On how PhDs become human evil

"Children shouldn't ask about adult matters, nor should they try to learn them." Bai Jie glared at her angrily, then looked at Noin and Brunhilde, "Noin, Brunhilde, how strong are these guys?"

"Kiba Yuto, Genova, and Toujou Koneko are all excellent in close combat, but Kiba Yuto's use of the divine weapon is still immature, with many unnecessary movements, and more importantly, his mental development is still immature. Genova has plenty of strength, but his combat lacks strategic thinking; he just charges in recklessly. I suggest he receive intensive training. As for Toujou Koneko..."

Brunhilde pursed her lips when the kitten was mentioned.

"If the kitten is willing to accept her power, her strength can make a qualitative leap, but if she doesn't accept it... this is probably the only way."

"I see. A force unwilling to accept... I'll talk to Kitten later. Noin, what about you?"

"It's alright, he can barely fight, but he lacks the ability to kill with one blow, and his control over his own power is also terrible."

Noin's words immediately made Rias and Akeno Himejima's expressions freeze.

Actually, among their peers, the two are already considered to be quite strong. However, Noin is an apostle of God created by God, and he is strong enough to fight on equal terms with Hajime Nagumo, who is overpowered. In terms of strength, Rias and Akeno Himejima are slightly inferior to Yue, so it is no wonder that they were easily defeated by Noin.

After sending Noin and Brunhilde back, Bai Jie looked at Rias and the others: "You all heard what I just said, right? Although I didn't want to push you to your limits because of Sirzechs, your performance forced me to go all out—Kiba, come here."

When his name was called, Kiba Yuto came out, and as soon as he stepped out, Bai Jie tossed something to him.

"Boom!"

Kiba Yuuto instinctively reached out to catch it, but the moment it touched him, it slammed his hand into the ground.

"I forgot to mention, that thing is very heavy." Bai Jie's voice finally came. "That's a specially made protective gear. As long as you wear it, it will keep you in an environment with fifty times the gravity. You'd better take this thing and find a waterfall to stay under, and at the same time keep activating your so-called forbidden hand. You can take off the protective gear whenever you can move freely."

Looking at the weighted protective gear that he could only move a tiny bit even with all his might, Kiba Yuto couldn't help but swallow hard. He had done weight training before, but this was on a completely different level from Bai Jie's!

"Then it's the two of you, Rias and Akeno Himejima. These are your special training tools."

Bai Jie took out two balls.

"This is a magic collector that collects magic at a fixed rate. All you have to do is keep inputting magic into it. If the rate at which magic is output exceeds the rate at which magic is collected, this magic collector will directly activate spatial teleportation and deliver 500 grams of wasabi to your mouths."

Rias and Akeno Himejima, who had initially thought it was just a small prop, immediately changed their expressions!

500 grams of mustard? That's seriously pushing them to the limit!

"By the way, if the output speed is too slow, it will self-destruct because it doesn't have enough collected magic power, and it will spray you with chili powder."

A demon! This guy is definitely a demon! Even Rias, a pure-blooded demon, couldn't have come up with such a torturous method!

With a hearty smile, Bai Jie said, "If you don't want to eat wasabi or chili powder, then work hard to improve your magic control. When you can continuously input magic into a hundred balls without them exploding, the special training will move on to the next stage."

"As for you two, Genova and Kitten..."

Section 271, Question 7: Between Cleveland and Glorious, who should marry?

Inside the Supernatural Research Department, Rias and all the Gremory Familia members were slumped over the table, even the usually energetic Genova was lifeless like a corpse.

The reason everyone has become like this is simply because of training.

Since their instructor changed from Chen to Bai Jie, the group has not had a single day of rest. Apart from eating and sleeping, all their time has been spent on training.

Genova reluctantly raised his head and looked at Kiba Yuuto, who was also a knight: "Kiba, how's your training going?"

Raising his arm, which was still clad in gravity-protected gear, Kiba Yuto smiled wryly and said, "I've improved a bit since before, but I still can't dodge even a single sword strike from Master Bai Jie."

The training plan that Bai Jie devised for Kiba Yuto focused on improving his mental concentration, reaction speed, and basic physical strength. Specifically, it involved standing under a large waterfall and being washed by it while enduring fifty times the force of gravity, while also facing Bai Jie's unpredictable attacks. If he could dodge five sword strikes in a row, he would barely be considered to have completed the training.

However, a week has passed since the start of training, and Kiba Yuto still can't dodge a single sword strike. He's already exhausted himself just from enduring the impact of the waterfall, and he simply doesn't have the extra energy to deal with Bai Jie's attacks.

"Genova, what about you?"

"I'm worse off than you. Every day I have to face different different-dimensional mazes. If I can't solve the puzzles, I can't get out at all."

Considering that Genova is single-minded, Bai Jie's training plan for her focuses on honing her thinking ability. In the morning, afternoon, and at midnight, Bai Jie would prepare a temporary alternate dimension maze for Genova and set up many challenges inside. Each challenge required the use of one's brain to pass.

Genova has always fought with sheer force and brute strength, hardly ever using his brain. You can imagine what kind of treatment he would receive during training.

Of course, these two are not the most unfortunate. The most unfortunate are Rias and Akeno Himejima, the captain and vice-captain.

"Minister, how much wasabi did you eat today?"

"Eighteen times, and I was sprayed with chili powder twelve times. Now my nose and mouth are numb. What about you, Zhu Nai?"

"About the same as you, Minister."

If you transfer too much magic power, it will make you eat wasabi; conversely, if you transfer too little, it will explode and spray chili powder all over your face. The magic control training device that Bai Jie specially made for the two of them can be said to be excessive in terms of its cruelty. Thanks to this, for the past week, no matter what the two of them eat, they can only taste wasabi and chili.

How can the word "miserable" even begin to describe this?

"Haha, everyone's been trained really well."

Since she was not a combatant, Aisia, as a bishop, was included in Bai Jie's list of those who did not need special training. All she had to do every day was to repeatedly use the artifact to become more proficient in its control.

Aisha's artifact, the "Smile of the Virgin Mary," is a divine artifact that can indiscriminately heal all races, including demons, angels, and fallen angels. Although Bai Jie knows a lot about it, he is new to the area and doesn't know how to train Aisha, so he can only give her basic training.

"But what about Kitten? She went to training with the minister too, right?"

Yes, among the many family members in the club room, only Toujou Koneko is missing. As a fellow first-year student, Asia still cares about Toujou Koneko.

Hearing this, Rias sighed: "We don't know where the kitten went either, because Bai Jie took the kitten away on the first day of training. He said it was to draw out the hidden power within the kitten."

"The hidden power within the kitten?"

"Aishia doesn't know yet, does she? Kitten is a Nekomata, and the most powerful Nekomata in the Nekomata clan. She has a high talent not only in demonic arts but also in fairy arts. One of Bai Jie's tasks is to let Kitten learn fairy arts and demonic arts."

Actually, Rias had protested to Bai Jie about drawing out the power within the cat. Because of some things that happened in the past, Toujou Koneko was very resistant to her own power and had never been willing to accept it. Otherwise, with the power of the Nekomamushi clan, how could she have been reduced to fighting with only her body?

Therefore, in order to prevent the kitten from being hurt by its past memories again, Rias was unwilling to let Hakuge draw out the kitten's power.

However, Rias still couldn't stop Haku, because Haku used a space-time teleportation magic to escape with the kitten, and Rias couldn't catch up at all.

"I can only pray that the kitten is alright."

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In a deep mountain in Japan, relying on his god-slayer physique, Bai Jie overcame all obstacles along the way and arrived at a valley at the deepest part of the mountain.

At the bottom of the valley is a river. On the larger section of the riverbank to the right, two temporary tents are pitched. Right now, a group of people are sitting around a campfire by the river, seemingly having dinner.

Upon seeing Bai Jie approach, the black-haired woman, dressed in a rather revealing kimono, immediately waved and said, "Ah, it's the teacher! Over here!"

Arriving next to these people, Bai Jie looked at the things on the ground and sighed: "I specially brought the kitten here, and you feed it instant noodles? Wali, Heige."

Upon hearing Bai Jie's words, a young man with long white hair in the crowd immediately raised his head: "Who are we people who have no fixed abode? For convenience, we naturally eat instant noodles, and they taste pretty good too."

Vali Lucifer, that's the name of the white-haired man. To be honest, it was just a coincidence that Bai Jie knew him.

A week ago, in order to get the kitten to accept his power, Bai Jie found Sazex and learned the reason why the kitten was unwilling to accept his power and the past events. As the saying goes, a heart disease requires a heart remedy. Since the kitten's problem lies with her sister, finding her sister should be able to solve some problems.

Fortunately, Sazex still had the documents from that time, so Bai Jie easily learned the name of the kitten's older sister, Tajo Kuroka, who was the black-haired beauty who had just greeted Bai Jie.

Once you know the name, things become simple. In the Type-Moon universe, there are countless magic spells that work once you know the name. So, in just half a day, Bai Jie found Kuroka with the kitten and also met Vali, who had been with Kuroka at the time.

Bai Jie was not unaware of Vali; he occasionally heard the name from Chen. The reason was simple: Vali was the current White Dragon Emperor, and the mortal enemy of the Crimson Dragon Emperor.

Naturally, the two groups couldn't have a proper conversation upon their first meeting. Even more so after learning that Bai Jie was Chen's husband, Vali immediately attacked, declaring, "Only I can defeat the Crimson Dragon Emperor; I don't need anyone else." Bai Jie, lacking any adult manners, chose to beat this immature kid from the White Dragon Emperor into a pulp, making him question his own existence.

Incidentally, while beating up Vali, Bai Jie also beat up Hei Ge, then made her sign a self-mandated essay, vowing to wholeheartedly teach the kitten magic and sorcery.

P.S.: I discovered today that both Cleveland and Glorious can get married, but there's only one wedding ring available. Which one should I marry?

Section 272, Part 8: Let's wait until Bear Grylls' affection level is full before getting married.

When Bai Jie asked about her studies, the little cat, who was quietly eating noodles, raised her head and said, "Teacher, all those obstacles you cleared along the way were set up by me, but they were of no use to you at all."

"Ah...is that so?"

Bai Jie was somewhat embarrassed. To be honest, he only sensed that he had encountered obstacles on the road, but because of his Godslayer physique, he crashed into them without thinking and didn't pay any attention to the obstacles at all.

I never imagined that all those obstacles were set up by the kitten. It must have been to show him his learning achievements, but unfortunately, Bai Jie is a god-slayer.

Patting her younger sister's head, Hei Ge laughed and said, "Bai Yin, I told you before, magic and such won't work on him. His constitution will nullify all supernatural energy."

"Teacher, that's a foul."

"This is my constitution, there's nothing I can do about it. To have any effect on me, you'd need to be at least at the level of the Four Great Demon Kings."

Heige and Xiaomao's faces immediately darkened upon hearing these words.

Listen to this! Is this even human language? It's clearly meant to be offensive!

After adjusting her mindset to avoid breaking down, the kitten asked, "What are you doing here, teacher? Has Rias and the others finished their training?"

"Ah, training is temporarily over for today, because the day after tomorrow is Parents' Visit Day, so I'm giving you a week off. I'm here to pick you up now," Bai Jie said. "You don't know how annoying Rias has been, coming to ask me every day how you're doing ever since you left. It's driving me crazy."

Generally speaking, being spoken to by a beautiful girl like Rias from time to time is something every normal man would look forward to, but for Whitebeard, it became an annoyance—he was a block of steel.

"Well, that's all for now. Thank you for taking care of the kitten these past few days, Kuroka and Vali. I'll pay you back later."

"For me, being able to fight you and the Crimson Dragon Emperor with all my might is the best reward."

Very well, Vali's reward is to get beaten up. Bai Jie really didn't expect that anyone would like to be beaten up, but since he said so, Bai Jie couldn't refuse.

"Fine, I'll come find you in a couple of days and beat you until you cry. Hei Ge, what about you?"

"My reward... how about you have a child with me, buddy?"

"If you want to die, just say so. Don't be shy." Bai Jie's eyes suddenly turned extremely cold.

When Bai Jie glared at him, even Hei Ge felt a chill run down his spine and immediately raised his hands to show his surrender: "Okay, okay, I was just joking. As long as you don't mind me coming to your house for a meal from time to time, that's my reward."

"You keep coming over to my house for meals, are you some kind of sneaky devil? But if it's just that, then it's fine."

Grabbing the kitten's hand, Bai Jie drew a magic circle beneath his feet.

"Then I'll be leaving with the kitten. You guys do as you please."

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Three days later, the tripartite meeting between the three major forces of demons, angels, and fallen angels arrived as scheduled. To ensure that the tripartite meeting would not be disrupted by troublemakers from the three forces, the entire Kuoh Academy was surrounded by a thick barrier.

Within the barrier surrounding Kuoh Academy, small teams formed by the three major forces of demons, angels, and fallen angels patrolled and guarded the area, filling the entire academy with a solemn atmosphere.

Walking down a corridor in the school building, Rias was explaining something to Bai Jie.

"The meeting will be held in the school building's conference room. The representatives of the three forces present are: the demons, represented by the great demon king Lucifer; the angels, represented by the highest-ranking Michael; and the fallen angels, represented by Governor Azazel. My retinue and I will be listening in. Additionally, you, teacher, and the White Dragon Emperor Vali will also be listening in."