Ignoring Miyauchi Hikari's speculation, which might have earned her a letter from a lawyer if the person involved had heard it, Miyauchi Hikage had roughly understood the specific situation.
Kasumigaoka Utaha must have directly mentioned some sensitive words related to the diary while chatting with Shiina Mashiro, so under the diary's blocking mechanism, other outsiders certainly couldn't understand what they were talking about.
As for the content of their chat, he could just go and ask Shiina Mashiro directly later to find out.
As for Sawamura Eriri's side...
She probably, after seeing Katō Megumi, who was still completely in an inconspicuous state, felt that the plot where he made this very ordinary-looking girl the female protagonist, and in turn made her a loser heroine, was simply too inexplicable, so she had become angry out of embarrassment.
This wasn't to say that Katō Megumi wasn't good-looking.
Setting aside her image in the anime for a moment.
At least by Miyauchi Hikage's aesthetic standards, after he had interacted with Katō Megumi a few times, putting aside her subtle sense of presence, her looks themselves were not much worse than Kasumigaoka Utaha's and Sawamura Eriri's.
When the few of them had gone out together on the weekend, Katō Megumi, standing with the two super-high-scoring beautiful girls, Shiina Mashiro and Shiina Mahiru, did not look strange at all, and there was even a bit of a complementary vibe—
Shiina Mashiro's natural airheadness, Katō Megumi's peacefulness, and Shiina Mahiru's gentleness.
As for Miyauchi Hikari?
Although saying this might make her feel unconvinced, Miyauchi Hikage had to admit this point:
The genes of the Miyauchi family were definitely not bad.
He was qualified to be a so-called handsome Tokyo boy, and it was absolutely no problem to give Miyauchi Hikari's looks an 8.5 out of 10.
But her overly lively personality and her more masculine style of dress, among the four young girls at that time, she was indeed the most abrupt one.
Just like between him and Sakakibara Kōichi, that Itou Kaiji with his full-on loser aura was also the most conspicuous one in the team.
And what was similar to Itou Kaiji was that.
Itou Kaiji's temperament looked like that of a loser, and only when facing a desperate situation would he show his complete self.
Katō Megumi was also like this. Before being targeted by Aki Tomoya, she had never released her own charm to the outside world, always maintaining that subtle passerby sense of presence.
She was clearly a beautiful girl who started at a 9 out of 10, but because of this overly ordinary and common personality and temperament, let alone Sawamura Eriri not being able to notice it at first glance, even the boys in their class would rather chat a little more with a tomboy like Miyauchi Hikari than notice Katō Megumi, who was sitting at the same desk as her.
So, that girl, Sawamura Eriri, simply had no idea how she had lost.
Thinking this, Miyauchi Hikage looked at Shiina Mashiro, who had already finished gnawing on the baumkuchen in her hand.
She, on the other hand, showed him a look of longing again, as if to tell him that one baumkuchen was not enough.
"You can eat three at most a day. This is the standard Mahiru has set for you. You've already eaten one this morning, and you just ate another one. If you eat any more, you won't have any for tonight."
As he said this, he lifted the bento box that Shiina Mahiru had prepared for Shiina Mashiro.
"And you haven't touched your bento yet. If Mahiru finds out you haven't finished it when you go back tonight, she will be sad."
When Shiina Mashiro heard this, she looked at the fully packed bento box and silently calculated in her heart how much more she could probably eat.
And then she very straightforwardly poured two-thirds of the bento onto Miyauchi Hikage's convenience store bento, signaling for him to help finish it.
Miyauchi Hikage turned his head and glanced at his older sister.
See? I don't need you to share your bento with me.
Miyauchi Hikari, on the other hand, cursed in her heart. At the end of the day, wasn't this because of her good matchmaking?
She let out a light "hmph," simply took her bento, and turned her back to him, not looking at this guy who didn't know a good thing when he saw it.
Taking this opportunity, Miyauchi Hikage, while eating his bento, also asked about the morning's events.
"What did Kasumigaoka say to you?"
Shiina Mashiro very frankly told Miyauchi Hikage everything. This was what they had agreed on yesterday.
Kasumigaoka Utaha had come to ask her about the manga and had even taken the initiative to offer her help.
However, Shiina Mashiro had first stated that she would change the names in the manga so that no one would associate it with them, thus shutting up Kasumigaoka and Eriri. Then she had taken the initiative to tell Eriri that she wanted to learn manga drawing techniques from her, leaving Sawamura Eriri completely speechless.
Finally, facing Kasumigaoka Utaha's request for cooperation, she had directly and neatly refused her on the grounds that she had already found a partner.
"So you've already told her that your partner is me?"
Shiina Mashiro, on the other hand, nodded, then extended her finger and pointed at him and Miyauchi Hikari.
"You, and Mahiru, are all my partners, so there are enough people. I don't need her help."
This answer was acceptable. Three people helping out was obviously not as conspicuous as one.
At most, Kasumigaoka Utaha's side would just find out about his connection with Asahigaoka from Shinomiya Kaguya.
With their current attitude towards me, at most they would just think I'm a character from some other work and wouldn't think of me as the mysterious person.
"It seems I have to consider writing my fabricated identity into the diary."
He thought to himself.
But definitely not now.
Now those girls had only just noticed him, this "minor character." Even Shinomiya Kaguya hadn't taken him seriously. He naturally didn't need to suddenly mention his own affairs in the diary.
It should be after he sent out another notice in the diary, rounded up the people to go to Toyogasaki High School, and stuffed the entire novel of Passerby Heroine into Eriri's shoe locker, that while complaining about Shiina Mashiro, he could casually mention a simple setting of "him."
But speaking of which, Shiina Mashiro's move of pulling in Eriri and rejecting Kasumigaoka also made Miyauchi Hikage can't help but want to laugh.
"After hearing your rejection, what did Kasumigaoka say?"
Shiina Mashiro recalled for a moment.
However, with her language ability, she basically couldn't describe any useful information.
But she had her own way.
She waved her small hand and directly took out the diary from it.
Then, according to her own memory, she directly projected Kasumigaoka Utaha's reaction at that time onto the diary.
Miyauchi Hikage also used this function frequently recently, so he was not surprised.
Looking at the thwarted-looking Kasumigaoka Utaha on the diary, Miyauchi Hikage only felt a little regret.
He still needed to maintain a low profile now and couldn't post this picture in the diary.
It seemed that Kasumigaoka Utaha had not expected at all that she would be rejected.
After Shiina Mashiro had shown the picture to Miyauchi Hikage, she continued, "She didn't say anything after that, just invited me to join their chat group, saying that she wanted to unite the girls in the group to find your whereabouts."
"Did you agree?"
Shiina Mashiro nodded. "You said yesterday, Hikage, that if they asked, I should agree. So I agreed. This is their group."
She took the initiative to take out her own mobile phone and showed the chat group interface that Miyauchi Hikage had not peeked at for some time.
Very good, just like his previous plan.
He had successfully used Shiina Mashiro's identity as a mole to infiltrate the chat group.
In the future, it would be much more convenient for him to understand the movements of the girls in the group.
Because yesterday's updated diary was the usual book-copying, and the selected girl's reply was just a review of the Passerby Heroine novel's plot, at this moment, the girls in the chat group were not very active. Now they were just sharing their lunch in the group.
Overall, the atmosphere in the group was quite good.
Only the statements of a few stubborn elements were more conspicuous.
Miyauchi Hikage scrolled up a bit. That woman, Kasumigaoka Utaha, would denounce him in the group almost every day without fail.
She would even first give every new member who joined the group a piece of her mind about the mysterious person. She was the number one banner of the anti-mysterious person faction in the chat group.
One could only say that Kasumigaoka Utaha did indeed hate him a little.
Miyauchi Hikage thought for a moment, and it seemed it was indeed his own problem.
So he should probably slow down the pace of uploading Passerby Heroine a little, to keep pace with Shiina Mashiro's manga drawing speed.
This could also, to some extent, help Kasumigaoka Utaha maintain her popularity in the group.
Just like an anime that updates once a week, in terms of both discussion level and discussion time, it was indeed much higher than Netflix, which dumps the entire season of an anime at once.
...
On Kasumigaoka Utaha's side, just as she had finished her lunch and was preparing to rest for a while, she suddenly felt a chill.
She subconsciously took out her diary to check if the mysterious person had mentioned her in it again.
However, nothing had been updated on it.
But that feeling couldn't be wrong. It must be that bastard mysterious person trying to backstab her from behind again.
And so, she took out her phone, preparing to continue discussing with the newly joined Shiina Mashiro how malicious the mysterious person's behavior was.
Although the other had rejected her this morning, she had not yet given up.
In her eyes, the Miyauchi siblings were just taking advantage of being close to Shiina Mashiro.
When she ran into a bottleneck in the future, she would definitely think of her again.
What was more important now was to find out what this young girl's attitude towards the mysterious person was.
The atmosphere in the group recently was a bit off.
There were already many people in the group who were grateful for the mysterious person's reminders.
Like Katsura Kotonoha and Hoshino Ai, these two girls who had completely changed their own lives, didn't care at all that the mysterious person had exposed their original fate.
And then there were a few people who even felt that the mysterious person was too fond of her, which was why he kept posting her story.
Like Umaru and Hinami Aoi, who had a troll-like attribute themselves, they had been saying in the group that they wanted to see when the mysterious person would talk about their stories, as if they were very curious to know what their original future was like.
Originally, Kuroneko, Shinomiya Kaguya, and Yukinoshita Yukino could be considered part of the anti-mysterious person faction.
But ever since Jerry had appeared at Kuroneko's house, Kuroneko and Yukinoshita Yukino had almost never expressed their opinions in the group again.
She knew that this was because they had learned many new ripple usage techniques from Jerry.
And she had heard that that mouse, Jerry, also had the attribute of gathering treasures.
In the two or three days it had stayed at Kuroneko's house, it had let the Kuroneko family win the second prize in the lottery, win a refrigerator online, and receive a rather generous reward for finding the lost puppy of a certain wealthy lady on the roadside.
One could say that because of Jerry's appearance, the economic situation of the Kuroneko family had instantly risen by two grades.
If originally Kuroneko had only regarded Jerry as a little martial uncle who taught her Hamon, then now she had completely become a devout believer in the cult of Jerry.
Now Kuroneko was just posting pictures of Jerry in the group all day, winning over a large number of neutral group members.
In the current chat group, the only ones who were still insisting on opposing the mysterious person could be said to be just her and Shinomiya Kaguya.
She had been repeatedly flogged by the mysterious person and couldn't swallow this anger.
And Shinomiya Kaguya had been tricked by Jerry into turning into Kaguya-chan, and even after racking her brains, she still couldn't figure out how her future self had produced the outrageous idea of "wanting to be a photographer."
Now that this Shiina Mashiro, a girl who had a diary, was also at her school, she of course had to find a way to pull her into her own camp.