Becoming the Guide of the Mysophobic Villain? Absolutely Not! - Chapter 307

What happened after that…

“…What the, there’s no guiding. Didn’t we hear that the imprint hasn’t been made yet?”

The voices surrounding me lost interest and withdrew their hands from my body.

They were Espers.

Some were men, some were women, but they all shared the same lack of hesitation when they came to touch me as soon as they heard I was awake.

I couldn’t even scream at them to stop. Once Espers had made up their minds, it was impossible to resist them with force.

More than anything, there wasn’t even a hint of hesitation in their touch.

It was as if they had never learned the basic manners of not touching someone else’s body without permission.

The fact that they only touched the skin exposed outside my clothes—my face, neck, bare arms, and hands—was a small mercy.

Typically, Espers receive extensive training on how to treat Guides from the moment they enter the Center.

Violating the rule of never touching a Guide without consent results in strict punishment, varying in severity based on the infraction.

But the Espers Outside the Line were different. They had evaded government search efforts for a reason.

They believed in their own superiority, thinking that, just as in nature where the strong prey on the weak, there was no issue with them using Guides as they pleased as long as they had power.

Having lived without laws for fourteen years, if they decided to do something to me right now, no one would protect me.

Therefore, the unhesitating behavior of the Espers Outside the Line, touching me without restraint, was bewildering and… terrifying.

The fear stemmed from the sense that they could perform far more indecent acts without a second thought, feeling no guilt whatsoever.

Whether I shrank back in fear or not, the Espers lost interest in me and began talking among themselves.

“It’s suspected the imprint wasn’t made, not that it definitely wasn’t.”

“That’s basically the same thing. It’s not like we’re playing with words…”

“Wait. This Guide, even though her guiding purity is high, her stability is too low, so the class is only F. Even without an imprint, it’s possible that just touching doesn’t trigger guiding.”

They started debating whether or not I had been imprinted.

“It didn’t make sense in the first place. If you had a Guide with over 90% matching rate, would you live without imprinting them? This thing’s worth 4 billion Berks. That’s the price the noble national hero paid for being imprinted with this seemingly insignificant Guide. With such a high matching rate, every touch would have felt ecstatic, so why would he avoid imprinting every time by taking imprint prevention shots? Could it be that he wanted to protect this Guide dearly?”

“If you think about it, there could be many reasons. Imprinting means you can only receive guiding from that one Guide for the rest of your life. No matter how high the matching rate is, it might get… boring?”

“Hey, you don’t get it. They say that with a matching rate over 60%, other Guides feel like wooden blocks. So, if it’s over 90%… how much more intense would it be?”

“Or maybe he didn’t want to create a weakness. Imprinting means the Guide’s death becomes the Esper’s death.”

“…Makes sense.”

“So, given the situation, should we just kill her? If she’s imprinted, she’s useless to us anyway. We could easily take down the S-Class Esper imprinted with her without lifting a finger.”