Kaguya Shinomiya's Choice

Faced with the power of rules like the Law of Calamity, the Heaven's Door naturally cannot play any role.

However, judging from the other party's skillful use of Heaven's Door, Miyauchi Hiyage could confirm that Kishibe Rohan in this world had probably awakened this ability a long time ago, and did not know that the official name of the ability he awakened was Stand.

"A stand-in?" Kishibe Rohan frowned as he looked at the man in front of him, who was completely covered up except for his hands and glasses, making it impossible to tell whether he was male or female.

This was the first time he had ever heard this term.

This was also the first time in many years since he suddenly awakened the power of the Heaven's Door when he was young that he had seen someone who could actively resist the Heaven's Door.

No, can the other person even be considered a human being?

Such doubts arose in Kishibe Rohan's mind.

He only wanted to check what the other party was up to with their furtive attire, but who would have thought he would run into such a tough opponent.

He didn't see anything, and his right hand was crippled by the other party.

If he doesn't recover quickly, he might experience his first ever missed deadline, something he's never done before.

"Normally, your Heaven's Door should be a substitute, but I really can't say for sure about your current situation, since I haven't figured out which Kishibe Rohan you are yet."

Kishibe Rohan's tone is much better now than before.

Miyauchi Hiyage was fairly polite in treating the other person's dislocated arm, and then began to irresponsibly reveal spoilers.

"In short, when did you discover that you had acquired this ability?"

Kishibe Rohan sitting obediently with Miyauchi Hiyage and explaining, "It was when I was about four or five years old. I had a high fever and forgot a lot of things from before. After moving to Tokyo with my parents, I discovered that I had the ability of this 'Stand' that you mentioned."

Even the memory of his childhood that he had forgotten began to vaguely resurface after he returned to Morioh, but he still hadn't remembered what the most important thing was.

"He got a Stand when he was young, so he doesn't seem to be Kishibe Rohan from Part 4 after all," Miyauchi Hiyage shook his head, and then suddenly said the names of the two women who were most important to Kishibe Rohan.

Do you still remember the names 'Nanao' or 'Sugimoto Reimi'?

It was obvious to the naked eye that Kishibe Rohan reacted strongly to the first name, but only had doubts about the second name. It was unclear whether he hadn't remembered it yet or whether there was no such person as Kira Yoshikage who had a hand fetish in this world.

"Nanao... do you know Nanao? Where has she been all these years?"

For Kishibe Rohan, this name was practically synonymous with his first love.

At 17, Kishibe Rohan had never been in a relationship, let alone actively approached any woman; this was probably the only woman he had ever been attracted to.

The first time he saw a woman's body, the first time he peeped at a girl, the first time he sketched a woman specifically, and he even used her as a model to draw her in the comic that was most important to him.

Even when they sensed that the other person had a hidden, unspeakable secret, and even though the Heaven's Door had already turned the other person into a book, they gave up reading the secret because they cared about the other person.

Even Miyauchi Hiyage, who saw this scene back then, couldn't have imagined that 17-year-old Kishibe Rohan could be so pure in love.

Unfortunately, Kishibe Rohan really didn't have much luck with women.

The two women who were important to him were both long-dead ghosts by the time he realized it.

Seeing the other party's persistent look, Miyauchi Hiyage coughed lightly and then took out the complete JOJO manga that he had acquired some time ago.

"This is JOJO Part 4, a Kishibe Rohan motionless. The matter you care about is inside."

Chapter 275: Shinomiya Kaguya's Choice

While Rohan Kishibe was flipping through the manga Kishibe Rohan his worldview was being brutally attacked, Miyauchi Hiyage received several text messages from Shinomiya Kaguya.

The first piece of news is that she has successfully used the power of the Shinomiya Family to find the problems with the former student council of the Shuchiin Academy today, forcibly disbanded it, and temporarily assumed the position as the interim president.

Shinomiya Kaguya had mentioned this to him before, so Miyauchi Hiyage also congratulated him.

The second message was a bit more abrupt; it directly asked him which comic artists he usually liked.

Upon seeing this message, Miyauchi Hiyage couldn't help but smile.

Is Shinomiya Kaguya testing him?

However, there's no point in pretending about it.

In the first month after obtaining the Diary, he didn't have many options and also had to worry about being controlled by a woman like Shinomiya Kaguya after his identity was exposed.

Even after saving Tohru and obtaining Unlimited Blade Works, he doesn't really have many ways to stop someone from targeting those around him.

But after receiving the Wonder of U, Miyauchi Hiyage no longer needs to worry about these things.

Worldly forces alone can no longer have any impact on him or those around him.

While you may not be invincible, breaking through Wonder of U's defenses is no easy feat.

Naturally, Miyauchi Hiyage's mindset also underwent some changes.

The attitude towards girls who kept Diary naturally changed.

In fact, relying solely on his original Name Magic, Miyauchi Hiyage could vaguely sense that, besides Shinomiya Kaguya, there were probably a few other clever women in the group who suspected him.

It would be strange if women as intelligent as Yukino Yukinoshita and Aoi Hinata didn't have doubts about his rapid rise to power.

However, these girls never expressed much of their own opinions in the group chat. To be precise, Yukino Yukinoshita rarely spoke in the group, and Aoi Hinata was just a fun-loving person. Every day, besides waiting for fun in the group, she would try to find the whereabouts of "Blank" in real life, wanting to avenge her previous humiliation.

Shinomiya Kaguya is indeed the person closest to his You Know Who identity, aside from Mashiro Shiina Mashiro who immediately realized the problem through intuition. This suspicious and capable woman has already begun using Akihabara's surveillance footage to investigate his first meeting with Shiina Mashiro.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage still won't reveal her identity. After all, the game has already started, and even if Miyauchi Hiyage's mindset changes, she won't admit her identity in her diary; that wouldn't be interesting enough.

However, if the other party comes to him to ask, Miyauchi Hiyage will not directly deny it.

Thinking about this, Miyauchi Hiyage casually replied on her phone with a few of the manga she liked in this world.

This includes Kishibe Rohan's famous work, "The Pink Dark Boy".

To be fair, although this manga differs greatly from JOJO in content, the way the plot unfolds and the changes in its popularity during serialization are quite similar.

When the first and second parts were serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, they were only moderately popular. The story setting was not very innovative and did not generate much discussion. It was just a shonen manga with a realistic art style and story that was somewhat unique.

In the third year of the serialization, during the third part of the serialization, a superpower setting similar to "Stand" was suddenly introduced. After the tone of the work was changed from hot-blooded and classic battles to a battle of wits and superpowers, the popularity of the work soared.

Now in its fourth year of serialization, Pink Dark Boy is at the peak of its popularity. Even though it can't yet be compared to the top few leading manga artists, it is certainly one of the most popular manga artists right now.

That's why Rohan Kishibe Rohan, who had made a lot of money, decided to buy a Western-style house back in Morioh.

In fact, several girls in the Chat Group who like manga have already mentioned Kishibe Rohan's name.

After all, in reality, compared to other manga artists, Kishibe Rohan's art style is indeed quite distinctive.

Weekly manga artists who have to meet deadlines every week find it difficult to maintain their image, but Kishibe Rohan is good-looking and has a rather unique style of dressing.

Fortunately, this world has a lot of works. In addition to Kishibe Rohan, there are many popular manga artists whose styles are different from those of ordinary manga artists. It is not an easy task to choose Kishibe Rohan from among them.

Of course, Miyauchi Hiyage didn't forget to mention Shiina Mashiro's name. After all, Shiina Mashiro: How to Raise a Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend is doing quite well now, thanks to their adaptation and the dimensional reduction drawing skills brought about by Shiina Mashiro's own abilities combined with the Diary's abilities.

It's not a popular work yet, but the serialization is very stable, so there's no need to worry about it being canceled. Moreover, Shiina Mashiro has good pacing and has made some adjustments to the plot. The main storyline will probably end around 100 chapters.

And it doesn't matter if it's canceled early.

Anyway, Shiina Mashiro has basically finished all the manga, and all that's left is to make some simple adjustments.

Even if it was canceled, Shiina Mashiro was able to quickly finish the remaining content as a web series and then start a new series.

Miyauchi Hiyage had already planned that during the serialization of Saekano: How to Raise Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, before the start of the next part of the serialization, Shiina Mashiro could first try out her own ideas on the online platform for a year.

If that still doesn't work, then bring out Demon Slayer. After all, no matter what, classic shonen manga is the core of Weekly Shonen Jump.

With firsthand information from the Demon Slayer Corps, Shiina Mashiro's drawing skills, and his help to refine the plot and setting, even without relying on the original Demon Slayer manga, Miyauchi Hiyage believes that Shiina Mashiro can present this story to the world in a better way.

Of course, how exactly to do it will depend on Shiina Mashiro's own ideas.

Looking at the names of several manga artists sent by Miyauchi Hiyage, Shinomiya Kaguya, who was sitting alone in the student council office, couldn't help but show a hint of envy when she saw the name Shiina Mashiro.

When the manga "Saekano: Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" officially started serialization, all the girls in the group had already bought and read it.

Even though the You Know Who had already released its novel, spin-off manga, and sent the animation to Kasumigaoka Utaha last month.

Even though everyone knew that "Kato Megumi" would be the final winner, the girls in the group were still interested in how the story would unfold after seeing Shiina Mashiro's version.

Shinomiya Kaguya certainly knew that Miyauchi Hiyage had played a significant role in this.

It's truly enviable that a guy like Miyauchi Hiyage would offer such wholehearted help.

But now is not the time to envy others.

Miyauchi Hiyage openly sent her list of favorite manga artists, while Shinomiya Kaguya focused on the contents of this limited-time request.

Through this commission, they can find out the approximate location of the "You Know Who," and the reward is quite substantial.

But Shinomiya Kaguya's focus wasn't on that; rather, it was on the fact that the request mentioned they had two opportunities to fill in their address.

Why not once, not three times, but exactly twice?

Shinomiya Kaguya hadn't realized this until Umaru in the group chat suddenly mentioned that this might also be a "trick" by the You Know Who, who hadn't actually left Tokyo at all. Only then did Shinomiya Kaguya suddenly realize the problem.

Perhaps there really are two "You Know Who" in this world?

One remained in Tokyo as the original body, while the other went to the coastal town he mentioned as a clone.

Shinomiya Kaguya pondered this, then looked at the designated answer area for this limited-time request in her Diary, gritted her teeth, and directly filled in "Beika Town -ku, Tokyo" as the first answer.

After thinking about it again, he added more specific details, such as 2-chome 23, which directly confirmed that it was the house owned by Miyauchi Hiyage.

Even if Miyauchi Hiyage wasn't the You Know Who, the final reward was originally determined based on the distance between the location she wrote down and the You Know Who.

As Shinjuku is one of the core areas of Tokyo, if the You Know Who really does have a physical presence in Tokyo, judging by the distance, she has a good chance of getting a chance to win a prize.

In addition, she also contacted several girls she was close to, such as Shiho Miyano, whom she was currently secretly hiding, Ai Hoshino Ai, her junior, Katsura Kotonoha, who owed her a favor, and Takanashi Rikka...

Give them one chance to guess, let them guess several other core areas of Tokyo, and let them choose their own option for the remaining chance.

After doing all that, Shinomiya Kaguya turned her attention back to the other three manga artists that Miyauchi Hiyage had sent her.

The classic three choices were presented, and one of the three had a different art style from the other two. Naturally, Shinomiya Kaguya's gaze fell on the young manga artist named Kishibe Rohan, and she spent another 15 minutes obtaining detailed information about the manga artist directly from Shueisha.

Kishibe Rohan, 20 years old.

She dislikes socializing, is willful and self-centered, and has an extraordinary dedication to creating comics.

And they never miss a deadline. They are among the few dedicated artists who never need to be urged to submit their work, do not need any comic assistants, and do not need any editors' help. Yet, they can submit their original manuscripts a few days before the deadline every week.

As for willfulness and ego, it manifests in the way they negotiate with the other party and the editor.

Aside from the first few years after its debut, when the other party listened to the editorial department's ideas and added a very popular female character as the heroine in the second part of the manga, as the popularity of the third part of Pink Dark Boy soared, the other party almost never listened to the editorial department's opinions again.

It's even rumored that, in order to avoid being constantly bothered by editors and readers while drawing comics, the other party recently chose to leave Tokyo and return to his hometown in Sendai.

"Morioh, huh..." Shinomiya Kaguya looked at the other person's hometown and then searched for more information about Morioh.

This town, located on the outskirts of Sendai, has a long history and a permanent population of over 50,000. Its specialty is braised beef tongue.

It looks no different from other Japanese towns.

The only thing that could concern Shinomiya Kaguya was that Morioh was also one of the world's most famous black abalone producing areas, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the black abalone produced there was the best in the world.

However, the fish farms that produce black abalone are controlled by the Higashikata Family, who have lived in Morioh for generations. The production of these abalone is limited, and they are sold to the high-end market. They are not sold to ordinary people at all, and even ordinary people living in Morioh may not know about them.

Even if you know that this place has world-class ingredients and make a special trip to Morioh, you still can't buy even a single black abalone from the Higashikata Family without the right channels and connections.

"A special manga artist, not located in one of the three major metropolitan areas, but rich in seafood..." Shinomiya Kaguya could instinctively sense the uniqueness of Morioh.

But she didn't make a decision so quickly; instead, she sent another message to Miyauchi Hiyage.

"I recently got some black abalone from the Leopard Rock Reef Fishery in Morioh. I think this would be a great subject for filming. I'll send you some over later."

Of course she knew that Miyauchi Hiyage had recently been filming food videos with Shiina Mashiro's cousin and Tohru. With the gimmick of a beautiful female chef and a beautiful female big eater, and perhaps with Miyauchi Hiyage's own luck, she had gained hundreds of thousands of fans in just half a month, a truly astonishing rate of fan growth.

Soon, she received a thank you from Miyauchi Hiyage Himakage.

"Then I need to have Mahiru practice making abalone properly recently, so as not to waste such a good ingredient."

They really don't try to hide it at all.

Is it because they have grown up and no longer worry about the danger of their identity being discovered that they exhibit this attitude?

Shinomiya Kaguya thought to herself, while writing the location of Morioh in the Blank for the second chance.

All that remains to be seen is what kind of reward she will receive when the commission is settled tonight.

Even though she was already more than 70% sure, Shinomiya Kaguya still had high expectations for it.

She even posted the location she filled in for her second chance directly in the group chat.

When asked by the other girls in the group, she answered them frankly.

Kaguya: "I've been quite fond of the Pink Dark Boy while watching Shonen Jump lately, and the black abalone from Morioh is also quite famous, so I'll fill it out for now. I'll choose another one if I have another chance."

Kaguya: "However, considering that the You Know Who might be lying, I might fill out an Akihabara for my second chance."