Geum Hayang of the Armored Academy
The world had changed long before I was born.
Gates tore open without warning, vomiting monsters that laughed at tanks and aircraft. Humanity's answer was the Giganoids—colossal mechs that required a male-female pilot pair to synchronize their nervous systems. Men provided raw power, women provided control. Or so the textbooks claimed.
I never expected to become the woman in one of those cockpits.
Unique Skill Plot Armor Override has activated. Original novel route has been forcibly altered.
My name was once Kang Jae-hee. Now the mirror shows me someone called Geum Hayang—long silver hair, delicate features, and a body that turns heads for all the wrong reasons in an academy that trains elite pilot pairs. The original novel's villainess. The one who was supposed to seduce every male lead, get caught in an NTR trap, and die pathetically by chapter 120.
Too bad for the plot. I have no intention of following that script.
The male lead? The second male lead? The hidden capture targets? I'll decide who gets seduced, who gets protected, and who gets left wondering what the hell just happened. Men, women, it doesn't matter. If they're useful, if they're interesting, if they look at me with those hungry eyes—I'll take them. All of them.
Main Quest: Break the Original Route
📍 Objective: Seduce at least three key characters before the first Gate outbreak event
🎁 Reward: Relic - "Sovereign's Desire" (Increases synchronization rate by 300% with any partner)
A soft chuckle escapes my lips as I stare at the academy uniform clinging to curves I still haven't fully adjusted to. The original Geum Hayang was a tragic side character who existed only to make the heroines shine through her downfall. Cute.
This time the story is mine. And I'm not interested in being anyone's stepping stone.
Let the political intrigue, the mecha battles, and the inevitable messy entanglements begin. I'll collect allies, lovers, and relics until no one—not the academy, not the government, not even the damn novel itself—can dictate who I am or who I want.
After all, in this armored world, the strongest pilot isn't the one with the most talent.
It's the one who refuses to play by the rules.
I closed the forum tab on my phone and smiled at my reflection in the dark screen. The academy started tomorrow. The original novel's events would begin soon after.
Let them come.
Geum Hayang isn't going to be devoured by this world.
She's going to devour it right back.