Refusing Your Ex-Husband’s Obsession: A Guide - Chapter 224

Chapter 224

Translator: Yonnee

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Ciel couldn’t take his eyes off Irene, who held Seo-yoon’s hair firmly and spoke with authority, just as bold as she had been in the past. He watched her actions with a lifted corner of his mouth.

“Watch your mouth…”

Seo-yoon’s voice, now significantly weaker than before, said.

“And you should speak properly from now on.”

“What?”

Responding brusquely due to her bruised ego, Seo-yoon narrowed her eyes slightly, prompting Irene not to hesitate and shake her by the hair strongly.

“Ah! Just use your goddamn words!”

In severe pain, Seo-yoon grabbed Irene’s wrist that was holding her hair. Irene exhaled deeply then asked in an annoyed voice,

“Why did you do all this?”

“…I’ve been telling you already! Why does my traveling through dimensions have anything to do with the monster wave?!”

Persistently denying her actions, Irene asked differently,

“Then, why did you keep traveling through dimensions so frequently? You must have had a reason. Right?”

With Seo-yoon remaining silent, Irene pulled out her katar. The sight of the sharp blade made Seo-yoon scream in panic.

“My rank goes up!”

“What?”

“My rank goes up every time I travel through dimensions! If you’re a Guide, you know how laughable lower-ranked Guides are treated!”

Irene was at a loss for words.

The woman who used to mock her for her rank, in reality, had been raising her rank through dimensional travel.

It left Irene utterly speechless.

“You might not believe me, but I’m close to SS-Class right now. Killing me would be a loss for the Empire.”

Seo-yoon, seeing that Irene hadn’t said anything, took this as an opportunity to continue her threat-like begging.

“I have the highest rank in the Empire. How about that? Do you understand me now?”

Seo-yoon grew smug, even letting slip things she shouldn’t have.

Though Irene didn’t like it, Seo-yoon seemed strong enough to be useful in many ways.

“You seem to have surpassed S rank as well… So, I’ll make a special offer to make you my exclusive maid. How about that?”

After a fierce glare, Irene slowly parted her lips.

“What good does having a high rank do you? You’ve never guided anyone except His Highness the Crown Prince. How can you prove your abilities?”

At Irene’s question, Seo-yoon rolled her eyes and then spoke towards Ciel.

“Duke! Maybe now I can Guide you. Come here, now!”

Glancing at the sharp blade of the katar and while cursing inwardly, Seo-yoon called out desperately to Ciel, who was standing one step back.

However, he remained motionless. The conversation between the two reminded him of the past.

In the past, it wasn’t only with him. Seo-yoon also had a poor matching rate with any Esper.

If the compatibility was too poor, no matter how high-ranked a guide was, they couldn’t surpass a B-Class Guide with better compatibility.

What if the penalty arose because she forcibly raised her rank?

Such thoughts made Ciel skeptical. Why did the Goddess bring a fake saintess here while knowing all along?

Was it because this woman had a role to play?

He looked up at the blue flames enveloping them.

It was his power, but something felt strange.

As he looked up, his gaze shifted to Irene’s hand.

The rose pattern, with only a few petals left, was still emitting light.

And as each petal fell, swirls of light circled around her and met his flames, turning into a clearer shade of blue.

A hypothesis occurred to him at that moment.

What if the Goddess actually desired the current situation?

The monsters that appeared during the monster wave were all ones he had seen in Korea in the past. It seemed like the monsters from Earth had crossed over through the spatial rifts caused by Seo-yoon’s dimension shifts.

The empire already had its own monsters, so why bring Earth’s monsters over to create the current situation?

That means.

If a device was needed to push him to the extreme?

Seo-yoon’s greed acted as a catalyst, creating a monster wave in the empire, then pushing his abilities to the limit. And then, God sent Irene to him, the real saintess.

So, the false saintess causes trouble, and the real saintess resolves the situation.

What could be the reason that it had to be resolved?

Contemplating, he gained another hint from following Irene’s words.