Who Still Writes Traditional Diaries These Days?
Chapter 75

Mashiro Shiina's New Request and the Diary's Targeting

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Because of the system permission upgrade last night, although he called Shiina Mashiro and asked her to send him a copy of the information in the Chat Group, there were still many things he needed to understand from Shiina Mashiro in person.

So last night he told Shiina Mahiru that he would come over this morning to discuss the manga with Mashiro.

Shiina Mahiru also asked him to come over early so they could have breakfast together.

When Miyauchi Hiyage arrived, after Shiina Mahiru opened the door for him, he immediately smelled a fragrance.

It smells like congee with preserved egg and lean pork?

This is Guanghua bringing the homemade preserved eggs she brought from Asahigaoka to Shiina Mahiru's place, and also teaching Shiina Mahiru how to make preserved egg and lean pork congee?

Upon smelling that familiar scent, Miyauchi Hiyage couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

In the more than ten years he lived in this world, he did indeed leave himself with quite a few flaws.

For example, this preserved egg.

Of course, Japan also has preserved eggs.

However, because the taste of preserved eggs is different from Japanese eating habits, and the cooking methods are different, this thing is considered a kind of strange dish by most Japanese people.

In other words, Miyauchi Hiyage, who lives in the countryside but wants to reminisce about the delicacies of China, has plenty of time, energy, and resources to tinker with this stuff.

As a result, he made several batches of preserved eggs, and then found a few people with strong digestive systems in Asahigaoka to test them. He also carefully tasted them a few times himself. After experiencing mild diarrhea a few times, Miyauchi Hiyage successfully mastered the method of making preserved eggs.

He also happily made cold preserved egg salad and preserved egg and lean pork congee at home several times afterward.

Perhaps because they were twins, while the rest of the Miyauchi Family only had a "so-so" tolerance for preserved eggs, Miyauchi Kouka was the one who particularly liked the taste of preserved eggs.

Not just preserved eggs.

She also demonstrated an amazing ability to adapt to foods like stinky tofu and snail rice noodles.

In short, Miyauchi Hiyage considered having her second older sister film food review videos because of her much stronger digestive system than her own.

When Miyauchi Kouka came to Tokyo to attend high school, he brought some preserved eggs from home.

It seems that they didn't consider her extremely embarrassing cooking skills at all.

If any girl with Diary were perceptive enough to notice the unique food from China, preserved egg, and Miyauchi Hiyage's preference for Chinese-style food since childhood, she might actually be able to discover Miyauchi Hiyage's problem.

However, after obtaining the Diary and deciding to take the path of survival, Miyauchi Hiyage began to patch up some of the flaws he had made over the years.

It can be said that in order to patch up the preserved egg, Koshigaya Suguru arranged a prank food video for Miyauchi Hiyage Taku before leaving Asahigaoka, featuring "strange dishes from all over the world".

Canned herring, blue cheese, cheese with live maggots, rotten dried fish, cow dung...

Both preserved eggs and snail rice noodles are considered to have a relatively mild flavor here.

This type of video, along with the content creator's past life in Miyauchi Hiyage, was quite popular for a while.

The famous canned herring, a food that became a viral sensation a few years ago and inspired countless people to try it, proves that people are still very interested in this kind of risky challenge.

Anyway, these videos have been broadcast recently and have also sparked considerable discussion online.

In short, let's return to the present.

Smelling the aroma of porridge wafting from the apartment kitchen, Miyauchi Hiyage thought that a video of someone challenging themselves to eat raw century eggs had just aired a few days ago. She guessed that it was probably after Miyauchi Kouka saw that video that she remembered she had brought quite a few century eggs to school.

Seemingly noticing Miyauchi Hiyage's expression, Shiina Mahiru also gave him a faint smile.

"You noticed it too, right, Riying-kun? Guanghua taught me this recipe yesterday. I heard you like to drink porridge at home, so I looked up some tutorial videos online and tried making it for you this morning."

Because I've been spending more time with the Shiina sisters lately, and it's easy to get them confused when I call them by their surnames, I've started addressing them by their first names these days.

"I'm really sorry to trouble you. Guanghua just likes to do these kinds of things in my name."

"I wonder if any of the preserved eggs she brought are spoiled. If they're spoiled, they can really give you diarrhea for days. Let me taste them first, and you can eat them if I'm sure they're okay."

Hearing Miyauchi Hiyage's words, Shiina Mahiru was still a little nervous.

After all, she didn't really know much about preserved eggs. She was only asked by Miyauchi Kouka to do it, and she found some tutorials online before getting up early this morning to start preparing them.

If the food doesn't taste good, that's one thing, but getting an upset stomach is a real problem.

"But you don't need to worry. The smell of spoiled preserved eggs is quite obvious. You can tell just by taking one bite. I've already developed an immunity to it, so one bite probably won't be a problem for me," Miyauchi Hiyage said, then praised the other person a few more times.

"And it smells pretty good, so it's already amazing that you succeeded on your first try."

Shiina Mahiru felt a little embarrassed by the compliment from a member of the opposite sex.

"I just practice my cooking skills at home often, and I'm quite happy that someone likes my cooking," she said, then reminded Miyauchi Hiyage.

"Ah, Mashiro should be up already. I just went in and helped her change her clothes. Hinakage-kun, you should go and wake up Guanghua too."

Shiina Mahiru is telling Miyauchi Hiyage not to go looking for Shiina Mashiro yet.

Even after obtaining the Diary, Shiina Mashiro still mostly maintained her naive and innocent demeanor, seemingly oblivious to the world around her.

Previously, she only wanted to become a manga artist, but after obtaining the Diary and meeting Miyauchi Hiyage, she had a new idea: to keep an eye on Miyauchi Hiyage and have him help her become an even better manga artist.

Apart from that, Shiina Mashiro's current state is not much different from that in the original work. At most, she has learned to put on her underwear first after waking up, after being reminded by Shiina Mahiru a few times.

However, if Miyauchi Hiyage were to go in and find Shiina Mashiro at this time, she would most likely be wearing only a thin undergarment.

She might even have Miyauchi Hiyage help her put on the rest of her clothes.

Miyauchi Hiyage had no interest in this kind of "perk"—he helped Miyauchi Kouka dress for two or three years when he was four or five, and then took Renge with him every day from the age of ten to fifteen.

Renge is only six years old and already knows how to dress herself. Shiina Mashiro, who is already sixteen or seventeen, should try to learn from Renge.

When he got to his second sister's door, he knocked twice but got no response, so he simply took the key and turned the doorknob.

Although Miyauchi Kouka's sleeping posture was indeed quite unsightly, at least she would wear pajamas. So, after entering the house, Miyauchi Hiyage immediately drew back the curtains and set the alarm clock, letting the morning sunlight and the alarm clock wake up Miyauchi Kouka.

Compared to visual perception, the noise of an alarm clock is clearly more direct.

Just seconds after the alarm clock rang, Miyauchi Kouka let out a wail from his bed.

"Ugh... why did you wake me up so early? Let me sleep for another twenty minutes."

"You tricked her into getting up at five in the Mahiru to make you congee with preserved egg and lean pork, but you yourself stayed in bed until you were almost late before getting up, right?"

"If you feel you're not getting enough sleep, either go to bed earlier, or you should learn from Mashiro. Look at the exercise techniques I taught you; she's already mastered them after just a few days."

"As for you, I told you before that I would teach you, but you refused to learn. Now that you see the changes in me, you beg me to learn, but you can't calm down and study properly. Mahiru is Mahiru a beginner, but you are still so far behind."

Miyauchi Hiyage complained about her older sister, urging her to get up quickly.

Hearing Miyauchi Hiyage's words, Miyauchi Kouka, feeling somewhat guilty, stopped struggling.

She just didn't want to learn; she genuinely lacked the talent.

They are twins, so theoretically their talents should be similar.

But she just couldn't calm down and feel the "rhythm of breathing," and she also had a hard time performing those so-called movements correctly.

She looked at Miyauchi Hiyage with a pitiful expression, which made Miyauchi Hiyage sigh.

This is his own sister, what else can he say?

"Alright, didn't I say I'd help you master those skills completely when we get back to Asahigaoka during Golden Week? Stop playing the victim here,"

"Stop dawdling, hurry up and wash up. Remember to thank Mahiru for Mahiru so hard when you get there."

Having said that, Miyauchi Kouka, who was lying in bed, finally obediently got up.

Miyauchi Hiyage then returned to Mahiru's side.

While he was calling Miyauchi Kouka Mitsuka, Shiina Mahiru was also very efficient, helping Mashiro get dressed in just a few minutes. Now, Shiina Mashiro is giving herself a quick hair combing.

Shiina Mashiro's eyes lit up when she saw Miyauchi Hiyage arrive.

Holding the comb in her hand, she walked towards the Miyauchi Hiyage.

"Hikage, your hair is so hard to comb!"

Miyauchi Hiyage glanced at Shiina Mashiro, whose hair was disheveled.

To be honest, it's not entirely Shiina Mashiro's fault.

Those who practice the art of Ripple can enhance their body's life energy, thereby slowing down aging and improving physical fitness.

Shiina Mashiro is also a person with great Ripple talent. With the boost of her Reading Points, one month of training is roughly equivalent to the training results of an ordinary person in several years.

The Ripple within her body can be said to have already shown initial results.

During this stage, the continuous emergence of life energy, combined with the fact that the girl is still in the process of physical development, will naturally have a positive effect on all aspects of her body.

In Miyauchi Hiyage's memory, Shiina Mashiro's original figure, while not exactly flat, was not at all voluptuous.

But now it seems that Shiina Mashiro in this world can still increase her cup size by one or two cups by relying on the power of Ripple?

I wonder if Yukino Yukinoshita will be able to achieve a miraculous change of fate by relying on Ripple.

In short, besides the impact on body shape, hair is also an area that is easily affected by Ripple.

Before Shiina Mashiro achieved a higher level of mastery over wavy hair, even if she washed and combed her hair every night, she would still have to spend half a day re-style it every morning after waking up.

Thinking this, Miyauchi Hiyage took the comb from Shiina Mashiro's hand and began to skillfully comb her hair.

Don't ask, the answer is that I learned from my lazy eldest sister, playful second sister, and obedient youngest sister since I was a child.

Chapter 140: Shiina Mashiro's New Request and the Target from the Diary

When it comes to the skills of taking care of others, Miyauchi Hiyage is quite an expert.

Moreover, for the sake of efficiency, he secretly used some of the power of the Ripple.

After quickly combing Shiina Mashiro's hair and feeling the smoothness of her hair, Miyauchi Hiyage asked if there were any new requests in Shiina Mashiro's Diary today.

To be honest, he was still a little nervous.

Because Shiina Mashiro received a special request yesterday.

[To reveal Miyauchi Hiyage's true identity to the other girls who possess the Diary.]

For every girl she tells this to and gains her trust, she will receive 100 Reading Points and a chance to win a prize.

It's safe to say that as long as Shiina Mashiro has this idea, she can earn several thousand Reading Points and twenty chances to win a prize every day.

But both he and the "He" behind the Diary know that Shiina Mashiro would never do such a thing.

This request was purely a deliberate attempt by the Diary's side to torment him.

That guy probably deliberately created this kind of request to mess with his mentality, making him feel indebted to Shiina Mashiro for not being able to complete it.

In fact, the Diary project was effective.

Shiina Mashiro rejected the request last night, and if Miyauchi Hiyage, who knows about this, doesn't have any emotional reaction, then he would be a complete scumbag.

Upon hearing Miyauchi Hiyage's question, Shiina Mashiro also took out her Diary.

Miyauchi Hiyage had never seen what the other girls' Diary were like and didn't know.

But he had examined Shiina Mashiro's Diary more than once.

Aside from his diary entries from the past month and over twenty questions from different girls, the rest of the Diary is filled with comics drawn by Shiina Mashiro.

After obtaining Level 2 access, Shiina Mashiro unlocked the ability to draw in her Diary using her thoughts, increasing her drawing speed by dozens of times.

It can be said that as long as Shiina Mashiro has a specific image in her mind, she can easily complete the creation of an entire volume of manga in a day.

However, before coming to Japan, the comics created by the other party were indeed just like her in the original work, with only exquisite pictures, but no emotion could be felt at all.

Even though she worked very hard and drew hundreds of pages of various types of comics in her Diary, they were all bland and uninteresting stories.

However, after arriving in Japan and identifying his identity through intuition, and then obtaining the consent of Kasumigaoka Utaha and the others, she quickly drew the story of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend.

With the personal demonstration of Miyauchi Hiyage, the "strongest director in the field of cheesy videos," those subtle expressions that Shiina Mashiro previously found difficult to grasp and lacked realism quickly became much more vivid.

Even Kato Megumi, upon seeing herself in the manga, was amazed. Although the "self" in the manga also appeared expressionless, the reader could still clearly discern what emotions were being expressed.

As for Eriri Spencer Sawamura, after seeing the classic scene of the male and female protagonists meeting on the slope drawn by Shiina Mashiro, she seemed to have been so devastated that she went into a state of complete isolation.

After flipping through these comics they co-created, Miyauchi Hiyage also offered some brief explanations regarding some areas where the emotional expression was not quite right.

As the primary holder of the Diary, after obtaining the other girls' Diary, one can see the contents of all the Diary and the information of the Diary holders.

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