The Sealed Room

Standing behind Miyauchi Hiyage, through the camera lens she could only see Kanoe Yuko slowly walk to the stone tablet and reach out to touch it.

Although she didn't know who erected the monument for her, Kanoe Yuko looked at the stone tablet and its location and felt that this place seemed somewhat familiar to her.

However, what caught her attention even more was the exceptionally clean-looking gray Diary next to the stone tablet.

Who left this here?

As Kanoe Yuko thought this to herself, she reached for her Diary.

But almost as soon as she picked up the Diary and opened Diary to see what was written Diary, a whole page of red warning text suddenly appeared on the page.

"The existence of the Diary holder is under serious threat. Considering that the holder has just acquired the Diary, we are now activating the advance payment function and temporarily entering Emergency Mode to ensure that the holder's consciousness remains clear throughout the day. Please resolve the crisis as soon as possible."

Looking at this line of text, Kanoe Yuko felt as if a special power was surging from the Diary in her hand and circulating through her body.

Although it seems that nothing has changed.

But she inexplicably felt her mind become clearer, and the drowsiness she had been feeling completely disappeared.

She felt that she hadn't been this clear-headed in recent years.

She stared blankly at the stone tablet in front of her with her name on it.

What's the story behind this Diary that fell in front of her tombstone?

She was just about to continue reading the words at the back of the Diary when she heard Fujimiya Miki's somewhat surprised voice behind her.

She turned around and found that her eyes met those of Fujimiya Miki in mid-air.

Judging from the other person's expression, it seems that the other person can see him again.

Meanwhile, Miyauchi Hiyage continued filming this location with the camera in his hand, though he now looked somewhat surprised.

"Miss Yuko, what happened to you? Your appearance seems to have suddenly become normal on camera."

Miyauchi Hiyage said this while holding the camera, and at the same time, he brought up the footage that had just been recorded.

While the Diary's shielding function was ineffective against Miyauchi Hiyage, it still worked against cameras.

The footage captured by cameras or other surveillance equipment is all the content that appears after being filtered through the Diary's rule-like filtering function.

The content in the picture is very simple.

Yuko, who was covered in black aura and looked particularly gloomy, had her black aura dissipate considerably after touching her stone tablet, revealing her original appearance.

Seeing that the camera hadn't captured any footage of her picking up the Diary, Kanoe Yuko looked somewhat confused, then glanced at the Diary in her hand.

She tried to tell the two of them about the Diary in her hand, but it seemed that neither Fujimiya Miki nor Miyauchi Hiyage paid any attention to what she was saying.

What exactly is going on with this Diary?

Kanoe Yuko pondered this.

This diary seemed to have restored a lot of her strength, allowing her to freely appear in front of others, and most importantly, it made her look beautiful again in the camera lens.

But it seems that no one else besides her could see the existence of this Diary.

She carefully examined the words at the back of the diary.

Those words weren't reminders; they looked like some kind of diary.

The diary is written by a man who calls himself Voldemort, and it explains the diary and the situation in this world.

To be honest, reading these diaries only confused Kanoe Yuko more.

Ordinary people from the Front World, extraordinary powers from the Reverse Side World, transmigrators from another world, Aliens who infiltrated Earth and don't know what they want to do, and the Diary in her hand, bestowed upon her by a god from a higher dimension.

In addition, there was the mysterious decline a century ago and the Mystery Revival that followed the new century.

Although Kanoe Yuko is a ghost that has existed for more than half a century, she has spent all those years in a daze. How could she possibly accept so many new things all at once, especially in a situation where she cannot ask the people around her for advice?

So, is what's written in this Diary, and the Emergency Mode that was activated just now because her existence was threatened, true or false?

If the contents of this Diary are real, then what threat is threatening her existence?

Chapter 178: The Sealed Room

While Kanoe Yuko was beginning to doubt herself and the Diary in her hand, Miyauchi Hiyage was making a new discovery.

That is, the progress bar for him to help other Diary holders complete their commissions showed a significant increase.

Originally, Miyauchi Hiyage was in Tokyo completing Shiina Mashiro's daily quests and the occasional B-rank quests that would pop up, in addition to Kasumigaoka Utaha's daily quests.

His project progress bar has now accumulated to about 25%, which is roughly one-quarter of the way through.

If this pace continues, it will take about a month to acquire the ability to draw skills in a targeted manner.

But now, after he brought Kanoe Yuko, who had obtained the Diary but had never known it, here, as Kanoe Yuko discovered her Diary, Miyauchi Hiyage's progress bar jumped up by nearly 10%.

In other words, this progress bar is not entirely for helping the female protagonists complete their requests.

Is it possible that simply interacting with the other party and providing assistance in certain matters will also affect the progress bar?

Miyauchi Hiyage analyzed this in his mind.

The newly appeared progress bar was a reward mechanism created by the "higher-dimensional being" who gave him the Diary to encourage him to take the initiative to contact other girls.

Compared to the situation where one can only accumulate progress by helping complete tasks, this more lenient condition, which is also less likely to be noticed by the girls, is naturally more advantageous to Miyauchi Hiyage.

So ultimately, I still need to interact with more girls.

Although Miyauchi Hiyage felt a slight ripple of emotion upon learning this, he forcibly suppressed the thought almost as soon as it arose.

Almost all of Shiina Mashiro's daily requests are related to him, and he also helps complete all the B-rank exorcism requests.

Kasumigaoka Utaha had only interacted with him a few times when he gave her a request for help. Now, almost every day, Kasumigaoka Utaha would deliberately come up with all sorts of questions to ask him. Moreover, as time went on, it seemed that he was also more likely to give her requests that were related to him.

He had just met with Honma Meiko again yesterday, and he didn't know if she had come up with any new requests related to him.

Now there's this ghost in front of us.

Fortunately, Kanoe Yuko has only just obtained the Diary and has not yet unlocked the authorization function, so there is no need to worry about these issues for the time being.

It can be inferred that the "existent" must have secretly adjusted the probabilities, making it easier for any girl who has had contact with him to trigger some of his related requests.

The current situation is alright. Miyauchi Hiyage has only provoked these girls, and Shiina Mashiro, the traitor, can help him cover for them.

But if she were to get involved with a few more girls, Miyauchi Hiyage felt that she might not be able to withstand the pressure.

Therefore, even though Miyauchi Hiyage knew about this "shortcut," he still planned to act according to his original pace and not give up his belief of surviving until he was invincible before making his appearance, all for the sake of a reward.

Looking at Kanoe Yuko, who was flipping through her Diary, Miyauchi Hiyage tried his best to keep his facial expression consistent with Fujimiya Miki's.

At this moment, he maintained this posture, clearly still having many questions in his mind, but seeing Kanoe Yuko "pondering" beside him, he was too embarrassed to ask her directly.

However, Kanoe Yuko was able to wait peacefully while Geng Miyauchi Hiyage flipped through the diary.

But on the other side, the three people who entered the Old Schoolhouse did not have it so easy.

After entering the Old Schoolhouse, Kanoe Kirie stayed close behind Hiiragi Inori, who was dressed as a shrine maiden and exuded a strong sense of security.

While Itou Kaiji was also nervous about finding the remains of a woman who had been dead for more than half a century in this Old Schoolhouse, he thought that his boss probably wanted to spend some time alone with his girlfriend, which was why he deliberately sent him away.

But thinking about it carefully, these two short-haired girls are actually quite good-looking.

As for Kanoe Kirie, who is just a junior high school girl, it's fine. But if he performs well in the future, he might be able to make his presence known to that Hiiragi Inori who is wearing Miko Robes.

Thinking that he could still get overtime pay, Itou Kaiji mentally encouraged himself, telling himself not to panic if he saw any corpses later, and to show his manliness.

They completely forgot that his image had already been completely destroyed by the incompetent teammates who cried and begged for mercy in the previous videos.

Hiiragi Inori, on the other hand, was completely unaware of Itou Kaiji's thoughts.

Her attention is now mostly focused on her surroundings.

She released her Spiritual Power and carefully observed her surroundings, checking for any abnormal fluctuations in Spiritual Power. Occasionally, she would ask Kanoe Kirie behind her some questions, as a way of testing whether he truly had talent in this area.

"They really know how to hide. If I weren't quite sensitive to Spiritual Power, I probably wouldn't have been able to find their location even after several more hours."

After carefully walking through the entire Old Schoolhouse again and setting up some barriers to sense Spiritual Power, Hiiragi Inori stopped at the door of the room furthest and deepest inside the Old Schoolhouse.

She had been here many times before, and since the door wasn't locked, she had naturally gone inside to see the layout.

Inside was an old office, but the decoration and interior design looked quite thoughtful. It was probably used as the chairman's office decades ago.

However, the Old Schoolhouse itself had not been used for classes for decades.

According to Kanoe Kirie, usually only a few small clubs that couldn't find classrooms in the Old Schoolhouse teaching building or hadn't yet been approved by the student council would come to this Old Schoolhouse as temporary activity locations.

In any case, legitimate clubs would never come to the Old Schoolhouse to conduct their activities, let alone come to the room at the very back of the Old Schoolhouse.

Even if they come here, it's usually just to hold some kind of test of courage.

Looking at the dust in the room, Itou Kaiji was a little puzzled as to why the other party would stay here.

Could this be the place where Kanoe Yuko was buried?

Could it be that Kanoe Shizuuko built a chairman's office on the very spot where her sister died?

But the next moment, Hiiragi Inori's actions completely stunned him.

She took out several talismans that she had prepared in advance and stuck them on the wall next to her.

The next moment, Itou Kaiji felt as if his vision blurred for a second.

Then, to his astonishment, he saw that on the wall in front of him, which had previously seemed to be empty, an even older wooden door appeared.

He blinked, and the wooden door vanished again, as if everything he had just seen was an illusion.

"Hey, did you guys just see that...? I didn't see wrong, did I? Did a door just appear on the wall?" Itou Kaiji asked the two girls, his eyes wide.

But no one paid any attention to him.

Hiiragi Inori carefully examined the talisman she had pasted on the wall and discovered that its Spiritual Power had been drained in that instant.

It seems that ordinary tools won't be of any use.

A ghost that had undergone transformation using residual divine power before the Mystery Revival, indeed gained a significant boost in strength with the resurgence.

My mother could keep the other party in check back then, but if she were to come back now, it probably wouldn't be as easy.

Thinking this, she tried again. Although she had discovered this place through some subtle fluctuations in Spiritual Power, it didn't seem so easy to get past the other party's blockade.

She turned to look at Kanoe Kirie and gestured for her to stand where the door had just appeared.

It is estimated that the ghost of Kanoe Yuko has taken control of the Ley Line located beneath the Old Schoolhouse and used Ley Line to create a small barrier, or even a domain.

It is extremely unwise to compare one person's Spiritual Power with that of an entire Ley Line in the vicinity.

However, Kanoe Kirie is, after all, a descendant of Kanoe Yuko, and the two share the same bloodline. Perhaps they can break through this limitation in this way.

As Kanoe Kirie placed his hand on the door, he immediately Hiiragi Inori beside him that he seemed to have touched the doorknob.

"It seems that having similar bloodlines is still useful. Can you open the door?"

Kanoe Kirie tried it out, and then carefully opened the door, revealing another, even darker room where almost no light could be seen.

At this point, even if Itou Kaiji were incredibly thick-skinned, he couldn't possibly pretend that nothing had happened.

He rubbed his eyes again to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

Then, trembling slightly, he backed away while pointing his waving hand at the two girls in front of him.

In response, Hiiragi Inori Itou Kaiji.

Miyauchi Hiyage probably wanted this guy to see this "supernatural" world, which is why he brought him along.

Although Hiiragi Inori didn't think this timid man could be of any use even if he knew these things, she still gave Miyauchi Hiyage this face.

"If you're scared, then go outside. I'll call you back to film after I've dealt with things here."

Itou Kaiji had already reached the exit of the room, and he didn't hesitate at all when he heard Hiiragi Inori's words.

All he wanted to do now was get out of here as soon as possible, go out and tell his boss that there really was a problem with this Old Schoolhouse, and that they should run away as soon as possible!

As for the video?

Anyway, he hasn't even considered the other party at all.