by Kabalisdead561
Abby Reyes doesn't want friends. She'd rather survive her first day at Westlake High unnoticed—until she meets Joon-ha Park, a confident Korean girl obsessed with magical girls, unnaturally strong, and completely lacking supernatural energy. That's impossible. Abby can sense the spark inside every living person. Joon has nothing. Then Abby discovers a dead presence attached to a terrified student, drawn toward its target by an unseen force. Something is using the dead. And Joon may be the strangest thing in the building
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 09:38 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
26%
Two or more lists
21%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Psychological → Mystery → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Mystery + Psychological + Action (11%).
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
#514 of 12,200 · 464 below RS #50
By genre
beats 68% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 30% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
