Breaking Up with the Heroine of the Female-Oriented Game
“Welcome to Union Academy.”
The principal’s crisp voice rang out from the stage.
While the principal’s words continued, I briefly listened and then swept my eyes across the surroundings.
That moment, the vast assembly hall filled my vision.
Countless students sat quietly.
Teachers stood in perfect posture.
Far away, banners hung.
[(Revival) 20th Union Academy Freshmen Entrance Ceremony (English)]
These scenes were familiar to me yet strangely unfamiliar at the same time.
“Representative of the 20th Union Academy Freshmen Class, Lee Siwoo, please step forward.”
At that moment?
The principal called out a boy’s name.
Lee Siwoo immediately stepped onto the stage.
The gazes of students and outsiders clung to him like arrows.
He became the center of attention in an instant.
But Lee Siwoo simply scanned the crowd with a blank expression, completely ignoring the thousands of eyes upon him.
“Look over there. That’s Siwoo, right?”
“The grandson of the SL Group?”
“Even so, he’s so handsome~.”
“Yeah. The real thing is way better than the photos.”
Murmurs rippled through the crowd.
They were girls sitting a little distance away, chattering like sparrows while staring at Lee Siwoo.
“Handsome.”
“He’s the young master from a rich family.”
“Genius.”
Admiration and good will were mixed on their faces.
“Whoa. Damn. Even guys think he’s hot.”
“If he stands next to me, I’d turn into an octopus.”
“Life is so unfair. Talented, rich family, handsome… shit.”
The boys clicked their tongues with sour faces.
In contrast to the girls, they let out complaints.
Well, it made sense.
Lee Siwoo was almost perfect in every way.
Appearance, family background, talent, abilities…
It was only natural for the guys to feel jealous.
In a half-joking way, Lee Siwoo was the kind of character that would only appear in a female-oriented genre.
“Lee Siwoo…”
I kept staring at his face on the stage as the principal began reading the oath.
Lee Siwoo.
Valedictorian of the 20th Union Academy Freshmen Class.
Grandson of a major conglomerate in the top five of South Korea’s business hierarchy.
One of the disciples of the Sword Master, an individual who would be hailed as a rising star at Union Academy.
His face stood out as the undisputed number one among the male students of the academy.
From my memories, he had won first place in the male character popularity poll twice in a row, I think?
“Eh? Wait. Isn’t that Kang Daehan?”
“Kang Daehan?”
One of the girls who had been staring at Lee Siwoo suddenly widened her eyes in surprise, then poked her friend’s shoulder and pointed with her chin at a boy.
I also shifted my gaze to the back view of that boy standing far away.
“Ha~ oh man…”
There sat a red-haired boy yawning with a slightly irritated expression, slouched in his seat.
That sight reminded me of a so-called delinquent or a good-for-nothing.
But Kang Daehan wasn’t an ordinary delinquent.
After all, his blood ran through the veins of the legendary hero Kang Cheolwoon.
“Kang Daehan… is he from the Heogyeong Clan?”
“The Heogyeong Clan’s reputation isn’t the best, though.”
“Still, he’s one of the representative clans in Korea, right?”
Kang Daehan.
Ranked fifth in the 20th Union Academy Freshmen Class.
Second son of the hero Kang Cheolwoon, who represents Korea.
Due to his resemblance to his father, he had a rough temperament and a beast-like instinct.
His actual combat ability was expected to be paired with Lee Siwoo as the twin pillars.
However, because his academic scores were poor, he entered the academy as the fifth-ranked student.
Among female fans, opinions were divided in various ways, but he had gained a huge following among some.
Many women liked him for his stubborn and tough attitude, calling him a beast man or bad boy.
He seemed to have placed in the top three in the male character popularity poll multiple times.
“I’ll get to see those two in person someday.”
Lee Siwoo and Kang Daehan.
I knew both of them well.
I could boldly say I knew them better than anyone else here.
Why? Because they were the most important “male protagonists” in this world.
“Jinhyuk.”
Just as I sat there blankly, lost in thought about the male protagonists,
“What are you staring at so fixedly since earlier?”
A sweet voice tickled my ear.
Following the source of the cool voice, I turned my head.
Suddenly, I could see the silhouette of a girl.
“Aha~.”
The girl had a slightly mischievous expression and playful eyes as she looked at me.
“Are you looking for a pretty girl?”
She smiled brightly and showed her closeness without limit.
I gazed at her face slowly.
Dark hair like gathered night sky.
Skin white as ivory, soft like a newborn baby.
Eyes sparkling and mischievous, long eyelashes.
“Even after ten years, it doesn’t get old.”
Her beauty was so exquisite that it could torment a man’s heart just by looking at her quietly.
It was like a masterpiece drawn with utmost effort by a renowned painter.
Enough to evoke the proverb “moon palace princess.”
“Well, to steal the hearts of so many male protagonists, she needs this kind of appearance, right?”
Somehow, it felt like an “inherent” beauty.
“…”
I suddenly sorted out meaningless thoughts and muttered internally about the beautiful girl.
The girl’s name was Jin Soyeon.
One of the countless hero aspirants who had entered Union Academy ranked 257th.
But it would be wrong to think of Jin Soyeon as just another beautiful hero aspirant with a pretty face.
After all, Jin Soyeon would later be pursued by countless male protagonists and become the academy’s greatest hero.
“What? Why?”
She was the only heroine of this female-oriented game, Romance Hero Academy.
“Did something get on my face?”
“No.”
Yes.
I had transmigrated into the NPC of a female-oriented RPG game I had played in my previous life.
“Just looked once.”
Even though it was while being tormented with jealousy by countless male characters, I had to leave the stage in defeat as the losing childhood friend NPC named Lee Jinhyuk.