Chapter 75

Ayame wasn't just stunned; she was immediately shocked!

"No, this is bad! Something big has happened!"

"The star-crossed loner with a tragic past, a history of heartbreak, and a life of wandering is going to find our young lady!"

"A man of Shura-level carnage, whose female companions never meet a good end, whose presence spells doom for every woman he meets, and who even comes with a 'harem of chaos' buff in romance—he's actually, actually going to find our young lady at her school?!"

Ayame's brain raced, already simulating the terrifying events that might occur in the future:

""The eldest daughter of the Jingo Family in a secret meeting with a mysterious man!?""

""The Flower of Aomori suspected of being schemed against, the Guardian of the North falls in love!?""

""The forbidden love between a descendant of Christ and a demon-man!?""

""A servant of the Jingo Family weeps: If I had known, I should have stopped him!""

In an instant, countless gossip headlines raced through Ayame's mind!

What should I do, waaaaaah!!

076: She Insults the Style of This Place

As everyone knows, in the world of █ █, school has always been a very special place.

People dare to do anything in school except study.

In doujinshi, in █ █, teachers dare to █ █ █ █ █ █ students at school, and students dare to use █ to █ █ each other.

Whether it's hidden █ in the library, █ █ in the infirmary with a █ teacher, the bald janitor, the █ █ dorm manager, the dark secrets of student council elections, the student council president being the school board member's sex █ █, █ █ in the sports warehouse after school, the tanned athletic tomboy being █ away by upperclassmen from the sports club, or the "You don't want your honor student boyfriend to lose his guaranteed admission, do you?" trope, or honor students staying in the classroom after school to masturbate only to be secretly filmed and threatened, and so on…

There are too many types to even list!

These are all without even touching upon supernatural crime themes.

What Qi Xing mainly needs to deal with are those malicious supernatural forces.

For example, a foolish boy who finds a hypnosis app and uses it to alter the common sense of the female disciplinary committee member. Or even altering the common sense of the entire classroom during class.

For example, a school teacher who gains hypnotic powers and hypnotizes female students into going out to collectively █ drugs and sell █.

There are also campus paranormal events, such as a haunted school restroom, where a lewd version of Hanako-san appears. Or even large-scale supernatural events that involve the entire school.

Qi Xing has encountered all of these over the past ten years, most of which were things from when he was just starting out. After all, as his power grew stronger, his main battlefield changed as well.

It's rare for him to come back to a high school today, so it counts as reminiscing… Hmm, reminiscing about what? Returning to the fish pond to blast fish?

Anyway, Qi Xing flew near the high school, landed quietly, and then went to the school gate to find the guard, asking him to report and call Jingo Rin out.

However, the guard refused: "Only students' family members can do that."

Aomori Yamada High School, where Jingo Rin attends, although it has a plain name, is actually a truly famous and high-end private school that combines junior high and high school education. It is renowned for its excellent academic and athletic achievements, and it is said that its university admission rate is one hundred percent.

For some reason, this school even has a Baidu Baike entry, which is quite incredible.

In any case, the guard of this high-end private school refused to let the mysterious Qi Xing enter.

"Fine."

Thus, the first silver coin—[Dominion]—quietly appeared from Qi Xing's fingertips.

He didn't actually speak; he just casually tossed the silver coin, letting it flip in the air. The guard's eyes lost focus for a split second, then returned to normal.

But his attitude had suddenly changed.

"Please, go ahead."

The guard said in a calm tone, stepping aside to open the gate, as if his previous insistence had never existed.

Qi Xing stepped inside and lightly tossed the silver coin again, causing the guard's eyes to glaze over once more.

"You just let me in according to the normal procedure,"

he kindly added,

"Everything is reasonable and legal, no problem at all."

The guard nodded, his expression calm: "Indeed, no problem at all."

Then he stood back in his original position, his face maintaining its professional, rigorous expression, completely unaware of anything unusual.

Qi Xing nodded with satisfaction and walked into the school.

The neat and spacious European-style teaching building looked exceptionally elegant under the early spring sun. In the well-landscaped campus, students in crisp uniforms walked in twos and threes, either walking together or standing in the corridors chatting.

Qi Xing walked along the campus path, leisurely looking around. In a strictly managed private elite school, his demeanor certainly didn't look like a normal visitor no matter how you looked at it.

Sure enough, a male teacher in a suit soon noticed him.

"Who are you?" The teacher frowned and stepped forward quickly, his tone polite but wary, "People from outside the school are not allowed to enter the campus at will, please—"

Qi Xing casually tossed the silver coin.

"You don't need to mind me."

The teacher nodded: "Indeed, I don't need to mind."

After saying this, he even naturally adjusted his cuffs, then turned and left as if nothing had happened, as if it hadn't been him who had stopped someone just a moment ago.

After a few steps, a few students in uniforms passed by Qi Xing. Seeing his unfamiliar face, they immediately whispered to each other.

"Huh? Who is this?"

"Definitely not a teacher, and doesn't look like a parent…"

"Could it be the director who said they were coming for an inspection today?"

"Could it be a delinquent from another school wanting to challenge the Bancho to a duel?"

One of the enthusiastic boys stepped forward, wanting to strike up a conversation: "Um, are you—"

The silver coin spun lightly.

"You don't need to mind me."

Qi Xing grinned.

The boy thought for a moment, showing an expression of [it really seems like I don't need to care]. He turned his head nonchalantly and continued chatting with his friends behind him about what to have for lunch today.

Qi Xing's smile flashed and vanished, and he continued walking.

He walked all the way through, and all the teachers and students who tried to talk to him, block him, or even just take a second look at Qi Xing, all naturally chose to ignore him under the influence of the silver coin's divine power.

The entire campus remained orderly, everyone doing their own jobs, with absolutely no one realizing—that just a moment ago, a stranger had walked through the entire campus in broad daylight.

No one stopped him, no one questioned him, and no one even felt anything was wrong.

It's no wonder so many people want the Demon Passport from Doraemon.

It's no wonder Professor Van Stra would be addicted to this divine power.

It's no wonder Qi Xing had seen so many people in the past who, after gaining hypnotic abilities, couldn't help but use them, leading to all sorts of disasters.

It's too absurd. As long as you push it a little further, as long as you gently cross a certain boundary, living people become blank canvases, allowing him to paint whatever he wants.

There might be stronger abilities in this world than mind control/alteration, but there are few abilities more [satisfying] than this.

He could almost hear Sasa's giggling in the shadows.

"Anyway, try to use it as little as possible."

Of course, Qi Xing would still do some things that were relatively mild, temporary, and wouldn't cause permanent negative effects… That said, Professor Van Stra probably thought the same way at the beginning.

He picked another student who looked relatively free, probably on lunch break, and asked with the silver coin: "Do you know Jingo Rin? She should be in the second year."

Qi Xing asked this just as a guess. He felt that Jingo Rin should also be a [famous figure] in the school.

Sure enough, despite being in the state of [Dominion], when the male student heard the name, his expression clearly stiffened, and his eyes became somewhat subtle: "Shingo Family? The second-year Bancho?"

"Yes, yes." Qi Xing raised an eyebrow, finding his reaction quite interesting, "Good, you know her. Do you know where she is? And what are you afraid of?"

"Uh, it's not fear…" The male student subconsciously rubbed his arm, "It's just, that person… she's not from the same world as us."

"Oh?"

"You can't see her at all in school." The male student lowered his voice, "She never attends class meetings, doesn't appear in the hallways during breaks, and I don't even know where she hides during lunch break."

"Club activities? None. Part-time job? None. You could spend ten hours a day at school and still not necessarily see her once."

"You mean she skips class?" Qi Xing chuckled.

"Skips class, and she does it with total confidence. She doesn't arrive at school until noon every day, and as for afternoon classes, she attends if she feels like it; no one can control her."

"Then the teachers don't do anything?"

"They can't."

The male student sighed,

"When a new dean of academic affairs first took office, he wanted to lecture her, but she didn't even show up. Later, I don't know what happened, but the dean wrote a leave note for her himself, saying she had [perfect attendance]."

That's quite creative. Qi Xing rubbed his chin and couldn't help but laugh.

"Her schedule is completely different from ours. Other students arrive at school at 7:00 AM, finish school in the afternoon, and then go home or have club activities. As for her? She's like a ghost in the school during the day, but once school is over—she's gone."

"The most outrageous thing is that she doesn't even dress like a student. Not to mention dyeing her hair gold, she never wears her uniform according to the rules. She doesn't wear the school skirt in the summer, and in the winter, she just throws on a jacket; I don't know which biker gang she got that style from."

"And then?"

"And then…" The male student hesitated, sighed, "And then—she has absolutely no friends."

"No one plays with her?"

"Do you think anyone dares? Occasionally, some newcomers who don't know any better think she's cool and want to talk to her, but she just gives them a look, and the other person is so embarrassed on the spot that they don't know how to respond. Over time, everyone understood—she doesn't want to communicate with anyone at all."

After finishing, the male student looked up at Qi Xing, his expression somewhat complex: "She's at school every day, but it's like she doesn't belong here at all."

Qi Xing gave a light [tsk], his smile deepening a bit.

—This young girl is really quite interesting.

"Speaking of which, are there any ghost stories, supernatural legends, or rumors of upperclassmen or teachers bullying students in your school?"

Thinking of this, Qi Xing decided to ask if there were any old tropes about █-colored stuff in this school.

However, the male student shook his head: "There aren't any now."

"Now?"

"Last year, all of these existed. But after Shingo Family had been enrolled for only a month, no one mentioned these things anymore. The school nurse was replaced, the student council president was replaced, and a PE teacher was taken away by the police."

That's really great.

Although Qi Xing had already noticed it before, the more he investigated, the more he felt—this young girl, Jingo Rin, is playing for real.

She really has suppressed the evil spirits in her surrounding environment to the point of near extinction.

Not just her hometown village, not just the city she lives in, or her school… judging from the attitude of the local demon-hunting families, she has already extended her influence to the entire Aomori Prefecture, and even affected the entire Tohoku region.

At least the entire 10,000 square kilometers of Aomori Prefecture has been purged of evil spirits by her to the point of near extinction. Furthermore, the entire Tohoku region of Japan is about 70,000 square kilometers. Although she can't handle it as cleanly as Aomori, she has enough influence to affect the supernatural ecosystem of such a large area.

At least where Jingo Rin is, the vast majority of people don't need to worry about being drawn into absurd, lewd █ events.

This method of completely clearing away the darkness is simple, violent, merciless, and even seems a bit rough—but for a moment, Qi Xing was still a little envious of her.

Because what she has achieved is exactly what he wants to do.

It's just that what Qi Xing wants to suppress is not 70,000 square kilometers, but 500 million square kilometers. The difficulty is not even comparable.

But at least, in Jingo Rin, Qi Xing saw a glimmer of beautiful hope.

"Okay, I have a rough idea. Do you know where she is now?"

"There are guests from the Fujiwara Group coming to the school for an inspection today." The male student answered obediently, "Earlier, I heard the principal say that he advised them not to go to the school's rooftop. It's probably because he's afraid Shingo Family is there and might cause some trouble."

"Fujiwara Group?" Qi Xing frowned, "What is that?"

"I heard they are here to invest in the school." The male student shrugged, obviously having no interest in such things, "Anyway, it has nothing to do with us ordinary students."

"Invest in the school?"

Qi Xing glanced at the surrounding teaching buildings—to be honest, as one of the best elite private schools in Aomori, the hardware facilities of this school are already at a top-tier level; it's really hard to see how else they could [invest].

However, maybe he just doesn't understand?

"Capital injection? Expansion of school buildings? New research buildings?"

However, how would an ordinary student understand these things?

So… is that really the case?