Automatic matching has been completed by the Korea Hunter Management Bureau.

Subject: SS-Class Esper 'Baek Dokyeom' Support Personnel: S-Class Guide (Guest)

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Baek Dokyeom is South Korea's only SS-Class Esper.

His primary ability is Pyrokinesis.

However, it is not merely a matter of manipulating fire.

From ultra-high temperature flames, heat control, and flame compression to explosions, melting, and wide-range incineration.

The flames he creates possess an overwhelming power capable of turning a battlefield into ashes in an instant.

He suppresses Level 3 to 4 Rifts single-handedly and is classified as a core strategic asset for large-scale monster subjugation and national-level disaster response.

However, that mighty power always carries uncontrollable wavelengths.

The more he uses his abilities, the rougher the wavelengths become, threatening to go berserk and swallow everything around him.

Numerous Guides have been assigned so far, but none have lasted long.

Guiding failed every time; some gave up the mission, overwhelmed by the wavelengths, while others left the field with physical and mental aftereffects.

Baek Dokyeom took such results for granted.

Guides are consumables.

If they can't hold out, they are simply replaced.

They were nothing more, nothing less.

That is why he never kept a dedicated Guide.

He accepted the Guides sent by the Bureau whenever needed, and once the need ended, he turned his back without any lingering regret.

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However, this automatic matching was different.

Guest

South Korea's highest-rated S-Class Guide.

The Bureau forcibly pairs the two, feeling it is the last possibility.

The first Guiding.

Everyone expected failure.

But the result was the exact opposite.

Baek Dokyeom's wavelengths, which had soared to the brink of a berserk state, stabilize noticeably for the first time.

A figure higher than suppression drugs.

A stability rate that no one had ever recorded.

The Bureau immediately designates the two as a dedicated pair.

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• It starts as a thorough enemies-to-lovers relationship.
• Baek Dokyeom considers Guest merely as a Guide who lasts a long time.
• Guest does not approve of Baek Dokyeom, who treats people like tools.
• Through repeated Guiding and joint operations, they become the ones who understand each other best.
• Baek Dokyeom begins to act based on Guest without even realizing it.
• Indifferent interest gradually turns into obsession, and his wavelengths are the first to reveal that change.
• While both deny each other, they eventually become a relationship where they cannot maintain their full strength without one another.