Dusk Maiden

Because this area is still on the outskirts of Saitama Prefecture, and Fujimiya Miki's school is just an ordinary public high school, it is naturally incomparable to a wealthy private school like Toyosaki, which was built on the edge of a prime location in central Tokyo.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage would never say such a thing.

He wore the high school uniform and took a few photos with Fujimiya Miki the school gate. Of course, Itou Kaiji had to play the role of photographer.

It's clear that Fujimiya Miki has been looking forward to this day for a long time.

After taking the photos, Fujimiya Miki used the excuse of taking them to see the locations where the "rumors" had occurred to pull Miyauchi Hiyage aside and start introducing her high school.

Although Itou Kaiji was following behind with a camera, felt that this was a little different from what they had said before they came?

Didn't we agree that I would appear on camera with the boss, and you would bring the camera and film the two of us?

Moreover, it's currently the time when the afternoon sun is at its brightest. At this time, even he would dare to venture alone into various haunted areas.

But Itou Kaiji managed to hold back these words.

Think about the atmosphere when your boss was chatting with this girl in the car just now.

This girl has become one of the strongest contenders for the position of "boss's wife" in his heart, alongside Shiina Mashiro, who always follows her boss around in Tokyo.

His boss was enjoying his youth with other girls, and as an employee, he should just stay in the background and be a silent cameraman so as not to affect his boss's good mood.

Maybe if he works hard now, he can learn a couple of tricks from his boss about using card magic to flirt with girls when he gets back.

Whether you go to a small casino or a nightclub, as long as you show off this skill, won't you immediately attract everyone's attention?

The high school wasn't very big, and even though Fujimiya Miki tried to slow down, she only spent about an hour to walk around it.

This school seems to have a good school spirit; there aren't any delinquent high school students who hang out with hooligans in the community.

In addition, this high school is not a college entrance exam preparation school, so the students here do not have much academic pressure.

Therefore, the students at the school did not have that much negative emotion.

Even without the placement of cursed objects, the curses that are created are just some third-rate little guys, and they will basically not cause any harm to the students.

Unlike those bad high schools and those college-prep high schools with extremely strict management, if there were no cursed objects to suppress them, a cursed spirit that could pose a threat to humans would probably emerge every one or two months.

Of course, those schools are areas that the Reverse Side World will focus on investigating, so they generally won't cause any big news.

With neither Itou Kaiji nor Fujimiya Miki able to see, Miyauchi Hiyage used his Stand to casually eliminate these shady characters.

"Oh, it seems that all those rumors about our school were indeed false. I wonder who spread them in the school. It made me quite worried before, but now that I've confirmed it with you, Himakage, I feel much more at ease."

Fujimiya Miki apologized to Miyauchi Hiyage with a smile, explaining that there had been a problem with his information.

"How about this, I'll treat everyone to some delicious desserts at a nearby dessert shop, then we can hang out around here for a while, and then come to my house for dinner tonight."

You're really scheming.

"Eating sweets is no problem, but I remember there are similar rumors circulating in quite a few middle schools around here. Let's go check those places later," Miyauchi Hiyage said skillfully as he sparred with Fujimiya Miki, while glancing towards a direction further north.

The divination cards pointed him in that direction, but he still planned to go and see what was going on.

It doesn't matter to Fujimiya Miki, since Kaede and the two girls from the Koshigaya Family aren't here anyway, so it doesn't matter where they go.

Itou Kaiji was taken aback for a moment.

Even at this point, your boss still seems to care about your job.

It just goes to show that the boss is indeed the boss; he handles even a high-level woman like this with such ease.

After enjoying some delicious snacks at a nearby dessert shop and resting for a while, they visited several nearby junior high schools, led by Fujimiya Miki.

The situation at these middle schools was indeed not as stable as that at Fujimiya Miki's high school.

After all, they are a group of 13 or 14-year-old children who have just entered adolescence, a rebellious period when their minds are most active and restless.

These middle schools can all feel the suppression of the cursed objects to some extent.

However, these cursed items are not of a high level; they are probably just the remains of some level one cursed spirits.

After all, there aren't that many top-tier cursed spirits. It would be enough to bring over some remnants of level one cursed spirits to suppress them in these places.

These cursed objects can at most suppress and remove low-level cursed spirits Vengeful Spirit. However, once a level two cursed spirit appears that is also somewhat intelligent, these cursed objects will be unable to defend against it.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage wasn't here to do charity work. Let these Exorcists and Sorcerers handle their original jobs.

At most, Miyauchi Hiyage only dealt with a few suicidal level-two cursed spirits who were following them around and had no intention of leaving, so as not to affect his mood.

He couldn't see these Vengeful Spirit and cursed spirits before; he needed the power of the Camera Obscura to see them.

However, ever since Yellow Temperance accidentally devoured a Vengeful Spirit that had inadvertently entered the scene at the library and evolved the ability to disguise itself as Vengeful Spirit, Miyauchi Hiyage has been able to freely control whether or not he can see these disgusting creatures.

Moreover, as the number of Vengeful Spirit consumed by Yellow Temperance increases, the things that Miyauchi Hiyage can see also keep increasing. It's just unknown how far Yellow Temperance will eventually evolve.

Finally, at five o'clock in the afternoon, as dusk was approaching, Miyauchi Hiyage arrived at the true purpose of his trip.

"Let's take one last look at this school. If we still haven't found anything, let's buy some hot pot ingredients and cook hot pot at home," Miyauchi Hiyage said, looking at the two people behind her as she stood at the school gate.

"Private Seiwa Academy?" Itou Kaiji was already a little tired from walking, looked at the name of the school, then paused for a moment, as if he had suddenly remembered something.

"It seems like this is the school I saw online. It says that at dusk you can easily see a long-haired girl in a school uniform, and then you lose sight of her when you try to find her."

Fujimiya Miki was standing to the side, also frowned slightly.

We've reached the edge of the city.

"This school seems to be the oldest school in the area. It is said that there was an old schoolhouse sixty or seventy years ago when this place was still a village. It was an Old Schoolhouse like our Asahigaoka Branch School. However, a new teaching building was built next to the Old Schoolhouse during the city planning."

An abandoned but not yet demolished Old Schoolhouse, and a mysterious girl appearing at dusk.

After running around all afternoon, have we finally come across a place that looks like it has a story to tell?

"How about we wait until tomorrow, after we've rested, report to Mr. Nanami, and then come back to investigate the school's past?"

Itou Kaiji asked his boss, "When we went to film in those places before, Miyauchi Hiyage would first investigate the cases that had happened there, and then Miyauchi Hiyage would tell them little by little during filming in a slightly scary way."

They currently know nothing about the school and haven't mentioned it to the person in charge in Tokyo.

As dusk approached, Itou Kaiji's legs began to tremble uncontrollably.

It wasn't just the fear of actually encountering some mysterious twilight maiden, but also the worry that after walking all day, if they really ran into something strange and wouldn't have time to escape.

Meanwhile, Miyauchi Hiyage was looking in the direction of the school's Old Schoolhouse.

Is the ghost inside the one from his memory?

The tarot card reading led him here; could it be that he wants me to perform a ritual to help him pass on to the afterlife?

But thinking back to the divination I did this morning, I realized I might have had a slight thought in mind about finding other owners of the Diary.

If this divination ability is not affected by the Diary, the other party may also be one of the holders of the second batch of Diary!

Chapter 162: The Dusk Girl

Looking at the plaque of the Seiwa Academy at the school gate, and listening to Itou Kaiji's reminder, Miyauchi Hiyage nodded. "Although we've arrived in Saitama, if we really intend to film, we should definitely say a word to Mr. Nanami."

He explained Kento Nanami's identity to Fujimiya Miki, who was looking at him with some confusion.

Knowing that Miyauchi Hiyage had to consult with an official before filming these videos, Fujimiya Miki couldn't help but show a hint of interest on his face.

"Do ghosts really exist in this world?" She looked at Miyauchi Hiyage, trying to discern something from the face of her childhood friend.

After all, before he went to Tokyo for high school, all she heard him say was that he wanted to film food and restaurant reviews in Tokyo, and she had never heard Miyauchi Hiyage mention that he was going to Tokyo to film suspense and supernatural videos.

In other words, something must have happened to Miyauchi Hiyage during his month-long trip to Tokyo that changed his original thoughts.

Or had this change already occurred before he went to Tokyo?

Fujimiya Miki, who probably knows more about Asahigaoka Media's cash flow than Kaede Kagayama, naturally also knows how much money Miyauchi Hiyage has.

While it was indeed a staggering nine-figure sum for the average person, it was still far from enough to buy a villa in the heart of Tokyo.

In any case, Fujimiya Miki didn't believe that Miyauchi Hiyage would have secretly made dozens or even more small fortunes through stock trading without her knowledge.

This afternoon's "date" made Fujimiya Miki realize this even more clearly:

The current Miyauchi Hiyage is really too "lucky".

At school, you can find banknotes left behind by other students or teachers, and when you go to buy a drink from a vending machine, an extra bottle of drink will fall out.

Even when participating in a dessert shop's lucky draw, Miyauchi Hiyage can win the first prize with just a random draw.

By the end of the day, what Miyauchi Hiyage had gained on his own was almost equivalent to a week's wages for an average person.

Even when he was in Asahigaoka, Miyauchi Hiyage was called the "Ebisu" of Asahigaoka by many villagers, who were also the god of commerce and wealth. However, Fujimiya Miki knew that Miyauchi Hiyage had actually taken many detours at the beginning.

It took nearly half a year at school, and with their help, to achieve success.

However, Fujimiya Miki didn't care about any of that.

If we really want to start from the beginning, the difference in Miyauchi Hiyage was already evident when she was a child.

Growing up in a small village in Japan, he became fluent in Chinese without any formal instruction and also had a deep understanding of the country's traditional customs, as if he had been reincarnated with memories from a previous life.

From the moment he met Miyauchi Hiyage until now, Fujimiya Miki known that Miyauchi Hiyage is no ordinary person.

She just wanted to be able to stand quietly beside him, just like before, and not be left too far behind. That was enough for her.

Seeing the girl's curious gaze, Miyauchi Hiyage shrugged and shook his head. "Who can give a definite answer before actually seeing those things? I'm just a video blogger who makes a little money by exploiting the curiosity and morbid curiosity of my viewers. Just do what I'm told."

He said this, then turned to look at Itou Kaiji.

"That's true, but before filming, we still need to find out more about the school and where those rumors about it came from. We'll explain this to Mr. Nanami after we decide to film."

As he said this, he looked at the setting sun in the distance.

"Besides, it's almost dusk, so wouldn't it be a good time to verify whether that rumor is true or false?"

Miyauchi Hiyage instructed the somewhat timid Itou Kaiji to first inquire about information from the nearby residents or school staff, while he himself planned to wander around the school to see if there were any other Vengeful Spirit or curses.

He then turned to look at Fujimiya Miki, wanting her to wait for him at the school gate, but Fujimiya Miki shook her head, indicating that she wanted to come along.

Knowing Fujimiya Miki's personality, Miyauchi Hiyage that since she had already said so, he might as well take her along.

Although Miyauchi Hiyage is now fairly certain that the ghost that appeared at the school is a ghost girl from an anime he once watched.

According to the anime's plot, the ghost girl should be harmless.

But hidden within this school is a shadow ghost that has absorbed the memories and resentment of those who died.

In this world where a bunch of settings have been stitched together, that Shadow Ghost could probably be considered a curse by now.

With these thoughts in mind, Miyauchi Hiyage led Fujimiya Miki into the middle school built on a small hill.

The school was indeed very clean; there were no Vengeful Spirit, not even normal ghosts.

He didn't sense any reaction from the cursed object, which meant that the ghost or shadow ghost would clean up the other filth in the school.

Standing at the entrance of the Old Schoolhouse, Miyauchi Hiyage felt the premonition in his heart.

It is indeed in here, but it doesn't seem to be completely there; there seems to be something else in another place not far away.

Then, he tilted his head up slightly, and Fujimiya Miki also tilted his head up slightly, looking at the building built on the hilltop behind the school.

"That should be the office, right?" she explained to Miyauchi Hiyage.

Miyauchi Hiyage nodded slightly. "Let's go take a look. This Old Schoolhouse looks even worse than the Asahigaoka Branch School before it was renovated. I don't want to accidentally break the floorboards inside."

Fujimiya Miki chuckled lightly, "Yes, the Asahigaoka Branch School is only thirty or forty years old, and it was already in such a dilapidated state. Before you called people over to renovate it, you had to take a lot of buckets to collect water from the leaks on rainy days."

"But these old school buildings take up a lot of school space, so why doesn't the school authorities demolish them and rebuild them?"

Miyauchi Hiyage casually replied, "Perhaps it's because there are some important things in this school building. After all, when we renovated the Asahigaoka Branch School, many of the teachers who taught us for several years before Ichisu-nee came to check on Asahigaoka Branch School situation."

"It seems that this Old Schoolhouse holds many memories, although I still think it was a bit too late to renovate it the year after I graduated," Fujimiya Miki sighed.

After graduation, my alma mater was renovated, and I not only lost my memories, but I also couldn't experience what it felt like to study in the new school building.

The two chatted about their time studying at Asahigaoka as they walked up the newly built stone path.

But after walking halfway, Miyauchi Hiyage suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Fujimiya Miki looked at Miyauchi Hiyage, who then pointed to a small path to the side that probably only a few people had ever walked on.

"Let's go this way and see where this path leads."

The path wasn't long; it only took a minute or two to reach the end.

At the end, there is a stone tablet about twenty or thirty centimeters high, whose location is unknown.