Shen Ling was a good kid who grew up receiving a top-notch education in China.
Thanks to her exceptional intelligence and love of studying, she earned a PhD from a top university at just sixteen.
She returned to Japan with all her knowledge, ready to enlighten this barren land. But on her very first day home, she was attacked by some hideous, unidentified monster.
Her first reaction was terror. Her second was to solve the problem with science, but science didn't seem to be much use here.
A rebellious delinquent with dyed hair hurried over and told her that the creature was called a curse, and that there was a profession called sorcerer, whose members specialized in exorcising curses.
A white-haired weirdo in bandages, who seemed even more like an eccentric adult than the pink-haired kid, invited Shen Ling to attend a school that trained sorcerers.
Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College.
Shen Ling blew her top.
After all that blah blah blah, it was just a vocational school, wasn't it? They wanted a PhD like her to attend vocational school?!
No way. Absolutely not!
She immediately kicked the two punks out.
The next day, after being attacked by another curse, Shen Ling silently packed her bags and headed to the vocational school in the middle of nowhere.
Even though she was forced to attend vocational school, she was still proud of her advanced degree.
Thanks to her ridiculously impressive credentials, she soon awakened the kind of technique only someone with a higher education could possess, in a school full of illiterates.
It was called “Exam-Oriented Education”!
This awakening directly stirred the call of knowledge deep in Shen Ling's blood. She could no longer hide her profound love of exam-oriented education.
So she quickly turned the tables, becoming a volunteer teacher and helping the entirely illiterate sorcerer world run literacy programs.
Everyone, start studying for the university entrance exams! Sign up for night school! Get your bachelor's degree as an adult!
Some sorcerers had never even received compulsory education: ?
At first, they didn't understand what her technique meant. After hearing it again, they were readers too.
During the juvenile detention center incident, Ryomen Sukuna had barely regained control of his body when he was surrounded by the devilish sound of people reading aloud, before he could even take a breath of fresh air.
Shen Ling: “Domain Expansion: [Top of the Exam Rankings]!”
Ryomen Sukuna hadn't even grasped what it meant before he was sent to repeat his final year of high school for a year. In the end, he was mercilessly crushed for scoring less than 700 on the university entrance exam.
Never mind the Star Religious Group leader (vocational school dropout), the strongest of the modern era (with only a vocational school diploma), the thousand-year schemer Brain-chan (never went to school), the elite sorcerers of the Three Great Families (never went to school), and the elite professionals at the technical college (a bunch of vocational school kids).
Not one of them, not one, could stand against her!
Because you’re all just a bunch of hopeless illiterates!
Tremble, vocational school kids!
1. The heroine's high intelligence only applies to academics. You can think of her as a bookworm.
2. The surname Shen is partly because it's an uncommon Japanese surname, and partly because the heroine really is divine.
3. This story looks down on everyone equally, because they're all illiterates! Or vocational school kids! Every one of them has a lower level of education than the heroine, and she respects academic credentials more than anyone in the world, so she's going to be brutally elitist about education!
4. The heroine is a devoted supporter of exam-oriented education and looks down on, and disparages, the Japanese education system. (Yes, she has studied herself into madness.)
5. At first, the heroine is a student at the technical college. After awakening her technique, her exam-oriented education bloodline kicks in, and she quickly turns the tables, becoming a teacher and providing remedial education throughout the sorcerer world.
Theme: Knowledge changes your destiny
