That night, many of the girls with diaries stayed up very late, finally waiting until two or three in the morning for Miyano Shiho to announce in the group that she had safely escaped the research institute.
A living person, at night, bypassed the heavily guarded surveillance and security of the research institute, escaping silently.
One can imagine that after this night, the other people in that research institute would probably not be sleeping well.
However, according to Miyano Shiho, she seemed to have received help from the mysterious person during her escape. At least, when encountering the institute's surveillance equipment, her diary hardly triggered any warnings. She only needed to peacefully avoid the security guards and then smoothly escaped from a garbage chute inside the institute.
Although Shinomiya Kaguya grumbled in her heart that the mysterious person had snatched away all the things she had planned to do without a word.
Helping to save the sister, and helping Miyano Shiho turn off the surveillance.
By now, Miyano Shiho's favorability towards the mysterious person had probably been maxed out.
Fortunately, given the mysterious person's character, he certainly wouldn't proactively appear before Miyano Shiho to reveal his identity, nor would he likely arrange for her future after escaping the organization.
And at this point, Shinomiya Kaguya had the ability to get involved.
Anyway, no matter how the mysterious person rescued Miyano Akemi, it wouldn't prevent the sisters from needing the protection of the Shinomiya family for a long time to come in order to avoid the "Distillery's" wanted pursuit.
With this favor, even if she couldn't completely win over Miyano Shiho as she had planned before, she could still maintain a cooperative relationship for a long time.
If the other party truly produced a finished version of that drug that could restore youth in the future, she believed the Shinomiya Zaibatsu and she herself could reap a handsome reward from it.
She urgently arranged several safe houses secretly prepared by the Shinomiya family for Miyano Shiho. As long as the diary didn't issue a warning, it meant that the organization wouldn't be able to find that place in the short term.
Shinomiya Kaguya also adjusted her schedule for the next day again. Besides negotiating with the students of Shuchiin and confirming whether they had received her manga, she also had to make time to have a good talk with Miyano Shiho in person.
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While most of the girls were just waking up after staying up late, Miyauchi Hikage, who had gone to bed shortly after writing the script for Shiina Mashiro's replies last night, was already up around five in the morning.
He had originally just wanted to get up early to practice his card magic by the river.
Moreover, after obtaining the Card Master template, although only a day had passed, after waking up, he felt that the magic power that had grown in his body seemed to have already met the activation requirements for the "Destiny" skill.
But before he could start practicing, he saw a number of reports from Jerry and Shiina Mashiro on his phone.
It seemed that fellow Jerry really couldn't sit still at home.
The tasks he had originally given Jerry were to help maintain contact with Shiina Mashiro, and to keep an eye on that guy Conan, lest he fail to save someone and get himself into trouble again.
The third was to have it distribute some of the manga and novels he had drawn these past few days.
He had given Jerry some room for free activity, but he hadn't expected Jerry to spend a whole day preparing and then turn into Santa Mouse last night, delivering gifts all over Tokyo.
"Shirogane Miyuki probably fainted when he woke up this morning and found a pile of study aids from who-knows-where on his desk," Miyauchi Hikage muttered to himself.
"If Jerry can also sync with my newly acquired teleportation ability, then after returning to Tokyo, I can also let it go to other supernatural factions for some advanced training."
Not the Jujutsu High, but he was preparing to let Jerry play the role of a youkai and go learn some skills from the youkai hidden in Tokyo.
This was something he had learned from Yotsuya Miko, who had joined the Jujutsu High.
Although Yotsuya Miko herself didn't know much about the youkai situation, just the name "Nurarihyon" was enough to make Miyauchi Hikage think of many things.
If nothing unexpected happened, the youkai side should have also incorporated the plot of "Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan."
Thinking of this, Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but shake his head.
He could only say that Japan a thousand years ago was truly teeming with demons and monsters.
On the Jujutsu side, there was the once-in-a-millennium King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna, and also Kenjaku, who wanted all of humanity to "evolve" together.
On the youkai and onmyoji side, there was Abe no Seimei, who, after turning to the dark side, wanted to destroy the world and create a world where only youkai existed.
And this Abe no Seimei was exceptionally powerful. When he first appeared, he destroyed half of Kyoto before he had even adapted to his new body.
In the final arc, he even showed the ability to manipulate planets, or rather, gravity.
It could be said that he alone raised the power level of the entire work by several orders of magnitude.
In the end, just because the manga was canceled, it took only a few chapters for the protagonist team to defeat him with a rather unimpressive mental attack, and the story ended abruptly.
"If another Asakura Hao who wants to eliminate all humans on Earth shows up, this world would be even more exciting."
After all, Asakura Hao's strength was even more exaggerated. After becoming the Shaman King, he leaped to the level of a cosmic deity, capable of creating a supernova explosion and a black hole with a single thought. In the end, the protagonist could only choose to move him with love, making him give up his plan to destroy the world on his own.
However, shamans were originally considered a school of onmyoji, and Asakura Hao was a character created based on Abe no Seimei.
With the onmyoji in this world being unusually low-key, even proactively ceding their status to the jujutsu sorcerers, Miyauchi Hikage was currently unsure if this world had also incorporated the setting of "Shaman King."
In any case, since he knew that this world most likely had the story of Nurarihyon mixed in, it was very necessary to send Jerry to the youkai side to pay attention to the plot development there. It wouldn't be bad to let Jerry cause some trouble there while studying youkai and vengeful spirits.
And with the teleportation ability, Miyauchi Hikage wouldn't have to worry too much about its safety.
As for Miyano Akemi's situation, it was much simpler.
Knowing her alias and place of work, Conan quickly found her whereabouts.
Then he spent two days gradually gaining her trust and also confirmed that the Distillery didn't seem to care much about a low-level member like Miyano Akemi, not even bothering to assign someone to watch her movements.
They probably thought that as long as Miyano Shiho was in the organization, Miyano Akemi, who wanted to leave with her sister, wouldn't dare to do anything against the organization.
Similarly, their attitude towards Miyano Shiho was the same.
Then, yesterday evening, Miyano Akemi abandoned the accomplices she had found to rob a bank and successfully escaped the organization, temporarily hiding at Professor Agasa's house.
And in the early hours of this morning, Miyano Shiho also successfully escaped the organization with Jerry's help and was now hiding at Shinomiya Kaguya's place.
To be honest, if Shiina Mashiro hadn't discovered his identity, Miyauchi Hikage had originally planned to cultivate Miyano Shiho into his own "undercover agent." But since he already had Shiina Mashiro, an insider with a very deceptive appearance, he gave up his original plan.
After processing the information from last night, Miyauchi Hikage washed up and then went to the riverbank by the back mountain alone.
Because Nanami Kento had specifically reminded him not to go into the mountains during this period, although he wasn't very worried about the "youkai" in the mountains, Miyauchi Hikage wouldn't deliberately court death. He just simply familiarized himself with the attack patterns of the cards by the river.
"The Yellow Card is a single-target mental shock, the Red Card applies a binding effect along with an area-of-effect magic explosion, and the Blue Card is just a simple magic attack. All three types of cards can consume extra magic power to have a tracking effect."
Unfortunately, the Blue Card didn't have a mana-restoring effect. After all, this was reality. There was no cooldown time for him to use these skills; it all depended on whether he had enough energy in his body.
If he had enough magic power, he could even throw out a dozen Yellow Cards at once.
And the Blue Card, being the one with the lowest consumption, would allow him to use it fifty percent more times than cards with other effects when he had no special needs.
After familiarizing himself for a while, with a thought, Miyauchi Hikage automatically completed the card retrieval process.
He needed the rest of his magic power to test the effect of teleportation, to see what this skill that dared to be called "Destiny" could do.
As he calmed his mind and activated his ability, he felt his spiritual power instantly spread outwards at an astonishing speed.
In just an instant, Miyauchi Hikage clearly "saw" everything around him.
Within a one-kilometer radius, Miyauchi Hikage felt as if he had a full map view. Not only the positions of people, but even the positions of animals could be seen with perfect clarity.
In this state, Miyauchi Hikage felt that his thinking speed had also become much faster than before.
He could even vaguely sense the direction of a person's fate for a period of time when he cast his gaze upon them.
Of course, this was not his limit yet. At least, he didn't feel any fatigue in his spiritual power at all.
It was just that his current magic power only supported him to this extent.
"Teleportation within one kilometer? The distance seems a bit short," Miyauchi Hikage muttered, but he quickly thought of a way that might solve the problem.
Miyauchi Hikage tried to gradually withdraw his spiritual power scattered in other directions, reducing the angle of its spread.
Then he extended all of this recovered spiritual power outwards in one direction.
He could originally observe a circular area of about 3 square kilometers around him. Now, by changing this 3-square-kilometer circle into a semicircle, a quarter circle, or even a smaller angle, as long as he had enough spiritual power to extend it outwards, he could correspondingly extend his teleportation range, at the cost of sacrificing his observation breadth and increasing his spiritual power and magic power consumption.
After this round of testing, Miyauchi Hikage consumed another half of his remaining magic power and determined his limit.
"The current limit of my spiritual power should be extending in a line for about 10 kilometers. That is to say, my current maximum teleportation distance should be about ten kilometers."
But with sufficient magic and spiritual power, continuous teleportation should also be feasible.
Of course, he could also choose not to activate the current observation mode, which continuously consumed magic power, and instead directly choose a direction and pour his magic power into the teleportation. That way, he could teleport to a farther location.
However, that would not guarantee the safety of the teleportation.
If he accidentally teleported to some dangerous place, he wouldn't even have a chance for regret.
Miyauchi Hikage was not in a hurry to use teleportation. Anyway, he had already confirmed his current maximum teleportation position. Later, he would just use the remaining magic power to teleport a dozen meters or so to get a taste of teleportation.
With his thinking accelerated several times by the Destiny ability, Miyauchi Hikage shifted his gaze towards the deep mountains.
He intended to maintain this state to observe the situation on the mountain and see if he could find out what was happening.
However, after shifting his perspective to the mountain, Miyauchi Hikage immediately detected unstable spatial fluctuations in a large area of the mountain.
Miyauchi Hikage withdrew some of his sight and slightly increased his observation angle.
From three or four kilometers away on the mountain, he could already feel the spatial fluctuations.
"Why does this feel like a rift is about to open at any moment? Could it be that some creature from another world is coming to this world?" Feeling the large area of unstable space over there on the mountain, Miyauchi Hikage suspected.
After all, he had long known that this world was home to a bunch of protagonists waiting to be reincarnated into another world.
Similarly, he had also seen many anime where creatures from other worlds came to reality.
Such a large area of unstable space was like a temporary connection point that appeared after two worlds collided.
Perhaps the rumors of wild beasts in the mountains here in Asahigaoka were the roars of beasts from another world that had been heard by people.
Demons?
Dragons?
Or some demon lord who has come to Earth?
He didn't know if the inner world had any countermeasures against such creatures from other worlds.
He hoped they could handle this matter in the next few days.
Sensing that his magic power was almost depleted, Miyauchi Hikage retracted his thoughts.
He didn't sense any guidance from destiny, so it probably had nothing to do with a diary holder.
In any case, before the Golden Week holiday ended, he would scan it one more time to confirm if the spatial fluctuations in that area of the mountain had stabilized.
For now, it was time to test the teleportation.
Miyauchi Hikage confirmed that he had just enough magic power left to teleport to the other side of the river, so he casually chose a location on the opposite bank.
There was no tearing sensation. First, a faint imprint of light appeared at the teleportation point.
Then, after a second or two of meditation, he naturally appeared at the preset teleportation point.
Although it was only a short distance of a dozen meters, the feeling of crossing space was indeed not bad.
Then, a sense of fatigue came from the bottom of his heart.
It seemed that he had consumed a bit too much energy.
Since it was still early, he might as well go back and take a nap.