Chapter 412 - 404. Late Education
"What are you?" Senia clutched tightly to her bottled water while staring intensely at the guide sitting on the other side of the table.
"I’m a guide," Zein only glanced at her briefly before getting back on reading the clan’s financial report he was supposed to peruse earlier.
"No, you’re not!" Senia bit her lips hard, feeling all confused and frustrated, but also in awe and fascination.
When she asked for guiding the second time, she remembered to be careful and reached out her hand slowly, even forcing herself to say please. Finally, she wasn’t getting bombarded with nauseating feelings. It didn’t necessarily feel good, although it was still faster than any guide she ever tried--including the Saintess.
She frowned, recalling a sliver of soothing sensation he felt briefly in the previous guiding. And so, by the third cleansing session, she pondered about how she should ’ask’ this time. Senia might be ignorant, but she wasn’t stupid, and she could learn from the previous event.
This time, she asked first, using ’please’ and a polite gesture. Only after the guide told her to give him her hand did she move closer, and this time, she could feel that nice, soothing feeling washing away the heavy corrosion inside her body, to the point that she let out a contented sigh without realizing it. This time, the nice guiding lasted until the end, until her corrosion went down to yellow-level again.
"That’s it," the guide said. "I have to guide my esper too."
It was then that Senia finally thought...oh Gods--this guide had been guiding her three times and he looked fine, and still going to guide a Saint-class esper...
Senia knew Luzein Ishtera was the Saint candidate, but she didn’t think the Saintess in Mago Temple took more than one cleansing each day before, and...the Saintess that she knew didn’t give her this soothing sensation during guiding.
It was truly incredulous--and that was why she blurted out the questions; What are you? This guide was truly...
"I’m a guide," the man still gave her the same answer.