Bighorn Bull is in charge of leading, and I, Beria, am in charge of raising it.

"Wait, Grandpa Belial, you mean Dad is going to class with us too? He's so old, and he's going back to school?"

"That's right, the debt he owes isn't enough to just get a beating. And didn't I tell you? Your dad's grades are the worst among the Ultra Brothers. Now that he's a senior officer, if he doesn't find a way to improve his grades, how can he be a role model for the younger generation?"

"Hehehe, Grandpa Belial, you're right! Let's hurry up and go! Let's set off now!"

"Oh? You brat, you gave up the struggle as soon as you heard it could drag your dad down with you? Well, what a 'filial son' you are, killing a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of your own!

"Cough cough, how could that be! I call it a love of learning! It's definitely not because I want to see my dad make a fool of himself!"

"Really? Then I'll have Jack run an errand and tell Seven that he doesn't need to come?"

"No way! Absolutely not! Uh... I mean, it's a rare occasion for Grandpa Belial to be back, and Dad must have a lot to say to you. How can we miss this opportunity to spend time with you openly and honestly? I'm doing this all for Dad's own good!"

"Ha ha ha ha--!!!"

On the other hand, Zero, who was being held in mid-air by Belial and was struggling desperately, immediately gave up after hearing Belial's words.

At this moment, he didn't recognize who Zeta was...

However, upon learning that his old man was also going back to school for extra classes, Zero was inexplicably filled with anticipation for the study time that he had previously resisted!

This made Belial quickly forget his worries. He couldn't help but laugh out loud at Zero's antics and led Zero towards the school.

Unfortunately, Beria soon realized that he was still too young...

Considering the children's image, they ultimately decided not to let them attend classes with a group of toddlers, but instead set up a separate tutoring class for them.

The first to fall into self-doubt was not one of the underachievers who were sent to extra classes, but rather Belial, who volunteered to teach them.

Look, here it is.

Less than ten minutes after the first lesson began and a diagnostic test was arranged, Belial's gaze shifted from one of amusement at the spectacle to a look of utter disappointment and frustration!

Simply because from where he was standing on the podium, one could see...

Besides Taiga's effortless and relaxed demeanor in answering questions, which pleased Belial greatly...

The remaining three are no pushovers!

At this moment, Zero was lying on the table, staring at the blank test paper in front of him with eyes full of despair, only his name was written on it, and he was staring blankly with "Aba aba".

Clearly, with Zero's intellect, he simply couldn't understand why these individual characters and symbols, which he could understand on their own, became so obscure and difficult to comprehend when put together!

Zero even began to suspect that because Belial came from a parallel universe, the content written on this exam paper also did not belong to this universe, which was why he could not understand it!

After shifting the blame in this outrageous way, Zero confidently raised his hand and bravely questioned Belial!

...Then Belial raised his hand and smacked him on the head. The precise, yet surprisingly effective, blow made him noticeably more obedient. With a prominent bump slowly appearing on his head, he picked up his test paper and continued playing the game of "Red Light, Green Light" with a straight face.

Seven, on the other hand, sat ramrod straight, his posture even more upright than on the battlefield. He was also behaving much better than Luo, writing furiously with an air of confidence.

But if you observe carefully, you will find that the reason why Seven answered the questions so easily is because he adopted the classic "choose the short one out of three long and the long one out of three short and the long one out of three" rule for multiple-choice questions!

Even when faced with true/false questions, Seven didn't even think twice and just ticked all the boxes! It was obvious he intended to just guess a few right this way!

This made Belial's mouth twitch violently, and he finally understood why Seven's performance was the worst among the Ultra Brothers!

But compared to Zeta sitting next to Zero, Seven's performance can only be described as astonishing!

Because Zeta, though holding a pen, stared intently at the exam paper with an extremely serious expression, appeared to be the most upright and focused among all the students.

This made Belial curious, thinking that he had been misled by the preconceived notion that "Zeta is a bad student" and had wrongly accused this Zeta from a parallel universe. He deliberately stepped down from the podium and took a look at Zeta's test paper.

As it turned out, it would have been better if he hadn't looked at the exam paper. Once he saw the content, Beria's desire to be a teacher shattered on the spot.

The good news is that Zeta wrote out a long string of formulas, which looked exceptionally professional, giving off the vibe of a top student!

The bad news is that, upon closer inspection, many of the formulas Zeta wrote are actually just random additions to make up the numbers.

The worse news is that Zeta is now writing a Chinese language exam.

The worst news was that Zeta wrote this series of inexplicable formulas in the "name column" of the exam paper.

In other words, Zeta couldn't understand the contents of the exam paper at all and was just writing random words to reach the word count!

This caused Beria to fall into a long silence, and then he let out a long sigh with complex emotions.

Sorry, Zeta, it was I who shouldn't have questioned your title of "Special Aircraft Z".

No wonder Ace laughed so happily when he heard that I was going to tutor Zeta.

As expected, I was wrong. I greatly underestimated the "power" of you academic underachievers.

Although you cannot pose the slightest threat to me in academia...

But any one of you three could easily ruin my reputation in the education field!

Chapter 63 Belial: Burn...burned out...!

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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, two weeks have passed since Belial arrived in this parallel universe's Land of Light.

Belial stood on the podium, holding the metal pointer he had replaced nearly a hundred times and which was now marked with his fingerprints again. His gaze swept over the faces of the four students in front of him.

As always, Taiga was a worry-free success for Belial. Not only did he excel academically, but even when Belial suddenly had a whim and posed challenging questions beyond the scope of the textbook, Taiga was able to quickly master them simply by watching Belial demonstrate them!

This gave Beria a great deal of comfort, and allowed him to be certain...

It's not that I'm not suited to be a teacher, but the other three heavyweight contenders are simply too much for me to handle!

Fortunately, this wasn't the first time Beria had encountered "underachievers".

Ken, who used to sleep in late in class and babbled incoherently while looking at his exam paper, somehow managed to graduate as Belial's deskmate.

It's easy to imagine how much sweat and effort Beria put in over the years to ensure that this good-for-nothing Ken could pass the exam!

Therefore, with the mindset that he had to take responsibility for his own children no matter how troublesome they were, Beria tailored a set of teaching materials for each of the three children based on their learning situation during this period.

After two weeks of make-up classes, in this second diagnostic test...

Although Zero still looked worried and distressed when faced with the exam paper in front of him.

However, compared to his first diagnostic test, Zero has made considerable progress...

At least, he didn't choose to linger in a daze any longer, dragging his feet until the exam ended, and handing in a blank paper with only his name on it.

Instead, he can fill the exam paper completely, just like his father.

As for whether what he wrote is accurate or not, how much of it was just following in his father's footsteps and filling in random information to try his luck?

That's none of your business!

As the only senior among the four trainees to have to go back for retraining, Seven, for the sake of his reputation, buried himself in his studies and worked hard for two weeks. Ironically, he was the one who improved the most among the three academically weak students.

Let's not even talk about a rags-to-riches story; let's just say he gets a perfect score on the placement test.

At least during the exam, Seven no longer guessed randomly on multiple-choice and true/false questions. Instead, he used his genuine knowledge and skills to think carefully and give the correct answers.

Ultimately, it's true that Seven was the one with the worst performance among the Ultra Brothers...

But Seven's grades in those subjects, which were originally not ideal, were all just barely passing, so his foundation was already there.

Now, Seven faces both the shame of having to relearn the material alongside his juniors and the oppressive feeling of being personally supervised by Belial. Forced to seriously start learning from scratch, Seven naturally experiences a significant decrease in learning difficulty, much like a player in a second playthrough.

Incidentally, when Beria was grading Seven's math exam, he noticed a very interesting detail.

Next to each calculation problem, Seven wrote down the complete verification process in very small print.

Some questions even have several different solutions listed next to them.

This was clearly not Belial's request, but Seven's own addition.

In this way, he was proving to Beria that he was actually paying attention in class and wasn't just drifting through life like before. He was also expressing his determination to proactively change his current situation.

This brought a knowing smile to Belial's face, and he decided that after the exam, Seven would become Zero's deskmate.

In order to create an opportunity for the awkward and proud father and son to sit down, have a good chat, and get closer to each other, under the guise of having Seven tutor his son.

Only Zeta is someone who still gives Belial a terrible headache to this day.

In this diagnostic test, he followed suit, filling the entire test paper with his own writing. He also learned from his first test mistake, refraining from writing math formulas on the Chinese test paper, and even leaving his name blank…

But the contents inside don't stand up to close scrutiny at all.

A large portion of them were completely irrelevant.

Even the test paper Belial gave Zeta had been made easier beforehand—for example, the answers to some multiple-choice questions were written out in black and white in the true/false questions—it was almost as if Belial had just shoved the answers into Zeta's hands and made him copy them, yet he still managed to give two completely different answers!

"Report! I'm done! Senior Belial, isn't my score much better than before?"

"...Yes, that's good...You did a great job, Zeta, keep it up."

"Hehe! That's awesome! Ultraman is so happy—!!!"

Zeta, however, thought she had done a good job. After filling the test paper, she looked at Belial with expectant eyes, waiting for Belial's praise!

This caused Belial, who always doted on children, to fall silent when faced with Zeta's innocent, puppy-like gaze, which was both obedient and clingy.

In the end, he suppressed the urge to vomit blood, went against his conscience, reached out and patted Zeta's head, and insincerely praised Zeta for doing a good job.

This made Zeta tilt her little face even higher, accompanied by silly giggles, and she pounced on Belial, rubbing her face against him repeatedly. She wished she could grow a tail right then and there and wag it like a giant fan at Belial!

He didn't realize that Zero, whom he idolized, was already furious at Zeta's overly familiar and affectionate behavior, and had even broken the pen in his hand!

However, Belial noticed Zero's unusual behavior and turned to look at him. Zero quickly lowered his head again, pretending to be nonchalant, and continued to bury himself in writing his exam paper. Belial found the brat's inherited arrogance both amusing and exasperating.

Sigh, he's about to become a master himself, yet he's jealous of his future apprentice. What a silly boy...

...Hmm? Wait a minute...

Not long after, Zeta started actively chasing after Zero, calling him "Master" repeatedly...

Could it be that Zero has been refusing because he's jealous this time...?

Fortunately, Beria's bittersweet teaching career lasted only a month before coming to an end.

However, this doesn't mean that these three academically challenged students have undergone a complete transformation and successfully graduated from Belial's school.

Rather, it's because, as Belial had previously warned...

In a parallel universe, Caesar Beria, who is constantly conquering all sides, discovers a large amount of Emeralu ore, just as the original historical developments have unfolded.

Using this as their power source, replacing the more powerful but also more expensive dimensional core, they began mass-producing Darklops! [To distinguish them, the child accompanying Belial was given the full name "Darklops Zero."]

Ultimately, due to the significant difference in the flow of time between the two parallel universes…

In the Land of Light, only one month has passed.

However, on Kaiser Belial's side, a massive Darklops Legion had already been assembled. They had successfully opened a dimensional portal, continuously deploying them into the skies above the Land of Light!

"So it finally came? But it came much earlier than I expected... Could it be because of my influence?"

And so, hearing the piercing alarm that suddenly rang in his ears, and the urgent communication from Zoffy, Belial's body betrayed his thoughts as he put down the metal pointer in his hand, which had been severely twisted from unconscious exertion, with a sigh of relief.

He then shifted his gaze to the four students in the classroom, their faces beaming with excitement, yet none daring to make a move before Belial spoke. Belial shrugged, a smile on his face, and continued speaking.

"Alright, stop staring at me like that. Since you have a legitimate reason, I certainly won't stop you. Consider it the practical assessment you've all been eagerly anticipating..."

"Of course, because there's a significant difference in strength between you all, the assessment criteria are also different..."

"Taiga, your goal is to shoot down at least five Darklops."

"Zero, your target is thirty units."

"As for you, Zeta..."

As Belial spoke, he paused slightly and turned his gaze to Zeta.

Zeta instinctively straightened up and gripped the Ultra Spear in his hand even tighter.

That was one of the many replicas Belial had casually acquired from the wreckage of the mechanical Ultra Brothers. Now, after a month of leisurely improvements by Belial, its quality, while not quite matching the original, was nearly identical, enough for the kid to use for self-defense.