Wait, Are None of You Human?

“Hey, what are the students at this school like?” “Not one of them is human.” “?” That was when Lin Deng began to realize that something seemed off about the academy he’d enrolled in. … “So you really aren’t human.” After discovering that his classmates were monsters disguised as humans, Lin Deng made this observation. And also... “Let me go home! Let me graduate!” “Ribbit! I’ve had it with these fake humans! You freaks stay away from me!” “What do you mean, ‘friends are delicious’?” … Many years later, as Lin Deng, the Academy’s Little Tyrant, the Great Void Hooligan, Savior of the Hour of Despair, Sinner of the Apocalypse, and Song of the End, stood in the void holding his diploma, he would surely remember that distant afternoon when he first enrolled. “Back then, all I wanted was to graduate and get out of that brain-dead academy. That was it. Really.” “As for becoming a hero or whatever... that was an accident.”