My Unhinged Teammates Keep Thinking I'm Too Frail to Look After Myself

[Cold, ruthless top who plays the pig to eat the tiger, a hidden powerhouse x Unhinged, fiercely protective bottom with unmatched combat prowess]

After dying at the hands of the warden for the third time, Li Luo calmly summed up three lessons after seeing the System's notification: "Memory retention rate: 91%." Don't go with the crowd, stock up on supplies, and from the start, get close to the strongest person around.

So he approached the fiercest white-haired swordsman in the entire instance.

The other man was wary, distant, and didn't like talking to people. Li Luo, however, smiled harmlessly. "I'm clever, you're fast with a blade. Teaming up raises our survival rate by seventy percent."

He was very pleased with his own frail, easy-to-knock-over appearance. He had known how to hide his true abilities since childhood.

What he hadn't expected was that the moment they were bound as twins, their lives and sense of pain became linked.

When Li Luo was poisoned and his hand went numb, the other man immediately bled from all seven orifices and held him close with bloodshot eyes. "When you're in pain, I'm in pain too."

Li Luo coughed once, and the other man dropped his sword with a clang and rushed over.

If Li Luo so much as glanced at another player, the other man would polish his blade until it sparked.

Everyone thought Number 00 was a pretty face protected by an unhinged powerhouse.

Only the System knew that the "Number 00 Administrator," whom every monster in the instance avoided, and the observer whom every NPC secretly feared, was this very man, currently being kept behind his own teammate, who wouldn't let him near anything dangerous.

Li Luo calmly accepted being fed, completely unruffled inside. Fine, protect me if you want.

After all, he hadn't revealed a single one of his real trump cards yet.

[Mini-scene]

Li Luo: "What's your name?"

037: "...I don't have one."

Li Luo: "Then I'll give you one. Si Yuan. Yuan means wall. You stand in front of me like a wall."

037 (the tips of his ears turn red): "...Whatever you say."

(Thinking: He gave me a name. He gave me a name. He gave me a name.)

Li Luo: "What are you thinking about?"

037: "Nothing."

A pause.

037: "...Say it again."

Every time he died, a little more of his memory disappeared.

Li Luo thought that before he forgot the two characters in "Si Yuan" as well, he had to get out of here alive with this man.

[Reader's Guide]

1. The protagonist is the top. They dote on each other, with the bottom favoring the top. The unhinged one is soft only for the top. One-on-one throughout, SC.

2. The romance is slow-burn, and so is the plot (bows). The top keeps his abilities hidden. His reveal may be late, but it will come.

3. Romance in horror instances. There are angst and sweet moments, with sweetness hidden in the angst. Guaranteed happy ending.

4. Not a traditional apocalypse story. No saintly behavior or pointless suffering. Get revenge on the spot, share sweetness on the spot.

5. Everyone is a good person and gets their happy ending. No rushed ending, and the top and bottom won't change.

Theme: Love can transcend life and death, and overcome fear.