“Get the priests to safety! We need to subdue Mikhail Dweisi.”

Kenyan urgently looked at Rosalyn and then scanned for Lindsey’s location. He sighed in relief when he saw that Raysis was trying to lead Lindsey away. But then, Raysis shouted angrily.

“Are you out of your mind?”

Kenyan frowned as he approached Lindsey and Raysis.

“Lindsey Kesion. Run awa—”

Lindsey shook off Raysis’s hand.

‘What the hell is she doing?’

Kenyan stared at Lindsey’s face. He saw it clearly.

There was no fear on her face.

Unlike Rosalyn, Lindsey didn’t run. She just looked at them with an annoyed expression.

Kenyan moved closer to Lindsey. She spoke to him in a flat, emotionless tone.

“Don’t come near.”

“Damn it, do you think I’m doing this because I want to? If you don’t want to die, do as I say!”

Yes, he didn’t want to be in this situation either. Being with Lindsey Kesion was something he wanted to avoid.

Because whenever he was with her, he lost his composure.

“Stop pretending to be brave. Damn it!”

“Kenyan Radian, I despise you.”

This woman!

Kenyan was stunned by Lindsey’s response. Her words shook him to his core. Lindsey sighed at his intense gaze.

“So you want to die? If you die, your family will only be pleased.”

Kenyan couldn’t accept his feelings. He didn’t want to define the sinking sensation in his chest every time he hurled harsh words at Lindsey.

“Do you want to end your life being ignored as dirty blood?”

Without doing anything.

Lindsey turned to look at Kenyan. A mocking smile appeared on her lips, a look she always had when facing him.

“If Mikhail goes berserk, the northern hunt will fail. If that happens, I won’t be able to break off my engagement with Azhet.”

Kenyan couldn’t deny her words. His mother would use any means to stop the breakup.

She would torment Lindsey until she begged at her feet.

That was Sylvia’s way.

“Can you imagine what your mother would do to me? Ending my life as dirty blood being ignored?”

Lindsey let out a bitter smile.

“If that happens, it will be because of you.”

Is this what you wanted?

Lindsey’s words felt like a heavy chain around Kenyan’s feet. He couldn’t hold her back any longer.

He couldn’t hurl any more hurtful words at her. Lindsey walked past him and stood in front of Mikhail.

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Lindsey felt the intense gazes on her back.

Kenyan, Raysis, and the other transcendents were all watching her.

‘Now they pretend to be worried?’

Lindsey smirked.

She saw Mikhail grimacing in pain. She sighed.

“Mikhail Dweisi, I really don’t understand you.”

Lindsey knelt down. From the moment Mikhail appeared, she knew it would come to this.

Rosalyn’s guiding abilities were not yet at the level to handle Mikhail.

“You could just escape from this hellish place.”

There was no need for him to keep facing berserk states on such missions.

Why did he stay with the Kesion Marquis?

“He’s here for honor, surely.”

“He can’t be dirty blood. His strong power proves his noble lineage. He’s here to prove his nobility under the marquis.”

The family members always talked about how Mikhail stayed with the marquis for honor. But Lindsey didn’t believe that.

Someone grabbed Lindsey’s ankle.

She looked down at him.

A searing heat radiated from her ankle. The heat of a transcendent on the brink of losing control.

As a guide, Lindsey instinctively recognized it. Even without the berserk state, Mikhail’s condition was dire.

It was only thanks to her previous guiding that he was in this state; otherwise, it would have been worse.

An incomprehensible man.

Lindsey placed her hands on Mikhail, focusing her energy. A soothing light began to envelop him.

“Hold on, Mikhail. Just hold on.”

The berserk energy within him slowly started to subside.

The transcendents around watched in awe as Lindsey guided Mikhail back to sanity.

Kenyan’s eyes widened. Lindsey had done it again.

Rosalyn, who had fled earlier, peeked back and saw the scene. Her face twisted in disbelief and jealousy.

As Mikhail calmed down, Lindsey stood up, exhausted but composed.

She looked at Kenyan one last time, her expression a mix of defiance and resignation.

“Don’t underestimate me next time,” she said quietly, walking past him.

Lindsey found it difficult to deal with Mikhail, who constantly pushed himself harshly.

‘He still has some sanity left.’

Lindsey reached out to touch Mikhail’s cheek. That’s when Mikhail grabbed her wrist.

Lindsey flinched and stared into his red eyes.

“You don’t… have to…”

“…”

“Black magic…”

Lindsey froze on the spot.

She tried to understand the words she had heard.

So… he’s saying it doesn’t have to be done?

What doesn’t?

Guiding?

Lindsey’s fingertips trembled.

She knew what Mikhail was going to say. He had been affected by black magic, and there could be some hidden trap.

Healing Mikhail, who had been affected by black magic, was extremely dangerous.

But Lindsey had no choice.

“I have to do this to be free.”

“…”

“So, telling me not to…”

Lindsey choked up. She unconsciously brought her hand to her eyes.

‘This is foolish.’

Tears were falling.

Mikhail’s words that she didn’t have to guide him made her think of someone precious to her.

People who were now in a place she could never return to. Even though she tried, the chances of going back were nearly nonexistent.

Lindsey didn’t understand what Mikhail was thinking when he said this to her.

Saying such things in such a miserable state had no persuasive power.

Worthless people are not loved.

“Lindsey, your existence is for the transcendents. You know what will happen if you don’t awaken your divine power, right?”

Her father, who said that the value of her life was only in awakening divine power.

“Lindsey Kesion, I will never call you sister again.”

“Seems like that dirty blood couldn’t awaken divine power.”

“If you want to survive here, shouldn’t you at least awaken your divine power? Something not worth feeding. You will starve today.”

“Yes, there’s no food for useless things. Haha.”

Her family, who blamed her for things she didn’t do in her childhood. And the servants who looked down on her.

“Do you know how our engagement was arranged? Awaken your divine power. Awaken and fulfill your worth.”

Her fiancé, who urged her to break off the engagement, calling her useless.

“You are truly hopeless. Dirty and vulgar, I don’t want to associate with you. Do you think you deserve respect when you can’t even awaken your divine power?”

Her fiancé’s brother, who despised her.

“Don’t you know why you are here? Awaken your divine power, you dirty blood!”

Her mother-in-law, who slapped her while looking at her with contempt.

“Useless thing. Azhet doesn’t even care about someone like you!”

“It’s a scheduled breakup anyway, why don’t you just crawl away, tsk tsk!”

“Were you upset by what I said? Do you think I’m making up things you didn’t do?”

“That’s because you couldn’t awaken your divine power!”

Sylvia trampled Lindsey’s hand as she looked up after being slapped. It wasn’t just at the Radian household, even at her own house, Lindsey wasn’t respected as a human being.

Lindsey always grew up drenched in dirty water, eating rotten food.

A life without respect for her as a person.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I couldn’t awaken my divine power… I’m a useless child…”

Lindsey couldn’t forget anything. Her family, her fiancé’s family.

And everyone else.

No one told her she had value when she had divine power.

So when she was reborn as Han Ji-yoo in Korea and found out she was an S-class guide, she was so happy.

It was then she felt she had become a valuable person.

But at that time.

Her Espers told her.

She didn’t have to overdo it.

She could guide only when she wanted to.

Lindsey couldn’t understand the man in front of her.

‘Why is he saying the same thing as that person?’

Lindsey was clumsy at being respected. So was Mikhail respecting her?

That couldn’t be.

Lindsey bowed her head towards Mikhail as she thought.

She didn’t believe it. There was no one to trust in this world. Unless her Espers traveled through dimensions to come here.

But knowing how impossible that was, Lindsey couldn’t trust anyone.

‘I don’t know what you’re thinking…’

I have no expectations.

Expecting and believing would only end up hurting her.

Thinking this, she reached out to Mikhail.