Guide Me If You Dare-Chapter 290: MESSAGE DECHIPERED

"I DON’T wanna work," Yuno blurted out of nowhere. "Can’t we just let the end world or something? Most humans aren’t worth saving anyway."

Of course, he didn’t mean that.

Well, I’m at least 50% serious.

But Yuno would admit that it was just him being tired.

And the people around him understood.

"Madam, you should rest in the meantime. You’ve worked hard," Lee Woonhak said after his ’lecture’ about the virus. "I have the list of the other ingredients that we need to gather. I think it should be fine if we create a small group for that. You don’t have to be involved directly, Madam. This is a job for Espers anyway, since most ingredients could only be found in dungeons."

Oh.

Thank goodness.

Raiding dungeons wasn’t Yuno’s forte.

It’s not a job for Guides.

"Will our guild members suffice for the job?" Ki Gayoon asked. "I only want people we can trust to take this mission."

"Yes, Boss. Our guild members can handle it. But we’ll need someone who can manipulate water," Lee Woonhak said. "Once the ingredients is a pearl that could only be harvested in a water-type dungeon. None of our guild members has that kind of ability. We can still work together to harvest the pearl, but it will be faster if we have a water manipulator with us."

"Then Lee Sarang can lead the team," Ki Gayoon said. "We can trust her."

Lee Woonhak nodded, satisfied.

"You sent Sasa to the Esper Association to help President Kwak control the situation. You’re giving her too much workload when she doesn’t have a Guide," Moon Noa scolded Ki Gayoon. "You’re the one who put South Korea under Esper Law, Yoonyoon. Go and do your job as the country’s current leader."

Ki Gayoon clicked his tongue, but he couldn’t say anything back.

Sajangnim was right anyway.

"You should head to the Esper Association and personally handle all the important stuff, Hyung," Yuno urged her boyfriend. "I’m going to sleep in the meantime."

Ki Gayoon frowned. "But I want to sleep with you, Noh Yuno."

Aigoo.

"Gayoon-san, you make me want to smack you in the face," Haru, who spoke for the first time ever since Lee Woonhak’s ’lecture’ began, said while giving a side-eye to Ki Gayoon. Then the ex-prince got up from his seat. "I’ll drag you to the association if I have to."

Ki Gayoon knitted his eyebrows. "Why are you getting so worked up?"

"I’m here as Japan’s representative," Haru answered bluntly. "Those zombies have already reached our country, too."

Ah, right.

Yuno got sad again when he remembered Osaki Shohei’s death,

"We need to work together," Haru said sternly. "So, get up and work, Gayoon-san."

Ki Gayoon clicked his tongue at the ex-prince before turning to Yuno. "Babe Princess, sleep in my dungeon— that’s the safest place for you. Well, the enemies have breached Beok-seom once, but the System assured me that it won’t happen again."

Yuno nodded. "That’s the plan, Hyung."

***

"LOOK who finally showed up."

Ki Gayoon just rolled his eyes at Kwak Hakjae’s sarcastic way of greeting him.

But he couldn’t complain since, admittedly, he dumped all the work to the Esper Association President.

I practically disappeared after declaring Esper Law.

"Lee Sarang-nim already explained everything she knows about the situation," Kwak Hakjae said while sitting behind his desk, gesturing Ki Gayoon to sit in the receiving chair. "But is there anything else that I need to know?"

"Yeah, a lot," Ki Gayoon said while sitting down. "But, first, tell me how you’re handling the situation at the moment."

"We’ve captured all the ’zombies’ that terrorized Seoul recently," Kwak Hakjae explained. "I mobilized all the Hunters under the association, but we also received help from the other guilds that oversee the territories that had been attacked. And the Rogue Clan has been a huge help, too."

"Where did you take the zombies? You didn’t kill them, did you?"

"There were a few zombies that had to be killed in order to save the Civilians that they attacked."

Ah, it couldn’t be helped, then.

Unfortunately, we can’t save everyone.

"But why do we have to keep them alive?" Kwak Hakjae asked worriedly. "What if the virus spreads if we don’t kill them?"

"The zombies can be cured," Ki Gayoon explained. "Most of them are Civilians forced to transform, so we can’t just kill them."

"Is Noh Yuno the one curing them?"

"How did you know?"

"I’m not a combant fighter, but I can see through the enemies’ strategy," Kwak Hakjae said, and then he showed Ki Gayoon his computer tablet. The screen showed a map— a map of Seoul, to be precise. "As Lee Sarang-nim already pointed, the attacks happened around HoneyMoon Convenience Store. Not only is it Noh Yuno’s workplace, but the floor above is also his official residence. So, it’s not hard to figure out that they’re sending a message to him."

"Yeah, that much is obvious. We just have to figure out the message they’re trying to send."

"I think I just figured it out after you said Noh Yuno can cure the zombies."

"What did you figure out?"

"They are raising Noh Yuno’s value as an E-Class Guide."

"For what?"

"Ki Gayoon, picture this. What if the zombie outbreaks spread all over the globe? And Noh Yuno is the only person who can cure them," Kwak Hakjase said nervously as if he had already pictured a very terrible future. "Do you think the other nations will just watch Noh Yuno cure the zombies in our country?"

Oh.

I see it now.

"No, they wouldn’t stay still," Ki Gayoon said, clenching his jaw. "They’ll try to kidnap Noh Yuno and force him to save their country, too."

"Exactly," Kwak Hakjae said while nodding. "There are other natural S-Class Espers in the world, Ki Gayoon. Can you fight all of them to keep Noh Yuno safe?"

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