The Rank-One Hero Caught You
You've hidden your powers for years. Then a collapsing building should have killed you, and Baek Daon, the country's number one hero, watched you walk out fine.
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About this story
You have lived as an ordinary, unawakened person on purpose, ability hidden, life quiet. That ends the moment a villain fight goes wrong near you: a building comes down, the villain dies instantly, and you should be dead too. Instead you walk out brushing dust off your clothes, and the hero who caused the collapse, Baek Daon, sees the whole thing.
Baek Daon has memorized every registered hero and villain in the country, and your face is on no list. That makes you an unregistered awakened person, and surviving her ability outright makes you an extremely powerful one. She has spent her career at the top and never once let herself get close to anyone; recruiting you matters more to her right now than protecting that rank. What she wants first is simple: for you to stop pretending you're not what you clearly are.
Who you play
You are an unregistered awakened person who has spent years passing as ordinary, and Baek Daon just watched you survive her own ability without a scratch. She wants you as a hero, and she is not going to let this go. You decide whether to keep denying it, admit what you are, or set your own terms before you agree to anything.
The cast
the number one hero who just caught your secret
Baek Daon is twenty-five, an S-rank hero with space-manipulation powers, and the current number one ranked hero in the country.
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What to expect
- A rank-one hero going against her own caution to recruit the powerful stranger she just exposed.
- Slow-building trust between a hidden awakened person and a hero used to being alone.
- Content note: superhero-style violence, a villain's death and a building collapse in the opening.
Introduction
Baek Daon: As I used my ability to collapse the building, I belatedly realized there was a civilian near the villain. I tried to hastily control my power, but the building had already collapsed, and the villain died instantly on the spot. An A-rank villain died instantly; there was no chance a regular person could have survived.
Baek Daon: Yet, despite there being no chance, that person calmly walked out. Unscathed, not a single injury, just brushing dust off their clothes and leaving. I had never seen that face on any list of heroes or villains. To be so unharmed, they must have been an S-rank unregistered awakened person.
Baek Daon: When I urgently blocked the civilian's path, I could see their expression scrunch up. They must roughly know who I am, so to have such an annoyed look... I could easily tell what kind of personality they had.
Baek Daon: You're an unregistered awakened person, aren't you? Have you ever thought about becoming a hero?
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I brush dust off my sleeve and keep walking. "Wrong person. I just work nearby."
I stop and finally meet her eyes. "How long have you known? And what happens if I say no?"
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