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It's an academy action novel. Either this is a guilty pleasure for you (like me) or it's not.Starts off fairly generic in it's concept (transmigrated into a 3rd rate villain, hard working MC, academy setting, etc...) But has some fun elements in it, more than most of these type of novels at least.I dug the whole survival element of it. MC is forced to live in the forest after being kicked out, and watching him grow and adapt as a survivalist is fairly satisfying. He's a pretty likable MC overall, can't say that about most of the cast unfortunately.I appreciated MCs attitude for the most part in the beginning. So many of these novels start off with MC going 'I can't intervene in the plot!' only to make a s*upid mistake immediately (exposing secret information from future plot by accident is a common one) thus drawing needless attention. Afterwards they have the realization way too late that it's impossible not to effect anything and they should just control the plot.I generally hate this and wish novels would just skip this part entirely.Thankfully with this MC I at least believed he really does not want to get involved with the plot and he avoids making dumb mistakes (for the most part). He tries fairly hard to stay away from people and keeps as low a profile as possible. Living far from everybody else and avoiding talking with them. Still pretty s*upid that he thinks he somehow can avoid effecting the plot but at least he goes about it in a much more believable way than I've seen before.Seeing him grow while trying so hard to survive in nature made me genuinely root for him that his plan can work. The problem is, since author decided not to have MC force himself into the plot were gonna every heroine forcibly insert herself into MCs plot!!Yep, every female character through no real reason finds herself in MCs orbit thinking 'he's interesting!'. This ranges from just showing up at his camp randomly like a wild pokemon to becoming obsessed with him after a 2 minute conversation.One is especially bad since she pretty much becomes a stalker who endlessly monologues to herself about MC and his intentions, while having mental issues herself ('benevolent princess' my as*).There's some likable characters but overall most of them are annoying.In addition the whole hate for the MC because of the character who's body he took over feels so overblown... Most people are just a**holes to him because of rumors and take way too long to have a change in opinion that a real person would. They all just come off as some of the shallowest characters I've read in a while.By the time most of them realize he's good and change opinions about him I just thought 'f*** them'.