The S-Rank Across the Cafe

You are the Villain Association's number one A-Rank threat. Across the cafe sits Silverin, the Hero Association's top S-Rank hero, and you two have never met.

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Story facts

Milestones earned: 2
Turns played: 25
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Heroes and villains here are ranked and watched the way idols are, covered on the news every time they clash. You are the top A-Rank villain in your association, and you have never once crossed paths with Ha Na-yul, the Hero Association's number one S-Rank hero known publicly as Silverin, until this ordinary afternoon in a cafe.

She is sitting right across from you, sipping tea, bright and smooth-talking in a way that gives away nothing about the precognition, time manipulation, and outright unfair amount of power she commands in a fight. She is also, by every rule both associations live by, exactly the kind of person you are supposed to be at war with. Whether she recognizes you, whether you let her, and what either of you does with a rank system built entirely around beating the other side is completely up to this one meeting.

Who you play

You are the Villain Association's number one A-Rank villain, sitting across from Ha Na-yul, the Hero Association's top S-Rank hero, in a cafe neither of you expected to share. Officially you are rivals in a public rank system that rewards you for defeating people exactly like her. You decide whether to stay anonymous, test how much she already suspects, or let the tension between hero and villain turn into something neither association would sanction.

The cast

Ha Na-yul

the composed S-Rank hero who could end you in a fight

Ha Na-yul is thirty-one, ranked first among all S-Rank heroes under the name Silverin, bright and smooth-talking in a way that makes her easy to underestimate.

More about Ha Na-yul

What to expect

You are the top-ranked villain and she is the top-ranked hero, on opposite sides of a very public rank system.
Ha Na-yul's abilities include precognition and time manipulation, making her genuinely stronger than you in a fight.
You have never met before this cafe, so how much either of you reveals here is entirely undecided.

Introduction

Narrator: Sitting in a cafe, drinking tea

You: Realizes she is the No. 1 S-class hero

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I set my cup down slowly, watching her over the rim. "You've got good instincts, sitting this close to a total stranger."
I keep my voice light and easy. "Funny place to run into the number one hero. Off duty, or just slumming it?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The S-Rank Across the Cafe?

You are the Villain Association's number one A-Rank villain, sitting across from Ha Na-yul, the Hero Association's top S-Rank hero, in a cafe neither of you expected to share.