On Shinomiya Kaguya's side, Hayasaka Ai was there to sleep with her, while the other girls who had received the diary, after seeing the "truth" described in it, all felt a little horrified.
Kasumigaoka Utaha, unable to sleep, simply took advantage of the content in the diary and wrote a ghost story overnight, preparing to post it on her blog with her main account once it was done.
Yukinoshita Yukino, who felt a lack of security, practiced Hamon for the entire night.
At the same time, she was thinking to herself that she had heard black cats could ward off evil. Should she try to persuade her mother to get a black cat to guard the house?
However, among them, there was a more excited exception.
A certain chuunibyou girl with colored contacts, who had just moved into a new house, nodded very seriously after reading today's diary.
"I see. So only those with stronger spiritual power can witness stronger evil spirits. This is the truth of the world. I have completely understood!"
"It is precisely because the Tyrant's Eye in my right eye is still in a sealed state and cannot exert its original strength that I am unable to explore the location of the 'Ethereal Horizon' through it?"
Takanashi Rikka clenched her fist tightly, and a trace of ripple power burst forth from her hand.
"But I have now mastered the power of the ripple. As long as I continue to practice, I will be able to awaken the true Tyrant's Eye sooner or later!"
Of course, she'd rather pass on the Yin-Yang Eyes. Even a chuunibyou girl maintained the same attitude of complete rejection as a normal person towards those ferocious and ugly vengeful spirits.
"But no matter what, the Tyrant's Eye is the strongest. Even the most powerful vengeful spirit is no match for my fully awakened Tyrant's Eye, ahahahaha!"
She only quieted down after her sister next door warned her "don't disturb others late at night."
The chuunibyou girl was here, fantasizing about her colorful future life.
As for the person who truly possessed the Yin-Yang Eyes...
For several days now, Yotsuya Miko had known that a strange diary had appeared by her side.
But ever since she had opened the diary for the first time and saw the text inside, which was clearly a trap—"I am XXX, I am sealed in the diary"—she had not dared to open it again.
Even though this diary seemed to have latched onto her and refused to leave her side, no matter what she did, she couldn't get rid of it.
And so, she began to ignore this diary—this was something she had gradually become good at.
Not long ago, her eyes had begun to see things that normal people could not.
She tried to find someone who could help, but so far, she had not been able to find anyone who could see them like she could.
All this time, she had disguised herself as someone who couldn't see those things, and those vengeful spirits and ghosts didn't seem to have noticed that there was one more person in the world who could see them.
Although it was a bit hard, fortunately, the number of those things was not too many. As long as she was a little careful, she could barely cope.
As for this suddenly appearing diary, she also treated it as some kind of more advanced vengeful spirit.
The wizarding world and all that... although it sounds like it could solve my problem, what if it's just something the other party deliberately fabricated to delude me in order to escape?
There's probably some incredible great demon king sealed inside!
Yotsuya Miko thought to herself.
But as long as I don't open the diary and am not deluded by that sealed Tom inside, nothing should happen... probably?
"School is about to start soon. I hope I don't see anything strange at school."
"If I can't find a master in the temples around my house, should I go to a more famous shrine or temple to have a look?"
Yotsuya Miko, with slight dark circles under her eyes, casually swept the diary that had appeared by her bed to the floor. Out of sight, out of mind.
Then she turned off the table lamp. In her quilt, she hoped that she could have a good dream tonight.
After all, now she could only relax a little when she was dreaming.
...
The next morning, Miyauchi Hikage got up and browsed his phone.
The headline was that Kaitou Kid had successfully taken his target gem last night and had made a fool of the police again.
The second story was a calling card from Cat's Eye.
Every day it's either this phantom thief or that one. The Japanese police really don't have it easy. I hope their year-end bonuses can handle it.
Averting his eyes from these news stories, Miyauchi Hikage began to search for other things.
Regrettably, he couldn't find any news of a Miss Miko asking for help or comfort.
Does Yotsuya Miko not exist in this world?
Or did she not get the diary?
Or has she not yet decided whether to post on Twitter?
However, Miyauchi Hikage himself could not have imagined that the truth was even more absurd than he thought.
Who would have known that Yotsuya Miko would treat the suddenly appearing diary as a vengeful spirit and then choose to ignore it!
"It doesn't matter if there's no feedback from Yotsuya Miko's side. It was just a tentative probe to begin with," Miyauchi Hikage didn't pay too much attention to this matter.
After all, in a sense, no news from Yotsuya Miko was good news.
And, in the process of his search, he had unexpectedly discovered a short ghost story that had just been published three hours ago on the blog of a certain Kasumi Utako.
Just yesterday, Miyauchi Hikage had written about the Yin-Yang Eyes in his diary, and today he saw Kasumigaoka Utaha's ghost story.
Clearly, this could not be a coincidence.
"So, the one who has the diary is Kasumigaoka. Hmm... by rights I should call her Kasumigaoka-senpai. Is she planning to stop pretending and have a showdown with the other diary holders?"
Miyauchi Hikage's heart was not particularly moved.
After all, he had already narrowed it down to her and Eriri. Even if both of them had the diary, it wouldn't surprise him too much.
So this ghost story was something she wrote overnight, inspired by what she saw in my diary last night?
Miyauchi Hikage looked at the story.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was quite rational. She hadn't directly used the setting of 'the stronger the spiritual power, the more ghosts you can see' in her story.
If Yotsuya Miko really existed in this world, writing like that might have exposed her to the eyes of other psychics.
In this ghost story, Kasumigaoka Utaha just followed the template of Yotsuya Miko and wrote about the terrifying moments a young girl who suddenly gained the ability to see ghosts encountered.
Although the story was only a short plot, and the content was very simple, her writing was indeed good. She had very well expressed the inner conflict and fear of the young girl when she first encountered a ghost.
"As the first diary holder I've confirmed, when your Koisuru Metronome is published, I will definitely go and buy three copies to contribute to the sales."
Miyauchi Hikage gave a thumbs-up to Kasumigaoka Utaha's ghost story in his heart.