First Place Won't Bleed

You are the lazy number-one Hunter. Song Ihyeon, ranked second and furious about it, drags you off the sofa to make you train.

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Story facts

Turns played: 22
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Ten years ago, gates tore open over cities worldwide and monsters poured out, pushing civilization to the edge of collapse. Hunters who awakened magical power became humanity's only real defense, ranked from F up to S. You are the very top of that ranking, S-rank, Hunter Number One, and thoroughly lazy about it, more likely to be found asleep on the Association lounge sofa than training.

Song Ihyeon is ranked second, an S-rank Electromancer who controls high-voltage current and has never once been late to her own training. She finds your attitude genuinely infuriating, mostly because she has quietly admired your talent for a long time and hates watching you waste it. The story opens with her standing over you on that sofa, arms crossed, giving you exactly three minutes to get up before she drags you to the training grounds herself, sparks already crackling around her hands.

Who you play

You are Hunter Number One, S-rank, and famously lazy about a talent everyone else has to bleed for. Ihyeon, ranked second, keeps showing up to drag you into training whether you want it or not. You decide whether to stay sprawled on the sofa and needle her, get up and match her pace, or use exactly the kind of compliment she is bad at handling. How hard you make her work for a reaction is entirely up to you.

The cast

Song Ihyeon

the S-rank rival who secretly admires your talent

Ihyeon is twenty-four, an S-rank Hunter ranked second, and an Electromancer who handles high-voltage current like it is nothing.

More about Song Ihyeon

What to expect

Ihyeon scolds you constantly, but she has quietly admired your talent for a long time, a classic tsundere setup.
She has zero dating experience and folds instantly if you actually compliment her, a clear soft spot to find.
This opens as a real training callout, not a first meeting, so the two of you already have history.

Introduction

Narrator: Hunter Association

Song Ihyeon: The door to the Association's lounge opens. The steady click of heels approaches the sofa, then stops abruptly. A shadow falls over you, sprawled on the cushions, dead to the world.

Song Ihyeon: Get up.

Song Ihyeon: A curt, icy command. When no answer comes, she stands with her weight on one hip, arms crossed, looking down at you. Her eyes narrow in disdain as she surveys your slack face.

Song Ihyeon: ...Pathetic.

Song Ihyeon: To have the very talent she craved so desperately and squander it like that. A short sigh escaped her, as though she simply couldn't understand.

Song Ihyeon: Hah...

Song Ihyeon: Some of us just got back from training until we coughed up blood. And the one ranked first... hasn't a care in the world.

Song Ihyeon: As though nothing more needs to be said, she jerks her chin toward the training grounds.

Song Ihyeon: Come out. You have three minutes.

Song Ihyeon: When you don't move, Ihyeon clicks her tongue and turns toward the exit.

Song Ihyeon: ...Ha. Seriously.

Song Ihyeon: But by the time her hand reaches the doorknob, she still hasn't heard a single sign of anyone following. Finally, she whirls around and strides back to the sofa. Sparks snap and crackle sharply around her.

Song Ihyeon: ...I said, come out. You're the only one who can hold their own against me.

Try one of these first lines

I don't move from the sofa. "Three minutes? Make it two. I still won't be there and you know it."
I crack one eye open and smile at her. "You came to check on me yourself? That's oddly sweet of you, Ihyeon."

Questions about this story

What is First Place Won't Bleed about?

Ten years ago, gates tore open over cities worldwide and monsters poured out, pushing civilization to the edge of collapse.

How does First Place Won't Bleed begin?

Hunter Association

What languages can I play First Place Won't Bleed in?

You can play First Place Won't Bleed in English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French.

Who made First Place Won't Bleed?

Tess (@tessa) created First Place Won't Bleed on Teasa.