothing more than a pie in the sky.
It was clearly visible to the eye, yet impossible to grasp.
Having never felt such a mocking sense of being toyed with before, Koo Hyukjun treated Go Yeonwoo far more harshly than any other test subject.
Even so, the results were an abysmal failure.
Initially, a surge of fury had made him want to dispose of Go Yeonwoo, but then he changed his mind.
Didn’t the brat have a vulgar, erotic backdoor even worse than a whore’s?
No matter how many times he rammed into it, that cramped little hole was definitely useful.
He concluded that whenever he felt like it, he could just call him over and use him as a fucktoy.
When he wasn’t using him as a toilet, he could dispatch him to gates and work him like a slave.
True to his conclusion, Koo Hyukjun used Go Yeonwoo as both a fucktoy and a slave.
If Go Yeonwoo hadn’t killed Woo Jiyoo, he would likely still be using him that way right now.
As the gate situation settled down, Kim Sungchan caught Koo Hyukjun’s eye as he slowly tried to slip away while reading the mood.
In Kim Sungchan’s arms, the man presumed to be Go Yeonwoo was still being carried.
No matter how much he thought about it, the current situation made no sense unless Go Yeonwoo had awakened as a guide.
He knew it didn’t make logical sense.
There was no way a fucktoy judged to be a failure could do that.
Yes, absolutely none, and yet…
Koo Hyukjun’s gaze shifted to the pale face with closed eyes.
A body draped like a corpse, reeking unmistakably of sickly fragility, captured his attention.
What if, truly, Go Yeonwoo had awakened as a guide?
What if the experiment hadn’t been a failure, but a success after all?
“Ha, fuck. This turns me on.”
Koo Hyukjun let out a curse, uncharacteristic of him.
His intuition still hadn’t triggered, but just the imagination alone brought a deep wave of pleasure.
Stirred by vivid excitement, Koo Hyukjun’s groin swelled in an instant.
The sheer, bulky volume was clearly visible even through his clothing.
