My Taboo Harem! Chapter 3: Regressed?

Or at least that would have been his reaction if this was a normal mont… but nothing about this was normal.

"ARE YOU KIDDING RIGHT NOW?!"

Phei's shout bounced around inside the inflatable house. His voice cracked like he was stuck between pure anger and pure panic.

He had just killed himself. He actually stepped off a building. And then the next thing he knew, he survived and started seeing system screens in his head?

But of course, he did.

He had been so desperate to escape real life that his mind would obviously create so wild fantasy to protect him. That was how it always worked in the web novels he read whenever he got a tiny bit of peace.

In those stories, the main characters got systems and cheat abilities from the dumbest reasons ever.

He once read about a guy who slipped on a banana peel and boom—system unlocked—and he also sohow got a huge, crazy dick. Like nine inches of main-character energy.

So why not him? If soone got a system from a banana peel, then doing it after an actual suicide jump made it look almost fair.

If the other dude got a system and a giant nine-inch thing just from slipping, then Phei might as well turn into a dragon after falling off a building.

It sounded balanced.

Too bad he didn't believe it.

Which made no sense, since he had literally healed from horrible pain and actually touched the floating blue screens. But trauma and logic never lived well together in his brain.

"Fine," Phei said, his voice sharp and shaky. "Let's go all the way with this delusion. System, or whatever you are… what do you an by 'conquer my high school and females of my family'?"

Who was he kidding. He knew exactly what his imagination was trying to do.

He had read so many adult stories in his free ti. He always imagined himself as one of those super powerful guys with good looks and ridiculous stamina.

His favorite book lately was sothing like "Reborn as the Demon King's Heir."

The dude got hit by a truck, woke up with a system, and then built a group of insanely beautiful won who all wanted him like he was the last elevator out of hell.

Phei knew what the system ant.

He just didn't want to accept it.

[CLARIFICATION REQUESTED. DISPLAYING QUEST DETAILS…]

[MAIN QUEST: CONQUER YOUR HIGHSCHOOL BELLEs… AUNT, COUSINS AND HOT RUDE NEIGHBOR!

[OBJECTIVE: To awaken abilities, open cheat codes, and unlock full system functions, HOST must finish at least 10% of the Main Quest.]

[PARATERS: Successfully conquer at least ONE of the following targets:]

[Step-family females (Victoria, Delilah, Sienna)

Hot rude neighbor, Academy Belles (minimum 3)]

[IN SIMPLE TERMS FOR SLOW PEOPLE: FUCK ONE OF THOSE TARGETS.]

[PROGRESS: 0%]

The laugh that ca out of Phei hurt. It was loud, ssy, and sounded like he was losing it.

"Fuck one of them?" He was bending over now, laughing like a maniac. "You want to—oh my god—you want to FUCK those people?"

Each person on that list had made his life hell. Doing that would feel like lying down with the sa demons who carried out his torture every single day.

Victoria, who made him refold towels for four hours. Delilah, who'd recently told Danton to use Phei as paintball target practice. Sienna, who broke his laptop like it was nothing. Or maybe one of the academy belles like Sierra, who forced him to do her essays and still spread rumors about him.

Phei yelled at the blue screen, voice cracking like he was arguing with a ghost.

"If not for revenge, there's literally no way I'd ever do that!" Phei yelled to the screen like it personally offended his ancestors. "Never! I'd rather—"

He stopped.

Hold up.

He was… forgetting sothing? Sothing big?

What was it again?

Phei scratched his ssy hair, his laugh dying halfway like soone unplugged it. A weird cold feeling slid down his spine, the kind that shows up only when things are about to go extrely not-okay.

"System," he said, super slow, like each word weighed sothing. "Uh… what happens if I can't finish the mission? Or… like, even do any part of it?"

The system answered right away, cheerful blue text popping up like it was announcing breakfast instead of doom.

FAILURE TO COMPLETE MINIMUM 10% OF MAIN QUEST WITHIN ONE WEEK WILL RESULT IN HOST DEATH.

Phei blinked two tis like he didn't understand, then he just nodded a little.

"Huh. Figures," he said.

He was already trying to kill himself anyway, so honestly it made so ssed-up sense. Still, wasn't this system kind of too cold? Giving him a huge punishnt like that? One week to go seduce and fuck soone who basically hates his guts? That was…

He felt so weird freedom growing inside his chest. Maybe it was because he was alone inside this stupid bounce house, so he could curse however he wanted, and no one would beat him for it later.

"That's a pretty harsh—" he started, but the screen cut him instantly.

[CORRECTION: DEATH IS NOT A SYSTEM PUNISHNT.]

Phei stopped moving.

HOST HAS REGRESSED ONE WEEK BACK IN TI TO THE MONT OF SYSTEM BINDING.

FAILURE TO COMPLETE MINIMUM QUEST PARATERS WILL RESULT IN TI-LOOP RESET.

HOST WILL RETURN TO THIS EXACT MONT, ONE WEEK PRIOR TO ORIGINAL SUICIDE ATTEMPT.

LOOP WILL CONTINUE UNTIL QUEST IS COMPLETED OR HOST ACHIEVES PERMANENT DEATH THROUGH ALTERNATIVE ANS.

A cold shock rushed through Phei's whole body like soone poured ice water straight into his blood. He jumped from where he was lying and stared around with wide eyes.

"What?"

He didn't know how it was possible, but sothing was different. Sothing big.

He looked down at himself. His clothes.

These weren't the ones he wore when he jumped. Back then he had his usual school uniform, the old one he wore for years. Now he was in his "event clothes," the slightly better shirt and pants lissa forced herself to buy for him whenever she had to show him outside.

Different clothes. Very different.

His hands trembled as he checked his pockets. He took out his phone, the cracked one that was already three generations old. The date on the lock screen made his breath hitched.

One week earlier.

And there was sothing else too. A kids' birthday event. For the Ashford family.

The Ashfords basically owned the whole Ashford Elite Academy. Actually, they owned like half of Paradise City. So of course they could host their youngest daughter's seventh birthday party right inside the school, and of course everyone in the community was invited.

Even a nobody like him.

And these clothes he was wearing right now… yeah, they were exactly the ones he wore at that event.