Rex lay in the hospital bed scrolling through his phone, watching another game end with the main character getting the girl and living happily. Meanwhile he was here, paralyzed and useless.
"And the game ended with Lisa and Ray holding hands happily looking forward to their future," he read to himself.
He clicked to the comments section and started typing out his anger.
"Hello creators, this game is trash. The females are perverted because women have more power and men are only useful for sex? The main character thinks about food even while getting laid. Do you guys actually have a writer or are you just making this up?"
He sent it and tossed the phone aside. Why am I even getting mad at a video game? That was pathetic.
A nurse came in with her usual expression, already knowing what she was going to say before she opened her mouth. He'd had this same conversation every single day for months now.
"Umm... Rex, are you feeling any better today?"
"No. Nothing. I can't feel anything down there."
She left without saying anything else. Same question every fucking day, he thought while staring at the white ceiling above him.
Later the doctor came by with his fake optimistic bullshit, placing a hand on his shoulder like that would actually help.
"Don't worry, you'll recover one day. Your legs would heal," he said before turning to the nurse.
"Nurse, please increase the dosage."
They wheeled him out and he was alone with his thoughts again, which was the worst place for him to be. The only things left are random people staring at me and a shit ton of family debt, he thought while moving through the hallways.
He was half paralyzed now, couldn't even get his dick up anymore, and was basically just wasting oxygen.
The memory of how it happened was burned into his brain permanently, walking home from college when a truck and a car decided to use him as a fucking sandwich. He would've been happy if they hit each other instead but they both just ran off without even looking back.
Now his life was just medications that were basically drugs, hospital visits, and family debt that would never get paid. Nothing's gonna change, he thought while closing his eyes and accepting this was his reality now.
That night he tried reading a novel to distract himself but after two hours he gave up completely.
The main character killed himself, destroyed the world, then made a new one the way he wanted but somehow forgot about half the girls.
"Who writes this shit?"
He threw the phone onto his bed and lay back staring at the ceiling. Why can't anything good happen to me? Tomorrow would be the same, the day after that would be the same, nothing would ever change for him.
He closed his eyes and let sleep pull him under, looking for escape from this nightmare.
Then something happened.
A screen materialized in the darkness in front of him, glowing bright.
[SUCCUBUS SYSTEM INITIALIZED]
Rex's eyes snapped open and the hospital room was gone. He was standing in some fancy-ass mansion and his heart was racing. I was in the hospital. What the hell. That screen. Succubus?
Then he felt it.
"My... my legs... they... they hurt... but how?"
He took a step forward and then another, feeling the cold floor under his feet for the first time in months. The sensation rushed through his entire body and he could actually feel again, which shouldn't have been possible.
A system screen popped up in front of him.
[SYSTEM STATUS][HOST: REX ROYHALBER][CONDITION: HEALTHY][SYSTEM FUNCTION: BOND ABILITY COPYING][WARNING: IF ANY BONDED HEROINE DIES, HOST WILL DIE][NOVEL: WORLD'S LAST MAGE + GAME: EROROMANCE]
"What the hell is this? The novel and the game mixed together???"
A voice echoed in his head, all robotic and emotionless like some kind of AI.
[COMMON LANGUAGE +39 OTHER LANGUAGES INSTALLED. ALL HOST MEMORY BEING RESTORED.]
Memories crashed into him all at once and he suddenly knew things he shouldn't know. He was Rex Royhalber, the bastard son of some powerful duke, and everyone hated him because they blamed him for his mother's death.
In the game he got super strong by the end, strong enough that even all the heroes had to team up just to scratch him.
Well that version was a genius. I'm not. So what the hell do I do now?
Another screen popped up showing him how the bond system worked and how bond percentage determined how much of a girl's power he could copy. Fifty percent bond meant fifty percent of their ability, one hundred percent bond meant full power.
[SYSTEM OBJECTIVE: PREVENT WORLD DESTRUCTION][CURRENT STATUS: INCOMPLETE]
"So I gotta save the world while the actual protagonist destroys it. Great, that's definitely not impossible,"
The problem was he'd only read like three chapters of the novel and played through the whole adult game, so he had random fragments of knowledge scattered everywhere. Aren't I completely fucked?
A butler showed up in the doorway looking all smug and annoyed, like dealing with him was a waste of his time.
"Let's go. It's the entrance ceremony."
"Wait... I don't even have proper clothes..."
"Take them yourself. I've got other stuff to do."
Of course. The hated bastard son, he thought while grabbing whatever clothes were lying around and getting dressed quick. He went outside where a carriage was waiting and the driver didn't even look at him as he got in.
While they drove toward the academy, the driver suddenly spoke up out of nowhere.
"One thing. Don't tell anyone you're the duke's son."
"Got it."
The drive gave him time to think about everything he knew about the academy and the game. A magic academy full of strong students, most of them he recognized from the novel and the adult game he'd played.
Some would become heroines themselves, some were teachers who were FLs, some were even parents who'd make bad choices later for power, they NTR'd literally.
[SKIP AVAILABLE FOR TUTORIAL PERIOD - 1 CHANCE REMAINING]
He looked at the notification for a moment and made his decision.
"Skip."
His eyes opened in a huge hall where the entrance ceremony was happening all around him with students and teachers everywhere. Then he saw her and his attention went straight to her red hair and the way her uniform was barely holding back her massive boobs.
She had a cute round face and confident eyes that made him feel something he hadn't felt in months. His dick got hard instantly, like immediately, because he'd watched her get fucked in the game so many times that seeing her in person hit completely different.
His pants started showing a tent that was impossible to hide and it was embarrassing as hell but he couldn't help it.
A system screen popped up.
[HEROINE DETECTED][NAME: LISA ARWIN][AGE: 22][AFFECTION: 0%][BOND: 0%]
"Excuse me."
He jumped awake because Lisa was standing right in front of him and he'd apparently zoned out hard.
"Why are you sleeping in the ceremony? Were you too nervous to sleep or something?"
"Oh... no... that's not it."
He couldn't stop staring at her chest, the way her uniform could barely contain those huge boobs that were practically spilling out everywhere. Wait, what about the trials though?
"The trials are later, idiot."
He felt relief wash over him and looked around the hall at all the faces staring at the stage. I recognize a lot of these people, he thought while scanning the crowd. Some were girls who'd eventually become heroines, some were teachers hiding secrets, some were even parents ,the ntr ones.
The student president, some blonde girl named Amy, stepped up to the front of the stage with an important expression on her face.
"Today we celebrate the entrance ceremon—"
So I gotta make all these girls fall for me to save the world from ending, he thought while looking at all the different faces in the crowd. And what's with this whole sex thing to reach one hundred percent bond? Normal bonding stops at seventy percent? So I'd need to fuck them to get the rest... well, yeah, they'd probably want to by that point anyway.
We'll figure it out as we go.