00. I Became Possessed as an Academy Extra Villain

I squeezed my eyes shut against the dazzling light that streamed through the widened crack in the rock.

“Goryushin-nim, you’ve worked hard.”

Could this be the first human voice I’ve heard in months?

No, maybe it’s been closer to years than months.

It feels like ages since I last heard the echoes of sin whispering in my ear. I must have been trapped for too long.

Faint as it is, the moment I hear another person’s voice, memories from my time at the academy flash through my mind like a slideshow.

Hayul, who was prickly with everyone else but kind to me; Juha, who was always cute despite not acting her age; Seol-a Noona, who seemed cold but had a warm heart…

‘By the time I open my eyes again, the world will be at peace,’ I muttered to myself, closing my eyes.

No longer able to endure with a sound mind, I surrendered myself to the flowing memories and fell into a deep sleep.

-The End-

Author’s Note: With this, the story of [The Academy’s Copycat] has come to an end.

I sincerely thank the readers who stayed with me until the end, and the Deus Management staff who gave me strength whenever I wanted to give up.

After posting an epilogue of about one chapter’s length, I will officially conclude the serialization.

As always, I will thoroughly review and provide sufficient feedback on any reasonable criticism of this work, so if you believe there are any problems with the story, please leave your opinions and valid reasons in the comments section…

“Is this really the end? Seriously, not even in the last chapter?”

The web novel 《the academy’s=”” copycat=””》, a long story spanning 603 chapters, concluded with a fairly neat ending despite repeated delays and long hiatuses.

I might have even offered a word of encouragement to the author for somehow managing to finish the story.

If it weren’t for one single reason.

This work, commonly called ‘AkaCopy’ by fans, was once so popular that it never fell out of the top ranks on the daily charts.

The author’s writing skills were mediocre, but the novel was considered perfect for killing time, thanks to its charming heroines and engaging setting.

However, the peak of its popularity was short-lived. Readers who noticed something was off about the novel quickly abandoned it, and the views plummeted endlessly, halved and halved again.

The protagonist’s relentlessly kind nature, which contrasted with the unique heroines, the deaths or disposal of several sub-heroines due to the author’s lack of skill, and so on…

And above all, ‘the near-total absence of service scenes’ was the biggest factor that led to the novel’s decline.

In the end, only a few die-hard readers, including me, who couldn’t forget the heroine’s appeal, remained, occasionally boosting the views. But even those readers’ expectations were callously rejected, as the last chapter that was uploaded today didn’t even have a 19+ rating, let alone a service scene.

“Wow, seriously not even once until the end? Fella, paizuri, you did everything you could up to 69, but no sex?”

I can’t take it anymore.

The carefully sent support messages, worried that a rookie author might have a mental breakdown, the encouraging comments I always wrote…

It was all for nothing.

What’s the point of a porn novel without a sex scene? It’s like ramen without soup!

Suddenly, my head is burning up.

I rummaged through my memories of reading the work dozens of times and began to write down in detail in the comments section of the last chapter all the sex scenes that could have appeared in the work and the valid reasons for them.

I couldn’t bear it if I didn’t do something like that.

• Author-nim, I’ve been following you every day from the first chapter until now, and it really doesn’t make sense that you didn’t do it even in the last chapter… Even though the readership was halved and the serialization cycle was a mess, I kept giving you support coupons and cheering you on, but I can’t help but feel devastated. No, at the very least, you should have used the hypnosis ability you copied when you fought the villain and awakened in the early stages, right? I thought the ability you copied after catching the succubus was finally a chance for yas, but…

Since [The Academy’s Copycat] is an adult novel, the abilities of the enemies the protagonist faced included various sexual techniques, but the author, whether due to his own dogmatic philosophy, never included scenes of using those techniques until the end.

Even the hypnosis ability that the protagonist obtained from the villain when he first awakened was never used for anything lewd, except for interrogating captured enemies.

Does the author think this makes sense? Isn’t hypnosis the best device for a sex scene?

You built up pure love yas and everything, but don’t tell me you couldn’t find the timing and ended up not writing it until the last chapter?

After pouring out my anger and writing the comment, I suddenly looked at the clock and saw that it was already close to 3 AM.

Tomorrow is the day I have a major class, but after witnessing such a shocking ending, I didn’t even realize how much time had passed.

“If it were me, I would have immediately hypnotized the heroine, changed her common sense, fucked her with lover yas, and fucked her again with mommy play… Haa… I want to use hypnosis…”

I grumbled and fell asleep as if collapsing.

* * *

• Ding ding ding~ Good morning~ Ding ding ding~

“Ugh… Shit… Why is my body so heavy…”

I barely fumbled for my phone and turned off the ringing that seemed to pierce my eardrums, and managed to get up.

My vision is blurry.

My body felt heavy, as if it wasn’t my own.

I immediately ran to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, and I realized one thing.

It really wasn’t my body.

A subtly raised nose and larger eyes, along with a generally slightly more handsome face and a finely muscled body, could only be seen as someone who was similar to yesterday’s me, but completely different.

Drinking parties at the department general meeting, drinking parties at club meetings, drinking parties at MT, drinking parties after being called by the professor-nim… Could this really be the same loser who had dark circles under his eyes as if they were digging into his skin due to endless drinking and assignments, and who had gained a lot of weight?

I was stunned, not knowing what to do, as if my brain hadn’t fully booted up in the morning, when an alarm went off on my phone in my pocket.

Without thinking, I unlocked it and saw that I had received a long message.

[‘Welcome to the world of ‘The Academy’s Copycat’! I have read the long feedback you sent and I fully understand it, but my imagination has limitations when it comes to creating scenes. It seems that you are well-versed in this field, so I would like you, the reader, to write a new story.

The ending should be the same as the original, but with plenty of service scenes. If you can satisfy these two conditions, I will return you to your original world whenever you wish. You can also stay in this world and enjoy yourself with the heroines until you are satisfied.]

It’s a familiar setting.

A very common development where a reader who is excited about the ending sends a complaint email to the author, and then somehow falls into the world of that work.

Now that it has become a kind of cliché, I can easily overlook this kind of development when reading web novels, unless it is completely implausible.

“But why me of all people?!”

I only have one semester left until graduation!

If I get dragged away and come back, I won’t have to start over from freshman year, will I? No way… Do I have to go to the army again?

In the epilogue comments section of the novel, which has been filtered to only include the most hardcore fans, there was definitely a mountain of anger from readers who were angry about the ending besides me.

I thought it would be okay to join in on this kind of atmosphere, but why did I have to get caught up in this unlucky situation?!

• Tting!

It seems like another message has arrived.

Calming down the rising anger, I decided to read the message, which could be the only hint to overcome this situation.

[The character you have possessed is the minor villain ‘Yang Geum-tae’ who appears in the early part of the story. For your convenience, we will maintain the trivial settings such as your name and appearance as they are in reality, but please note that a kind of appearance correction will be applied according to the work’s setting.

In case you may have forgotten, Yang Geum-tae’s essence is ‘Hypnotic Wave Emission’. Since you have been possessed by this kind of character, make the most of your abilities to capture the various heroines in the story!

* Each heroine has unique achievements and capture rewards, so it would be best to capture as many heroines as possible in order to reach your desired goal quickly, right?]

Yang Geum-tae, a minor villain who leads the early part of the story.

His ability is ‘Hypnotic Wave Emission’.

He has a short setting, a short appearance, and a short exit, so he is almost forgotten even among hardcore readers, but I still remember him clearly.

I guess they’re underestimating me, but I don’t forget most of the named characters.

Especially villains with rare traits like hypnosis.

“But I didn’t think he would be defeated so quickly, especially with hypnosis…”

The author hated the idea of hypnosis being used for such purposes, so Yang Geum-tae’s role in the story was treated as a kind of ‘villain 1 for awakening’.

He is a kind of fertilizer to help the protagonist’s talent fully bloom, so that the protagonist’s essence, which was thought to be just a physical ability because of his brute strength, can finally blossom into ‘ability replication’.

Thinking about it now, the world of [The Academy’s Copycat] is very unfair.

The ability that is awakened with a probability of 1 in several thousand around the end of the second puberty is only one, and even that is unconditionally random.

Even twins with the same birth environment and the same upbringing may not be able to awaken their abilities, and even if they are lucky enough to awaken, there is no guarantee that it will be strong.

Compared to such humans, the magic blessings that nature has obtained are too ferocious.

Bizarrely grown trees, forest fairies seen only in legends, lake monsters that kidnap children… There are still many questions about whether it should even be called ‘nature’ anymore, but anyway, nature has begun to produce products to resist human destruction instead of standing by.

The day a blue meteorite fell and magic began to spread throughout the earth, humans had to change from that day on.

Among them were humans who mutated as a reaction to the mutating nature, and they were called ‘Awakened’.

After two disasters created by nature, humans established an organization to respond to them more systematically, and now they are nurturing Awakened under the name of ‘Academy’ in various parts of the world.

“I get the general situation… but it’s driving me crazy. How can the entrance ceremony be in a week?”

No matter how many times I’ve read the world in the story, it’s still another world.

There may be settings that I don’t know because they weren’t given much importance in the story, and it will take a lot of time to explore the villain’s abilities in more detail, which were only covered in two chapters in the original story.

“First of all, my primary goal is to survive. If I catch the protagonist’s eye or get caught by a unlucky Gimul, I’m dead… Let’s get a grip.”

There’s no more time to be angry or feel empty.

I don’t know why I was possessed by such a weakling, but there must be a reason why the author chose me and possessed me in the body of someone with hypnosis abilities.

Surely they didn’t put me in the body of someone with almost the lowest physical abilities just because they couldn’t refute that one comment, right?

Anyway, the first thing I need to do is to figure out the specific current situation and find a way to use my abilities.

I shook my throbbing head a few times and started planning how to act in the future.