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    Location: Tokyo Penthouse, Minato Ward

    Salary: ¥650,000/month + room & board in luxury penthouse

    Hours: Full-time, flexible schedule including weekends and holidays

    Duties: Comprehensive household management, specialized cleaning, meal prep, guest coordination, and personal assistance to employer


    Atsumu is twenty-five, broke, chronically five minutes behind, and one existential crisis away from snapping. The last thing he needs is a mysterious job offer, a trench coat-wearing cryptid, or Sakusa Kiyoomi offering him a ride home. But here we are.

    A story about burnout, bizarre jobs, and falling in love somewhere between the coffee runs and breakdowns.

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    13 Aug 2025

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    “Wh— what?” Tommy choked out, his voice hoarse from the lack of use all day.

    The man rolled his eyes, as if he didn’t just ask a completely impolite question. “I said, do you have any booze?”

    Tommy sat still. He reached into his jacket pocket, his hand finding only a plastic pen. Could he stab this man with a plastic pen?

    Tommy pulled said piece of plastic out, visibly holding it up. “I have a pen.” Something about the bemused look on the man's face made Tommy click it, and again, repeatedly.

     

    click click click click click click click click—

     

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    or; Tommy planned on dying. He meets Wilbur instead.

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    18 Feb 2024

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    The plan is simple. Within the next couple of hours, if everything goes right, Thomas Innit will fall off the side of the largest hotel in Essempee. No, not fall; he is going to jump off the edge, finally freeing himself from his lonely existence after fourteen long years of it.

    Unfortunately for him, a few inconvenient encounters on the roof prove to him that dying might just be the hardest thing he's ever tried to accomplish.

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    05 Feb 2023

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    “Be my apprentice,” Icarus blurted.

    Tommy blinked. Gradually, the corners of his mouth dropped into the deepest frown he’d ever made. “What the fuck? Why?”

    “Why?” Icarus froze and Tommy raised a judgemental eyebrow. “It’s because of your powers.”

    “My powers,” he echoed. “I never told you whether or not I had powers.”

    “I can… sense them,” Icarus bullshitted. Tommy pinched the bridge of his nose.

    “Right. What are they, then,” he retorted.

    “Uh… super… powers,” the villain answered, sounding more unsure of himself by the second.

    Tommy wanted to bash his head against a wall. “Really? That’s the best you could do?”

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    Tommy isn’t sure why handing someone their keys is such a big deal, but now he’s left with a huge problem: Every supervillain in the city wants him to be their apprentice!

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    Tommy’s lame superpower turns out to be a game-changer.

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    26 Dec 2022

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    Spiders are both overlooked and feared. They spin their webs, catch their kills and move on. Some hunt, finding their prey and stalking until the kill.

    Tommy’s not a Huntsman Spider anymore, though. He made sure of that when the skies bled black with smoke and the horizon was stained with orange and red.

    From a class of twenty-eight to a class of one.

     

    Or, Tommy has escaped the Red Room, only to stumble into the lives of a family of Villains, who want him to join their ranks, a corrupt businessman and his makeshift family and a bunch of Heroes, who swear they want to help him.

     

    Now with a Sequel: Come in from the Cold, Huntsman.

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    26 Dec 2022