Chapter 1
Chapter 1
EP1
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EP1 - Prologue: The Professor in a Hero's Tale
I wanted to kill the professor.
That was why I was so engrossed in the game 「Hiaka Academy: Assassination Studies」.
Isn't the concept intriguing? An assassination studies department where you have to assassinate a professor to get your diploma?
I killed the professor over 300 times on [Easy Difficulty] and [Normal Difficulty] for a year, becoming a master of the game. Finally, I reached the point where I could easily kill even the demon professor on [Hard Difficulty].
'Should I stop here?'
Just as I was thinking it was time to get back to real life.
A pop-up appeared.
< Update [The Professor in a Hero's Tale] is available. Would you like to play? >
Is there still more to do?
After reading the details carefully, it seemed that this time, I would be the professor.
If it's a professor in the assassination studies department, the concept seems to be that you have to raise students to be strong, but you can't be killed by them. It sounded fun.
The setting has also been expanded to a hero's tale.
On the other hand, I felt a little strange.
'I'm going to play from the professor's point of view…….'
I once wanted to be a professor.
I liked research, and I liked teaching someone with what I had studied so hard.
I also had a romantic idea about the title of professor. Businessman, doctor, politician, university professor…… aren't they the leading figures of a successful life?
How great would it be if a life that lost its family at a young age and was otherwise unremarkable could be changed through studying?
Even if I was born holding a rotten rope, wouldn't it be possible to change it into a golden rope with effort?
I had such expectations.
It was a delusion. The world wasn't that fair.
Being turned against each other. Being treated as a social misfit. Spending so long in such a frustrating graduate school life.
In the end, losing my thesis, getting cancer at the age of thirty, and being left with debt was the result of my efforts.
The professor, who was like the sky to me at the time, had said to me.
"Why is that your thesis?"
Can you see why I got into a game where I kill professors?
Since then, I've been playing games while battling my illness. I have nowhere to go. No one to meet. Days when I don't know why I'm living. And now, a DLC where I become a professor…….
'It makes me feel strange.'
In fact, the professor in this game is just a professor in name only, and when you think about it, he's closer to a school teacher…….
Still, it's better than the DLC [Graduate Student].
Let's do it right away.
< Please select the difficulty level for DLC [The Professor in a Hero's Tale]. >
I gained confidence while clearing [Hard Difficulty]. I wanted to make it a little more difficult. While I'm at it, to the maximum. Then [Hell Difficulty], which wasn't in the main game, popped up.
< The Professor in a Hero's Tale: [Hell Difficulty] Ver 1.0.0 >
It would be difficult, but I didn't feel any particular sense of crisis.
It's just a game after all.
"Huh? What's this? Why is the screen―"
……I didn't know I would enter that game.
EP1
Prologue: The Professor in a Hero's Tale
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