If there was anyone on the entire bus that Kisugi Rui completely couldn't understand, it was definitely Miyauchi Hikage.
This boy who was 10 years younger than her didn't show any signs of immaturity. In fact, his achievements indeed didn't look like a newly 16-year-old boy from the countryside.
After Kisugi Rui learned about this boy's simple situation from her sister, she felt that Miyauchi Hikage was a bit too mature.
In middle school, he could seize the wave of the Internet, lead the village to transform, and in less than three years earned wealth that ordinary people couldn't imagine in a lifetime.
As a result, this was still the most ordinary among his achievements.
The ability to manipulate fate, able to sense malice from others and fight back with fate.
She hadn't truly contacted the supernatural world and didn't know how strong the so-called Grade 1 and special-grade supernatural beings were.
But she knew her sister's current level.
The strength Kisugi Ai exerted while wearing the spider suit was already unimaginable to her.
A bulletproof battle suit made with nanotechnology, with various additional functions attached.
After turning on that so-called Kill Mode, the metal spider claws extending from the back of the suit could easily cut through steel.
It could be said that if her sister could familiarize herself with the power brought by this battle suit, even an army would probably find it hard to be her sister's match.
However, Kisugi Ai herself evaluated the strength gap between her and Miyauchi Hikage, saying that even without using his fate manipulation ability, the other party could crush her sister using purely taijutsu or swordsmanship.
Especially these powers the other party possessed were obtained in less than two months, seemingly even shorter than the time her sister underwent changes.
Just listening to her sister whispering about how Miyauchi Hikage crossed paths with these girls and was invited to participate in this trip, Kisugi Rui always felt something was not quite right.
But she couldn't explain exactly what was not right.
Just felt that Miyauchi Hikage still hid many secrets.
His intersection with these girls didn't seem so "accidental."
And on Miyauchi Hikage's side, he could naturally also feel the attitudes of those girls in the bus towards him.
Curiosity, scrutiny, and suspicion.
Of course, there were also bolder ones who came directly to chat with him.
Like Umaru and Hinami Aoi, who were inherently more outgoing, both belonged to the personality type of being completely different at school and at home.
Both had two completely different appearances: an anime/game otaku and an unattainable flower (takane no hana), and they could mingle well in both aspects, with very good interpersonal relationships in all aspects.
In the chat group, the two of them had always been the girls who talked relatively more. Basically, the girls in the chat group definitely knew the two of them.
And these girls with good interpersonal relationships basically started greeting and introducing themselves to each other after getting on the bus. Naturally, they wouldn't miss brushing up some presence on Miyauchi Hikage's side.
After all, a 16-year-old special-grade, such a thick thigh must be hugged tightly.
And they also wanted to know what their current future looked like in Miyauchi Hikage's eyes.
It was just that before they could talk much with Miyauchi Hikage, they were forced back by the glares of the girls around Miyauchi Hikage.
Kasumigaoka Utaha as a senior, Shiina Mashiro and Shiina Mahiru sisters as neighbors, Katsura Kotonoha as a disciple, Sakurajima Mai as a friend.
There was also Miyauchi Hikage's older sister Miyauchi Hikari, who worried that her brother's romantic debts were increasing and whether he would encounter a nice boat ending (yandere murder) in the end.
Surrounded by these girls in the center, only thick-skinned guys like Umaru and Hinami Aoi could go up and say a few words. The other girls, seeing the aura around Miyauchi Hikage, were too embarrassed to step forward and chat with him.
Regarding this, Umaru, who was stared at closely by several girls and couldn't ask Miyauchi Hikage a few more questions about cultivation, curled her lips when leaving.
Why couldn't she see a Shuraba (bloody battlefield of love)? It was a bit too harmonious for these girls to stay around Miyauchi Hikage.
Umaru muttered like this, thinking about whether she should see what attitude these girls really had towards Miyauchi Hikage during this Morioh Town trip.
She wasn't targeting Miyauchi Hikage, so she shouldn't be backfired by Miyauchi Hikage's ability, right?
As Umaru had some thoughts, Miyauchi Hikage was also observing these girls in his own way.
It had been more than two months since these girls got the diary.
Although at the end of last month, their diaries didn't continue to upgrade, similarly, there was no new batch of girls getting the diary.
At least under Miyauchi Hikage's sensing, he didn't sense any new person mentioning his alt's name.
But two months is not a short time.
These girls who got the diary had completely stepped out of their original tracks. Under the guidance of the diary, their fate had moved towards a brand new direction.
Even in terms of personality, the appearance of the diary would more or less cause some changes in their personalities.
Like Takanashi Rikka and Gokou Ruri, who were originally severe chuunibyou patients. After truly contacting these supernatural powers, they restrained their chuunibyou aspects a lot instead.
It's not to say they were like Lord Ye who claimed to love dragons but was scared of a real one (fake love/hypocrisy). It can only be said that those supernatural powers fantasized by chuunibyou patients are ultimately centered on themselves. It's a fantasy stage they constructed for themselves in their hearts.
Actually, everyone has some of this kind of fantasy, just that severe chuunibyou patients like Takanashi Rikka would bring their cognition into reality and ignore the gazes of ordinary people around them.
As a result, they now found that there really were such supernatural powers in this world, and there were too many supernatural beings stronger than themselves in that world. At the same time, facing such truth, they also finally realized that their fantasies didn't come true.
Especially after opening primary Spirit Sight through the power of the diary and seeing those vengeful spirits hidden in this world.
And those tasks of eliminating certain weird vengeful spirits occasionally refreshed on the daily commissions of the diary made this contrast even stronger.
Under such stimulation, they naturally couldn't continue being chuunibyou.
Now Gokou Ruri has become a rapidly rising VTuber streamer under Shinomiya Kaguya's behind-the-scenes push.
Although she occasionally pops out some chuunibyou lines during the live stream, that's also for the live stream effect.
Relying on her current identity as a game streamer, she brought hundreds of thousands in income to her family last month.
Hundreds of thousands of yen might not seem like much in the streamer industry.
But she is just a new streamer who debuted only a month ago. Being able to achieve this is already quite good.
If she keeps it up, earning millions a month in the future is not impossible.
Gokou Ruri, who was originally a chuunibyou cute girl in the plot of Oreimo, has now become like this. Naturally, other girls will also have many changes more or less.
Katsura Kotonoha, who is obsessed with swordsmanship and also showed the yandere side of her heart.
Shinomiya Kaguya, who is bent on becoming stronger.
Yukinoshita Yukino, who established the Service Club a year early, and has many girls who can keep up with her thinking around her.
Their personalities can no longer be analyzed using the personalities of those characters in the original works. Miyauchi Hikage needs to observe their changes with his own eyes.
And as Miyauchi Hikage observed all the way, except for that Shimazaki Setsuna who was still too shy and embarrassed to deal with people, even the other social phobe Bocchi behaved much more normally in front of everyone.
Even if conditions permitted, their Kessoku Band would probably have performed a song they were practicing recently for everyone on the bus.
However, Miyauchi Hikage looked at Shiina Mashiro sitting beside him creating manga with the diary.
Her personality doesn't seem to have changed much currently.
She is still fully devoted to the career of creating manga and doesn't care about other things at all.
The quotas in the Metaverse were also casually given away by her.
Even the level of the Pictomancer was only thought of to be improved after Miyauchi Hikage's reminder.
With her leveling speed, it is estimated to take a quite long time to reach the special-grade level.
Of course, because big shots like Miyauchi Hikage and Tohru were beside her, she indeed didn't need to worry about the problem of strength.
Casually showing a little bit of something was enough for her to brutally kill those special-grade weird vengeful spirits.
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The distance from Tokyo to Morioh Town is four to five hundred kilometers.
Taking the Shinkansen and then transferring would take about three hours.
And the long-distance bus they are taking now takes more than six hours.
However, because this is a luxury bus specially arranged by the Shinomiya family, it is not on the same level as those long-distance buses running passenger transport.
Plus most of the people on the bus have practiced Hamon breathing, their physical fitness far exceeds ordinary people.
So even after a five or six-hour ride, when the bus drove into Morioh Town, the girls on the bus didn't look tired, and quickly began to size up this coastal town on the edge of Sendai, which was neither large nor particularly special.
To be honest, this place really feels quite average.
If it weren't for the alien meteorites here that can awaken Stands, they would probably never specially run to this small town for sightseeing in their lifetime.
Regarding the travel arrangements for these three days, actually Shinomiya Kaguya didn't plan them specifically either.
After all, regarding the awakening of a Stand, although the Mysterious Person said it quite clearly—those with talent will be chosen.
But judging from the information revealed by the Mysterious Person, everyone awakened a Stand under different circumstances.
Like Kishibe Rohan.
Encountering that perverted killer Kira Yoshikage in his childhood, after being sent out by Sugimoto Reimi, he walked dazedly to the seaside all the way and fell asleep. Waking up finally, he inexplicably awakened the Stand power later, and also almost completely forgot that past.
Then Kira Yoshikage's side awakened even more hastily.
According to the Mysterious Person, before Kishibe Rohan took Kira Yoshikage to that alley where one couldn't turn back, he had checked Kira Yoshikage's life.
Besides knowing that the other party had personally killed more than forty women in his thirty-plus years of life and took their hands as his collection, he also knew the process of Kira Yoshikage awakening his Stand.
It was somewhat similar to Kishibe Rohan's situation.
Sugimoto Reimi was the first woman he killed and took the hand of.
But at that time, he hadn't possessed the ability of Killer Queen and couldn't dispose of the remaining corpse.
So in the days after the crime, he was actually quite worried about whether the police would trace him through the traces at the scene.
For this, because he didn't sleep well during that time, he often walked back and forth by the sea.
Then one day he suddenly obtained the ability of Killer Queen.
It was also because he obtained such a convenient ability that he became increasingly unscrupulous, having to kill at least three women a year to suppress the perverted desire in his heart.
According to the thoughts of the girls in the chat group, besides needing talent for the awakening of a Stand, it should also awaken corresponding Stands according to what they thought at the time.
So after discussing with the girls in the group, Shinomiya Kaguya just marked a few dangerous areas mentioned by the Mysterious Person here in Morioh Town, and left the remaining places for everyone to explore by themselves.
Shinomiya Kaguya arranged for someone to arrange three meals every day here. They could return to the hotel to enjoy them, or it was no problem if they wanted to eat outside.
The alley where one couldn't turn back, Mutsukabeza with youkai rumors, the iron tower that one might not be able to get out of after entering, and the mirror that, as long as illuminated, could project others' inner desires and dark sides to replace the main body to live for three months.
At the same time, the surrounding area where Kishibe Rohan lived was also marked as unsuitable for entry.
After all, Kishibe Rohan's Heaven's Door sounds too nerve-wracking.
Turning a person into a book, all life experiences will be described in the book, and one can casually rewrite a person's will by writing on the book.
Even if the other party is not a villain, the Mysterious Person also said that Kishibe Rohan himself is also not a good person.
What the other party cares about most is manga; other things are currently ranked behind manga.
Therefore, he is the kind of person who wouldn't hesitate to test the law for the sake of material gathering for his manga, and even in terms of unscrupulous use of abilities, he is not much different from a villain.
So even with the protection of the diary, these girls don't want such accidents to happen, so it's better not to approach near Kishibe Rohan's residence.
And after checking into the best hotel in Morioh Town, the eyes of several girls looked at Miyauchi Hikage, seeming to ask him where he was going next.