Looking at Kato Megumi waiting for his answer in front of him, Miyauchi Hikage seemed to have thought of something, and a light chuckle appeared on his face.
"Let's talk about this question later. Besides, these aren't the only two paths to take. Maybe other paths more suitable for you will appear later."
"Since Megumi you found the location of Gotoh-san's Stand, do you guys want to go over and see what her Stand is doing now?"
This sentence was directed at both Miyauchi Hikari and Eriri.
Although his way of changing the topic was somewhat stiff, seeing the curious gazes on these two girls' faces, he knew they were indeed very interested in another rampaging Stand.
"Sure, sure. Interacting more with these people who have awakened Stands will definitely make it easier for me to awaken a Stand too, right?" Miyauchi Hikari still remembered the location just shown on Kato Megumi's phone, which was an open-air cafe in the city center of Morioh Town.
"Then I'll call the front desk to get a cab now?" Eriri, who had been concentrating on maintaining her breathing earlier and hadn't said many words throughout the process of Kato Megumi awakening a Stand, also took off her mask and said to Miyauchi Hikage.
As an ordinary person, Eriri was still accustomed to thinking with a normal person's mindset.
Regarding this, Miyauchi Hikage waved his hand.
"No need for such trouble. It's just a five or six-kilometer journey, taking a car over is too troublesome."
After the girls were ready, Miyauchi Hikage grabbed his sister's shoulder, and then asked Miyauchi Hikari to reach out and grab both Eriri and Kato Megumi.
"Am I finally able to experience this move? I've been waiting for a long time. Before, when I wanted you to take me to try it, you never agreed," Miyauchi Hikari looked at her brother with expectations filled to the brim.
"If I used this ability to take you to school, you could sleep in for an extra ten minutes." Miyauchi Hikage directly hit the nail on the head of Miyauchi Hikari's thoughts, making her chuckle somewhat embarrassedly.
Eriri was after all a veteran otaku, reaching this point she could more or less guess what she was about to experience next.
She widened her eyes slightly and asked Miyauchi Hikage somewhat incredulously: "Could it be... Spatial Tele—"
Before she could finish the word "portation", a teleportation circle rapidly emerged under Miyauchi Hikage's feet. Then, by the time she finished her sentence, she had already appeared in a deserted alley along with Miyauchi Hikage and the others.
As soon as they arrived, Miyauchi Hikari looked around in surprise and exclaimed: "Cough cough, what strong suction. It feels just like that 'Apparition' in the magical story you told me and Renge when we were kids. But it's not as uncomfortable as you described."
"It's amazing you still remember these things," Miyauchi Hikage released the hand grabbing his sister.
If one day Miyauchi Hikage's identity as the Mysterious Person showed a flaw and was dug out by the girls possessing diaries, it definitely wouldn't be his problem, but his own sister, Miyauchi Hikari, who grew up with him and heard too many stories from him.
Before Asahigaoka's revitalization, it was just the most ordinary countryside village.
Although the Miyauchi family were indeed landlords with several mountains under their name, his parents also had to go out to work and couldn't hire a dedicated nanny to look after their children.
And his eldest sister, Miyauchi Kazuho, had always been that laid-back salted fish, and went to school in the city after high school, having no time to take care of them at all.
Facing the Miyauchi Hikari who had been noisy since childhood, in order to make this guy settle down, Miyauchi Hikage naturally told her many stories.
Although most were stories that originally existed in this world, he would more or less mix in some stories from his past life in between.
He had previously thought that after reaching high school, he could almost bring out those works from his past life bit by bit and casually become the King of Entertainment in this world. It was just that the appearance of the diary made him completely overturn those past plans.
Instead, these stories he casually told Miyauchi Hikari and Renge before could turn into key evidence backstabbing him at any time.
But who let Miyauchi Hikari be his sister, he could only let her be.
If anyone really discovered his identity from Miyauchi Hikari here, at worst he would just directly admit it.
"Because of the breathing method, your constitution is already much better than ordinary people's, so you didn't feel much. Otherwise, you would still be somewhat unaccustomed to it," Miyauchi Hikage said this, and then handed a piece of chocolate to Eriri, who was experiencing it for the first time, whose constitution wasn't very good either, and who was still dry-heaving somewhat due to the sudden teleportation.
"Next time when I teleport, don't talk. This tearing sensation definitely doesn't feel good, right?"
"It... indeed isn't great. It would have been better if you could have reminded me before teleporting," Eriri took the chocolate, bit off a small piece, and held it in her mouth. She indeed felt much better than before.
"But, this really is spatial teleportation? But isn't your ability the power of fate?"
Miyauchi Hikage had long given up explaining this question. Who let this skill of the Card Master be called "Destiny"?
If asked, it's the choice of fate.
"Since I completed my awakening, I've heard this question many times, but I can only say, actually I'm also still looking for the answer. Just treat it as a special application of the power of fate."
"That's why I keep saying this ability is too much of a cheat. No matter what, it can be said to be the influence of fate. Even if you can use the power of fate to reverse time in the future, I wouldn't be surprised," Miyauchi Hikari roasted like this.
Regarding this, Miyauchi Hikage also shrugged.
"Who knows."
After all, a few months later, a certain chuunibyou would really mistakenly tinker out D-Mails sent to the past, and then jump back and forth among various timelines.
At that time, he will definitely go over and get involved.
Then it was Kato Megumi on the side who interrupted their chat: "I seem to hear the sound of a guitar, it seems to be not far away."
The few of them instantly remembered the purpose of this trip. Miyauchi Hikari hurriedly walked out of the alley.
This was originally the alley closest to that cafe. Therefore, they only walked a short distance before they saw Gotoh Hitori, who was standing on the planter outside the cafe, passionately playing death metal music.
It was just that the Gotoh Hitori appearing in front of them now looked completely different from the Gotoh Hitori in their impressions.
Short jacket, small vest, leather pants.
Several strings of necklaces hung around her neck, and several shiny earrings appeared on her ears.
Looking closely, her hair even seemed to have been specially permed.
It had to be said, this guy Gotoh Hitori, whether it was her socially anxious main body or the shadow Stand derived from her inner self, was indeed not very good in terms of aesthetics.
It was just that with her looks and figure inherently far exceeding ordinary people, even this kind of attire didn't look ugly on this exceptionally flamboyant shadow Gotoh Hitori.
And beside her, there seemed to be a few store clerks with troubled expressions, bitterly trying to persuade this girl who suddenly ran over and started playing at the entrance of their store.
It was just that not only did this not make the shadow Gotoh Hitori on the planter stop, but this guy even played more vigorously.
Looking at the shadow Gotoh Hitori playing selflessly there, although he didn't have much feeling for death metal, Miyauchi Hikage still pulled the girls to sit down at a nearby seat and casually ordered some drinks.
During this process, the persuading voices of the other clerks could also reach their ears.
What they were saying was roughly that originally because of the earthquake, there hadn't been any customers coming to drink coffee these past few days. If Gotoh Hitori played some normal music here and attracted some onlookers, it would be fine.
But her playing this messy music here even drove away the few customers who had just sat down.
It had to be said, these clerks were indeed quite amiable.
If Miyauchi Hikage encountered such a guy ruining the business when he opened a shop himself, he would probably have started cursing a long time ago.
And these clerks only hoped that if Gotoh Hitori insisted on playing, she should try to play more mainstream pieces.
"Is this really a Stand? I look and it completely doesn't look like a Stand. Could this be her real person?" Miyauchi Hikari, sitting beside Miyauchi Hikage, muttered in a low voice.
"The real Gotoh-san should be around the station about three kilometers away from here looking for her Stand right now. The one appearing here is indeed her shadow Stand."
"Hiss... That Gotoh Hitori looks quite normal, I didn't expect her inner self to be so wild. Truly, you can't judge a book by its cover," listening to the deafening death rock in her ears, Miyauchi Hikari couldn't help but sigh like this.
Indeed, looking at Gotoh Hitori's appearance, one could never imagine this was a rock girl who, in order to find like-minded people in middle school, went to the school broadcasting station during lunch break to play heavy metal rock for a group of 13 or 14-year-old boys and girls.
It could only be said that social anxiety sealed Gotoh Hitori's inner self, preventing her from truly becoming a rock girl like she is now.
But at the same time, it could also be said that because she had always suppressed her inner desires, it caused her inner shadow Stand to become so rebellious after taking shape.
And while the few of them were chatting about Gotoh Hitori, the piece of death rock she was currently playing finally came to an end.
After finishing this piece, she then looked at the clerks and the open-air cafe which only had a few people sitting in it.
It was just that when looking in the direction of Miyauchi Hikage and the others, Kato Megumi, sitting in her seat, seemed to have felt something. She slightly lowered her head, preventing the other party from seeing her appearance.
Miyauchi Hikage could feel that at that moment, a power fluctuation of a Stand also appeared on Kato Megumi.
Did Kato Megumi just activate her Stand ability?
Gotoh Hitori might not remember the appearances of Eriri and Kato Megumi, but the siblings, him and Miyauchi Hikari, had quite a high level of discussion among these girls. Especially with their identical blue hair color and similar looks, they could basically be recognized immediately as long as they appeared together.
But for the shadow Gotoh Hitori, her gaze only briefly swept over the few of them, and then she directly withdrew her sight, seemingly not noticing their appearance at all.
"Don't you guys just want customers? Then I'll pull some over for you now. It just so happens that the audience is indeed a bit too small right now."
Shadow Gotoh Hitori said this, and then disregarding the "despairing" expressions of those clerks, started to immerse herself in her art again.
Only then did Miyauchi Hikage turn his head to look at Kato Megumi, and briefly asked: "Did you just use your Stand ability?"
Kato Megumi nodded gently: "I thought if she saw Hikage-kun here, she probably wouldn't be able to continue playing normally, right? And then I felt like I could do this kind of thing."
Not hiding their information, just simply weakening the presence of the few of them, making it easy for people to subconsciously ignore their existence.
"To be honest, this Stand ability of yours makes me a bit wanting to see what level your Stand can reach after it fully grows."
Enhancing her own cognition and affecting others' cognition, this could also be considered an oversized Kyoka Suigetsu (Mirror Flower, Water Moon - illusion ability).
Kato Megumi appeared quite modest.
"That was also with Hikage-kun's help that I could obtain this power. Perhaps this was also Hikage-kun's power of fate having an effect on my Stand."
Miyauchi Hikage felt that after Kato Megumi awakened her Stand, her attitude towards him seemed to have become different from before.
Before this, they could be considered to have a normal friendship.
But Kato Megumi's current attitude towards him obviously didn't seem like a friend, but rather like a lord and a retainer.
It was just that Miyauchi Hikage also didn't know exactly what information Kato Megumi had received from her Stand. Right now he also had Miyauchi Hikari and Eriri beside him, so it wasn't suitable to ask about these things. Therefore, he could only let Kato Megumi be for now.
Miyauchi Hikage didn't reply, but continued to focus his sight on the shadow Gotoh Hitori.
"She should be about to activate her Stand ability."
After all, shadow Gotoh Hitori just said she wanted to help the cafe clerks pull some customers over.
But relying solely on this kind of death rock definitely couldn't achieve this.
Then besides her own Stand ability, at least Miyauchi Hikage couldn't think of any other method.
As Miyauchi Hikage's words fell, a few passing pedestrians also appeared on the street.
Judging from their appearance, they should be ordinary salarymen walking past here after work.
Normally, they wouldn't make a special trip here for a cup of coffee.
Especially when there was a rock girl beside the cafe playing death metal music that was somewhat avant-garde for ordinary people.
But strangely, as these people were frowning and taking a detour away from the cafe, something unknown happened. They just abruptly sat down at the tables and chairs of the cafe, and somewhat blankly called the waiter to order some snacks and drinks.