Obtaining the Golden Rule actually wouldn't cause too many changes in Miyauchi Hikage's life.
After all, the Golden Rule only made it easier for him to obtain money. As long as Miyauchi Hikage himself didn't think of making any big moves, he wouldn't attract the attention of others.
For Miyauchi Hikage, it was just that he was now more likely to pick up money, and there would always be some inexplicable financial luck that would fall upon him.
For example, when buying those drinks that might have a prize, the winning rate had changed from the original 1/3 or 1/5 to almost 100% now. It wasn't until he got the last winning bottle in the store that a non-winning one would appear.
As for lottery tickets, Miyauchi Hikage didn't try.
He felt that if he were to buy a lottery ticket now, not to say he would win the grand prize 100%, but casually winning a few small prizes would definitely not be a problem.
But he wasn't short of this money. If he really won some grand prize, it would be too conspicuous. He didn't need to do such a conspicuous thing now.
After all, throughout the entire school day, besides a few gusts of strong wind that had inexplicably blown about 30,000 yen in cash to his hands and feet, the tax return form for Asahigaoka that had already been prepared had also, for some reason, received a new tax reduction, reducing his personal taxes by about five or six million yen.
Sakakibara Kōichi did not notice the change in his friend. He just came over before class to ask about the video situation.
Don't be fooled by how calm he had appeared last night, and how his chemistry with Itou Kaiji looked pretty good.
But when he got home and recalled the filming at night, he still couldn't help but feel a little nervous about his own performance, wanting to see in advance what he looked like in the video.
"Rest assured. Originally, I was only about thirty percent sure, but after the filming last night and after some simple preliminary editing, I am now ninety percent sure of success."
It was true that it was thirty percent at the beginning. Before he had filmed the video last night and obtained the Golden Rule, Miyauchi Hikage had felt that his probability of success was about seventy percent.
However, after obtaining the Golden Rule, he felt that he could be a little bolder.
If he couldn't even make money with the help of a cheat passive like the Golden Rule, then one could only say that the entire video industry probably had no financial prospects.
Receiving such a definite reply from Miyauchi Hikage, although Sakakibara Kōichi was still a little unconfident, he still chose to first believe the judgment of this professional.
After all, he was a video director from Asahigaoka. There must be a big boss from Asahigaoka's side guiding him from behind.
"Then when is the next shoot approximately? If you're going to shoot, remember to tell me the location in advance, so I can also prepare in advance."
It seemed that Sakakibara Kōichi was still relatively interested in filming videos and was already looking forward to the next issue.
To this, Miyauchi Hikage nodded. "No hurry. We can take it slow at the beginning. Let's still shoot on the weekend, but next time it will probably be moved up to Saturday night."
"As for the location, I'll notify you after I've confirmed it."
After school, after soothing the equally high-spirited Itou Kaiji in the same way, Miyauchi Hikage was "escorted" by Miyauchi Hikari to her apartment building.
According to Miyauchi Hikari, this was her fulfilling her promise to Shiina Mashiro. She had to bring him to see her today, otherwise, she would lose Shiina Mashiro's trust.
"I thought about it carefully when I got home yesterday. I feel that there's definitely something fishy between you and Shiina Mashiro. You must have known her before, which is why she had that kind of reaction to you, right?"
After a night of serious thought, plus a reminder from Shiina Mahiru after returning home, Miyauchi Hikari had finally figured out that she had definitely been fooled by her little brother yesterday.
She had only known Shiina Mashiro for a day, and the other had not shown any particularly dependent expression in front of her. On the contrary, it was after meeting Miyauchi Hikage that Shiina Mashiro's attitude towards her had suddenly changed.
"Anyway, it's rather troublesome to explain. I'll explain it to you slowly when I have time in the future. You can just think of us as some kind of special online friends. I can only tell you that yesterday was also the first time I've ever met Shiina Mashiro, and I also didn't expect that she would be able to recognize me."
Miyauchi Hikage was sure that there were no other girls with diaries around him, so his tone was still relatively relaxed.
"Anyway, let me first go and buy something that Shiina Mashiro likes to eat, and then I'll go home with you."
Miyauchi Hikari stared at her little brother suspiciously.
Still trying to act in front of me.
It's your first meeting and you already know what she likes to eat, right?
But she was not in a hurry either.
Anyway, no matter what this guy, Miyauchi Hikage, did, she was his biological older sister, born half an hour before him. She would find out the truth sooner or later.
After buying a bag of baumkuchen from a nearby cake shop, Miyauchi Hikage thought for a moment, and first gave his gluttonous older sister a piece to eat to see if she liked it. [note 1]
Miyauchi Hikari had no idea that she was just a taste tester. When she took the cake from her brother's hand, she didn't think much and took a whole piece in one bite.
"Mmm, the cake from this shop tastes pretty good. I'll buy some more from here next time," as she said this, Miyauchi Hikari still wanted to get a few more from her brother.
"I bought this for Shiina Mashiro. You can just ask her for it directly."
However, as he said this, Miyauchi Hikage still pulled out a ten-thousand-yen bill and handed it to Miyauchi Hikari as her allowance for this week.
After seeing the money in front of her, Miyauchi Hikari's attention was indeed completely captured, and she never mentioned any other requests after that.
They walked all the way to the rented apartment.
Shiina Mashiro had not yet completed her school transfer procedures and was still staying at home, watching manga and drawing.
She was originally supposed to transfer to the art department of Suimei University of Art Affiliated High School, where her other cousin, the administrator of Sakurasou, Sengoku Chihiro, was.
But perhaps because she had obtained the diary, which had made her return to Japan early, she was not in Sakurasou now, but was living with her cousin of the same age, Shiina Mahiru.
For the sake of convenience, she, who was still of school age, would either choose Shiina Mahiru's school.
Or, because of its proximity to the school, she would choose the more liberal Toyogasaki High School, which also had an art department.
Miyauchi Hikage felt that in the end, she would most likely choose to transfer to Toyogasaki.
Because he, this mysterious person, was there, and the Passerby Heroine story that Shiina Mashiro wanted to draw also took place there.
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[note 1] Baumkuchen, a German "tree cake," is a popular dessert in Japan, known for its layered appearance resembling tree rings. It's a spit cake made by layering thin batter onto a rotating spit and baking it layer by layer. The name, "Baumkuchen," literally translates to "tree cake" in German, and the cake's concentric circles are a visual reminder of a tree's growth rings.