The diary had a new ability!
Five Reading Points can activate beginner-level Yin-Yang Eyes...
So, do vengeful spirits really exist in this world!?
Then is it really possible that the mysterious person who writes the diary met that Yotsuya Miko-san on the bus today, and that's why he wrote this in the diary?
In other words, if I can find that Yotsuya Miko, is it possible to follow this clue and find that mysterious person?
Shinomiya Kaguya took a deep breath.
Looking at the description of those vengeful spirits in the diary, she felt that even if her extra Reading Points were to gather dust in the future, she would absolutely not take the initiative to activate the Yin-Yang Eyes for herself.
She had no strange hobbies, and even less interest in dealing with vengeful spirits and ghosts.
Shinomiya Kaguya wrote a few more lines in the diary, wanting to ask if there were any vengeful spirits around her.
The result she got was that she could activate the Yin-Yang Eyes to investigate for herself.
This ambiguous answer made it impossible for Shinomiya Kaguya to sleep.
She glanced at the time. It was now ten o'clock at night.
It was very late to discuss business at this hour, but it also seemed a little early to go to bed.
But feeling that there might be some strange things in the house, Shinomiya Kaguya still called Hayasaka Ai into her room.
"Kaguya-sama, is there something you need?"
Hayasaka Ai, who was the same age as her, was, no matter how you looked at it, an absolutely competent maid.
The moment Shinomiya Kaguya called her, she had put down her other work and came to her bedroom.
In the past, the two of them would often chat a little before bed after the day's work was over.
But in the past few days, she always felt that her young mistress had a lot more secrets in her heart.
A few days ago, Shinomiya Kaguya had taken out a list of names and asked her to investigate their identities without being noticed by anyone, especially the people of the Shinomiya family.
The second daughter of the Yukinoshita family in Chiba Prefecture, a detective known as the Sleeping Kogoro, an unknown indie idol, an ordinary high school girl with no special identity other than being pretty...
She was with Shinomiya Kaguya every day, and it was still summer vacation. With Kaguya rarely going out, the information she could receive, theoretically, she should also be aware of.
But she had no impression of these names at all.
Perhaps it was because she had never seen such a serious Shinomiya Kaguya, and she really didn't know how to explain to people where Kaguya had heard these names from.
She couldn't just say that these were all online friends that the young mistress had newly met, could she?
Shinomiya Kaguya was still using an old-fashioned flip phone she had gotten when she was five, and she only used it as a communication tool.
Let alone LINE, she had never even used the phone's camera function.
Although Hayasaka Ai couldn't figure it out no matter how she thought about it, a mission given by the young mistress had to be completed.
So she used her own personal means, spent her own salary, and investigated the personal information that Shinomiya Kaguya needed, and handed it to her.
And on that night, for the first time in her life, she had concealed something from the main Shinomiya family.
If she were asked about it later, she could say that these were online friends who wanted to meet her offline.
And according to her observations over the past few days, she realized that her young mistress seemed to really have some way of contacting other people outside, bypassing her, the competent maid.
To this, although she felt a little empty in her heart, she was actually quite happy.
Shinomiya Kaguya had been very lonely since she was young. The only person who could be considered a friend was the young lady from the Fujiwara family.
But even this friendship was constantly being watched by the other members of the Shinomiya family.
If she could really make more friends, this was of course a good thing.
The only problem was, although Shinomiya Kaguya could still avoid the eyes of the Shinomiya family for now, how long could she avoid them?
At that time, how should she, who had missed these important pieces of information, face the wrath of the main Shinomiya family?
Shinomiya Kaguya could actually also sense Hayasaka Ai's emotions.
It was just that she hadn't expected Hayasaka to be worrying about more complicated matters.
She looked at Hayasaka Ai, who had grown up with her.
A few days ago, I made her investigate so many people at once without telling her the reason. Hayasaka must have a lot of questions in her heart right now.
Shinomiya Kaguya wanted to tell Hayasaka about the diary, but because of the rules, she couldn't.
She couldn't even use a roundabout way, for example, by mentioning she had a dream about it, or directly saying that a mysterious ghost that only she could see had told her. In short, any method that might reveal the diary was not allowed.
Although things learned from the diary like Hamon could be demonstrated, she couldn't say the source of the power. This would probably only make Hayasaka worry more.
However, tomorrow was the seventh day since she had obtained the diary. She wondered if, after unlocking the new permissions of the diary, she would be able to tell Hayasaka Ai about it.
She waited for that day to come.
"I... can't quite fall asleep. Let's just chat for a while," Shinomiya Kaguya said, patting the side of her bed, signaling for the other to come over.
Hayasaka Ai glanced at her young mistress with some confusion.
It's only ten o'clock now, right? Even if the young mistress goes to bed early, she usually doesn't fall asleep until eleven.
But since the young mistress had said so, she naturally couldn't refuse.
And so she sat on the edge of the bed and began to talk with Shinomiya Kaguya about some things related to work and life.
These things were actually very boring to talk about, and even more boring to listen to.
But this was her and Shinomiya Kaguya's daily routine.
Two people bound by the Shinomiya family, who had never even participated in a summer fireworks festival once. What interesting things could they talk about?
It was just that Hayasaka Ai herself hadn't quite noticed that under Shinomiya Kaguya's deliberate manipulation, without realizing it, her whole person was already half-lying on the bed.
By the time she realized that something seemed to be wrong, Shinomiya Kaguya had already wrapped her arms around hers.
The warm breath coming from the other person's palm caused her long-accumulated fatigue to be released at once.
Looking at Hayasaka Ai, who was slowly falling into a deep sleep, Shinomiya Kaguya, who was using ripple energy on someone for the first time and had no experience, was stunned for a moment.
She had originally just wanted to use ripple energy in the quilt to gently relax the other's body, and then the two of them would talk about some ghost stories, and then logically have Hayasaka stay.
How did she fall asleep directly?
And she was sleeping so soundly that she didn't have the heart to wake her up.
Could it be that ripple energy also has a hypnotic effect?
Shinomiya Kaguya looked at her own palm, feeling as if she had mastered a new skill.
But since the goal had been achieved, it didn't matter if there were some deviations in the process.
She had originally been thinking of having Hayasaka Ai investigate the matter of Yotsuya Miko tomorrow, and also go to a temple to get some consecrated artifacts to guard the house.
Since Hayasaka Ai was already asleep, she would just talk about it after she woke up tomorrow.
Kaguya softly turned off the light, then covered both herself and Hayasaka Ai with the quilt.
"Good night, Hayasaka."