Chapter Summaries

Miyauchi Hiyage tested his new Destiny ability and discovered unstable spatial fluctuations in the mountains near Asahigaoka, then returned to sleep after a draining teleportation trial. When he woke, a guest had arrived, and he coordinated with Itou Kaiji to investigate Kanoe Yuko’s story.

• Miyauchi Hiyage reviewed reports about Jerry’s deliveries and the escape of Miyano Akemi and Shiho Miyano from The Organization.
• Miyauchi Hiyage tested his cards by the river and used Destiny to map his surroundings, estimate fate, and extend his teleportation range to about ten kilometers.
• Miyauchi Hiyage sensed extensive spatial instability in the nearby mountains and suspected a connection between worlds, then teleported across the river and exhausted himself.
• Miyauchi Renka woke Miyauchi Hiyage after Honma Meiko and her parents arrived as guests, and he returned Kento Nanami’s call about investigating Kanoe Yuko.
• Miyauchi Hiyage advised Itou Kaiji to approach the academy’s chairman with Nanami’s business card and investigate nearby sources if she refused to meet.

Miyauchi Hiyage examined Honma Meiko and sensed an unknown connection between her lingering frailty and the mountain where she nearly drowned. After learning about her years of illness, he took Meiko and her brother Satoshi to Asahigaoka’s film set, where Meiko finally had a chance to be alone with him but felt too nervous to speak.

• Miyauchi Hiyage noticed yin energy and a faint thread linking Honma Meiko to the place where she had nearly drowned.
• Honma Meiko told Miyauchi Hiyage that her health had worsened after a winter cold and that Ripple Breathing had recently helped her attend school several days a week.
• Honma Meiko revealed that she knew Miyauchi Hiyage had made the horror videos, and Hiyage covered for her by explaining how she had found out.
• After lunch, Miyauchi Hiyage took Honma Meiko and Honma Satoshi to the filming set and invited Satoshi to try being an extra.
• Honma Satoshi joined the crew while Honma Meiko stayed beside Miyauchi Hiyage, nervous because she wanted to speak with him alone.

Miyauchi Hiyage examined Honma Meiko’s Ripple and began teaching her how to control her breathing so she could recover faster. Honma received a Diary commission to return to where she had drowned and uncover the cause of her weakness, while Miyauchi Hiyage secretly read it and considered what might happen if she failed.

• Miyauchi Hiyage noticed Honma Meiko’s uneven breathing and took her aside to discuss her Breathing Technique.
• Miyauchi Hiyage sensed Honma Meiko’s Ripple, compared her condition to Shiina Mashiro’s, and demonstrated how to control Ripple more precisely.
• Honma Meiko received a Diary commission to investigate the place where she had drowned, with a three-month deadline and a warning of an unexpected bodily change if she failed.
• Honma Meiko decided to continue training with Miyauchi Hiyage before investigating, worried that bringing him could put him in danger.
• Miyauchi Hiyage secretly read the commission with Yellow Temperance and wondered whether Honma Meiko’s condition was connected to the ghost Menma.

Miyauchi Hiyage helped Honma Meiko learn breathing techniques and arranged a school trip to Chichibu, then investigated the story behind Kanoe Yuko’s death. He wrote a softened script for Seiwa Academy’s chairman, Kanoe Shizuuko, who summoned her granddaughter Kanoe Kirie to help with filming.

• Miyauchi Hiyage taught Honma Meiko breathing techniques, exchanged contact information with her, and promised to help if she faced trouble.
• Miyauchi Hiyage and Kaede Kagayama arranged a spring outing to Chichibu, and the Honma Family agreed to meet them there three days later.
• Itou Kaiji reported that Seiwa Academy’s chairman was Kanoe Yuko’s younger sister and had agreed to assist with filming.
• Miyauchi Hiyage concluded that Kanoe Yuko’s sister had deliberately chosen her as a sacrifice and planned to film a softened version of the story to spare the chairman public harassment.
• Miyauchi Hiyage brought his script to Kanoe Shizuuko, who was moved by it and called her granddaughter, Kanoe Kirie, to assist with filming.
• Kanoe Kirie arrived and nervously wondered whether her grandmother intended to introduce her to Miyauchi Hiyage as a prospective fiancé.

Miyauchi Hiyage and Fujimiya Miki learned that Kanoe Shizuuko had helped bring about her sister Yuko’s death, while Kanoe Kirie agreed to face Yuko’s restless spirit in her grandmother’s place. Hiyage arranged outside help for the night and realized the shrine maiden coming to assist might be one of the Hiiragi sisters from Takanomiya Shrine.

• Kanoe Shizuuko introduced Kanoe Kirie to Miyauchi Hiyage and explained that Kirie knew little about Yuko’s past.
• Fujimiya Miki suspected Shizuuko was hiding the truth, and Miyauchi Hiyage suggested Shizuuko might have helped choose Yuko as the sacrifice.
• Kanoe Shizuuko confessed to Kanoe Kirie that she had caused Yuko’s death and feared Yuko’s increasingly violent spirit might harm students.
• Kanoe Kirie said she would face Yuko that night in her grandmother’s place, while Shizuuko urged her to stay in contact with Miyauchi Hiyage.
• Miyauchi Hiyage explained that a shrine maiden from Saitama would help them, then suspected she might be connected to the Hiiragi family of Takanomiya Shrine.

Hiiragi Inori arrived at Seiwa Academy to inspect the Vengeful Spirit in the Old Schoolhouse, while Miyauchi Hiyage revealed that he had already noticed the supernatural world and sent Kento Nanami a report. Inori could not locate the Ley Line tied to Kanoe Yuko and searched the school until she called her mother for help.

• Hiiragi Inori introduced herself to Miyauchi Hiyage, admitted she knew about his ghost videos, and recognized that he might be awakening Spiritual Power.
• Hiiragi Inori explained that Kanoe Yuko had been a stable Vengeful Spirit for decades, then entered the Old Schoolhouse to check her condition.
• Itou Kaiji, Fujimiya Miki, and Kanoe Kirie discussed Inori's arrival as Miyauchi Hiyage considered her strength and sent Kento Nanami a full report.
• Hiiragi Inori searched the Old Schoolhouse but could not find the Ley Line's convergence point, then left to look elsewhere on the school grounds.
• After searching the school for about an hour, Hiiragi Inori stood on the hill behind it and called her mother to ask whether she had given her the wrong location.

Hiiragi Inori discovered that Kanoe Yuko had concealed the basement beneath the Old Schoolhouse, where her remains lay, and entered to find it with Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji. As dusk approached, Miyauchi Hiyage stayed outside with Fujimiya Miki to photograph the strange distortions and approached Yuko, hoping to learn the long-dead ghost’s thoughts.

• Hiiragi Inori learned from her mother that Kanoe Yuko had hidden the basement where she died and changed into her family’s Miko Robes before returning to the Old Schoolhouse.
• Hiiragi Inori agreed to let Kanoe Kirie accompany her into the Old Schoolhouse, and Miyauchi Hiyage sent Itou Kaiji along while he stayed outside to film the twilight.
• Miyauchi Hiyage told Fujimiya Miki that Itou Kaiji’s fate let him survive desperate situations and explained that his modified Camera Obscura could capture supernatural distortions.
• Miyauchi Hiyage revealed that the videos might have attracted the attention of a hidden faction, and Fujimiya Miki reassured him by taking his hand.
• As dusk arrived, Fujimiya Miki photographed distortions near the school gate, while Miyauchi Hiyage walked toward Yuko to learn her true thoughts.

Miyauchi Hiyage met Kanoe Yuko and discovered that the Camera Obscura showed a disturbing second form hidden within her. After Yuko learned about a cenotaph bearing her name, Hiyage led her and Fujimiya Miki up the hillside to see it, though nightfall left Yuko dim and difficult to perceive.

• Kanoe Yuko approached Miyauchi Hiyage, while Fujimiya Miki warned him that the Camera Obscura showed Yuko as a frightening ghost.
• Yuko burned her hand when she touched the Camera Obscura, and Hiyage explained that he had come to make videos about the school's rumors concerning her.
• Hiyage photographed Yuko and suggested that the camera revealed a second form tied to a problem with her Spiritual Body.
• Yuko learned that a cenotaph bearing her name stood on the hillside and asked Hiyage to take her there.
• After sunset made Yuko dim and invisible to ordinary people, Hiyage brought her to the monument and asked whether it seemed familiar.

Kanoe Yuko found a Diary that restored her appearance and warned that her existence was in danger, while Miyauchi Hiyage discovered that helping her increased his reward progress. Meanwhile, Hiiragi Inori and Kanoe Kirie uncovered a hidden room in the Old Schoolhouse and prepared to enter it as Itou Kaiji fled in fear.

• Kanoe Yuko picked up a Diary beside her monument, and its Emergency Mode restored her alertness and dispersed the black Aura concealing her appearance.
• Fujimiya Miki and Miyauchi Hiyage could see Kanoe Yuko again, but they could not see or hear the Diary, which warned her that her existence was under threat.
• Miyauchi Hiyage noticed that helping Kanoe Yuko discover the Diary had increased his commission progress by nearly ten percent.
• Hiiragi Inori detected a concealed space in the Old Schoolhouse and used talismans to reveal a hidden door in the wall.
• Kanoe Kirie opened the hidden door using her connection to Kanoe Yuko, revealing a dark room beyond it.
• Itou Kaiji panicked at the supernatural discovery and left the room to get outside.

Hiiragi Inori, Kanoe Kirie, and Itou Kaiji entered Kanoe Yuko’s hidden room to reach the Ley Line that the Vengeful Spirit had occupied. They found the stairs leading underground, where Kanoe Yuko was waiting, and prepared for a possible fight.

• Itou Kaiji found that resentment had sealed the exit, and Hiiragi Inori told him to stay with her rather than wait alone.
• Hiiragi Inori sensed that Kanoe Yuko had occupied the Ley Line’s core and explained that the Vengeful Spirit was interfering with their phones and trapping them inside.
• Hiiragi Inori led Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji into Kanoe Yuko’s hidden room, where they found a mirror that seemed to be her resting place.
• The room’s door shut behind them as Hiiragi Inori followed her sense of the Ley Line through several rooms.
• Hiiragi Inori reached an old door above the underground Ley Line and warned Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji to protect themselves if a fight began.

Kanoe Yuko used the Diary to investigate her forgotten identity, and Miyauchi Hiyage helped her recover memories of being offered as a sacrifice. As she remembered her sister Shiko naming her as the offering, Shadow Yuuko arrived and confronted Hiyage.

• Hiiragi Inori and Itou Kaiji watched Kanoe Yuko’s Vengeful Spirit rush out of the basement, and Inori hurried down to connect with the Ley Line.
• Kanoe Yuko realized that rumors had blurred her memories and asked Fujimiya Miki and Miyauchi Hiyage to tell her what they knew about her past.
• Miyauchi Hiyage recounted how villagers chose Kanoe Yuko as a sacrifice during a plague, but she sensed that the story had left out something crucial.
• Kanoe Yuko remembered her sister Shiko pointing to her and declaring that she was the offering.
• Shadow Yuuko tracked Kanoe Yuko’s Aura to the monument and asked Miyauchi Hiyage whether he had made her remember.

Shadow Yuuko tried to absorb Kanoe Yuko, but the Diary’s power stopped her. As Kanoe Yuko recalled the origins of her hatred and urged her to abandon revenge, Shadow Yuuko rejected peace and revealed that she had long prepared for the next era.

• Shadow Yuuko appeared before Miyauchi Hiyage and Kanoe Yuko, explaining that she had grown stronger from the hatred and memories Kanoe Yuko had lost.
• Shadow Yuuko attempted to merge with Kanoe Yuko, but the Diary blocked her and prevented the absorption.
• Kanoe Yuko recalled being sacrificed by her village, her death in the Old Schoolhouse, and how her conflicting feelings toward her sister led her and Shadow Yuuko to split.
• Kanoe Yuko warned Shadow Yuuko that revenge would bring destruction and asked her to withdraw, while admitting she could not yet let go of all her hatred.
• Shadow Yuuko refused to abandon revenge, challenged Kanoe Yuko to destroy or control her, and claimed she had prepared for the next era.

Shadow Yuuko left after spotting Kanoe Shizuuko at Seiwa Academy, prompting Miyauchi Hiyage to suspect she intended revenge. Though Kanoe Yuko still hated her sister, she resolved to stop Shadow Yuuko from killing her.

• Shadow Yuuko considered possessing Miyauchi Hiyage or using Kanoe Kirie, but left after sensing Kanoe Shizuuko arrive at the school gates.
• Shadow Yuuko spared Miyauchi Hiyage and warned Kanoe Yuko that she would eventually fade before vanishing.
• Fujimiya Miki asked why Shadow Yuuko had left, while Miyauchi Hiyage used Destiny to discover that Kanoe Shizuuko was at the school and faced death.
• Miyauchi Hiyage explained that Shadow Yuuko had likely gone after Kanoe Shizuuko, whose past choices had helped strengthen her.
• Kanoe Yuko admitted she still hated Kanoe Shizuuko but resolved to prevent Shadow Yuuko from killing her.

Kanoe Yuko transferred her Diary to Miyauchi Hiyage and went to find Hiiragi Inori to help stop Shadow Yuuko. Miyauchi Hiyage then used Fate to teleport Fujimiya Miki out of Seiwa Academy, leaving them in an alley outside the school.

• Kanoe Yuko thanked Miyauchi Hiyage, warned him about Shadow Yuuko, and voluntarily transferred her Diary to him.
• Miyauchi Hiyage withheld his decision to reclaim the Diary and told Kanoe Yuko that Hiiragi Inori might be able to help stop Shadow Yuuko.
• Kanoe Yuko floated toward the Old Schoolhouse to find Hiiragi Inori, while Miyauchi Hiyage found that his phone had no signal.
• Fujimiya Miki confronted Miyauchi Hiyage about his composure, and he promised to explain later before preparing to get her out of the school.
• Miyauchi Hiyage used Fate to teleport himself and Fujimiya Miki several hundred meters beyond Seiwa Academy, then noted that carrying someone consumed twice as much Mana.

Miyauchi Hiyage escaped Seiwa Academy with a newly awakened teleportation power, prompting Kento Nanami and Jujutsu High to send Satoru Gojo to rescue those still trapped inside. In the school basement, Hiiragi Inori led Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji past the barrier, where they found Kanoe Yuko’s remains and the Kanoe Family’s last shrine.

• Miyauchi Hiyage told Fujimiya Miki to keep his newly awakened power secret, then called Kento Nanami for help after escaping the school with her.
• Nanami learned that Shadow Yuuko had split from Kanoe Yuko and might become a Special-Grade Grudge, so he reported the danger to Masamichi Yaga.
• Yaga arranged for Satoru Gojo to go to Seiwa Academy, and Gojo set off after hearing that Hiyage had awakened a spatial ability.
• Hiyage told Fujimiya Miki that reinforcements were coming, while she worried about Kanoe Kirie, Kanoe Shizuuko, Hiiragi Inori, Itou Kaiji, and Kanoe Yuko’s original body.
• Hiiragi Inori found a flaw in the basement barrier and led Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji inside, where they discovered Kanoe Yuko’s corpse and the Kanoe Family’s ruined shrine.

Hiiragi Inori began linking with the Ley Line beneath the Old Schoolhouse so she could seal Kanoe Yuko, while Itou Kaiji and Kanoe Kirie waited in the basement. Kanoe Yuko appeared disguised as Kanoe Shizuuko, but after Itou exposed her, Kanoe Kirie offered to atone for her grandmother’s past actions as Shadow Yuuko prepared to attack.

• Hiiragi Inori connected with the Ley Line, discovering that Kanoe Yuko’s resentment had contaminated it and limiting how much power she could borrow.
• Itou Kaiji waited in the dark with Kanoe Kirie until Kanoe Shizuuko appeared with a flashlight.
• Itou Kaiji noticed that Kanoe Shizuuko had not spoken and warned Kanoe Kirie that the woman might be an impostor.
• Kanoe Yuko’s disguise melted away, revealing Shadow Yuuko, who admitted she had planned to take over Kanoe Kirie’s body.
• Kanoe Kirie recalled her grandmother’s role in the harm done to Kanoe Yuko’s grandmother and offered to atone for those deeds.
• Shadow Yuuko rejected Kanoe Kirie’s plea, while Itou Kaiji urged her to return to safety.

Shadow Yuuko contaminated the Ley Line and trapped Hiiragi Inori, Kanoe Kirie, and Itou Kaiji in an illusion of Kanoe Yuko’s past suffering, then tried to take over Kanoe Kirie’s body. Kanoe Yuko stopped her briefly, while Miyauchi Hiyage checked the group’s fates outside Seiwa Academy and found that Itou Kaiji was the only one whose safety seemed somewhat assured.

• Shadow Yuuko contaminated the Ley Line with resentment, and Hiiragi Inori borrowed the corrupted Spiritual Power to confront her.
• Shadow Yuuko used the Ley Line to trap Hiiragi Inori, Kanoe Kirie, and Itou Kaiji in a prototype domain based on Kanoe Yuko’s memories.
• Shadow Yuuko brought Kanoe Kirie to Hiiragi Inori and reached toward Kirie’s heart, but Kanoe Yuko’s command made her stop.
• Shadow Yuuko’s attack failed to affect Kanoe Yuko, who entered the basement and tried to awaken the others.
• Shadow Yuuko taunted Kanoe Yuko about Kanoe Shizuuko and Kanoe Kirie, seeking to rekindle her hatred.
• Outside Seiwa Academy, Miyauchi Hiyage used Fate to check the group’s prospects and saw that Itou Kaiji was the only one likely to avoid severe danger.

Miyauchi Hiyage used Kanoe Yuko’s Diary loan feature to grant her ten minutes of special-grade power as she faced Shadow Yuuko. Kanoe Yuko’s burst of strength shattered Shadow Yuuko’s illusion and left her powerful enough to resist, but she still struggled to face the memories and hatred that divided them.

• Miyauchi Hiyage unlocked the Diary’s loan permissions and bought Kanoe Yuko a discounted ten-minute special-grade power package.
• Miyauchi Hiyage told Fujimiya Miki that reinforcements might arrive within ten minutes and watched the basement.
• Shadow Yuuko used Kanoe Yuko’s painful memories to destabilize her Spiritual Body and tried to absorb the part of her that might split away.
• Kanoe Yuko’s borrowed power erupted, blasted Shadow Yuuko back, reclaimed control of the Ley Line’s Spiritual Power, and shattered the illusion.
• The outburst knocked Kanoe Kirie unconscious and jolted Hiiragi Inori backward, while Itou Kaiji remained mostly unharmed behind her.
• Kanoe Yuko tried to draw power from Shadow Yuuko but nearly succumbed to her instead, and relied on the Diary’s temporary power to hold her off.

Kanoe Yuko chose to seal Shadow Yuuko rather than destroy her, but Shadow Yuuko revealed that she had targeted Kanoe Shizuuko and then escaped by unleashing the Ley Line’s power. The Old Schoolhouse began to crumble, leaving Kanoe Yuko and the others struggling to survive the chaos.

• Kanoe Yuko asked Hiiragi Inori how to dispel Shadow Yuuko’s hatred, and Hiiragi Inori explained that a seal in the shrine was the most practical option.
• Shadow Yuuko learned that the Diary had given Kanoe Yuko her power and secretly decided to take it from Miyauchi Hiyage.
• Kanoe Yuko agreed to help Hiiragi Inori seal Shadow Yuuko in the shrine, while Shadow Yuuko revealed that she had gone after Kanoe Shizuuko.
• Kanoe Yuko realized she could not find Kanoe Shizuuko and became agitated, allowing Shadow Yuuko to detonate the Spiritual Power she had tainted in the Ley Line.
• The Old Schoolhouse shook and began to collapse as Hiiragi Inori protected Itou Kaiji and Kanoe Kirie, while Shadow Yuuko fled and Kanoe Yuko helped stabilize the basement.

Hiiragi Inori, Itou Kaiji, and Kanoe Yuko escaped the collapsing Old Schoolhouse, where Satoru Gojo arrived and rescued Kanoe Shizuuko. Gojo then found Miyauchi Hiyage, who had escaped Shadow Yuuko with his newly awakened teleportation ability, but the Vengeful Spirit had vanished into hiding.

• Hiiragi Inori hurried Itou Kaiji and Kanoe Kirie out of the basement while Kanoe Yuko held the damaged Ley Line together.
• Itou Kaiji filmed the basement at Kanoe Yuko's request, then escaped with the others as the Old Schoolhouse began to collapse.
• Satoru Gojo arrived, rescued Kanoe Shizuuko from inside the school, and asked the group to contact Miyauchi Hiyage.
• Itou Kaiji called Miyauchi Hiyage, who said he had escaped Shadow Yuuko by teleporting and was waiting near the parked car with Monomi.
• Satoru Gojo found Miyauchi Hiyage, checked the alley where Shadow Yuuko had attacked, and followed her fading cursed-energy trail until it disappeared.