Refusing Your Ex-Husband's Obsession: A Guide - Chapter 225
Chapter 225
Translator: Yonnee
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“It’s not about whether you can guide or not. You have to pay the price for causing a monster wave that even broke the barrier bestowed by the Goddess’s blessing. And apologize to the people who were sacrificed because of your greed. Bow your head and say it.”
Irene pressed down on Seo-yoon’s hair she was holding.
“Hey! No, damn it, what do you want from me? Just, let me go… It seriously hurts!”
Ciel didn’t hear Seo-yoon’s noisy outcry. He was frozen with a shocked expression as if he had been hit on the back of the head.
The barrier broke?
Then, it all made sense if it was the Goddess’s will to grant one last blessing to him.
The Goddess sent him back to protect the empire and called his wife, who he could not live without, here for him. As all the pieces fell into place, the blue flames enveloping them started moving in one direction simultaneously.
Ciel was the only one who noticed this change. He tried to suppress his power, but it didn’t work.
The blue flames no longer listened to him.
“…Irene?”
He called her, unable to take his eyes off the swirling blue flames, but his voice didn’t reach her ears.
She was intent on seeing this through, still holding onto Seo-yoon’s hair.
Should she just warn her sternly not to do this again?
Or…
“Maybe it’s quickest just to kill her.”
Irene raised the katar with cold eyes.
Pale-faced, Seo-yoon started begging with both hands clasped together.
“No, what are you saying! Fine! Okay! I was wrong! I admit that I was wrong!”
“You don’t know how to reflect. How can I believe you?”
“I’ll reflect! Just stop!”
Despite Seo-yoon’s pleas, Irene kept the blade close to Seo-yoon’s neck, looked down at her with cold eyes.
This was a matter that couldn’t be left to Ciel anyway. An Esper couldn’t harm a Guide.
So, if the opportunity came, she planned to handle it herself.
And she knew now was that opportunity.
“Look at this!”
Seo-yoon hastily pulled out her phone. She opened it to show Irene, saying with a trembling voice,
“Look, with this, you can see where the Guides and Espers in the empire are. And, this app shows their ranks.”
Irene checked the ranks of the guides displayed on the familiar screen. Although their names were not shown, what caught her eye first was one person’s overwhelming rank.
“SS-Class…”
“I’m S++! If I just cross back to Korea from the Empire, I’ll be SS rank, so I’m the same as you!”
Inadvertently revealing the truth, Seo-yoon herself was taken aback by what she blurted out. She covered her mouth with both hands.
But Irene did not believe anything that Seo-yoon said. She showed no reaction at all.
She wasn’t surprised to find out she was now SS-Class. Maybe she thought it could be true. The fact that she didn’t feel tired at all guiding Ciel, an S-Class Esper himself, was proof of that.
Briefly hesitating, Irene quickly snatched the phone from Seo-yoon’s hand.
“What are you doing!”
“Hiic…”
Irene sneered upon seeing that the battery was only at 3% left.
It meant practically the same as leaving everything behind, crossing back to Korea, after causing such a catastrophic situation here—just as Seo-yoon had mentioned earlier.
Seo-yoon would have plunged the empire into chaos and disappeared on her own again.
Seo-yoon extended her hand with a face full of panic.
“A-Anyway, you don’t even know how to use it. Be careful with it. It’s an object not from the Empire…”
At first, she was all bluster and noise. Now, with a compliant voice, Seo-yoon looked at Irene desperately.
Irene, as if to show Seo-yoon, deftly touched the screen and searched through the apps.
“…Huh?”
Seeing her so familiar with it, Seo-yoon could only blink dumbly.
“So you found out where the Guides were through this. Everything you said about hearing the Goddess’s words was a lie.”
“…How did you?”
“I never believed what you said in the first place, but have some conscience, will you? Aren’t you afraid of divine retribution?”
“……”
Seo-yoon felt an unknown sense of fear creeping in.
Before crossing dimensions, she was confident that no Guide in Korea, let alone the empire, would follow her, but now it was entirely different.
As Irene stumbled upon a familiar app icon, a Gisela rose… she checked her hand.
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