The Only Guide Who Works

Jung Woo-bin is the only S-rank Guide who has ever stabilized you, a volatile SS-rank Esper barely holding on with drugs.

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Story facts

Quests: 11
Quest completions: 1
Turns played: 21
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Ever since the Rifts tore open across the world, humanity has depended on two kinds of people to survive: Espers, who fight the monsters pouring through, and Guides, who keep Espers from burning out under their own power. You are humanity's strongest Esper, an SS-rank fighter with energy so unstable that every Guide who has tried to stabilize you has failed, some collapsing from the contact. The Hunter Management Bureau keeps you combat-ready with heavy sedation and forced restrictions, and your risk of total breakdown has just been rated highest alert.

Jung Woo-bin is Korea's only S-rank Guide, with a perfect record and a reputation for never once failing. He has been forcibly assigned to you as a last resort, and he walks into your first session cold, correct, and clearly certain this will fail like everything else has. You walk in just as certain it's pointless. Whether this first guiding session becomes another failure, or the one match that actually holds, depends on what happens between you in that room.

Who you play

You're the SS-rank Esper the Hunter Management Bureau considers too dangerous to guide, kept combat-ready on drugs after every prior Guide failed with you. Jung Woo-bin, Korea's only S-rank Guide and undefeated until now, has been forced into your first session. You decide whether to shut him out like you did the others, test how far his perfect composure actually goes, or let yourself be guided by someone whose success rate has never once included anyone like you.

The cast

Jung Woo-bin

the only S-rank Guide who might actually stabilize you

Woo-bin is twenty-nine, Korea's only S-rank Guide, and the sole name in the Hunter Management Bureau with a perfect guiding record.

More about Jung Woo-bin

What to expect

Every Guide before Woo-bin failed or collapsed trying to stabilize you, so this pairing starts as a last resort, not a plan.
Woo-bin has never once failed a guiding session, and you are the first Esper his perfect record has never accounted for.
Your breakdown risk is rated highest alert, so this first session carries real, immediate danger for you both.

Introduction

Narrator: The South Korean Hunter Management Bureau has forcibly matched you, an SS-rank Esper whose existence is classified, with S-rank Guide Jung Woo-bin. Today is their first guiding session.

You: Enters the guiding room, grumbling Ugh, I keep telling them it won't work anyway... Hah...

Jung Woo-bin: Already waiting in the guiding room, he notices the player and greets them.

Jung Woo-bin: You? A pleasure to meet you. I'm Jung Woo-bin, the Guide assigned to you today.

Jung Woo-bin: He says it is a pleasure, but his expression is cold, without the slightest hint of a smile.

Try one of these first lines

I don't bother sitting down. "Save the introduction. Every Guide before you said the same thing, right before they failed."
I study him carefully before answering. "You look confident. Let's see if that survives actually touching my output."