Yoo Mina/History

## Early life

Yoo Mina is reveal to have lost contact with her family long ago. Thus most her life is spent alongside her older sister. During high school years, peers has commented on Mina being a shy yet good listener, having certain popularity in the boys and somewhat famous at school. She was a quiet, mature and modest girl, suspected of being from a well off family. She was close to Shin Narae and Shin Najin.

During a day in her high school years, Mina cause a major awakening collapse during her awakening after wearing a Counter watch that is given by her sister, spawning C.O. and eventually causing the death of many. Meanwhile, Shin Najin sacrifice himself to lure away the C.O. that is hunting them down. After the incidents, Shin Narae and Shin Najin is reported as death casualties. Her sister has also fall into a coma due to this disaster, requiring dosage of purified eternium regularly to decrease the mutation rate of tissues. This results in her obsession with earning more money to sustain the increasing medical fee.

During her work as a mercenary, Mina frequently staged armed protests whenever her payments were delayed.

## Joining Fenrir Squad

While searching through her sister's belongings, she found a Counter watch and a weapon known as the Wolvesbane. Yoo Mina proceed to become a Counter in hopes of earning enough money to afford her sister's medical bill. After working for two companies notorious for paying minimum wages with no overtime, she ended up in the Coffin Company after various reports of misconduct. Within her first meeting with Hilde, her stated objective were that she's simply here to get paid, and that she was not interested in being subordinate to her commander in charge.

Despite her previous work experience, Mina found herself to be quite naive about the industry. She came into the Coffin Company not knowing basic facts about how Counters operate, easily gullible to a scam played on her by the ALT Squad, and not knowing what happens when a Counters watches count down to zero. During Yoo Mina's first visit to the Counterside, she expressed having a vague deja vu of visiting the place in the past. Despite this, Mina's scent of Normalside attracted the Shadow, Spira. A battle between the Fenrir Squad and Spira led to Hilde jumping in front of Mina to protect her from injury, and being rendered hospitalized in the process.

With Hilde unable to perform as commander, and Shiyoon delegating the role to her, Mina decided to reengage with the Shadow despite her inexperience in order "to stay true to [her] purpose" as a Counter, shocking Shiyoon who was amused by her bravado and decided to help. Mina could apparently feel minute differences within Spira's corruption rays, believing her to be significantly weaker than before. She was able to formulate a plan on the fly, using the Coffin's Fusion Ray Stream to severely damage Spira and she awakened her power of the Wolvesbane to destroy her in a finishing blow. She later claimed that she had no idea that there even was a sword inside her gun, and that she took it out without thinking.

Proceeding with the mission to rescue the ALT Squad, the Fenrir Squad engaged with the Shadow named Ministra. Significantly more understanding of the business world and of scams, she proceeded to offer them safety, save them from Ministra and to not declare to the Administration that the ALT Squad disobeyed orders and went AWOL all in exchange for all the rewards from the mission. The ALT Squad reluctantly accepted, signaling the start of a rivalry between Yoo Mina and Seo Yoon.

## References

1. ↑ Yoo Mina Counter Case #2: [Appendix] Contact Testimony
2. ↑ *New Recruit* Act 1-1
3. ↑ *New Recruit* Act 2 Transcript 2-2 — Work Safety Rules