Deadline Is Raining in the Status Window - Chapter 204

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Restructuring, personnel transfers. Evan laid out the appointments I had been considering all along. To be honest, Samryong lacked the maturity to lead all dragons. It was better to drag back the one who abandoned his responsibilities and fled, and seat him in place. With punitive authority, it was a forceful measure I could enforce.
The Common Professor came flying in a straight line at this bombshell announcement, but Evan didn’t stop. The female observer watched Reina rolling about on the bed, laughing melodiously, and spoke with perfect calm.
“I appoint Reina as Salt King.”
A thunderbolt struck Reina.
“Hey, hey, you absolute madman!”
“Student Evan! Have you lost your mind!”
Reina seized Evan by the collar as she stood wearing a crown, her cape billowing, a conductor’s baton gripped firmly in hand. The Department Head Professor, who had arrived in haste, threw propriety to the wind and leaped through the window to invade the student’s room.
Yet Evan Laef remained unmoved. If I were the type to stop at something like this, I wouldn’t have charged into the Serpent King’s domain with a pickaxe the moment I arrived in Ilam. The story would never have begun in the first place.
“I appoint Kanna as Poison King!”
“Kyaa!”
Whether the Salt King and Dragon King raged or not, Poison King Kanna was delighted with her new title. If an assassin went around with a title like Assassination King, it would create security issues, and it seemed Evan had chosen the name Poison King with that consideration in mind.
Watching Evan, who never forgot to show consideration for Kanna at any moment, the female observer felt herself falling for Evan again—twice, three times over.
“Finally, I appoint Sunbird, parenthesis open, Aten Polat, parenthesis close, as Puppet King! That concludes it!”
“Mother, this one really has gone insane!”
So shocked was Reina that she sought out Count Letem, whom she rarely called upon, and placed her palm against Evan’s forehead with genuine concern, even checking for fever.
Whether Sunbird was a demon or not was secondary; to Reina’s eyes, Evan seemed intent on playing the benevolent ruler who even embraced traitorous retainers. When she asked in earnest if Evan had truly lost his mind, Evan calmly recited what was written in my status window.
“The King of All Demons possesses punitive authority over subordinate kings, or so I’ve heard.”
“Then it’s approved.”
A relief. Evan Laef hadn’t completely lost his senses after all. Deliberately bringing Sunbird into a position of power to torment him was entirely reasonable for Evan.
The notification that Sunbird had become Puppet King reached him, and the male collapsed with acute gastric spasms, but those gathered in the dormitory paid it no mind.
“Wow, amazing! I got a new skill!”
“Me, me, I got, I got, toxic monster, creation!”
Wow, being a demon king is pretty nice. I only got appointment authority or something like that. Did the Mother Goddess give them skills to create subordinates since the Salt King and Poison King had none? Evan felt a petty jealousy and muttered curses at the Mother Goddess.
“Student, please reconsider. I have much to do, and I’m not suited to be a king.”
While Reina and Kanna fiddled with their flames and toxic slime, the Common Professor proposed that Evan rescind the appointments. But Evan was stubborn.
“Samryong is also busy with fan activities. And he had no aptitude for kingship anyway. My older siblings fled, so he had no choice but to take the role.”
“I’m working as a professor, am I not. How are fan activities and teaching students the same thing?”
“From a dragon’s perspective, professoring and fan activities are six of one, half a dozen of the other!”
“Ugh!”
A formidable opponent indeed. The Common Professor inwardly clicked his tongue. After all, this was a brat who could talk circles around Bruno—what chance did he have in an argument? No matter how he thought about it, the answer was no.
“In any case, I don’t want it. Having to take responsibility for all dragons, such a heavy burden I refuse to bear.”
“Yet the Department Head Professor is taking responsibility for mages, is he not?”
“How is managing humans for a few years the same as being responsible for a horde of dragons for life!”
That’s true. The Department Head Professor is indeed logical and airtight. Evan was impressed, but had no intention of releasing the Common Professor from my grasp so easily.
“I will exercise my punitive authority.”
“Wielding power so arbitrarily will not make you a good king, student.”
“I forbid your contact with Dr. Bruno.”
The Department Head Professor’s eyes widened dramatically. Bruno was the first genuinely entertaining human I had discovered in centuries of wandering human society. The moment Bruno entered my dull, gray-tinted existence, the world burst into vibrant technicolor.
“You might as well tell a sparrow to stop visiting the mill!”
“My younger sibling is a sparrow demi-human, and they don’t go to mills.”
“Don’t spout sophistry at me!”
“Besides, if the professor makes sesame oil from seeds, there’s no need to visit a mill.”
“This is nonsensical!”
In truth, the Department Head Professor’s defeat had been sealed from the start. I had no intention of granting his request. No matter what was said, the King of All Demons was supreme. Power was everything. This was why people needed to wear crowns. Watching the Department Head Professor bow his head to me, I felt an exhilarating sense of triumph.
This was it. When I first met the Common Professor, hadn’t I sworn that I would become supreme and never grovel before him again? The dream had come true. It had come true and then some.
Now I had become a force so mighty that even the Common Professor could never make me kneel, and I stood in a position of respect.
I felt incredible.
“…I suppose there’s no choice. Allow me to hold both the position of Dragon King and professor concurrently.”
“Granted. Samryong managed the dragons perfectly well while indulging in hobbies too.”
The Common Professor, having gained nothing and thoroughly defeated, flew away from the undergraduate dormitory with a dejected gait. He intended to visit the Zibenstein Townhouse and drink away his sorrows.
After seeing the professor off, I snapped my fingers and opened my status window. Even though I had become the King of All Demons, the time limit hadn’t disappeared. Wasn’t the condition for lifting the time limit becoming the King of All Demons? Why was it still there?
“Hey Evan! Look at this, hey! Amazing!”
Reina called me over to show off a creature she and Kanna had created together. The two of them, having produced a pair of poison-flame lizards that spewed toxic flames, boasted that they could create such magical beasts by pooling their mana and using skills together.
“It’s impressive, but who has control over it in this case?”
“Oh.”
“Uh?”
Until now, the two of them had only been playing with fireballs and slimes, making them disappear repeatedly, but it seemed they couldn’t freely eliminate what they created together.
In the end, the uncontrolled pair of lizards escaped through the window and fled far away, setting the grassland ablaze. The ecosystem would soon face disruption.
“Those things…, they’ll breed, won’t they?”
“Ah, they’re male and female, so, um, probably?”
“Congratulations, you lunatics. You’ve created an excellent apex predator.”
The Salt King and Poison King are their mother. As I confirmed the established fact once more, Reina and Kanna tore at their hair in anguish.
“Don’t you dare involve her with us!”
“We should have made it with Evan!”
It was already too late. The poison-flame lizards had already been released into the wild, and you are their mother. Later, when they breed prolifically, they’ll come seeking their mother, asking “Please just give us orders, boss.”
I had intended to consult with the two of them about the time limit not disappearing, but seeing Kanna and Reina’s foolish expressions, I changed my mind. Consulting between blockheads would only produce blockheaded answers. I needed to find someone who wasn’t a blockhead.
“I’m going out for a bit.”
“Hey! Where are you going looking like that!”
“I’m going to meet the Puppet King.”
“You’re insane….”
With that thought, I should consult with Sunbird, who had become my subordinate. So thinking, I put on my crown, draped my cape, and walked confidently toward the General Department, wielding my scepter. It was the march of a fool.

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“Come here!”
After asking around among the General Studies Department students to find the Infirmary where Sunbird had been taken, Evan pushed open the door and found him. Then the brilliant curtains around what appeared to be Sunbird’s private bed area parted, and Sera emerged.
“Evan, it’s been so long! But please keep it down—Sunbird collapsed from stomach cramps!”
“How unfortunate.”
He was constantly pulling ridiculous schemes, always anxious that one day a blade might find him—no wonder his stomach was in ruins. Evan mocked Sunbird’s weakness and slapped his sleeping cheek to rouse him.
“Stop it, Evan! No matter who you are, if you harm Sunbird—!”
“Ugh… I… I’m fine, Your Highness.”
The man who had awakened from Evan’s slap rose to his feet and asked what business had brought her. He had anticipated Evan’s arrival ever since being appointed Puppet King.
“Follow me. We need to talk.”
“Evan! Sunbird isn’t well right now!”
“I don’t need your consent, Sera.”
As Evan gestured for him to hurry up, Aten Polat rose despite his coughing fit and followed her. Sera couldn’t comprehend why her Sunbird neither pleaded for help nor resisted, but simply obeyed Evan’s command without question.
“N-Sunbird! Aten! Are you being threatened by Evan?! If so, then I—!”
“Ha! Hahaha!”
Threatened? Nonsense. With that declaration, Evan forcibly linked her arm through Sunbird’s, displaying her affection.
“Your Sunbird wants to become mine now—what can you do about it!”
Evan’s bombshell statement hung in the air. All the students who had come to the Infirmary for their ailments couldn’t tear their eyes away from this riveting scene.
“That can’t be. That’s impossible! Sunbird! Come back to me!”
Sera reached out desperately. But Aten Polat couldn’t defy Evan now. Evan was the King of All Demons, and he was the Puppet King.
“I’m sorry, Sera.”
Sunbird wept in Evan’s embrace. Evan strutted proudly and wrapped him in her cloak. The fool and Sunbird left the Infirmary.

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