The half-month's worth of accumulated diary entries was no small amount.
Under the guidance of Kasumigaoka Utaha and Shinomiya Kaguya, Yotsuya Miko temporarily skipped some of the less important entries first.
Of course, the main reason was that they felt there was no need to waste everyone's precious waiting time on their own trivial matters.
After spending more than half an hour, Yotsuya Miko finally flipped to the latest diary entry.
"So... I'm just the female protagonist of a horror manga?" After finishing the diary, Yotsuya Miko found it a little hard to believe what she was seeing.
Ever since her eyes had suddenly been able to see those things one day, she had been searching for a reason.
But after searching for so long, the final answer she got was "the plot requires it."
This overly direct and cruel answer was worse than a profound one like "the gears of fate have begun to turn."
It was also because she had received a lot of stimulation recently that she was still able to barely maintain her rationality now.
The few girls didn't say anything, because they had indeed not experienced what Yotsuya Miko had felt, and they didn't know what they should say at this time.
Instead, Hoshino Ai on the side clapped her hands, as if she had thought of something. "Oh right, since Reading Value can let us activate the Yin-Yang Eyes, then Miko, can you try to use Reading Value to turn them off now?"
This proposal instantly made all the girls' eyes light up.
Oh right, we almost forgot about something as good as Reading Value.
"Although you haven't read the diary before, I remember the mysterious person has mentioned you quite a few times in it. You should have some Reading Value on you now, right? Why don't you try it now?"
Yotsuya Miko also remembered.
During this period, prompts like "You have obtained Reading Value" had indeed occasionally sounded in her ears, but at that time, she hadn't dared to react at all.
With a somewhat nervous mood, Yotsuya Miko followed Shinomiya Kaguya's instructions and tried to control her thoughts to write on the diary.
And then, as expected, she failed.
It turned out that all of Yotsuya Miko's Reading Value had been obtained passively. She had never actively read the diary at all. She had not yet accumulated the 7 Reading Points to open the diary's primary permissions. She had not yet obtained many of the diary's convenient functions.
In the end, it was Shinomiya Kaguya who took out the signing pen she usually used and let Yotsuya Miko make do with it for now.
Pinching an expensive and famous fountain pen, Yotsuya Miko cautiously wrote the words "close Yin-Yang Eyes" in the diary.
Immediately after, she sensed the diary's reply.
Her face began to look aggrieved.
"It says my Yin-Yang Eyes cannot be closed on their own. I can only consume Reading Value to shield them. The price for shielding is 7 Reading Points per day."
This price was not cheap. Under normal circumstances, they could only earn two Reading Points a day.
By this calculation, Yotsuya Miko could only shield her Yin-Yang Eyes for two days a week at most.
"You should use your Reading Value to get started with Hamon first. That way, you probably won't have to worry about being pestered by those ordinary vengeful spirits," Kasumigaoka Utaha did not have Yotsuya Miko spend all her Reading Value on Hamon.
After all, the mysterious person had written in the diary that in the later stages of Yotsuya Miko's story, there would even be some kind of "unnamable existence."
Hamon could at most deal with some small ghosts. It would be powerless against that kind of existence.
If she really encountered trouble she couldn't handle, Yotsuya Miko should just honestly hand over her Reading Value to shield her Yin-Yang Eyes.
This was the thought of most of the girls present. It was equivalent to spending money to avert disaster.
Yotsuya Miko also found it acceptable.
After all, to be able to say goodbye to those unclean things for two days a week and not have to be so tense all the time was already enough for her to catch her breath.
Besides, maybe as she continued to upgrade the diary's permissions in the future, she might one day find a way to permanently close these Yin-Yang Eyes of hers?
But just at this moment, Bocchi-chan, who had been timidly not daring to speak on the side, seemed to have thought of something.
She hesitated for a long time. Seeing that everyone seemed to think that this was the best solution, she rubbed her hands a little anxiously, seeming to want to express her own point of view but not daring to take the initiative to speak.
This anxious appearance was immediately discovered by Umaru-chan beside her.
"What's wrong, Bocchi-chan? Are you not feeling well somewhere?"
She asked with concern.
Kaguya-sama glanced at Bocchi-chan, then turned her head to look at Yotsuya Miko, her eyes questioning.
Yotsuya Miko knew that she was asking if she saw anything around Bocchi-chan. She hurriedly shook her head. "No, everyone here is quite clean."
And on Bocchi-chan's side, being stared at by a group of people, her heart was about to beat to its limit.
But she glanced at Yotsuya Miko on the side, and in the end, she forcibly suppressed her nervousness and said her thoughts in a nearly inaudible voice.
"Ah... um, if those things can't see the diary, then when you run into those things, taking out the diary should have some effect, right..."
This was a new use of the diary she had discovered after starting high school.
The socially anxious her didn't dare to interact with people at all in her new school and new class.
As long as someone came over to take the initiative to talk to her, she would take out her diary and start to look through it.
Using the characteristic that others couldn't see the diary and would rationalize the behavior of a diary holder holding a diary, she could always muddle through successfully.
Although this method was still just escaping and couldn't solve her social anxiety problem at all, it was indeed very effective.
That was why she had immediately thought that perhaps this method could also be used to deal with those vengeful spirits.
It had to be said, the perspective Bocchi-chan proposed was indeed very novel.
The girls present only had to think about it for a moment to find that the feasibility of this method of using magic to defeat magic seemed to be really high.
After all, after obtaining the diary, everyone had more or less had the experience of taking out the diary in public to test it.
As long as they weren't doing those already eye-catching things while holding the diary, they would absolutely not attract others' attention.
The only question was, could those vengeful spirits and evil ghosts see the diary?
To be honest, in their hearts, they would naturally trust this magical diary, which was very likely from a higher-dimensional existence, a little more.
Yotsuya Miko even rarely had the thought of wanting to take the initiative to approach those vengeful spirits and evil ghosts to test whether Bocchi-chan's guess was feasible.
Umaru-chan was even more happy and patted Bocchi-chan's shoulder. "Well done, Bocchi-chan! I didn't expect your brain to work so fast!"
The other few girls also praised Bocchi-chan one after another.
Bocchi-chan, who had rarely been praised since she was little, felt as if her whole person was about to fly. Her face couldn't help but show an infatuated smile.