Becoming the Guide of the Mysophobic Villain? Absolutely Not! - Chapter 62
Actually, Oscar was skeptical.
It wouldn’t be easy for Claude to keep a female Guide by his side.
If it were, Claude wouldn’t have nearly gone on a rampage several times.
But……
“……It doesn’t matter.”
Claude replied indifferently.
And he really did participate in a rather unsuitable charade.
***
Claude’s charade was anything but easy.
He seriously considered giving up this nonsense several times.
Rose was unpredictable and reckless.
To put it kindly, she was carefree; to put it harshly… it seemed like she had no sense.
For example……
While someone was killing their pride, sitting across from another Guide in a pointless charade, she was assigned to keep watch but was completely engrossed in snacking and chatting with other Espers.
She, who could hardly meet his eyes out of fear, was meddling and offering food to other Espers.
And when she even fed bread to an Esper, Claude had to exercise superhuman patience not to smash that Esper’s face.
Not to be scary. Not to instill fear.
That was a truly difficult mission for Claude.
Hearing this, Oscar clicked his tongue.
“You messed up. You don’t understand women at all. Whether they’re Guides or Espers, women are all the same.”
“……”
“……When they’re hungry, they turn around completely. A second personality comes out.”
Claude found it hard to completely accept Oscar’s words.
But he did learn one way to handle the unpredictable and wild Rose.
Once again, Claude had lured Rose out under the pretext of accompanying Shana to a festival. His sole objective was clear.
Never let Rose go hungry.
He couldn’t understand how someone so small could have such an appetite. He found it baffling that just handing her food could change her sullen expression to one that was suddenly lively and sparkling.
He didn’t understand it, but…
…he found himself wanting to give her more.
Unaware of Claude’s efforts to become an expert at finding good food stalls.
In a moment of distraction, Rose had disappeared.
When he realized she was gone, rage surged through him.
If she was going to be timid, she should’ve stayed that way.
Always avoiding his gaze and trembling, as if he had committed some unspeakable crime against her. Yet, she always tried to outwit him, causing trouble whenever she could.
She swept him up in a whirlwind of uncontrollable emotions.
“Being so small, where does she get the nerve to wander around fearlessly? What if she gets stepped on?”
When he spotted the pink tuft of her hair poking out among the crowd, his emotions were mixed.
Anger, relief, frustration, confusion.
Even amidst this, he wanted to obliterate everyone in the crowd pushing against her.
When they ended up standing close together in a narrow alley to avoid the people, all he could think about was getting out of there as quickly as possible. He was bothered by how out of it Rose seemed, whether from exhaustion or something else.
But Rose kept holding onto him, as if she had something to say.
And when he leaned down to listen…
It was their first guiding while he was conscious.
Brief, barely perceptible, but unmistakable.
Any lingering doubt transformed into solid certainty.
Claude had never felt such boiling blood, a heart so fiercely heated, a chest so full of emotion in his life.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to act on it.
He wanted to kidnap this little troublemaker who constantly caused unbelievable incidents.
Even if she ended up hating him, despising him, resenting him, fearing him. He wanted to lock her away somewhere, where only he could see her.
That was the desire of an Esper for their imprinted Guide.
Especially for an S-class Esper like Claude, who had never experienced dedicated guiding, this obsession was even more intense.
But seeing Rose with fear-stricken eyes in that moment…
He pretended not to notice.
He couldn’t let this pitiful creature, scared by such a minor guiding, hide away in her burrow forever out of fear.
After dropping Rose off with superhuman patience, Claude immediately sought out Oscar.
Oscar, groggily awakened by Claude’s sudden appearance at dawn, was bewildered.
“What, what are you doing in my room so suddenl—”
“Help me.”
It was time to solidify the situation.
