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 16.2: The No-Romance School Rule

For me, that was extremely inconvenient. If romance was permitted, it would only encourage a harem situation.

No—of course I had absolutely no intention of building a harem myself, but there was still a huge difference between being bound by the school rule and not being bound.

“The no-romance rule is fine, right?”

So I turned to Fran as if asking for an ally. Since she was the one who had worked with me to come up with the policy, I thought she would surely agree.

That was what I believed, but…

“No.”

She rejected it instantly.

“If this rule disappears, overwrite will become possible even inside the academy. For me, that is very convenient.”

“Overwrite isn’t allowed.”

“………………”

She simply kept smiling and said nothing.

This was bad. Fran was not an ally—she was the enemy.

“The no-romance rule is fine, right?”

Panicking, I now asked Alenaria.

She put a hand to her chin as if thinking, then showed an expression like she had just come up with something and said,

“Ehen! Leave it to me!”

“…As expected, no good.”

She probably didn’t understand anything at all.

This was hopeless. Alenaria was neither ally nor enemy. She was a walking landmine.

“Lucina, please say the no-romance rule is fine.”

Finally I asked—no, begged—Lucina.

I stared at her desperately, wishing with all my heart that she would agree with my opinion.

But her reply was merciless.

“I don’t need a rule like that. I-It’s not like I want to date anyone or anything! I’ve never had any romance experience anyway… Wait, what am I even saying?!”

Her face turned bright red as she looked away.

This was hopeless. Lucina wasn’t an ally or an enemy either, but for some reason she had just self-destructed on her own.

The fact that she blurted out something she didn’t need to say and then got embarrassed about it was very much like her.

So it seemed there was no ally for me in this room.

“Orufusen, no problem, right?”

“…Yeah.”

Honestly I wanted to resist, but unfortunately I had no allies. I had no choice but to give in.

“Then it’s decided.”

The principal nodded with satisfaction and declared,

“Then we will abolish the no-romance school rule. From this moment, the academy permits free romance.”

With that, the no-romance school rule was abolished.

However, at that time I was looking at things too lightly.

I hadn’t realized just how much the no-romance rule had been protecting me.

Or what kind of hardships I would face once it was removed.

I was still seeing things too naively.

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【Side Vista】

An adventurer’s day starts early.

First comes warm-up training.

“Shaa!”

A hundred push-ups, a hundred sit-ups, a hundred dashes, a thousand practice swings.

I steadily worked through the menu Grandma had assigned. At first it took me a whole day, but now I finished everything in two hours.

That was all thanks to the training. Still, it cut into my sleep time, so I wanted to get even faster.

Knowing Grandma, even if I managed it, she might just pile on an even stricter quota.

In that case, I just had to work hard until I could handle that too.

“Ooraaa!”

Once the warm-up was done, it was time for adventurer work. Right now I was joining some old guys’ party and fighting strong monsters together with them.

“Shora!”

I swung my sword and sent a monster’s head flying. Covered in the spray of blood, I turned around and there was the orc’s corpse.

“Got it!”

“Vista, don’t push yourself too hard.”

“You’re too young to be rushing ahead like that.”

While I was doing a fist pump, the guys in my party called out to me.

They were members of the adventurer party “Gray Fang.”

All of them were old men, but their experience as adventurers was insane. Their strength, experience, and mental toughness—everything about them was something I wanted to absorb.

Honestly, at first I was scared. Their faces looked intimidating and the pressure they gave off was no joke.

But now they were comrades I could trust my back to. Someday I wanted to surpass every single one of them and become stronger.

“By the way though…”

After we finished subjugating the monsters, I put my sword away and spoke to the party members.

“Haven’t adventurer conditions gotten way better lately?”

“Conditions?”

“Yeah. This sword was issued to me, but the sharpness is great and the durability is insane.”

“That’s good, ain’t it? Before you were using some beat-up old sword.”

“Yeah. Plus the church treatment fees got cheaper, and now we can use the dorms, so lately I’ve been sleeping really well. Seriously, the treatment is way too good.”

I said that while laughing.

In fact, over the past few weeks, the treatment for new adventurers had genuinely improved a ton.

Honestly, it almost felt like too much.

“That’s good, ain’t it.”

“But why did it suddenly get this good?”

“Apparently it’s thanks to the marquis.”

The party boss, Alegria, said.

“The marquis?”

I didn’t know the name very well, but I had heard of him. I think he was the one who led the academy reforms?

“I’m seriously grateful.”

Whoever he was, I was thankful that he was supporting new adventurers like this.

If I ever met him, I’d thank him with everything I had.