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Realizing that this damn world was like a game happened just two days ago.

A mad world where one could level small hills with a single stroke of a sword or create giant volcanoes with magic.

Amidst all that, the era felt like a staged medieval RPG adventure.

Monsters and dungeons that would never exist in reality, and an empire that raised students in academies to combat such entities.

In a world where even a ten-year-old child had to wield a wooden stick to enter an academy, why did I only realize two days ago that this world was a game world?

Because it was just two days ago when I regained memories from my past life.

“Ugh….”

What’s even more dreadful is that the character I reincarnated as, Lillis, is one of the most pitifully treated characters in the game.

Lillis Rosewood. Aka, the clingy maid Lillis.

A character subjected to all sorts of deplorable treatment, making one wonder if the developers harbored malice towards this character.

I don’t even know how many attributes were attached to this guy. An heroine covered in all sorts of lewd tags that you’d expect to see on an adult manga site.

A character whose treatment worsens the longer the strategy is delayed.

The worst rag character in the game who deteriorates beyond repair if not “saved” by the protagonist in time.

It would have been less agonizing if I had lived my whole life without knowing.

As soon as I saw the face of that damn judgmental bastard, memories from my past life flooded into my mind like a burst dam, leaving me bedridden for two days under the care of a fellow maid.

“Haah, feels like my bones are breaking….”

Whether it was a side effect of regaining memories from my past life or just realizing some damn issue that felt like my head was going to split open, I endured a headache, trying to grasp my thoughts and rose from the bed where I had been lying moments ago.

It wasn’t because I wanted to do maid duties. I got up because if I kept resting here all day, I would be a nuisance to Isabelle, so I had to get up.

Although memories from my previous life gathered in an instant, they didn’t completely push away the memories of Lillis, who had lived in this world for a decade or so.

Especially the friendship with Isabelle, a colleague who joined as an apprentice maid about a year ago, held a special meaning to me even after discovering memories of being a man in my past life.

Leaving her with all my tasks for two days, including taking care of my illness, was irresponsible. If I had a conscience, I shouldn’t lie in bed any longer than this.

“…Why is this so heavy?”

As I sat up on the bed, I felt an awkward weight pressing on my chest.

After memories of being a man for a decade flooded into my mind, getting up and feeling the discomfort in the two fat lumps on my upper body was quite significant.

Roughly E or F cups in size? I’ve been living with these things hanging around quite well until now.

And I’ll have to keep living with them in the future. The more I pondered, the more screwed up everything seemed.

Whatever the case, what I needed to do right now was to get out of bed and return to my main job. It wasn’t the time to be shocked by my transformed female body.

With this kind of body, there was no time to hesitate if I wanted to protect it.

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“Luminor Academy: Age of Swords and Magic”

An SRPG game I enjoyed for quite a long time in my past life. More precisely, it was a title that combined the SRPG genre with an adult romantic genre, tailored for adults.

Noble students born with magical talents and commoners who rely on swordsmanship and physical strength due to the lack of such abilities gather at the academy, experiencing various incidents in what can be described as a romance game.

In the midst of it all, it’s a crude game that forces players to invest time recklessly, as skipping the character growth process is not an option.

While the game is cruel enough to prevent branching in save files to skip the mid-growth stages, its online sales figures were quite high.

The main reason for this success is undoubtedly the inclusion of appealing companion characters (=heroines).

Adult games that appeal to male instincts tend to sell well with just one or two attractive female characters selected properly.

Among them, “Luminor Academy” was a game that, despite containing divisive elements, I personally considered to be quite a masterpiece.

So, despite the mindless grinding elements I mentioned earlier, I must have poured nearly 2,000 hours of my life into it.

It was dreadful having to start the game anew each time to see a new branch, but the variety of choices in the character’s growth story made it less monotonous.

As the plot intricately delves into each heroine’s redemption narrative, it was reasonably engaging content from my perspective.

Above all, the game was visually pleasing due to the attractive designs of the female characters, a core element of adult games.

Especially, the individual events for each heroine route had many elements that appealed to the male heart.

Due to these personal events, the harem route ironically became an unpopular route that players would try once and then abandon.

…Including the character I possessed, Lily Rosewood.

“She’s really pretty… like, insanely pretty….”

Her glossy black bob hair swaying with a sheen. A cute and round face. Large breasts, a slender waist, and a firm hip.

Just by looking at her reflection in the mirror, anyone could guess, but the character I inhabited, Lily Rosewood, was naturally one of the conquerable characters in Luminor Academy.

She was also considered one of the main heroines representing the redemption narrative. In fact, she garnered a significant fan following, always ranking within the top three in three official popularity polls.

Despite public opinion, she was one of the characters I personally disliked the most.

It wasn’t that Lily’s appearance or personality was particularly off-putting. As a natural unicorn, it was simply because she had elements that I found difficult to endure as a heroine.

This character was already a non-virgin character at the point where the game’s main story began—the academy entrance ceremony—a detail that set her apart from the other heroines.

Although Lily was not the only non-virgin heroine at Luminor Academy, she was unique in that she could only be conquered through a non-virgin route in any way.

During her growth phase, she promised to meet again in her hometown village from her childhood or prevented the protagonist from taking another man’s first experience through in-game actions, among other events that led to different storylines after the first individual route ending.

The other non-virgin heroines at Luminor Academy had ways to create virgin routes somehow.

…Except for the one exception, Lily, the character I possessed.

Character named Lilith Rosewood. No matter what she did, there was no way to meet her as the protagonist character before the Academy entrance ceremony. At the time of the first encounter at the Academy entrance ceremony, she appeared without fail in a virgin state every time, making her a horrific heroine that one might think was created by a unicorn hater.

And I realized that fact too late from my previous life.

“When I think about the time I spent on Lilith’s conquest… sigh….”

Out of the 2,000 hours of gameplay, I must have spent roughly 500 hours struggling to find the virgin conquest route for this character. In the end, I couldn’t find it until the very end.

Ultimately, as a unicorn, I ended up spending the most playtime on the virgin heroine conquest, so the character Lilith became the worst character in Luminor Academy for me.

…No, maybe not the worst after all.

The reason I came to hate Lilith was all because of that brat who took away her first experience without missing a beat.

Ethan Richard Blackwood.

Just thinking about the face of that damn guy, the early antagonist and Lilith’s original owner in the story, was already making me sick.

“Thinking about working with that face in the future makes me want to vomit.”

Ethan Ricardo Blackwood. Nicknamed Pig Confucius Ethan.

Even if this guy hadn’t taken Lilith’s first experience in every round of the game, I wouldn’t have had to spend 500 hours trying to conquer this virgin character.

Considering how memories from my past life, forgotten for over a decade in this life, resurfaced upon seeing the face of that abomination, it seems I had quite a bit of grudge accumulated against that abomination in my past life.

It’s no wonder since this guy Ethan was always a despised character within Luminor Academy, always standing out like a sore thumb; he was someone I couldn’t forget even if I tried.

Firstly, an appearance that couldn’t possibly evoke any favor.

With a completely neglected chubby figure that showed signs of neglect from a young age, always dirty with something smeared around his mouth and clothes, he had an extremely repulsive appearance.

Especially in a game where almost every character, including protagonists and heroines, had above-average looks, he was the only character with a repulsive appearance, which pretty much said it all.

Even if we generously assume he could look somewhat presentable if he lost weight, the issue was his absurd personality.

This guy had practically turned his exclusive maid, Lilith, into his personal slave for nearly five years, starting when he was nineteen.

The extent of his torment was honestly difficult to put into words.

He did all sorts of despicable things in the game to Lilith that you’d start wondering if she had done something wrong.

…And of all people, Lilith, his exclusive maid, had to be me. Damn it.

If I had to possess someone, why not the protagonist or, if possessing a female character, at least make it my favorite character, Natalie.

Making me possess Lilith, the most mistreated character in the story, seemed like crossing a line no matter how you looked at it.

The only thing I did was write steady posts for three years in the Luminor Academy community calling Lilith a filthy wench…

“…Well, I guess I didn’t do anything terribly wrong. Of course, it’s not as bad as forcibly possessing Lilith to that extent.”

Anyone would feel frustrated. After spending 500 hours strategizing, realizing that the character you conquered can only be played as a virgin no matter how you try to change things.

Anyway, what I need to do now is not to complain or lament about my situation. It’s about finding a way to survive no matter what.

And the most crucial thing among them is to avoid becoming the exclusive maid of that damn despicable bastard.

Rather than being subjected to that scumbag like in the original, I’d rather hang myself and die. Seriously, not just for show.

“…Wait, could it be?”

Suddenly feeling a chilling sensation, I put my hand inside my underwear to check and thankfully, the proof of Lilyss’s virginity was still intact.

Well, considering that Ethan only woke up from the curse just two days ago, it’s absurd to think he could have done something to me time-wise.

Let’s maintain this state going forward. Especially, never get entangled with that despicable bastard as in the original.

With 2,000 hours of playtime at the Luminor Academy, now that I’ve merged with “Lilyss Rosewood,” the “naive maid Lilyss” no longer exists in this world.

I’ll make sure of that no matter what.