Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Twelve-pack abs under the tight-fitting clothes...

"Oh, you want to join the gym club?"

Upon hearing "Shota's" words, the girl's eyes lit up. She looked at Shota, who was muscular and burly, and said, "A warm welcome..."

If, well, Shota means if, you were to cut off this girl's head and look at it separately, her face would only be slightly less beautiful than Senjougahara's or Rea's. But paired with that not-so-robust but muscular physique, Shota really couldn't handle it.

"Then I'm sorry to bother you."

Mashiro added a sentence on her own initiative, causing Shota's lips to twitch again.

"Everyone come out quickly! We have a new member who wants to join the club!"

"Really?"

"Great! The gym is going to have a new member!"

"It seems our muscular aesthetics will soon be accepted by most of the girls at Sanhua Women's Academy..."

Four or five girls of similar build emerged one after another. One of them was even more muscular than Shota was now, with the frame and muscles of a Western man…

"May I ask what your name is?"

Before Shota could react, they forcefully pulled him inside.

"Kirino~"

Mashiro directly revealed the nickname that Shota had given himself.

"Kirino, right? What a cute name."

One of the girls "accidentally" touched Shota's soft, water-like breasts, and covered her mouth in surprise, saying, "Um, um, could you tell me how to train my chest muscles while still keeping my breasts soft?"

Heh, hehe.

"I do not know."

Faced with this question, Mashiro obviously couldn't answer it.

Shota smiled wryly to himself, realizing that there might actually be a rich young lady in this world who trains her muscles so hard that ghosts avoid her because she can see them.

unwise……

Chapter 57. Ghost Stories from the Academy

"Sorry to keep you waiting, Shota, ah, Kirino-chan."

After the first class ended, during the ten-minute break, Reiya rushed to the bottom of the school building and saw Shota waiting there for a long time. She said, "How is it? Is our school alright?"

Rea really wants Shota to transfer to her school, but she also knows that it's unrealistic to expect him to keep dressing as a girl. However, she still hopes that Shota will leave a good impression of her school.

So, she looked at the expressionless Shota with bright eyes, trying to get an answer from him.

"The students have so many activities..."

Shota practically spat out those words through gritted teeth. He couldn't even remember how he escaped from that demonic gym—no, bodybuilding club. That place where looking up was heaven and looking down was hell, that place filled with the fragrant sweat of "beautiful women," that place brimming with passion and flesh…

"Rei, it's so good to see you."

Looking at Rea's well-proportioned figure, devoid of any visible muscles, Shota thought, "This is what a young lady should be like!" Although Rea was much stronger than the other girls, she didn't have those devilish muscles! Having escaped the oppressive weight of the "beauties'" hard chests, Shota now only wanted to hold Rea, who exuded a truly feminine fragrance and possessed a soft body, in his arms and rub against her...

Otherwise, he might develop estrophobia.

"Um, um..."

Upon hearing Shota's words, Rea was momentarily stunned. After a few seconds of hesitation, she said somewhat awkwardly in a low voice, "No, it's just that I'm so glad to see you..."

Shota was still lost in his muscle-bound state and didn't hear Rea's words. After a long while, he calmed down and asked, "Hey, Rea, are there any ghost stories at school?"

“Yes,” Rea continued, “the anatomical model in the biology classroom, the thirteen-step staircase, the red-cloaked monster, the self-playing piano, the Beethoven portrait in the music classroom, the walking Ninomiya statue, Hanako in the toilet, the mysterious corridor, the sound of a ball bouncing in the gymnasium, the ghost on the track, the baby in the science classroom, the third toilet on the first floor, the eyes of the statue at the school gate, the mysteriously disappearing underwear, the one under the banyan tree…”

"and many more."

Shota interrupted Rea and asked, "Does your school have all of these?"

"Hmm, there are others, like vampires who appear at night... ah."

Rea suddenly clapped her hands, and said with some realization, "I'm a vampire now too. Maybe I should come over tonight and see if I'll run into any of my kind."

"Stop, stop."

Shota isn't a professional detective, so it's impossible for him to investigate every single ghost story. Besides, the demonic energy in this academy is far less abundant than at his own school; at most, there are only three or five harmless little monsters, which couldn't possibly have caused so many academy ghost stories. It seems most of them are just made up by humans.

"I won't investigate them one by one. I'll just write down all the smells and then go to each one."

Shota said to Rea, "See you at noon, class is about to start."

"Oh~ See you at noon then. How about I take you to the school cafeteria to try their signature dishes? They have some of my favorite foods when I was alive..."

Do you think the restaurant can provide enough food?

Shota spread his hands and said, "Then your school will have another rumor about an insatiable woman in the cafeteria."

"laugh."

Rei smiled and said, "Then I'll be going now, I'll contact you later."

"Ah."

Shota waved goodbye to Rea.

"Hungry."

A voice suddenly came from Shota's body.

"Yes Yes."

Shota nodded twice, glanced at the camera's position, turned to the side, inserted the straw into the Tetra Pak, and placed it beside his head. Soon, Shiro's little face reappeared on either side of Shota. She leaned forward slightly, put the straw in her mouth, and then gulped down her juice.

From an outsider's perspective, Shota now looks more like a two-headed person, right?

"After you finish drinking, get to work hard, eliminate the threats around you, and then go home happily."

Once he focused on his "work," Shota became much more efficient. He first approached the two girls who seemed to have some spiritual power, but finding that they were only visible, he completely ignored them. Afterward, he went to knock on the doors of several spirits in the school.

"that……"

"Hmm? Can you see me?"

"Ah, of course I can see it."

Shota asked the ghost girl in front of him, who was wearing the same school uniform as Rea but whose figure was somewhat ethereal and who seemed to be of the level of a bound spirit, "Have you registered?"

"Register?"

The ghost girl seemed surprised by Shota's sudden question and instead asked, "Aren't you... afraid of me?"

"No one is afraid of food," Shota laughed awkwardly, "I deal with this type of thing all the time, so I'm used to it."

"Is that so?"

After hearing Shota's words, the girl ghost froze for several seconds before baring her teeth and claws, trembling as she threatened, "Please, please don't come any closer, I'll kill you! Don't try to kill me..."

Have you ever killed anyone?

"without……"

Have you ever scared anyone?

"I was accidentally startled... Why are you asking these questions?"

"No, no, I just want to ask why you're here. Why don't you just die... and become a Buddha?"

Shota waved his hand, indicating that he had no intention of eating the other party.

"Because I still have things to do... so I cannot become a Buddha so early."

A trace of sorrow appeared on the girl's face when this was mentioned.

"Then you should register."

Shota said, "Even ghosts have a registered address and those don't. Those without a registered address are unregistered and can be killed off easily without anyone caring."

"Is it that serious?"

Hearing Shota's words, the girl ghost seemed not to have expected such a thing to happen. As a bound spirit, this was the first time she had ever heard of monsters having to register.

"That's about it. Are you able to leave the school?"

"……cannot……"

"It seems he had a terrible life. How did he die?"

"I don't remember..."

"That must have been so terrible that you don't even want to think about it."

The girl looked embarrassed.

"Just kidding, just kidding."

Shota looked around and pointed to a tree, saying, "Come here at 11 p.m. tonight and I'll have someone come and register you. If you'd like to stay in the world after you've finished what you're doing, you can consider having someone build a small altar for you—oh no, a local shrine. If you're lucky, you'll be the guardian deity of this academy in a few decades."

"Become a god?!"

"What's the big deal?"

Shota glanced at the clueless ghost and said, "There are eight million gods in Japan. One more or one less won't make a difference. The difference between a yokai and a god is just a matter of perspective. With a little effort, you can figure it out quickly. That's all, I'm very busy. Goodbye."

"Wait... I haven't asked your name yet..."

"Shouta, Kousaka Shota."

Shota waved goodbye to the ghost woman and headed towards his next target. But he didn't seem to have asked the girl's name... Maybe he'd have a chance?

"..."

"..."

"Oh my, isn't this the Gluttonous Lord from the Gluttony Group!"

"Natto-kun, what are you doing?"

Shota crouched down, looked at the natto-loving boy with blue and white stripes on his head, green and white stripes in his hand, and strawberries tied around his waist, and asked, "It doesn't seem like he's doing anything good."

"Um, um, um, um... Ah!" Natto-kun suddenly said, "Yuki-onna asked me to take some clothes home for her to wear!"

"Snapped--"