Who Turned Off the Power to My House? / Could Something Unclean Have Gotten into the House?

In reality, their stories had only just begun as well. Since works from different times could all be so "coincidentally" brought together around the same point in time in this world, it did not seem reasonable for You Know Who to be much older than them.

Following that line of thought, they could even analyze which school You Know Who might currently be attending.

However, there were simply too many guesses about You Know Who's identity in the chat group.

Moreover, after raising that point, he had not taken the initiative to continue the topic, so everyone quickly set the speculation aside.

It was only when he appeared again that everyone in the group recalled Mr. Pan's previous remarks.

After pondering for a while, Kasumigaoka Utaha directly @'d Mr. Pan and asked whether he was Yukino Yukinoshita.

Meanwhile, at the Yukinoshita residence in Chiba Prefecture, Yukino Yukinoshita felt that she had still been too impatient. After seeing the discussion about the Service Club in the chat group, she had been unable to resist speaking up.

Although the Service Club had not yet been established and was merely an immature idea in her mind, she really had considered doing such a thing.

As for the chat group?

Naturally, she had joined the Chat Group immediately after learning of its existence. She simply had not had much she wanted to say in the group and had only shared a few of her thoughts.

However, she felt that there was currently no evidence to support those guesses, so she had not said much in the group or deliberately tried to get along with the girls there—making friends was never something she was good at.

Thus, after joining the group chat, she had usually only watched the direction of the conversation in the Chat Group without saying much.

It was only because she truly could not hold herself back today that she spoke again.

Looking at Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was constantly singled out by You Know Who every few days, asking about her identity in the chat group, Yukino Yukinoshita sighed softly and admitted who she was.

After all, no one had paid much attention to her circumstances before, so she had not exposed her identity and had merely used the Reading Points she gained every day to improve her abilities.

Now that You Know Who had written about this in his diary, there was no need for her to hide anything anymore.

So Yukino Yukinoshita directly changed her nickname to Yukinoshita and openly admitted her identity in the group.

Yukinoshita: "I'm Yukinoshita."

The group immediately became lively because of Yukino Yukinoshita's confession.

Questions instantly flooded the chat group. After all, everyone was quite curious about what kind of personality this girl who was "equally famous" as Kasumigaoka Utaha had.

However, Yukino Yukinoshita was not the sort to actively accommodate others. When faced with questions she did not want to answer, she simply gave polite replies that made it clear she had no intention of responding.

Just a few simple responses were enough for the girls in the chat group to understand that Yukino Yukinoshita was not particularly easy to talk to.

Of course, she still answered serious questions normally.

For example, when Kasumigaoka Utaha asked whether the Service Club had been established, Yukino seriously told her that she was still considering it.

"I've only just entered high school and haven't figured out the situation within the school yet. It's not yet time to establish the Service Club." Even after obtaining the Diary, Yukino Yukinoshita had not abandoned the idea of creating the Service Club.

Kashiko Kasumi: "Since You Know Who specifically mentioned the Service Club, the club you establish in the future should be an important part of your story. Do you have any plans?"

Seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha's reminder, Yukino Yukinoshita nodded in agreement.

She had originally been wondering how her original story would unfold.

After all, You Know Who had previously said that although she and that boy had met because of a traffic accident at the start of the school year, the story did not officially begin until their second year of high school. What had served as the catalyst in between?

Now, judging from You Know Who's diary, the Service Club might be the answer.

But would Yukino Yukinoshita worry about such things?

From what she had discovered while lurking in the chat group over the past few days, her Ripple talent should rank among the best in the group.

With that kind of power, she did not believe she would still walk the same path as before.

Yukinoshita: "I won't give up on the Service Club, but its policies and the people it helps will change."

Her purpose had already changed during the days since she obtained the Diary.

Previously, she had wanted to use the Service Club to change the world.

Now, she wanted to use the Service Club to understand this world.

There was no need to say such things in the group, though.

Thus, Yukino Yukinoshita decisively threw out another "well-known" girl mentioned in You Know Who's diary to draw everyone's attention.

Yukinoshita: "And compared to whether my Service Club has been established, I think you should be more concerned about the famous child actress Mai Sakurajima and the Puberty Syndrome You Know Who mentioned."

You Know Who had specifically mentioned in his diary that Mai Sakurajima, the famous child actress who had appeared on screen since she was six through a once-popular television drama, had not yet begun her story.

In other words, Mai Sakurajima, like them, was the heroine of some work.

Furthermore, the focus of her story seemed to be this so-called Puberty Syndrome.

However, when the girls searched online for Puberty Syndrome, all they found were troubles between adolescent boys and girls. They could not find anything unusual at all.

Could a nationally famous artist like Mai Sakurajima have adolescent troubles too?

Umaru directly copied the tactic they had previously used to lure out Yukino Yukinoshita, passionately discussing in the group why a child actress would develop Puberty Syndrome.

She wanted to use this method to trick Mai Sakurajima into revealing herself as well.

Unfortunately, after chatting in the group for ages and even beginning to discuss whether Mai Sakurajima's acting skills had been exaggerated, Mai Sakurajima still did not appear. It seemed that the famous child actress really was not in the chat group yet.

Who Pulled My House's Breaker?

As for Puberty Syndrome, its name did not reveal much, and under normal circumstances, it was difficult to associate it with supernatural powers.

The fact that Mai Sakurajima herself might have adolescent troubles was clearly more worthy of discussion.

Mai Sakurajima truly was a nationally famous actress.

She debuted as a child actress in a hit television drama at the age of six, then spent ten years making her way through the entertainment industry. More than half of all Japanese people had probably seen her works or advertisements on television.

That level of fame was something Hoshino Ai, who was currently nothing more than a third-rate Idol, would not even dare dream of.

If she could continue onward, Mai Sakurajima's future acting career would clearly be bright.

What concerned the girls in the group, however, was that she had suddenly announced she was suspending her entertainment work last year.

The matter had even trended at the time, so quite a few girls in the group still remembered it.

Umaru was the first to look up Mai Sakurajima's circumstances over the past year.

Over the past year, Mai Sakurajima had actually still been working.

After all, given how popular she had been before, most of her work for the next several years would have been booked in advance.

According to what they found online, Mai Sakurajima had likely spent half a year after announcing her hiatus completing the contracts she had signed previously.

Even after finishing those jobs early, she still had to occasionally participate in promotional events for the works she had appeared in. It could be said that she had barely had any free time throughout the entire year.

She probably would not be able to truly relax until all the works she had filmed over the years had been released.

You Know Who had not encountered Mai Sakurajima during this trip to Kanagawa. Judging from the date, she had likely been promoting a new movie that was about to be released at the time.

After learning about the workload of a major star like Mai Sakurajima, the girls in the chat group could not help clicking their tongues in amazement.

Umaru directly said that she could understand why Mai Sakurajima might develop that Puberty Syndrome.

She was already exhausted from maintaining her image at school, while Mai Sakurajima had been exposed to the spotlight since she was six and had to show her best side in front of others.

Just thinking about it, Umaru felt she could never accept such a life.

It seemed perfectly reasonable that a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl like Mai Sakurajima would grow tired of that life and even develop some adolescent psychological illness because of it.

For that reason, Umaru specifically asked Hoshino Ai, who had also been an Idol for several years, whether her life was exhausting.

Hoshino Ai gave a frank reply.

Ai: "We're only a small Idol group right now. Aside from performing at the theater in the evenings, it's hard for us to get other jobs. We usually spend our time practicing. I actually wish we had more work."

Ai: "Unlike actresses, we Idols have a very short shelf life. If we can't make it before we turn twenty, we'll basically be eliminated. So we don't even have the luxury of considering whether we're tired."

When Hoshino Ai chose to become an Idol, she had known that Idols had short shelf lives. That was why she desperately wanted more work now, so she could raise her profile.

Before obtaining the Diary, she might have entertained some unconventional thoughts.

But now that she had seen her original future, Hoshino Ai had thrown away all those messy thoughts in her head.

Becoming the number one Idol in the world was her only goal now.

Whether she was tired or not could wait until she had reached Mai Sakurajima's status.

Following the topic of Mai Sakurajima, the girls in the chat group gradually shifted the conversation back to the number of Diary holders.

At present, it was still uncertain whether Mai Sakurajima possessed a Diary, but since she had not appeared in the group yet, the chance was not particularly high.

After all, situations like Yotsuya Miko's were extremely rare.

The Diary Enthusiasts Club chat group still had fewer than twenty members, and no one new had joined for some time.

There should also be some people who possessed diaries but had not joined the group. For example, the girl within the Black Organization had not joined, but such cases should be uncommon.

According to Shinomiya Kaguya's estimate, there were currently around twenty girls who possessed diaries.

But clearly, the number of works and characters integrated into their world far exceeded that number. Quite a few heroines from those works probably did not possess diaries.

For example, another detective mentioned by You Know Who alongside Mouri Kogoro in the diary on the first day was Shionji Yuko. Everyone in the group now knew that she used the name Alice when working as a detective and that she was a hacker expert who used computers to solve cases.

But after a few simple probes, they could determine that she was not a Diary holder.

There were also many girls mentioned by You Know Who afterward who were highly likely not Diary holders.

The three Cat's Eye sisters, the school Idol group from Otonokizaka, and Kasumigaoka Utaha's "stomachache-inducing" upperclassmen had all yet to join the chat group.

Shinomiya Kaguya had also been keeping an eye on the people and characters mentioned by You Know Who, confirming whether they possessed a Diary while trying to determine why people like them had been selected by the Diary.

Unfortunately, that question was even harder to grasp than You Know Who's identity, and Shinomiya Kaguya still had no leads.

"I originally thought the diaries might be distributed based on fame or some other condition, but Mai Sakurajima seems perfectly suited to receive one, considering her identity, appearance, and fame."

Shinomiya Kaguya shook her head. Since she could not find any way to solve the problem for the time being, she did not continue thinking about it.

The existence of the Diary involved an unknown god. Even though the identities of most current Diary holders had already been confirmed—

Who knew whether that god would continue distributing diaries in the future?

She should instead think carefully about how to speak with her father after returning home this weekend.

As for Mai Sakurajima, she would find a chance to test her later.

At that moment, Black Cat, who had already gone silent to make a model for her avatar, suddenly started complaining in the chat group again.

Fallen Saint Black Cat: "I don't know who keeps flipping the breaker at my house in the middle of the night. I'd only been drawing for five minutes, and before I could save it, the power suddenly went out."

Before the girls in the chat group could comfort her, another message from Black Cat appeared.

Fallen Saint Black Cat: "What the hell? I just flipped the breaker back on, and after walking away for barely half a minute, it tripped again!"

Could Something Unclean Have Entered the House?

Time rewound to a few minutes earlier.

At Gokō Ruri's home.

Gokō Ruri's family was not well-off. They could not exactly be called poor, but in some ways, they could be described as struggling financially.

Her parents worked outside every day and did not return home until late at night. She also worked part-time at a nearby bookstore to earn money and help support the family.

It was through working at the bookstore for several years and reading many novels that she developed the idea of becoming a light novel author to make money.

Over the years, she had submitted manuscripts to those light novel publishers more than once, but they had always vanished without a trace. She had not even met with an editor from a publisher more than a few times.

Previously, she could comfort herself by saying that her talent had simply not yet been discovered.

But after You Know Who bluntly stated in his diary that she had no talent for writing, Black Cat finally faced reality and regretfully gave up on the path of writing.

Besides mercilessly mocking in his diary how she had submitted manuscripts for years in her original story without showing even the slightest sign of debuting as a light novelist by the story's end, You Know Who had also revealed quite a few things about her story.

For example, she would soon meet, online, a socially adept girl who could become a bestselling author just by casually writing something on her phone.

Although You Know Who had not directly mentioned who the socially adept girl she would meet in the future was in his diary.

Through the hints in You Know Who's diary, however, she naturally realized that girl was probably closely connected to the male protagonist of her original story and might even be the "true heroine" of her original story.

Besides that, she had also learned something from You Know Who's diary: Eromanga Sensei, who was famous in the illustration world for all kinds of suggestive illustrations, was her "junior."