Heroes Return

"Teacher Lin, of course it's related. I was saved by a bag of spicy strips back then. I ate that spicy strip with tears in my eyes." Miyamoto Spicy Strips said with great reminiscence, "That taste made me realize that it wasn't just the spicy strips that saved me, but the god of spicy strips. I still haven't forgotten the taste of that bag of spicy strips after avenging my parents."

"But what does this have to do with you not coming to class? You nagging jerk!"

"That bag of spicy strips opened up a bright path in my life. It taught me a whole new way of cutting food. To hone my skills, I started making spicy strips non-stop. Then I found myself hopelessly addicted to them!" Miyamoto Spicy Strips said, holding a bag of spicy strips. "So I changed my name to Miyamoto Spicy Strips. I believe that one day I will make spicy strips that taste just like the ones I ate back then! Then I will go back to my hometown and open a large spicy strip store! As the man chosen by spicy strips, I will spread the glory of spicy strips throughout my hometown!"

But just as I was mastering the art of making spicy snacks, my family sent me here. Those idiots who didn't understand spicy snacks thought I was crazy! Even after being sent here, I didn't give up on my passion for spicy snacks!

"So the reason you don't come to class is because you spend all your time here researching your spicy strips, and you're planning to start some kind of spicy strip cult when you get back?" Lin Jie looked at Miyamoto Spicy Strips in front of him with the kind of look of pity for someone with intellectual disabilities.

"As expected, only you, teacher, can understand my ideals."

"I understand, you old man!" Lin Jie said to Miyamoto Spicy Strips, "You're at the Pro Hero Academy right now! You're telling me you're going back to start some spicy strip cult?"

“Teacher, it’s a cult,” Miyamoto Spicy Strips said.

"I don't care what your purpose is," Lin Jie said to Miyamoto Spicy Strips. "I'm not interested in your dreams either! Anyway, you have to come to class with me now."

"Teacher, I'm currently developing a brand new flavor of spicy strips, so I really don't have time to go to class," Miyamoto Spicy Strips said to Lin Jie.

chapter eight

"You can run your spicy snack cult wherever you want, but if you don't come to my class, you're in trouble today," Lin Jie said, walking towards Miyamoto Spicy Snacks.

"What are you trying to do? I wasn't among those who planned to get you! Teacher, don't force me to take action." Miyamoto Spicy Strips said, drawing two long swords from his waist.

The two long swords were both red in color, and looked like two spicy strips. These were the two weapons that Miyamoto Spicy Strips later made for himself, and he named them "Heavenly Spicy Strips" and "Village Strips".

"It seems it's time to teach you your first lesson!" Lin Jie said, taking out his iron rod. "Your first lesson is to tell you not to try to disobey your teacher before you have absolute strength."

"Face Spicy Strips!" Upon seeing Lin Jie's reaction, Miyamoto Spicy Strips charged towards him without saying a word, his long sword transforming into a streak of red light as he slashed at Lin Jie.

Lin Jie remained unchanged at this moment, raising his stick and bringing it down.

The once-fierce Miyamoto Spicy Strips collapsed to the ground under Lin Jie's lightning-fast attack.

"So strong," Miyamoto Spicy Strips said with difficulty, lying on the ground.

"Are these your precious spicy snack research samples?" Lin Jie asked, looking at the spicy snacks and a large pile of tools and notes on the stall.

"What are you going to do?" Miyamoto Spicy Strips asked Lin Jie. At this moment, he was pressed to the ground by Lin Jie's iron bar, and it was a miracle that he was still alive.

"It's nothing. I admire people like you who have dreams." Lin Jie said, taking out a lighter. "But it seems you have absolutely no ability to protect your own research results."

"Teacher Lin! What are you going to do?" Miyamoto Spicy Strips looked at Lin Jie in shock.

"What I'm going to do? I'll see how you perform, of course," Lin Jie said.

After hearing Lin Jie's words, Miyamoto Spicy Strips pondered for a while before saying, "I understand. Teacher, you can get a 50% discount on all spicy strips from now on."

"..." Lin Jie was speechless: "Indeed, we should just burn these things."

"Wait, teacher! No!" Miyamoto Spicy Strips was sweating profusely at this point. "Teacher, I'll listen to whatever you say from now on!"

"Very good." Lin Jie said, picking up the iron rod in his hand and pointing to the three henchmen brothers who were eating spicy snacks, "Tie up this eldest brother for me, and we'll go find the other six Calabash Brothers."

Although the three henchmen didn't know what the Calabash Brothers were, they still understood what it meant to be tied up.

After everyone tied up Miyamoto Spicy Strips, Lin Jie casually dragged him along and followed the directions given by the others.

……

At this moment, Zhi Nian was sleeping on the ceiling of a building, with a communicator next to him.

"You're really taking it easy," Lin Jie said, looking at Zhi Nian.

"Anyone who disturbs people's sleep should die!" Zhi Nian said, standing up in annoyance. Then he saw Lin Jie dragging Miyamoto Latiao, who was tied up like a dumpling, towards him.

"Who the hell are you?" Zhi Nian shouted at Lin Jie, "How dare you disturb my sleep? Are you tired of living?"

"Your name is Obsession, right?" Lin Jie said, looking at the flamboyant young man in front of him. "The records say you are immortal. That's amazing."

"I'm asking you, who the hell are you! Don't bother me!" Zhi Nian said, standing up and charging towards Lin Jie.

Then he was knocked down with a blow, but his obsession immediately rose again: "Annoying bastard! Just die!"

As he spoke, he picked up a chainsaw and charged at Lin Jie. Then a bloody scene unfolded. Zhi Nian's chainsaw disappeared at some point, and the next moment, Lin Jie swung his chainsaw and chopped off Zhi Nian's head!

"You're fucking dead! I'm going to chop you up in a minute, you troublemaker." Lin Jie held the severed head in his hand, but his obsession continued to haunt him.

"Shut up, I'm your teacher," Lin Jie said to Zhi Nian. "Also, do you usually like to randomly attack strangers? Should I consider checking if you have a criminal record?"

"Are you fucking an idiot?!" Zhi Nian cursed at Lin Jie, "You came here with Spicy Strip Guy tied up, you're obviously here to cause trouble! And you're the teacher? You moron, put my head down right now!"

Without saying a word, Lin Jie threw the head of the obsession onto the ground and then kicked it away.

"Fuck you! Teachers really should all die!" The head flew off and landed in a small grove of trees, startling many couples who were showing affection in the grove.

"Oops, I accidentally slipped." Lin Jie said with a smile to the students behind him, "Can any of you go and bring back that reckless kid's head for me?"

Four out of the five people pointed at Justin.

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Justin." Lin Jie said, looking at the still bleeding body. "I heard that every part of his body can regenerate, including his head. That means even if you smash his head, it can grow back. Should I try stomping on his head next time?"

Upon hearing Lin Jie's words, the three henchmen and Ye Daoshen simultaneously swallowed hard.

"Teacher, you need a spicy snack to calm down," Miyamoto Spicy Snack said to Lin Jie.

"Tie him up too."

After a while, everyone saw Justin return carrying Zhi Nian's severed head, and along the way they could hear Zhi Nian yelling, "Can't you be a little more steady?!"

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" Justin apologized repeatedly.

"How about renaming Class S to the 'Goofball Alliance'?" Lin Jie looked at Justin with the kind of pitying gaze one would give someone mentally challenged, as he frantically flipped his head backwards.

"Hey! You bastard, you did this on purpose, didn't you!" Obsession said angrily.

Unable to bear it any longer, Lin Jie lost all desire to communicate with Zhi Nian, that idiot. He walked over and kicked Zhi Nian in the face, sending the latter's head spinning 180 degrees.

"Cough cough cough!! You bastard! Are you really a teacher?" the bound Zhi Nian shouted.

"This is the first lesson I'm teaching you today: don't try to disobey your teachers!" Lin Jie said calmly. "Speaking of which, the fact that a reckless kid like you has survived this long is thanks to your amazing ability!"

"I'll fucking teach you! Let me go right now! Otherwise, you'll see how I deal with you!" Obsession still cursed at Lin Jie, "A bastard like you should just die!"

The next moment he was speechless, because Lin Jie had somehow taken out a broken spiked club and struck Zhi Nian on the head, knocking him unconscious.

Lin Jie then handed the spiked club to Ye Daoshen, who was standing to the side in a daze, not knowing what to say: "Remember, as soon as he wakes up, hit him on the head. Let's go, there are still five Calabash Brothers who escaped."

"Ah... okay." Ye Daoshen originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought of the guy's face that he had seen a few times in the past, he immediately agreed.

"Who's closest to us next?" Lin Jie asked the three dumbfounded soldiers.

"It's over by the girls' dormitory."

"Alright, let's go." Lin Jie said, dragging the two of them towards the girls' dormitory.

The sight of Lin Jie dragging two students along, followed by three henchmen who looked like lackeys, was completely out of place in the art style of this superhero academy whose primary goal was to train superheroes.

Amidst the astonished gazes of countless students, Lin Jie arrived at the entrance of the girls' dormitory.

"Excuse me, what is this...?" Seeing Lin Jie dragging two people along, the dormitory supervisor couldn't help but become wary.

"I am Lin Jie, the homeroom teacher of Class S. I would like to meet a student in our class named Felicia," Lin Jie said to the dormitory manager.

"Wait a minute, let me contact Felicia for you." The dormitory manager said, and then checked the relevant information. Before long, the face of a cute girl with pink hair appeared on the dormitory manager's computer.

"Ah, you must be the new teacher, Lin Jie. Hello, my name is Felicia," the girl said to Lin Jie.

“That’s very polite,” Lin Jie said to Felicia. “Actually, I was hoping you would come to class.”

"Um, I'm sorry, teacher, could I skip class? If that's not possible, I can have the class via video call," the girl said politely to Lin Jie.

"Why don't you want to go to class?!"

"..." Felicia didn't speak: "Everyone at school says Jill doesn't exist, and they all bully Jill. So I don't want to go to class..."

"Could you please say a few words in private?" The dormitory manager pulled Lin Jie aside and said, "Felicea was originally a student in Class B, but she was later transferred to Class S for some reason."

"Why were you assigned to Class S?" Lin Jie asked curiously.

“Because of that Jill she mentioned,” the administrator said. “That Jill is actually a figment of her imagination, but she has always treated her as a real person. For this reason, she has been sent to the psychiatric ward for counseling multiple times.”

"Can't this kind of mental illness be cured with the current level of medical technology?" Lin Jie asked, frowning.

“Ordinary people can do it, but she’s a psychic,” the dormitory manager couldn’t help but say. “Whenever Jill, whom she created, touches something in her line of sight, her superpowers will subconsciously activate. This makes her believe even more that Jill is real, just that others can’t see her.”

"Damn, this is really a troublesome psychological problem!" Lin Jie couldn't help but scratch his hair and said, "Then why doesn't she want to go out?"

"Sigh!" The dormitory manager sighed, "If you weren't the homeroom teacher of Class S, I probably wouldn't have told you that this child has been bullied by his classmates at school."

"You mean you were bullied by your classmates?"

“How can you have friends if you talk to thin air all day?” the administrator said. “Also, a year ago, I don’t know what those classmates did to her, but she got into a fight with them and hasn’t left the dormitory since. At first, I tried to persuade her to go back to class, but she said that she only needed Jill.”

Chapter nine

"I really don't understand what kind of things Jill, the person she imagined, has been feeding him," the female dormitory manager said worriedly. "Since you're her homeroom teacher now, you have to help this child no matter what."

"I have a general understanding of the situation you described," Lin Jie said to the administrator. "Based on my years of experience in the world of anime and manga, when we encounter situations like this, we usually need to arrange some friends for her as an opportunity to help her overcome her loneliness. Then, we should find the right moment to give her a lot of heartwarming advice. Finally, we should let her say goodbye to Jill with either tears or smiles."

"You're the only tutor who's been willing to take charge of Class S in the past two years," the administrator said. "We hope you can help her."

"Don't worry, I have a general idea. First, she needs a few suitable friends." Then Lin Jie looked back at the bunch of goofballs behind him. Forget about the three mediocre brothers, and forget about Zhi Nian—that guy can't even speak normally. Ye Dao Shen? He was excitedly looking at Zhi Nian with half a spiked club in hand… Miyamoto Spicy Strips can be skipped; besides feeding girls spicy strips, that guy probably doesn't know how to do anything else.

The only one left who seemed like a normal student was Justin, but he was so normal it was boring.

"As expected, I'm still not cut out to be that kind of motivational speaker," Lin Jie said calmly, covering his face. "Could I go in and talk to her alone? Don't worry, I'll definitely get her out."

“Okay, her room is on the second floor of the dormitory. There shouldn’t be any students around at this time,” the administrator said after thinking for a moment, and then she opened the dormitory door.

Lin Jie entered the dormitory, and not long after, screams from girls came from inside.

Then, a pink-haired girl in pajamas who was struggling was forcibly carried out by Lin Jie, and her hands were tied with rope by Lin Jie!

"See, I kept my word," Lin Jie said to the dumbfounded female administrator.

"Put me down! You bad teacher! You big bad guy! Jill, save me! I don't want to go out, I don't want to see the other students." The girl struggled incessantly on Lin Jie's shoulders.

"You...you...you're not doing this properly...what you just told me..." The dormitory manager was stammering, staring in astonishment as Lin Jie carried the girl like a kidnapper. This was completely different from the script Lin Jie had just described.

"Isn't this simpler and more effective? Actually, I just realized after I finished speaking that I'm not good at giving motivational speeches at all." Lin Jie smiled confidently at the administrator: "I still have four students to catch later, so I won't bother you here any longer."

As he spoke, Lin Jie instantly tied the girl up like a rice dumpling, then dragged her away with his spicy snack obsession.