Succeeding as a Knight in a Gender-Reversal Game

1 – Possessed

“Johanna, wake up! You’re waking up late today…”

I am thrown into utter confusion at the unknown scene before me.

I remember seeing a truck rushing into the cafe and pushing my girlfriend out of the way to avoid the oncoming threat, but…

The unfamiliar wooden ceilings, the cries of my name coming from outside the wooden door.

Closing and reopening my eyes, the world seems to have changed greatly.

Looking around and seeing my reflection through a hand mirror I found, I am definitely not myself.

Unlike my usual self with black hair and black eyes…

“What is this…”

Blonde hair, red eyes.

A completely race-changed white skin.

If a character I had just seen appears in reality, it might feel like this.

Whilst accepting the real-life presence of a man who seemed to have torn out of a comic or game,

I was reminded of what had just happened to me.

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“Hey! Awesome! I’ve got to design all the character settings in this round!”

“Oh? Really? Our Ms. Park Hanna has really hit the jackpot.”

My long-time otaku friend has done well for herself.

She was working as an illustrator for my favorite game company and suddenly, she was assigned to design a game character alone.

My friend was involved in the creation of the game I am playing…

I always think it’s quite amazing.

“He promised to give me full authority for this character, who is not a side character, but rather, someone around the character. Additionally, he mentioned reflecting as much as possible on the main character.

“But will that affect the character’s sales? What if that affects the sales due to some strange settings?”

“It’s fine! No one plays our game anyway, so he told me just to go for it! It would be great if I could create some buzz.”

“… Is your company really okay?”

I spent what would be this friend’s monthly salary, but as a customer, I feel insecure.

Well, with the money I spent, they could probably only buy a few pieces of tissue paper.

They will figure it out, it’s a proper company after all.

“Since we have a small team, I have to do what I can. I thought of creating a character that could create a buzz.”

“Yeah, good luck, friend.”

A few days after having a beer and cheering up that friend,

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“Hey! Otaku! Check this out! How does it feel from a man’s perspective to have this setting?”

“What? Let me see…”

On a rare training-free day, I found myself at a café with Hanna because she called on me.

It was better than having nothing to do but watch YouTube on a day off.

I asked if it was okay to show me considering it’s a company secret, but she said it was still only a plan and that that much was okay as she had gotten permission in advance.

I can’t help but think that this company really does whatever it wants.

The notepad that was passed onto me contained an illustration of a male character, his settings, and a few novel-like situations depending on various circumstances.

“…um…”

“Hey, what do you think? Awesome, right? Don’t you think this will be a hot topic regardless of gender?”

“It might be a topic, yeah.”

“Right? Right!! This is it!!! Kehe, our valued customer has a keen eye! I’ll directly to the team leader…Kek!!!”

– Splat!!!

“In a bad way!!!”

After seeing such a ridiculous setting, I ended up smacking Hannah on the back of her head in disbelief.

Speaking on behalf of the customers who have invested a fair amount of time and money in the game.

“You crazy woman!! He’s a childhood friend, but this is reverse r*ape and reverse NTR!!! Are you insane??!!”

“Ah why! This is important! This is the reason why the gacha character, a woman, wants to become insanely strong!”

“There are plenty of reasons to become strong without such things!!”

This character, a gacha character, and a childhood friend, plays the role of receiving reverse NTR.

Looking at the memo, the targets are diverse.

The village chief’s daughter, the daughter of the chief, the owner of the mill, the owner of the smithy, the three delinquent girls, etc…

If the gender were to be reversed, this pad was filled with settings that would set fire to the game company with rage.

“Hey, this makes the gacha character too pitiful. Do we really need to have such an unpleasant setting?”

“The reason for becoming strong is clear. Isn’t it the best reason to become obsessed with becoming stronger with the determination not to lose precious things again?”

“It’s too spicy… No, there are quite a few spicy backgrounds of the gacha characters, but… It’s a bit…”

I feel dizzy…

Even I, who have taken an interest in this game and find the settings of the wretched characters fascinating, felt dizzy from the spiciness.

And

I had too many things to say about this, but I decided to ask the important thing first.

“But is it my imagination that the name of the male protagonist feels similar to mine?”

“You noticed? hehehe…”

“Why would you sell your friend’s name like this, you crazy!!”

The male protagonist was clearly using my name.

And the content was even more outrageous…

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[…Johan resisted but he could not avoid their touch.

Despite having enough strength to push them away, Johan refrained from using his strength, worried they might get hurt.

The village women drooled at Johan’s unwilling coquetry and reached out with dark hands.

The lust that came out as he struggled filled the confined warehouse more intensely, only stimulating their lust.

– Slurp…

“hehehe, it’ll be over soon, so just stay still, pretty.

“Ah, no…! We can’t do this. A relationship without love…!”

“From now on, you just need to love me, right? It seems like you have quite a few people to love, but you can handle that!”

Surrounded by their bodies, Johan was ultimately…]

A character with the same name as me was being r*aped by the women of the village.

And that too, while behaving like a total jerk.

“Why, Park Hanna, did you have to make me into such a jerk of a character?”

“What are you talking about? Even if it’s a parallel universe version of you, you should be grateful to me for giving you a harem.”

“Shut up!”

– Bang!

I quickly hit the back of the head of the crazy woman who was talking nonsense.

I had to stop her from wasting the Earth’s oxygen for a moment, to contribute to preventing global environmental destruction.

“Why did you hit me!! I thought you’d be happy that I put your name in! Do you know how hard it was to convince the team leader?”

“I don’t need that! I don’t like it, so just remove my name!”

“Why don’t you like it? Honestly, from a man’s perspective, isn’t it a win to be with multiple women?”

Honestly, that is a bit tempting.

Most of the web novels I’ve read were harem stories, and isn’t that a man’s dream, honestly?

But,

“I don’t like being passive, especially when it comes to r*ape.”

I won’t be a pushover.

No matter how much I like it, I won’t be a one-sided pushover.

This isn’t about whether I like this game or not. It’s not about whether the women I’m with are pretty or not.

I absolutely do not want to live being dominated by women.

Because love is not one-sided, it’s something you share and grow together.

“Our Yohan is quite picky. I’ve seen a lot of popular novels where men are in submissive roles in male-oriented gender-reversed works. Don’t most readers like that?”

“That’s their taste, not mine.”

Let them enjoy that.

For a real man like me, it’s reverse r*ape.

Just as a scar on the back is a disgrace to a warrior, no matter how much it satisfies s*xual desire, reverse r*ape is a disgrace to a real man.

“Hey, honestly, in a realistically gender-reversed world with a medieval fantasy setting, couldn’t this happen? It’s not implausible.”

“I admit the plausibility of r*ape incidents, but then it’s even less understandable why the male character resists so passively. He’s supposed to have innate talent in swordsmanship, stamina, and strength.”

“Weren’t the male customers just supposed to get over that if they were turned on?”

They’re treating men like s*x-crazed monsters.

I sighed and handed the notepad I was reading back to Hanna.

“Hey, just redo the character design. Before the customers start cursing and you lose your mind.”

“Why!! Just do it! If Yohan covers for me in the official cafe, it’ll be fine! Why are you doing this to the top strategy writer in our official cafe!!”

I wanted to hit the back of Park Hanna’s head again for making such an absurd request, but I barely held back with superhuman patience.

Maybe I should go outside for a bit of fresh air…

Just as I thought that,

– Kwaahhhhh!!!

– Clang!!!

Through the glass wall of the cafe, a truck comes crashing in at high speed, shattering everything in its path.

A sudden acceleration?! Or drunk driving?!

Before I can even comprehend what’s happening,

“Hanna!!!”

– Thud!!!

Quickly I rise and push Hanna, chair and all, out of the way.

“aaahhh!!!”

Hanna, who was sitting with her back to the window, reacted slower than I did. To protect her, I had no other choice but to do this.

As a result,

– Screech!!!

– Crash!!!

“Cough-ack!!!”

In the process of pushing Hanna out of the way, I was unable to escape and got hit by the truck.

The truck didn’t slow down. It pushed me and crashed into the cafe’s wall.

Ah…

I can’t comprehend what’s happening.

My consciousness is fading, my vision blurs, and I’m gasping for air.

I want to scream out in pain and heat that I’ve never experienced before,

but my body, oblivious to my will, was busy coughing up some strange liquid that was rising from my throat.

“Johanna! Johanna!!! No, no!!!”

“Call 119! What are you doing!!”

“aaahhh!!!”

I can hear a scream in my ear… The pain is too much, please lower your voice…

Every time I breathe, I feel like I’m sinking in water. It’s so unfamiliar and dizzying, maybe because I’m choking.

Someone…

Please…

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* * *

“Is he still sleeping? Lena, wake Johanna up. He seems to be still sleeping.”

“Yes, mother.”

The sounds from outside bring me back to reality.

I think I’ve been like this for quite a while.

-Knock, knock…

“Johanna, wake up. We have to eat breakfast and go to work.”

“Ugh, Uh!! I’ll get up right away!”

Another soft voice adds to the mix, pleasing my ears.

But not knowing what this voice has to do with me brings a vague sense of anxiety.

The fear and chill from the sudden accident that just happened are overshadowed by the fear of the world outside the door that I see now.

But nothing begins if we don’t move.

With fear of the unknown, and a tiny thrill, I opened the closed door and the first thing I saw was

“Oh, Johan came out without changing his pajamas.”

“Carelessly… come here. You have to button up your chest. Men are careless…”

It was two beautiful silver-haired women.

The two most beautiful women I have ever seen.

One with a smile,

And one with a slightly pouting face

“Well, let’s eat breakfast now. You have to eat well before hard work.”

“”I will eat well.””

They welcomed me with a breakfast in the new world.