Who Still Writes Traditional Diaries These Days?
Chapter 3

What Era Is It, Still Writing Traditional Diaries

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Toyosaki High School is located in the city center and is also very suitable for starting a business and gossiping.

It's bordered by Beika Town to the left and Akihabara to the right, with a Chinatown to the north. Less than a half-hour walk south is the Tokyo Dome. While fully equipped for entertainment and dining, you can also take some time to visit Professor Agasa in Beika Town to find some black technology.

Attending school in this location basically guarantees that he won't miss any of the gossip he wants to hear during his three years of high school.

Before obtaining the Diary, Miyauchi Hiyage had already privately planned his life for his three years of high school.

When he has time, he'll look for familiar characters in this world and see what other demons and monsters exist.

Then, he'll get some close-up photos with the anime characters he liked in his previous life.

He'll watch Kessoku Band's first performance, listen to MYGO play Haruhikage, and gossip about which path the male protagonists of those stock-trading works ultimately chose.

Of course, Miyauchi Hiyage also has to admit that among the reasons he chose Toyosaki, besides the reasons mentioned above, Kasumigaoka Utaha's rather high-quality stockings in the anime were an undeniable important factor.

After all, who wouldn't like stockings?

However, Miyauchi Hiyage didn't expect that the cheat he waited for over ten years would only arrive now, and it came with a Pure Yang Body that's easy to get worked up.

"If it weren't for the fact that I can barely control this physique, I wouldn't even bother going to school," Miyauchi Hiyage said, waking up in the afternoon and feeling the surging blood within him with some helplessness.

"I've been working on my career for so many years, and the money I've earned is more than enough for ordinary people. I could consider my personal life now, but I'll have to make new plans."

He started his career in junior high school, not only to raise his sister into a little princess but also to give himself the confidence to face anyone in this life, after living a muddled life in his previous one.

As for filming those cheesy videos...

Miyauchi Kouka thought he was always messing with strange things and wouldn't find a girlfriend in the future. Did Miyauchi Hiyage not know this himself?

Even the most handsome person couldn't withstand a line as cheesy as "You can't step on my Chelsea," so Miyauchi Hiyage always just found people to film after writing the lines and script, never appearing in front of the camera.

But now...

Getting close to beautiful girls is not as interesting as seeing a group of beautiful girls have their defenses broken by him.

"I mentioned Yukinoshita and Kasumigaoka in the Diary. Following the usual pattern of Diary-based web novels, people mentioned in the Diary have a high probability of obtaining a copy of the Diary."

"I wonder what Hoshino Ai would think if she could see the Diary and know her future."

"But given Yukinoshita and Kasumigaoka's personalities, they'd probably spend all night agonizing over the Diary. I wonder if their minds can handle it, though."

Especially Yukino Yukinoshita, who always pursues perfection. If she discovered that the process of her pursuit of perfection was just a story in a light novel, her mindset would likely be the most affected.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage thought about it carefully and felt that the problem shouldn't be too big.

They are all middle school students around 15 or 16 years old, a time when they are most receptive to new things. If Yukino Yukinoshita's mental state collapsed because of something like this, she wouldn't be a character liked by so many people.

"I've read so many web novels in my previous life. I can refer to how the protagonists in those chat group novels fool the group members and act as behind-the-scenes big shots," Miyauchi Hiyage muttered, pondering what to write today.

After some thought, Miyauchi Hiyage quickly made a decision.

"Oh right, those girls probably don't even know what supernatural threats exist in this world yet. I'll give them a little reminder today."

Chapter 6: Shinomiya Kaguya's Investigation

While Miyauchi Hiyage was pondering what to write in his Diary for the day and pathetically discovering that he could now only handle mild spice, in other parts of Tokyo, after a day of fermentation, the contents recorded in the Diary were being verified by its holders.

In the Shinomiya Family's mansion, Shinomiya Kaguya, who would be entering Shuchiin Academy in a few days, was awaiting Hayasaka Ai's investigation report.

Last night, as soon as she closed her eyes in bed, a black Diary landed squarely on her face.

She was immediately ready to give the person who played such a prank an unforgettable lesson.

However, her bedroom was empty, the window was locked from the inside, and the door was shut. The Diary seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

As she frowned and opened the Diary, seeing the text that simply said, "I, Tom, give me money," and discovering, like Kasumigaoka Utaha, that the Diary could not be damaged, discarded, and had an endless number of pages, Shinomiya Kaguya, as the daughter of the Shinomiya Family, hesitated for only a minute before decisively taking out a pen to write in the Diary.

"I am Shinomiya Kaguya. What is your purpose?"

This was a mysterious Diary. Although Shinomiya Kaguya had never encountered such things, her upbringing had taught her not to let go of anything of value.

Although she was from the Shinomiya Family, where the tradition had always been patriarchal, she had three older brothers, and she herself was born to a mistress. In the future, she would be assigned some unimportant small companies, and it would be fortunate if she wasn't treated as a tool for marriage alliances by the family.

After more than ten years of family education, Shinomiya Kaguya thought she had already accepted her fate.

But now, this suddenly appearing Diary seemed to reawaken her long-dormant heart.

However, just as she wrote this line in the Diary with burgeoning anticipation, a dispassionate prompt echoed in her mind.

"Your accumulated reading value is insufficient to unlock the usage permission for the Diary."

This prompt, which suddenly appeared in her head, made Shinomiya Kaguya's body stiffen. She then tentatively asked, "What is reading value?"

There was no response.

Shinomiya Kaguya watched the line she had just written in the Diary quickly disappear. She bit her lip and wrote her question again in the Diary.

This time, she received a new response.

As long as she reads this Diary every day, she will gain 1 reading point.

To unlock the usage permission for this Diary, she needs to accumulate 7 reading points, meaning it will take a week.

According to the prompt in her head, reading points seem to have other uses, but she currently does not have permission to know them.

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Furthermore, the mortality rate of APTX4869 is over 99%. Only a very small number of people get the chance to be rejuvenated. Even if you manage to get your hands on it, you'll likely attract the attention of a world-class criminal organization.

In the story, they are super terrorists who dared to bomb a Shinkansen, fired at Tokyo Tower with armed helicopters, and would explode if someone looked at them for too long. Even the second daughter of the Suzuki Conglomerate almost died by their hands over a minor incident.

So, for the sake of your lives, it's best to stay away from Beika Town as much as possible these years. This place will likely have the highest homicide rate in all of Japan for the next few years.

However, since we're talking about supernatural powers, I might as well mention that there are indeed supernatural elements in Hoshino Ai's story.

If she is pregnant now, the two children in her womb are reincarnators with past life memories, and they will begin a secret investigation into the true cause of Ai's death after she is murdered.

To be honest, this development is quite anticipated. But considering the manga author's previous work, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, which suddenly started with bizarre political and business warfare when the situation was overwhelmingly favorable, and ended up with a messy conclusion due to the inability to grasp the plot, I can't guess what the truth behind Hoshino Ai's death is.

It seems I've digressed a bit. After all, it's still uncertain whether Hoshino Ai is even pregnant. Talking about things that will happen in a few years or more than ten years is still too far off.

Speaking of which, how many unspeakable secrets are still hidden in this world?

However, I have no intention of getting involved with those things right now.

I'm not some hero of justice. What I can do now is to honestly lie low and write in my diary for a few years. It's not too late to make my move when I'm invincible, so there's no need to trouble myself.

As for you all, don't worry. Even if the sky falls, there are other protagonists to hold it up. Living your own life is the most important thing.

I updated today's diary a bit early because I was afraid you might stay up all night unable to sleep after reading my diary. So, I'm quite considerate, right?

Shinomiya Kaguya read today's diary word for word.

Today's diary was slightly shorter than yesterday's, but the information revealed was equally explosive.

She first pulled up Edogawa Conan's file.

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