The Alliance Is Born

"Alright, if you really want to stay and watch the show, that's fine, but you'll have to do a little disguise."

"Disguise?" Miyauchi Kouka paused for a moment, then took out her small bag and some cosmetics to disguise herself.

"It doesn't have to be that complicated. It's just a matter of using the power of Ripple to slightly change its appearance." Miyauchi Hiyage turned to look at Kato Megumi. "Combined with Megumi's Stand ability, it should go unnoticed."

"Huh, can Ripple do this much?" Eriri Spencer Sawamura, standing to the side, widened her eyes slightly, and then watched as Miyauchi Hiyage casually smeared a few strokes on his own face and Miyauchi Kouka's face, completely changing the position of the muscles on their faces.

Apart from their hair color, the two are completely unrecognizable from their previous appearances.

"Of course, Ripple is a very versatile power. It's just that in combat it's hard to create the same direct power as magic and spells. And it's also difficult for the average person to train Ripple to the highest level."

"However, your talents are quite good. If you can persevere, you might be able to use Ripple as a ticket to acquire other extraordinary powers in the future."

As they spoke, Miyauchi Hiyage had already made some minor adjustments to the faces of the girls.

Even her hair color and voice underwent slight changes under the power of the Ripple, but these changes combined with Kato Megumi's Stand ability to influence cognition.

Even if those who know them well stood in front of them, it would probably be difficult for them to discover their true identities immediately.

"You'll have to teach me this trick when we get home," Miyauchi Kouka, holding her phone up to her new face and examining it closely. She was somewhat dissatisfied that Miyauchi Hiyage had made her look worse than before.

But if she can learn this trick in the future, she will be able to fine-tune her face to make it look better.

"To be honest, it's a bit difficult. Without three to five years of training, you probably wouldn't even be able to maintain it for ten minutes with your Ripple level," Miyauchi Hiyage bluntly poured cold water on her older sister.

Upon receiving this response, Miyauchi Kouka originally wanted to pester Miyauchi Hiyage to help simplify the move so that even she could use the technique freely now.

But Miyauchi Hiyage waved his hand. "They're coming over. Didn't you want to see what they're going to do?"

Miyauchi Kouka's attention was then drawn to it.

Yukino Yukinoshita and Shinomiya Kaguya appeared by the roadside.

At this moment, Yukino Yukinoshita wearing sunglasses, but from the slightly bulging blue veins around her eyes, it was clear that she was using the Byakugan ability she had recently acquired.

Normally, if Yukino Yukinoshita to use her Byakugan, they should be able to quickly see the location of the Shadow Gotou Hitori.

But who can blame them Miyauchi Hiyage with boredom?

He used the Yellow Temperance Wonder of U ability to create many clones in various locations in Morioh that could not fool normal people, but could be noticed by the Byakugan.

They probably still think those clones are just a trick by Shadow Gotou Hitori.

"It seems that this is the true body. After spending so much effort, we have finally found the real body."

Shinomiya Kaguya glanced at Gotou Hitori, who was standing on the flowerbed dressed in strange clothes and playing the guitar, and a subtle smile appeared on her face.

After all, they were already quite familiar with Gotou Hitori.

Just thinking about Gotou Hitori, who never dared to speak too loudly when they met offline, would have her stand-in turn into this state is still a little unsettling.

"I've already notified Bocchi, and they'll be able to take a taxi over soon. But I really didn't expect that those clones she created could actually fool your Byakugan."

Shinomiya Kaguya glanced at Yukino Yukinoshita beside her.

Yukino Yukinoshita's gaze was also fixed on the Shadow Gotou Hitori.

"I have a feeling that something is wrong. I've looked in that direction before, but I haven't seen anything special."

"It's as if some special ability has diverted my attention from my vision."

"After all, it's a newly awakened Stand. According to the You Know Who, a newly awakened Stand may have many special abilities during its berserk phase. These special abilities may not reappear once the Stand has completely stabilized."

"Especially for Stands like the one that Bocchi awakened with self-awareness, we really don't know what kind of abilities it has. Before Bocchi and the others arrive, we'd better not make any rash moves."

As Shinomiya Kaguya said this, she looked at the open-air cafe that was quite crowded.

"There are already so many listeners? It seems we need to evacuate the people in the vicinity first."

For a fleeting moment, her gaze swept over the direction of Miyauchi Hiyage and the others.

Similarly, she also had a subtle feeling, but she didn't think about it carefully.

As the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya Family, Shinomiya Kaguya's method of evacuating the crowd was simple: she simply bought the coffee shop, had the staff give the customers free meals, and then announced that the business was temporarily closed.

Thanks to the efficient work of the Shinomiya Conglomerate, the ownership of this coffee shop was settled in just ten minutes, with only a contract remaining.

Then the shop assistants also received a call from the original owner and began to explain the current situation to the customers in a low voice.

However, due to the influence of the Stand's abilities, only about one-third of the customers chose to leave.

Two-thirds of the guests did not leave.

By this time, Shinomiya Kaguya naturally realized that the guests' behavior seemed a bit strange.

"Something seems off. These people don't seem to have stayed simply because they like each other's music," Shinomiya Kaguya observed the group. "Could this also be one of Bocchi's Stand abilities?"

Because it involved the Stand's abilities, Shinomiya Kaguya did not force the shop assistants to disperse the passersby.

"Let's leave it at that for now. If it really doesn't work, I'll find a local Sorcerers to help them use some spells to make them forget these memories later."

There were about twenty people on site, not too many, so it shouldn't be too difficult to handle.

However, to ensure there were no worries, Shinomiya Kaguya sent a message to Miyauchi Hiyage, saying that she had found Gotou Hitori's stand-in and briefly explained the situation on site.

Soon, she received a simple reply from Miyauchi Hiyage.

"I'm watching, don't worry, I'll step in when the time is right."

With this message, Shinomiya Kaguya's mood immediately calmed down.

"Although I haven't had much contact with him, seeing this kind of response is indeed quite reassuring," Yukino Yukinoshita commented on Miyauchi Hiyage's response.

Shinomiya Kaguya blinked, then answered matter-of-factly, "After all, Miyauchi Hiyage is someone who can injure Satoru Gojo and the You Know Who. And that's only after he's only been awakened for a little over a month. If you give him more time, who knows how far he can grow?"

But Yukino Yukinoshita doesn't think it's that simple.

"To be honest, I still think that Miyauchi Hiyage's growth rate is a bit too exaggerated. Although the power of fate is indeed magical, you also know that he should have just been an ordinary passerby character in a light yuri work who never showed his face. Even if his life trajectory changed for various reasons, this change is still too big."

It feels like Hayate Gekko, who didn't live to see Shippuden in the original Hokage series, was resurrected during the Fourth Shinobi World War and fought Madara Uchiha for hundreds of rounds to a draw, directly stealing the spotlight from Naruto and Sasuke and becoming the main protagonist.

According to Yukino Yukinoshita, this was roughly how she felt about the sudden rise of Miyauchi Hiyage.

Although Yukino Yukinoshita didn't say it directly, Shinomiya Kaguya could clearly sense that Yukino Yukinoshita had some doubts about the strength of the Miyauchi Hiyage.

Although Shinomiya Kaguya actually noticed something was off about Miyauchi Hiyage last month when he had just "awakened to the extraordinary," and suspected that he might be the You Know Who, she had been trying to find flaws in Miyauchi Hiyage.

But for various reasons, she has not mentioned her suspicions to anyone else over the past month.

This was truly the first time she had heard such doubts from another girl.

Sure enough, she wasn't the only one in their Chat Group who had this thought.

For a fleeting moment, Shinomiya Kaguya considered whether or not to conceal it.

She's the only one who suspects Miyauchi Hiyage is the You Know Who right now, and if she can keep this a secret, she can obviously gain more benefits from it.

But the next moment, Yukino Yukinoshita, who had been keeping her Byakugan, keenly noticed the change in Shinomiya Kaguya's expression.

"As expected, I wasn't wrong. So, you actually realized this a long time ago, didn't you?"

Chapter 366: The Birth of the Alliance

Are you sure you want to say these things here?

Faced with Yukino Yukinoshita's sudden question, Shinomiya Kaguya did not respond, "I think you haven't forgotten what kind of power Hikage-kun has, have you? He might be able to fully sense what you just said."

From the girls' perspective, their current understanding of Miyauchi Hiyage is that, under the power of fate, all actions taken against Miyauchi Hiyage will be entangled by the Calamity Power, and as long as there is even the slightest sign of taking action, they will immediately suffer the backlash of misfortune.

Perhaps Yukino Yukinoshita never witnessed these scenes herself, and her impression of Miyauchi Hiyage's abilities only existed in the Chat Group discussions.

But Shinomiya Kaguya witnessed it firsthand, and more than once.

There's no need to elaborate on that incident in Impression Space.

What impressed her more was that a few days ago, some unknown forces sent people to assassinate Miyauchi Hiyage during his evening video shooting.

At the time, Miyauchi Hiyage was going to film at a school that had just given birth to a high-level cursed spirit and caused an extremely heinous series of murders. The school was currently under police control. She happened to be there to help out a little and ended up filming the video with Miyauchi Hiyage.

Then she ran into a group of bounty hunters who wanted to kill Miyauchi Hiyage for a large reward.

Those guys clearly knew that Miyauchi Hiyage was no less troublesome than Satoru Gojo back then, so they prepared quite a lot for this assassination.

It was Special Grade Cursed Object, explosives powerful enough to blow up a building, and even took into account that Miyauchi Hiyage had the ability to teleport, so they specially created a large barrier that could temporarily seal off the space and suppress the supernatural power in the air.

According to the investigation conducted by the Jujutsu High, there are traces of at least three or four extraordinary forces involved.

These forces naturally do not want another Satoru Gojo to emerge in the Jujutsu Society, and they certainly do not want to see a super strong person who could surpass Satoru Gojo.

In particular, Miyauchi Hiyage doesn't seem to have any special background on the surface, unlike Satoru Gojo, who has the support of one of the three great families of the Jujutsu Society, who can protect him before Satoru Gojo grows up.

However, even in the face of such assassination attempts, Miyauchi Hiyage did not take any action whatsoever. He continued filming the video as if he had not noticed anything at all.

However, in private, Shinomiya Kaguya still received a reminder from Miyauchi Hiyage, telling her not to stray too far away.

Shinomiya Kaguya didn't really know what happened after that. It was only after everything was over, seeing the miserable state of those people, and having the people from the Jujutsu High clean up the scene again, that she roughly knew what had happened to these people based on the traces at the scene.

First, the cursed creatures went berserk for no apparent reason, which not only affected their ability to use their own power but also attracted a bunch of low- to mid-level cursed spirits. Then, the firearms accidentally discharged and injured themselves.

They wanted to deal with the low- to mid-level cursed spirits before treating their injuries, but they discovered that the barrier they had set up had suddenly malfunctioned. Originally intended to suppress the power of Miyauchi Hiyage, it ended up affecting them instead.

Previously, those low-level cursed spirits that could be easily dealt with suddenly became able to break through their defenses and easily inflict irresistible damage on them.

There may have been some seemingly accidental events that gradually pushed them into the abyss.

Of the six people who came to assassinate Miyauchi Hiyage, three had limbs amputated, two lost their supernatural powers and became ordinary people again due to the torment of the cursed spirits, and one is still lying in the hospital and has not woken up.

It was only because Miyauchi Hiyage subconsciously controlled the power of the calamity that none of these people were able to leave that school alive.

From that moment on, Shinomiya Kaguya knew that no matter what she went through, she would never stand against Miyauchi Hiyage in this lifetime.

The thought of being torn apart by the other party's power without even seeing them in person is enough to induce despair.

The system has Diary- like warning function, but Shinomiya Kaguya has no doubt that if Miyauchi Hiyage really wanted to cause trouble, their Reading Points would probably only allow them to persist for a little longer.

In fact, it was from that time onwards that Shinomiya Kaguya became more cautious in her investigation of the "true identity" of Miyauchi Hiyage. She would only probe further if she sensed that Miyauchi Hiyage was not resistant to it.

Unexpectedly, this relationship was exposed by Yukino Yukinoshita at this moment.

But considering that the person who said those words was Yukino Yukinoshita, Shinomiya Kaguya was not surprised.

She had already read Oregairu through the You Know Who's serialization. Even though Yukino Yukinoshita's mindset changed after obtaining the Diary, it was impossible for her personality to undergo such an extreme change in a short period of time.

Judging from the fact that the other party still chose to establish the Service Club ahead of time after knowing their original fate, what they pursued has not changed.

Knowing these stories in advance further strengthened her belief in pursuing the "real thing".

So, in response to Shinomiya Kaguya's question, Yukino Yukinoshita simply nodded. "Of course I know what kind of power he has, but I think he probably already knows these things."

"After all, he had already gained the complete trust of Shiina Mashiro before he even met you."

"No, my statement may be somewhat inaccurate," Yukino Yukinoshita said, then shook her head. "To be more precise, Shiina Mashiro was the last to join our Chat Group after she met Miyauchi Hiyage."

Shinomiya Kaguya looked at Yukino Yukinoshita in front of her. This girl, who hardly ever spoke in the group chat and whose emotions rarely changed even when You Know Who posted the novel from Oregairu in her diary, was indeed a very outstanding girl.

The relationship between Shiina Mashiro and Miyauchi Hiyage is indeed a bit too close.

Even though Shiina Mashiro was naive and lacked the ability to live independently, Miyauchi Hiyage provided her with a lot of help in her creative work and daily life.

However, this is not something that only Miyauchi Hiyage can do.

In reality, Shiina Mashiro's daily life is mostly taken care of by her younger sister Shiina Mahiru Miyauchi Kouka, while at school she is cared for by Miyauchi Hiyage, Miyauchi Himekage's older sister.

From this perspective, Shiina Mashiro and Miyauchi Hiyage's relationship does seem a bit too close.

Even if there's the fact that the Miyauchi Family once received help from the Breath Swordsmen and Miyauchi Hiyage wanted to repay the favor, Shiina Mashiro still told Miyauchi Hiyage too much.

Miyauchi Hiyage also excelled in these aspects.

An "ordinary person" was able to save Honma Meiko, who died young in the original story, many years ago, thus changing her fate.

In less than two months of contact with the Ripple, he pushed this power to its peak, becoming practically a human-shaped sun.

Including the Kusanagi-ryu Ancient Martial Arts, they are still memorizing the names of the moves, while Miyauchi Hiyage is already able to smoothly execute a complete combo when facing a level one Sorcerers.

Don't be fooled by Yukino Yukinoshita's recent comment about "a minor male supporting character in light yuri works," which sounds like a statement that could completely rewrite one's perception.

However, after reading the novel "Saekano: How to Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend," Miyauchi Hiyage probably already associated those characters with Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kato Megumi, and then Shiina Mashiro kept sharing this information with Miyauchi Hiyage.

Even with many censored words from the Diary, Miyauchi Hiyage, with her sharp mind, would probably have been able to analyze the truth long ago.

However, after learning about these things, Miyauchi Hiyage never mentioned them to them.

As for the "You Know Who" from another world, after that brief encounter, and after the You Know Who claimed to have been humiliated and ran away, there was no further news.

Then came last month when they gained superpowers.

During that round of questions and answers, although they still didn't know the identity of the You Know Who, one thing was certain.