[Read up to chapter 5, you won't regret it.]

Haru Mizuki died the lamest death possible: alone in his room, playing a hentai VRMMO. No heroic sacrifice. No tragic accident. Just... pathetic.
But instead of oblivion, he wakes up in Aethelgard.
Cursed by Chronia, Goddess of Time, Haru gains an ability no one else has: he can't stay dead. Every time he dies, he loops back to his last checkpoint. What seems like a curse becomes his greatest weapon, infinite retries mean infinite opportunities to learn, train, and seduce.

And seduce he must. Because Haru's cheat ability, Touch of the Goddess, lets him steal powers from anyone he touches... but it works best through intimate contact.

Armed with death loops, a hacker-class system that lets him sabotage rival players, Haru begins building the ultimate multi-species harem. But he's not the only player in this game, and they all want the same thing: absolute domination.

That was the time it took for the central courtyard to turn into something completely different.


Haru was in the same column. He hadn't left. He hadn't spoken to anyone. He just stayed there with his back against the cold stone, observing what happened when you put five hundred students in a closed space with information that each one needed from the other and no real reason to trust anyone.


Groups of two, three, five. Forming, breaking, reforming. Students approaching with that specific posture of someone who wants to seem casual and isn't being casual at all — shoulders slightly tilted, envelope held in a way that showed without showing, eyes scanning like someone evaluating before speaking.


Negotiation happened in whispers that weren't as low as their owners thought.


"I have two fragments from sector E, I need D,"


"I don't have D but I know who does, it costs,"


Chapter 122 - Market