What Era Is It, Still Writing Traditional Diaries

However, now that everyone has practiced Ripple Chi Kung, if such a situation arises, you can use Ripple Chi Kung to put the other person into a deep sleep. It's estimated that she should recover once she's slept enough.

Although today is the weekend, your teacher Tom is still taking out precious time to give you another lesson, teaching you how to use Ripple Chi Kung to quickly put someone into a deep sleep. This is much more effective than sleeping pills or melatonin.]

It was precisely because of this diary that the girls found their way into the surrounding alleyways and discovered Little Bocchi shivering on the ground, and Shinomiya Kaguya looking a bit strange beside her.

Regarding Shinomiya Kaguya's condition, after questioning Hayasaka Ai, her personal maid, they confirmed that the other party was indeed in Little Kaguya's state.

Afterward, they suggested going to a nearby cafe to sit for a while and discuss today's diary.

Of course, to avoid any issues, they were basically communicating in their group chat.

Kashiko Kasumi: "So, that bastard You Know Who was definitely around just now, otherwise how would he have known that besides us, Little Bocchi also came, and how could he accurately describe Kaguya's current state?"

Kashiko Kasumi: "Maybe our every move is under his watch right now."

Seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha's message, everyone instinctively scanned their surroundings, but naturally found nothing.

UMR: "Does You Know Who have the ability to turn invisible? Isn't he standing right next to us now?"

UMR: "And everyone is together, why didn't he mention me? Do I have no presence at all? I'm a little angry!"

Fallen Saint Black Cat: "Isn't it better that he didn't mention you? I'm still struggling with why You Know Who started talking and then stopped... So why did he tell me to communicate more about emotional issues with teacher Kasumigaoka?"

The Black Cat, who had previously felt indifferent about her future, now found herself increasingly concerned because of You Know Who's actions.

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "...Could it be that he's hinting that you're also a 'loser' in your story?"

Fallen Saint Black Cat: "Impossible, absolutely impossible! How could I, the dignified Fallen Saint Black Cat of Chiba, easily form contracts with others? Doesn't that sound problematic?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Just consider it the bastard's twisted sense of humor. We'll talk about this later. Let's get back to the main topic."

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Regardless of where You Know Who is hiding now, I think we should awaken Kaguya's original consciousness. Otherwise, our gathering today will likely end here. What do you all think?"

Fallen Saint Black Cat: "Isn't that a bit risky? After all, there are Shinomiya family bodyguards all around, and Kaguya's personal maid won't let us mess with Kaguya, will she?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Miss Hayasaka should be the person Kaguya trusts the most. As long as the diary doesn't issue a warning, I think we can try."

In any case, it should be available tomorrow.

To be honest, writing this book as a pure entertainment piece is quite difficult.

Although I still have quite a few ideas in my head, it's indeed not easy to expand them into a novel for people to read. It basically takes over two hours to write one chapter, setting a record for my slowest writing speed.

As for whether it will fall apart, I actually feel it's okay. After all, the works I truly want to write haven't even appeared yet.

Moreover, I never intended to write this book too seriously. I started with a rough outline of a few hundred words and then let my imagination run wild.

More things will likely intrude later, and the targets of my complaints and teasing won't be limited to the current characters and works.

Honestly, due to the frequent absurdities in Noragami and Jujutsu Kaisen recently, my inner spirit of complaint has been burning fiercely. Unfortunately, I can't write about it now, and can only sigh with regret.

Finally, regarding updates.

Due to the author's physical condition, I probably won't be able to do rapid updates. I'm focusing on health preservation every day. I started writing this book because I read dozens of diary-style novels on a certain platform and couldn't resist the urge to complain.

In short, when it goes on sale tomorrow, there should be a minimum of five chapters. After that, I will maintain stable updates. Thank you for your support.

Chapter 55: You're the one secretly badmouthing me behind my back, Kasumigaoka Utaha!

Kasumigaoka Utaha attempted to ask Hayasaka Ai to entrust Shinomiya Kaguya to their care, which was naturally rejected by Hayasaka Ai without question.

This was within Kasumigaoka Utaha's expectations. If Hayasaka Ai had agreed so easily, she would have suspected that the other party was a disguised You Know Who.

She gradually lowered her demands, simultaneously testing Hayasaka Ai's acceptable limits and how much this personal maid understood Shinomiya Kaguya's situation.

The matter of the diary could not be leaked. All they could talk about was themselves and Ripple Chi Kung.

Through Kasumigaoka Utaha's cautious questioning, she obtained some information from Hayasaka Ai's equally cautious replies.

In the first few days after Shinomiya Kaguya obtained the diary, she investigated many people mentioned in it, likely to verify the diary's authenticity.

This naturally included Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was briefly mentioned in the first day's diary.

Later, as Shinomiya Kaguya began to practice Ripple Chi Kung, her suspicion of the diary decreased significantly. She also became much more cautious, no longer investigating others' information so casually.

As for Ripple Chi Kung, Hayasaka Ai likely had some suspicions but hadn't confirmed it. The two of them had a back-and-forth about Ripple Chi Kung for quite some time because of this.

Kasumigaoka Utaha stated that since Shinomiya Kaguya's current condition was caused by poor sleep quality, she had a massage technique that could quickly induce deep sleep, which should allow Shinomiya Kaguya to recover in a short period, although this process was a family secret.

Upon hearing this, Hayasaka Ai immediately thought of the incident a few days prior when she inexplicably fell asleep on Lady Kaguya's bed for a whole night, and was reprimanded by her main family the next day.

Therefore, Hayasaka Ai responded, stating that her young lady often used this method to help her enter deep sleep and proactively asked if she could learn this technique.

Looking at Hayasaka Ai's sincere expression, if this Ripple Chi hypnosis wasn't written in the diary by You Know Who today, Kasumigaoka Utaha would have truly believed her.

In the end, after much negotiation, Kasumigaoka Utaha did not leak the information about Ripple Chi Kung, and Hayasaka Ai, through the attitudes of the girls, confirmed that the people her young lady knew were indeed extraordinary.

Finally, Hayasaka Ai agreed to give Kasumigaoka Utaha and the others some time alone with her young lady.

Of course, "alone time" actually meant being separated by a certain distance.

Hayasaka Ai didn't even leave the cafe; she sat on the other side of the cafe, with her back to Kasumigaoka Utaha and the others.

And Kasumigaoka Utaha, after spending some of the Reading Points she had just acquired for the day, successfully mastered a new application of Ripple Chi and used it on the innocently naive Shinomiya Kaguya.

Watching Shinomiya Kaguya, who fell into a deep and sweet sleep with her head on her lap within just two to three minutes, Kasumigaoka Utaha and the others once again felt the practicality of Ripple Chi.

At least they wouldn't have to lose sleep over the shocking content You Know Who wrote in the diary anymore.

Is it really appropriate for Lady Kaguya, the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family, to sleep with her head on my stockings?

Kasumigaoka Utaha hesitated for a moment, then asked Utako to call Hayasaka Ai over. After all, she was the professional maid.

After Hayasaka Ai carefully moved Kaguya to the side and rested her head on her lap, Kasumigaoka Utaha's gaze fell on Bocchi, who was trying her best to make herself unnoticeable.

Unfortunately, this Guitar Hero didn't have the same aura as Kato Megumi that made people subconsciously ignore her.

The more she tried to hide herself, the more conspicuous she became in the eyes of the others.

This level of social anxiety is truly troublesome.

Kasumigaoka Utaha softened her voice as much as possible and asked the pink-haired girl.

"Um... we'll call you 'Little Bocchi' as the mysterious person wrote in the diary. You don't mind, do you?"

The pink-haired girl stiffened, then shook her head at an astonishing speed, indicating that she didn't mind.

That's good, at least she reacted.

Kasumigaoka Utaha skipped the questions that might make her uncomfortable and directly asked if she had seen any suspicious individuals in the alley.

That scoundrel, the mysterious person, had said he didn't want to affect her mood by coming over, but his diary this morning directly revealed that he was clearly at the scene, just undiscovered.

Little Bocchi thought tremblingly for a moment, and then a tearful expression appeared on her face.

The mysterious person had already discovered her hiding in the alley long ago, but she hadn't noticed it at all. How should she answer now that she was being asked?

What should I do? If I say I don't know anything, won't they suspect that I've been bought off by the mysterious person?

At this moment, should I commit seppuku to prove my innocence?

Ahhh, why did I run over here this morning on a whim? This is clearly not a place that a reclusive shut-in like me should come to!

Thinking that her life might end at this moment, Little Bocchi's face was rapidly paling in the eyes of the girls.

Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly spoke up to comfort her. "It's okay, it's fine even if you didn't find anything. I didn't expect the mysterious person to appear so easily in front of us anyway."

It seemed that no useful information could be obtained from Bocchi.

Next, they could only wait for Lady Kaguya to recover and see if she had any ideas.

Thinking of this, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but curse the mysterious person, who was hiding somewhere and peeking at them, in a low voice.

Meanwhile, the mysterious person himself, Miyauchi Hiyage, who was being constantly bad-mouthed by Kasumigaoka Utaha, was indeed not too far from the girls.

He was currently in a private room at an internet cafe near Shinjuku Station.

If you look at the straight-line distance, he was less than two kilometers away from the girls.

At this moment, Miyauchi Hiyage was playing a game while occasionally making some notes in his diary.

"Hmm, Kasumigaoka Utaha cursed me again. I'll remember this grudge."

Saying that, Miyauchi Hiyage added a stroke to his diary.

Currently, the names of the girls attending the gathering today were written by him in the diary.

At the very front was Kasumigaoka Utaha, with two full tally marks and a third tally mark with three strokes after her name, indicating that she had cursed Miyauchi Hiyage thirteen times so far today, exceeding the total of all other diary holders.

Below were Black Cat and Utako's names, with a few strokes following them, but the two combined had not yet formed a full tally mark.

As for Little Bocchi and Lady Kaguya, their names were still blank, indicating that they had not cursed him yet.

It was precisely because Lady Kaguya had not only not cursed him so far today, but had not even mentioned him once, that Miyauchi Hiyage had written his guess in the diary that Lady Kaguya might turn into Little Kaguya.

As for why Miyauchi Hiyage knew everything about these girls even while at an internet cafe, it was naturally due to the reward he received last night.

Chapter 56: Taking the First Step to Becoming the Dark Lord by Cursing Your Own Name

Anyone who has read Harry Potter should know why not many people dared to utter Voldemort's name directly, only calling him the mysterious person or the Dark Lord?

It wasn't just out of fear of the devil Voldemort, but also because Voldemort had cursed his own name.

As long as someone uttered his name, he and his Death Eater subordinates could know the person's current location and arrest them for torture.

Miyauchi Hiyage, who had been disguising himself as the mysterious person in the diary, received this curse as a reward last night, thus taking his first step towards becoming the Dark Lord.

In fact, the name curse rewarded by the diary was an optimized complete version, and it also came with several complete sets of spell materials, which made Miyauchi Hiyage praise the diary's generosity.

In comparison, Voldemort's curse in Harry Potter was actually a simplified version, only reacting to the name Voldemort, while the titles Mysterious Person, Dark Lord, and even his real name Tom Riddle would not trigger the curse.

The advantage was that the spell consumed fewer materials and had a sufficiently large effective range.

Voldemort's curse covered the entire United Kingdom and even a small part of Europe, making the entire British wizarding world afraid to utter Voldemort's name for decades.

On Miyauchi Hiyage's side, after using himself as the target and undergoing a series of tedious spell rituals, although the effective range of the curse was reduced, its accuracy was greatly improved.

Whether it was calling his name directly, or his nickname or even his pet name, as long as the "appellation" representing him was spoken, Miyauchi Hiyage could sense it.

Within a hundred kilometers, he could vaguely sense the other party's location.

Within fifty kilometers, he could sense the other party's specific location.

Within ten kilometers, he could clearly hear the sound of the other party uttering his name.

If he could get within one kilometer, Miyauchi Hiyage could not only hear the entire conversation after the other party said his name, but also see the other party's appearance at that moment.

Miyauchi Hiyage was less than two kilometers away from Kasumigaoka Utaha and the others. The spell's effect allowed him to hear the next few sentences they spoke and vaguely see their images.

Originally, Miyauchi Hiyage didn't really want to get involved. Part of it was respect for super-conglomerates like the Shinomiya family, and another part was fear of being noticed by Yotsuya Miko.

But now that he had this ability, he naturally had fewer reservations.

No matter how powerful the Shinomiya family was, or how much Yotsuya Miko could see, it wouldn't affect him from several kilometers away.

With his current antics, even if those girls brought Conan over to help and turned all of South Shinjuku upside down, they would never connect it to him.

Sensing Kasumigaoka Utaha curse him again, Miyauchi Hiyage happily took a sip of his "otaku happy water" and made another entry in his diary.

I really want to see how many times you can curse me today.

You like using "You Know Who must die" as a secret code, don't you? You want to write me as a pathetic villain in your new book who gets used as a stepping stone by the protagonist, right? I can hear and have recorded all of that now.

Why can't you learn from Little Bocchi? Little Bocchi always remembers my kindness. Even when hiding in an alley, she was thanking me for giving her the nickname "Little Bocchi."

You know, I haven't even written your nickname "Fatty Kasumi" in my diary yet. If you keep this up, it's going to be difficult for me too.

As Miyauchi Hiyage muttered, Little Bocchi in the cafe sneezed several times in a row. Sensing the curious glances from everyone who was chatting, she immediately curled into a ball and started apologizing frantically, "Ah... I'm sorry, I'm disturbing everyone's conversation!"

After spending the morning together, Little Bocchi had finally dared to speak in front of everyone.