What Era Is It, Still Writing Traditional Diaries

But today, the Diary's response showed a new change.

[Consuming 5 Reading Points can unlock Beginner Spirit Vision (can be turned off at will). Currently, Reading Points are insufficient. Please continue to maintain the good habit of viewing the Diary daily.]

Chapter 25: Shinomiya Kaguya Asks to Sleep Together

The Diary has gained new abilities!

Five Reading Points can unlock Beginner Spirit Vision...

So, this world really does have vengeful spirits!?

Is it possible that the mysterious person who wrote the diary actually met that Yotsuya Miko in the car today and that's why they wrote about it in the diary?

This means that if I can find that Shinomiya Miko, I might be able to follow this lead and find that mysterious person?

Shinomiya Kaguya took a deep breath.

Looking at the diary's descriptions of those vengeful spirits, she felt that even if her extra Reading Points rusted away, she would absolutely never activate Spirit Vision on her own.

She had no strange fetishes, nor was she interested in dealing with vengeful spirits or ghosts.

Shinomiya Kaguya wrote a few more lines in the Diary, wanting to ask if there were any vengeful spirits around her.

The result she received was that she could activate Spirit Vision to investigate herself.

This ambiguous answer made Shinomiya Kaguya unable to sleep.

She glanced at the time; it was ten o'clock at night.

It was quite late to discuss matters at this hour, but it seemed a bit early to go to bed.

However, feeling as though there might be something strange in the room, Shinomiya Kaguya still called Hayasaka Ai into her room.

"My Lady Kaguya, is there something you need?"

Hayasaka Ai, who was the same age as her, was undoubtedly a perfectly competent maid from any perspective.

The moment Shinomiya Kaguya called her, she dropped whatever else she was doing and came to Shinomiya Kaguya's bedroom.

In the past, the two of them would often have a little chat before bed after finishing their day's work.

However, in the last few days, she had felt that her young lady had gained many more secrets.

A few days ago, Shinomiya Kaguya had taken out a list and asked her to investigate the identities of these people without anyone noticing, especially not anyone from the Shinomiya family.

The second daughter of the Yukinoshita Family of Chiba Prefecture, a detective known as the "Sleeping Kogoro," an obscure underground idol, an ordinary high school girl with no special identity other than her beauty...

She spent all day with Shinomiya Kaguya, and now that it was summer vacation and Shinomiya Kaguya rarely went out, anything her young lady could learn about, she theoretically should also know.

Yet, she had no recollection of these names.

Perhaps it was because she had never seen Shinomiya Kaguya so serious, and she genuinely didn't know how to explain where her young lady had heard these names.

She couldn't possibly say that her young lady had met all these people online.

Shinomiya Kaguya was still using the old flip phone she got when she was five, and she only used it as a communication device.

Forget LINE, she had never even used the phone's camera function.

Although Hayasaka Ai couldn't quite figure it out, the task her young lady gave her had to be completed.

So, she used her personal connections and her own salary to investigate and obtain the information on the individuals Shinomiya Kaguya needed, then handed it over to her.

And that night, for the first time in her life, she concealed something from someone belonging to the Shinomiya family's main branch.

If she were asked about it later, she could just say they were netizens who wanted to meet offline.

And based on her observations over the past few days, she realized that her young lady seemed to have some way of bypassing her, the competent maid, and contacting others outside.

While she felt a little empty inside about this, she was actually quite happy.

Shinomiya Kaguya had been lonely since she was a child, and the only person who could be considered a friend was the daughter of the Fujiwara family.

But even that friendship was constantly monitored by others in the Shinomiya family.

If her young lady could truly make more friends, that would naturally be a good thing.

The only problem was, while Shinomiya Kaguya could still evade the eyes of the Shinomiya family now, how long could she maintain that?

And how would she face the wrath of the Shinomiya family's main branch if she missed out on such important information?

Shinomiya Kaguya could also sense Hayasaka Ai's emotions.

However, she didn't realize that Hayasaka Ai was worrying about more complex matters.

She looked at Hayasaka Ai, who had grown up with her, standing before her.

She had asked her to investigate so many people a few days ago without explaining why, so Hayasaka must have many questions in her heart right now.

Shinomiya Kaguya wanted to tell Hayasaka about the Diary, but due to the rules, she couldn't.

Even using roundabout methods was not allowed, such as mentioning dreaming within a dream, or directly saying that a mysterious spirit only she could see told her; any method that might reveal the Diary was forbidden.

While she could demonstrate things like Ripple Chi Kung, which she learned from the Diary, she couldn't reveal the source of the power, which would likely only make Hayasaka worry even more.

However, tomorrow would be her seventh day since obtaining the Diary, and she wondered if she could tell Hayasaka Ai about the Diary after unlocking new permissions.

She waited for that day to arrive.

"I... can't quite sleep. Let's just chat for a bit," Shinomiya Kaguya patted the spot beside her on the bed, signaling for the other person to join her.

Hayasaka Ai glanced at her young lady with a hint of confusion.

It was only ten o'clock. Even if her young lady usually slept early, it was typically around eleven.

But since her young lady had said so, there was no way she could refuse.

She then sat down by the bed and began talking with Shinomiya Kaguya about work and life.

These topics were actually quite boring, and listening to them was even more so.

But this was just their daily routine, hers and Shinomiya Kaguya's.

What interesting things could two people, bound by the Shinomiya family and never even having attended the summer fireworks festival once, possibly talk about?

It was just that Hayasaka Ai herself hadn't quite noticed that, under Shinomiya Kaguya's deliberate manipulation, she had unconsciously ended up half-lying on the bed.

By the time she realized something might be wrong, Shinomiya Kaguya had already wrapped her arm around her.

The warm sensation from the other's palm seemed to release all the accumulated fatigue she had been holding onto.

Watching Hayasaka Ai slowly drift off to sleep, Shinomiya Kaguya, who had used Ripple energy on someone for the first time and lacked experience, was taken aback.

She had originally just intended to use Ripple energy in the covers to gently relax the other person's body, then perhaps they could chat about ghost stories, and finally, it would be natural for Hayasaka to stay.

How did Hayasaka just fall asleep like that?

And she was sleeping so soundly that Kaguya felt too embarrassed to wake her.

Could it be that Ripple energy also had a hypnotic effect?

Shinomiya Kaguya looked at her palm, feeling as though she had just mastered a new skill.

However, since her objective had been achieved, a slight deviation in the process didn't matter.

She had originally planned to have Hayasaka Ai investigate Yotsuya Miko tomorrow and also find some masters at a temple to get some blessed talismans to ward off evil spirits.

Since Hayasaka Ai was already asleep, she would just have to deal with it after she woke up tomorrow.

Kaguya softly turned off the light and then pulled the covers over herself and Hayasaka Ai.

"Goodnight, Hayasaka."

Chapter Twenty-Six: Yotsuya Miko Doesn't Want to See the Diary

While Shinomiya Kaguya had Hayasaka Ai sleeping beside her, the other girls who had received diaries felt a sense of dread, more or less, after seeing the "truth" described within the diary.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, unable to sleep, took advantage of the diary's contents and wrote a ghost story overnight, planning to post it on her main blog once it was finished.

Yukino Yukinoshita, who lacked a sense of security, spent the entire night practicing Ripple.

At the same time, she pondered in her mind, hearing that black cats could ward off evil, should she try to persuade her mother to get a black cat at home to ward off evil spirits?

However, there was an exception here that was even more excited.

A certain chuunibyou girl, who had just moved into a new home and was wearing colored contact lenses, nodded very seriously after reading today's diary.

"I see! The stronger one's spiritual power, the more powerful evil spirits one can perceive. This is the truth of the world, I understand it completely now!"

"Is it precisely because my Evil Eye on my right eye is still sealed and unable to exert its original power that I cannot use it to explore the location of the 'invisible boundary line'?"

Takanashi Rikka clenched her fist tightly, and a trace of Ripple power erupted from her hand.

"But now that I have mastered Ripple power, as long as I continue to cultivate, I will eventually be able to awaken the true Evil Eye!"

Of course, she could do without Spirit Vision and the like. Even the chuunibyou girl, like normal people, maintained a complete rejection of those terrifying and ugly-looking vengeful spirits.

"But no matter what, the Evil Eye is the strongest. Even the most powerful vengeful spirits will be no match for my fully awakened Evil Eye, hahahaha!"

Only when her sister living next door issued a warning, "Don't disturb others late at night," did she quiet down.

The chuunibyou girl was here, envisioning a colorful future life.

As for the person who truly possessed Spirit Vision...

For several days now, Yotsuya Miko had known that a strange diary had appeared beside her.

However, ever since she had opened the diary for the first time and seen the text "I am XXX, sealed within this diary," which was clearly a trap, she hadn't dared to open it again.

Even though the diary seemed to have recognized her and was sticking around, no matter how she tried to get rid of it, she couldn't.

So, she began to ignore the diary—something she was gradually becoming good at.

Since not long ago, her eyes had been able to see things that normal people couldn't.

She had tried to find someone to help her, but so far, she hadn't found anyone who could see what she could.

All this time, she had been pretending not to see those things, and those vengeful spirits and ghosts also seemed not to have noticed that there was a person in the world who could see them.

Although it was a bit difficult, thankfully, the number of those things wasn't too large. As long as she was careful, she could barely cope.

As for this suddenly appearing diary, she treated it as some kind of higher-level vengeful spirit.

The wizarding world, while it sounded like it could solve her problems, what if it was just something fabricated by the other party to lure her into escaping?

She probably sealed some terrifying great demon king inside!

Yotsuya Miko thought to herself.

But as long as she didn't open the diary, and wasn't tempted by the sealed Tom inside, nothing should happen... probably?

"School is starting soon, I just hope I don't see anything strange at school."

"If I can't find any masters at the temples around my house, should I go check out more famous shrines or temples?"

Yotsuya Miko, with slight dark circles under her eyes, casually swept the diary that had appeared by her bedside onto the floor, out of sight, out of mind.

She then turned off her bedside lamp and, nestled in her covers, hoped she would have a good dream tonight.

After all, dreaming was the only time she could relax these days.