Gojo Satoru Arrives

With the support of this power, Kanoe Yuko can put aside her inner turmoil and wholeheartedly face the person she is now.

Kanoe Yuko sincerely thanked the Diary for lending her this power, unaware of the debt she had incurred for those ten minutes of power.

She tried her best to contain her power.

In the sixty years she has wandered around the Seiwa Academy as a ghost, she has long been accustomed to her identity and the special powers she has gained as a Spiritual Body. Although these powers were lent to her by the Diary, she only felt a little awkward using them at the beginning.

Except for the initial moment when she was still emotionally out of control, she was able to control herself quite well after she came to her senses.

What she needs to do now is to resolve her current problem before this force dissipates.

Looking at the somewhat ethereal "herself" not far away, Kanoe Yuko walked up to the other person with a complicated expression.

If she were to go all out now, with the assistance of the priestess by the shrine, there was indeed a high probability that she could erase this ugly version of herself.

However, Kanoe Yuko couldn't bring herself to do it.

The other party may no longer be so pure, but in the beginning, the other party was indeed a part that was split off from Kanoe Yuko's soul.

She is the core of Kanoe Yuko's soul, and also the side that escapes reality.

In order to forget the ugly image she displayed before her death, she wanted to escape and separated her negative emotions, which became the Shadow Yuuko in front of her.

During this long period of time, she forgot everything and spent her days peacefully on campus. Whenever she felt bored, she would subconsciously separate these negative emotions and pass them on to Shadow Yuuko in order to maintain her "purity".

And what about Shadow Yuuko?

Although the other party wanted to devour her, Kanoe Yuko felt only sorrow.

After all, the other party was abandoned from the beginning as the "evil and ugly" part, and could not be perceived by her who was deliberately avoiding it.

She also had to serve as an emotional dumping ground for herself and all the students of the Seiwa Academy, bearing the pressure and negative emotions of each graduating class.

Kanoe Yuko truly didn't know how the other party had endured sixty years.

Therefore, after gaining power greater than that of Shadow Yuuko, she only made sure that Shadow Yuuko in front of her wouldn't do anything dangerous to the others in the basement, and then turned her attention to Hiiragi Inori around the shrine.

"Miss Shrine Maiden, do you have a way to dispel the hatred in 'my' heart?"

When asked by Kanoe Yuko, who seemed "more normal" but whose strength was far beyond what was expected, Hiiragi Inori was momentarily speechless.

But she quickly realized the possibility of this happening.

A soul splits into two distinct individuals, one good and one evil. The good individual suppresses the evil individual, but the evil individual's aura becomes more prominent.

Therefore, despite the presence of Vengeful Spirit emanating from Kanoe Yuko over the years, she has never actually done anything evil.

If it weren't for the Mystery Revival, relying on the Spiritual Power of the Ley Line and the rumors that had circulated in the Seiwa Academy for decades, Kanoe Yuko's spirit would probably have remained in this stable state until the Ley Line changed—that is, when the Old Schoolhouse were demolished.

After figuring out the changes in Kanoe Yuko's soul, Hiiragi Inori was still a little puzzled as to why this normal Kanoe Yuko could possess such powerful strength, but after glancing at the shrine beside her, she quickly found a reason for it in her mind.

The Kanoe Family is a family of priests and once worshipped real gods.

He died tragically in front of this shrine that once housed deities, and became a ghost because of a pact he made with the Ley Line.

Perhaps at this moment, the divine bloodline within her also played a role, which is why the other party possessed such great power.

Without seeing how conflicted and helpless Kanoe Yuko looked in front of Shadow Yuuko, Hiiragi Inori that Kageko had appeared before them to rescue them from the illusion because she sensed her evil nature and wanted to vent her hatred on them.

Thinking of this, Hiiragi Inori glanced at Shadow Yuuko, who also seemed to be intimidated, and shook her head helplessly at the resentment emanating from her.

"Although our lineage has techniques for purifying impurities, we don't have a very good solution for this situation."

No matter what, Shadow Yuuko is a super-level Vengeful Spirit, and she also has the consciousness and wisdom of an ordinary person.

In such a situation, unless the other party can come to their senses on their own, it seems that the only way to resolve the hatred in their heart is to find Zen Buddhism master to chant sutras for them day and night.

Even so, success is still uncertain.

Especially wronged souls like Kanoe Yuko.

Without any wrongdoing, the villagers, in an attempt to ward off disaster, conspired with her younger sister to offer Kanoe Yuko as a human sacrifice to a vague "deity," leaving her to fend for herself in this basement.

In this situation, it would be much more difficult for Shadow Yuuko, who was born from the "evil" side of Kanoe Yuko, to reform the other party than to reform a top-level Vengeful Spirit.

In the history of Zen Buddhism, there have been monks who, instead of reforming Vengeful Spirit, were led Vengeful Spirit.

Therefore, compared to chanting scriptures for salvation and transformation, physical salvation and transformation are obviously much more efficient.

Hiiragi Inori sighed and told Kanoe Yuko the method she knew.

So, ultimately, is the best solution for her to take on everything the other person has endured over the years in order to resolve this hatred?

Upon hearing this answer, Kanoe Yuko's expression also looked somewhat bitter.

"Do you have a way to seal 'me' away?"

She is indeed unable to bear her past right now, but now that she has remembered everything and realized that escapism may be useful for a while, she will eventually have to face it all.

Unwilling to eliminate "herself," all she can do now is seal it away and wait until she is fully prepared before facing the other party.

With the help of that magical Diary, she should be able to welcome that day soon.

However, this thought arose in Kanoe Yuko's mind.

Not far away, under her lifeless eyes, Shadow Yuuko finally understood all the reasons.

So, all of this was brought about by that mysterious Diary?

Although her original self regained her memories with the help of that Miyauchi Hiyage, she also became aware of the connection between them.

But the other party seems to have overlooked just how close their connection really is.

Now, because of that Diary, the connection between her and the main body has been unilaterally blocked.

However, the connection, or rather the interference, between her and the main body was not severed as a result.

This shows that even when the main body is highly focused, it can still briefly control her actions.

At the same time, the negative attitudes that the other person has in their mind will be more easily transmitted to her.

Therefore, after a long time of placing herself in the shadows, she carefully received the information and negative emotions unconsciously revealed by Kanoe Yuko. In particular, after the other party was unwilling to eliminate her guilt, Shadow Yuuko already knew the source of the other party's power.

What exactly is the origin of that Diary?

Shadow Yuuko doesn't need to know.

All she needed to know was that her foolish and naive true form actually wanted to give up such a power, and that she had placed the Diary, which only the two of them could see, in Miyauchi Hiyage's backpack.

In other words, as long as she can find Miyauchi Hiyage's whereabouts, she will have a chance to snatch ownership of the Diary from him!

Controlling her inner turmoil to prevent her thoughts from being seen through by the main body or the shrine maiden, Shadow Yuuko patiently waited for an opportunity.

On Hiiragi Inori's side, upon hearing Kanoe Yuko's idea, he immediately offered to seal Shadow Yuuko in the shrine.

"You were originally in this state because of the shrine. The shrine is a suitable vessel for sealing, but if it is left for too long, it will be easy for 'her' resentment to leak out and affect the Ley Line in this area again."

Hiiragi Inori sensed the murky Ley Line beneath the shrine. Although the Ley Line themselves had a certain self-repairing ability, if they were not purified quickly, Vengeful Spirit and cursed spirits would be more likely to breed on this land in the coming months, and ordinary people living here would be more likely to suffer some undeserved disasters.

If Shadow Yuuko is sealed here, then the seal will need to be checked every year or two to ensure it doesn't loosen.

"A year and a half?" Kanoe Yuko nodded, feeling that this time should be enough, so that Hiiragi Inori could make preparations and she would help control Shadow Yuuko.

According to the Diary, she could become stronger by reading it every day.

A year from now, she should be able to find a way to resolve and dissipate this hatred within herself.

When Kanoe Yuko's decisive choice, Hiiragi Inori was somewhat taken aback.

However, the intense resentment emanating from Shadow Yuuko could not be concealed, and if Kanoe Yuko hadn't intervened, she might have already been lost in the illusion created by the other party.

After receiving a response from Kanoe Yuko, Hiiragi Inori no longer hesitated and prepared to begin the sealing ceremony.

And it was at this moment that Shadow Yuuko finally revealed her true colors.

"You possess such immense power, yet you still cannot bear your past, so you want to seal me away?"

"No problem. I was just a piece of ugly, discarded soul that you split off from the negative emotions you didn't want to accept. As the main body, you can of course arrange my fate at will."

"But just now, before I came here, I had already prepared a gift for our last enemy. It's just a pity that I won't be able to see her go to hell."

Kanoe Yuko was slightly taken aback when she heard Shadow Yuuko's words.

"What did you say?"

Shadow Yuuko grinned and looked at Kanoe Yuko.

"Don't you know who I'm talking about?"

"Why do you think I suddenly left that forest just now? It's because that woman who should have died sixty years ago came here, and I was planning to use her blood to start the path of revenge that we should have started long ago."

Chapter 189: Satoru Gojo Arrives

As soon as Shadow Yuuko finished speaking, Kanoe Yuko already knew who the other person was talking about.

If she hasn't regained her memory yet, she might not remember these things.

During the plague that swept through the entire village, the villagers who participated in the human sacrifice were either victims of fate or victims of a curse from before her death.

In short, in the months following her death, the villagers who tried to escape the plague eventually died one by one from it.

In truth, their regrets and resentments before their deaths, to some extent, became one of the sources of nourishment for Kanoe Yuko's birth.

In just one year, after that tragic plague, only Kanoe Shizuuko remained who knew what had happened back then.

Then, after the plague, Kanoe Shizuuko, the last surviving member of the Kanoe Family, rebuilt the village in remorse and gradually transformed it into the city it is today.

However, over the years, living in the Seiwa Academy, Kanoe Yuko would subconsciously try to escape and forget those memories she didn't want to recall.

Therefore, Kanoe Yuko, who subconsciously did not want to meet Kanoe Shizuuko again, could be said to have never appeared in front of Kanoe Shizuuko in the past sixty years.

The only person Kanoe Shizuuko had seen over the years was Ying Shadow Yuuko, who carried all the hatred on her shoulders.

Listening to Shadow Yuuko's explanation, Kanoe Yuko finally realized that she seemed to have missed something on her way here.

The target should be Kanoe Shizuuko, but where is Kanoe Shizuuko now?

Why didn't she see Kanoe Shizuuko along the way?

Could it really be as the other party said, that they had already attacked Kanoe Shizuuko before she arrived?

She certainly hasn't gotten over what happened back then, but even when she first became a ghost, she couldn't bring herself to kill her sister and make the Kanoe Family bloodline disappear from the world completely.

Now, more than sixty years have passed, and my younger sister is already old enough to be buried.

Years later, after Kanoe Shizuuko passed away and the Old Schoolhouse was demolished, for Kanoe Yuko, it was as if the power of time had smoothed over all the past entanglements.

This might be why she chose to forget and escape back then.

If the version of herself in front of her were to actually take that step now, then the original her would never be able to let go of this matter.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Kanoe Yuko seemed to be losing control of her power again.

Taking advantage of the moment when Kanoe Yuko's mind was unstable again, Shadow Yuuko used her familiarity with the Ley Line to directly use her resentment to detonate the Spiritual Power in the Ley Line that she had corrupted and assimilated.

Immediately, a violent shaking spread rapidly outwards from the basement of the Old Schoolhouse.

This Old Schoolhouse, which has existed for nearly a century, also began to sway and crumble under the sudden tremor.

Even Miyauchi Hiyage and the others, who were outside the school, could faintly feel the tremor.

Feeling the tremor, Fujimiya Miki gripped Miyauchi Hiyage's arm tightly once more.

And in the basement, which is the center, the commotion is naturally even greater.

Especially the three people standing next to the shrine, if it weren't for Hiiragi Inori's current high level of concentration, she would have subconsciously activated the protective array the moment the Ley Line's Spiritual Power went completely berserk.

She might be able to survive thanks to the protection of her Miko Robes, but Itou Kaiji and Kanoe Kirie, being ordinary people without any protection, would probably be half-dead if they didn't die.

She glared angrily at Shadow Yuuko's location, only to discover that after doing this, Yingxizi had taken advantage of their distraction to escape.

She gritted her teeth and sighed inwardly, marveling at how cunning these Vengeful Spirit with exceptional potential were.

But now is not the time to dwell on Shadow Yuuko's escape.

With the Ley Line in disarray, the previous impact was merely an appetizer. As Spiritual Power and resentment clashed, staying in this place would not only pose a constant risk of being harmed by Spiritual Power, but would also greatly increase the possibility of being devoured by it when activating Spiritual Power such a location.

Not to mention that this Old Schoolhouse had long since reached the end of its service life, but it was left here and not demolished only for the sake of Kanoe Yuko.

In this situation, if they don't leave here quickly, they might be buried here in the next moment!

She looked at Kanoe Yuko beside her. It could be said that after the Ley Line became disordered, Kanoe Yuko used her power to stabilize the situation here, preventing the place from collapsing immediately.

Kanoe Yuko's expression was also extremely complicated at this moment.

I never imagined that version of myself could do something like this.