Kasumigaoka Utaha's defenses were broken by the mysterious person's malicious actions, and she was grinding her teeth.
Hoshino Ai was looking at the song the mysterious person had sent her, her eyes sparkling. Just looking at the lyrics, it felt as if they had been written straight into her heart.
Shinomiya Kaguya was staring at her old flip phone with a headache. After studying it for a long time, she had to give up on the idea of installing LINE on this phone.
As for Katsura Kotonoha, who wanted to know if she could make friends after starting high school?
Having read today's diary, she was currently sharpening her sword.
Don't misunderstand, she had not entered a state of dark transformation or yandere.
Although the words in the diary seemed somewhat cold and cruel, she, in her current state, had not experienced that kind of complex romantic relationship, nor had she developed any special feelings for other members of the opposite sex.
She simply felt a sense of disgust and distance towards the people mentioned in the diary, and at the same time, she couldn't understand why she would fall in love with such a person in the future.
After thinking it through, her naive self believed that all of this was because her own heart was not sincere enough.
And then she recalled her kendo teacher's instruction to be "sincere to the sword," and his belief that she had a high talent for kendo.
It was just that her body was frail back then, and she felt that with her physique, it would be difficult to achieve anything in kendo. In the end, she had chosen iaijutsu, a sword technique born of revenge that focused on a single, killing blow.
Although she had achieved some success in her practice of iaijutsu now, the more important training of the heart had been neglected by her.
"In a while, when my body gets a little better, I'll continue to practice with my teacher."
Katsura Kotonoha thought to herself, deciding to cut away love and affection and become a swordswoman with a heart sincere to the sword.
Thinking of this, Katsura Kotonoha took out her beloved sword, and while maintaining the rhythm of ripple breathing, she took out a whetstone and began to steadily sharpen her sword, as well as her own heart.
For this reason, she didn't even notice the newly refreshed comment at first, nor the LINE group mentioned in it.
And on Miyauchi Hikage's side, he was recalling the name he had seen in the group chat.
Menma.
Her real name was Honma Meiko, the female protagonist of the classic tear-jerking anime Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day.
In the story, she had died from drowning five years before the plot began, but five years later, for unknown reasons, she appeared as a ghost in front of the decadent male protagonist, Yadomi Jinta, which then unfolded a series of events.
However, the her who appeared in the group chat now was clearly not a ghost.
Although the drowning incident five years ago had left her with a chronic health problem, making her unable to attend school like a normal person, at least she was still alive and well in this world.
As for who had caused the world line to fluctuate?
Naturally, it could only be the transmigrator, Miyauchi Hikage.
"Who would have thought that the story of Anohana would be so close to my home," Miyauchi Hikage shook his head, recalling the events of that year.
His home was located in Asahigaoka, a small village on the edge of the mountains in central Saitama Prefecture.
And the other end of the mountain range behind his house was Chichibu City in western Saitama, which was the setting of Anohana.
To be more precise, the secret base that the protagonists had built when they were young in Anohana was on the mountain next to the Miyauchi family's land.
Back then, Miyauchi Hikage, who was still in the sixth grade of elementary school, hadn't received his cheat yet, but he had already become the undisputed king of the kids in Asahigaoka village.
Even people five or six years older than him were willing to listen to his words because he could always come up with new tricks that everyone had never seen before.
The reason why Miyauchi Hikage was able to find people in the village willing to film videos with him later on with just a camera was also for this reason.
In short, in that year, Miyauchi Hikage, who had just painted the grand promise of "endless fruit to eat" for the village children in the spring and initiated the fruit tree planting movement, began to lead people to "inspect" his family's land in the summer.
The grand promise he painted this time was "those mountains will definitely be my territory in the future, which, by rounding up, can also be considered everyone's common territory. So we have to find a way to find its value, and then develop it together. At that time, everyone can get benefits from it."
And so, the vigorous era of great mountain climbing in the summer was also kicked off by Miyauchi Hikage.
And just as their group was having a lively time playing from morning to evening, and had "inspected" the last mountain peak, preparing to go down the mountain from the Chichibu side and take the train home, they encountered Honma Meiko, who had slipped and fallen into a river and was in critical condition.
Fortunately, Miyauchi Hikage had specially brought a lot of outdoor emergency equipment when he went out.
Under his command, the Asahigaoka mountain climbing team successfully rescued the already unconscious Honma Meiko, and called for an ambulance to send her to the hospital. In the end, she was successfully saved.
Because of this incident, the group, which had returned to Asahigaoka very late by train that day, was basically beaten up by the adults in their families.
Miyauchi Hikage, as the initiator of the mountain climbing activity, was even grounded for a whole summer vacation and could only stay at home to take care of the then-less-than-one-year-old little Renge.
Later, Honma Meiko's parents came over with a heavy gift to thank them for saving their daughter's life, and also informed them of her current situation.
Upon learning that she had developed many chronic health problems due to the drowning, Miyauchi Hikage had even sighed in his heart, wondering if this was the consequence of defying fate and changing destiny.
At that time, Miyauchi Hikage had even had the person who had rescued Honma Meiko from the river write her a letter, telling her to rest well and inviting her to visit Asahigaoka after her body had adjusted.
It was just a pity that even by the time Miyauchi Hikage's golden finger was activated, Honma Meiko's body still didn't support her being away from home for too long.
And after Miyauchi Hikage had experienced a summer of being grounded, the next year he started filming videos under the banner of revitalizing Asahigaoka's economy and became incredibly busy.
Even when he wasn't filming videos, the little cuties around him were always clinging to him. The two little girls from the Koshigaya family and his own little sister Renge would follow at his heels all day, calling out "Hikage-niichan," which made him too embarrassed to abandon them to see other girls. After a long time, the matter of Honma Meiko was gradually forgotten by him.
After all, saving Honma Meiko was just an accident. He wasn't the type of person who expected repayment for a favor. As long as he knew she was still alive and well, it was enough. There was no need to forcibly interfere in her life.
It was only after seeing the name Menma in the group chat that he recalled this matter.
"Although the plot of Anohana has been completely changed by me, Menma still got the diary... I wonder if she can get her body back in shape by relying on Hamon."
Miyauchi Hikage muttered, and then reviewed his encounter with Honma Meiko back then, confirming that he hadn't left any flaws.
"As long as her comment doesn't appear in the diary, I don't have to worry about her. Even if her comment is really selected by the diary, I should be able to fool her by just making up some things that will happen in a few years."
After thinking it through, Miyauchi Hikage, after finishing his preparations for the start of school tomorrow, planned to have a good night's sleep to welcome his high school life with a full spirit.