Ring.
The notification rang again and again and missed calls piled up. It must be a call from the centre.
When I turned down Carlyx's offer, the researchers at the center were fidgeting and gleaming, and I felt like I was about to throw myself into the team.
By tomorrow morning, a person may come from the center by entering the password of the accommodation password. Cell phones, houses, furniture in here, none of them were mine. It was all a centre thing and even my freedom was a centre thing.
Should I pack up and run like this? Where do we go if we run away?
I've got a lot on my mind because people under the protection of the state cannot disobey the orders of the center.
If I had matching Esper, I wouldn't have to worry about this.
Matching is a system that combines Esper and Guide.
Matching is achieved by exchanging more than 50 percent of each other's energy, and not only does the guiding efficiency increase, but also gives priority to each other.
In other words, guides with partners are prohibited from guiding with other Esper without permission from matching Esper.
However, most C-class guides like me had low matching rates. Still, guides treated as precious could easily get Esper if they wanted to.
What's important is that I don't like guiding.
It's a guide because of good words, but I don't want to touch other people.
It's okay to hold hands. He gave way a hundred times and could endure hugs. But I drew a line if I asked for more than that.
Therefore, there was a lot of talk in the F branch, where he worked before, but later it spread to physical fights and went around here and there to get to the central headquarters.
Usually, if I go to the central headquarters, everyone likes it, but in my case, it was different. The central headquarters treated low-class awakeners as less than bugs.
This situation is hopeless enough, but an outside group. I was eventually judged that this was the only way.
I have to find a matching Esper within tomorrow. Esper of the rank who listens to me as well as possible and cannot be ignored by the center.
I connected the central headquarters server with my laptop. Then I looked around the list mainly at the acquainted Esper. Among them, they sorted the S-class Esper, which is marked online, to B-class Esper.
Ring.
While I was concentrating, a messenger flew in. The team hasn't been deployed yet, so there's no work-related message to go back and forth. The corners of my mouth went up when I saw the message in the pop-up window that came to mind.
[Aiden: Roen?]
[Aiden] Is that right for branch F?]
There's no way a man should die.
* * *
"Laughing out loud. Isn't it polite to introduce yourself first?" And the leader apologized.”
"What?"
"I'm sorry!"
"Huh? It's right to introduce it first...... Carlyx apologized?
Late in the afternoon Eclipse members gathered together for a meal. Originally, such a meal was very ceremonial, and it was only a time when business stories were exchanged every day.
But today was different. Muon was explaining to Judith what happened this afternoon. Judith asked again with incredible eyes.
"Really, Carlyx?"
"Someone would think I'm a badass."
"Rude. Yes, when introducing the leader, it's not Carlyx, it's more accurate to do it!"
"Are we good enough?"
"Okay, enough, Muon. Carlyx says he's been dumped for the first time in his life.”
"I haven't been dumped yet.”
"What are you kicking? I said no.”
"……You might like it tomorrow.”
"Pfft. What?"
The members laughed louder at Carlyx's gruesome voice. He was dumped by a woman for the first time in his life yesterday.
Technically, he was refused the offer, but he seemed to have been shocked to that extent. Dean asked Carlyx as if the situation was strange and predictable.
"It's been too easy for me. How long are you going to go this time? Do you like anything pretty? You're not going to look at me and guide me again."
"I have to guide the guide, if you're not going to do it, why bring him.
However, the return reply was far from expectation.
"You're going to guide someone other than Judith?"
"We did it in the capsule, too.”
"What?"
Everyone looked surprised at Carlyx's words. That's why Carlyx was being guided so little that he wouldn't die by Judith, and not by any other guide.
She was the first to guide him except Judith.
"I thought you said you were C-class?"
"That's why it's weird."
It was really weird.
Carlyx had cleared the gate to the end and tried to get any capsules in and take a quick nap. Then Roen came in, and she was clearly seen as if she had a bright incandescent lamp in a lightless capsule.
Dark black hair and red eyes were impressive. There were no eyes and lips that were not clear. At first, she was beguiled by her appearance, and then enjoyed the misleading situation itself.
When Roen succeeded in guiding, I thought she was at least A grade. The guidance of other junior guides was unpleasant, because there was no dislike for Roen's guidance.
Breaking through the aisle, though lost at first, eventually succeeded. Roen's guiding was crude but, in terms of grades, was the best. As a result, I was in such a good condition that I could count as three fingers.
And it felt different from Judith's guide. Judith's felt healed and warmed, while Roen's felt feverish and his lower abdomen strained.
In slang, you can say that you like this.
Carlyx recalled the memory of the time and curled up the corners of his mouth. Dean looked at the moment without missing it. It was a meaningful smile that Carlyx made when he was hooked on something.
"Carlyx, if you like it, just bring him back. Aren't you already signed with the center?"
"Yeah, you can't help it if he says he'll take you.”
"Dean, didn't you not like it?”
Even so, Dean's quick turnaround was surprising. Dean said it was ridiculous to pick up the ranking on the spot.
"I don't like it. But as Muon said, I think he was strict with Spare. As you said, you're the only one who guides, but how many servings. It's funny how you talk."
"Right? That's ridiculous. I've never seen anyone acting like that to a leader before in both men and women. I think he said no right away without going through his brain. I don't like it. What do you think? My eyes were full of disillusionment.”
"And it splashes at the speed of light. It's even funnier."
Muon ripped his eyes with his hands and imitated Roen. Dean clapped his hands and smiled from Carlyx.
They enjoyed the situation more than it was serious. The cat was looking interestingly as if it had found a new toy.
"But did you just leave it alone?"
Laughing and talking together, Judith asked. Although they still looked smiling, the Eclipse members have lived under the brand S since they were young.
"You let it go, don't you?" When I tried to use my powers, Carlyx covered my eyes."
Dean is a mental power. Just by looking at it, I could read the other person's memories and hypnotize him. It only took a second to drive a person crazy.
If Carlyx hadn't covered his eyes, he might have witnessed Roen's brain explode and his eyes spin.
"You're going to come to our team anyway.
Muon is capable of space and time. Although space movement is his specialty, he sometimes showed his foresight when speaking with such a blurred focus.
"Then let him fix it first. I just hate being intrusive."
Jay, who was quiet, grinned as if he would bite anyone if caught.
"Everyone, be careful. By the way, do I have to buy flowers tomorrow?"
Their leader, Carlyx, didn't care what the members said. I was just preoccupied with how I could get Roen.
Carlyx got up first after the conversation. I was definitely in good condition, but I felt weakly weak. I was lost in my mind, and I kept thinking of the day.
Even the stubborn mouth, the joy that was reflected for a while when she succeeded in guiding, and the breathing sound that she felt when she was buried on my shoulder. Just remembering the memory made the body react.
"It's past adolescence, and that's too much."
"What's wrong with you?”
Judith, who followed, heard Carlyx talking to himself and grabbed the tail of the horse. He belatedly changed his mind if he didn't know Judith was following.
"No, Judith, I'm sorry I didn't pick the chosen guide.”
During a scuffle inside the capsule, Judith was sorting out guides. But to overshadow her efforts, Carlyx made the decision of a majority pretending to be democratic at will.
"It's okay. There were only humble children anyway."
For Judith, who is always at the top of the list, most guides are unnoticed. The brightest and most harmful on the outside, but the most conservative and strict thing was Judith.
"By the way, Carlyx."
"Huh?"
"Did you really guide him?”
"Uh."
Carlyx answered briefly and clearly. Still, Judith was wondering if something was left uncomfortable.
He felt frustrated whenever she showed up like this. Whatever she says, he's bound to want to listen.
"Judith, tell me. I'll answer everything you ask."
“…….”
"Come on."
He pressed carefully.
"You……."
"Uh."
"Did you sleep with that guide?"
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