TTOA Chapter 43
by VolarePutting him to sleep would be better than breaking him.
Seo Eui-woo wanted to cherish Kwon Jae-jin. As his Guide, whom he’d finally found, he was bound to be precious. If Kwon Jae-jin heard this, he’d probably think it was crazy, but Seo Eui-woo was serious.
So Seo Eui-woo safely knocked Kwon Jae-jin unconscious and kept thrusting into the hole. After a while, when Jae-jin regained consciousness and woke up, he strangled him again to knock him out and thrust into the hole again.
He was endlessly fucking him day and night until the emergency call rang, and he was finally able to regain his sanity and stop Guiding.
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One century ago. The first Gate Impact occurred, and creatures in the form of various monsters poured out from within the Gates.
Afterward, Gate phenomena occurred simultaneously all over the world, and people were helplessly massacred by the creatures.
A terrible end of the old era, reminiscent of the end of mankind.
A bitter history of defeat, with 42.1% of the world’s population dead and more than half of the Earth’s surface seized by the creatures as their habitat.
After that, the existence of Espers and Guides who fought against the creatures appeared miraculously, and mankind, which was on the verge of destruction, was barely able to recover. Human society, which had fallen into chaos and barbarism, gradually regained stability.
The surviving countries barely managed to form governments and rushed to relocate their citizens to areas with less creature damage. They gathered the reduced number of people in the narrowed territory and created new residential districts to protect their citizens.
Espers created barriers around the residential districts to protect the non-Espers, and they continued to patrol and fight for their safety. As the standard of living gradually recovered and supplies became stable, the leaders of each country wanted the Espers not only to protect the residential districts but also to reclaim the land taken by the creatures.
Until then, the top priority was to preserve the old civilization and sustain human society within the residential districts. Now, the next goal was to expand the frontier districts, eradicate the creatures, and achieve the same affluence as in the pre-apocalyptic old era.
In this era of chaos, fostering and dispatching stronger Espers to secure land with resources was the shortcut to national prosperity and military strength.
So, each country organized armies made up of Espers, strictly controlled and managed them, and dispatched them to increasingly distant and desolate lands in exchange for wealth and honor.
In reality, mankind had no choice but to actively wage territorial wars in order to survive. Even now, Gates would be appearing somewhere on Earth, and creatures would be pouring out of them.
If the Espers only defended the narrow residential districts, all the other land would be swallowed up by the creatures. If that happened, it would lead to the worst-case scenario in centuries, when the increased number of creatures could not be handled.
Before that happened, the Espers had to fight as much as possible, kill the creatures, and destroy the cores of the Gates.
To prolong the life of mankind even a little more.
To constantly kill and take away.
And naturally, Seo Eui-woo was at the forefront of that battle.
Kieeeeeeek!
As he shot a bullet into the eye of a giant bat β-creature rushing at him while emitting high-frequency waves, Seo Eui-woo was inwardly amazed at his faster-than-usual body movements.
As soon as he engaged in battle, he truly felt the effect of proper Guiding.
The ability that he couldn’t suppress in his body and that leaked out on its own had become docile and quiet as if it had never happened. The black monster he had held in the abyss was also coiled up and sunk quietly without revealing itself.
How can this be?
Seo Eui-woo couldn’t hide the smile that was leaking out and used telekinesis to continuously crush the skulls of the bats flying in from all directions. Brain fluid exploded like fireworks, and flesh scattered everywhere, causing other Espers fighting far below to grimace and get splattered with filth.
Seo Eui-woo flies through the sky and fights comfortably, but the other Espers are struggling to fight on the ground.
-Seo Eui-woo. Don’t overuse your ability.
The lieutenant colonel’s order came from the goggles transceiver with the hologram displayed. It was Lieutenant Colonel Jang Tae-san, commander of the 1st Special Task Force.
He was a veteran A-rank Esper who had survived without dying even after passing the age of forty.
“I will correct that, Lieutenant Colonel Jang.”
Seo Eui-woo lowered his smile and replied.
Overuse? What nonsense.
He hadn’t drawn out even a bit of his hidden true power, and he’d only used a very small portion of what was leaking out, but he was immediately pointed out. Lieutenant Colonel Jang Tae-san had good intuition and was an opponent to be especially careful of.
-What’s the runaway risk level?
“Less than 20%.”
-That’s quite a low number.
“The new drug supplied this quarter has excellent effects. It seems to be compatible.”
-I see. That’s good news. Even so, don’t rely too much on Guiding substitute drugs. Always prepare for situations where supplies run out.
“As you command, Lieutenant Colonel Jang.”
Of course, not even Lieutenant Colonel Jang could see through Seo Eui-woo’s blatant lies.
Apart from trivial things like the ill-fitting new drug having excellent effects, lies that don’t even qualify as lies.
Seo Eui-woo had several deep-rooted lies that he had been risking his life to maintain since his training days. Pretending to eat, sleep, and act normal like others was one of them, and he had hidden even bigger bombs than that.
If the secret that Seo Eui-woo had actually been judged as an S-rank Esper based only on the overflowing ability on the surface, and that he had never once brought out the enormous power he had sunk into the dark abyss during the grade test, were to be revealed… What measures would the Center take?
The reason Seo Eui-woo had been able to endure without going runaway, even though he hadn’t received proper Guiding for twenty years, was because he had never once drawn out and used his true power.
If he were to take out and try to handle the ominous and sinister monster-like power that defied explanation, S-rank Guiding would inevitably be required. He couldn’t use it without proper Guiding.
Therefore, Seo Eui-woo only used the small amount of power that he couldn’t suppress and leaked out little by little instead of his true ability dwelling within his being. Thanks to making the right choice, he had somehow managed to cope with mismatched Guiding or substitute drugs until now.
But that would be a thing of the past now.
‘…Kwon Jae-jin.’
As he accurately shot the bats without missing even in the dark cave, Seo Eui-woo thought of Kwon Jae-jin.
He wanted to destroy the Gate core and return home as soon as possible.
To his house where his Guide, Kwon Jae-jin, would be waiting.
Once he started thinking about Kwon Jae-jin, he became unbearably impatient. He had received an emergency call and rushed out in a hurry, so he hadn’t been able to take care of Jae-jin’s aftercare. He hadn’t washed his body, and he had left the unconscious person abandoned on the bed.
He was probably awake by now, and he was worried about how he was doing while he was gone.
‘Judging by his reaction, he doesn’t seem to understand the situation at all.’
Seo Eui-woo, who had completely erased his smile, lowered his eyes silently. His dry, gray eyes were so still they were desolate.
His senses became hypersensitive, and he could clearly hear his heartbeat, pulse, breathing, and even the sound of his eyes blinking. Just a moment ago, he had felt that his condition was good, but now he realized that it wasn’t at all.
It’s not enough. It’s far from enough.
Seo Eui-woo recalled Kwon Jae-jin’s face, eyes, and voice, and naturally thought of Jae-jin’s body. His red, open tongue and mouth, the soft and well-formed muscles that were good to hold in his arms, his raised buttocks, the narrow and tight inner hole… He was terribly fond of how the flesh crumbled and stuck together every time he thrust into him.
There was something absolute in Kwon Jae-jin and his Guiding, something that couldn’t be expressed simply as feeling good.
Even at this moment, Seo Eui-woo wanted to drop the mission and the Gate and return to Kwon Jae-jin. To teleport and go to Kwon Jae-jin, and to force himself into all sorts of holes, whether it was Kwon Jae-jin’s mouth or his ass. He had been Guiding all the time until the emergency call, but thinking about Guiding again made his lower abdomen heavy and his legs uncomfortable.
‘Ha. Why am I like this….’
Seo Eui-woo gritted his teeth and tried to shake off his thoughts. It was a great relief that he was floating in the air alone while the other Espers were below. He wouldn’t be caught being erect in the middle of a battle.