Nani?
He just admitted it like that?
The Japanese high school students, who harbored various thoughts despite their young age, revealed looks of blank confusion.
It wasn't just the idol, Koromo Shiranui.
Being in their restless adolescence, they could have been dismissed at three o'clock. Who would be willing to drag on for an extra class until four?
So, while they didn't say it to his face, secretly they were all sneaking around, preparing to make things difficult for this incoming Folklore teacher, hoping to make him realize the difficulty and back off.
As a result...
You just surrendered like that?
"What? Have you guys seen a ghost? You wouldn't doubt something you haven't seen, right?"
Seeing them stay silent, the Onmyoji on the podium seemed conversely surprised.
"Huh?"
This rhetorical question stumped them.
"What, is it impossible to understand?"
On the podium, Roser asked curiously instead. Then, looking at their reactions as if he had figured something out, he put on a heartbroken expression: "You guys don't actually believe in curses, or the grudges of ghosts, do you?"
Instantly.
The girl in the corner couldn't hold it back anymore.
He's mocking us, right?
He is absolutely mocking us, right?
Bang.
A girl dressed as a gyaru slammed her table and stood up: "Who would believe in that kind of stuff!!"
The others also nodded hurriedly: "Right, right, right, we are all high school students, how could we believe in these urban legends?"
"Exactly, what era is this? I remember brainwave control technology is already very mature, and virtual reality games are about to be released."
"Who would be interested in that kind of thing."
Amidst the chirping sounds of agreement, Roser nodded thoughtfully: "It seems you are all clear on what's going on, so I don't need to explain much."
"Uh..."
The standing gyaru's face stiffened.
The others also looked at each other in dismay, all feeling a bit awkward.
Just a moment ago they were pretending not to know...
In the corner, the girl named Yukino Yukinoshita blushed, silently covering the side of her face with her hand, pretending to be immersed in the ocean of knowledge.
The relentless rhetorical questions had dragged her in too.
Suddenly.
A very small female voice muttered: "But didn't Mom and Dad hire you?"
The gyaru next to her immediately perked up and stood again: "I remember you are that paranormal expert, very famous in Shinjuku. I think you're called the Abe no Seimei of the Reiwa Era or something."
"Right, right, my dad mentioned it too."
The students instead began trying to defend something.
Good guys.
You even investigated my identity clearly, yet you say you're not interested.
As expected, they are still young; a little provocation and they expose everything.
Roser narrowed his eyes and decisively detonated the classroom with a single sentence.
"It's all a routine. It's fake."
"Hah?!!"
The students were dumbfounded.
It can work like that?
"I did study at Sengen Shrine and I am formally employed as an Onmyoji, but as for those yokai and ghosts and the like, I have never encountered them."
Students: ???
Looking at the students who were even more confused, Roser decisively began to whitewash himself.
"Mrs. Yamada had psychological issues. Mr. Takahashi's case was due to aging pipes and rusting reinforced bars...
Most cases are psychological causes triggered by light projection, rusting steel, bursting bubbles in water pipes... and so on.
I also cannot prove whether the things I have researched with my heart's blood are useful.
But regrettably, most of the time, the role I play is merely that of a psychiatrist.
In fact..."
Roser glanced at them nonchalantly: "I believe in science more than you do!"
"Can it work like that?"
"Uso (Liar), if it's like this, and I didn't know the truth, I might have actually believed it."
"Is this the world of adults?"
"Why do I feel that this teacher seems more real than other spirit mediums?"
"Also, h-how do I feel that the scriptures on the teacher's Kariginu are moving..."
"You saw it too? I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me!"
With Roser's posture, plus his appearance...
The boys and girls, who were inherently just students, were instead becoming uncertain.
A certain Roser's tens of thousands of dollars were truly not spent in vain.
Unknowingly, students had already started addressing Roser as Sensei.
[Ding, slight influence caused to Miko Iino, Heavenly Dao Jades +0.1]
[...Influence caused to Koromo Shiranui, Heavenly Dao Jades +0.08]
[...Influence caused to Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, Heavenly Dao Jades +1.2]
[...Influence caused to Yukino Yukinoshita, Heavenly Dao Jades +0.3]
...
In just a short while.
Roser's Heavenly Dao Jades reserve skyrocketed directly from 0.37 to 2.1 units.
Even if the functions weren't unlocked yet, they could be used to enhance his base attributes or talent abilities.
And acquiring Heavenly Dao Jades was also very simple.
Walking the path of heaven, ruling over all of creation.
Whether the influence caused to others or the world is negative or positive, one can obtain Heavenly Dao Jades.
In fact, the method to quickly obtain Heavenly Dao Jades is very simple.
Chopping people.
Chopping a lot of people.
If people are chopped to death by you, the influence on others is definitely incredibly huge.
Of course, this belongs to "draining the pond to get all the fish."
And it's easy to get focused and killed. Anyone who underestimates modern weapons is a pure idiot.
Even in Japan with its lackluster armaments, any carbon-based lifeform would be wasted.
Unless you stop being human.
Besides that...
"Do people with higher status contribute more Heavenly Dao Jades? And if it's Heavenly Dao Jades provided by a protagonist of destiny, it multiplies by more than ten times."
Roser looked thoughtfully at a certain middle-parted youth pretending to be a slacker.
It seems his spawn point is quite good.
Shuchiin Academy has gathered almost more than half of the children of Japan's big shots.
There's also Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, the male lead of Classroom of the Elite, and Yukino Yukinoshita, the female lead of OreGairu, transferring over...
It's simply like God is helping him!
"Alright..."
Roser clapped his hands, interrupting the discussion, and pointed directly at Brother Ayanokoji, who was pretending to be transparent but had no emotion in his eyes.
"...Talk time is over. Kiyotaka Ayanokoji, right? Go to the school store and buy me a few mannequins, and also buy forty-four copies of The Compendium of Folk Exorcism. We'll use them in class later."
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji: ...Those thick books, dozens of them would weigh at least forty or fifty catties, right?
Why does it feel like this charlatan is targeting him a bit?
Roser: A Golden Cash Cow, ah. It eats grass, but squeezes out gold... wouldn't you cherish it?
"Um..."
A boy hesitated for a moment, but still shouted: "Sensei, didn't you say you don't believe in the existence of ghosts either? Then what class are you teaching us?"
After all, this Teacher Roser is indeed not a charlatan; he is a psychiatrist...
"That's right, I don't believe it."
Roser looked down at the youthful, energetic faces below, whose average attractiveness was ridiculously high, and sighed in his heart.
He couldn't tell who the dead person was at all.
Sure enough.
This urban legend stuff doesn't follow logic at all. Maybe if they went to the hospital, their indicators would be healthier than living people.
Forget it, forget it, it doesn't matter. Even if it's a dead person, you have to squeeze out milk for me!!!
He suddenly straightened his expression: "But your fathers and mothers are unwilling to take the risk.
Even if it's only one percent, one in a thousand, one in ten thousand...
But as parents, how could they let their child take even a sliver of a risk of death?"
"Is... is that so..."
The boys and girls were slightly embarrassed.
The expression of emotion by East Asians is somewhat reserved.
Although finding a charlatan to be their teacher is shameful, the love is real and undiluted!!
For a moment, many students thought of the warm interactions with their parents, and tenderness appeared on their faces.
But the next moment.
Roser changed the subject: "Moreover, it would be regrettable if you died, but the problem is that if that curse is real, the scope isn't just you guys.
It's everyone related to Class 3.
Your parents are also included.
If you die, they can just be sad for a bit and create another smurf account.
But if they are the ones who get hit, who will spend all that family fortune?"
Saying this, he looked at Ayanokoji again with deep meaning: "Who will sit in the seat obtained after so much scheming?"
This made Ayanokoji bewildered.
What does he mean?
Could it be that he was actually sent by his father?
Did that damned old man come to catch him again?
Instantly, the emotionless Ayanokoji felt the suffocating sensation of encountering a natural predator.
While the others broke their defense.
What the hell?
What do you mean 'just be sad for a bit and create a smurf account'?
Give me back my touching emotion, you bastard sensei!!!
"Anyway, you don't think I appeared here because of your will, do you? Recognize your own weight, brats."
Facing the angry glares of the students, Roser lazily yawned.
The fact that they can create so many Heavenly Dao Jades for me is all because of their parents' status.
Otherwise, he wouldn't believe that a normal person could provide 0.1 Heavenly Dao Jades with just a slight influence.
One Heavenly Dao Jade alone could increase his physique by thirty percent.
PS: Virtual reality technology is slightly more mature than in reality here, just enough to bring out Asuna from her middle school period.
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