The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Her First Successful Guiding (3)

Aisha could feel the miasma pressing harder now. It writhed against her skin like it wanted to embed itself in it, and for a moment she thought it might actually manage to do it—until a low growl rumbled somewhere deep in the man’s throat.

He’s fighting it too... Aisha realized.

Even now, as he kissed her with a hunger that made her head spin from the lack of oxygen, some part of him was still locked in war against the thing that had been trying to consume him from within.

Aisha stopped resisting.

She focused on pouring more of her ability into their connection, allowing him to get as much guidance as he needed.

Little by little, the compressed energy responded. The last bit of still fused with the miasma uncoiled and feasted on her powers.

The miasma screamed, a high-pitched shriek that seemed to shake the entire mental landscape, shuddering violently. She paused, wondering if this should be enough.

Aisha felt the man’s grip on her tighten further, his hand fisting in the fabric at her back as though telling her to continue.

He even broke his mouth from hers for a second, his breath ragged against her lips.

"Don’t stop."

That was all he managed to say to her before he kissed her again, deeper this time, as if he wouldn’t allow her to hesitate and pull away anymore.

Aisha stared at him. And he stared back at her. Twin pools of crimson fire framed by dark brows drawn low. There was something predatory in that gaze .

Aisha didn’t stop.

She rested her hands on his chest, a form of what she thought would be easier for her to push him if something went wrong, not for anything else.

Pouring in her guiding ability with a steady flow, the burning sky above them and the black corrupted roots hissed in their dying throes.

Finally... it was over.

The last bit of miasma dissolved into nothing.

Aisha slowly pulled back her guiding ability until not a trickle came out. It felt strange, as if she had become hollow and normal again.

She blinked, and the mental landscape blurred into darkness. When her vision cleared again, she was back in the hospital garden, kneeling on the grass with her hands resting against a solid chest. The scent of blood and dirt filled her nose.

She stayed still for a moment as she tried to catch her breath.

That was... incredible.

Even after everything she had seen and lived through in the ruined world she came from, nothing could compare to what she had just experienced. It felt exactly as if she fell inside a novel and lived in it for eternity. That was what it felt like. It was surreal.

Of course, she wasn’t thinking about the kiss.

Instead, she let herself feel proud of something worth being proud of. That overwhelming power that came from her... It definitely belonged to her. She’d wondered whether she might have been the one who used that power, or if it had been her spiritual beast manifesting for the first time. Now she knew it had been hers all along.

A D-rank guide wasn’t capable of doing anything like this.

That thought alone was enough to leave her feeling satisfied.

But the moment of triumph didn’t last long.

A shadow shot out and attacked her.

"That’s not—" 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

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