
by JesterLegacy
The first rule of being a shrine maiden is don't kiss the demon. I'm Suzune Hayakawa. Sixteen, sharp-tongued, professionally responsible for every spirit dumb enough to haunt my city. I had the rule down. As the title of the story suggests, I screwed up. Bad. What follows is a string of events I will come to regret. I lie to my grandmother. I lie to my best friend Kaito, whom I love and who, I think, loves me back. I write things in a notebook I am not proud of, and things keep getting worse. The voice you are about to read stays mine the whole way through, and that is the worst part — I sound like myself while I do it. I am telling you this up front because I want you to know what you're walking into. I am also telling you this because I came back. Stay with me. This is, at its core, a love story. One that's full of despicable acts, but also full of heart. Okay, that sounds embarrassing and weird coming from me, and I want to immediately take it back, but I'm not going to, because it's true. Pour yourself something. Settle in. Let me start at the beginning.What to Expect (since the tones of the story arcs so far are quite different):- Slight Horror and more Psychological up to chapter 15- Slice of Life and more Romance from chapter 16 onwards
#4
7/3/2026
Peak #26
5d
#3
6/16/2026
Peak #30
17d
#2
6/8/2026
Peak #34
7d
#1
6/2/2026
Peak #38
5d
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:49 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:49 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
28%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Romance → Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological (26%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#8578 of 12,127 · 8528 below RS #50
By genre
beats 43% of similar stories
beats 68% of similar stories
beats 53% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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