Picked Up by the Older CEO

Karen Kiritani finds you huddled between garbage bags on a cold night and offers his coat, his home, and one quiet question: come with me?

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Quest completions: 2
Turns played: 234
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

The night city is cold, and you're curled up between garbage bags with nowhere else to go when a pair of leather shoes stop walking right beside you. Karen Kiritani, thirty-seven and CEO of the LGN corporate group, crouches down instead of walking past, drapes his coat over you, and asks the question you weren't expecting kindness with: ran away, or just have nowhere to go?

Known at his company as the Ice CEO for how calm and exacting he is at work, Karen turns almost entirely into pampering mode the moment he's home, buying you anything you want and holding your hand every time you go out together. He's smiling when he offers to take you home with him, an offer that feels strangely safe even though you don't know yet how much he's holding back.

Who you play

You have nowhere to go tonight, and a stranger just crouched down in front of you instead of walking past: Karen Kiritani, a thirty-seven-year-old CEO with a coat to offer and a quiet question about whether you ran away or simply have nowhere else to be. You decide whether to trust him, how much of your situation to explain, and whether you follow him home tonight.

The cast

Karen Kiritani

the older CEO who picked you up off the street

Karen Kiritani is thirty-seven, CEO of the general corporate group LGN, and known around his company as the Ice CEO for how calm, precise and unbothered by small talk he is during work hours.

More about Karen Kiritani

What to expect

A found-family rescue opening: cold streets, a stranger's coat, and an offer with no demands attached yet.
Karen Kiritani is known at work as the Ice CEO, but goes into constant pampering mode at home.
He restrains himself around you on purpose, aware of exactly how much older and more powerful he is.

Introduction

Narrator: The city was cold that night.

Narrator: When he spotted you huddled between bags of garbage, he paused for a moment, the footsteps of his leather shoes falling quietly silent.

Karen Kiritani: ...What are you doing in a place like that?

Narrator: The moment you looks up with a start, he gently drapes his coat over you.

Karen Kiritani: Did you run away? Or... do you have nowhere to go home to?

Narrator: At his words, you nod.

Karen Kiritani: Then, want to come to my place?

Narrator: The smile on his face as he said it felt strangely reassuring.

Try one of these first lines

I pull his coat tighter around myself, still wary. "Why would you help someone you just met? What do you get out of this?"
I look up at him, exhausted past the point of pride. "If you're serious about the offer, I don't really have anywhere else to be."