Surviving the Assassin Academy as a Genius Professor - Chapter 1

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Episode 1
EP1 – Prologue: Professor of Hero Fantasy

I wanted to kill the professor.

That’s why I’d fallen so deep into the game “Hiaka Academy: Assassination Department.”
The concept was irresistible—you had to assassinate the professor to graduate from the Assassination Department.

Over a year, I’d killed the professor roughly three hundred times across Easy Mode and Normal Mode, becoming a hardcore player. Eventually, I’d reached the point where I could dispatch even the demonic professor in Hard Mode without breaking a sweat.

‘Should I call it here?’

Around the time I thought I should probably get back to real life.
A popup appeared.

There was still more to do?
Reading through the details, it seemed this time the premise was reversed—I’d be playing as the professor.
As a professor of the Assassination Department, the concept seemed to be: develop students to grow stronger, but don’t get killed by them. It sounded fun.
The setting had expanded into the Hero Fantasy genre too.

But something felt strange.

‘Me, playing as a professor…’

I’d wanted to become a professor once.
I loved research. I loved the idea of teaching others using knowledge I’d worked hard to gain.
The title itself held romance—businessman, doctor, politician, university professor. Isn’t a professor the emblem of a successful life?

How wonderful it would be if a life emptied of family and purpose, lost in childhood, could be transformed through study.
Even if I was born grasping a rotten rope, couldn’t effort alone turn it to gold?
That’s what I’d believed once.

It was a delusion. The world wasn’t that fair.
Slandered. Labeled a social misfit. Trapped in a suffocating graduate program for years.
In the end, my thesis stolen and diagnosed with cancer at thirty, saddled with debt—that was the harvest of my effort.

The professor I’d once revered had said to me back then:

“Why do you think that’s your paper?”

Now you understand why I was so obsessed with the professor-killing game.
Since then, holed up in treatment, I’ve done nothing but play games. No place to go. No one to see. Days where I don’t know why I’m still alive. And now—a DLC where I become a professor…

‘This is cruel.’

The “professor” in this game is only a professor in name, really more of a schoolteacher…
But still, at least it’s not the DLC “Graduate Student.”
Let’s play right now.

Beating Hard Mode had built my confidence. I wanted to try something harder. While I was at it, why not go all the way. Then Hell Mode appeared—something that hadn’t existed in the main game.

It would be difficult, but I didn’t hesitate.
After all, it was just a game.

“Wait? What—why is the screen—”

……I never imagined I’d actually end up inside that game.

EP1

Prologue: The Professor of Hero Fantasy

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