Noah looked at the man in front of him, his body was much taller, with an appearance that made Noah a little surprised. Pink hair, earrings, accessories, necklaces, rings, is he a rapper? Or a celebrity? Why was his appearance so standout? He had never met a guide who looked like this, usually they looked so polite, with suits or other neat clothes. This boy looked like he had just gone through puberty.
The man was wearing a plain T-shirt and knee-length shorts, his face looking so young. His eyebrows were knitted together staring at Noah, why did Noah feel an aura of dislike emanating from the man towards him? This man seemed to be looking at him with a hateful gaze. He stood awkwardly.
"This is the guide that the director as well as the guild president choosen for you, Kai Wood." Luka introduced awkwardly, Noah who was standing next to him now turned and looked at him with a murderous gaze.
Neither of them reached out to get to know each other, so Luka had them sit down to discuss the contract as well as the rules the guild had given Kai that Noah didn't know about.
"I don't need a guide." Noah said as Luka and Kai were opening the floating screen, the man gave Kai a displeased look, folding his arms across his chest as he sat next to Luka.
God, Luka wanted to leave that house right now. What kind of drama will be happen now?
"Noah."
"I've already rejected it too."
Noah and Luka now turned their eyes to Kai who was still tapping the screen buttons.
"I already rejected it, I don't want to cooperate with you. But none of the guides are more compatible than me."
Luka could feel his blood flowing down, gosh, it seemed like he should leave and not interfere with the affairs of these two people who hated each other.
"Then why are you here now?" Noah asked in a raised voice while Luka mediated between the two.
"Noah, stop it. Kai's just here to do his job, he's getting high compatibility test results with you. Your compatibility reached ninety-two percent."
Noah glared at that, it was the first time for him to get such a big score in compatible with a guide, even with Jay, the score was not that big.
"It's not funny you know? Stop joke around..."
"I don't want to get a score that big either." Kai spoke while pouting, making Noah turn to him with a displeased look.
"Look Mr. Kai Wood, there seems to be a misunderstanding here. I'm not here to hate you as an individual, I'm just here to hate having another guide I don't need one."
Kai blinked, what did he mean? He didn't want anyone else to be his guide other than the dead Jayden Ackland?
"You need it." Luka interrupted Noah who now turned to him with an unhappy look. "Please stop your babbling, you are no longer children and this is an interest that you cannot deny. Noah, your body is really in a critical condition. Ever since you woke up a few months ago, it has been getting worse every day." Luka explained in a softer voice, he asked Noah to open his screen and check his email to see how his body was doing.
Noah lazily opened his screen but still listened to what Luka was asking, the two of them seemed quite close in Kai's eyes.
Woke up? Kai was silent, pretending not to pay attention to the word.
Checking on Noah Miles' condition, a red color with a large exclamation mark symbol filled every part of his body. Although Kai had transferred his energy inside the Dungeon before returning to Noah's residence, the man was still in a bad state.
"Kai must regularly perform energy transfers and guiding you until your condition stabilizes, if left unchecked this will hurt your body."
"It won't have any effect on me." The man muttered.
"You'll endanger the guild as well as civilians."
Noah was silent when Luka said that, he no longer argued with the man.
Luka explained what to do before and after Noah went to the Dungeon and completed his mission, seeing the results of the energy transfer Kai did to Noah for Luka in a day they could hold hands six times with a duration of thirty minutes each session.
"Why took so long?! That's too much! Can we hold hands only once a day for a longer duration instead? You want me to hold his hand while we teleport to a new place or even have lunch?!" Noah protested, his face perfectly contorted to the point that Kai couldn't stop thinking. The man in front of him was Noah Miles? The man with the coldest, expressionless face in the news?
He always came out of the dungeon with a stiff expression, a few times he was seen panting but it didn't change how cold his expression was. He rarely spoke and all Kai had heard him say was a sentence or two to another Esper.
However, this person who was said to be like an Ice Prince一despite the fact that this man was burning from the heat inside him一did in fact have many expressions and was talkative.
"Can you not ask so many questions and just obey what I tell you? We've already talked about this, Noah. The duration I mentioned, and the number of times a day you hold hands is the only way to slowly stabilize your power."
Again the man stopped talking when Luka began to speak sternly to him. What was the relationship between the two? That was Kai's first thought. The relationship was definitely not just superior and subordinate or colleagues. Like him and Knox, these two people must have a deeper relationship.
"So, is there anything you think should be reduced, Kai?" Now both of their attention turned to Kai who scratched the back of his neck and shook his head.
"I just follow the rules." Kai was lazy to argue.
Luka finally ended their conversation session and said goodbye to go home, before going home he checked Noah's body. Previously, when Kai brought Noah out of the Dungeon by carrying him, Luka deftly took over and carried Noah like a princess.
The man didn't hesitate to take off all of Noah's clothes when he arrived in the room, instructing Kai on what to do when Noah entered this state.
Kai sighed as Luka finally left the house in the car he kept in the garage. Esper, Healer, and Guide could all access teleportation. But for those who are not teleporters, using teleport can only be done with a time limit and only in places that have been visited.
"Hey," Noah called out when Kai was just about to walk into his own room. Kai stopped his steps and turned to Noah, "You're going to organize my work schedule from now on?"
Kai nodded, he was assigned to manage Noah Miles' schedule. Including being authorized to eliminate some tasks and dungeons that were considered dangerous for Noah Miles' condition.
"Don't cancel any of them, since I now have a guide, give me a lot of work."
Kai frowned when he heard that, "Sorry Mr. Noah, if you work full time, it will also affect my off day. I don't want to."
Noah sighed as he shrugged his shoulders, "Give me the hardest tasks then."
Kai almost babbled when the man turned to him, "And never wait for me inside the Dungeon, never, under any circumstances, wait for me outside."
The door closed and Kai stayed where he was, frowning. When he did the energy transfer, Noah Miles had mistaken him for Jayden Ackland. The man asked several times if Jay was back.
"Jay? Is that you? Jay? You're back? You're back, right? You're not going anywhere, are you? Jay, don't leave me Jay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry."
Kai remembered what Noah Miles said before finally losing consciousness completely. His voice sounded pleading and he was crying. Kai had heard rumors about the two of them too, many said that the two of them were a couple. But as far as Kai knew, romantic relationships were forbidden for a Guide and an Esper.
He became curious about it, Kai reached into his pants pocket and sent Knox a message. He went into his own room and felt much more relaxed, his room had a normal temperature. All the rooms in this house had a much colder temperature, it wasn't strange that Luka was wearing a jacket indoors.
He sighed, just as he was about to close his eyes his cell phone chimed. An incoming message.
📧 KNOX
↳ Jayden Ackland? He's the son of Ryan Ainsworth's first wife, they divorced when Jayden was in high school that's why they have different surname. That's what I heard, I know that because we went to the same highschool. Oh yeah, I also went to school with Noah Miles. They've been inseparable since they were in school.