Spatial Fluctuations in the Mountains

Then, starting around 9 p. m. and continuing until after midnight, the girls living in Tokyo, beginning with Shinomiya Kaguya, began to find a small package in their rooms.

These packages usually contain two or three volumes of comics and novels.

A manga by Hoshino Ai, one or two novels featuring Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend or Oregairu, and possibly some special bonus items.

On top of that, Umaru mentioned that she also received an extra light novel with a Black Cat on the cover, which is currently captivating Gokō Ruri in the group chat.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, on the other hand, received a game called "White Album 2".

Yotsuya Miko expressed her helplessness, saying that what she received was a bunch of DVDs labeled "You Know Who's Selection" of horror movies and games.

Even Takanashi Rikka, who came to Tokyo to persuade her uncle not to travel abroad during this holiday, received a package.

Among them, the most rewarded were Bocchi and Hoshino Ai. In addition to this, they also received several other Idol and band works' animation DVDs, and are now studying these works to learn from the experience of those bands and Idol groups.

Among them, only Shiho Miyano, probably didn't receive the "gift." However, she hasn't spoken in the group yet, so no one can confirm her situation.

Aside from that, the only one who was puzzled about the contents of the package she received was Tsukimi Eiko.

In addition to the two standard editions, she also received a hardcover Chinese version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

"Why did they put a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in my hands?" Tsukimi Eiko asked in the Chat Group.

Then I quickly got the answer from Yukinoshita Yukino: "Maybe it's because your name has the two Chinese characters 'Yueying' hidden in it. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this is the name of Zhuge Kongming's wife."

Yukino Yukinoshita seemed to have thought of something, and continued to explain to Tsukimi Eiko, "Perhaps your story will only begin after you meet one of the descendants of Zhuge Liang. Maybe a whole bunch of people related to the Three Kingdoms will appear around you, and the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will start a new modern version in the modern world?"

"After all, when the You Know Who mentioned you before, he said that something quite terrible might happen to you. Before that, the You Know Who had never shown such an attitude."

"So you'd better read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that the You Know Who gave you during this time. At least learn more about the Shu Han and the deeds of Zhuge Liang. It might come in handy in your future."

Since the You Know Who didn't mention Tsukimi Eiko again, this was all she could think of.

Having never encountered a Heroic Spirit before, they could never have imagined that it was Prime Minister Zhuge traveled through thousands of years to the present world and formed a bond with Tsukimi Eiko.

Yukino Yukinoshita said this, she was also silently making calculations in her mind.

So far, quite a few people in the group have said they have obtained the "Oregairu" manga, which is "Yukino Yukinoshita's original work." It is estimated that the You Know Who has given away more than ten volumes tonight, almost collecting all of her original works.

This gave her some small comfort.

At least her original works have fallen into the hands of these girls who also possess Diary, so there's no need to worry about them being seen by other unrelated people, and there's no need to worry about her experiencing the same awkward situation as Kasumigaoka Utaha.

As for these girls... the You Know Who has posted about their works more than once in his diary when he was padding his word count. As long as it's not a punishment livestream like Shinomiya Kaguya's, Yukino Yukinoshita feels that this level is not too embarrassing for her.

She can now even record the approximate time when everyone received the comics, according to the instructions of the girls in the group, confirming that this time only one person was delivering packages little by little from the center of Tokyo along a pre-planned route.

Since it seems like everyone has already sent out most of their comics, they probably won't be sent to Chiba's side.

Yukino Yukinoshita was slightly disappointed by this, but she didn't take it too seriously.

At least compared to those Diary holders living in Kyoto or even further afield, Chiba had Jerry's visit, which helped them improve their strength considerably.

"So, when the You Know Who went out to explore those ruins, he didn't take Jerry with him, but left him in Tokyo?" Yukino Yukinoshita pondered.

Does this mean the You Know Who is now powerful enough that he no longer needs to worry about the dangers that might arise when he comes into contact with those alien ruins?

Or is it that the so-called "visiting historical sites" and "participating in art exhibitions" are all just things written by You Know Who to scare people?

After all, no one knows whether the You Know Who actually investigated any ruins. As for the art exhibition, the opening date had already been announced, so even if the You Know Who didn't attend, no one would know.

Even now, Yukino Yukinoshita still believes in her judgment: given that these "heroines" are all born around the same age, the You Know Who transmigrator is most likely a high school student of similar age to them, and at most no older than 18.

"Maybe tonight's diary was delivered by the You Know Who with Jerry. The You Know Who took Jerry to different locations in Tokyo, and then Jerry, who has some storage skills, sneaked into everyone's rooms, put the package on the table when they weren't looking, and then left."

"However, the You Know Who must have a way to find out the location of us girls who have the Diary. Otherwise, Rikka only arrived in Tokyo yesterday afternoon, so the You Know Who couldn't have known her current location so quickly."

Yukino Yukinoshita shares similar thoughts with Kasumigaoka Utaha.

As one of the people in the group who was most severely persecuted by the You Know Who, she naturally kept a record of the You Know Who's movements, hoping to take this opportunity to find out where the You Know Who was.

As for the novel about the Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend who was dispersed?

She didn't really care about that.

After all, the story of the Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend has been almost completely overwritten by that You Know Who guy.

Even the entire animation was delivered directly to Shiina Mashiro tonight, along with a blessing that may have been written by the You Know Who: "May your manga be released soon."

So much so that Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't even bother to count how many copies of Saekano: How to Raise Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend novel she had published.

Even if the novel about Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend were to fall into the hands of the real Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, Kato Megumi, she wouldn't feel anything special.

Even if the You Know Who really did that, what else could she do? At worst, she could just bring Kato Megumi into the group, since she already had a pretty good relationship with Shiina Mashiro and Miyauchi Kouka.

However, Eriri Spencer Sawamura is probably going to be furious.

After all, ever since she learned that the female protagonist of the novel version of "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" was Kato Megumi, she didn't think much of Kato Megumi when she first met her. But as she got to know her better, she gradually discovered that Kato Megumi was not as inconspicuous as she had imagined. On the contrary, she was the kind of girl who was slow to warm up and became more and more captivating as the story progressed. As a result, she became wary of Kato Megumi.

I would occasionally pass by their class to check on Kato Megumi's situation.

Kasumigaoka Utaha thought to herself, then shook her head.

Let's not even think about Eriri Spencer Sawamura. Even without Kato Megumi, she would still be destined to be a loser in this life. Who told her to lose so many rounds from the starting line?

Instead of getting used to the persecution by the You Know Who, let's focus on Shinomiya Kaguya for now.

After all, after the other side did the statistics, they found a few more Lady Kaguya volumes at Hoshino Ai and Yotsuya Miko, but overall there were still five volumes missing.

"If the You Know Who has already sent out all the packages, does that mean there are still five volumes of comics that have been delivered to other people?" With the help of the girls in the group, Shinomiya Kaguya, who had also completed the "You Know Who's delivery route map," began to ponder as she looked at the map.

"Chika just called me and said that she has a few more comics that seem to feature her, me, and Hayasaka as the main characters. So, did the You Know Who choose to split the content of the comics and distribute them to the people around me this time?"

Listening to Fujiwara Chika's description, the manga she received was very fragmented, as if all the parts of the manga where Fujiwara Chika's scenes were concentrated were gathered together and then cut down into a slice-of-life manga where the plot was not clear.

Shinomiya Kaguya has already sent Hayasaka Ai to the Fujiwara Family to pick up Fujiwara Chika and the manga she received. Once Chika arrives, they will know the details of the manga she has.

Now, Shinomiya Kaguya has included the time when Chika acquired those manga in her timeline.

After doing all that, she realized that the original delivery route, which had seemed a bit roundabout and took a lot more time, suddenly made much more sense.

Perhaps this method can be used to find several other less plausible routes, and then locate the residences of people connected to her in the area between these routes, thus roughly analyzing who the You Know Who might have delivered the remaining comics to.

Shinomiya Kaguya pondered this, and then immediately began to analyze it using her intellect.

This analysis quickly led her to identify one or two other potentially problematic routes.

One of the routes passes through the wealthy area of Beika Town. If the You Know Who did not deliberately avoid Beika Town, this Reverse Side World dumping ground, then the most likely person to obtain the manga on this route is a member of the Shinomiya Family, the restless branch of the Shinomiya family.

"Is it that little girl Shijo Maki?"

Despite being two generations older than each other, Shinomiya Kaguya and Shijo Maki, due to their family backgrounds, rarely interacted with each other, even though they both attended Shuchiin Academy from a young age and were classmates in the same grade. At most, they would secretly compete with each other in terms of grades.

Of course, she was always the Shuichi Akai.

However, after obtaining the Diary, Shinomiya Kaguya no longer cared much about these things.

Even though she had just skimmed through the beginning and end of her manga and discovered that while the main reason for the decline of the Shinomiya Family was indeed her father's poor health, the Shijou family seemed to have also been involved in a lot of underhanded dealings, Shinomiya Kaguya only felt a slight dissatisfaction with the Shijou family.

But she didn't have any ill feelings towards Shijo Maki.

After all, who would dislike a girl who, upon her first appearance in a comic book, has already become a "loser" in love without even having any lines or a name mentioned?

She flipped through the manga, and when she came across the image of Shijo Maki with her eyes glazed over and filled with tears, she couldn't help but chuckle.

So that little girl had a crush on the young master of the Tanuma family. How interesting.

"However, if the manga really falls into the hands of the Shijo family, perhaps we can take this opportunity to give them a warning in advance, so as to prevent them from making any moves in private."

"Besides that... there might be a problem with this route."

Shinomiya Kaguya looked at the map in her hand.

However, the area in the middle of the other route seems to be a working-class area, and I haven't heard of any girls there carrying Diary.

So, is it another character who appeared in the comics, or one of the girls in the second batch to receive the Diary?

Shinomiya Kaguya needs time to verify this.

If it's the second group of girls, then go find their whereabouts and see if you can get a reward.

If it's another character from the manga... then we don't need to worry about it. We can just use the power of the Shinomiya Family to forcibly take back these manga, claiming that someone in the Shuchiin Academy is trying to smear her.

Even if those people might be the main characters in the comics, it doesn't matter.

Shinomiya Kaguya couldn't understand her inexplicable actions in the manga, Hayasaka Ai also expressed that she couldn't imagine what kind of man could turn her into the kind of silly person she was in the manga.

Perhaps it's because she hasn't yet been affected by the mind-numbing aura of "love".

Even if she quickly flipped through these comics, it would be difficult for her to reconstruct how the mindset of "Shinomiya Kaguya," who looked just like herself, changed over the next year.

After all, the comic doesn't mention this part of the story much, and it's completely disjointed.

Just like in a comic book, one moment she is the person she knows now, and the next moment time jumps, and she has already fallen for the other person's serious and gentle attitude and become a lovestruck girl, without any transition phase in between.

However, after spending a lot of time in the Chat Group, Shinomiya Kaguya learned quite a bit.

For example, Umaru had previously complained in the group about many flaws in school manga, such as "Although many male protagonists in school manga don't do anything special, they win the hearts of a bunch of beautiful girls with their so-called 'gentleness and thoughtfulness,' but who can blame them for being the male protagonist? With the identity of the protagonist, they are naturally likable."

To this end, Umaru even brought up Katsura Kotonoha had already begun to practice Iaido again, as a point of reference.

"Look at Itou Makoto Ito over there. He's probably still secretly using Kotonoha's picture as his phone wallpaper. He's such a useless scumbag with no willpower. There are probably quite a few girls at Kotonoha's school who have a crush on him and are ganging up on her to isolate her."

This was because Shinomiya Kaguya hired a detective to keep an eye on Itou Makoto's situation, and Katsura Kotonoha occasionally talked about her school life in the group chat, which is how the girls in the group noticed her.

That's why the girls in the group realized that there really are male protagonists in this world who seem introverted and do nothing, yet become the object of a group of girls' secret crushes.

Perhaps this is what is known as the protagonist's halo.

Now it seems that there are similar plot points in her comic as well.

As the female lead, she fell in love with the male lead without any major setbacks, as arranged by the script.

The only difference is that the male protagonist wasn't a scumbag like Itou Makoto.

However, in the final chapter of the comic, she not only couldn't empathize with the "self" in the comic at all, but she also couldn't see any "talent" in the male protagonist that was worthy of her attention.

The manga artist who created her and Hoshino Ai, possessing "astounding wisdom," was only criticized once or twice by You Know Who. It seems the You Know Who was too restrained.

Shinomiya Kaguya had already decided that she would not stay in the Shuchiin Academy and was preparing to completely overturn her original script.

After reading these comics, she became even more certain of this.

In her future, she doesn't need any male lead.

Even You Know Who are no exception.

Then, the next moment, in the Chat Group that was still lively at midnight, Shiho Miyano, who had been silent all night, finally spoke up.

"It seems that the You Know Who has already rescued my sister. Just now, there was a recent photo of my sister on my bed, and on the back, it told me to hurry up and leave the organization before they find out."

Upon seeing this sentence, Shinomiya Kaguya suddenly felt her fist harden.

This was clearly the talent she had reserved, so how did that You Know Who suddenly snatch him away!

Chapter 168: Spatial Fluctuations in the Mountains

That night, many of the girls who had Diary stayed up very late, and finally, around two or three in the morning, they received a message from Shiho Miyano in the group chat that she had safely escaped the research institute.

A living, breathing person, bypassed the heavily guarded surveillance and security of the research institute at night and escaped silently.

One can imagine that after that night, the others in this research institute probably wouldn't be able to sleep well.

However, according to Shiho Miyano, she seemed to have received help from You Know Who during her departure from the research institute. At least when she encountered the institute's surveillance equipment, she did not trigger the Diary's warnings. She only needed to avoid the security guards and then successfully escaped the research institute through a garbage chute.

Shinomiya Kaguya was inwardly grumbling that the You Know Who had silently snatched away everything she wanted to do.

She helped save her sister and also helped Shiho Miyano turn off the surveillance cameras.

Right now, Shiho Miyano's fondness for the You Know Who is probably at its peak.

Fortunately, given the You Know Who's personality, he certainly wouldn't take the initiative to appear in front of Shiho Miyano and reveal his identity, nor would he likely arrange a way out for Shiho Miyano after she escaped the organization.

At this point, Shinomiya Kaguya would have the ability to get involved.

Regardless of how the You Know Who rescued Miyano Akemi, it doesn't prevent the sisters from relying on the Shinomiya Family for a long time to come to avoid being wanted and hunted down by that "The Organization".

With this favor, even if we can't completely win over Shiho Miyano like before, we can maintain a cooperative relationship for a long time.