I’ll Live as a Villain Obsessed Over by a Magical Girl

Do you have any regrets in life?
It doesn’t have to be something grand.

For instance, example.
Getting rejected after confessing to a friend you liked, getting scolded for skipping class, or watching your fully invested stocks crash, etc.

There are probably countless such regrets.
Yes. Human life is marked by regret.

Of course, being human, I have plenty of such regrets too. From trivial ones to significant ones, plenty of them.

There’s one regret I’ve been having lately. It’s so significant that it completely changed my life.

“Noah, calm down, okay?”
“Oppa.”
“Yes?”
“Just let me have your baby obediently.”

I slowly closed my eyes as I watched the magical girl approaching with wild eyes. How did things end up like this?

Yes, it all started with that incident.

My regret… I should never have played that game. Being transmigrated into that game was the beginning of everything.
“Hehe… oppa…”

As I felt the warm sensation enveloping me, I began to reminisce about the past.

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I love happy endings.

For a story I’ve invested time in to end terribly? That wasn’t something I preferred.

Even if somewhat cliché, an ending where the protagonist smiles. That was the kind of ending I liked.

That’s why I continued playing that game, out of a kind of stubbornness, you could say.

‘Magical Girls Desire Salvation.’
As the name suggests, it’s a game centered around magical girls.

However, the problem is…

‘One thing I can confirm. This game is filled with the developers’ sexual fetishes.’
‘The setting where magical girls lose their powers when they lose their virginity is quite perverse.’
‘The protagonist is violated in all sorts of ways.’
‘Tentacles, dirty parties, drugs, and so on.’
‘On top of that, to see the happy ending, you have to see all the bad endings. It’s truly a fucking terrible game.’

Is it a high-difficulty erotic game of the violation genre?

[BAD ENDING – New Mother]
[Achievement Condition: Fall into a trap while affected by the status ailment “Tentacle Impregnation” from S-class villain Kraken.]

“Haa… this is messed up…”

I sighed as I looked at the text that appeared in the center of the monitor. I could barely remember how many times this had happened.

Seeing the magical girl, Iris, being violated.

-No mooooore… I don’t want tentacles anymoooore…!!

On the screen, Iris was being horribly abused. By tentacles crawling around her.

‘Cruel bastards.’

Just how many tentacle endings are there? Simple corruption by tentacles… horrible things done by tentacle villains…

What’s scarier is that there are several more bad endings with the #tentacle tag left. Not to mention the game itself is still far from over.

According to wikis and communities, there was only one happy ending.

It was also established as fact that, according to the developer, you had to collect all the bad endings to see the true ending.

“…Should I quit?”

Here, my options narrowed down to two.

Curse it as a stupid game and delete it.
Somehow push through to the happy ending.

It was a dilemma. I was already a college student. It’s vacation time, and I need to work part-time jobs too. Do I really have the time to focus solely on this game?

Even as I pondered this, I continued playing the game, and collected yet another bad ending.

Once again, Iris suffers a terrible fate. After being soaked in drugs, she’s thrown into a garbage dump.

An expression that’s neither crying nor laughing, just broken. As she sits there blankly, beggars gather around her. What happens next… you can probably guess without me saying it.

Watching that scene that gets zoomed in on, I made a decision.

‘Happy ending.’

I will see the true ending and conclusion of the story, the happy ending. With my own hands.

‘Looking at the wiki doesn’t help much.’

It’s a game with little popularity due to its malicious methods. Even searching the English wiki, most of it is just spoilers for the endings.

[BAD ENDING – Garbage Dump]
[After suffering from drug addiction due to excessive potion use, attend an upper-class entertainment party.]

I moved the mouse to go to the next playthrough.

‘…I need to properly note down what I did or didn’t do, and which choices I made.’

I gritted my teeth. The story completely changed based on the choices I made. I wrote down all of them.

If there’s no guide, I’ll just write one myself.

Of course, there were many times I felt like quitting.

During those moments, I’d look at the previous bad endings and strengthen my resolve.

The longer the time I invested, the more painful the bad endings were. The sweet taste of victory would be felt in the happy ending.

“…Phew…”

And so, another box appeared in the center of the screen.

[End of Playthrough]

Iris, defeated by the Demon King, kneels down.

Another girl watching her can be seen. Iris smiles slightly at her. She breaks off a piece of the jewel containing her power and hands it over.

[Run away. I’ll buy time.]

Zing! Ziiiing!
A magic circle drawn with starlight in the sky.

Iris smiles.

As if sensing her end, she looks bitter, but her eyes remain firm.

[I am the one favored by the goddess Artemis! Magical Girl Iris! Receiving the command of the goddess, I will oppose the evil that threatens the world!]

She advances.

Even with glazed eyes and trembling legs, the magical girl advances. Even if her arm is cut off by the Demon King’s sword, even if her ribs are broken.

The magical girl advances.
For dreams and hope.

[BAD ENDING – Transmitted Hope]
[Achievement Condition: Although you are defeated in the bloody battle with the Demon King, you pass on part of your power to another girl.]

“…Phew…”

Up to this point, it was no different from usual. That screen I had seen hundreds of times.

However, soon new words began to appear.

[Congratulations! You have unlocked all bad ending lists!]
[Collection rate 49/49]
[Would you like to enter the happy ending route?]

Leaving the monitor for a moment, I stretched.

“What am I doing, picking the wrong game…”

But still.

“Now it’s really the happy ending.”

I felt energized. It was now truly possible to get the happy ending. It’s likely that the happy ending will be just as difficult, but I wasn’t too worried.

After all, it’s the happy ending, isn’t it? Just that thought alone made me feel much better.

I repositioned myself and placed my hand on the mouse, hoping this would be my final journey in this game.

“Let’s do this.”

I’ve completed collecting all the bad endings. There’s no reason I can’t see the happy ending.

Click.
I pressed the button to activate the happy ending and proceed to the next playthrough.

I felt anticipation.

How would the happy ending unfold? I slowly closed my eyes in anticipation. I just hoped for an ending where the protagonist is happy.

…And I didn’t even think that it would be the last journey of my life.

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‘This doesn’t make sense.’

With this unbelievable reality, I took steps forward.

A week had already passed, but I was still dumbfounded.

Transmigration? This isn’t even a fantasy.

But looking at the facts before my eyes, and the headlines on internet news, I had to accept it.

[Mysterious Magical Girl. Appears Again.]
[Increasing Monster Appearances. If the Government Continues Like This…]

This is reality.
Being transmigrated into an erotic game is now my reality.

Anyway.
What was I, who had been transmigrated, doing?

“I don’t want to go to work…”

I was on my way to the convenience store where I work.

Some might say, after all the trouble of being transmigrated, I’m just working at a convenience store?
But what can I do? What exactly am I capable of?

It’s still one year before the main story begins, and there’s not much that someone as ordinary as me can do.

I’d consider myself lucky if a monster doesn’t suddenly appear and try to kill me.

And despite all this happening in the world, people still go to work and earn money.
What can you do? If you don’t want to starve, you have to earn.

In fact, I did have a vague expectation.
The happy ending route is open, so maybe things will work out on their own? That kind of expectation.

‘I need to meet her to do anything.’

Unable to escape reality, I look around.

It’s a beautiful day. A spring day more beautiful and scenic than the real South Korea.

I was worried, but there wasn’t much I could do yet. Rather than worrying needlessly, it would be better to calm my mind.

The full scent of spring brushes past the bridge of my nose. The soft spring breeze blowing gently made me feel good.

However, it was also a bit chilly. Is it a late winter chill? The wind starts to blow a bit roughly.

The wind, growing increasingly fierce, soon turned into a sharp, cutting breeze-

“…Wait a minute.”

What the hell is that now?

A monster with a pinwheel for a head. And.

“I am the one favored by the goddess Artemis! Magical Girl Iris! Receiving the command of the goddess, I will oppose the evil that threatens the world!”

Magical Girl Iris with pink hair.

‘We’re meeting here?’

I had a slight suspicion. Oddly enough, where I lived was the same neighborhood where Iris lived.

It seems she came to handle the monster that appeared in her own neighborhood.

The murmurs from the surroundings grew louder.

“It’s a magical girl!”
“Isn’t she the one who’s been on the news lately!?”
“Yes! She came to save us…!”

Iris steps forward boldly.
And then…

“Don’t worry! I’ll protect all of you-”
“KIEEEEEK!!!”
“HUEHUNG!?”

CRASH!
Magical Girl Iris, who appeared so magnificently, gets slammed into a wall.

‘I knew she becomes an idiot whenever she transforms…’

Seeing it in reality was much more chaotic.

The magical girl was much more mediocre than I had imagined.
‘…This is fine, right?’
I was already starting to get a headache.