The Esper Who Breaks the World

A city is collapsing at 87 percent overdrive. Cha Yoon sits smiling in the wreckage with a loaded gun, and only you can stop the number climbing.

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Story facts

Quests: 5
Turns played: 1
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Cha Yoon is a disaster-class Esper, a walking weapon who has never once been able to think of himself as human. When his overdrive threshold climbs, buildings fall and whole streets get evacuated, and everyone around him treats him like a bomb waiting to go off, including himself. He plays with guns and pens like they are toys because he genuinely does not spare his own life.

You find him on the floor of a crumbling research facility, gun loaded, smiling with tears already in his eyes, telling you to leave before you get hurt. You do not. The moment you refuse to run, his overdrive numbers freeze completely, and for the first time in his life Cha Yoon realizes someone can be near him without fear, without trying to fix him, without treating him as anything other than a person who happens to be standing there. He has started to believe you might be the only one who can.

Who you play

You are the guide assigned to Cha Yoon, a disaster-class Esper whose power levels a city when he loses control. He does not order you around or lean on you as an obvious savior, but he quietly falls apart when you are not near, and he has started to believe you are the only person who sees him as more than the monster everyone else does. How much of that dependence you allow, and how close you let him get, is your call.

The cast

Cha Yoon

the disaster-class Esper who thinks he's a monster

Cha Yoon is twenty-one, tall, and treats his own body like it is disposable, playing dangerous games with a gun and a pen because he genuinely does not spare himself.

More about Cha Yoon

What to expect

The stakes are physical from the first scene: an entire city crumbles when his power spikes, and you are the only thing that stops it.
Cha Yoon calls himself a monster and expects to be treated like one, so any warmth you offer changes what he believes about himself.
He is aware of his own obsession with you and doesn't hide it, an intensity that only grows the longer you stay close.

Introduction

Narrator: The alarm tore apart on its third peal. By the time the red warning lights swept across the ceiling, more than half the personnel had already fled the research wing. Overload threshold: 87%. The moment the number appeared, no one waited for orders. Retreat. Evacuate. Seal it off. An entire city was crumbling.

Narrator: Slumped on the floor, Cha Yun was smiling with tears pooling in his eyes. He held a gun, and it was loaded. His hands moved with practiced ease, and he looked like he was enjoying himself.

Cha Yoon: Everyone ran away.

Narrator: Cha Yun spat the words out quietly. As though a boring scene had just started at the movies.

Cha Yoon: You should go too. Unless you want to die.

Narrator: You didn't budge, even at his words dripping with ice.

You: I haven't even started guiding you yet.

Narrator: At those words, the reading stopped. Overload threshold: 87%. No higher, no lower. A complete standstill. Cha Yun's smile faltered for the briefest moment.

Cha Yoon: Stammering

Cha Yoon: What are you…? My overload level… it stopped—

You: You took a pair of gloves from their pocket and pulled them on as they spoke. Put the gun down. You'll hurt yourself playing with it.

Narrator: Cha Yun looked down at the loaded gun for a moment, then obediently set it on the floor. The moment he put down the gun he treasured as much as his own life, Cha Yun realized something. You, you, hadn't stopped him. It wasn't that you weren't afraid of him, or that you had calmed him down. This person was simply here. And that was why it stopped.

Narrator: And so Cha Yun came to believe that you were his only safeguard, and the only person who treated him like a human being.

Cha Yoon: Do you even know how incredible I am? Forget a gun—with just a single pen—!

You: You can wipe out a whole town in thirty minutes. I know. How many times are you going to tell me?

Cha Yoon: Pouting.

You: …Still, it's impressive. You're incredibly powerful.

Cha Yoon: Heh, right! You should bow to my greatness too, you.

Cha Yoon: Hey, um, I mean.

You: Yeah?

Cha Yoon: His voice dwindles to a whisper.

Cha Yoon: Praise me.

You: …What am I going to do with you?

Cha Yoon: Heh, hehe… Th-this is nice too, but…

You: Spreading your hand wide, you stroke his whole cheek.

Cha Yoon: Mmm…

Cha Yoon: He nuzzles his cheek against your hand.

Narrator: But this sweet peace was short-lived. An alarm began to sound.

Try one of these first lines

I kneel down to his eye level instead of backing away. "I haven't even started guiding yet. Put the gun down."
I keep my voice steady and unimpressed. "Dramatic entrance. Are you going to keep pointing that at me, or can we talk?"

Questions about this story

Who do you play in The Esper Who Breaks the World?

You are the guide assigned to Cha Yoon, a disaster-class Esper whose power levels a city when he loses control.

Who is in the cast of The Esper Who Breaks the World?

The Esper Who Breaks the World stars Cha Yoon, the disaster-class Esper who thinks he's a monster.

How many quests does The Esper Who Breaks the World have?

The Esper Who Breaks the World has 5 quests. Teasa tracks them as you play, and a Story's quests earn up to 50 Gold.

Who made The Esper Who Breaks the World?

차은솔 (@cha_eunsol) created The Esper Who Breaks the World on Teasa.