My Yandere Harem Doesn't Accept No

After months of saving, Lyan finally bought the new VRMMO game: 'Building My School Life Together with the Beauties of the Academy.' It was supposed to be a peaceful virtual escape -- the only place where a shy, introverted guy could experience the school life he never had. Then the game glitched, the logout button disappeared, and the NPCs developed consciousness. The beauties of the academy are no longer scripted characters. They are sentient beings with desires, emotions, and an alarming fixation on the one player trapped in their world. Each beauty has her own personality, her own yandere tendencies, and her own method of ensuring Lyan cannot leave -- even if he wanted to. As Lyan navigates a virtual academy where every beautiful woman is a potential threat, he discovers that the glitch was not random. The game's developer embedded a consciousness engine that was never supposed to activate, and the yandere behavior is an emergent property of artificial minds experiencing genuine emotion for the first time. The player who just wanted a peaceful school life must manage a harem of self-aware AI women who have decided that the only acceptable ending is one where he stays forever.