Deadline Is Raining in the Status Window - Chapter 283

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“I’d rather you kill me!”
If I died, I’d just migrate to the Underworld and cease to exist. But now that I’d tasted the heat of these passionate nights, losing my sexual desire was simply unthinkable. Was I supposed to live my entire life as an empty shell? It was impossible. It couldn’t happen.
I debated whether to confront Gerth first or find a solution, but decided that finding a solution was more constructive, so I headed toward Dragon’s Cry Village.
I had something to discuss with the Village Chief and Kanna there.
“Village Chief! This is a disaster! My sexual desire! Kanna!”
“What?! Your sexual desire is directed at Kanna?!”
“No, you idiot!”
When I made a motion to hit the Village Chief, he yelped and jerked his head back as if he’d been slapped. The timing was perfect.
“I’m the type who receives mission notifications directly from the Mother Goddess, and if I don’t rank first in my department this semester, she says she’ll castrate me!”
“That can’t be! That’s your only source of joy!”
“It’s not my only source, you lunatic!”
While the Village Chief and I bickered, Kanna came down from the second floor of the paper house. The female student, seeing the two of us getting along so well, apparently thought something, blocked my path, and glared at me.
“E-Evan is, m-my, f-friend.”
“Don’t worry. Evan and I are merely business associates.”
“T-that, subtly, makes it easy, to get close, Reina said.”
“When men and women do this business nonsense, what accumulates isn’t friendship but romantic entanglement.”
“T-then, it’s, f-fine!”
So she wasn’t an enemy. Kanna relaxed her guard and chatted amicably with the Village Chief. When the Village Chief told Kanna the same story I’d just mentioned, the female student was startled and worried about me.
“E-Evan, what do we do! Evan’s, y-your only source of joy!”
“It’s not my only source! Why do you keep treating me like I’m a monster made of sexual desire!”
That was because Evan Mitchell would leave Lululala Village every weekend, sleep around indiscriminately, and return with skin gleaming. Walking around with it written all over my face that I’d satisfied both yin and yang, there wasn’t a single student at the Academy who didn’t know about Evan’s weekend escapades.
“I’ve never seen anyone whose before-and-after is so obvious. You truly deserve to be called a monster of sexual desire.”
“E-Evan, w-whatever you do, you, d-do it well, so, it’s impressive!”
“Anyway, that’s not the problem right now!”
If I didn’t rank first, I might have to live my entire life without knowing this pleasure. For someone like me who had learned the art of theft late and pursued it day and night without rest, this was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. I had to rank first. I absolutely had to rank first.
“What do I do! Should I drug the other students to sleep again?!”
“Could that work for a whole week? What about electives from other departments?”
“A-and, Evan is.”
Because of an incident I’d caused freshman year, I was banned from the Academy Dormitory’s food storage warehouse. I’d been given the key, but during exam period, the “sweet sleep incident” happened, and though there was no physical evidence, everyone suspected me, so the staff told the Dormitory Manager and got the ban imposed. I couldn’t use the same method again.
“E-Evan, if you, s-study hard, with, s-skill, you can, d-do it, right?”
“I don’t want to study.”
“You somehow managed to avoid academic probation.”
“I’ve already been on it.”
“You’re really doing everything possible at the Academy before you leave?”
Clearly, when I was a freshman, I was an honor student who ranked first in my department, and a conscientious friend who attended morning exercises without fail. I don’t know why it turned out like this. The Village Chief expressed quiet condolences for my downfall and said he’d get me every study guide he could find.
“But you see, even if you do your best, there’s a great mountain you cannot overcome, isn’t there?”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s about Reina Letem.”
“?”
Why would that gorilla suddenly come up here? Evan genuinely couldn’t understand, tilting her head just like Cecilia. As Evan tilted her head, the Village Chief—that information broker who knew everything happening in the Magic Department—tilted his head in turn.
“You didn’t know? Except for the semester when you achieved top rank in the department, Reina Letem has been first in every other semester.”
“What?”
“Not only in general education, but even in Scholarship Department major courses, she never missed an A+. I hear the Scholarship Department professors were shedding tears of blood, saying she shouldn’t have been a mage.”
“…What?”
Reina studied that well? Evan, who had been regarding Gorilla Reina as a foolish colleague all this time, felt her heart plummet.
Of course, Reina had shown moments of intelligence here and there, but Evan never expected her to be good at studying. Being intelligent and being good at studying are different things. Yet Reina was intelligent and studied well too. It was a scam. Because of people like her, ordinary hardworking folk never got their due in this world.
Evan hadn’t even tried, but regardless, she decided it was all Reina’s fault.
“That gorilla bastard!”
“Y-yeah! The gorilla’s bad!”
The Village Chief observed Kanna enthusiastically agreeing with Evan’s words, then slowly shook his head. That child’s condition runs deep. She’s fine when alone, but strangely, whenever Evan is by her side, her mental illness deepens.
“Should we block the entrance to the exam hall? We could use House Neftis’s power!”
“They’d just reschedule the retake anyway?”
“We could start a revolution at the Academy!”
“Wasn’t the clear condition becoming the top authority at the Academy, not the department’s top student?”
“Argh! What do you expect me to do!”
“Study!”
The exasperated Village Chief abandoned his Village Chief concept and scolded Evan. As Evan panicked with fire at her heels, the Village Chief—the only strategist present in this place—calmly reasoned with her.
“Mother Goddess must have had a reason for giving you this trial. Think about it carefully. She wouldn’t have just thrown a mission at you out of boredom, would she?”
“…! That’s right. She said she’d grant Gerth’s wish!”
“If you show your husband how hard you’re trying your best for his sake, wouldn’t she take that into consideration?”
“…Is that so?”
“Of course. In situations like this, you have to understand the creator’s intent. Your husband—hasn’t he ever expressed dissatisfaction with your Academy grades?”
“Right! Gerth always asks me to bring my report card!”
Evan, with her gullible ears, was on the verge of falling for the con artist’s smooth talk.
“Think about it! Even if you don’t rank first, if you bring home decent grades, how happy would your husband be? And how happy would your mother-in-law be seeing her husband so pleased!”
“That makes sense!”
“Your opponent isn’t a heartless, cold-blooded person. Sincerity always gets through.”
“That’s right! That could work!”
Evan fell completely for the con artist’s rhetoric. Panicked by the shocking revelation of castration, she momentarily forgot that her opponent was actually a heartless artificial satellite.
“Among the general education courses I chose this time is Imperial Palace Etiquette with Professor Ha. For someone who’s lived in House Neftis like me, this is a piece of cake!”
For the rest, I’d negotiate appropriately with Reina and study sincerely to earn A+s. Evan decided to take the straightforward approach—something not in her nature—and threw herself into her studies.

Evan Laef’s training regimen was merciless. I attended every class without fail, never dozed during lectures, completed assignments diligently, and reviewed thoroughly for exams. Any university student would do the same, but for me it was a novel experience. The last time I’d studied this intensely was when Reina Letem tutored me in mathematics.
I recruited my younger brother Rael, Titi, Seian Crowell, and Kanna to form a study group. Those days of bolstering each other’s motivation and receiving instruction from Seian were unexpectedly enjoyable.
Mornings began with Crowell Empire calisthenics, and nights found me asleep clutching textbooks. Having unintentionally maintained celibacy throughout the semester while living a fulfilling university life, I humbly accepted my transcript.
I’d given my absolute best. Gerth felt slightly disappointed that I no longer visited the Serpent King’s Tower on weekends due to my studies, yet he couldn’t help but feel joy knowing his student was diligently fulfilling their academic duties.
Moreover, Gerth wasn’t alone in his pride. The Magic Department professors were shedding tears of genuine emotion witnessing my sincere attitude. That student who used to borrow books whenever possible, who would nap carelessly by the sunny window—now sitting in class with bright, eager eyes—they found me so endearing.
I’d caused plenty of incidents, but ultimately I was someone who contributed to the survival of the Empire and humanity. Everyone harbored slight favoritism, so they’d given me B+ where B was warranted, preventing my second academic failure.
Perhaps my efforts and the professors’ support moved even the heavens, for my transcript blazed with A+ grades. The Practical Mana course earned an A+ because Bruno openly schemed to give me a good grade, but the other subjects were roughly eighty percent the result of my own effort.
Of course, the liberal arts courses were one hundred percent thanks to my dedication. I wept at the cascade of A+ grades flowing across my transcript. I’d planned to threaten the professors during grade correction period, prepared to stake my life on it if necessary, but it seemed bloodshed wouldn’t be required. At this rate, top honors in my department were assured. I felt my nose tingle as I checked my Imperial Palace Etiquette grade.
“…Huh?”
Something was wrong. No matter how I looked at it, the grade read C. My Imperial Palace etiquette was flawless. I couldn’t accept this reality.
“Professor Ha! Where is Professor Ha right now!”
I tried to pinpoint Professor Ha’s location through the village’s information network. Grade correction was still possible. If I could just quietly fix this one grade, I wouldn’t lose my honor. I huffed indignantly as I headed toward Dragon’s Cry Village, and at that moment, a status notification window appeared.

Failed to achieve top honors. Sexual desire permanently disappears.

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