Guide Me If You Dare
Chapter 228: BREAKING THE SILENCE

Chapter 228: BREAKING THE SILENCE

"DO YOU know why I hate you, Lee Sarang?"

Haaah.

Lee Sarang couldn’t help but feel bitter that even right at that moment, Mo Hanjin couldn’t hide his animosity towards her.

Actually, she didn’t care anymore now that she was "sober."

However, she was curious.

"Tell me," Lee Sarang said. She wasn’t afraid anymore since she knew whatever Mo Hanjin’s reason for hating her wouldn’t hurt her. All she wanted was to satisfy her curiosity. "Why do you hate me? Is it because you think I’m the reason your old Esper died?"

"I don’t "think" you’re the reason for her death— Bambi-ssi really killed my previous Esper just because he wanted me to be your Exclusive Guide," Mo Hanjin said bitterly. "At the time, I was the Guide with the highest compatibility rate with you. But I turned down the National Guide Bureau’s offer because I was imprinted to my Esper."

Oh.

Lee Sarang’s memories were a little blurry, but she could tell that Mo Hanjin was telling the truth.

"Of course, I could still guide you even if I was imprinted. But I told Bambi-ssi I wouldn’t be able to devote my life to you. And he didn’t like that. So, he killed my Esper and forced me to be your Exclusive Guide."

Ah.

Of course, at the back of her head, she had always known that it was the case.

However, this was the first time Lee Sarang had to face the brutal truth.

I’m really the reason Hanjin Oppa’s previous Esper died...

No, that person was killed.

"But that’s not the only reason why I hated you— why I hate you even now," Mo Hanjin said in an indifferent tone. "Lee Sarang, you’ve been living in blissful ignorance all this time because of Ryu Sungbin’s protection."

"Sungbin Oppa’s protection?" Lee Sarang asked, knitting his eyebrows from confusion. "What do you mean by that?"

"Ryu Sungbin asked me to guide you in a way that will erase your memories of the terrors that you’ve witnessed while working for them," Mo Hanjin said, smirking bitterly. "That’s why you were never really "sober" when you were with me. Bambi-ssi didn’t complain as long as you were under my influence, even though he wasn’t happy that he couldn’t fully use you. After all, even Jin Sooin protected you all the time."

"Sooin Unnie protected me? How?"

"She took all the jobs that were supposed to be under your responsibilities— jobs that involved turning powerful and useful Espers into monsters."

To say that Lee Sarang was shaken would be an understatement.

She thought Ryu Sungbin and Jin Sooin didn’t care about her anymore.

But, come to think of it, she had really been living in blissful ignorance all this time.

The only thing I suffered from was my toxic dependence on Hajin Oppa’s guiding.

Lee Sarang didn’t even know that Matthew wasn’t the real Matthew until recently!

Her thoughts were only interrupted when Mo Hanjin started to cough up blood.

"Oppa...!"

Mo Hanjin raised his hand as if to stop Lee Sarang from making a fuss, and then he continued talking. "I don’t know what Bambi-ssi’s goal is, but he’s collecting either powerful Espers or low-ranking Espers with interesting skills from all over the world. He would ask Ryu Sungbin and Jin Sooin to kill Espers that caught his fancy. Then Matthew would turn those Espers into vessels for dungeon monsters. I don’t know how, but Matthew could turn those "vessels" into humanoid monsters."

"Humanoid monsters? You mean monsters wearing human skin?"

"Exactly. Since those monsters wear human skin, average Espers can’t detect them. Only natural S-Class Espers could since natural S-Class Espers were literally made by the System to kill all sorts of monsters."

Ah.

"I’m a natural S-Class Esper, but I haven’t encountered humanoid monsters yet."

"You have."

"What?"

"The enemies know that natural S-Class Espers could detect humanoid monsters, so they made him use a human skin that even natural S-Class Espers like you couldn’t notice."

"Who are you talking about exactly?"

"Who do you think is the most suspicious person here?"

It only took Lee Sarang to come up with an answer. "Bambi-ssi..."

After all, Bambi only appeared a few years ago.

And, when he did, everything had changed.

Bambi-ssi even managed to steal Sungbin Oppa from Noa Oppa.

"He’s the enemies’ perfect masterpiece," Mo Hanjin said in a voice full of difficulties. He then touched his neck and chest while breathing harder than usual. "Bambi-ssi isn’t human, but he’s living in the shell of someone who has the power... argh!"

Mo Hanjin then coughed up another huge chunk of blood.

That was when Lee Sarang remembered that, apparently, Mo Hanjin was under Oath that forced him to keep his mouth shut all this time.

But Oppa keeps talking about things he shouldn’t have been talking about...!

"Oppa, stop talking! It’s alright! You’ve already said enough!"

"The figures behind Bambi-ssi are old enemies of the First Generation of Espers and Guides..." Mo Hanjin said, taking a deep breath. And then he smiled— a smile of relief. It was as if he was satisfied that he had said the things he had always wanted to say. "Eomma. Appa."

What?

Lee Sarang thought Mo Hanjin was having a delusion and was calling his parents while on the brink of death.

But as soon as Mo Hanjin said those words, he shut his eyes tight and fell from his seat. It happened so suddenly. First, he banged his head on the table, and then his heavy body quickly fell from the chair.

Lee Sarang could tell even without checking.

He’s gone— Hanjin Oppa is dead.

Haaah.

She couldn’t even cry because her brain had already figured out what Mo Hanjin meant by ’Eomma’ and ’Appa.’

He said it in the Korean Language.

However, that wasn’t how the First Generation of Espers and Guide called those scumbags in the past.

"Mo Hanjin-san held up well."

Lee Sarang lifted her head and met Haru’s gaze.

The ex-prince had just entered the interrogation room.

"Other Espers or Guides under a powerful Oath would have died the moment they started talking about the "taboo,"" Haru explained while looking at Mo Hanjin-san’s dead body on the floor with pity in his eyes. "Mo Hanjin-san probably found a loophole on the Oath that he made, so he was able to say that much. That or he used a skill to extend his life until he could say everything he wanted to say first."

To be honest, it didn’t matter how Mo Hanjin broke his silence without dying right away.

The important thing was the valuable information that he shared.

But that wasn’t the piece of information I was expecting from him.

"Haru Oppa, Hanjin Oppa didn’t say anything about the lab or the dungeon that Sungbin Oppa and the others are controlling."

"Don’t worry about that," Haru said casually, lifting his head to meet her gaze. "He already left the coordinates of the passive dungeons that he had been to. About the lab, well, he doesn’t know much about it in the first place. He just knew that the place existed."

Right.

In short, Mo Hanjin had already given them all the important pieces of information that he had been keeping all this time.

"I guess he really wanted to die."

Haru just raised an eyebrow.

"Until the end, Hanjin Oppa let me know how much he hated me," Lee Sarang said. She didn’t want to sound bitter, but she couldn’t help it either. "He chose to kill himself by telling me the truth not because he wanted to help us— but because he knew the truth would hurt me."

"Well, did the truth hurt you?"

"It just makes me angrier than I already am."

"Good," Haru said while nodding. "We can channel that anger to somewhere else."

"I know, Oppa. I’m here to work, after all," Lee Sarang said, and then her eyes fell on Mo Hanjin’s lifeless body on the floor. "But let me give Mo Hanjin-ssi a proper burial first."

***

BAMBI’S skin was melting.

Ki Gayoon watched in disgust as the pink bastard’s skin melted like wax.

There’s no way a human would live if that happened to them.

It was kind of creepy since only the skin from the neck down to the toes melted.

Hence, Bambi’s face and head remained intact and unchanged.

Why does Ryu Sungbin find that face pretty? It’s creepy. Then and now.

Anyway, after the human skin melted, what remained was a skeleton.

It’s funny how that pink bastard’s skeleton looks like human skeleton when he’s clearly not.

That form didn’t take long, though.

Soon, the skeleton was covered by what seemed like a very tight racing suit.

It was a gradient— a mix of black and pink.

Now Bambi looked like he was wearing a racing suit.

I wonder if that "racing suit" is made from sturdy materials? It probably is, right? Then I should use an S-Grade Item to cut this bastard.

"You’re making me shy with your intense stare, Gayoon Hyung."

"Yeah, you should continue feeling shy," Gayoon said sarcastically while pulling out a sword from his Inventory. It wasn’t his style to use weapons, but his instincts were telling him he should chop up the pink bastard. "Shy people don’t fight back, do they?"

Bambi let out a shallow laugh. "Hyung, that’s being a pushover and not shy."

"Whatever."

Gayoon stomped his foot on the ground, ready to charge at Bambi.

However, much to his shock, the terrain suddenly changed.

No, it wasn’t actually just the terrain.

This is my mansion’s front yard?

Gayoon was shocked.

We were kicked out of my own dungeon?!

***

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