The NTR Begins
Right now, I was in a world that existed only inside the game.
It was the setting of my favorite adult RPG, Path of the Superhuman.
Transmigrating into the game world out of nowhere had left my head spinning.
But what had become of my real life? Baek Woojin’s life? The relationships I had built?
My thoughts turned into a jumble.
Yet the confusion vanished surprisingly fast.
Why?
“...Wait a second. Did you just say February 8th?”
“Huh? Ah, no, no, yes, that’s right.”
“This is insane.”
Because today was February 8, 2039.
February 8 had no special meaning in the real world.
It was simply the point at which the game Path of the Superhuman began—February 15 in-universe.
February 15.
The day the game’s protagonist, the hero Nova, made her debut.
“Hah, I’m totally screwed.”
In other words, only a week remained before Nova would face her very first villain.
That villain was Fat Guy.
In Path of the Superhuman, he was the first villain the protagonist Nova would encounter.
From the name alone you could guess he was a fat middle-aged man.
A completely bald, middle-aged guy with not a single ounce of lean muscle on his body.
And that was exactly the first villain, Fat Guy.
Just saying that sounds vague, but I was making such a fuss for a reason.
Path of the Superhuman’s newbie killer, villain Fat Guy.
Fat Guy wasn’t a weakling, even as the first villain.
He was so brutally strong it made you question whether it was even possible.
Ninety percent of players in the game would break their fighting spirit just facing him.
Fat Guy wasn’t just some fat, balding middle-aged man.
A middle-aged bald pig whose ability was being fat.
Fat Guy’s ability—Fatty.
The fat covering his entire body completely absorbed impacts below a certain threshold.
He could also store up those impacts and release them through his belly.
When you actually fought him, no matter how much damage you piled on, it never seemed to register properly—yet one hit from me would end him.
From a gamer’s perspective, he was an absolute nightmare.
A story gimmick boss literally designed to trigger a defeat event.
Path of the Superhuman was an adult game.
The protagonist was a female hero.
So having a defeat event where the protagonist gets violated by a villain was inevitable.
Most players would lose to Fat Guy and watch the first defeat scene.
And then they would realize something.
“Ah, Path of the Superhuman is an adult game where the female protagonist gets robbed and violated by villains.”
If you were only going to play it as an adult game, that direction would work.
But I knew it never led to a happy ending.
If you accepted defeat, the only conclusion was destruction.
That was why Nova could never lose to Fat Guy.
No, she could never lose to anyone.
The moment she grew even slightly used to defeat, the world would end.
A super-hardcore world where even the slightest mistake was unforgivable.
That was precisely what Path of the Superhuman was.
“But looking at Nova right now, she has no chance of beating Fat Guy by herself.”
At this stage, Nova was simply incapable of winning against him through normal means.
Of course, in this game I could control Nova and win easily.
After all, I was a veteran player of Path of the Superhuman.
But right now I was already inside this world.
Nova was Nova, and I was me—two completely separate beings.
So, to make sure Nova didn’t lose to Fat Guy...
“I have no choice but to get stronger and help her.”
The promising rookie hero Nova, who had graduated 10th from the Hero Academy.
A villain as strong as Fat Guy could take her down in a single blow.
I had to become strong enough to beat that Fat Guy.
Right now, Nova wasn’t going to be any help in that fight.
But the time I had been given was only a week.
My head started to spin again.
“No matter how much I think about it, there’s only one way to become strong enough in a week.”
In fact, there was a method.
There was exactly one method.
If I succeeded, I could obtain the necessary power in a single day.
The only catch was that failure meant certain death.
Failure meant death.
Honestly, I hesitated a little and felt scared.
“...Ugh!”
The answer was already decided.
If I stayed still because I was scared of dying, Nova would definitely lose and be violated.
My beloved hero would end up pinned beneath the belly of a balding middle-aged pig.
“I absolutely cannot allow that.”
This was something I had to do.
I couldn’t just back out because I was afraid.
Once my thoughts cleared, my head became calm.
My racing heart finally settled.
I had prepared myself mentally.
Then all that remained was to act.
“What’s your name?”
I asked the brown-haired woman who had been watching me closely.
“Huh? Ah, um, I’m Chae Nayeon.”
“I see. I’m Baek Woojin.”
She cautiously accepted my handshake.
Chae Nayeon— a name I hadn’t heard before.
An extra character, or someone who died in the main story.
One of the two, probably the latter.
Because—
“The spider bomb you just gave me... it belongs to the Machine Doctor, right?”
Because the spider bomb was the Machine Doctor’s item.
“Eh, eh?! How did you—?”
Chae Nayeon stumbled back in shock.
But I held her hand tightly, so she couldn’t escape.
“Touching the Machine Doctor’s items... you’ve got guts.”
The spider bomb.
It was far weaker and lower-ranked than the ones I remembered from the game.
It was still just a prototype.
Chae Nayeon had probably stolen it and run away.
The three men chasing her were proof.
“You... were you with those guys? One of the Machine Doctor’s people?”
Chae Nayeon asked me in a trembling voice.
She spoke in a formal tone and didn’t resist at all.
She simply looked at me with eyes full of resignation.
It was nothing like how she had behaved when facing men.
“Was it because I used my ability?”
Of course.
Attacking an ability user was suicide for an ordinary person.
Even though I hadn’t done anything special, I had the upper hand.
That made things easier.
I released her hand and answered.
“No. If I had been one of them, those men wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
A red mark formed on her hand where I had held it so tightly.
I felt a little guilty, but there was nothing I could do.
Chae Nayeon was someone I needed.
I couldn’t let her go like this.
“Chae Nayeon, I just saved you, right?”
“Eh? Ah, yes... that’s right.”
“Then I suppose I’m entitled to the price for saving your life?”
I lifted the corner of my mouth and took one step closer.
“This is a dead end, a back alley with no sunlight. No one is watching or listening.”
“W-what are you going to do?!”
As I approached, Chae Nayeon backed away in fear.
But behind her was not the road—it was a wall.
Thud.
Chae Nayeon could no longer retreat.
Cornered against the wall, she closed her eyes tightly and trembled.
And then—
“P-please be gentle! I-I’ve never done this before!”
She let out a completely inappropriate sound that made no sense to me.
“...What are you doing?”
“Eh?”
Chae Nayeon raised an eyebrow when I asked.
A short, awkward silence followed.
Then she asked me again in a trembling voice.
“Um... you weren’t trying to overpower me to ‘repay’ me for saving your life...?”
“What kind of nonsense is that. Why would I do something like that.”
Was this the adult game world? Her thought process was legendary.
How had she somehow reached that conclusion...?
“Then why mention ‘dead end’ and ‘no one watching or listening’...?”
...Yeah, I did use an expression that could easily be misunderstood.
But I had never intended any of that.
What I wanted from her was one thing only.
“Because what I want to hear from you, Chae Nayeon, is information that’s dangerous for others to hear.”
“Dangerous... information? You wanted information?”
“Yes.”
Information.
The information I wanted from Chae Nayeon was—
“Where did you steal the spider bomb from?”
It was the location of the spider bomb’s creator—the Machine Doctor.
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Villain—Machine Doctor.
The original owner of the ability Machine Star of the Machinery I had chosen.
A villain who played an important role in Path of the Superhuman.
He was the one who manufactured equipment for the mid-game villains.
He earned money by supplying equipment to villains and used all that money to create a mechanical tentacle army.
Then he marched toward the city where the protagonist Nova lived.
After that, the event occurred: heroes fighting the Machine Doctor’s mechanical tentacle army.
“Tentacle War... what a pathetic event.”
People who loved tentacles called it a “must-see event,” but it was not for me.
Tentacle War was, quite literally, a war.
So no matter what I did, there would be casualties.
Steady, reliable hero allies would be captured by tentacles.
The captured heroes would suffer permanent corruption from tentacle mind-breaking training and become irreparable.
Even if the city was saved, it would be half-destroyed, and the heroes’ strength would be reduced.
Overall, it was an extremely horrific event.
More than two of my beloved heroes were bound to end up there.
Watching my favorite hero suffer tentacle corruption... it made my eyes water.
It was the Machine Doctor who triggered that event.
He made equipment for villains and started wars.
This bastard was a very famous tenth-sider.
“Is this here?”
“Yes, the Machine Doctor’s research lab is right below these stairs.”
Right now, I was standing with Chae Nayeon at the bottom of the stairs of this abandoned building.
The Machine Doctor’s research lab was beneath this building.
I thought my mental preparation was complete, but coming all the way here made me tremble a little.
Of course, I had no intention of giving up.
“Because I have to do this.”
If I succeeded, I could take down the first villain of Nova’s story—Fat Guy.
If I failed, I would die.
If I gave up, Nova would lose and be violated, and the world would eventually end.
“If the only other ending is destruction, why wouldn’t I take this challenge?”
Good. My heart was calm.
“Then I’ll go inside. Thank you for guiding me.”
I thanked Chae Nayeon.
Without her, I couldn’t have found the Machine Doctor’s research lab so quickly.
“P-please be careful! That place is really dangerous!”
I ignored Chae Nayeon’s worried words and descended the stairs.
Then, suddenly, one thought crossed my mind.
“How did Chae Nayeon manage to steal the spider bomb down there?”
Her physical ability was that of an ordinary woman.
The only special thing about her was... a decent sense of judgment and situational awareness?
But that was all.
She had not left the level of an ordinary person.
So how had a completely ordinary person walked out of there alive?
And with a Machine Doctor invention in her hands, no less.
“No, now is not the time for such thoughts.”
Right now, I needed to focus every ounce of my attention on achieving my goal.
Even the slightest mistake would cost me my life.
“Hah.”
I exhaled briefly to clear my thoughts.
Click.
I grabbed the door handle of the underground iron door and turned it.
Creak.
The moment the door opened—
Whip-snap-whip! Slither-slither-slash!
A long, metallic something shot out and wrapped around my body.
I hadn’t had time to react.
It was fast enough to surpass my reaction speed by a wide margin.
Machinery that flexible, capable of wrapping around my body several times—there were few things like this in this world.
The thing wrapped around my body was a mechanical tentacle.
“Intruders come twice a day... what an interesting day.”
A voice came from the darkness inside the room where the tentacle had emerged.
Path of the Superhuman was a game that output text only, with no dubbing.
So this was my first time hearing the voice.
Yet I somehow knew who the owner of this voice was.
“Male test subjects aren’t necessary.”
That was the Machine Doctor.
The owner of this research lab.
“Hmm... I wonder what to do.”
The moment I opened the door of the underground research lab, I was caught by the mechanical tentacles.
Right now, if the tentacles exerted even a little more force, I would be crushed like toothpaste.
An absolutely life-or-death situation.
But it was also exactly the situation I had wanted.
My goal had been to be caught by these mechanical tentacles.
To be precise, the first goal was to make contact with the mechanical tentacle.
The first goal had been achieved, so now it was time for the second.
“Let me hear your opinion. Do you want to die crushed by your own ribs and internal organs, or become my experimental subject? Choose.”
The Machine Doctor asked.
Choosing the first option meant immediate death.
Choosing the second meant dying after agonizing torture.
Both options were unappealing.
So there was no choice.
“Take everything from you. That’s what I choose.”
I had no choice but to pick the third option.
Control Takeover Battle
Target: Machine Tentacle (B+)
Effect: Begin control takeover battle using ability
I had taken my second goal—seizing control of the Machine Doctor’s mechanical tentacles.
Now... the NTR begins!