I'm a C-Class, but All the S-Classes Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 1

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Episode 1
There are days like this, sudden and unannounced.
A day when everything seems as though it will turn out fine.
Today, in particular, small strokes of luck had been accumulating one after another.
I’d lucked into an empty seat on the Subway during rush hour, and my first report—which I’d held no great hopes for—came back with an unexpectedly high score.
The cafeteria, which I’d visited for the first time in ages, was fully stocked with popular menu items, and the playlist I’d stumbled upon by chance fit my taste perfectly.
At this point, calling it perfect didn’t feel like an overstatement.
My eyelids fell slowly and rose again, and the view beyond the window had shifted in an instant.
By now the sky had turned a soft crimson, and everything around me was merely peaceful.
Why did this same landscape, identical to yesterday’s, strike me as something special today?
As I was pulling the bag strap back up onto my shoulder, my gaze was drawn elsewhere.
A man stood up and gave his seat to an elderly woman who had stumbled in from the adjacent car.
The old woman’s face lit with a gentle smile, and as she settled into the seat, she quietly pulled at the heavy bag slung across his shoulder.
I felt my lips curl upward unbidden and leaned back deeply against the seat.
Once I got home, I’d shower, lie down for a while, then eat some tteokbokki while searching for materials for my other assignments—
Tap, tap, tap.
‘What’s that sound?’
An unfamiliar noise was bleeding faintly into the drowsy melody flowing through my ears. I pulled out my earbuds to check if there was a problem with them, and that’s when I heard the person beside me muttering.
“Is it broken?”
As people around me started looking up at the ceiling, my head naturally lifted as well.
The lights, which had been flickering unsteadily one by one, began to fade, and the car was swallowed by darkness in an instant.
“What? Why is this happening?”
“Isn’t the power out?”
Screech—!
At that moment, the train car began shaking violently amid the growing chaos.
“Ahhh!”
Before I could even grab the handrail beside me, my body lurched forward, and I ended up on the floor, bracing myself with my hands.
“Ugh.”
Blunt objects struck and scraped past the back of my hands.
A child’s cries mixed with the sound of bodies colliding, and everything twisted together as chaotically as the swaying space itself.
And then, directly ahead, I witnessed something deeply strange.
“What is that…?”
Someone behind me gasped sharply and whispered.
The space between the seats was warping subtly. The distortion gradually created a fissure.
As if an invisible blade had torn the air vertically open.
“Someone, please call for help!”
No matter how much I patted myself down, I couldn’t find my phone—it must have flown from my hands when I fell. Soon, a cold, metallic wind began leaking from the Rift that had opened into darkness.
The smell of iron… no, blood-tinged dampness brushed unpleasantly across the tip of my nose.
Then, as something flickered across the space beyond the fissure, the Rift’s activity fell silent.
“…Let’s move to another car, hurry!”
Sensing something wrong, I staggered to my feet and shouted, but my voice scattered weakly beneath the screams of those around me.
“Damn it, open the door!”
“You’re telling us to die here? Are you serious?!”
People were already crowding toward the door connecting the cars, but for some reason, it wouldn’t open.
Bang!
Just as the racing train shook again, a woman who had been gripping an armrest to steady herself began sliding toward the Rift.
“Help me, please…!”
As my eyes, now adjusted to the darkness, took in her form, my body moved without thought. I barely managed to catch her forearm, and using the faint momentum that created, I pushed her forcefully back behind me.
The effort sent an electric sensation radiating through the joints of my arm, and it went numb.
‘This… this can’t be real.’
In all of this, the fact that there wasn’t a single Hunter in sight felt like a cruel joke.
Then the black space of the Rift rippled once and let out a sound like something scraping against the throat—a deafening roar.
Shrieeek—!
As if it were a signal, the thick claws of a grotesque creature emerged, and in one motion, they tore into the floor of the subway car.
Death.
The sinister word lodged in my throat.
At the same moment, all the sounds that had been filling my ears began to recede abruptly.
“…?”
My head, which had been trembling with fear, snapped up instinctively.
The Monster, whose eyes were gleaming directly toward me, seemed to move in slow motion.
And in an instant, my vision blazed with light.
[ Constellation, the Guardian of Taewon eagerly awaits their breath settling into your sight. ]
A blue window that had only wavered before my eyes in absolute darkness.
The screeching brakes still echoing and the screams of panicked people felt as though they were pushing me forward.
I reached out my hand toward empty air.
[ Constellation, the Guardian of Taewon smiles at you with satisfaction. ]
In that moment, the creature’s body took on vivid color. My senses sharpened abnormally—as though slow motion had been released, the monster’s movements came with thunderous force.
[ By the arrangement of the Constellation, the Guardian of Taewon, the Sealed Guardian’s Greatsword (S) becomes bound to the contractor. ]
With incomprehensible letters burning in my mind, heat flooded my fingertips, and an unfamiliar weight materialized in my palm.
I moved my arm by instinct, crossing that something through the claws raised above my head.
Clang!
The moment our weapons collided, I drew the long blade downward—the creature’s cry and the soft sound of its torn carapace created a discordant harmony that vibrated through the air.
The thing sprayed dark crimson blood, its foreclaws sweeping through the subway’s glass window and passing on. Shattered fragments scattered in every direction, grazing my skin, yet somehow I felt no pain.
After that, I moved without room for thought.
My steps twisted in rhythm with my enemy’s movements; I parried its lashing tail with my blade, driving its massive frame back with the full force of my body.
“What—is that person a Hunter?”
“There’s another one here……, aaaah!”
I heard voices from somewhere, but I didn’t let my gaze waver—I feared losing focus.
How much time had passed this way?
My lungs tightened, my fingertips burning with pain.
As I drove the blade’s tip into the fractured floor to support my weary body, another creature’s eyes locked onto mine with precision.
‘When… will this end.’
I wished that would be the last one.
I clenched my teeth and took my stance.
Same species. Identical weakness.
I thrust the blade’s point into its gaping maw.
Then the violet light that had wrapped the entire blade suddenly faded away.
“……What?”
Before shock could even register, strength drained from my arms as though something had snapped.
As my racing pulse found its normal rhythm, all the noise around me came flooding back at once.
The weeping of people sobbing, notification sounds ringing from mobile phones, and even the crackling of the announcement system.
Soon my body gave out.
As I imagined the pain that would come the instant I hit the ground, someone caught me firmly.
“…….”
An unfamiliar warmth, sudden and unexpected.
Through my blurred vision, I could make out the contours of a stranger’s face, nothing more.
As I stared quietly, a low voice brushed past my ear.
“Breathe slowly.”
A single phrase spoken casually, as though they understood my condition completely. I clung to those words, waiting for more, but it wasn’t enough.
In the end, I fell into deep darkness.
* * *
The first thing my clouded eyes took in was a pristine white ceiling.
With each blink, the aching sensations grew steadily sharper.
“You’re awake.”
A strange voice filtered through the steady beeping of machines.
As I turned my head slowly, a woman in formal business attire approached.
With squared shoulders and an unhesitant gait, a silver badge gleamed on her collar.
At the sight of it, a hollow laugh escaped my lips.
“Fortunately, you’ve sustained no injuries.”
I closed my eyes for a moment.
The sudden rift, the strange cries, and that unfamiliar presence that had caught me at the last moment.
The scenes swirled in my mind before fading away.
“How… did I end up at the Hospital…….”
“Thanks to the reports from those at the scene.”
“Were there any casualties…….”
“Everyone was rescued safely.”
My voice was quickly drowned out by the woman’s expressionless tone.
I closed my lips while keeping my eyes fixed on the badge.
It was the same mark stamped on countless of Father’s documents.
“Then, shall we address a few questions?”
The woman promptly pulled a nearby chair over and positioned herself at the foot of my bed.
So I had been caught in the Hunter Association’s grip after all.
No—I’d denied it until now, but perhaps I’d been living within their reach from the very beginning.
Just then, the sound of someone speaking in low tones filtered in from beyond the door.
Perhaps that person on the other end was…….
“I have questions too, so let’s take turns.”
The Hunter Association’s surveillance began that day.
I had hidden, and the world had forgotten me, yet I could never escape them.
Right now, standing before the Academy, my two feet were proof of that.
C-Rank, Yet Every S-Rank is Obsessed with Me Episode 1
Author
| Seo Yu-yeon
Publication Date
| March 6, 2026
Publisher
| TaleSix Corporation
Illustration
| Cho Geuk
Title Design
| Mallang Kongtteok
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© Seo Yu-yeon, 2026
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