Chapter 4 - Chapter 2: Episode 2 (6 lines added)
I wanted to tell the female students openly staring at me to fuck off and ask what the hell they were looking at.
But I held it in.
'What are you looking at, you bitches?' I wanted to say that, but they're hot, so I'll let it slide.
Unlike the male students, whose admission standards are a joke,
the female students who get into the Hunter Academy are no ordinary geniuses.
Every year, the top mana-awakened prodigies from every region enroll here.
And the better you handle mana, the better it shapes an Awakened's body.
In other words, the female students at the Hunter Academy are all objectively attractive.
Sure, there's some variance, but they're all easily in the top 10% by this world's standards.
The problem is that this is an Ero-game world, so almost everyone is a beauty to begin with.
Basically, it's a gathering of beauties among beauties.
Burp.
'Ah, my bad. Burped a bit too loud.'
Embarrassed, I whipped my head around to check my surroundings.
The female students who'd been staring at me like I was some kind of freak were snickering, watching me with disbelief.
Feeling even more awkward, I lowered my head and went back to shoveling meat into my mouth.
My cheeks were burning, but there was no way I was stopping.
The meat was just too damn good.
Besides, it's a buffet—wouldn't I be the loser if I didn't eat?
Are they all from loaded families? Is this just "pocket change" to them?
Come to think of it, Awakened genes are slightly hereditary in this world.
In other words, most of these people likely have Awakened parents, and
in that sense, they're likely living pretty wealthy lives.
'Well, is that any of my business? I just need the food to be good.
Sob. Lobster is the best. The salmon sashimi is tasty too...
And the ribs and tomahawk steaks are all delicious...'
As I was busy shoveling food into my mouth,
a pretty female student approached me.
She had mischievous eyes and a lecherous smile.
I was just refilling my tray for the sixth time.
"Hey. Are you by any chance the kid who got in through the Male Service Department Special Admission?"
'Male Service Department Special Admission...? What the hell is that?'
After racking my brain for a moment, it clicked.
It was one of the unique settings of the National Hunter Academy within this Ero-game world.
And yeah, I was indeed the guy who got in through the 'Male Service Department Special Admission'.
The admission track depends on your stat settings before the game starts.
My base stats are F-grade, so I shouldn't have been able to enroll at all.
So the setting is that I got in through that special admission.
But if I reveal this carelessly, my school life is going to get royally fucked.
The Service Department generally consists of people with pathetic Awakened skills.
It's a track specifically designed to satisfy the overflowing sexual desires of female Awakened...,
basically, it's a pipeline for sex slaves.
They mostly select male students from poor families with no connections.
That way, they can't even drop out because of the massive penalty fees in the admission contract and the intimidation from the academy.
If you try to drop out or go AWOL, they don't just expel you—they demand you cough up billions in penalty fees.
That's why I read on a wiki before entering the game that revealing you got in through the 'Male Service Department Special Admission' is a monumentally stupid idea.
Of course, it also said it's recommended if you're into being openly abused and want to do a gang-bang slut playthrough.
In other words, if you don't want to be a sex slave/fleshlight from the start, you must never reveal it.
If you take this route, you basically can't do the Hunter route at all, and
you can't enjoy a harem sex life like a normal protagonist.
You're just an academy public cum-dumpster, constantly being drained by women...
"......Ah, no, I'm not?"
"Bullshit. It's obvious just looking at you. If you're going to lie, at least be faster about it.
Plus, one of my Awakened abilities is lie detection, you know?
But even without that, your lie is painfully obvious."
"......."
"Hehe. Anyway, Male Service Department Special Admission, huh....
If you get caught like this from the start, how are you going to manage school life?
Well, the female students, including me, will enjoy it. Good luck."
'Ah, fuck. I think I'm screwed... I completely forgot this existed. Fuck.'
The girl who'd asked me about the 'Male Service Department Special Admission' made an 'OK' sign to the female students she was eating with.
She must have promised to check if it was true.
The expressions of the female students who saw that sign turned lecherous.
They showed a mix of emotions, but mostly it was just pure sexual desire, contempt, and lust.
'Ah, this is why I should have played it cool like everyone else.
I think I'm screwed. Isn't there a "Restart Game" button?'
In this world that had become reality, there was no such thing as a "Restart Game" button.
My early route was completely fucked.
'screw it, whatever. What can I do? It's already happened.
How much could pretty girls possibly come onto me?
And if they do, well, that's a good thing.'
I ignored the surrounding gazes, ate more meat, and walked out of the cafeteria, rubbing my stomach, which felt like it was going to burst.
Should I start heading to the entrance ceremony venue now...
I trudged along and arrived at the entrance ceremony venue.
In the large indoor auditorium, rows of chairs were arranged for the students.
I grabbed a random seat.
Since there didn't seem to be any assigned seating, I just sat down.
As I sat there spacing out,
some time passed, and a few male students took seats around me.
Since there are so few male students at the Hunter Academy,
they probably looked around and just decided to sit next to me.
"Hi? Nice to meet you. I'm Park Ji-hoon."
The male students started talking to me.
But their tone was so feminine it was grating.
Why did I want to punch him in the face when a guy talked like that, acting all cute and bubbly?
"Oh. Yeah. Nice to meet you."
"Heh~ Your tone is stiff. It's just like a girl's."
"...."
"Ah, sorry. That was rude of me for a first meeting... I'm sorry. By the way, what's your name?"
"Here, name tag. Kim Do-jin."
"...Ah, right. Hehehe. There was a name tag. Kim Do-jin... I see."
The guy named Park Ji-hoon, despite looking sharp and masculine, was sitting there demurely, fidgeting.
Since he kept acting like that next to me, I naturally got annoyed.
Maybe he thought I was annoyed because he'd said my tone was like a girl's earlier,
so he kept checking my reaction with anxious gestures.
I guess he thought he'd made a mistake on the first day and made an enemy.
So, in his own way, he was fidgeting, looking for a chance to talk to me again to smooth things over?
'Ugh. Annoying. Let's ignore him.'
I decided not to even look in his direction.
I just scanned my surroundings, thinking, 'Is there any pretty female student around? I need to clear my quests.'
Then, I suddenly thought, 'Didn't I talk to a female student earlier?'
[ Quest ]
1. Select Main Weapon (Reward: Stat Point)
2. Attend Hunter Academy's first class (Reward: Stat Point)
3. Train using the academy's training facility for 1 hour (Reward: Stat Point)
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1. Talk to a member of the opposite sex (Reward: Stat Point)
2. Talk to a member of the opposite sex for over 10 minutes (Reward: Stat Point)
3. Hold hands with a member of the opposite sex (Reward: Stat Point)
'Why didn't it clear? I talked to a girl earlier. Is it a bug?'
I frowned because the quest didn't clear.
What is it? I thought, and then something came to mind.
'Ah, is it because I didn't initiate the conversation?'
That was a possibility.
So I thought about whether there was an excuse to talk to a woman nearby.
Then I thought I could just ask when the entrance ceremony starts.
I talked to the female student sitting closest to me.
"Excuse me, do you happen to know when the entrance ceremony starts?"
"Hmm? It probably starts at 10? There's about 10 minutes left now."
[ Quest Success ]
[ Talk to a member of the opposite sex ]
[ Reward : Stat Point ]
[ Related quest added ]
"Ah, I see. Thanks for letting me know."
'Hehe. My thought was right after all.'
I cleared the quest and received 1 bonus stat point.
I immediately invested it into Height.
Come to think of it, if I'd known I would enter the game world, I would have gone all-in on Height from the start.
The other stats, even if they get higher, are things people might just brush off.
But Height is especially easy for others to notice if it changes.
Of course, I'm still 20, so it's an age where a man can still grow taller.
But I felt it was better to focus on investing in Height first if I could.
It's just my personal opinion, so I'm not actually sure what's best to invest in first.
There was even game criticism asking why there needed to be a Height-related stat since it's a gender-reversed world.
But the developers apparently insisted on putting it in to stay true to the male-oriented Ero-game itself....
And they said if you don't like it later, you'll get hit with a curse that makes you shorter. It's called the Shota's Curse.
Sometimes, there are characters who don't like the eye level of looking up at a man,
so they cast the Shota's Curse on the player.
I saw on the wiki that if you get hit with a proper Shota's Curse, your height is permanently fixed at F- until you dispel it.
[ Character ]
Strength : F-
Agility : F-
Stamina : F-
Magic Power : F-
Insight : F-
Spirit : F-
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Charm : C
Height : C+(Growing. 30 days required.)
Physique : C
Appearance : C
Penis : C
Virility : C
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Bonus Stat Point : 0
'It doesn't grow instantly like in the game.'
Since the game has become reality, it seems my height grows little by little, more realistically.
I'm not sure, but the height chart I remember is roughly....
SSS+(189.5), SSS(189.0), SSS-(188.5), SS+(188.0), SS(187.5), SS-(187.0), S+(186.5), S(186.0), S-(185.5), A+(185), A(184), A-(183), B+(182), B(180), B-(178), C+(176), C(173), C-(170), D+(167), D(164), D-(161), E+(158), E(155), E-(152), F+(149), F(146), F-(143)
It seems it was roughly like this.
It started from 143cm (F-), and the grade went up every 3cm. Then, from B- grade, it went up by 2cm; from A- grade, it went up by 1cm; and from S- grade, it went up by 0.5cm.
'should I just aim for A+ in Height? Let's stop at exactly 185cm and invest in other things. From S- grade, it's in 0.5 increments, so it feels like a waste to invest in that.'
Since it only goes up by 1cm from A- grade, it feels a bit wasteful to aim for A+, but
stopping at B+ leaves a bad aftertaste, so I just wanted to keep it clean at A+.
'Hehehe. Growing taller this easily is so much fun.'
[ Quest ]
1. Select Main Weapon (Reward: Stat Point)
2. Attend Hunter Academy's first class (Reward: Stat Point)
3. Train using the academy's training facility for 1 hour (Reward: Stat Point)
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1. Talk to a member of the opposite sex for over 10 minutes (Reward: Stat Point)
2. Hold hands with a member of the opposite sex (Reward: Stat Point)
New! 3. Say a sexual word to a member of the opposite sex (Reward: Stat Point)
New! 4. Tell a sexual joke to a member of the opposite sex (Reward: Stat Point)
New! 5. Catcall a member of the opposite sex (Reward: Stat Point)
I checked because it said related quests were added, and they were similar to the 'Talk to' quest I cleared earlier.
It feels like they're just a bit more sexually explicit.
'What does a sexual word mean? Does it mean words like pussy, dick, or sex?'
I was wondering how to clear this, then I spotted a female student already dozing off in her chair.
Seeing that, a good idea popped into my head, so I approached her.
"Hey. Hey. Wake up. Dick...."
"Sigh..., ugh? Huh? What...? What did you say...?"
"I said dick."
[ Quest Success ]
[ Say a sexual word to a member of the opposite sex ]
[ Reward : Stat Point ]
[ Related quest added ]
'Oh yeah.'