Menma's Arrival

If the other party actually creates a finished product of that drug that can reverse aging in the future, the Shinomiya Conglomerate and she will likely reap a substantial reward from it.

Several safe houses secretly prepared by the Shinomiya Family were urgently arranged for Shiho Miyano. As long as there is no warning from the Diary, it means that the organization will not be able to find that place in a short period of time.

Meanwhile, Shinomiya Kaguya has adjusted her schedule for tomorrow again. In addition to negotiating with the students of the Shuchiin Academy and confirming whether they have received her manga, she also needs to take some time to have a proper talk with Shiho Miyano in person.

While most girls had just woken up from staying up late, around 5 a. m., Miyauchi Hiyage, who had gone to bed shortly after writing the speech for Shiina Mashiro the night before, was already up.

He originally just wanted to get up early in the morning and practice his card magic by the river.

Moreover, after obtaining the Card Master template, although only one day had passed, he felt that the Mana growing in his body seemed to have met the activation requirements of the "Fate" skill after waking up.

But before he could even start practicing, he saw a lot of reports from Jerry and Shiina Mashiro on his phone.

Jerry seems to really be unable to stay at home.

The tasks he originally assigned to Jerry were twofold: to help maintain contact with Shiina Mashiro and to keep an eye on Conan, lest the guy end up getting himself involved instead of saving someone.

The third thing is to have it distribute some of the comics and novels that have been drawn these past few days.

He gave Jerry some free time, but Jerry spent a whole day preparing and then transformed into a Christmas mouse last night, handing out gifts all over Tokyo.

"Miyauchi Hiyage must have been stunned to find a bunch of study guides on his desk this morning," Shirogane Miyuki Himekage muttered.

"If Jerry can also synchronize with my newly acquired teleportation ability, then after returning to Tokyo, I can send it to other supernatural forces for further training."

It's not that he's Jujutsu High; rather, the plan is for Jerry to play the role of a monster and learn some skills from the monsters hiding in Tokyo.

This is something he learned from Yotsuya Miko had joined the Jujutsu High.

Although Yotsuya Miko herself wasn't very clear about the situation on the yokai side, the name "Nura Rikuo" alone was enough to make Miyauchi Hiyage think of many things.

If nothing unexpected happens, the yokai side should also be incorporated into the plot of "Nura: Rise of the Nura Rikuo".

Thinking this through, Miyauchi Hiyage shook his head.

It can only be said that Japan a thousand years ago was truly teeming with demons and monsters.

On the sorcery side, there's the King of Curses Ryomen Sukuna, a once-in-a-millennium event, and also the one who wants to "evolve" all of humanity.

On the side of yokai and Onmyoji, there is also Abe no Seimei, after turning evil, wants to destroy the world and create a world where only yokai exist.

Moreover, this Abe no Seimei was ridiculously strong; he destroyed half of Kyoto on his first appearance before he had even adapted to his new body.

In the final chapter, it even demonstrates the power to manipulate planets, or rather, gravity.

It can be said that one person elevated the quality of the entire work by several orders of magnitude.

As a result, because the manga was canceled, the story was hastily concluded after a few chapters in which the main characters defeated their opponent with a rather uninspired, idealistic attack.

"If another Asakura Hao who wants to wipe out all of humanity were to appear, this world would be even more interesting."

After all, Asakura Hao's power was even more outrageous. After becoming the Shaman King, he leaped to become a god of the universe. With a single thought, he could create supernova explosions and black holes. In the end, the protagonist could only choose to use love to influence him and make him give up his plan to destroy the world.

However, shamans are originally considered part of the Onmyoji school, and Asakura Hao was a character created based on Abe no Seimei.

In this world, where Onmyoji are unusually low-key and even voluntarily relinquish their status to Sorcerers, Miyauchi Hiyage is currently unsure whether the Shaman King concept has been incorporated into this world.

In short, now that we know this world is likely infiltrated by the story of Nura Rikuo, it's quite necessary to send Jerry to the monsters' side to keep an eye on the plot development there. Letting Jerry mess around and study the monsters Vengeful Spirit on his own isn't a bad idea.

Moreover, with teleportation capabilities, Miyauchi Hiyage wouldn't need to worry too much about the other party's safety.

As for Miyano Akemi, the situation is much simpler.

Knowing her alias and workplace, Conan quickly located Miyano Akemi's whereabouts.

Then, it took two days to gradually gain Miyano Akemi's trust and confirm that the Organization did not seem to care about Miyano Akemi, a low-level member, and did not even send anyone to keep an eye on Miyano Akemi.

They probably thought that as long as Shiho Miyano was in the organization, Miyano Akemi, who wanted to leave with her sister, wouldn't dare to do anything against the organization.

Similarly, their attitude towards Shiho Miyano was the same.

Then, yesterday evening, Miyano Akemi abandoned the accomplices she had recruited to rob the bank, successfully escaped the organization, and temporarily hid in Professor Agasa's house.

Early this morning, Shiho Miyano, with Jerry's help, successfully escaped the organization and is now hiding with Shinomiya Kaguya.

To be honest, if Shiina Mashiro hadn't discovered his identity, Miyauchi Hiyage originally planned to train Shiho Miyano as his "undercover agent." However, since he already had Shiina Mashiro, an inside agent with a highly deceptive appearance, he abandoned his original plan.

After processing the information from last night, Miyauchi Hiyage washed up and went alone to the riverbank by the back mountain.

Because Kento Nanami had specifically warned them not to go into the mountains during this period, although they weren't too worried about the "monsters" in the mountains, Miyauchi Hiyage wouldn't deliberately risk his life. He simply familiarized himself with the card's attack patterns by the river.

"The yellow card is a single-target mental attack, the red card applies a binding effect while also causing a wide-range Mana burst, and the blue card is simply Mana attack. All three types of cards can consume additional Mana and have a tracking effect."

Unfortunately, Blue Card doesn't have the ability to restore Mana. After all, this is reality, and there's no cooldown time for using these moves. It all depends on whether he has enough energy in his body.

If he had enough Mana, he could even unleash a dozen or so yellow cards at once.

As the blue card consumes the least amount of resources, it allows him to use up to 20% more times than other cards with different effects, unless there are special requirements.

After familiarizing himself with the cards for a while, Miyauchi Hiyage had a thought and automatically completed the card recycling process.

He needed to use his remaining Mana to test the teleportation effect and see how far this skill, which dared to be called "Fate," could go.

As he calmed himself and activated his ability, he felt his mental energy suddenly radiating outwards at an astonishing speed.

In just a moment, Miyauchi Hiyage clearly "saw" everything around him.

Within a kilometer radius around him, Miyauchi Hiyage felt as if he had access to a full map, able to clearly see not only the positions of people but also the positions of animals.

In this state, Miyauchi Hiyage felt that his thinking speed had become much faster than before.

Even when he casts his gaze on someone, he can vaguely sense the direction of that person's fate in the near future.

Of course, this was not Miyauchi Hiyage's limit; at least he did not feel any fatigue in his mental energy.

However, his current Mana only allows him to do this much.

"Teleportation within one kilometer? That seems a bit short in terms of distance," Miyauchi Hiyage muttered to himself, but he quickly came up with a solution that might solve the problem.

Miyauchi Hiyage tried to gradually withdraw his mental energy that was scattered in other directions, reducing the angle at which his mental energy was dispersed.

Then, all the collected spiritual energy was extended outward in one direction.

He could originally observe a circular area of about 3 square kilometers around him. Now, by turning this 3 square kilometer circle into a semicircle, a quarter circle, or even a smaller angle, as long as his mental energy is sufficient to extend outward, he can correspondingly extend his teleportation range while sacrificing the breadth of observation and increasing the consumption of mental energy and Mana.

After this test, Miyauchi Hiyage had used up half of her remaining Mana and determined her limits.

"My current mental strength limit should be 10 kilometers outward along a line. In other words, my maximum teleportation distance should be about 10 kilometers."

However, if both Mana and mental energy are abundant, continuous teleportation should also be feasible.

Of course, he could also choose not to activate the current observation mode that continuously consumes Mana, but instead directly select a direction and channel Mana into the teleportation, which would allow him to teleport to a more distant location.

However, this would compromise the security of the transmission.

If you accidentally teleport to some dangerous place, there's no going back.

Miyauchi Hiyage wasn't in a hurry to use teleportation. Since he had already confirmed the current teleportation limit, he would just use the remaining Mana to teleport a dozen meters or so to experience the feeling of teleportation.

With his thoughts accelerated several times by the power of fate, Miyauchi Hiyage turned his gaze to the deep mountains.

He planned to maintain this state to observe the situation on the mountain and see if he could discover what had happened.

However, after shifting his perspective to the mountains, Miyauchi Hiyage immediately sensed unstable spatial fluctuations in a large area of the mountains.

The Miyauchi Hiyage withdrew some of its gaze, slightly increasing its observation angle.

The spatial fluctuations could already be felt from the mountains three or four kilometers away.

"It feels like this place is about to crack open at any moment. Could it be that some kind of creature from another world is about to arrive?" Miyauchi Hiyage wondered, sensing the large, unstable area beyond the mountain.

After all, he already knew that there were a bunch of protagonists in this world who were waiting to be reincarnated into another world at any time.

He has also watched many anime featuring creatures from other worlds coming to life.

This large, unstable space is like a temporary connection point that appears after two worlds collide.

Perhaps the rumors about wild beasts in the mountains circulating in Asahigaoka are actually the roars of beasts from another world that have been heard by people.

Demon?

Dragon?

Or perhaps it's some kind of demon king who came to Earth?

I wonder if the Reverse Side World has any countermeasures against these creatures from another world.

Hopefully they can handle this matter in the next few days.

Realizing that her Mana was almost depleted, Miyauchi Hiyage withdrew her thoughts.

I didn't sense any guidance from fate, so it probably has nothing to do with the Diary's owner.

In short, he'll scan again before the Golden Week holiday ends to confirm whether the spatial fluctuations in that area of the mountain have stabilized.

Let's test the teleportation now.

Miyauchi Hiyage confirmed that he still had enough Mana to teleport to the other side of the river, so he casually chose a location on the other side.

There was no tearing sensation; first, a faint light mark appeared at the teleportation point.

After a second or two of meditation, he naturally appeared at the pre-set teleportation point.

Although it was only a short distance of a dozen meters, the feeling of crossing space was indeed quite nice.

Then came the deep-seated feeling of exhaustion.

It seems I've expended a lot of energy.

It's still early, I'll go back to sleep for a bit.

Chapter 169: Menma's Arrival

When Miyauchi Hiyage got up again, it was Miyauchi Renka who woke him up by playing her beloved Recorder by his bedside.

Miyauchi Hiyage glanced at the time; it was already past ten o'clock.

There were also several missed calls from Kento Nanami on my phone, followed by a few messages from Kento Nanami.

It seems that I did expend a lot of energy when I tested my abilities this morning.

If you simply select a direction, quickly observe the surrounding situation, and then teleport, the amount of Mana and energy consumed is not much.

However, he maintained this ability to view the entire map for a few minutes this morning, and then kept adjusting his observation angle while constantly receiving and processing the amount of information transmitted into his mind, which was indeed quite tiring.

No wonder the Card Master's map-wide effect only lasts for a maximum of 10 seconds in the game.

Miyauchi Hiyage sat up, rubbing her eyes and gently patting her younger sister's head.

Having maintained Ripple Breathing for a month, Renge's aura is, to say the least, much more stable than in the anime.

He checked Kento Nanami's information while asking Renge questions.

"Renge, is there something you need?"

Miyauchi Renka put down her Recorder and pointed down at Miyauchi Hiyage: "A guest has arrived. Father asked me to wake up my brother."

Are there guests?

Miyauchi Hiyage wasn't surprised; it must be Honma Meiko the neighboring Chichibu City who drove over with her parents.

Two days ago, his parents said that the other party would come to Asahigaoka to thank those who saved their daughter back then.

Thinking of this, Miyauchi Hiyage changed his clothes again, called Kento Nanami back, and chatted briefly.

Kento Nanami's side should have already investigated Kanoe Yuko's situation, but they still agreed to his filming and told him that he could try to get in touch with the chairman of that academy to learn more.

It was clear that Kento Nanami wanted him to do something, but he didn't say it outright.

He simply said that if I encountered any problems, I could call him and he would arrange for a nearby professional to come and help me.

"I guess they thought Kanoe Yuko's Vengeful Spirit wasn't too dangerous, so they made me practice on it," Miyauchi Hiyage muttered to herself, before calling Itou Kaiji again.

After getting up and having breakfast, Itou Kaiji drove off alone to investigate the rumors surrounding Kanoe Yuko, but his investigation didn't seem to be making much progress.

"However, isn't it a bit too hasty to go directly to the school's chairman? Will he even be willing to see me?" Itou Kaiji troubled on the other end of the phone; he wasn't very confident.

"You can first say that you came from Asahigaoka, and then show her Mr. Nanami's business card so that she knows that we are officially supported online bloggers who want to share the tragedy from half a century ago with more people. If she still doesn't want to see you, then you can wander around the area for a while and see if you can find other people who know the truth. If all else fails, then wait until you come back tonight to talk about it."