What? Haruhi Suzumiya?

She took out her phone and, following the girl's instructions, found Miyauchi Hiyage's current video account.

Looking at those who explore past crime scenes late at night, using the traces at the scene and the information released by the police to deduce the entire process of the murderer's crime.

Coupled with the occasional small noises in the video to scare people, and the highly fitting horror music, Haruhi Suzumiya immediately overturned her original plan.

Visiting murder scenes and places rumored to be haunted?

It sounds more reliable than those paranormal clubs that just stay in their groups and share horror movies.

She had joined the Paranormal Society with high hopes during junior high school and when she was at Koyoen.

But those guys had no intention of exploring those haunted places at all; they were just a bunch of useless good-for-nothings.

But this Miyauchi Hiyage, Nyūyō, not only had the audacity to go to those places, but he also managed to film them.

She knew she hadn't misjudged him; Miyauchi Hiyage and Sakakibara Kouichi were indeed interesting people!

Perhaps with their help, she could find traces of the Reverse Side World more quickly.

Haruhi Suzumiya made a decision immediately: she was going to join in the fun!

Chapter 236: What, Haruhi Suzumiya?

"The third volume of Love Metronome is almost finished. I'll bring the manuscript to you then so you can see if there's anything that needs to be revised," Kasumigaoka Utaha, holding a local specialty from Asahigaoka in her hand, her eyes filled with gratitude as she looked at Miyauchi Hiyage.

The first volume of "Love Metronome" didn't do too well, a fact she had already analyzed after reading her own novel—

She is indeed not suited to writing simple romance novels, even if the female protagonist is modeled after herself, and the male protagonist is the impeccable, perfect male protagonist in her subconscious.

But it is precisely because of this seemingly perfect love story that, according to Miyauchi Hiyage, it subtly feels like artificial saccharin.

Kasumigaoka Utaha knew that in her original story, she forcefully introduced the second female lead in the second volume, turning the relationship into a love triangle. With the help of Aki Tomoya, who had 100,000 fans online, she finally made a beautiful comeback and achieved sales of over 500,000 copies as a newcomer.

Of course, in this world, because she obtained the Diary, her fate and that of the Love Metronome have already taken a turn.

Originally, only Aki Tomoya helped with the promotion, but after reading her novel, the girls in the group were all quite willing to help promote it.

Shinomiya Kaguya then spoke to the paperback publisher to ensure that her work wouldn't be cancelled, no matter how poorly it performed.

Meanwhile, people with a lot of fans, such as Hoshino Ai Bocchi-chan, promoted the Love Metronome on their own accounts.

Miyauchi Hiyage also got several influencers with millions of followers from Asahigaoka Media to help promote their products on Twitter.

It can be said that the low period of Love Metronome only lasted for less than half a month. After the book signing event, it inexplicably became a hot book last month. At this rate, let alone 500,000 copies, it is not impossible for it to even break 1 million copies!

Despite achieving greater success than the original work, Kasumigaoka Utaha herself remained quite calm.

After all, what she's more concerned about now is wrapping up her subsequent works.

If she continues writing like this, there's a very high chance that, driven by the plot, she'll portray her as a "loser" in the book.

But ironically, writing such stories made her even more adept.

Even Miyauchi Hiyage has stated more than once that she is a natural genius at writing love triangles.

Fortunately, the suggestions given by Miyauchi Hiyage were indeed useful. Some of the casually suggested love triangle plots were even more stomach-churning than the stories of "her predecessors" mentioned by the You Know Who in the diary.

Moreover, with the other party's help, not only did the two girls' characters become more likable and complete, but even the "perfect male protagonist," who was hardly developed in the first volume, became more three-dimensional without us realizing it.

Although Kasumigaoka Utaha herself didn't want to admit it.

But she knew it in her heart.

Originally, the male protagonist was just her own imagination, because she hadn't really interacted with many boys since she was a child. The male protagonist's existence was more like an "all-around tool" to help the female protagonist deliver sweet moments in the plot. When she realized this and went back to watch the development of the relationship between the male and female protagonists, she could indeed feel the artificial sweetener flavor that Miyauchi Hiyage had mentioned.

But things are different now.

She drew more inspiration from everyone's stories in her Diary.

Scumbags like Itou Makoto, the siscon from the Black Cat's side, the pessimistic male protagonist in Yukino Yukinoshita's story, of course, the all -Umaru amazing older brother from Umaru-chan who unconditionally dotes on his sister, and Hikage Miyauchi who became a millionaire in his first year of high school and even built a harem in Miyauchi Hiyage.

In the two weeks since becoming friends with Miyauchi Hiyage, Kasumigaoka Utaha has indeed learned why Shiina Mashiro rushed over to Miyauchi Hiyage the first time they met.

As a friend, Miyauchi Hiyage is indeed impeccable.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, who originally only wanted to use Miyauchi Hiyage to complete missions, was indeed wary of Miyauchi Hiyage at first, lest she be attracted by that rather classic "Japanese gentleness".

But as it turns out, Miyauchi Hiyage doesn't actually practice the gentle approach.

The other party almost never initiates conversations; they resolve issues on the spot and then fall silent again.

The only thing that made Kasumigaoka Utaha sense the other person's emotions was that his gaze would occasionally and unintentionally glance at her stockings, but that was all.

Apart from that, when they met in private, Miyauchi Hiyage and she always maintained a stable distance.

Moreover, this isn't the kind of clueless, emotionally oblivious male protagonist. On the contrary, Kasumigaoka Utaha Miyauchi Hiyage even sense the meaning behind what the other person is doing:

He became friends with Shiina Mashiro because of her. He would help her analyze problems in her writing and lend a hand as a friend when she encountered trouble, but there was no possibility of anything more going on.

Unless, of course, you force yourself upon her and make it a fait accompli.

But that's impossible.

After reading her original story, Kasumigaoka Utaha became extremely disgusted by this kind of advances.

Upon realizing this, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but feel a sense of defeat.

Well, although she could guess that in the world where she and Shiina Mashiro lived in the You Know Who's past life, they were most likely voiced by the same voice actor, she could almost perfectly simulate Shiina Mashiro's voice and tone with just a little control.

But she is Mashiro not as pure and endearing as Mashiro.

With this vague feeling of being a "loser," she used Miyauchi Hiyage as a shadow of the male protagonist in her writing. She completed the rewriting of the second volume in just a few nights, and even almost finished the third volume in one go.

Even her editor, Machida Sonoko, couldn't help but marvel at her visible progress after reading the second volume she had written with all her might. Taking advantage of the current popularity, she plans to release a new second volume in the next few days.

Kasumigaoka Utaha is now very confident that the work she has completed is far more wonderful than her previous life's.

Moreover, with the help of Miyauchi Hiyage, she also very astutely eliminated some foreshadowing elements that would directly cause "herself in the book" to become a complete loser.

Until the very last chapter of the final volume, she aimed to maintain a balance between the two female protagonists in the book and among their fan bases both inside and outside the book.

Even if the final published version of "herself" still ends up as a loser, she can still write another "what if" ending in the online version, based on readers' demands.

It won't be easy to achieve this, but as long as she can maintain her current relationship with Miyauchi Hiyage, she feels she can still do it.

However, Kasumigaoka Utaha's mood quickly dropped again.

Previously, Miyauchi Hiyage was just an ordinary person.

Now that the opponent has awakened to the extraordinary level, he has already reached the second level simply by using Breathing Technique in combination with swordsmanship. When he takes out that holy sword, he will probably have a solid special-level strength.

Even though she started cultivating earlier and was also a senior in the Miyauchi Hiyage, she still relied on him, which made her feel somewhat inferior.

She had been thinking about whether to confess to Miyauchi Hiyage that she had also practiced Breathing Technique and ask Miyauchi Hiyage to help her adjust her breathing rhythm, but now she found herself unable to bring herself to say it.

She was a little worried that if she said those words, it would affect the comfortable relationship they had built up.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage nodded as usual. "No problem, I've been waiting for your third volume, Senpai. If you can maintain the quality of the second volume, you might have a chance to become a legend with one book, with each volume averaging over a million words."

Such praise immediately cheered Kasumigaoka Utaha up.

With an average of over a million copies per volume, it can indeed be considered a super bestseller that has broken out of its niche. There are very few works in the entire light novel industry that can achieve this.

She knew that Miyauchi Hiyage's power seemed to be related to "fate," and since Miyauchi Hiyage wished her an average of over a million copies per volume, she felt much more confident.

"Then thank you for your blessing. If it doesn't reach a million, I'll have to come and cause you trouble, junior."

Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled and responded, then before leaving, she suddenly remembered the pretty girl she had seen earlier, whom she had never met at school before.

She then casually asked about the girl's identity.

Miyauchi Hiyage also decisively chose to shift the blame elsewhere.

Let these people fight amongst themselves; it's best not to get involved.

"That girl, she's a new student who just transferred from Hyogo Prefecture today, I think her name is Haruhi Suzumiya."

Miyauchi Hiyage paused for a moment, then whispered a reminder: "Senior, I feel that girl is a very troublesome person. You'd better not get involved with her."

Kasumigaoka Utaha paused for a moment.

Even though it was the first time that Miyauchi Hiyage had met the other person, why did she suddenly start telling her to keep her distance from that girl?

Did his abilities allow him to see something?

Etc?

The Haruhi Suzumiya?

Why does this name sound so familiar?

It's as if I've seen it somewhere before.

As if remembering something, Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly took out her Diary and started looking through it.

She only flipped through a few pages of the Diary, and found the name of Haruhi Suzumiya in the diary from the first day of school.

Possessing the divine power to rewrite the entire world according to one's own will, the declaration upon entering school is to find Aliens, Espers, Time Travelers, Otherworlders!?

The You Know Who's assessment of him was only two words.

Supermodel.

Kasumigaoka Utaha stared at the description of Haruhi Suzumiya and her mouth dropped open slightly.

So, is this another deity with divine power?

But why would someone come to Tokyo at this time, and even become classmates with Miyauchi Hiyage?!

Kasumigaoka Utaha's mind began to race.

"Sorry, I suddenly remembered something urgent. Don't worry, I won't provoke that girl. You should also be careful."

Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly, even hastily, gave Kasumigaoka Utaha Miyauchi Hiyage brief instruction, then turned around and, while walking briskly towards her class with her phone, sent messages in the group chat.

Kashiko Kasumi: "Major crisis! How many people are online right now?!"

Following her inquiry, several girls who were also playing on their phones during break time, as well as several girls who weren't at school, responded to Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Bocchi: "Kashiko Kasumi, what happened?"

Yotsuya Miko: "Did you encounter a ghost?"

Hoshino Ai: "A major crisis? Your request was stolen, and you're being punished for failing a request?"

Tsukimi Eiko: "Is this going to be a live stream of Kashiko Kasumi -sensei's embarrassing play? I can't wait!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha is one of the most active members in the group. She has attended offline gatherings and held autograph sessions, and has taken many photos of these events, which she has shared in the group.

Among the girls in the group, their knowledge of her identity and image is probably second only to that of Shinomiya Kaguya, who has already been subjected to humiliation play, and Hoshino Ai, who appears in public every day as Idol.

Seeing that all the girls were waiting to see her embarrassed, Kasumigaoka Utaha curled her lip and quickly explained in the group chat.

Kashiko Kasumi: "It's not my problem, it's that Haruhi Suzumiya transferred here!"

Immediately, several girls in the group also began to wonder who Haruhi Suzumiya was.

It was Little Bocchi, who spent all day chuckling to himself while engrossed in his diary and phone, who reacted the fastest.

Bocchi: "Is it the supermodel the You Know Who mentioned on the first day of school?"

Reminded by this, the girls, whether online or just watching from the sidelines, all checked their diaries from that day.

Suddenly, the Chat Group during class time became unusually lively.

After all, Haruhi Suzumiya was far too mysterious in the You Know Who's diary.

He possesses the divine power to make his wishes come true, and he's also connected to Aliens Time Travelers.

With their Diary and Ripple Chi Kung, they could be considered "Espers" by now. Who knows how the other side would treat them if they knew of their existence?

Even on the first day of school after the holiday, Shinomiya Kaguya, who was busy tidying up after the former student council president, called Kasumigaoka Utaha directly to ask about the situation.

"Haruhi Suzumiya from Hyogo Prefecture suddenly transferred to this school, and she even transferred to the same class as Miyauchi Hiyage?"

Shinomiya Kaguya looked at the information about the various girls in her Diary with a rather unpleasant expression.

She had people investigate the identities of everyone mentioned by the You Know Who in the Diary.

Before this, the only one who had not been investigated was Shiho Miyano, who had no legitimate identity and was being kept hidden.

As for this Haruhi Suzumiya, the result of her previous investigation was that no such person could be found.

So, where did the other party suddenly appear from?