Becoming the Guide of the Mysophobic Villain? Absolutely Not! - Chapter 4
That day, I reached a conclusion.
This game leads to a bad ending no matter which way you go, and the villain is just a trash character who can’t even accept help?
I slammed the game console against a corner of the room and couldn’t calm down, eventually falling asleep that night.
Then.
That night, I found myself in the game world as the extra character, Rose Valentine.
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Rose Valentine. With curly pink hair, round blue eyes, and with a petite, slim body, she was pretty cute.
I transmigrated as her about a year ago.
At first, I was completely out of it. Rose Valentine was one of the extras who never actually got named in the game itself. And even if I transmigrated, I didn’t have much of Rose Valentine’s memories.
So imagine the shock I had when I suddenly fell into this world and didn’t even know who I was…
But the shock gradually wore off. I had to go out and make a living for myself soon. Antheon was a dog eat dog world, and since I was already living here, I had to find a way to survive.
At least, the Center’s civil service exam was scheduled in the near future, and I was lucky enough to pass the test. I actually wasn’t expecting much from it, but it was good because the job ensured employee boarding and a retirement fund.
When I was appointed as a clerk at the Center’s Guide Management Department, Irene—the female protagonist—also got assigned in the same department. We even got as far as get the same room, so we’re roommates.
Thanks to that, Irene and I are practically attached to each other from the moment we wake up in the morning until just before bed.
So, what was it like, meeting the female lead, you ask?
There’s no need to spell it out. It’s like an angel had descended from heaven.
I didn’t even recognize her at first. She was already described as pretty in the 2D game, but in 4D, it’s beyond imagination.
Seriously, there’s no other angel like her.
Beautiful blonde hair, flawless skin without a single blemish that complements her fair tone. Eyes so kind that they would drive men crazy. Tall stature, and a perfectly proportioned body.
However…
“Ah… Rose…”
“…”
“How many times have I told you to be careful, huh?”
She’s bit of an a*shole…
Irene was extremely sensitive.
She’d get jumpy at the slightest noise, whether it was closing the door with a bang, coming in late and waking her up, making a noise while she was reading, or even if a single strand of my hair fell on the floor.
And then, she’d give me a warning as if she had been enduring so much grief.
As if! I’m the one enduring it!
Every morning when I left the room with Irene, our roommate in the adjacent room would send sympathetic glances.
Irene’s sensitivity was very well known among the non-ability individuals at the Center.
In reality, when I first saw Irene, I felt sorry for her future, suffering at the hands of the villain. But…
…Now, I feel even more sorry for myself.
On days when Irene’s nagging got longer, I imagined how pleasant my dorm room would be once Irene would suffer at the hands of the villain…
Anyway, it was a relief that I would never get attached to a woman who would be a terrible victim anyway.
Still, if I exclude Irene’s sensitivity, I was quite looking forward to my new life as Rose Valentine.
Because I was… a Guide! And not just any Guide, I could conceal my guiding ability!
Other Guides could guide through simple physical contact. But for some reason, I couldn’t Guide just by touching an Esper’s bare skin.
The only reason I came to know this was because when I transmigrated as Rose Valentine, this was the only information—other than her name—that I retained.
Thanks to that, I was judged as a non-ability individual when I did the trait test, which all new employees of the Center needed to undergo. Since then, I’ve been living my life as a normal, unassuming office worker without revealing that I’m a Guide.
Of course, it would be much more comfortable than living as the lowest-ranked non-ability office worker in the Center if my status as a Guide were revealed.
The problem is that Guides sometimes have the responsibility to guide unwanted Espers as well. Otherwise, there will inevitably be Espers who can’t receive guidance.
But I didn’t want to guide someone I didn’t love, let alone engage in physical contact and skinship for guiding.
