Academy Retirement Diary of the Student Council President

A game that literally dominated the 2030s, boasting overwhelming immersion, high freedom, and characters popular enough to be main characters in other games.

Released concurrently with the rapidly developed new gaming device called the Full Dive Capsule, it was a game surrounded by much debate, fueled by concerns like "Do you die in real life if you die in the game?" and the fact that the pain sensor function was enabled...

[Full Dive Capsule Overtakes PlayStations in Sales Volume!]

With its dating sim-like choice selection elements, RPG advantages, freedom surpassing even VR devices, and the dream machine that was the Full Dive Capsule perfectly realizing spatial implementation as if entering another world, it was only a matter of time before many people fell for the charm of the Full Dive Capsule.

-Slice!

YOU HAVE DIED

"Agh, seriously, saving this one character is so damn hard."

Among those people, naturally, was me.

As the blue screen appeared with the red text "YOU HAVE DIED," a curse escaped my lips unconsciously.

The reason for my cursing was, of course, the character Yun Sea from Academy Swordmaster.

Until the mid-game, she's a kind, pretty, and capable all-rounder Student Council President, a heroine with the added contrasting appeal of being frail.

In the early to mid-story, she seemed like an ally, showing the dignity of the Student Council President, procuring helpful items for the Protagonist, or assisting him. But in reality, it was all an act to gain the Protagonist's Affinity.

Being a character who received a full-body illustration, something supposedly only given to the game's heroines, players naturally expected her to be one. The scene that completely blindsided them was...

[-Stab!]

["What to do? It's a shame, but I can't be with you."]

Under orders from the Final Boss to steal the Protagonist's unique special skill, she plunges a knife into his heart.

From that point on, she ceases to be Student Council President Yun Sea and becomes Mid-boss Yun Sea, an antagonist solely focused on killing the Protagonist.

No matter how you assembled a party to take her down... using her main item, the [Eye of Suggestion], caused a catastrophic disaster where everyone except the Protagonist playable character falls into a Hypnotized state and attacks the Player.

The insane difficulty required either plastering the party members' equipment with mental attack resistance gear or having the Protagonist, who is immune to Hypnosis, face the boss alone.

Add to that the instant-death attacks flying at you three times every two seconds, she was truly a high-difficulty boss.

Even if you struggled to defeat Yun Sea expecting rewards, all you got was a depleted, unusable Magic Eye and the old pistol she used. Compared to the difficulty, the rewards were utter trash.

Naturally, Yun Sea's perception instantly shifted from a charming Student Council President to a ridiculously difficult character with crappy rewards. Or so it seemed...

Later, an additional story revealed that she had been brainwashed by the Final Boss since childhood and resisted until the very end, even as she was dying by the Protagonist's hand. Following this revelation, users began trying all sorts of methods to somehow give this tragic character a happy ending.

First, the plan was to quickly restrain Yun Sea before she awakened, rendering her incapable of any action, then defeat the Final Boss to break her Brainwashing.

This simply failed. As if her life was mortgaged to the Final Boss, she died the moment the Final Boss perished.

Second, try to make Yun Sea not stab the Protagonist by carefully selecting choices and maximizing her Affinity.

This also failed. In fact, the higher the Affinity, the more HP the Protagonist lost at the start of the Mid-boss battle.

//win_h

[Don't you dare max out that bitch Yun Sea's Affinity] (Views: 1678)

[Photo showing only 1 HP left]

[F***, you start with 99% HP gone]

According to the post on the gallery, reaching MAX Affinity meant starting with 99% of your HP gone.

The reaction in the gallery back then was mostly along the lines of 'What the f*** is this Affinity manipulation?'.

So, does that mean there's absolutely no way? If you asked that, I could confidently shout NO. That's where the final method comes in.

If you raise Yun Sea's Affinity to MAX, well, 99 percent, and enter the battle against her with only the single playable character, the battle pattern changes to become even more vicious.

If you survive for the duration of the time limit in that battle without landing a single hit on Yun Sea, she asks if you're mocking her and begins to go berserk in the final phase.

At that moment, the Eye of Suggestion, the source of her rampage and the Final Boss's means of Brainwashing, becomes a destructible object, unlike in the normal battle. Destroying the Eye of Suggestion breaks the Brainwashing she had endured, allowing you to rescue Yun Sea with her MAX Affinity state intact.

She can then be added to the party with the Brainwashing completely removed.

The problem is, Yun Sea, after having her Magic Eye removed this way, becomes incredibly fragile, basically a sunfish with a body only slightly better than a normal person...

The Final Boss, wanting to eliminate Yun Sea, who knows his secrets, constantly sends assassins after her.

Furthermore, Yun Sea herself, perhaps recalling memories from when she was brainwashed, frequently attempts self-harm, requiring real-time mental care.

What does that mean? A moment's carelessness, and Yun Sea is either stabbed to death by assassins or dies from self-harm.

Even if you somehow manage to protect her through infinite save scumming and retries...

["Please take care of my sister, Eunha..." (Thud)]

In the battle against the Final Boss, she intercepts an unblockable attack aimed at the Protagonist, gets her body split in half, and becomes just another casualty.

What's truly disgusting is that if you choose another heroine as the main heroine, that unblockable attack never comes.

Only in the Final Boss battle that occurs after choosing Yun Sea as the main heroine does the boss launch an absolutely unavoidable attack at the Protagonist the moment the fight begins.

Seriously, at that part, no matter how many times I retried, trying to block that unblockable attack, at that moment, the Protagonist was already under debuffs cast by the Final Boss's minions that he took instead of Yun Sea. So, no matter what I did, Yun Sea's death seemed utterly unavoidable.

//win_h

[Seriously f***, why did that bitch Yun Sea even get a full-body illustration then?] (Views: 8000)

[Game screen showing text that Yun Sea was split in half and died]

[Seriously, this makes no sense. Even if you manage to save her, you have to watch her get Cut in Half because of the debuff, unable to do anything]

[Comments 99+]

[This is real lol]

[Seriously, I thought raising Stats would solve it, but the debuff includes 99% movement speed reduction, 99% defense reduction, and 99% attack reduction, f*** lol. No matter what crazy sh*t I tried to move, I absolutely couldn't]

[Why even make Yun Sea the main heroine lol, just go for Yun Sea's sister, Yu Eunha]

[Ah, but there's romance/sentiment involved, what's with Yu Eunha]

[Yu Eunha is that crazy bitch who gets locked in as the main heroine with just one choice; personally, she was the most annoying when trying to complete the collection]

...

...

[But if Yu Eunha and Yun Sea are sisters, why are their surnames different?]

[I don't know either]

[Idiot, Yu Eunha is adopted, that's why Yun Sea was jealous and bullied her]

[Hey hey hey]

[Whoa whoa, spoiler ban]

"Ah seriously, I want to complete the collection."

Even if it's an ending where she dies like that, you have to collect all endings to achieve the 100% Ending Collection achievement.

As I was browsing the gallery, one sentence caught my eye.

[Couldn't you save her by manipulating stat values with a bug-fixing mod, blocking the attack, and then entering the boss fight?]

"Nah, even so, I wouldn't think of using a bugged version..."

-Click

Despite my words, my hand was already downloading a tool that allowed the use of bugs.

-Clang!

"Alright, I blocked it!"

Using the bug modification mod tool, I managed to block the attack flying towards the Protagonist, but...

Only the effect indicating the attack was blocked appeared; the game didn't proceed afterward.

"Eh, what the? It just stops after blocking."

And so, I was about to exit the Capsule to post on the forum that using the bug mod to save Yun Sea just resulted in a frozen screen, but...

<3....2...>

-Fzzt!

"Ugh?!"

A strong electric current suddenly flowed through my body.

And just like that, my vision instantly blurred.