What Era Is It, Still Writing Traditional Diaries

Underground idols don't earn much money, and after joining the training class, she had even more expenses for costumes.

She believed that if she just kept a little distance from Kamiki Hikaru and lied to him, they wouldn't have any further contact after the training class ended.

Her more important task now was to live up to the expectations of her mysterious fan from another world and become an even more dazzling idol!

With this mindset, even waking up tired the next day and seeing in her diary that evening that this world was mysterious, and that her two future children were reincarnators, didn't cause much of a stir in her heart.

On the third day, she once again captivated the audience with a flawless performance. Backstage, she found several thick pages updated in the diary detailing introductory Ripple Chi Kung training methods.

Practitioners of Ripple Chi Kung could not only strengthen their physique and maintain their beauty but also use it for self-defense, all things she desperately needed right now!

Her spirits lifted again.

There was no need to elaborate on maintaining beauty; a perfect appearance was the most crucial thing for an idol.

Strengthening her physique would allow her to maintain her perfect image on stage for longer.

Self-defense was naturally for dealing with extreme fans who might harm her and the mastermind behind the scenes.

The only problem was that having grown up in an orphanage and starting idol training at 12, her education was limited. Ripple Chi Kung was somewhat abstract, and she couldn't directly experience it, making her feel it would be difficult to get started.

"Even though it's the mysterious fan's good intentions... but maintaining breathing rhythm and stimulating the body's life energy, I don't understand any of it," Hoshino Ai said with some distress.

She had been trying the breathing method from the diary for over an hour, but she felt nothing special.

All she could do was use the most tedious method: repeatedly reading the diary, then taking out paper and pen to meticulously copy down the key points. She would first memorize the entire breathing technique until she could recite it flawlessly before moving on to anything else.

Fortunately, her memory wasn't bad. By nearly midnight, she could stumble through reciting the key points of the Ripple Chi Kung breathing technique.

Just as she was about to lie down in bed to practice the Ripple Chi Kung breathing method until she fell asleep, planning to recite the entire method the next day, a prompt suddenly sounded in her ear.

[You have obtained the introductory breathing method for Ripple Chi Kung. Do you wish to consume Reading Points to improve proficiency?]

Chapter Twelve: Private Messages from Other Diary Holders

She could use Reading Points to improve proficiency?

Hoshino Ai, who read the diary every day, knew about Reading Points. However, unlike Shinomiya Kaguya, she hadn't frantically asked questions in the diary. She only knew that accumulating a certain number of Reading Points would increase her diary's permission level.

Now that she knew Reading Points had this use, it was something to be happy about.

Hoshino Ai didn't overthink it. She currently had three Reading Points, so she decided to use one to see the effect.

Then, a portion of cultivation insights regarding Ripple Chi Kung flooded into her mind.

It wasn't much, but when she tried to adjust her breathing rhythm according to the memory, she felt unusually skilled, as if she had been practicing non-stop for days.

Hoshino Ai closed her eyes, experiencing the sensation of memory transfer. Although this experience might not be useful, perhaps it would come in handy someday?

"It seems I can already stimulate my body's life energy quite proficiently... and this is with just one Reading Point. I wonder if this convenient function can be used elsewhere?"

The mysterious fan had mentioned that it would take ordinary people about a week to stimulate their life energy through Ripple Chi Kung. If that was the case, did one Reading Point equate to about a week of training?

Hoshino Ai made a simple calculation.

"The diary mentioned that it takes ordinary people about a month to master Ripple Chi Kung breathing. If one Reading Point is equivalent to about a week, then I could master Ripple Chi Kung breathing tomorrow after the diary updates!" Hoshino Ai's eyes lit up after doing the math.

It had only been three days since she obtained the diary, and it had already given her such a huge surprise. She was starting to look forward to the changes after unlocking the diary's permission level.

Would it allow her to contact other diary holders, or perhaps more directly, could she become pen pals with her mysterious fan through the diary?

"But it's already the third day, and no one has contacted me yet. Are the other diary holders still observing, or am I the only one who has received a diary so far?"

But then Hoshino Ai thought that it was impossible for her to have such luck all to herself.

As a young idol, her contact information was naturally private, and very few people knew her personal phone number.

Matters concerning communication with outsiders were handled by her nominal adoptive father, who was also the owner of Strawberry Productions and her manager, Saito Ichigo.

"If there are other diary holders, perhaps they will choose to contact me via private messages?" With that thought, Hoshino Ai really wanted to check her private message records on her social media accounts.

She would naturally check private messages from fans.

During her previous days off, she would set aside some time to read fan messages and select some fans to reply to and thank.

It was just that the sudden appearance of the diary had made her unable to attend to this matter for the past few days.

Although copying and memorizing Ripple Chi Kung made her a bit drowsy, the stimulation of life energy dispelled much of her sleepiness. Now, with this possibility in mind, she could no longer sit still.

She opened her frequently used social media apps on her phone and quickly scrolled through her private messages.

The number of private messages had increased quite a bit compared to before, which was a good thing.

Fortunately, her main goal tonight was the private messages from the last three days, so the workload wouldn't be too large.

In just about ten minutes, she had already found three suspicious comments and private messages.

First was a new follower named "Evil King's True Eye Emissary." This user appeared to be around her age, but their tone of speech always gave off an indescribably strange feeling.

The user did not use private messages but instead directly commented on her latest tweet:

"I am the emissary of the Evil King's True Eye. I am willing to form a contract with you. Are you, like me, a destined person chosen by fate?"

Underneath this comment, the user, in the same tone, told her to stay away from the man closest to her recently, stating directly that the man who seemed to shine would bring her "the deepest misfortune."

This must be what they call chuunibyou, right?

Hoshino Ai gently twirled a strand of hair in front of her forehead, making her judgment.

But she didn't dislike people like that.

After all, the reason she became an idol in the first place was "wanting to know what it feels like to love and be loved." Wouldn't others also find such a reason chuunibyou?

The other two messages were DMs. Although they were somewhat vague when mentioning the diary, both directly warned her to be careful of Kamiki Hikaru.

Feeling the reminders and concern from these strangers she'd never met, Hoshino Ai pondered for a moment. She first deleted the reply from the Evil King's True Eye Emissary, and then followed them using an account from her other phone.

Hoshino Ai honestly explained her identity in the DMs, and then earnestly told them that she would keep her distance from Kamiki Hikaru from now on.

It was also a way of admitting, albeit subtly, that she also possessed a diary.

"If I have the chance in the future, I'll invite them to my performances. But I also need to work harder and get on a bigger stage as soon as possible!" Hoshino Ai decided in her heart.

After that, she seriously read through the other fans' DMs and comments, and finally fell asleep peacefully just before one in the morning.

In a place Miyauchi Hiyage was unaware of, many things were quietly changing due to the appearance of Ripple Chi Kung.

But he himself didn't care about it at all.

He had spent the entire previous night teaching his parents the breathing technique of Ripple Chi Kung.

Trusting their child, his parents didn't ask many questions about this breathing technique. They only confirmed that Miyauchi Hiyage wasn't being deceived before dropping the matter of its origin.

Upon learning that this breathing technique could strengthen the body and maintain a youthful appearance, they were still somewhat skeptical. However, it was just breathing, and it didn't require them to do anything else.

They decided to treat it as a health regimen and follow along for a few days.

Meanwhile, Miyauchi Hiyage subtly infused a trace of Ripple energy, which actively guided life energy, into his parents. Once they felt the changes in their bodies, they would naturally continue their practice.

The next day, he taught the breathing technique to his eldest sister, Miyauchi Kazaho, in the same manner.

However, considering his eldest sister's lazy nature, which made her even better at slacking off than him, Miyauchi Hiyage made some minor adjustments to her body in a way similar to Renge after teaching her the breathing technique: for the next half month, while she slept, her breathing rhythm would gradually adjust to the Ripple breathing.

After completing all this, Miyauchi Hiyage wiped his forehead.

"For this family, I've truly gone to great lengths."

"What did you do now?" As if hearing Miyauchi Hiyage's voice, Miyauchi Kouka, who had just returned home from outside and knew nothing, instinctively asked.

Then, without waiting for Miyauchi Hiyage's answer, she preempted him, saying, "I just bought an ice pop. If you want some, I'll give you a bite at most."

Chapter 13: Hahaha, Not Learning

Miyauchi Hiyage looked at his compatriot sister, who could be happy just eating an ice pop, and felt a bit conflicted.

He had taught the Ripple breathing technique to his entire family, but Miyauchi Kouka was kept in the dark due to her careless personality, which might expose them. He felt it was a bit unfair.

"We're going to Tokyo in a few days... Do you have any plans for these few days?" Miyauchi Hiyage carefully inquired of Miyauchi Kouka.

"Plans?" Miyauchi Kouka didn't think much of it. Seeing that her younger brother had no intention of snatching her ice pop, she complained while taking a bite, "If you had gone to Tokyo ahead of me, then I would have had plenty of plans."

"What plans could there be in Asahigaoka? It's just staying at home every day, or wandering around aimlessly outside."

Miyauchi Kouka made no secret of her boredom.

Miyauchi Hiyage knew that his foolish sister was currently set on going to Tokyo. However, he still had matters in Asahigaoka to handle and couldn't just abandon his responsibilities.

Furthermore, the sudden appearance of the diary as his cheat had overturned his original plans. He wouldn't be able to dedicate his energy to one place for the next three years as he had in the past.

For Asahigaoka to continue developing, he naturally had to arrange a suitable successor for himself.

However, Miyauchi Kouka definitely wouldn't understand any of this, so there was no point in explaining it.

Seeing his second sister exude an aura of pure foolishness, Miyauchi Hiyage stroked his chin and decided to exchange sincerity for sincerity with his second sister.

Thus, he revealed the matter of Ripple Chi Kung. Of course, given that she would be going to Tokyo with him soon, he had disguised his explanation a bit.

"How about it, want to try?"

Then he saw Miyauchi Kouka burst into laughter, holding her stomach.

"Hahaha, Hiyage, you're too boring! You're about to be a high school student, and you're still trying to trick me with childhood stuff!"

"Let me tell you, even though I'm not as smart as you, you can't trick me with this kind of nonsense that even Renge wouldn't believe!"

Miyauchi Kouka then listed the times she had been tricked by her younger brother when she was little.

She didn't mention the time she was tricked into planting trees, as all the students in the school were fooled by her younger brother that time.

If she only counted the times she was personally tricked, the earliest was when he used a key he found somewhere to trick her into believing she could become a magical girl, so she boldly performed about dozens of magical girl transformations in front of her family.

After that, he took a few branches and had her chop at swallows by the river, claiming that Sasaki Kojiro had practiced his "Secret Sword: Swallow Return," which allowed him to make three cuts at once, using this very method. So she spent a week chopping at swallows by the river, and only stopped after scaring all the swallows away.

Later, he told her that a dried-up well in the village had a seal on it, and if she could break the seal, she could travel back to the Warring States period and become partners with a legendary great yokai...

There were countless similar incidents. Miyauchi Kouka had essentially grown up being tricked by Miyauchi Hiyage, and naturally had developed quite a bit of resistance.

Miyauchi Hiyage put on a look of regret at the opportune moment: "I'm not lying to you this time. Why don't you ask Renge? I taught her for an entire afternoon yesterday."

"Nyah, Renge has listened to you since she was little. She'll say whatever you tell her to say," Miyauchi Kouka shook her head, not believing him in the slightest.

"Then ask Onee-chan. Kazaho-neechan actually learned it too."

"Kazaho-neechan is definitely sleeping right now, I'm too lazy to ask."

"I'm really not lying to you this time. Don't you really want to learn?"

"Hahaha, I won't learn!"

"That's a real shame," Miyauchi Hiyage shook his head regretfully.

It seemed that he had teased her too much when she was younger, leading to such a lack of trust between the siblings now.

But she was the one who said she wouldn't learn, not that he didn't want to teach her!

Even if his secret was revealed in the future, he would still have a reason to explain.

Miyauchi Hiyage walked out with a face full of regret, "I'll be back late tonight, so you don't need to save any food for me."

Seeing her younger brother's dejected look, Miyauchi Kouka frowned.

Had she acted too smart, making her younger brother uncomfortable?

Then, should she pretend to be fooled next time and ask her brother for more pocket money later as compensation?

Oh, why hadn't she thought of that just now? She had lost so much pocket money this time.

Miyauchi Kouka thought this to herself, preparing to cooperate well with her younger brother the next time such a situation arose.

Meanwhile, Miyauchi Hiyage, after teasing his second sister, headed towards the Koshigaya residence.

The Koshigaya family was the one he was most familiar with in the village. After all, the three Koshigaya siblings were his classmates. Besides the eldest brother, Koshigaya Suguru, the other two sisters, Koshigaya Komari and Koshigaya Natsumi, were main characters in the anime.

As for their ages, they were 1, 2, and 3 years younger than him, respectively.

Such a feat of having three children in three consecutive years was quite rare, even in the countryside. It could only be said that the Koshigaya siblings' mother was indeed healthy.