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Surviving the Assassin Academy as a Genius Professor
[Translator – Maker]
[Proofreader – Leef ]
Chapter 1: Prologue - Professor in a Heroic Fantasy
I wanted to kill my professor.
That was why I became so engrossed in the game Hiaka Academy: The Assassin Department.
In this game, you had to assassinate the professor to graduate. A pretty interesting concept, no?
Over the course of a year, I became a veteran player, killing professors over 300 times in easy and normal modes. Eventually, I reached the point where I could effortlessly kill the demon professor who appeared in hard mode.
Should I stop here?
Just as I was considering returning to real life and touching grass, a pop-up appeared.
< The update [Professor in a Heroic Fantasy] is now available. Would you like to play? >
There was still more to do?
I read the details carefully. This time, the player would become a professor. Instead of being the assassin, the player would be the one training cadets to become stronger—while avoiding being assassinated by them.
The concept sounded pretty fun. The world’s setting and lore had also been expanded into a heroic fantasy story.
But I felt conflicted.
I'm going to play from a professor's perspective…?
I once dreamed of becoming a professor. I loved research, and the idea of teaching others what I had studied fascinated me. The title itself—“Professor”— held a certain allure. Entrepreneur, doctor, politician, university professor… All were symbols of success in society.
Having lived an unremarkable life after losing my family at a young age, I used to believe that studying could change my fate. Even if I was born with a rotten wooden spoon in my mouth, I believed that I could turn it into a silver—no, a gold spoon through sheer effort.
But my expectations were shattered like an illusion dissolving into thin air.
The world was unfair.
I was backstabbed, ostracized, and treated like a social outcast. I spent years in graduate school, suppressing my frustration, but it was all for naught.
In the end, my thesis was stolen from me. By the time I was thirty, I was drawing in debt. And as if fate hadn’t been cruel enough, I was diagnosed with cancer.
At that time, my professor—the one I had once revered as a god—looked me in the eyes and said,
"Why do you think this thesis belongs to you?"
Now do you understand why I became obsessed with a game about killing professors?
Ever since then, I have done nothing but play games as I struggled with my illness. I had nowhere to go and no one to meet. The days passed monotonously, like pages of a book turning—empty and meaningless.
And now, they were offering me a DLC where I could become a professor of all things.
It makes me feel conflicted.
Of course, being a "professor" in this game wasn't exactly the same as being a real university professor. It was more like being a school teacher in an academy.
At least it wasn’t a DLC about being a graduate student.
Let’s do this.
< Please select the difficulty level for the DLC [Professor in a Heroic Fantasy]. >
Having beaten hard mode, I was feeling confident. I wanted something even more challenging. Since I had decided to play, why not go for the hardest difficulty?
As I hovered over the options, a new difficulty appeared.
< Professor in a Heroic Fantasy: [Hell Mode] Ver 1.0.0 >
A difficulty mode that hadn’t existed in the main game.
It would definitely be challenging. However, I chose it without hesitation.
After all, this was just a game…
"Huh? Wait, why is the screen—"
…After all, I never expected to wake up inside the game.
Prologue - END
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