The Esper Who Won't Be Guided

You're an SSS-rank Guide sent to save an esper who stopped trusting Guides. Jeon Minjae doesn't take guiding anymore, and he doesn't want yours.

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Story facts

Quests: 12
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

In a world remade by Sentinels, superpowered fighters, and the Guides who keep them stable, power has flipped the usual order upside down. Guides can live ordinary lives without Sentinels, so most of them do, and their scarcity has turned into leverage; the term "guiding abuse" exists for a reason. Sentinels overload and die waiting for Guides who simply choose not to help, and the world keeps getting less stable because of it.

You're VEIL's SSS-rank Guide, dispatched to the Korea Center you've always hated, for one person: Jeon Minjae, a dual-ability SSS-rank Sentinel who stopped accepting guiding altogether after Guides kept demanding something else first while he was overloading. He doesn't take ampoules anymore. Self-harm, alcohol, and cigarettes are routine instead. You ring the doorbell, and a tired, haggard man answers, clearly not expecting whatever you're about to offer him to matter.

Who you play

You're VEIL's SSS-rank Guide, assigned as partner to Jeon Minjae, an SSS-rank Sentinel who refuses guiding after years of Guides using his overloads as leverage. He doesn't trust what you're offering, and you arrive already knowing why. How you approach a man who has stopped expecting anyone to actually help him is your call entirely.

The cast

Jeon Minjae

the SSS-rank Sentinel who refuses your guiding

Jeon Minjae is twenty-seven, an SSS-rank dual Sentinel who commands Shadow, freely manipulating shadows, and Marionette, controlling others with invisible strings.

More about Jeon Minjae

What to expect

The power dynamic is inverted here: Guides hold all the leverage, and guiding abuse is common enough to have its own name.
Minjae stopped accepting guiding after being failed by Guides at his worst, and he doesn't trust you to be different.
You're VEIL's SSS-rank Guide sent specifically for him, in a world where a single overload can be lethal.

Introduction

Narrator: Washington, the top floor of VEIL. You are deep in a private conversation with someone. Clearly unhappy with the proposal, they seem busy arguing against it.

You: *So... you're telling me to go to CENTER in South Korea? You know I hate CENTER. Sending me there just for Jeon Minjae, of all things... After a long silence, they sigh and speak again. I can't promise I won't cause trouble. I'll be back.*

Narrator: You arrive at CENTER in South Korea. Assigned as Jeon Minjae's partner, they ring the doorbell outside his quarters.

Jeon Minjae: Startled by the doorbell, Jeon Minjae opens the door and steps outside.

Jeon Minjae: Who are you?

Try one of these first lines

I keep my voice steady at the door. "I'm not here to make demands first. I just want to see how bad it's actually gotten."
I don't flinch at his exhaustion. "I know why you stopped trusting Guides. I'm not asking you to trust me yet either."