Chapter 1 · Prologue

I opened my eyes to an unfamiliar ceiling—no, rather, to a blue game window out of nowhere.

[ Main Quest ]

: Let’s become the valedictorian of Krangbuiyer Academy!

On success, ■■ / On failure, the world will be destroyed

Is this insane?

Faced with this absurd situation unfolding out of nowhere, I was left utterly speechless.

* * *

I’m an archer.

No, to be precise, I ‘became’ an archer.

By now, you’re probably starting to get the picture.

‘Yeah, I’ve been transmigrated.’

Transmigration, the sort of thing you only see in fiction.

And it had happened to me.

And into a generic fantasy novel I’d been reading, no less.

“How does this make any sense?!”

This was definitely an impossible situation, but what made even less sense was that insane name displayed in the quest window.

‘Kra… Krang… buiyer…’

What kind of school name is that?

It’s so embarrassing you can’t even say it out loud.

When I was young, those long, complicated names seemed cool, so I didn’t mind them.

But seeing it again after so long, I can’t even tell what combination of words that’s supposed to be.

If I had to compare it to Korean, wouldn’t it feel something like “Jwangmutjjunilhyum”?

‘Well, at least it snaps me back to my senses.’

Still, thanks to that ridiculous academy name, I could immediately tell where I’d been sucked into.

First of all, the title of the novel I’ve transmigrated into is , abbreviated as .

As you can tell from the title, it’s a generic fantasy novel where the protagonist becomes the hero of this world using status window buffs.

In the beginning, it gained quite a bit of popularity with decent writing and mainstream tropes, but due to its uniquely frustrating plot development and constant worldbuilding collapse, the latter half completely tanked.

On top of that, it showed a crazy world destruction ending where everyone except the protagonist dies, so after completion, it became treated as a forbidden book in the fantasy genre.

‘I think the last chapter had over a thousand comments.’

All of them were mocking comments, though.

For the record, I couldn’t even leave a comment.

I was too shocked to even think straight.

Who would have known that a novel that accompanied my school days would deliver such a hopeless, dreamless ending?

Well, I’ve been rambling, but the content itself isn’t anything special.

To sum it up: the male protagonist, who awakens but has pathetic abilities, is always ignored even after entering the academy, but then levels up and collects skills using a status window…

Anyway, it’s a story where he does everything on his own.

[To my dear Lucy Saint]

And it seems I’ve transmigrated into a nuisance extra from that novel.

“Are you kidding me?”

How much money did I spend on this?

I’m the idiot who paid in real time for every single episode of this thousand-chapter story with a strong start and a terrible ending.

‘But how…’

Not the protagonist, not the protagonist’s companion, but an extra!

And Lucy Saint was a nuisance character who only appeared briefly at the beginning to serve as a trial for the protagonist.

‘Everyone, stay still.’

‘What?’

‘That monster has poor eyesight and hearing.

It probably won’t notice us.’

‘How do you know that about a monster you’ve never seen before!’

‘Trust me, Lucy.’

‘Hmph, how could I trust someone like you?

You’re just a loser.’

And so, ignoring the protagonist’s warnings, she ‘deliberately’ shoots a passing monster with her bow, putting the protagonist and their classmates in danger.

She’s also an ill-fated character who couldn’t even hit the monster, merely exposing their location.

‘Are you okay?’

But our protagonist can’t even leave a character like this alone, so he saves her again.

Even at the cost of getting badly hurt himself.

Thanks to that, the comment section for that chapter was absolutely wild.

lee2****

Aww~ Look at the protagonist being a pushover~

dudu****

No, why would you save her??

I’m seriously dropping this;;

sikk****

If that XX becomes the heroine, I’m cutting ties immediately.

Good luck.

She got so much hate back then that the moment I saw the name ‘Lucy Saint,’ I immediately remembered who she was.

Should I call that fortunate?

Anyway, this extra was apparently a one-time character just for that trial, because she later drops out of the academy due to trauma from the monster and exits the story.

“But to become the valedictorian with a character like this?”

That’s insane.

If that were actually possible, this world might as well be destroyed.

It would already be a world full of corruption and injustice.

The only problem is…

[If you’ve found this letter, it must mean you’ve arrived at Krangbuiyer Academy.

……(Omitted)……

The entrance exam results don’t matter.

You are already such a proud and precious daughter to us.

So when you come back, will you give this mother a big hug?

I already miss my daughter so much.

—From a mother who always loves and supports you.]

Lucy Saint is a more loved character than I thought!

I reread the letter that helped me remember who I had transmigrated into.

But looking closely, there was one more line at the end of the letter, written in a different handwriting.

[ps.

Give your dad a hug too.

I love you, my daughter.]

Let me correct myself.

She’s not ‘more loved than I thought’—she’s ‘loved beyond imagination.’

Of course, I had somewhat expected it.

Seeing her desperately refute the protagonist’s words, I thought, ‘Ah, she must be a noble young lady who’s been pampered her whole life.’

But there was no explanation that her family was this harmonious!

‘If the world is destroyed… her family will all die too, right?’

Something felt uneasy.

Even if they’re just characters in a novel, receiving a letter like this made my stomach churn.

Besides, if the world is destroyed, Lucy dies too.

If only Lucy died and I returned to my original world, it wouldn’t matter, but…

On success, ■■

What if that success reward is ‘return’?

Then on failure, I can’t return and just die.

The cause of death being that the world I was reading about got destroyed.

‘In short, a meaningless death.’

I should focus on surviving first, after all.

Choosing the lesser evil in the worst-case scenario was only natural.

The academy is a four-year program.

Since I’ve just taken the entrance exam, I still have four years left.

Within that time, I have to somehow make this nuisance character the valedictorian.

“But how is that easy…”

Now that I’ve set a goal, it only felt more daunting.

In the original work, the valedictorian spot belonged to the protagonist.

Of course, his entrance scores were rock bottom, so he was assigned to the same Class F as Lucy, but afterward, he was set to receive an enormous protagonist buff.

“No, I should have something like a status window too—!”

Status Window

▸ Name: Lucy Saint

▸ Class: Archer

▸ Trait: Ranged Accuracy 1% (Fixed)

▸ Mana: E

▸ Health: D

▸ Strength: A

▸ Agility: E+

▸ Senses: F

▸ Skills: Sharpshooter S / Collision C / Vision Escape D

“I-I have one…?!”

Suddenly, hope appeared.

Could it be that I, too, could grow like the protagonist of ?

If so, that main quest wasn’t entirely impossible.

Valedictorian?

That’s nothing—I just need to beat the protagonist.

Suddenly confident, I quickly scanned the status window.

To defeat an enemy, you must first know yourself.

Lucy Saint, awakened class: Archer, trait—

“Huh?”

I rubbed my eyes.

Something seemed off about the status window.

“Ranged accuracy… 1%…?”

So, out of 100 shots, I’d hit maybe once?

An archer who’s even awakened?

And this isn’t even a gacha game?

“Fuck.”

Just let the world be destroyed.