Aki, usually a slouch, straightened his body and closed his legs. His team can't blame him though, because even they can't help but straightened up once the guide passed by their seat.
"You're really okay with intimacy, right?" Maelynn double-checked just in case.
"...Yes. I don't mind." Much more if it's from you. Aki left the rest of the words unspoken as the Guide sat on his lap. The soft feeling made him stiffen.
"Relax." Maelynn patted the man's shoulder. 'Aunt said that relaxed Espers are easier to guide.'
Maelynn had commited that to memory so she tried to be more friendly.
"Just think of this like getting a massage, alright?" Maelynn suggested.
Aki slowly nodded in agreement, his ears reddening a bit. He always knew that an effective guiding needs skin-to-skin contact, like what happened with his team leader. But he can't help but feel shy, after all, he's giving out his first kiss.
Feeling Aki's body relaxing, Maelynn immediately made her move. Her fingers lightly gripped the young man's chin, squeezing it and lowering his head.
With his mouth open, Aki felt a soft thing enter his lips. Aki felt daze by the feeling, and the surging waves of guiding immediately made him lose his mind.
His hands snaked through the firm yet soft waist of Maelynn, who was seriously doing her job.
As if possessed, Aki kneaded the soft waist of the girl. He suddenly understood what Zander was feeling when he was being guided. 'This is goddamn good.'
A stray thought wandered in his mind as he started leaning forward, and just like his team leader, his hair was gripped back by Maelynn, who started panting.
'Espers and their damned good lung capacity.' Maelynn internally grumbled as she catches up on her breathe, her eyes looking up at Aki.
Unexpectedly, the sight that greeted her was the dazed and glassy hazel eyes of the young man in front of her.
'...Kind of hot.' Maelynn acknowledged. She didn't took a closer look at Zander but she's pretty sure this is also how he looked like while being guided by her.
It kind of give her some tingling sensation, something she never felt before. Like a taste of... power.
Maelynn blinked, and then upon catching her breathe, continued making her guiding power flow. At the very end, upon monitoring Aki's overclocking frequency and bringing it to a very safe threshold, she stopped.
"Okay, you're done." Maelynn patted the man's arm.
Aki, who hugged Maelynn to his arms to monopolize her, got startled and gently let go.
He dumbly looked up to Maelynn when she stood up from his lap, and Adar, upon looking at his dumbfounded face, laughed.
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"Hahahahaha. The face of newbie espers experiencing their first guiding is really something else." Adar commented, his predatory eyes settling on Maelynn's figure as she looked at the last three members on the table.
"Adar, you better keep your plans to yourself and don't act on it." Henry recognized the look in Adar's eyes and immediately warned.
"I'm warning you, this one has a backer that you can't offend no matter what." Henry continued with narrowed eyes.
"How dangerous?" Adar playfully asked.
"Dangerous enough to have you begging on your knees. No, nevermind, because you're really going to beg." Henry rolled his eyes. He doesn't want to see a potentially good seedling being preyed on by one of the worst espers in the association.
'Only Guides can have me willingly kneel and beg for them." Adar narrowed his eyes at the thought and discarded his plans. Truthfully, he doesn't want to offend any of the high-ranking Guides, he depended on their guidings after all.
Henry approached Aki and patted his shoulder, "Esper, you can proceed outside now. Follow your team leader."
Aki, now fully awake and refreshed, nodded his head. He walked lightly and cheerfully, earning him the glares and the envious stares from several Espers around their table.
Henry watched the bubbly back of the young Esper and can't help but shook his head. He then turned to Maelynn, who was now in Xio's lap, performing yet another guiding.
'A continuous guiding without rest, seemingly high-compatibility with Espers. Based on the Espers reactions, her guiding must be of high-quality too. Seems like another great Guide is going to appear.' Henry mused as he took down notes.
'Considering who's her Aunt, it can only be said that their family is meant to be Guides.' Henry sighed.
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After team 13's guiding, Maelynn was feeling a bit tired. She had brought five men who's overclocking to their safety threshold. She thought if was easy, but she was slapped in the face by reality.
'It was damn hard. And I feel like my lips are too swollen.' Maelynn internally grumbled and looked up. She was now sitting on the empty table of Team 13.
She looked around to find the other examinees with her and found out that several new faces have been added, and some familiar faces was already replaced.