Unlike Miyauchi Hikage's side, which had smoothly made a pinky promise with Shiina Mashiro and had also, by the way, raised Shiina Mahiru's favorability quite a bit, with the four of them now happily gathering together to eat hot pot.
This weekend for Shinomiya Kaguya was not so pleasant.
She had gone to meet Jerry over the weekend, but the result was not ideal.
Originally, she thought that with her own abilities, plus the financial power of the Shinomiya family, she could more or less obtain some information about the mysterious person from Jerry.
Who would have thought that although Jerry's side looked like just a boisterous little mouse that liked to play small pranks, it was exceptionally tight-lipped on the topic of the mysterious person. Even with the several gifts she had carefully prepared, she couldn't get a single useful thing out of its mouth.
Even when she tried to lure Jerry to the Shinomiya residence, Jerry had shown great resistance.
And the result was that under her constant questioning, Jerry, who was too lazy to answer so many things, had, using some unknown ability from ripple breathing, actually directly induced her "Kaguya-chan" form, which would normally only appear when she was sleep-deprived.
And after she had turned into her Kaguya-chan state, that detestable mouse had actually deliberately made her make some silly poses and movements and had taken pictures of all her embarrassing states.
Don't be fooled by the fact that she could still chat normally with the other girls in the chat group last night. In reality, she was already grinding her teeth in anger but was helpless.
Although a day had already passed, now, recalling the setback she had suffered at Jerry's side, Shinomiya Kaguya still couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
There was no breakthrough to be found on Jerry's side. Before she found a way to freely control her own forms, going to contact Jerry again would instead result in her being used as a breakthrough point by him.
"So why on earth did that author have to add such an inexplicable setting for me..." she muttered, gritting her teeth. None of the other girls who had the diary had such a bizarre setting.
Even that Hoshino Ai, who was created by the same author as her, didn't have this kind of treatment, right?
She let out a slight breath and calmed her state of mind.
As a daughter of the Shinomiya family, she had to pay attention to etiquette.
Thinking that she had already arranged a meeting time with her father, she had to let him see the power she now possessed in order to obtain more authority of the Shinomiya family from her father.
Since the path on Jerry's side was temporarily blocked, then she would continue to investigate the whereabouts of the mysterious person.
"Hayasaka, how is the investigation I asked you to do?"
She asked her maid.
Hayasaka Ai, who had been working overtime since yesterday, tiredly handed her young mistress a list that had not yet been fully sorted out.
"This is the list of personnel that has been urgently investigated. However, because the scope and intensity of this investigation were very large, several young masters from the main family have come to ask about the situation here."
Hearing Hayasaka Ai's reply, Shinomiya Kaguya was not surprised.
Those few older brothers of hers were not to be trifled with. She had never thought of hiding it from them.
The affairs on her side had probably already been transmitted to her brothers and even her father through various channels.
Including the matter of her recently dealing with those supernatural forces was probably no exception.
Since the main family had no further reaction, and Hayasaka Ai had also sorted out this list, it meant that they were probably still maintaining an attitude of observation, wanting to see what kind of commotion she could stir up on her side.
"Don't worry about these things. If the main family asks, just say it was all my instruction and have them come to me."
Shinomiya Kaguya took the list and then began to look it over.
The abilities of the Shinomiya family's bodyguards were indeed not bad.
She hadn't told Hayasaka Ai the names of the girls who had gone to Kasumigaoka Utaha's book signing, but on this list, those girls had also, because of their respective strange behaviors, been included in the suspicious list by those bodyguards.
Needless to say about the girls who had been investigated before, her gaze was on the girls whose real identities had only been exposed yesterday, especially the few names that had been called out by the mysterious person in the diary.
That is, the suddenly appearing diary holder, Shiina Mashiro, and Tsukimi Eiko, who had always been a wallflower in the group.
Needless to say about Shiina Mashiro's side, she had already found out about this new-generation oil painter, who was quite famous worldwide, last night.
How she had started her art career, for what reason she had returned to Japan, and her relatives and friends in Japan—all of this was already laid out on Shinomiya Kaguya's desk.
Among them, naturally, was Miyauchi Hikari, who had gone to pick up Shiina Mashiro.
However, perhaps because Miyauchi Hikari's temperament was too reserved, after simply learning that she was a student of Toyogasaki Academy, Shinomiya Kaguya had no intention of further understanding more.
By extension, after seeing the name of Miyauchi Hikage, who was seven parts similar to Miyauchi Hikari, on the suspicious list, and being noted by Hayasaka Ai as a video blogger, Shinomiya Kaguya, after confirming their identities, had also quickly thrown this information to the back of her mind—
After all, who could have thought that the mysterious person would appear so openly with his real identity next to another diary holder?
After studying for nearly two hours, Shinomiya Kaguya drew a key focus mark on a dozen or so identities that could possibly be the mysterious person's disguise, had Hayasaka Ai focus on these targets, and also hurry up and continue to screen the suspicious targets from yesterday's book signing.
"Alright, that's it for today. After you've arranged these things, you should also rest early."
Although it wasn't yet 10 o'clock at night, she, who had turned into Kaguya-chan for two consecutive short periods in just one or two weeks, was now particularly sensitive about her sleep time.
She had to maintain more than 8 hours of high-quality sleep every day and not let her body feel a trace of fatigue. That way, next time, if she had to deal with that Jerry again, she probably wouldn't be induced into her Kaguya-chan form.
Probably.
Shinomiya Kaguya was planning to rest, but for Hayasaka Ai, her day was not yet over.
After she finished with Shinomiya Kaguya's affairs, she still had to report them one by one to the people of the main family.
Fortunately, many changes had appeared on Shinomiya Kaguya recently. Reporting these things that she herself was not clear about also lessened her own sense of guilt somewhat.
And after completing her report to the main family, she habitually opened the cringey rustic video bloggers she followed and used these internet garbage to accompany her to sleep.
It was just that tonight, the account she had just started following today had updated with a new "haunted house exploration" video, which made her a little interested.
So this is that young man who said he wanted to shoot a paranormal video. I didn't expect him to have filmed his first work so quickly. I wonder what the quality of a video made in such a short time is like.
I hope it can let me have a good night's sleep.