[Seized all the enhancement tools and materials from the External Enhancement Facility.]
[Stealing Experience Points +300]
[Made the Watcher Maid and the maids accomplices.]
[Charisma Experience Points +50]
[Coercion Experience Points +50]
[You have experienced a temporary death.]
[Instant Death Resistance Experience Points +15]
[You have achieved the incredible feat of assassinating and replacing the Empire’s Emperor without consciously planing it. As a bonus for the successful operation, your experience points surge to the maximum level.]
[Automatic Experience Points +1000]
[Coercion Experience Points +200]
[Charisma Experience Points +100]
[The Emperor’s aides and the Revolutionary Army leaders are deeply impressed by your hidden contributions in supporting the Masugaki Princess.]
[Charisma Experience Points +300]
[Kind Child Experience Points +30]
[Although you know nothing, you are the obscured mastermind behind the assassination of the Emperor and the regime change. A special title is bestowed upon you.]
Molunodi: Assistants who attempt to execute incidents you’ve planned but not managed will always recall the insight of Molunodi, gaining assurance and courage.
[Possession Effect – Increases operation success probability by 10%]
[Equipped Effect – Increases operation success probability by 20%]
While everyone was enjoying themselves, I felt a twinge of sadness for being left out.
Molunodi…?
Wow! A new title!
Looking at the name, it’s my exclusive title.
Hehe, I’m so excited!
[Equipping the Molunodi title.]
“From today, I am Molunodi!”
“I really don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I no longer cared about Jiang’s teasing.
Because now I’m… Molunodi!
The Emperor chuckled at my joyful expression and extended his hand.
“Will you lend me a pen?”
From the darkness, the Head Maid of Okashii-ne smoothly handed over ink and a feather pen.
“I figured you’d ask, so I already prepared it. Hehe.”
“Now, as promised, let’s enter the Forbidden Research Institute.”
With the feather pen soaked in special ink, I wrote my name in the entrance log for the Forbidden Research Institute.
As the Emperor set down the feather pen, I heard the sound of pages flipping swish, swish as the space warped around us.
[The dimensional pages are turning.]
[Top-tier Forbidden Realm: You have entered the Forbidden Research Institute.]
Unlike the External Enhancement Facility or the Forbidden Research Institute where you could enter just by being there, you must meet special conditions to enter the Internal Enhancement Facility, such as the Forbidden Research Institute!
Just entering is already an astonishing achievement, naturally raising my function experience points.
[Having pressured the new Papa to let you into the Forbidden Research Institute, you’ve indisputably become unqualified as a man. But perhaps you might pass as an adopted daughter.]
[Hurrying Experience Points +30]
[Performing Experience Points +30]
[Kind Child Experience Points +3]
Countless pages sprawled across the floor like tiles, creating a grid-like space.
Jiang followed behind me closely, wearing a tense expression as if meeting an Undead Instructor, donning a fox mask.
Normally, he might tease me with laughter, but this wasn’t the place for that.
“You can’t go far because it’s dangerous!”
Since it was a place you could approach as you neared end content, the Forbidden Research Institute wasn’t usually dangerous.
‘It’s one of the primary places to find solutions for NPCs struck by the apocalypse event.’
With the Emperor’s tacit approval, special feather pen and ink, and comrades to face danger together, the typical entrance time is usually after the second semester of the third year.
At the sight of torn pages soaring through the air like swords or bows, Jiang’s curiosity got the better of him as he reached out.
I quickly slapped Jiang’s hand down.
“If you touch that, all hell will break loose!”
“Why?”
“If it’s a page detailing the legendary sword that kills the toucher, you’d be fighting a demonic sword!”
“What about that paper table?”
“It might be a testing table that ties the ankles of seated people and turns guests into meals if they don’t eat whatever’s served!”
“…I’ve made up my mind. I won’t touch anything here.”
Good thinking.
The Academy Library has a librarian who organizes categories, allowing one to search for dangerous books.
But the Forbidden Research Institute has no librarian, so the books recklessly wreak havoc, making it an extremely dangerous location.
I managed to stop Jiang from reaching out, but didn’t we just spot a couple of paper figures wobbling towards us?!
Thud.
Crackle.
Of course, the paper puppets that displeased the Emperor were crushed like they were stomped on by a giant before they even reached us, becoming a tragic sight scattered across the floor.
As Jiang watched the blood splotching out from the torn paper, he clung to my shoulder.
“The Forbidden Research Institute is vast. Since the Emperor ascended the throne, it’s just been a garbage dump collecting disturbing books from all over the world.”
“The treatment of books is too rough! They should at least sort things out. Are we being clumsy? A veteran player organizes their inventory by category!”
“Ha ha! The Foundation’s child is so confident in being tidy; the Director must be very proud.”
“I’m also the daughter of the Emperor now!”
“Indeed. If the Director taught you organizing, you must be gaining valuable skills through your life.”
Wow, this is a bonus function!
When you travel with random Papa NPCs or mentor NPCs, occasionally you might receive a function or item through an event, and by chance, a function transfer triggered next to the Emperor.
What amazing abilities will I learn?
Make a Mess?
Rip and Tear?
Dimensional Barrier?
Instant Death Sentence?
With sparkling eyes full of anticipation, the Emperor extended one hand forward.
“Make a Mess.”
Like a bomb bursting, the air exploded with a bang, creating blade winds that fluttered in all directions.
Whee, boom!
Crash!
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
Heavy bookshelves toppled over, books spilled, and countless pages tore, burst, and rolled around with an uproar of noise.
“Yikes, what are you doing?!”
“Cleaning is the act of straightening out what’s been disrupted and tangled. But the concept of straightening is something the gods who control a function profoundly enjoy.”
“Gosh, so if I master ‘making a mess’ to the extreme…?”
The Emperor nodded.
“Heavenly refined function, the mastery over one function can be achieved by ‘making a mess.’”
“Wow! Incredible function!”
I had no idea such a function existed, having never had a route for this kind of cozy conversation with the former Emperor. It was shocking to learn about a fantastic function like ‘making a mess’—something I never expected.
After all, isn’t it true?
Usually, functions learned are helpful; you don’t actively pursue something negative like making a mess and refine it.
It’s a trap for veterans.
A trap for efficiency.
The more you put effort into the game, the harder it is to notice such functions.
“Wow, so you’ve been messing up the nation and making the world chaotic?”
“As long as wars are avoided, there’s no need for the world to be orderly like a pious church, making it easy for gods to divide regions.”
“Wow! Emperor, you’re amazing! So cool!”
I never imagined the Emperor, seen as an adversary of the Three Great Evils, would have such unexpected traits.
They say a person’s true worth can’t be judged by just one side; maybe the Emperor’s true worth lies in battling higher beings.
[You just cruelly pushed down a lonely paper bookshelf that only wanted to fill empty shelves with people made of paper.]
[Make a Mess Experience Points +1]
[What crime did the poor chair commit? You broke the legs of a paper chair that only has a minor side effect of making the seated person senile.]
[Make a Mess Experience Points +1]
[The plane of paper that was home to boys and girls whose dream was to fly was shot down by the Dark Princess’s paper fighter.]
[Make a Mess Experience Points +1]
Ignoring the biased notification, I continued to train ‘making a mess’ and play around, when the Emperor asked.
“It’s nice to have fun, but have you forgotten your purpose?”
“Gosh! I almost forgot. I can’t resist the strengthening rights!”
Maybe because I teased the restricted books of the Forbidden Research Institute, many paper beings riding paper vehicles were rushing towards us.
The ground trembled, and sharp thorn-shaped paper shot up from the ground like a pitfall.
The human mind’s fragility is brutally sliced and diced by the terrifying reality of the Forbidden Research Institute!
[Paper Folding Tea Table]
[Human Harvest Hut]
[Retreat, Demonic Sword Stand]
The forbidden books cleverly created a few resting spots.
Each could only be used if you opened a forbidden book or swayed things as per the book’s wishes.
Even if you briefly rest, they would soon reveal their true colors and try to manipulate people.
“Ugh, if I do that to my senior, I’ll be in trouble!”
Showing the rebellious books Strategy Book, the books hesitated and retreated from the Safe Zone.
—”What a powerful group of forbidden books.” said the paper folding table.
—”You can’t harvest those!” claimed the human harvesting hut without looking back as it dashed away.
—“What’s that? Scary. I want to run away.”
Lines floated above the forbidden zone, sounding more like scrape, scrape!
With the ferocity of the Strategy Book, the forbidden books began to flee, making our search much easier.
As I rummaged through the Forbidden Research Institute, we finally found the Confirm Strengthening Rights.
“What will you do now that you’ve found the strengthening rights?”
“I’ll find one more, then drop by Jiang’s place, and then head back to the Academy. What about you, Emperor?”
“I’ll take you wherever you want to go. Don’t you dislike traveling with a powerless Emperor?”
“Of course not! I love that the coachman is hiding his power!”
“Ha ha ha! If the former Emperor acts like a coachman, you could say he’s hiding his power.”
Thus, we continued spending some more time together.
“Oh, Jiang!”
“What?”
“We should greet Titosso too, right? I don’t want him to worry about me for no reason!”
“He probably realized we’ve been missing for a week and has been crying his eyes out.”
“It’s not a week. The time in my carriage passes differently from the internal and external world, so it’s only been a day.”
“Aha! So that’s why I woke up a week late!”
No wonder the status ailment duration felt ridiculously long.
For about a day, Titosso shouldn’t be too upset, he might just be sniffing.
I should leave a note so that the worried Masugaki and everyone visiting the Empire can see our well-being.
“Going to send a letter?”
“Yup. What should I write?”
“Assure them that they don’t need to worry.”
That’s right.
Reassurance…It’s best to appeal that a strong person is by my side, right?
“Could I borrow the feather pen, please?”
I borrowed the Emperor’s feather pen and wrote on a blank forbidden book page I found in the Forbidden Research Institute.
Everyone, hello.
I’m doing well.
The Emperor is taking care of me.
I scribbled down something like that.
Mmm, even I feel it’s very trustworthy.
Titosso would surely stop crying!
