
I case you DO want the spoilers, here you go:
After this im pretty sure MC's backstory gets fully revealed. Mc awakened as a guide at I think age 14 (?). He was apart of a guild, and was the guild leader's guide, but the guild leader died (Don't remember why, I think its cause guild leader got rlly injured, and mc didnt want to give intimate guiding..), the younger brother of the guild leader used that against the MC, and made mc form a 'bond' with him, right over the heart, and he was basically abusive, didnt let him go outside of the house, barely fed him, and kept guilt tripping mc saying that "you killed my brother, you should repay me by being my guide".
More spoilers? This is the frustrating part:
After Andante finds mc at the old man's house, being ignorant as he is (clearly), makes the mc become scared (ptsd). Like, to the point the crystal Andante gave Mc actually created a shield in front of him, which should've ONLY activated when he GENUINLY felt a THREAT to his life, and Andante recognizing that, backed off. However, as ironic as it is, a gate opens right above them (cause of some stone hidden in the old man's house I think), and its a MUTATED (poison type) gate, so multiple black hands just extend from the gate and kept trying to drag MC In, and Andante kept trying to protect MC while also being concious about how close he was to mc (to not scare him more ig)

Shit I didnt mean to press enter, lemme continue:
At some point, the old man inside woke up, and MC was worried about the old man, so he ran inside as the gate's hands started destroying the house. The old man was devastated about his 'life's hard work' being destroyed in front of him, and mc kept staying behind to prevent thr old man from going back inside the house, so Andante takes it upon himself to say 'If I clear this gate, will you atleast give me then chance to talk to you? Just a conversation is all I ask.', and mc agrees, so Andante speed runs the gate, but MC escapes through a teleportation gate ticket (he had a spare from the last time he used it, which was when he left his old guild. However... when Andante questioned the old man where tf he sent, the old man said he went into the gate (the ticket ig made it look like he went into a gate), but Andante being Andante, misunderstood, and thought Mc went into the poison mutated gate, and rushed back in. Apparently a none esper cannot survive in an A-Rank poison gate for more than 8 minutes. So... Everyone in the Onaip believed mc was dead when they heard the news. Andante firmly believed thst he was still alive, and maybe went through another gate inside the gate, similar tk how they escaped the SS-Rank gates in the past. He just kept clearing gates after that, without a break, and not discriminating between gate ranks, to find MC. Onaip ranked first, and the association (with that black haired fucker with the nice purple haired guide) ranked second.
Meanwhile, MC teleported i think to Mexico? Near Argentina? Man idfk, but a little girl named Tina saved MC when he was unconcious in the forest, and brought him back home. Tina is like, 14 years old? She wants to marry MC... and apparently their entire family is learning Korean, so MC gets asked to teach Teddy, Tina's older brother, Korean. Mc agrees, and finds out Teddy is actually set to awaken as an esper (he awakens as a rare defense type), since he said it was a 90% chance (due to genetics). Mc got a bit nervous about that, and of course, as soon as Teddy saw MC after awakening, he recognized that mc was a guide, but he was chill about it. Teddy wanted to go to korea.. sincd that's where the upper ranked guilds were, and wants to join the association.
Meanwhile.. Around 6 months, or more later, Andante was a mess. Utterly a wreck. He did a thorough background check on mc again, and somewhat found out about his past, and felt regretful. He was on the edge of going berserk. Literally. Another S rank gate opens up, and its related to the mutated gate from before. Andante went into the gate.. and just about went berserk (not fully), only cause the black haired bitch did some sabotage shit that caused him to go berserk. He was chained down by other members of Onaip, and brought to a facility. No other guides could guide him.. and there were rumors he was going to be killed.
(Some more informatuon on MC's backstory): Someone named REN gets involved since the guy (Dietrich) that was abusing mc was too busy with gates to actually properly feed mc, so he asks ren, from the guild, to feed MC and specifically says not to talk to MC (possessive mf). But ren talks to mc, and gets close to him. He eventually finds out about MC's current state and Dietrich's abuse. However, there was nothing he could do about it either, cause a bonding mark over the heart is something that cannot be removed unless one of the two dies, and neither could live without eachother, especially Dietrich, the esper. However, after some more time, Ren comes back, worried about mc, and fights with Dietrich, and both end up dying. Ren instructed mc specifically, no matter what happens.. to not guide Dietrich, if he truly wants to escape from his current life style, so despite REN dying, and Dietrich ordering him to guide him, half dead, MC doesnt do it. Dietrich goes berserk, and yea.

Some more spoilers. Teddy does indeed go to Korea to apply for the association. Theres apparently a law there that says anyone below 20 cannot offially join a guild, Teddy is 19, but an acception was made due to the current crisis (multiple high ranking mutated gates popping up of the same type, y'know, with the hands), and was allowed to join the association for a year (i think) under contract. Anyways, this happened before Andante went 'berserk' (like right on the edge, like RIGHT there, to the point he wasnt coherently thinking), and the association leader found out about MC being alive (coz everyone thought he died). So right after Andante was brought to that facility, he went to the mc, whom was just about to return yo Korea to guide Andante (cause he felt guilty, he didnt want another esper related to him to die, ptsd shit, no matter how scared he was). Bro I just gotta say, i fucking hate black haired association bitch. First of all, hes competitive as fuck, to the point he purposely caused Andante's almost going berserk. Second, he brings mc into the guild, saying "I'll help you guide Andante. Ill make it to where he wont know your the one who guided him", so mc accepts, and joins the associations guild (or whatever) for a year contract. Andante was successfully guided, fully, and of course he was gonna be fucking suspicious when he woke up lol.
Anyways, He finds out MC is alive, and when there was a guild meeting, something onaip members never really attend, mc was there with black haired guy, and apparently the light purple haired person was dropped the second mc joined the guild. Mc felt guilty for taking his place, since they sorta became somewhat friends before he ran away. Black haired person manipulates mc a lot btw, like saying they gotta act all intimate publicly or whatever, In order to solidify his position. Anyways, Andante bursts into the meeting with some onaip guild members, and approaches mc (ima just leave it at that ig, i know more but I've written enough spoilers for one night. If u want more, just lmk.)

Im being so fr rn, but this chasing arch gets so dragged out its crazy. Like its atleast 20-40 chapters In the novel long. It really made me wanna throw my phone- Anyways, onto more spoilers from where I left off, which was.. When andante reunites with MC the SECOND time. Ima also just start calling mc JIN since that's his name.
(Also whenever I said association, I meant national security bureau, MB)
ANYWAYS, onto spoilers. I wanted to add something, cause Idk if I made it clear or not from earlier spoilers, but Andante was fucking depressed during the entire time he was searching for Jin. I cant blame Jin either for hiding. Mostly cause, when confronted by the purple haired person, just before he went into a gate, he even openly said "I should've just taken Jin, no matter what. Even if I had to chain him by my side, or make him hate me." (This was probably cause he starting to think he was dead).
Now, onto more spoilers: After Adante stormed into the building meeting, and approached Jin, his normal composure was just gone. Shin, the black haired bitch, was obviously happy about that, and completely ignored andante's presence. Andante demanded answers from Jin, about where hes been, what hes been up to, and why hes standing next to Shin right now. Jin, whom was calm (externally, or atleast trying to), said that he left his resignation letter, and that he didnt want to be near Andante anymore, and that they are strangers now. Of course, Andante was still pretty mad when Shin said something like, "Jin is my guide, and bondage partner". Like he was pretty pissed. He got all possessive and jelous and was all like, "Who gave you permission?", "Why would I ever let you go? Your mine, I wont allow it.", etc. ALSO 'obsession' is also JIN's trauma, due to Dietrich. Espers can become obsessed with their guide, y'know, that kinda thing, so that's also one misunderstanding Jin has. He doesnt believe Andante like, truly loves him, and only sees him as being obsessive.
So Shin and Andante get into a literal fight- Andante beat the shit out of Shin.. and Jin tried stopping Andante. More so, he begged him to stop (and said to hit him instead), cause it was literally just a reenactment of Ren fighting with Dietrich and losing his life to protect Jin, whom he had only known for a month or two at the time (Dietrich also died, remember). Shin was trying to protect Jin, as promised in their contract, and actually had a plan. Of course, considering Jin is literally the only guide that can guide Andante, an SS rank, he wouldnt have a say, right? Especially since people are afraid of Andante going berserk. However, Shin plans to make Jin go through a retest or whatever, and raise his rank to SS, so their ranks are the same. So andante wouldnt force him by his side (of course thats ASSUMING that's what he was actually gonne do).
However.. Jin suddenly coughs up blood, and collapses in the middle of the guild meeting (or whatever it is), in front of everyone, as he begged Andante to stop beating Shin. It was cause he over did it in guiding Andante before, when andante was chained up after almost going berserk. So Andante was veryyyy guilty. He backed off after that, and Shin brought Jin to a doctor. The doctor said that Jin's guiding power is unstable, and he could go down in rank, to rank A. So shines plan is thrown out the window, but of course, shin has to be a dick and tell Jin that Andante left Jin alone only cause his rank was lowered.. making it seem like hes useless, now that his rank was lower. Shin was even contemplating himself to rid of Jin since his rank was lowered, but he decided not to for some reason, to use him more against Andante. Jin believed him (his rank didnt actually go down, smth else happened).
Anyways, that's all the spoilers for now, Im gonna go sleep. If u want more spoilers, lmk and I'll type another essay out.
I don’t get it. Is MC insinuating that ML had done more than just standard guiding with another guide?
God the lack of communication is killing me but I love the chase arc. Anyone spoil me further from ch 70!!!