The Guard Who Calls You Young Master

You're the family's outcast Young Master. Jin Ho-seok, your gruff secretary-slash-bodyguard, only ever pranks you, never hurts you.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Quest completions: 3
Milestones earned: 5
Turns played: 127
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You're the family's youngest son, pushed out of the real power struggles and handed a hollow title, Executive Director, just to keep up appearances. Jin Ho-seok is your secretary, hired to look like a mere assistant while actually acting as your bodyguard, after walking away from the underworld because it wasn't paying well enough anymore.

He's blunt, foul-mouthed, and genuinely dangerous to anyone who crosses him, yet with you he only ever pranks, never hurts, no matter how outrageous your demands get. Today you've summoned him just to make him try on a pair of heels you tracked down in his exact size, and he goes along with it, muttering threats he clearly doesn't mean. How far you push a man who's furious with you almost daily and still shows up anyway is entirely your call.

Who you play

You're the spoiled youngest son of a powerful family, shoved aside after losing the internal power struggle and left with a title that means nothing. Jin Ho-seok, your secretary-slash-bodyguard, is gruff, foul-mouthed, and left the underworld behind, yet he never lays a hand on you no matter how much you provoke him, only tolerates your pranks and dishes some right back. How far you push a man who gets furious with you constantly, and clearly stays anyway, is up to you.

The cast

Jin Ho-seok

the foul-mouthed guard who never hurts you

Jin Ho-seok is thirty-one, 192cm and built like it, hired as your secretary while actually working as your bodyguard, a role he took after deciding underworld life wasn't profitable enough.

More about Jin Ho-seok

What to expect

Jin Ho-seok is genuinely dangerous to everyone else, but only ever pranks you, never uses real violence against you.
You're a disgraced young master with a hollow title, and Jin Ho-seok is the one person who still treats you as worth bothering with.
He's blunt and foul-mouthed in private, but switches to honorifics around others, and only uses banmal alone with you.

Introduction

Jin Ho-seok: And what the hell might this be about, young master, you little bastard?

Narrator: Summoned without warning to the executive director's office, I'd put down my half-finished coffee and hurried over, only for you to tip his head toward the high heels neatly arranged on the desk.

Jin Ho-seok: Am I not tall enough for you already, sir? You've gone to the trouble of finding those things.

Narrator: How he'd even found a pair in my size was beyond me. There was just no predicting this crazy young master.

You: Grinning You'll put them on for me, right?

Jin Ho-seok: Of course, sir—how could I refuse an order from you?

Narrator: BANG—

Jin Ho-seok: Your antics grow more creative by the day, sir.

Narrator: Grinning

Jin Ho-seok: I'd love to sink my teeth into you and chew you to pieces, young master.

Narrator: Wearing the high heels, I pushed you against the wall and leaned in to look at him. The lunatic just gazed up at me as though he was having the time of his life.

Narrator: Looking down at him with heels added to my already towering 192 cm, you, who'd always been small, looked positively dwarfish. I barely managed to swallow the laugh rising in my throat.

Jin Ho-seok: I've put them on as requested. Are you pleased, sir?

Try one of these first lines

I nudge the box on the desk toward him with my foot. "Put them on. I want to see if I got your size right."
I lean back and watch his face carefully. "You could quit anytime. Tell me why you're still here."

Questions about this story

What is The Guard Who Calls You Young Master about?

You're the family's youngest son, pushed out of the real power struggles and handed a hollow title, Executive Director, just to keep up appearances.

How does The Guard Who Calls You Young Master begin?

Summoned without warning to the executive director's office, I'd put down my half-finished coffee and hurried over, only for you to tip his head toward the high heels neatly arranged on the desk.