When absurdity (0.1%) overlaps with absurdity (0.1%), the fact that the Giant Max Mandragora event will cause the Academy’s thatched-roof cottage to be destroyed has already been revisited.
If such absurdity repeats several times, even more amazing things can happen.
The last day of the academy.
The moment the Dragon Principal feels disillusioned with the academy.
Forget about graduation; the academy ends up in total ruins.
“The future will either see all students with similar tendencies at the academy gathering together, leading to an overwhelmingly boring peace, or it will bring an overwhelming onslaught of strife and jealousy!”
An event like this doesn’t come around easily.
With over two thousand students entering each grade, triggering such events requires extremely tricky conditions.
First, there must be a disaster event that drastically decreases the number of academy students.
New student admissions must also be cut off due to global instability.
Seniors either graduate or are sent back to their homelands.
This event is highly likely to occur during an era of war.
“Though, given time, it’s not impossible for such an event to happen even in an Era of Peace!”
But since I’m a veteran player, the possibility of that happening in reality is minuscule.
As long as I’m not preventing any regional collapse events from happening, students are unlikely to abandon the academy en masse.
However, what if that absurdity really occurs?
What if the few remaining students are all set up with the same single personality?
[Wealth Accumulation]
Beyond the externally known greedy instincts, the Dragon Principal harbors another instinct.
[Balance’s Enemy]
World Peace.
Single Order.
Permanent Unity.
Absolute Unchanging.
The Principal, who becomes addicted to the poison of boredom found in unchangeable things, goes berserk while detesting it more than anyone else.
Disharmony. Chaos.
The moment the chaos-filled image of the academy that the Principal desires vanishes, he begins to lose interest in earthly pleasures.
The academy he cherished turns into a burdensome item that no longer satisfies his cravings in an instant.
Labor without reward.
Wasting time without value.
Time without meaning.
With the resolve to end it all, the academy crumbles overnight.
The Principal decides to abandon the academy—not with a gentle departure but by slamming his colossal body into it, smashing it down and burning it with his breath.
He leaves behind a totally wrecked and devastated academy; an ash-covered ending!
“Principal!”
“What is it, human?”
“I want to be a new student!”
He quickly analyzes the personalities of the remaining new students at the academy and pretends to have a personality that doesn’t match.
“I’m not a good, boring, or timid child!”
The remaining children at this school have lost their hometowns, feeling desolate and overwhelmed, remaining at the academy like gentle, good, unmotivated students.
By pretending to be malicious, bad, and highly ambitious, this bizarre ending can be easily handled, regardless of the extreme difficulty level of combat!
“Oh ho?”
“Of course, a fatty lizard like you isn’t fit to teach me! But I still want to experience the academy once!”
“Look at this?”
The Dragon Principal’s destructive desire fades as curiosity emerges, and the nightmare of the academy finally comes to an end.
[You have overcome the 99th death [The Last Day of the Academy].]
[The final 100th death.]
[Massacre Ending]
Except for the 20th-year graduate student route, which aimed to annihilate all living beings.
“This is… impossible.”
“That one… is the mentor of Oknodie?”
My past self.
Back when I was a massive 2m 30cm muscular macho man.
That self was tormented for 20 years in the academy by a crazy professor who had made me a slave in this world, and I was ready to wipe it out in a fit of rage.
A hell where no living being can survive.
In a world replaying that horrifying scene, it is obviously impossible to face the version of myself who has powered up for 20 years.
Even four years would yield a lot.
Twenty years? How could I possibly fight and win against that?
Emotionally, it does resonate.
Twenty years is crossing the line.
How could anyone think of treating me like a slave for 20 years without even awarding a PhD?
I don’t dislike the imperial professors for no reason.
They’re all complete trash!
“Oknodie. Reset with ‘death.’ Before it gets any later, as soon as possible. Before that thing arrives…!”
The desperate shout of the Destroyer.
Behind his cries, tremendous energy flies in.
[The Squadron Magic Field G Form]
The magic barrier that Professor Sadako had reflexively cast shatters, and both of them are flung away.
Rolling on the ground, the Destroyer regains his stance while Professor Sadako kneels, bleeding from the mouth.
The 20th-year graduate version of me, ignited with boundless rage and hatred towards the professors, approaches them.
“Wait a moment!”
“Die.”
“I’ll graduate you!”
The spell [Primal Desolation] that burst from my finger shifts its trajectory, slicing through the mountains far away.
If you know the gimmick, you can block it simply, but if you don’t, it’s an unavoidable blow from the 20th-year graduate route!
“Gradu…ation?”
“Look here. We brought back the formerly exiled professors from the border who were chased away by the imperial faction!”
“Professor Sadako… Professor Destroyer…?”
Our dialogue shifts away from the translation setting of this isekai language to the native Korean characters of our hometown.
Indeed, as another me in the 20th-year graduate route, I sense the oddity of the situation.
“What’s the hottest coin nowadays?”
“Haenampa Coin!”
“What function appears when hiding experience points exceeds 1000?”
“Absolute Stealth!”
“Indeed. You’re not an NPC. Since an NPC, who shouldn’t appear, is here, this means the situation isn’t normal. Are you perhaps the embodiment of my unconscious, and am I in a dream?”
“Not at all! You’re the embodiment of my unconscious, and I’m in your nightmare!”
“Stop lying. Then, does that mean that I, a muscle-macho character obsessed only with dealing damage, summoned a petite heroine who barely reaches my waist?”
Quickly recognizing facts that are hard to accept, as a veteran player!
“No. Think about it the other way around. If I’m real, it means I subconsciously summoned a muscle-macho guy, but if you’re real, it means you subconsciously summoned a petite smiling heroine!”
“That’s absurd.”
With an utterly rational reason, another me agrees.
His fighting spirit fades away.
“Oknodie. Can that monster understand you…?”
“What language on earth is that? Even I, a former member of the hero party that traveled across the world, don’t understand it.”
“How should I explain this?”
As I ponder how to explain it to the professors, the Destroyer firmly intervened, declaring that there was no need to explain.
“I know without you saying it. That appearance. It must be your mentor from the nightmare of strife, Oknodie.”
“Uh-oh. Was I cursed like that too?!”
“Right now, it’s okay. But about your mentor. How do we deal with that nonsensical fighting power?”
Although the willingness to fight has vanished, the unpredictable thought that the Haenampa Coin might drop suddenly lingers.
Here, I had to ensure a safe and stable way to expel my other self.
“It’s simple!”
Far scarier than a Demon King or a Dragon.
If the destruction of the world were to descend upon humanity in the form of a human, it might look like this!
The ultimate being with all the urges for tragedy and the one who can repeatedly recreate such a situation.
The other me with the best specs.
And the 20th-year graduate student.
“Please write me a diploma!”
I made the request to repel that other self.
“…If you get the academy diploma, will Oknodie’s mentor leave? Why…?”
While Professor Sadako, whose hair always covers her face making it hard to decipher her feelings, is one thing, the Destroyer naturally falls into chaos.
“If that’s truly the case, is that sufficient?”
“Yes!”
The Destroyer handed over the diploma with the mindset of, ‘I have nothing to lose.’
As I, a towering 230cm tall specter, clutched the diploma as if I had found the world’s most precious treasure, I began to fade away while smiling warmly.
“Don’t act like a graduate student…”
As if I found the world’s most precious treasure, I rose to the skies, bringing the endless nightmare to its long-awaited end.
*
[You have escaped from the advanced curse of the death experience. Due to escaping from a curse reconstructed with extreme realism, your reward tier rises dramatically.]
[Observation Experience Points +100]
[Action Prediction Experience Points +100]
[Stealth Experience Points +80]
[Persuasion Experience Points +65]
[Infiltration Experience Points +44]
…
…
[Good Child Experience Points +30]
[You have survived a high-difficulty nightmare.]
[You have acquired the title [Witness of Nightmares].]
[You have survived from the moment of doom.]
[You have acquired the title [Witness of the Apocalypse].]
[Causing the eruption of magic surges and magical disasters led to finding proper answers and compromises to save chaotic beings.]
[You have acquired the title [Guide of Salvation].]
[For completing the challenge [This is an Advanced Curse], you receive 100,000 points as a reward.]
[For completing the challenge [Meeting Another Self in a Dream], you receive 200,000 points as a reward.]
[For completing the challenge [How Did You Wake Up], you receive 300,000 points as a reward.]
Witness of Nightmares: You successfully returned from a nightmare where people died like ants.
– Title Equipment Effect: Increases Fear Resistance by 100.
– Title Retention Effect: Increases Fear Resistance by 10.
Witness of the Apocalypse: You witnessed the end occurring in a world leading to destruction.
– Title Equipment Effect: Complete resistance to world-scale domains.
– Title Retention Effect: Partial resistance to world-scale domains.
Guide of Salvation: After repeatedly saving a world on the brink of destruction, you have become a beacon of hope.
– Title Equipment Effect: Blessing [Endless Respect] activates.
– Title Retention Effect: Increases basic favorability of all things in the world by 10.
Endless Respect (Blessing): When activated, all things in the world express respect towards you.
I hit the jackpot.
I acquired 600,000 points.
A total boost of 600 for Skill Experience Points.
“Heehee.”
As I wriggled under the covers and stretched upon waking, the world looked different.
A playthrough ruined by absurdity felt gloomy even with my mere breath, while a playthrough blessed by absurdity felt like I was born with a golden spoon; it was as if I had hit the lottery!
I couldn’t help but feel unending joy as if I’d reaped rewards without effort.
To a veteran, this much wouldn’t even feel like much effort!
But perhaps to the new NPC newbies on their first journey of life, it didn’t look that way.
“Oknodie!”
“Ugh. Isabel?”
Isabel suddenly lunges at me, nuzzling her head against my side.
While hugs are nice, her grip is far too strong.
It’s like holding onto a balloon string that might fly away the moment I let go, desperate in its hold.
“I can’t breathe.”
“I thought I was going to die. How did you get caught by such a dangerous curse?”
“Well, little mouse. What did you do to attract three professors?”
“Uhh, um… the curse I brought to trigger the absurdity jackpot stretch out a bit longer.”
If I said the same thing, Isabel, who was hugging me now, would immediately smack my back.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I cheekily kept quiet and began rummaging through the covers.
…Huh?
I feel like it should be around here.
Not this spot?
No matter how I searched through the bed, there was no sign of the Curse Storage Device.
“It’s okay. You’re not in a nightmare. You don’t have to be so anxious. The ground won’t suddenly collapse or turn into a nightmare.”
Not that I was feeling anxious over it.
As I felt the piercing gaze, I noticed Professor Sadako, standing awkwardly beside the bedside lamp with her long hair, staring here.
In her hand, she held the Curse Storage Device.
‘Busted!’
My attempt to trigger the absurdity was, unfortunately, discovered!
