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Fated to Die in an Academy Novel – Chapter 121

.。.:✧ Nightmare. (7) ✧:.。.

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: JayM
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The succubi disguised as Joo-ri and Oh Yoon-ha cast what looked like buffs (but were actually debuffs) on me by shooting me with demonic energy.

They looked like flashy effects, but they were actually closer to curses.

When the nun (succubus in disguise) shot holy-looking demonic energy at Woo Jae-hee’s sword, the holy sword shone brilliantly and started emitting toxins and acid.

What a mess.

Well, it was a trap, if you could call it that.

Since I hadn’t resisted the dream’s content so far, they probably thought I couldn’t resist the dream itself. Or perhaps they thought Woo Jae-hee could defeat me with the succubi’s help. Either way, they seemed to believe that I currently was helpless.

It was a plausible plan.

If the dream continued like this, Woo Jae-hee, the dream’s protagonist, would win, and I would die.

And even if I resisted, they probably thought they could subdue me with the succubi’s help since this was a dream.

Well, everyone has a plan…

…until they get punched in the face.

The hand in my heart clenched tightly, and with a sharp pain, my Authority manifested, solidifying the boundary between the dream and myself.

My embarrassing demon king appearance started to disappear, slowly transforming back into my original self in my school uniform.

“W-What!? Are you trying to attack me with the form I feared in the past! That kind of mental attack won’t work!”

…Seriously, Jae-hee was asking for a beating.

Hmm, my senses were clear.

The succubi who were clinging to my arms stared at me blankly.

“…What are you looking at?”

I needlessly provoked them, and they blushed while pressing their chests against me even more.

“Huh? W-Well, you’re a bit short, but you’re more handsome now than in your demon king form.”

“No, how can you do that in someone else’s dream? And your soul smells so good, do you want to do something fun with us?”

“…Are you crazy?”

Well, since they were succubi, it was probably an invitation to… have a meal, but it was still creepy.

“I don’t know what you’re up to, but…!”

I should get rid of the succubi first. Devil’s Touch would be better than Ruyi here since they were spirits.

I took off my glove and revealed the mark, and not only the ones clinging to me, but also the one behind Woo Jae-hee who had been looking at them enviously, started trembling.

Good, good. I tried it just in case, and it worked perfectly.

“Stop…!”

Woo Jae-hee, witnessing the scene, almost convulsed. He swung his sword and charged at me.

As expected of his dream.

He was faster than his real-life counterpart, and his somewhat clumsy posture was transformed into a sharp attack, perhaps due to the dream’s correction.

‘Within the limits of his imagination’ that is.

His best was less than half the speed of the Fighting Demon’s punches.

As his sword cut through the air, I poked his armor with my knife, and the curse spread, corroding it.

“Ugh…!? Are you playing with me…!?”

“Yeah, I’m going to play with you and beat you up, you bastard. There’s a limit to having delusions about people. How could you do that to them?”

But this guy, his talent as a tank was something even Cheon Yoo-hak acknowledged. His dodging and defense, enhanced by the dream’s buff, were quite good.

He accurately blocked my kicks with the guard on his knee and expertly dodged my knife as he sensed the danger.

He was screaming in pain though, unable to completely negate the impact.

“Capture him, Ruyi.”

“You think I’ll fall for the same trick twice…!”

He even dodged Ruyi’s binding with teleportation before the cage could form.

…So you could teleport in your dream?

“…Why are you doing this with such power?”

“Well, I can’t answer that since it wasn’t me who did it, but I’ll beat you up more if you don’t wake up. I don’t feel sorry for you at all, so I can really hurt you. Stop it and wake up.”

“You’re the one who needs to wake up…!”

He charged at me while emitting fighting spirit.

He wouldn’t listen to reason.

“Then get beaten up.”

The fight was one-sided.

Despite the advantage of being in his own dream, he was hopelessly talentless in offense, hence he was unable to inflict any damage. His defense was decent, but as time went on, fatigue and damage accumulated, and he slowed down, eventually collapsing the moment he let his guard down.

But he got up again.

I knocked him down again, and he collapsed without much resistance. But every time he fell, he got back up.

However, it wasn’t without damage to his mental strength. Every time he fell down, the dream lost a bit of its form.

The first to disappear was the cheering crowd.

Then, the holy sword he was using shattered and turned to dust, and then his equipment vanished one by one.

“Hey, Woo Jae-hee, why don’t you give up?”

“Again.”

He rolled on the floor again, and this time, the scenery disappeared.

Or rather, it didn’t disappear completely.

We were fighting in some kind of fortress, but a rough cave appeared behind the broken scenery.

This was honestly annoying.

Jae-hee wasn’t that important of a character, and I came here thinking I could find the mastermind if I entered the trap, but they hadn’t shown themselves yet.

Why was I wasting my time with this bastard?

“You’re being controlled by succubi in this dream. It’s probably pointless to say this, but shouldn’t you come to your senses and stop already?”

“I’m going again.”

He seemed to hear me and assumed a stance again.

He didn’t try to summon the broken sword but held up a shield instead. Was he focusing on what he was good at?

…What? Was this Woo Jae-hee’s awakening event? Who would even want or benefit from me doing this?

I thought I could just knock him unconscious, but his expression was too serious.

“Hey, snap out of it. We don’t have time for…”

“I already did.”

“Really? You’re a bit…”

“I said I already snapped out of it. I realized this was a dream when my armor broke.”

“…Then why are you still fighting?”

I didn’t expect him to keep fighting even after realizing this was a dream.

“Because I have to save them.”

“…Save who?”

“Lira, Yoon-ha, and that girl behind me who was bowing her head.”

“Were you lying about snapping out of it? I told you they were succubi.”

“I know. I know everything.”

Was he crazy? Why was he doing this even though he knew?

“But I can’t help it. I can’t run away now.”

Seriously, I didn’t understand. Why was he acting like this?

“If I run away from you even in a dream? What if a villain at your level takes Yoon-ha or Joo-ri hostage? I’m a tank. Should I just abandon my party members and run away?”

“Hey, that’s not what I’m saying. You’re being tricked. They’re the villains.”

“I decided I wouldn’t run away from girls anymore. I decided I would fight, even if it’s pathetic.”

It seemed like he wasn’t going to listen to me. And this wasn’t because he was brainwashed?

“…So you’re going to keep doing this with me? Why won’t you run away? Tell me if you’ve really come to your senses.”

At this point, I was genuinely curious.

Why was he acting like this?

“…When I was in middle school, two girls confessed to me.”

This crazy, bragging bastard. Was he acting like an unpopular character after all that? This felt like a betrayal… There would be controversy.

“I was bigger than most kids my age, had a serious personality, and was in the sports club, so I wasn’t unpopular.”

“Look at him, spouting nonsense because this is a dream. He really hasn’t come to his senses.”

“…I had a serious personality back then. I didn’t talk about harems like I do now.”

So, he knew his current self was strange?

“But I, who was much more awkward than now, rejected both of their confessions.”

“…Oh, I can’t even imagine. So?”

“And because I rejected them, both of their lives were ruined.”

“Huh?”

“One of them was the manager of our club. Hurt by my rejection, she was tricked by an upperclassman and had a bad relationship, then disappeared.”

…He phrased it mildly, but judging by the state of this world, it was probably much worse than just a “bad relationship.”

Right, come to think of it, this wasn’t the character Woo Jae-hee, but the human Woo Jae-hee.

Just because I wasn’t interested, it didn’t mean that he didn’t have his own life and experiences.

“What about the other one?”

“Well, I haven’t seen her since she transferred, but she didn’t come to school until then.”

…That was a rather extreme case.

“I received more confessions after that.”

…This was getting unsettling. And?

“This time, coincidentally, I received confessions from two girls, and after agonizing over it, I decided to date one of them.”

“…And?”

“The one who was rejected caused an assault incident. She attacked us with a knife on our way home from school.”

…This was way beyond a joke. What was wrong with his love life?

“I pathetically ran away. Of course, I was dumped after running away, and the one who caused the incident was arrested.”

It was a sad story, but there was something I didn’t understand.

If this story was true, how did this bastard become a harem protagonist?

“…And you still want to date?”

“I received more confessions after that.”

“You were Mr. Popular. So, two girls again this time?”

“Three. Three girls, who were friends, confessed to me at the same time.”

…Hmm? Don’t tell me…

“So, I said I would date all three of them. Of course, I was called all sorts of names and got dumped. But after that, I was just called a jerk. Their friendship didn’t suffer.”

How could he spin it like that?

To not be loved, to become a clown and sacrifice himself to protect others…

“And then I realized… I was a harem protagonist.”

“That’s a strange conclusion, you crazy bastard. I almost felt touched and sorry for making fun of you.”

“Let me ask you this, what’s wrong with a harem? It’s different from cheating. If everyone wants me, what’s wrong with trying to make them all happy? I thought about it carefully. My experiences tell me that a harem is the perfect answer.”

…Why was he so confident? I was almost persuaded.

“That’s why! I won’t hesitate in front of women anymore! The fool who ran away during the assault incident is gone! Whether it’s a dream or reality, or even if they’re trying to brainwash me! I can’t run away from women!”

You have a talent for making nonsense sound cool.

Jae-hee, you’re pathetic, but you’re pathetically cool!

-I’ll reach a conclusion soon, you bastard.

-I’m still not sure if Yoo-na likes me.

-What should I say to someone who’s not even sure of their own feelings?

…Or not.

Looking at it this way, Lilac, Cheon Yoo-hak, and I combined were worse than him.

“So, are you going to keep doing this with me here?”

“I can’t. I’ll defeat you and persuade you.”

“The succubi?”

“Yes, to join my harem.”

“You crazy bastard, you know how many there are? You’ll die from exhaustion.”

“Death by snu-snu is a good death for a man.”

“Seriously, you’re a ridiculous bastard. Ah, shit, this hurts my pride.”

I didn’t know there was such a talent nearby.

Should I try to recruit him after we get out of here?

I hoped Jae-hee was as interested in being a villain as he was in harems.

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“Are you done?”

Cathy stroked the shadow shaped like her younger brother who resented her in the nightmare.

“You’re not my brother.”

Having been brainwashed before, while she couldn’t completely resist, she was clearly aware that this wasn’t normal.

Her dead brother appeared repeatedly while blaming her.

She endured it and nodded, and the illusion disappeared with a frustrated expression.

It was painful when the illusion of her brother disappeared, but it wasn’t as unbearable as before.

As long as she clearly remembered that day, she wouldn’t be affected by these illusions anymore.

The succubus controlling the nightmare, realizing this, changed her strategy.

The shadow squirmed again, recreating another of her nightmares.

It was a black-haired boy.

The memory of a boy dying, bleeding from a large hole in his abdomen.

Cathy’s eyes twitched.

The succubus thought it was a sign of her losing control, but Cathy, far from losing control, was thinking calmly and assessing the situation.

“…It’s your fault…”

And before the nightmare shaped like the black-haired boy could finish speaking, she assumed a stance and threw a punch.

The shadow scattered under her fist, and then, with a kick, it vanished without a trace.

She slowly crushed the last remaining shadow with her foot and smiled with empty eyes.

“Our So-hyun wouldn’t say that.”

“Hic…!”

And the superhuman turned her gaze towards the succubus, who had gasped.

“There you are.”

In a single breath, she stood before the succubus, who was hiding by blending into the background.

Something foreign was trembling in the corner of the background.

Magical power gathered in her hand, and for a moment, her superhuman body transformed into a sharp blade.

“Die…!”

“And our So-hyun doesn’t smell of filthy blood like that. Remember that.”

The moment her hand sliced through the air, her opponent was no longer in any state to remember her words, but she decided not to worry about it.

The remnants of the succubus scattered, and a crack leading to another dream appeared before her.

“I wonder if So-hyun is here?”

She brushed off the unpleasant residue on her hand and walked towards the other dream with light steps.

The second irregular who overcame the nightmare with her own power was born.

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[Translator Notes]

T/N – Well that tracks. Cathy already got brainwashed before, and at that time, she was being brainwashed by an artifact directly boosted by the Creator themselves. Using the same trick twice with a weaker concentration of ‘Authority’ logically won’t work on her anymore.

Also, lol, what a man, Jae-hee is! His love experiences are so hilarious and tragic that I kinda understand why he went for the harem answer. What a manly clown. He needs more screen time. I hope the MC follows through with the recruitment. 😂

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Fated to Die in an Academy Novel

Fated to Die in an Academy Novel

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Status: Ongoing Type: Artist: Released: 2022
I possessed the terminally ill character in my friend's disastrous novel. So, it's basically the same as saying I'm immortal.

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SdupidTog
SdupidTog
1 day ago

Jae-hee’s backstory is so funny LMAO

ASadLinguist
ASadLinguist
19 hours ago

Dude might actually be a harem protagonist. If his other answers were wrong, then surely harem is the actual way forward. Though, he is still delusional.

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48 minutes ago

The true harem king

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