I Got Reincarnated as a Villainous Noble, and When I Tried to Create an All-Male Academy to Avoid a Bad Ending, for Some Reason the Gender Ratio Reversed? - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: For Some Reason the Gender Ratio Reversed

“Lord Ol, the list of this year’s enrollees has been finalized.”

I got reincarnated as the villainous noble in an eroge world.

As the eldest son of a marquis house—Orufusen Starz Island.

Orufusen was exactly the kind of high-spec person perfectly suited to be a villain.

He had good looks, possessed enormous magical power, and had enough academic ability to always achieve top grades at the academy. Truly perfect.

On the other hand, his behavior with women was the absolute worst.

At the academy he always had women surrounding him, threw his power around, and acted completely arrogantly.

In the end, he even laid hands on the crown prince’s fiancée, earned the king’s hatred, and met his doom ending with execution.

When I recalled the memories of that game from my previous life at the age of ten, I spent the next five years desperately trying to avoid those doom flags.

I thought I had made all the preparations possible.

“Here is the list of enrollees.”

“Thank you.”

“Thanks to your brilliant policies, Lord Ol, the trends among the enrollees have changed dramatically compared to last year. The result is beyond imagination.”

“I see.”

I received the paper from the maid Rose and floated a fearless grin.

To avoid the doom flags, I carried out all sorts of measures. Among them, the one I focused on most was academy reform.

In the original story, once someone turned fifteen, anyone of a certain social status was obligated to enroll in the academy.

There, they could study academics and magic, and those who achieved good grades could join the kingdom’s direct knight order or pursue magical research, greatly widening their future prospects.

For commoners, it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to turn their lives around.

On the other hand, most nobles had no motivation to attend the academy and simply did whatever they pleased.

And the typical villainous noble, Orufusen, abandoned his studies and devoted himself to womanizing.

He built a harem inside the academy, laid hands on women he should never have touched, and as a result got executed.

In other words, for me, the academy itself was the doom flag.

That’s when I came up with an idea.

—I should just make an academy full of guys.

If there were only men, there would be no problem. I couldn’t build a harem, and I could avoid the doom ending.

That’s why I went straight to my father, had him open a connection with the academy director, and together with my fiancée, we created a new academy.

We abolished compulsory enrollment, removed distinctions of social status, prohibited romance, and made it so that only one’s own ability could push you forward.

—An academy based purely on merit.

“Fu ha ha ha…”

While grinning, I leaned back in the chair in my room and gazed at this year’s enrollment list.

Surely almost all the enrollees would be men.

With that conviction, I glanced at the paper—and what was written there made me doubt my eyes.

“…Huh?”

The names of the enrollees were listed neatly at the top. That was fine.

The problem was the gender breakdown.

“…Huh?”

I couldn’t help but doubt my eyes.

No matter how much I rubbed them, it was clearly written there in black and white.

An unthinkable number.

“—Only two guys?!”

Out of two hundred enrollees, only two were male. Everyone else was female.

In other words, the gender ratio was 1:99.

“There’s no way that’s possible!”

I couldn’t help slamming my hand hard on the desk.

I had gone to all the trouble of trying to create an all-male academy—why had the gender ratio reversed?

It made absolutely no sense.

“Hey, Rose, is this a dream?”

“No. This is reality. The ideal reality that you yourself created, Lord Ol.”

When I unconsciously asked the maid, she smiled with satisfaction.

“You really have changed, Lord Ol. You used to be the enemy of women, but now you could even be called the ally of all women.”

“…Is this a dream?”

“Fufu, please don’t joke. The enrollment ratio says it all. This is reality.”

“Fu ha ha ha…”

“As expected, that’s the reaction I anticipated. As befits my master, Lord Ol.”

“Fu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…”

To Rose, who murmured with flushed cheeks, I could only manage a dry laugh.

Because every single action I took had backfired.

And unfortunately, my fate had already been sealed.

I—Orufusen Starz Island—was confirmed to enroll as the top student in this bizarre academy where the gender ratio had gone completely mad.

And the entrance ceremony was one week away.

“…Spare me.”

I just wanted to avoid the doom ending.

I tried to break the doom flags, but it seemed I had fatally messed something up.

And so I failed.

However, at that moment I was still taking things too lightly.

I still underestimated what it meant that the gender ratio had reversed and how far the situation had deviated from the original story.

I still underestimated the fact that this would instead promote a harem.

—and the true terror of being surrounded by women.

I was still taking it too lightly.