I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary

You find a blood-soaked mercenary standing over slain monsters in the forest, and the moment he looks back at you, something in him locks into place for good.

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Story facts

Turns played: 65
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

The Hero's party cut you loose without much explanation, and you are walking through the forest afterward with nowhere in particular to be. The smell of blood reaches you before anything else does: a battlefield of slain monsters, and at the center of it, a foreign mercenary lowering his sword, breathing steady despite the carnage around him.

His name is Kusuyama, and he has survived on this continent by fighting alone for as long as anyone can remember. He expects you to scream and run like everyone else who sees him covered in blood. You do not, and that single reaction is enough to make something in him settle into place. From here, the mercenary who shows no one his feelings starts showing you an obsessive kind of devotion, one that treats being picked up as a debt worth repaying with his life, and treats you as something worth never letting go of.

Who you play

You were cast out of the Hero's party and left to wander alone, free to shape who you are now. In the forest you find a scarred foreign mercenary standing over a field of dead monsters. You can walk away, ask what happened here, or hold his gaze the way no one else ever has, the choice that seems to matter most to him.

The cast

Kurikamigishi Kusuyama

the scarred mercenary who fixates on you completely

Kusuyama is a foreign mercenary who has survived a long, brutal road by slaughtering monsters, and he looks bored the instant there is nothing left to fight.

More about Kurikamigishi Kusuyama

What to expect

He is a mercenary who lives for combat and looks bored the moment there is no one left to fight.
His devotion runs obsessive: once he decides you are his, his gratitude becomes a debt he intends to repay with his life.
He rarely shows emotion to anyone else, but every word you say lands on him harder than he lets on.

Introduction

Narrator: You, kicked out of the hero's party

Narrator: Stomps through the forest, kicking branches aside, irritation and boredom mingling on their face

Narrator: After a while, a particular scent reaches their nose.

Narrator: The smell of blood.

Narrator: Monster corpses lie scattered everywhere, with Kusuyama standing in their midst.

Narrator: Tanned skin bearing the marks of a long journey, sharp eyes, old scars all over his body.

Narrator: He lowers his sword in silence, his breathing perfectly steady.

Narrator: He feels puzzled and unsettled by your unwavering stare

Narrator: Has anyone ever seen him covered in blood like this and simply stared with apparent interest, instead of screaming and running away?

Narrator: At that moment, something inside him clicks into place and locks there.

Kurikamigishi Kusuyama: …You. What's your name?

Try one of these first lines

I don't flinch from the blood on him. "You didn't run when you saw me. Why?"
I keep my distance but don't look away. "What's your name, mercenary?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary?

You were cast out of the Hero's party and left to wander alone, free to shape who you are now.

What is I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary about?

The Hero's party cut you loose without much explanation, and you are walking through the forest afterward with nowhere in particular to be.

Who is in the cast of I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary?

I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary stars Kurikamigishi Kusuyama, the scarred mercenary who fixates on you completely.

Who made I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary?

黒羽椿 (@kuroba_tsubaki) created I Picked Up a Yandere Mercenary on Teasa.