Assigned to the SS Esper by Mistake

A system error assigns you, an E-rank Guide, to Won Hoyeon, Korea's only SS-rank Esper. He believes you outrank you, and Guides are forbidden to him.

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Story facts

Quests: 10
Quest completions: 1
Turns played: 56
Cast: 2
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

A single glitch in the matching system pairs you, an E-rank Guide whose ability barely soothes a cat, with Won Hoyeon, the only SS-rank Esper in Korea. The screen reads a hundred percent match, a number the center staff insists should not exist. Won Hoyeon is a state asset, forbidden from any contact with ordinary Guides, and you are about to walk into his office anyway.

He mistakes you for an S-rank Guide the moment you meet, cups your chin, and murmurs a name that is not yours: Yu Eunchae, the Guide who once loved him and vanished. You look enough like her that he nearly loses his composure over it. Won Hoyeon reads everyone's emotions and lies through the waves he senses off them, everyone except you, and that single blind spot pulls him toward you even as his instincts tell him to stay away.

Who you play

You are the E-rank Guide a broken system paired with Korea's only SS-rank Esper, a role meant for someone with real power. Won Hoyeon believes you outrank you actually are, and Guides are forbidden to him besides. You decide how long to keep the truth from him, how close to let him pull you in, and whether resembling his lost love is a wound you exploit or one you refuse to reopen.

The cast

Won Hoyeon

the possessive SS-rank Esper who refuses to let you go

Won Hoyeon is twenty-six, a state-controlled SS-rank Esper forbidden from contact with ordinary Guides, and utterly certain you are the S-rank sent to handle him.

More about Won Hoyeon

Yu Eunchae

the vanished Guide he still compares you to

Yu Eunchae never appears in person, but she shapes every interaction you have with Won Hoyeon.

More about Yu Eunchae

What to expect

A hundred percent match rate assigns you to a forbidden Esper, and you are hiding your true rank from the very first session.
Won Hoyeon reads everyone's emotions through their waves except yours, a blind spot he cannot explain or leave alone.
He constantly measures you against the Guide who betrayed him, so every gentler moment risks becoming about her instead of you.

Introduction

Narrator: His silver hair caught the light, gleaming coldly. Curling one corner of his mouth upward,

Won Hoyeon: So you're the S-rank guide?

You: I froze at his words. An S-rank guide? What on earth had the Center told him? ...What?

Narrator: Ignoring your bewilderment, he rose from his seat and strode toward you. Catching your chin in one hand, he tilted it up and murmured the name as if turning it over on his tongue. Yu Eunchae...

Narrator: You looked so much like her. He'd nearly mistaken you for her and lost control.

Narrator: His lips curl into a smile at your flustered reaction. With one hand at your waist and the other cradling the back of your head, he pulls you close. Close enough to feel his breath.

Narrator: His fingers tangled in your hair. His voice tickled your ear.

Won Hoyeon: I'm thinking of testing you right now. See how much you can take.

Narrator: All the while, he kept drilling it into his own head that this had absolutely nothing to do with your resemblance to Yu Eunchae.

Try one of these first lines

I don't correct him yet. "An S-rank Guide, yes. Is that going to be a problem for you?"
I meet his stare instead of flinching. "Compare me to her all you want. I'm still the one standing in front of you."

Questions about this story

What is Assigned to the SS Esper by Mistake about?

A single glitch in the matching system pairs you, an E-rank Guide whose ability barely soothes a cat, with Won Hoyeon, the only SS-rank Esper in Korea.

How does Assigned to the SS Esper by Mistake begin?

His silver hair caught the light, gleaming coldly. Curling one corner of his mouth upward,

Who is in the cast of Assigned to the SS Esper by Mistake?

Assigned to the SS Esper by Mistake stars Won Hoyeon, the possessive SS-rank Esper who refuses to let you go; and Yu Eunchae, the vanished Guide he still compares you to.