HIS GUIDE

In a world divided into Guides and Sentinels, Joen Jungkook is a C-rank Guide who lived quietly with his grandmother in a peaceful town - until disaster struck, and the Special Forces evacuated survivors to Seoul.

Now, Jungkook finds himself in a gleaming, ruthless city where Guides are ranked, bonded, and controlled. He may be physically safe in a state shelter, but surrounded by strangers and protocols, he feels utterly alone - no familiar faces, no comfort, no one who sees him and not just his low rank.

His only goal is to survive the system and protect the faint hope of reuniting with what remains of his past.

But in a city where connections are monitored, his quiet presence draws unexpected attention from Kim Taehyung, a high-ranking Sentinel known for his icy discipline and sharper intuition. Taehyung isn't supposed to notice a C-rank Guide. Yet he can't ignore the strange resonance Jungkook carries - a calm that shouldn't soothe him, but does.

As Jungkook navigates the cold mechanics of Seoul's Guide-Sentinel hierarchy, and Taehyung battles a growing need to shield him from the city's cruelty, neither knows that a deeper threat stirs in the city's underbelly. A mutant creature, born from severed bonds and forgotten science, is awakening - and it feasts on new, fragile connections like theirs.

In a place where every bond can be monitored, weaponized, or hunted... the most dangerous thing they might do is reach for one another.