Deadline Is Raining in the Status Window - Chapter 225

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If Ursula is the one in my status window, then this is rather sudden and caught me off guard.
“Ahhhhh! Evan! These little ones are spitting seawater!”
But that’s not what matters right now. I crumpled the note and shoved it into my school uniform pocket, then set about chasing down the Sea Dragons—creatures that resembled seahorses and bounced through the air like rubber balls. They were about the size of two-year-old human children, yet I couldn’t fathom how long they intended to keep this chaos going.”Hey! This one’s crying!”
“Hey! Make her cry!”
“Comfort it a little when it cries!”
Don’t ask me about every single thing—show some initiative and move on your own, you gorilla! The moment I spoke up, the Female Informant proclaimed her distinguished status, insisting her situation differed from mine, who had dozens of younger siblings.”But! I was the Countess’s Daughter and the eldest! All my younger siblings had Nannies!”
“But still! I was the Countess’s Daughter and the eldest! My younger sibling had nannies!”
At that, Eugene and Kanna both had plenty to say and began recounting their own childhoods.”I was an only child, you gorilla!”
“I was an only child, you gorilla!”
“W-we, at this age, w-we were given paralysis medicine, a-and put to sleep!”
So I was being reminded once again of the darkness within the Assassination Family. Indeed, in the old days, there existed a parenting method where if a child cried, they’d be given cold medicine to deliberately put them to sleep. The Assassination Family certainly hadn’t intended to raise children easily.”Hey! Can’t we also give the little ones sedatives to make them sleep?! Kanna spews poison anyway!”
“Hey! Can’t we just drug the kids and put them to sleep too?! Kanna’s spewing poison!”
“Don’t start a fight with the Sea Dragon Couple!”
“I, I don’t spew poison, n-no!”
“We’d win the fight anyway!”
Panic seemed to have set in, judging by the alarming things being said. Reina hugged the enormous seahorse with both arms, hoisted one onto her back, then kicked it playfully with her foot while suggesting we shouldn’t fight the Sea Dragon Couple. Not only would it be unethical, but if we won, we’d face an even greater hell.”The Sea Dragons belong to Serpent King’s Tower. If we touch Serpent King’s Tower Officials, we’ll have to face the Union chairman.”
“Sea Dragon belongs to the Serpent King’s Tower. If we touch the Serpent King’s Tower Officials, we’ll have to fight the Union Chairman.”
“Who’s the Union chairman?”
“The sheep Demi-human, Wenri.”
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My friends, who had been chattering away, fell silent. A sober Wenri was an opponent we couldn’t defeat even if we each had ten mouths to argue with. Moreover, considering the skill with which they laid traps on their assigned floor, I couldn’t even begin to imagine how creatively they could torture someone.My friends, unwilling to fight the Union chairman, each picked up eight giant seahorses and played with them. Reina, who had brought them all, seemed to have ended up with all males and was getting beaten up while doing something like American football.”Evan! Isn’t it strange that all the children are crying at once?!”
Her friends didn’t want to fight the Union chairman, so they each picked up eight giant seahorses and played with them. Reina happened to have brought all males, and she was getting beaten up doing something like American football.
“Evan! Isn’t it strange that all the kids are crying at once?!”
“They’re hungry! There must be some baby formula stored frozen somewhere!”
We found the freezer and discovered baby formula stacked like bricks, one portion per serving. Reina rapidly thawed it, then we warmed it over low heat and began our battle with spoons in hand.”E-Evan! The children, th-they won’t eat!”
“Hey, hey Evan! The kids, uh, they won’t eat it!”
“Force-feed them if you have to! They need to eat so they’ll poop!”
If we don’t feed them, they’ll cry for food at bedtime! Greater suffering will come! The children are old enough now that they should be sleeping through the night, but the smaller ones wake up every three hours crying for food, and it’s absolute chaos.In other words, infants at this age might seem like they’re sleeping through the night without waking, but the moment they get hungry, they’ll wake up and drive you absolutely insane.”I’m never having children! I’d rather die than have children!”
In other words, you might think children at this age sleep through the night without waking, but the moment they get hungry, they wake right up and can drive people crazy.
“I’m not having kids! I won’t have them even if it kills me!”
“I, I’m already married to my work, s-so my body belongs to it!”
“I… will hire many Nannies!”
Those with fiancées certainly have different resolve. No matter how many Nannies you hire, if you’re a parent who cares about your child, you’ll end up caring for them to some degree yourself. Yet after witnessing all this chaos, he still had the heart to want children. Eugene must be quite strong.”W-when will th-those people come b-back?”
“When… when will those people come back?”
“Only an hour has passed.”
“Ugh!”
This was the first time I’d seen Kanna look so vulnerable. How amusing. I cradled the little ones in my arms, carried them on my back, balanced them on my head, burped them, and settled in for a nap. While I succeeded in putting the children to sleep, my companions were being systematically destroyed in real time.
As time passed, the Demon Race members who couldn’t even feed the infants their weaning food collapsed, their entire bodies covered in fish flesh. What a waste—the parents must have carefully prepared and stored it for the children to eat. I fed the little ones on behalf of my struggling companions, burped them, put them to sleep, and then played with them when they woke, galloping around together.
After half a day had passed, just as all thirty-three children woke from their naps and began searching for their parents, the Sea Dragon Couple returned.
“I’m so sorry! My husband kept insisting he needed to endure for three more months, so he just kept eating!”
Wow.
The Sea Dragon Husband, whom his dragon-headed wife had rolled in like a ball, had returned four times his original size. Somehow, through some form of nutritional supplementation, the male had become completely round, his body gleaming with a lustrous sheen. He seemed to want to say something to me, but whenever he opened his mouth, it appeared something he’d eaten might come back up, so he gagged silently, squinting his eyes shut as he addressed me.
『Can you hear me, King of Ten Thousand Demons? I am speaking to you through telepathy.』
“I hear you.”
The Sea Dragon possessed a remarkable talent. Waddling like a plump penguin, the male crossed his legs and sat down in the spot where he’d been sitting withered moments before. Immediately, the young Sea Dragons began clinging to their father.
『I must abandon my sense of self and control my children until they mature. From this moment, I will lose consciousness. Feel free to take anything you find on the Back Mountain.』
I’d wondered how two parents could possibly manage thirty-three children, but now I understood—the father was sacrificing his own consciousness to personally assist all thirty-three. Truly, parents are magnificent beings.
『Please inform the Serpent King that my leave of absence will be extended.』
“Don’t worry about that. I’ll make sure word reaches him.”
The male closed his eyes, seemingly reassured. The thirty-three children found peace beside their father, while the dragon-headed mother quickly tidied the chaotic house, then cast a water-cleaning spell to wash the soiled household items and the three filthy Demon Race members.
“This must be exhausting for you. Would you like to rest?”
“No. We depart immediately. If it’s no trouble, might we return here to rest after our exploration?”
“Of course! Your Majesty saved my husband’s life!”
Her husband had been on the verge of starving to death, so she’d been about to send distress signals to either the Dragon King or the Serpent King when I conveniently arrived and saved him. The female led us to their treasure vault.
Since the seabed rarely attracted visitors, the compensation was meager, but everything had been collected from the Back Mountain, so the rarity was exceptional.
“Wow! This looks so strange! What is this?”
That’s a cassette tape player. Even in my time, it was an antique. Somehow it had survived.
“It seems to function like a small record.”
“Hey, music’s coming out! This is awesome!”
It really is awesome—are those batteries still alive? How didn’t they explode?
I explored the vault with “Video Killed the Radio Star” playing in the background, searching for anything useful.
“Oh.”
What is this fateful encounter? I discovered a ring bathed in brilliant light and compared it to the House Neftis ring I was wearing. This House Neftis ring, which dispensed seawater when activated, was set with a gemstone shaped like a cold-water faucet, while that ring featured metalwork resembling a water purifier button.
It felt like it would fit perfectly on my finger, so I slipped it on, and the faucet and purifier button formed a pair ring effect. I opened a gate and trickled out the seawater I usually carried, taking a sip.
“It’s not salty!”
It’s purified water! The seawater is being purified through this purifier button! Then I absolutely have to use this! Of course! If water comes out of a purifier, then if I use ice magic on it, wouldn’t that work!
“Our house water purifier dispenses ice!”
“Awesome!”
“Wow, Evan, that’s so cool!”
“Man, now you can survive anywhere.”
That’s true. Even if I suddenly warped to a Stalactite Cave like before, as long as I had drinking water, I could survive a week. I came without expectations but obtained something valuable.
We each selected what we would take and bid farewell to the dragon-headed female. The other children accepted it gracefully, but Reina plugged in her earphones, listened to music while dancing alone, and kept making a fuss—I found her utterly unbearable to watch.
“What did you choose, Kanna?”
“I, I, tasted, poison, for, the, first, time, so, I, want, to, try, it.”
“Hmm… Alright.”
Eugene, who seemed to have thought deeply between the ellipses, expressed surprise, saying that what he had chosen was just one ballpoint pen, but as time passed after writing with it, the letters disappeared on their own.
Hmm… now that I think about it, we had things like that back when I was alive too. I wonder if there was some kind of antique museum around here.
“Whoa! There’s a sign that says no entry here! I guess we’re supposed to go in this way!”
Oh, well done, you damn king Reina!
At the end of the continuous Natural Cave, there was something like an Artificial Structure, so we happily smashed through the iron door and entered inside.
A ghostly wind whistled past, and from inside came the faint smell of rust and fish. Faded posters were plastered here and there on the walls, all of them emblazoned with words like “revolution” and “evolution.”
“Oh this! Isn’t this the Mother Goddess that the Demon Race speaks of?!”
Reina Letem pointed to some kind of iron model. It seemed similar, but not exactly the same object. First of all, the number of wings attached was different. Judging from the fact that they had made a model and put it on display, it seemed like it was something that had been used in the past and then abandoned.
“Mother Nature Unit 1.”
“…Wait, the artificial satellite’s name is quite meaningful. Mother Nature? Why is it in the same context as Mother Goddess?”
I moved closer and read the inscription. The small letters carved in relief had been dulled by time, but I could make out a few words.
“Climate…? Control system. Biocomputer?”

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