"The legend doesn't exist? What is it, the new popular urban legend?"

Hearing what Shokuhou Misaki said, Satenlei was the first to jump out, and raised his hand excitedly to ask.

"Hmm~ It's not an urban legend~" Shokuhou Misaki said with a smile, and seeing Saten Ruiko lose interest in an instant, he added, "But it is indeed related to an urban legend!"

Misaka Mikoto asked: "Is it related to urban legends? Has Xingye himself become an urban legend? It's not like it hasn't happened before—"puppet operation" and the like. But what does this have to do with your manipulation of collective memory?"

After closing the stall, a group of people left the street and entered the nearby coffee shop. Ling Xingye and Shiranui Hitomi made an appointment to meet here—Shiranui Hitomi was called to help the school in the afternoon, so she couldn't come to see the performance.

After finding an empty seat and sitting down, Shokuhou Misaki continued: "About urban legends, Saten-san is an expert, can you introduce the latest popular urban legends?"

"Okay, okay!" Mentioning the urban legend, Saten Ruiko immediately became interested, "Speaking of the recent rise, there are 'Shadow Director', 'Mysterious Thirteenth Person', 'Nano Ghost', 'Angel cabin'…"

"Okay, that's fine!" Shokuhou Misaki hastily interrupted her to introduce the name of the dish.

"Huh? I just started talking?" Saten Ruiko complained unsatisfactorily.

"Those are not important~" Shokuhou Misaki waved his hand, "The most popular ones have appeared."

Misaka Mikoto glanced at Ling Xingye: "The latter two don't care about him, 'Shadow Director' and 'Mysterious Thirteenth Person' are obviously talking about Xingye, right?"

"It seems to be so interesting." Ling Xingye nodded, "But I don't know what the specific content is..."

"Don't doubt it, it's about Starry Night—the latest board director~" Shokuhou Misaki said with a smile, "Because this is an urban legend compiled by others and senior Shiranui."

"Hey!! Why did you do this!" Saten Ruiko was immediately lost, and quickly asked, "There is no sense of mystery like this!"

Shokuhou Misaki did not respond directly to her, but asked instead: "By the way, is there still a legend of 'not in metal'?"

Saten Saten didn't know why, but she still tilted her head and thought about it: "No, urban legends also come and go. If 'Not in Metal', it will only appear during the Daihasei festival, right?"

"No~" Shokuhou Misaki shook his head, "To be precise, 'Not in Metal' will appear on the Open Day of Academy City—taking last year as an example, there were related legends in the Dahasei Festival and the Yidanran Festival. But now The Yiduanlan Festival is about to be held, but there is no legend of 'not in metal'."

Ling Xingye remembered the piece of metal in the "Perpetual Motion Development Department".

"About 'Not in Metal', it has already been found."

Saten Ruiko exclaimed again: "Huh? Really! Where is it? I went looking for it, and thought it really didn't exist..."

"The reason why urban legends become urban legends is because they 'do not exist'." Shokuhou Misaki said, "Once the 'legend' is confirmed, it loses its mystery. At that time it will no longer be an urban legend~ People are taking advantage of this principle~"

"Legend does not exist"—the reverse application of urban legend.

Urban legends and real things cannot coexist, and the best way to dispel urban legends is to prove their existence in reality.

That being the case, as long as urban legends are artificially created and maintained, the people and things in the "legends" can be hidden on a realistic level.

This is a paper recently published by Hitomi Shiranui. It is said to be a research result, but it is not an "invention" but a "discovery".

All kinds of "urban legends" circulating in Academy City are mixed with good and bad people, and among the countless absurd rumors, there are often truths and secrets mixed in.

Academy City is using this platform to manipulate the city's public opinion orientation—after discovering this, two top psychological and memory faculty members decided to use this mechanism to hide Ling Xingye's other identity.

"...This is also Starry Night's wish~" Shokuhou Misaki finally said.

In this regard, Ling Xingye nodded and admitted.

"This...is really Xingye's character." Misaka Mikoto said with emotion.

"It's not just because of that reason," Hitomi Shiranui walked over quickly, "Sorry for being late."

After greeting everyone, Hitomi Shiranui sat next to Ling Xingye, and continued: "Hiding Xingye's identity is a necessary action—to protect the safety of the director."

"Think about it, besides Ms. Kisunune Mochu, who has ever seen other directors in real life?" Hitomi Shiranui said, "Every director puts himself in the field of 'absolute safety'. Who are they more Take your own safety seriously.”

Even Oifune Mosaka, who is the most close to the people, has won the love and protection of the citizens of Academy City by relying on his own affinity.

Even with such caution, three directors died a while ago; Director Shiokishi's lair was breached last night, and he was almost killed.

In contrast, the new director Ling Xingye's self-preservation mechanism is even more flawed.

Although he has the largest organization in Academy City under his command, in terms of security capabilities, to be honest, he might as well rely on himself.

It is impossible for Ling Xingye to stay in his fortress all day long like Shiokishi.

Therefore, the best way is to hide Ling Xingye's identity as a "director".

Now it seems that the plan is going well, and few ordinary citizens associate this street performer with the new director.

And those who really know Ling Xingye's identity are limited to a very small number of people—only a few other directors ~lightnovelpub.net~ and a few people present here.

As for other people, including the board of directors of Changdian Shangji Academy, they only know that Ling Xingye is still a "quasi-director", but they don't know that he has already ascended the throne.

"It's getting late, ladies should go home." After drinking the coffee in his cup, Ling Xingye looked at the time, got up and said.

As always, Ling Xingye was going to send them back to their respective residences.

After that, he still had other things to deal with—even if he wanted to be a hands-off shopkeeper, he would inevitably get busy after becoming a director.

But everyone present refused to go back to rest obediently.

—Tomorrow is the weekend and there is no class, so there is no problem even if you stay up late.

The girls who made these remarks followed Ling Xingye back to the underground bar.

"Hey, it's still so lively around Xingye." Bai Yinyao, who had already been waiting at the bar, said with a smile.

"I kept you waiting, Sister Yao."

"I came here ahead of time," Bai Yinyao said, "After all, this is still a bar, so you can just have a drink or two before talking about business."

"Since it's about business, don't get yourself drunk first!" Ling Xingye complained.

"Hahaha, don't worry, sister, I will never get drunk!"

"Generally, those who say that are basically drunk." Ling Xingye shook his head, and said to the bartender behind the bar, "Make a pot of tea to sober up."

"I'm really not drunk!" Bai Yinyao reached out and hooked Ling Xingye's neck, and leaned over and said, "And now that Xingye is in charge of the overall situation, even if I drink too much, it's okay!"

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