The Patch That Never Finished Installing
The Integrated 19+ God Patch was an indecent little game mod. It was the legalized drug and pure dopamine crystal of modern society. The fact that you could conquer top-tier beauties you could barely even speak to in real life for just a few tens of thousands of won and dominate them as you pleased—what could possibly be a better bargain than that?
But the game I had poured my life into for the past six months, Erthea Academy, was different. That fucking thing was rated 15+. For a fantasy RPG packed with war, magic, and monsters, the one thing that mattered most was missing. So what if you maxed out a heroine’s affection? All you got was a boring, wholesome ending where you held hands, watched fireworks, and heard, “Please stay with me forever!”
The moment you tried to do even a little something risque, a warning box—Warning: This world is rated 15+—would slam down and stop you. It was a shameless act of deception, mocking the countless users who had ever pulled their pants down in front of a monitor.
And yet, the game’s freedom and sheer volume of progression content were more than enough to stir the perverse challenge instincts of veteran players. I was one of those rotten old hands who had cleared it dozens of times and licked every route clean. And today, at long last, a miracle arrived to put an end to that long, chaste life of mine.
“Ugh.”
I had no idea whether this was made by Bear Country experts or whether underground heroes had gathered to carve it out. But who cared where it came from? If this patch let me bend those noble, untouchable heroine types to my taste, why wouldn’t I take it?
Even if there was a virus hiding in that compressed file. Sometimes a man had to accept a little risk when his lower half took command.
I moved the mouse cursor without a trace of hesitation.
- click.
Download has started.
I was watching the download bar climb along the bottom of the monitor with a satisfied grin when...
Flash—!
It felt like someone had smashed the back of my head with a baseball bat. My consciousness went black.
“Mmm...”
Where the hell am I?
Damp grass. A beautiful lake bathed in soft moonlight.
Huh? This was a place I had seen through a screen dozens of times—no, hundreds of times.
“Erthea Academy... Star-Calling Lakeside?”
The voice that came out of my throat sounded wrong. Thin. Light. A soft, almost effeminate pretty-boy voice.
I hurried to the lakeshore and peered into the water.
Ripple.
As the surface settled, my face appeared in the reflection.
Pale skin. Dull blond hair that had lost all its shine. A skinny, frail body.
“Aren’t you that extra who got killed as a meat shield in the early tutorial?”
Siel.
First-year at the academy. Orphan. Zero combat power. Zero survival ability. The poor bastard who got split in half by an orc’s axe just thirty minutes into the game and taught everyone how brutally hot the tutorial could be.
I’d possessed that useless piece of trash?
I rummaged through the pockets.
A lump of dust and two copper coins.
I couldn’t feel even a grain of mana in my dantian.
Just as I was about ready to slam my head into the lake in pure denial...
Conditional Hypnosis (Lv. 1) (Exclusive to the 19+ Patch)
Classification: status ailment
Description: Cuts off the target’s reason and gives the player complete control over the body, exactly the way they want it.
Duration: 30 minutes currently. Increases with level-up.
Holy shit, a possession bonus! A cheat skill!
One of the following conditions must be met:
- Activation Condition 1: The target’s HP or mental strength is 30% or lower
- Activation Condition 2: The target admits defeat in a wager, argument, or similar contest
- Activation Condition 3: The target consents to hypnosis
Trash skill! You want me to meet those conditions with this piece-of-shit character? With this body that looks like it’d lose to some stray mutt in a fight?
First Time
Hypnotize a female nearby and climb onto her body.
Use intimate actions to drive the target’s heart rate above 130 and soak her body thoroughly.
⏳ Remaining Time: 30 minutes
☠ Failure Penalty: Heart defect (death)
“Are you fucking kidding me!”
Heart defect. Meaning if I failed, I was dead meat.
Maybe it was just my imagination, but my heart already felt unstable, lurching around in my chest.
My breathing turned ragged, and cold sweat began dripping from my forehead.
HP: [unknown] / [unknown]
Warning: This world is rated 15+.
Excessive skin contact, nudity, and violent sexual descriptions are blocked.
Every time the timer ticked down, the pressure tightened around my throat.
Fuck, fuck. What do I do? Should I just find any female at all?
I started rummaging through the bushes around the lakeshore.
Female fish? Insects? A sparrow passing by? Like that would work!
I can’t just throw away my human dignity!
“Ah!”
I tripped over a stone and went sprawling.
My knee scraped open, blood running down in a stream.
With my trash-tier HP stat, even rolling across the bare ground made my whole body ache.
- Time remaining: 22 minutes.
Who the hell else would be out here at this eerie hour by the lake besides me—
“Haah, haah...”
From behind a pile of rocks on the far side of the lake came the sound of rough, ragged breathing.
I moved as quietly as I could toward the source.
Peeking around a large tree at the corner of the lakeshore...
...!
Silver hair glimmered under the moonlight.
A beautiful girl with sharp, cold features was leaning against the rocks and gasping for breath.
One of Erthea’s named heroines. The Ice Princess of the Northern Ducal House, Selah Krauss.
I busted my ass climbing the Everfrost Mountains three times and offering the legendary Ice-Snow Flower just to push that frosty bitch’s affection to max!
She was the famous cold beauty with a terrible attitude.
And after all that suffering, all I got back was one stern little line of text: “Well done. I shall not forget this debt.” That was it...
Her familiar gauge appeared above her head.
Activation Condition 1. HP and mental strength both below 30 percent.
She was the perfect prey.
[Target information confirmed]
[Climb onto her body. Use intimate actions to drive the target’s heart rate above 130 and soak her body thoroughly.]
I walked toward her with total confidence.
“Who... are you...?”
She glared at me, one hand on her sword. Her eyes were fierce, but her arms and legs were trembling all the same.
I called out lightly, “Hypnosis, activate.”
[Conditions met. Casting hypnosis on the target.]
Selah’s blue eyes lost focus.
The sword in her hand slipped and fell with a dull thud.
Impossible to resist. A forced status ailment.
That was the power of the Integrated 19+ God Patch.
“......”
Heh heh...!
Some nameless extra had just subdued one of the academy’s top-ranked heroines with a single line of dialogue!
My chest swelled with grand, delicious satisfaction.
Seriously, a 19+ development with a named heroine right from the tutorial!
I swallowed hard and stepped closer to the defenseless Selah.
This wasn’t just some pixel blob on a screen. This was a real, breathing 3D beauty.
Her chest rose and fell with each breath.
Her shirt was soaked through with sweat and clinging to her body.
Her white neck glowed in the moonlight.
Where should I start?
Should I undo the buttons first? Or go straight under the skirt?
That icy bitch who had always acted so cold in the game, trampling my purity without mercy.
The dopamine I’d been holding back for half a year exploded.
Yeah, let’s start with that magnificent...
I reached toward the buttons on her uniform—
Fwoosh!
“Aaaah!”
Before my fingertips even touched her, a spark snapped and hurled my body backward.
I rolled across the grass once before finally coming to a stop.
W-what the hell?!
Clutching my numb wrist, I looked up—and saw the wholesome little alert box hovering there.
Warning: This world is rated 15+.
Excessive skin contact, nudity, and violent sexual descriptions are blocked.
“......?”
What the hell was this nonsense?
Right, the hot spring event! They even let you in with just a towel wrapped around you there.
I picked up a branch from the ground.
“If I just lift the skirt a little with this...”
I extended the branch and lightly touched Selah’s skirt.
Swish.
The skirt began to rise little by little, and just as her pale thigh was revealed...
HP: [unknown] / [unknown]
Warning: This world is rated 15+.
Excessive skin contact, nudity, and violent sexual descriptions are blocked.
“Aaaah!”
The branch snapped back with a crack and nailed me dead between the eyebrows.
“Underwear should be fine! What the hell is the problem?!”
...Wait.
One possibility flashed through my mind.
No way. Nah, couldn’t be.
[Character info window unlocked.]
[Selah Krauss’s information has been updated.]
“......What?”
No underwear?
She was really going commando?
“She really wasn’t wearing any underwear?!”
Only then did the reason the branch had bounced away make sense.
She strutted around all the time acting like the Ice Princess, the flawless knight, and every other pretentious title in the book, but when it came to night training, she apparently got too hot and just took the damn things off underneath!
“Jesus fucking Christ, this game is insane about the details...”
And then the question hit me.
Wasn’t the 19+ patch supposed to be applied?
Hypnosis had definitely triggered, and the quest text had clearly sounded like a filthy adult game, too!
So why the hell was that goddamn 15+ rating still getting in my way?
Then I remembered the last thing I had seen while staring at the monitor from my room.
The download progress bar sitting in the center of the screen.
10%...
50%...
90%...
99%...
“Oh, right.”
That was it.
I had never finished downloading Integrated 19+ God Patch.