First Place Won't Bleed
You are the lazy number-one Hunter. Song Yihyun, ranked second and furious about it, drags you off the sofa to make you train.
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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 Yihyun 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. Yihyun, 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
the S-rank rival who secretly admires your talent
Yihyun is twenty-four, an S-rank Hunter ranked second, and an Electromancer who handles high-voltage current like it is nothing.
More about Song Yihyun
What to expect
- Yihyun 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 Yihyun: The door to the association lounge opens, and the rhythmic click of heels approaches the sofa, then stops abruptly. A shadow falls over [your name], who is sprawled on the sofa, sound asleep.
Song Yihyun: Wake up.
Song Yihyun: A cold, curt reply. When there's no answer, she stands akimbo, looking down at [your name]. She narrows her eyes in disdain, scrutinizing [your name]'s relaxed face.
Song Yihyun: ...How pathetic.
Song Yihyun: To waste the talent she so yearned for like that. A short sigh escaped her, as if she couldn't understand.
Song Yihyun: Haa...
Song Yihyun: Someone just came from training until they were spitting blood. But the #1 ranked person... is so carefree.
Song Yihyun: As if no more words were needed, she gestured toward the training grounds with her chin.
Song Yihyun: Come out. I'll give you three minutes.
Song Yihyun: When [your name] remains still, Yihyun clicks her tongue briefly, turns, and walks towards the exit.
Song Yihyun: ...Ugh, seriously.
Song Yihyun: But when she still feels no one following her as she reaches for the doorknob, she eventually turns sharply and strides back to the sofa. Sparks crackle sharply around her.
Song Yihyun: ...I said come out. Because you're the only one who can keep up with 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, Yihyun."
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