Zhang Miao Takes Office (Chuunibyo)

At Shino Academy, sixth-year students who were about to graduate were generally the most envied.

That was because most of the academy's students came from the impoverished Rukongai. Graduating from Shino Academy and becoming a Bleach meant bidding farewell to their past poverty and gaining the right to enjoy Seireitei's privileged life.

Very few people regarded protecting ordinary souls and fighting Hollows as their ideals. Changing one's fate was what most Shino Academy students had in mind.

It was much like many college students: the original purpose of studying was basically to improve their own lives, or for some other reason. Very few studied for the rise of their homeland.

Though that sounded somewhat helpless, it was reality.

But Zhang Miao's arrival had shattered that reality. In an extremely brutal manner, he forcibly stuffed Shino Academy's original purpose into the students.

As Zhang Miao became more proficient at using spiritual power to create illusions, the illusions grew increasingly realistic. Every attack and bite from a Hollow within them caused the students unbearable pain, and every death felt incredibly real.

Fighting the Hollows to the death every day in the illusions Zhang Miao created left them complaining bitterly, suffering miserably, and drowning in terror and despair.

Now, almost no one in Shino Academy envied the sixth-years anymore. Most people felt deep sympathy for them.

Of course, some people reported the matter to the higher-ups, claiming that Zhang Miao's classes were too cruel and utterly inhumane, demanding that he be stripped of his position as an instructor.

But every such request vanished without a trace.

Over time, everyone realized that method was useless, so quite a few students came up with another idea: applying for early graduation.

Normally, as students about to graduate, sixth-years had basically mastered everything the academy taught that