Outside Seikyou Academy, as the shadow Yuuko stimulated the current Kanoe Yuuko with her past, Miyauchi Hikage could constantly feel the restlessness of the diary in his backpack.
He took off his backpack and then made a show of rummaging through it.
Seeing his actions, Fujimiya Konomi could roughly guess that he was probably trying to find the thing that Kanoe Yuuko had just placed in his backpack.
She also put on a curious look and peeked into his backpack.
But unfortunately, without the proper authority, it was impossible for her to see any trace of the diary in the backpack.
All she could see was some filming equipment.
Although a faint sense of incongruity arose in her heart, she did not show it.
In the process, Miyauchi Hikage had already taken out the shadow Yuuko's diary and briefly flipped through it. It was full of danger warnings about Kanoe Yuuko's current overly agitated state.
As expected, the Kanoe Yuuko at this point in time was still in a state of avoiding everything. Even if she recalled the events of the past, she could not bear the memories and pain of that time.
Thus, he activated his Destiny skill once more, confirming everyone's safety.
Fate was never set in stone, especially since Miyauchi Hikage's appearance had caused these people's fates to deviate greatly from the past.
Fortunately, the Destiny skill that Miyauchi Hikage used was originally a future trend displayed based on the choices people made at that moment.
Before coming to film, and after meeting Hiiragi Inori, Miyauchi Hikage had used Destiny to confirm everyone's situation.
However, unlike before, where everyone's fate had some twists and turns but would not encounter too much danger in the end.
Now, because of Kanoe Yuuko's awakening and the shadow Yuuko breaking free from her restraints, everyone's fate had turned in another, more dangerous direction.
Among the few darkened fates, perhaps only Itou Kaiji, that guy with a special fate, had a faint, strange red color seeping out from the darkness.
Seeing this, Miyauchi Hikage could only confirm for now that among the few people over there, probably only Itou Kaiji was confirmed to not be in too much danger.
At most, he would break an arm or lose an eye, but with the treatment methods from the Jujutsu world, such injuries were of a level that Gojo Satoru could easily repair.
And he had also left a protective talisman on Itou Kaiji.
That was an enchanted card to which he had attached the mental shock effect of the Card Master's Yellow Card, plus a trace of Hamon power.
If Itou Kaiji was truly in mortal danger, that card could also buy him a chance to escape.
However, seeing the red warning text constantly appearing in the diary, before that always-late Gojo Satoru arrived, it was really hard to say if there would be any casualties in the basement.
"So just stop warning me here. It looks like you're tilted," Miyauchi Hikage held Kanoe Yuuko's diary and muttered to the thin booklet, "You've already overdrawn once. If you really think the situation is urgent, why don't you just overdraw again and open a layer of mental protection."
As a proponent of GOOD ENDs, Miyauchi Hikage was naturally willing to see the stories he had experienced around him have a relatively perfect ending.
If they really couldn't hold out until Gojo Satoru arrived, Miyauchi Hikage could only have his Yellow Temperance disguise itself as another vengeful spirit to stir up trouble.
However, as Miyauchi Hikage muttered to the diary in his hand, the gray diary seemed to have also confirmed his identity.
"Highest authority's consent detected. This diary's 'Diary Loan' authority is temporarily opened to the holder, Kanoe Yuuko."
"Please note, if the diary holder is unable to clear the diary's debt within the limited time, the diary will take compulsory measures against the holder."
Seeing the words that suddenly popped up, Miyauchi Hikage's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.
How come even systems can have a small loan function these days?
It seemed to be a special function that would only be unlocked after the diary's authority reached a higher level.
So in the future, the diary might also come up with a bunch of functions to induce the holders to spend ahead of their means?
Thinking of a group of girls burdened with the loan of reading value, this was not a problem that could be solved by being a customer service representative like a certain Miss Takamatsu.
But since you, Kanoe Yuuko, personally handed this diary to me, then let me make this decision for you.
You don't want to sink into the pain of the past again, then let me lend you a small loan to save your life first.
As for what to do if Kanoe Yuuko, who currently has no other means of earning reading value, can't repay the loan in the future?
At worst, she would just have to accept the diary's punishment. The diary would at least leave a way out for people.
Miyauchi Hikage muttered this in his heart, and then decisively chose to open the Diary Loan authority. Then, as the first person to experience the Diary Loan function, he saw the function's interface.
The function was indeed quite simple.
The Diary Loan would provide various loan projects for different diary holders.
To loan more reading value, to help speed up one's training when one had obtained new power but had insufficient reading value. The consumption of this function was not large, and one could even borrow it for free to a certain extent as long as it was repaid within the specified time.
However, Miyauchi Hikage felt that in the future, other functions might appear along with it, giving this loan reading value function a more specific role.
Next was loaning the future.
By consuming reading value, one could know a certain possibility of the future to a certain extent, allowing one to make a decision before things happened.
This should be the main consumption direction for those girls in the future.
Miyauchi Hikage studied this function carefully and knew that this thing could not let these girls know their complete future, and could only be used for specific matters.
It seemed to be a replacement version of the Destiny skill that Miyauchi Hikage had just obtained, only able to see the near future, not the more macroscopic changes in fate.
In other words, if those girls who had obtained the diaries wanted to know their original fate, they could still only obtain information from the diary he wrote.
And after that was loaning strength.
The function was naturally also very simple. To obtain strength far beyond one's current level for a certain period of time. It was clear that this kind of expensive project was definitely for life-saving at critical moments.
With this function, as long as one was willing to pay a sufficient price, one could really become a true loan champion.
After briefly checking the loan information, Miyauchi Hikage did not hesitate much.
The current Kanoe Yuuko probably didn't even know what reading value was. Even if she knew, she wouldn't have the strength to change the current crisis.
In that case, what else was there to say?
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Holding Kanoe Yuuko's diary, Miyauchi Hikage went ahead and arranged a special-grade package for her.
Of course, he was still lenient with the time. Considering that Gojo Satoru would probably be here in at most about ten minutes, he only got her a lowest-level ten-minute trial package.
According to Kanoe Yuuko's current strength, a 10-minute special-grade package was expected to consume 100 reading value. This was a discount for the first try, which was equivalent to the first-time purchase in a game, enjoying a half-price discount.
It was equivalent to normally being able to exchange 20 reading value for one minute of special-grade strength.
Although this special-grade was only the most watery kind of special-grade.
It wasn't the kind of special-grade among supernatural beings that could steadily suppress a special-grade vengeful spirit, but the weakest level among special-grade vengeful spirits.
Only power, no realm, no combat experience, and of course, no domain.
A special-grade package that came with a domain ability would start at 100 and above. After all, this was the ability that truly treated enemies without a domain as small fry.
The current special-grade package for Kanoe Yuuko only provided her with the resentment power of a special-grade vengeful spirit, and it was a one-time use.
This power would diminish with each use.
It would not be replenished after being used up, and would automatically disappear after the time was up.
But to have the strength of a special-grade vengeful spirit, when facing vengeful spirits below special-grade, was already enough for Kanoe Yuuko to have a sufficient advantage. As long as she had some combat awareness, just by radiating this power in the same way as the shadow Yuuko, she could suppress those vengeful spirits below special-grade, making it difficult for them to exert their original strength.
As for 100 reading value, it was indeed not much.
According to the speed at which the other girls accumulated reading value, even without commissions, they could save it up in a little over a month.
And for someone like Shiina Mashiro, at her current speed, she could earn enough 100 reading value in about a week.
So at that time, he could find a way to lure Kanoe Yuuko to Tokyo and compete for commissions with the first batch of diary girls.
He believed that everyone would not mind this kind of thing, knowing that she still owed the diary so much reading value.
Miyauchi Hikage muttered this in his heart, and then put her diary back into his backpack.
Fujimiya Konomi on the side, although she felt that the Miyauchi Hikage in front of her seemed to have been staring at the backpack for less than half a minute just now, and felt that there might be some secret in it.
But having already learned too many secrets on Miyauchi Hikage's side tonight, she did not say anything, just quietly stayed by his side.
After Miyauchi Hikage raised his head again, she then asked him if the so-called reinforcements could arrive here before the others were in danger.
Hearing this, Miyauchi Hikage looked far away at the direction of the basement with his own eyes.
"It's hard to say. If they can arrive within ten minutes, there shouldn't be a big problem."
What Miyauchi Hikage was referring to now was not the safety of Itou Kaiji and the others, but the safety of the shadow Yuuko.
After all, although the shadow Yuuko had strength exceeding that of an ordinary Grade 1, she had not yet reached the level of a special-grade.
Originally, she was only able to constantly compress Kanoe Yuuko's living space by relying on her own strength being higher than hers, thus successfully breaking free from the control of Kanoe Yuuko, the main body, after she recalled the events of the past.
If Kanoe Yuuko's power were just a little stronger, her restraint as the main body on the shadow Yuuko would naturally be more obvious.
Therefore, when Miyauchi Hikage opened his eyes again and looked at the location of the basement, the scene before him had already changed again in just a short minute.
At the entrance of the basement.
Kanoe Yuuko's situation was already very bad.
Although her spirit, under the protection of the diary, could not be penetrated by the other's resentment.
But as the shadow Yuuko clearly brought up the events of the past again, and even deliberately revealed Kanoe Yuuko's remains.
Kanoe Yuuko's own spirit immediately began to become unstable due to her own inner turmoil.
The more she recalled the pain of her past life, the more she felt her spirit seemed to be fragmenting. If this continued, she would even split her current self again, leaving only the self that knew nothing and was also weaker.
But just as Kanoe Yuuko was suffering from a splitting headache due to the pain of her past life, and the shadow Yuuko not far away was showing a greedy expression, wanting to absorb the other's fragmented soul again to strengthen herself.
An incomparably powerful force inexplicably emerged from Kanoe Yuuko's body.
The shadow Yuuko, who had just approached Kanoe Yuuko, was directly blown away several meters by this violent force.
And in the face of this huge power originating from Kanoe Yuuko, the spiritual power in the ley line that was originally controlled by the shadow Yuuko also subconsciously completed the transfer of the controller, moving from the shadow Yuuko's side to Kanoe Yuuko's.
And the illusion she had originally set up was also forcibly shattered in the face of this powerful force.
The first to react from that endless hatred and pain was naturally Hiiragi Inori, who was protected by her spiritual power and miko uniform.
The moment she woke up, large beads of sweat had already formed on her forehead.
If this continued, she would probably be completely assimilated by Kanoe Yuuko's resentment in less than half an hour.
However, before she had time to think carefully about how she had broken free from the other's illusion, in the next moment, because of the power that Kanoe Yuuko had erupted with, she also felt as if she had been hit by a heavy blow, and her body was violently shaken back.
Fortunately, she had the ancestral miko uniform of the Hiiragi family, which helped her block a lot of the damage. Otherwise, with just that one blow, she would probably have been knocked unconscious again on the spot.
As for Kanoe Kirie and Itou Kaiji?
Itou Kaiji was fine. Because he was standing behind Hiiragi Inori, the main force of the attack was borne by her, so he did not suffer much damage.
And Kanoe Kirie was not so lucky. She was directly hit by this force and sent flying to the side of the shrine. Just as she had escaped the illusion of pain and hatred, she was directly knocked unconscious by Kanoe Yuuko's outburst.
The shadow Yuuko, who had been knocked back several steps, looked at her own main body with a somewhat dazed expression.
Her main body's power had clearly been drained to less than ten percent over the years of her extraction.
And just now, she had clearly been on the verge of a spiritual collapse due to what she had said.
Why could she suddenly erupt with such a huge amount of power at this time?
This is definitely at the level of a special-grade, right!
Feeling the almost insurmountable chasm between her own power and the power erupted by the other, the shadow Yuuko's gaze towards Kanoe Yuuko became even more twisted.
She had worked so hard for so long and was still just one step away from special-grade.
But her own main body could actually secretly hide a special-grade power, only revealing it at the very end.
Even the shadow, whose heart was filled with only hatred and pain, couldn't help but feel a sense of grievance at this moment.
This is too unfair.
This is bullying a ghost, isn't it?!