Becoming the Guide of the Mysophobic Villain? Absolutely Not! - Chapter 9
Usually, there’s something called compatibility between an Esper and a Guide.
Of course, if an Esper is desperate for it, any guiding is good guiding. When you’re dying of thirst, even muddy water might seem sweet.
Still, if you’re going to drink, clean water is preferable, right?
Even though it was my first time guiding, it felt like the guy and I had great compatibility.
Every part where our skin touched felt like pure and clear spring water was flowing.
I, the one guiding, also felt a tingly sense of satisfaction. But I wonder how the receiving Esper felt.
Perhaps that Esper, like a prince holding a glass slipper, might search for me as Cinderella as soon as he regains his senses. With my pink hair, I should be easy to find at the Center.
Oh dear, being my first time guiding, I’d find it awkward if someone followed me saying, ‘It has to be you or no one else’…
Well, if he’s good-looking and makes a convincing act, I might play along and, hehe…
Then, I’ll imprint on him and make him my Esper, tease him, and enjoy being his sweet little pampered darling for the rest of my life… hehehe…
Chuckling with a wicked grin, I suddenly felt a gaze on me and looked up. Irene was looking down at me with disdain in her eyes.
I cleared my throat and managed my expression.
“…Ugh, please don’t laugh so loudly by yourself outside, Rose Valentine. You look pitiful and ridiculous. People passing by will surely think the same.”
“Uh, sorry…”
“Already having trouble sleeping, why make it even noisier…”
Irene flicked her hair in annoyance.
As she brushed her hair back, her pale forehead looked like something from a photoshoot, but…
I just wanted to smack that smug forehead with the palm of my hand.
Of course, considering Irene’s height and arm length, the possibility of me defeating Irene was low, so I kept it as a mere imagination.
However, contrary to Irene’s words, the path to the Center was unusually crowded and noisy today.
Even as we walked a bit further, the corridors were packed with people, so much so that we couldn’t even move.
…What’s going on?
“Excuse me, what day is it today? I don’t remember seeing any announcements.”
I asked a staff member in a uniform who was standing in front of me.
“All the Guides have been summoned. An S-rank Esper went on a rampage yesterday, but someone guided and stabilized him.”
Oh, is this about me?
But… S-rank?
Espers are classified into different ranks based on their abilities. The highest is S-rank, followed by A to F ranks, making a total of seven ranks.
In the game world I’ve transmigrated into, there were only four S-rank Espers. Since it’s a harem game where Guides play the main role, it’s only natural that three of them were male leads intertwined with Irene, and the remaining one was…
“Nah, no way…”
Suddenly, my heart started racing like crazy.
I vividly recalled the man’s appearance from last night.
It was a very dark dawn, but I could vaguely see his figure in the moonlight.
First of all, he had black hair. Among the S-rank Espers appearing in this game world, there was only one with black hair.
“Nahhh, it can’t be…”
The S-rank Esper in the game had eyes as red as blood. However, the man from last night had black hair, and his eyes were undoubtedly black.
Yes, there must be other S-rank Espers omitted in the game’s stage.
I tried to calm my anxious heart and pushed through the crowd, moving forward.
It seemed like I needed to confirm that Esper with my own eyes.
After pushing through the crowd for a long time, I finally saw a tall, well-built man in the distance, one head taller than those around him.
Thick, black hair. Eyes as red as deep crimson. Sculpted nose and facial features. And… lips that seemed torn, as if bitten by someone.
“This is insane…”
The supreme being of the game’s world.
The villain, Claude.
In the tamagotchi-like Guide raising simulation game, I had experienced four different endings.
In the first, Esper 1 died. He fell victim to the villain’s rampage.
In the second, Esper 2 also perished. Again, it was the villain’s rampage.
In the third, Esper 3 survived, but Irene, the female lead bonded to Esper 3, died. Overwhelmed by despair, the berserk villain lost his sanity and snapped Irene’s neck.
In the fourth, Irene died once more. As a player, I guided the villain, only to discover that he had a severe case of mysophobia. Unable to overcome his disgust, he went berserk and once again broke Irene’s neck.
But the man I guided yesterday… was Claude?
I never expected this. It was because of the darkness that I mistook his eyes for black instead of the deep crimson.
There shouldn’t have been anything that I couldn’t recognize. How could I have failed to identify Claude?
Certainly, when I first encountered the 4D Irene instead of the 2D Irene, I couldn’t recognize her either. Still, I should have recognized Claude, the final villain!
Claude’s presence leads to the death of all the characters. Even Irene, who merely held his hand, had her neck broken.
What about me, who went as far as kissing him?
