As the ultimate culprit, Miyauchi Hikage's mood was naturally very cheerful at the moment.
After all, when Kasumigaoka Utaha "kabe-don'd" Eriri, he was one of the melon-eating onlookers watching up close. And after they left the school building, he even engaged in an in-depth discussion with the other onlookers.
Then they unanimously agreed that the second-year, Kasumigaoka-senpai, and the first-year, Eriri-san, must have some kind of unspeakable secret between them.
If Kasumigaoka Utaha's cold, sweeping glare hadn't been a bit scary, these onlookers would have definitely followed them secretly to see where the two of them went.
However, Miyauchi Hikage could basically guess what Kasumigaoka Utaha would do next.
It would be nothing more than making up a lie to fool Eriri, and then coming to investigate the identity he had disguised himself with this afternoon.
Miyauchi Hikage had enough confidence in Yellow Temperance's disguise ability, so he didn't care about these investigations.
After eating the melon he had grown himself, he walked quickly towards his own home. He had a "new roommate" at home waiting to say hello to him.
That was the reward Miyauchi Hikage had received today.
It wasn't some awesome move or skill, nor was it some black-tech product or magical item.
It was the first living reward Miyauchi Hikage had received so far.
A plain-looking brown fancy rat.
Except that its name was Jerry.
Yes, the reward Miyauchi Hikage had received today was Jerry from the world of Tom and Jerry.
To be honest, when he learned of his reward today, Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but rub his eyes and confirm that the diary's reward hadn't been given in error.
After all, that was Jerry.
If Tom was a perfect cat who could do almost anything except catch Jerry, then Jerry was a super-mouse who could go toe-to-toe with Tom in every aspect and was in the advantageous position most of the time.
Miyauchi Hikage thought of how he had just called himself "Teacher Tom" in his diary this afternoon, and as a result, a Jerry had actually arrived in the afternoon.
The diary isn't trying to force a Tom and Jerry bond on me, is it?
Or is it that the god behind the diary feels that my life is too comfortable and wants to give me a little challenge?
Miyauchi Hikage thought about the diary rewards he had received these past few days but couldn't figure out if the diary's reward mechanism was truly random.
If it's not random, then could it be that the rewards are distributed based on the principle of 'the bigger the stunt, the better the reward'?
But that's not right either. I wrote about Hamon in the diary before, changing the fate of countless girls. I should have received a better reward that day.
But that day, he had only gotten a Passerby Heroine light novel.
And then the day he got the Kasumigaoka Utaha IF route manga, the content of the diary he posted was the prologue of the first volume of Passerby Heroine.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was probably pushed to her breaking point by him that day, which was why she was so passive-aggressive towards him in the comments later.
"If it's really calculated by stunts, the rewards for these two days should have been a little better. It can't be that the diary saw that I was just copying a book and so docked my reward, right?" Miyauchi Hikage muttered to himself, but inexplicably felt that there seemed to be some truth to it.
"This is easy to figure out. I'll just spend a few days uploading a little more of the later chapters of Passerby Heroine and try it out," Miyauchi Hikage thought for a moment and made a decision.
After all, Kasumigaoka Utaha would definitely post a lot of passive-aggressive words about him in the comment section today. Although he hadn't seen them, this didn't affect him from sending back a token of his own regard to her.
After thinking through the direction of his experiments for the next few days, Miyauchi Hikage went to a cake shop on the roadside to buy some cheesecake that Jerry should like.
According to the diary's explanation, Jerry had already taken the mansion that the diary had given him as a reward as his new home after arriving in this world, and was looking forward to a friendly first contact with the owner of the mansion.
The attitude of the mansion's owner towards him would affect its attitude towards the owner and this world.
When he learned of this, Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but mutter to himself that it was a good thing he hadn't sold the house. Otherwise, it would probably be very troublesome to even meet Jerry.
And when he returned to his mansion with the cheesecake in his hand, as soon as he entered the door, he saw a brown mouse cautiously poking its head out from the end of the corridor.
The Jerry in reality looked like his appearance in the cartoon, but at the same time, he also had some of the characteristics of a real mouse.
It was as if a perfect balance had been found between reality and the cartoon, so that the appearance of this mouse here would not make people feel it was abrupt, nor would it produce an uncanny valley effect due to being too anthropomorphic.
At this moment, Jerry was sniffing with his nose, seemingly having smelled the cheesecake in Miyauchi Hikage's hand, and an expectant expression subconsciously appeared on his face.
He didn't know how many of his skills this Jerry had brought with him.
Miyauchi Hikage, who was already mentally prepared, greeted Jerry.
"Hey, Jerry. To celebrate you moving into a new house, want some cheesecake?"
After confirming the attitude of the big guy in front of him, a look of joy immediately appeared on Jerry's face.
It trotted all the way to Miyauchi Hikage, and pointed at itself with some disbelief, as if asking him if he was calling its name just now.
Miyauchi Hikage observed Jerry up close.
About 10-15 centimeters tall, maintaining the standing posture from the cartoon.
A round head, and his body looked relatively smooth.
Fortunately, he's not furry like that Pikachu from a certain live-action Pikachu movie.
It's not that a furry Pikachu or Jerry was bad.
It's just that after being used to seeing their images in the cartoons for so many years, it would indeed be very unaccustomed to them suddenly becoming furry.
He bent down and held out his palm to Jerry.
Seeing this, Jerry hesitated for a moment, but out of his craving for cheesecake, he still obediently walked onto Miyauchi Hikage's palm.
"Can you talk?" Miyauchi Hikage asked Jerry while walking towards his room.
In the Tom and Jerry cartoons, although Tom and Jerry only made sounds of laughter or surprise most of the time, they had spoken on a few occasions.
Jerry shook his head, but then gestured with his flexible front paws, as if to indicate that he could write.
As long as he can write, it's fine. It will save a lot of trouble in communication.
Miyauchi Hikage had a lot of things he wanted to ask Jerry, and also a lot of things he wanted to tell him.
After all, after transmigrating for so many years, he had finally found an object with whom he could share this secret.
Although this object was just a mouse, he was also a mouse who was smarter than most humans.
Returning to his room, Miyauchi Hikage placed Jerry on his desk, then took out the cake and handed it to him.
"Go ahead and eat. After you're full, we can slowly talk about your situation."
And Jerry looked at the cheesecake in front of him, licked his lips in a human-like way, then looked around, pulled out a tissue from a tissue box on the side, wiped his paws, and folded it and tied it around his neck as a napkin.
After doing all this, he then took out the plastic fork provided by the shop from the cake bag and, like a soldier holding a spear, solemnly launched an attack on the cheesecake in front of him.