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Chapter 68

Miyauchi Hikage's Current Strength / Two Shrines

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Over the past two weeks, through constant feeding, the Yellow Temperance creature has grown in size and developed the functions of splitting and suppressing its constitution.

These changes had already satisfied Miyauchi Hiyage.

After all, as the Stand that appeared in Part 3 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure before the Stand's design was further refined, Yellow Temperance was essentially a blank slate Stand used for disguise. Even its ability to launch sneak attacks was rendered useless due to its slow speed in devouring flesh.

But in this world, perhaps because Stands are also spiritual forces, after sealing more than 99.9% of his Pure Yang Body and finally being able to see those so-called Vengeful Spirit with his own eyes, Miyauchi Hiyage discovered that Yellow Temperance seemed to be equally interested in these Spiritual Body.

And after devouring the Vengeful Spirit in the library, the Yellow Temperance gained another form of Vengeful Spirit disguised as one that ordinary people could not see.

Tonight, after confirming Kento Nanami's whereabouts, Miyauchi Hiyage separated a small fragment of Yellow Temperance, disguised it as Vengeful Spirit, and followed it within ten meters of him before severing contact.

At the same time, he also took a tiny bit of the Yellow Temperance, which was his true form, and covered it on his face. One reason was to help him make some subtle changes in expression, and the other was to confirm whether Kento Nanami could perceive the two different forms of the Yellow Temperance.

Chapter 130: Miyauchi Hiyage's Current Strength

As it turns out, when the Yellow Temperance disguised itself as Vengeful Spirit and followed behind Miyauchi Hiyage, although ordinary people still couldn't see the Yellow Temperance, it could still be detected by Sorcerers like Kento Nanami.

However, if the Yellow Temperance is disguised as a physical form covering Miyauchi Hiyage, Kento Nanami would not notice it at all.

From afar, Kento Nanami casually punched the Vengeful Spirit disguised by the fragment of Yellow Temperance at the three-seven point, and the Vengeful Spirit disguised by Yellow Temperance immediately collapsed and disintegrated like Vengeful Spirit.

Miyauchi Hiyage knew that this was the other party's Innate Technique.

Ratio Technique.

Divide the length of the target into equal parts. According to Kento Nanami's idea, a weakness can be created at any point in a certain area at a 7:3 ratio.

Height, arms, torso, head—hitting that point within this 7:3 area will deal additional damage.

It is equally effective on inanimate objects.

It looks somewhat similar to the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

It is also an ability that requires the user to hit a specific spot on the enemy.

However, the death lines or points seen by the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can cause instant death damage if touched.

The damage caused by the Ratio Technique is only a critical hit that is close to true damage, and it cannot have a decisive effect.

Most importantly, even the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception often encounter situations where they can't hit anyone, let alone the Ratio Technique.

"Even if you learn how to Domain Expansion, you can improve the efficiency of clearing out mobs by relying on the guaranteed hit effect that Domain Expansion with it. But for enemies who have ways to deal with domains, you still have to engage in close combat."

Miyauchi Hiyage silently marveled at Kento Nanami's abilities.

Although the other party is indeed a very reliable adult, and he does have many highlights in the story.

But being a level one Sorcerers is pretty much his limit.

Unless she can develop the Ratio Technique to the point where it can affect space and even concepts, like Ryougi Shiki, she might not have a chance to become a Special Grade Sorcerers.

"With the blessing of the Pure Yang Body and Ripple Chi Kung, my physical fitness is definitely above that of Kento Nanami. If I wrap my body with Yellow Temperance and Ripple Chi Kung, the Ratio Technique should have a hard time breaking through my defenses."

These are Miyauchi Hiyage's thoughts after observing the exorcism methods of those Spirit Medium and Kento Nanami from a mid-range distance using Name Magic Miyauchi Hiyage, and after having a close encounter with Kento Nanami and personally experiencing how the fragments of Yellow Temperance were shattered by his basic attack.

The bonus from Pure Yang Body combined with Ripple is far greater than 1+1.

Even if the perfect being Kars appeared in front of him right now, he didn't think his Ripple would be weaker than Kaz's.

It can be said that although his only attack method is Ripple Chi Kung, his already mastered Ripple Chi Kung and his physical qualities alone would place him at least at the level of a first-level Sorcerers in the Jujutsu Society.

This doesn't even take into account the ability of Pure Yang Body to suppress yin and filth. If you also consider this special attack against ghosts, reaching the top rank would be a piece of cake.

"I wonder how he compares to those Sorcerers who possess 'Heavenly Restriction' and exchange their Cursed Energy for physical strength."

Just like Fushiguro Toji from Jujutsu Kaisen, who traded zero Cursed Energy for the strongest physical body.

He almost managed to kill Satoru Gojo- one fight just by relying on his physical abilities and cursed tools.

Even when facing Satoru Gojo after he had fully awakened, he had a chance to escape, but he gave it up himself.

However, tonight's harvest was already quite good.

After meeting with Kento Nanami, he learned about his current approximate strength and confirmed the stealth effect of his Stand.

"The only pity is that the paranormal videos will probably be stopped. I need to find something else for Itou Kaiji to do."

After muttering this to himself, Miyauchi Hiyage turned and silently walked towards his home.

Yellow Temperance lost a small piece. Although it won't cause any damage to its main body or itself, it should still hurry back and feed the other side more to help it recover quickly.

The next day after school, Miyauchi Hiyage told Shiina Mashiro and Miyauchi Kouka in advance that she wouldn't be going to Mahiru's house for dinner that day.

After confronting Shiina Mashiro, Miyauchi Hiyage has started visiting Shiina Mahiru's house more often.

Of course, he wasn't as lazy as Mashiro and Guanghua, who would just sit on the sidelines and wait for food to be served. He would usually help out and cook some of the home-style dishes he knew how to make.

Overall, this kind of life is quite comfortable.

Aside from the occasional encounter with Kasumigaoka Utaha at school, she would sometimes cast a suspicious glance at him—not because she suspected he was You Know Who, but because she wondered if he wanted to have his cake and eat it too.

After all, whenever Kasumigaoka Utaha goes to Shiina Mashiro to discuss something, Shiina Mashiro always tells her to go directly to Miyauchi Hiyage Himekage.

Then, according to Shinomiya Kaguya's observations, sometimes Miyauchi Hiyage would go to the market to buy groceries with Shiina Mahiru, and the two seemed to get along quite well.

However, Kasumigaoka Utaha's focus was still on finding the You Know Who, and she didn't spend too much time on Miyauchi Hiyage and Shiina Mashiro.

After all, Shiina Mashiro is a girl who owns Diary. Even if she's a bit naive, she wouldn't be so easily won over by a random male supporting character.

Anyway, Kasumigaoka Utaha lost interest in romance after reading her original story in her Diary.

Even her recent novels have lost some of their fantasy elements. It was only after she looked at her Diary and her story of being a loser with Eriri Spencer Sawamura, forcing herself into a "yandere state," that she regained some of the feeling she had before.

In short, Miyauchi Hiyage called Sakakibara Kouichi and Itou Kaiji over after school to talk about the possibility that the video could not be filmed anymore.

Upon hearing this, Itou Kaiji, who had initially felt that things were starting to get better, was immediately overwhelmed.

After all, the video account's followers have rapidly surpassed 100,000, and the data in all aspects is quite impressive. At this rate, it would be roughly 1,000 yen in revenue for every additional 1,000 views.

He also received a share of these profits.

These days he often stays in his old single room, calculating how to make at least 500,000 to 600,000 yen a month with six videos a month and hundreds of thousands of views each.

Although they are still some distance from the multi-million dollar annual salary that Miyauchi Hiyage had promised them, they are just getting started and are still in the rising popularity phase, so there is obviously still a lot of room for improvement.

Thinking about how he could soon move out of this shabby single room and into the big house he had dreamed of for so many years, to enjoy the delicacies he had never even dared to dream of before, and then to find a beautiful girlfriend, Itou Kaiji had hummed softly more than once while fantasizing.

But now, they've only just started, so why are they being banned by the authorities?

"Could this be some competitor trying to sabotage us?" Itou Kaiji said, expressing his suspicions with dissatisfaction.

Sakakibara Kouichi is more rational, and his inner thoughts are also much more delicate.

"Is it because the content we filmed was too sensitive?"

If it were just simple case analysis, it probably wouldn't warrant a warning, but Miyauchi Hiyage is indeed a genius.

With the scripts he provided in advance, combined with his cinematic language and background music, and of course, Itou Kaiji's natural reactions to those ghost stories, the film was a masterpiece.

Even though nothing actually happened in the end, it still gave people the feeling that they might encounter a ghost at any moment.

It can be said that, although it is just a video, Miyauchi Hiyage did capture some of the oppressive feeling of the middle stages of GetBackers.

Therefore, Miyauchi Hiyage added a notice at the beginning of each video, "Viewers with a history of heart disease, epilepsy, or mental illness should not watch this video."

However, if anyone actually gets scared and suffers any problems because of their videos, they might have to bear some responsibility for it.

As for why the authorities came knocking on their door so quickly, Sakakibara Kouichi found it understandable.

After all, he is most likely one of the creators of the Asahigaoka Miracle, and an undisputed top-tier influencer on the Japanese internet. It's quite normal for the authorities to pay more attention to him.

Thinking about this, Sakakibara Kouichi felt a little regretful.

After all, I finally found something that interested me, but I got warned because I took such good photos of it.

It's unclear what Miyauchi Hiyage's plans are after this.

Then, just as Miyauchi Hiyage was about to continue making empty promises to the two of them, an unfamiliar phone call interrupted his train of thought.

After the call was connected, Miyauchi Hiyage couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

Because the voice coming from the other end of the phone was that of Kento Nanami.

Miyauchi Hiyage whispered to Itou Kaiji and Sakakibara Kouichi that this was an official phone call, and that the outcome should have been agreed upon.

Then he greeted Kento Nanami on the other end of the phone and inquired about the final outcome.

However, just when he was ready to switch to a new track, he received an unexpected answer from Kento Nanami.

The video can still be filmed, but a record needs to be filed with him before each filming session.

Ideally, two days before filming, Miyauchi Hiyage would inform him of the filming location and specific case information for the next video. Then, Kento Nanami would decide whether the video could be filmed based on the case information.

"If you are not willing to accept this, then you can no longer continue filming this series of videos."

Miyauchi Hiyage listened to Kento Nanami's emotionless reply on the other end of the phone, his heart couldn't help but flutter.

He could sense whether Kento Nanami had mentioned his name to anyone that day.

Apart from making a phone call to his parents this morning, Kento Nanami has not mentioned his name to anyone else.

The so-called high-level decision was actually entirely the decision of the Kento Nanami.

After all, a level one Sorcerers is a pillar of strength no matter where they are placed. A video blogger can make his own decisions, and it won't attract the attention of the higher-ups in the sorcery world.

He's a guy who likes to court death. We've already tried to persuade him, and he won't threaten the safety of the Reverse Side World, so let him die on his own.

Anyway, tens of thousands of people die in Japan every year due to supernatural events, so one more won't make a difference.

In fact, Kento Nanami could have simply given a direct answer that filming could not continue, thus cleanly and decisively ending the incident.

However, Kento Nanami still chose this more troublesome method to resolve the matter with Miyauchi Hiyage.

The so-called "reporting" probably means that the Kento Nanami will help check the situation in the places where the cases have occurred in advance.

Although he says all sorts of things about how much he hates his job and how troublesome it is, he's really just a nice guy at heart.

Miyauchi Hiyage muttered to himself, realizing that his acting last night had completely fooled Kento Nanami.

In the eyes of the Kento Nanami, he should be a young man with firm ideals and real talent.

He might have a little talent in cultivation, so I plan to maintain our connection in this way and see if I should pull him into the Reverse Side World.

Miyauchi Hiyage made this judgment.

He felt a little embarrassed by this.

As a return gift for this favor, if the Shibuya Incident still occurs, then we should try to save the other party's life.

Or, if there's an opportunity in the future, help the other person awaken a domain, so that they won't just be beaten up in someone else's domain.

Or perhaps he could try to bring Kento Nanami into his team later?

Of course, we'll have to wait for a more opportune moment to discuss this further.

Thinking this, Miyauchi Hiyage continued to maintain her acting skills and expressed her gratitude to Kento Nanami on the other end of the phone.

After agreeing on a meeting time to further discuss the video shooting, Kento Nanami hung up the phone.

Miyauchi Hiyage recorded Kento Nanami's private phone number.

"It seems that our team can continue to operate for the time being, but we will need to add a reminder at the beginning of the videos that 'The story is purely fictional and should not be imitated'."

Although there was an extra, somewhat strange, reporting step, the fact that the video could continue filming was still something to celebrate for Itou Kaiji and Sakakibara Kouichi.

After the "farewell dinner" turned into a celebration banquet, Miyauchi Hiyage didn't get home until eight or nine o'clock in the evening.

I casually shared some of Aqua's "astounding wisdom" with the girls who had Diary, using the storyline of the hair clipper I had drawn a few days ago, which gave them a shock from Teacher Daichi.

I wonder what Shinomiya Kaguya and Hoshino Ai would think if they saw this scene.

"However, this plot is still a bit lacking compared to the final battle of Jujutsu Kaisen. It will be difficult to see a work that surpasses Jujutsu Kaisen in terms of abstractness in the short term."

After leaving ample room for imagination in her diary, Miyauchi Hiyage continued editing the video.

He himself did not realize that today was the one-month anniversary of the Diary he had received, and he had been writing in Diary for a whole month.

Chapter 131: Two Shrines

Miyauchi Hiyage herself didn't realize that she had been writing in her diary for a whole month.

But for girls who keep Diary, many of them have kept this matter in mind.

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