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Chapter 1
The Entrance Ceremony
Of course.
She had been transmigrated into the novel.
“……”
She wasn’t terribly surprised.
If anything, she had a strong feeling that this was bound to happen.
After all, Kwon Do-yo had been waiting for her X-gwarts acceptance letter since she was ten years old.
A magic school?
God, thank you!
This time, I’ll really attend every class and even come in first place!
I wasn’t suited for physics, but I think I’d be suited for magic!
Xermione? I can give it a try!
But unlike the dreams she had always carried in her heart, Kwon Do-yo did not look very happy as she stared into the mirror.
Standing in the mirror was an incredibly beautiful young girl.
Her platinum-blond hair shone like jewels.
Her large emerald eyes blinked beneath long eyelashes.
She had a clear, well-shaped nose that was neither too big nor too small, and full red lips.
Every single feature of her face was enough to attract people’s attention.
However, her gentle expression and calm, almost slightly bored-looking appearance kept her from standing out too much.
Kwon Do-yo knew the girl very well.
Daisy Sableheart.
The female protagonist of <Is the Academy Really This Miserable?>…
And its victim.
“Damn it.”
Kwon Do-yo roughly grabbed her hair.
The beautiful girl in the mirror also roughly grabbed her blond hair.
God.
I didn’t even ask for X-gwarts.
Okay, maybe I wanted it a little.
But seriously, Eldvain Academy?! You couldn’t have picked anywhere else?!
Daisy Sableheart here…
“Is going to die…!”
You might ask, What kind of crazy novel has the female lead die?
This one.
Readers who had been tricked by the harmless-sounding title <Is the Academy Really This Miserable?> all left after practically vomiting blood.
Stay away… Don’t read it…
People who became curious after seeing those readers crawling away on the floor would enter.
What’s so bad about it? I’ll just take a little look!
They would also end up vomiting blood.
What is this…? Something’s wrong with this novel…
Kwon Do-yo had fallen into the same strange trap.
It was like a bizarre pyramid scheme that nobody was selling, yet somehow kept selling incredibly well.
Somebody save me! Curiosity is killing people!
The story itself was simple.
Daisy Sableheart was an extremely kind girl who could never say anything unpleasant to anyone.
She entered Eldvain Academy, where she met all kinds of unreasonable people and villains and suffered every kind of misery imaginable.
In the end, she was falsely accused of a crime and died.
All because she simply couldn’t say the word “no”!
By the time she reached the later part of the novel, even Kwon Do-yo had stopped feeling sorry for Daisy.
This girl is crazy too.
I’ve never seen someone this stubborn.
Daisy.
Saying “no” isn’t going to make the world end…
But if you keep saying “yes,” you’re the one who’s going to end up dead…
Standing in front of the mirror, Kwon Do-yo squished Daisy’s young face with her hands.
Her remaining baby fat squished together like soft rice cake.
Her skin is really nice…
“This girl is going to die.”
Even with her pretty face being pushed and squished in every direction, Daisy in the mirror still looked incredibly gentle.
Of course, because Kwon Do-yo was inside her, the emerald eyes occasionally looked quite fierce.
When she lowered her eyes, her gentle face looked a little gloomy.
Kwon Do-yo suddenly felt troubled.
Had Daisy always said “yes” with this face?
She looked far too young to have gone through all those things.
“Come to think of it, didn’t they say the entrance ceremony is today?”
Yesterday, she had been too busy going around saying “no” to pay much attention, but today was the entrance ceremony for Eldvain Academy.
After the entrance ceremony, the students would be assigned to dormitories.
And once the dormitory assignments were finished…
She could forget about dropping out.
Because in order to withdraw from Eldvain Academy, a student had to meet with the dorm supervisor, then their assigned professor, then the department head, and then the vice principal.
After that, there was a short period for reconsideration.
Finally, their parents had to be called in for a meeting with the principal.
In other words…
“……”
It would be faster to just graduate.
Kwon Do-yo pressed her temples because of the headache building in her head.
Then she suddenly raised her head.
“Wait.”
Do I really have to enroll?
Kwon Do-yo thought about Daisy’s family.
There was the Count of Sableheart, a man who considered his family’s reputation the most important thing in the world.
Since Daisy was completely useless to him in that regard, he treated her as if she didn’t even exist.
Then there was her eldest brother, Kaillen, the student council president who never lost the top spot in his grade, yet treated Daisy with more contempt than anyone else.
And her second brother, Chester, who was famous for being wild and irresponsible and picked fights with Daisy whenever he saw her.
That family situation meant only one thing.
“There isn’t a single person who’ll worry if I don’t enroll, is there?”
She could say no.
And if that was the case…
No to this academy!
Kwon Do-yo clenched her fist.
“Now that things have come to this, I’ll just run away first.”
Rule No. 1 for surviving a miserable story:
Get out of the miserable situation.
Kwon Do-yo decided to escape Eldvain Academy, the den of villains, and live quietly by herself.
Daisy put on a black cloak and took all the money she had.
It wasn’t much at all, but she wasn’t worried.
She was confident she could find some way to survive.
After all, Kwon Do-yo had lived that way until now.
“Good.”
Plan A: Escape the academy while the entrance ceremony is taking place!
“Okay!”
Bang!
Kwon Do-yo opened the bedroom door with confidence.
Then immediately closed it again.
Bang!
Her heart was pounding.
What was that? What just happened?
“Daisy!”
As if answering her thoughts, a cheerful voice came from outside the door.
“Let’s go to the entrance ceremony!”
Plan B: Jump out the window! Same result!
Kwon Do-yo locked the door and hurried toward the window.
Creak.
Whoooosh!
A strong sea breeze blew in, revealing a sheer cliff directly below the window.
I’d die instantly if I fell.
Why did they build a building in a place like this?
“Daisy! We’re late!”
“……”
Plan C: Beat up the person standing outside the door first! Same result!
Bang!
Daisy opened the bedroom door again and looked at the boy standing in front of her.
The slender boy was much taller than Daisy.
He had neatly styled sandy-colored hair and attractive amber eyes.
“Good morning, Daisy! You look so beauti—”
“Who are you?”
Kwon Do-yo asked directly.
The boy tilted his head for a moment before answering.
“Don’t you remember? I introduced myself yesterday!”
“Your name.”
“C-Cedric Oskilt.”
Hmm, Cedric Oskilt…
Oh, I remember.
That mosquito bastard who uses his handsome face to latch onto kind and smart girls and mooches off their assignments and notes.
And who was the first sucker this clever little mosquito latched onto?
Obviously, Daisy.
For reference, Kwon Do-yo had given Cedric a nickname.
“This Cedric Mosquito bastard is already…”
“Hm? It’s not Mosquito. It’s Oskilt.”
Cedric corrected her with an irritating smile, then waved his long hand impatiently.
“Anyway, we’re late. Let’s hurry to the entrance ceremony together.”
With that gentle voice…
Daisy would normally have smiled brightly and said,
“Sure, okay.”
But this time…
“No. I don’t want to.”
“What?”
“I’m going by myself, so don’t follow me.”
I’m not going to let you stick a straw into me and suck everything out like you did to Daisy.
Leaving Cedric standing there with a completely stunned expression, Kwon Do-yo walked down the hallway.
Good. Stay out of Daisy’s life forever.
After easily getting rid of the mosquito bastard, Kwon Do-yo pulled her black cloak over her head.
Now all she had to do was get outside the academy.
She thought she could hear the buzzing sound of a mosquito somewhere, but she casually ignored it.
Finding the academy entrance was easy.
[→ Entrance →]
Old brass signs showing the location of the entrance could be found throughout the academy.
Even this crazy academy is surprisingly helpful about things like this…
Kwon Do-yo moved quickly without making a sound.
When she turned a corner, she saw the academy entrance.
There wasn’t even anyone guarding it.
Keeping her guard up until the very end, Kwon Do-yo reached the entrance and clenched her fist in victory.
God, thank you! So you do have a conscience after all!
If you’re going to throw someone into a ridiculous miserable story, you should at least give them a way to escape!
Thinking that, Kwon Do-yo passed through the entrance.
Whoosh!
At the same time, she felt her body suddenly drop.
Then something soft touched her bottom.
As if she had just sat down in a chair.
Wait.
A chair?
“……Huh?”
Kwon Do-yo quickly raised her head.
“W-What?”
She was inside a huge colosseum with a stage.
Hundreds of chairs were arranged throughout it.
“Why am I here…?”
“I was definitely looking for the way out…”
And all around her were hundreds of other new students wearing equally confused expressions.
In other words…
Kwon Do-yo was currently sitting inside the entrance ceremony hall.
While wearing her black cloak.
“Hehehe. You got lost, didn’t you?”
Someone laughed heartily after seeing Daisy.
Daisy turned toward the voice and nearly fainted.
Wings?
There was an angel standing in front of her.
No.
To be more precise…
A sparkly guy with wings.
And this wasn’t even a metaphor.
A handsome young man with long, snow-white hair that fell to his waist really did have large wings covered in thick white feathers.
His skin sparkled.
Like a diamond reflecting light.
The winged sparkle looked at her with shining purple eyes and spoke.
“The academy is very large. So we put a spell on it. If you get lost and accidentally enter a strange place, you’ll automatically be summoned to the entrance ceremony hall.”
Fuck.
“And when it’s time for the entrance ceremony to begin, everyone is summoned here no matter where they are. Let’s see, what time is it…”
The winged sparkle stared intently at his completely bare wrist.
Then he said,
“Right now.”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that moment, strange summoning sounds rang out one after another, and the empty seats were instantly filled.
“Aaaaaah!”
A boy wearing a bathrobe, his wet hair still dripping as he desperately covered his exposed chest with a towel, screamed.
Snap.
The sparkly man snapped his fingers.
The boy’s clothes instantly changed into the academy uniform.
Then he winked at Daisy.
“……”
Daisy stared at him with a completely unimpressed expression.
And that was when it happened.
A man stepped onto the stage.
He had a weak-looking appearance, wore sharp green glasses, and had wrapped himself in an orange microfiber cloak like a blanket.
He turned on a magical device that amplified his voice.
“Hello. I am Orphelias Murdergoose, the vice principal of Eldvain Academy.”
His gentle voice echoed throughout the entrance ceremony hall.
“Unfortunately, the principal is unable to attend the entrance ceremony, so his welcome speech will be given through a communication orb instead.”
Did he just grind his teeth?
While the new students whispered among themselves, the vice principal placed a round glass orb in front of the voice-amplifying magical device.
Soon, the glass orb began to glow with lights of many different colors.
