Because Miyauchi Hikage only mentioned that he wanted to make a video of the ghost stories and rumors that had been circulating in the school about Yuuko over the years, and didn't mention how she had died.
Therefore, Kanoe Yuuko, who had lost all her memories from the very beginning and even periodically formatted and cleared the excess memories from her mind, just felt that it was something new when she heard Miyauchi Hikage's words and didn't connect it to the cause of her own death.
She herself would subconsciously avoid thinking about these things.
She was now just curiously sizing up the boy before her.
It seemed that there was no sign of fear or panic in his expression.
She pointed at herself. "It seems you're not afraid of me?"
She even gestured with her hands and claws. "And in your camera, you took such an ugly picture of me. How come you have no reaction at all?"
And behind Miyauchi Hikage, Fujimiya Konomi tightly gripped his arm, listening to the conversation between him and the female ghost.
It was only at this moment that she discovered that the "ghost" appearing before her didn't seem to have the ferocious appearance captured by the camera.
Instead, she was like a perfectly normal person. Even her tone of voice sounded fine.
Except that when the afterglow of the setting sun shone on Kanoe Yuuko's body, her figure did not cast any physical shadow on the ground.
She wanted to use the camera to confirm again, but she was a little nervous.
Sensing Konomi's nervousness, Miyauchi Hikage gently patted her arm to tell her not to be nervous.
Then, he continued to look at Kanoe Yuuko before him.
"I've been through a lot of things recently, and I've also filmed a lot of strange things with this camera. Now is the time when my ability to accept this world is at its strongest. And I've also heard a lot about you, Yuuko-san, these past two days. I know you're not that kind of evil spirit, so naturally, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"As for this camera... if you don't mind, could you let me take another photo up close?"
As he raised the camera in his hand, he even had Kanoe Yuuko strike a pose she liked.
This reaction, on the contrary, made Kanoe Yuuko a little uncomfortable.
Is this boy's receptiveness this strong?
Or is the world changing much faster than she imagined?
Could it be that people and other deceased souls can now coexist peacefully?
In this state of confusion, Kanoe Yuuko was rather stiffly photographed by Miyauchi Hikage.
With the close-up shot, the image of Kanoe Yuuko in the photo became much clearer than the one Fujimiya Konomi had snapped earlier.
But the person in the photo still had that same appearance, covered in black energy, looking somewhat creepy.
Kanoe Yuuko couldn't help but puff out her cheeks, looking at the photo with a face full of disgust.
"There really is something wrong with your camera!"
However, upon closer inspection, Miyauchi Hikage could still see some problems in this photo.
He pointed to Yuuko's outline in the photo and then continued to explain to the Kanoe Yuuko before him.
"This camera of mine only became like this in the last half month. I also only recently learned that ghosts really do exist in this world. Yuuko-san, you are the first deceased spirit I have met who can still maintain complete rationality, so I'm not too sure what's going on with this camera either."
"Perhaps what it captures is another side of you, Yuuko-san. Look here, you can still faintly see your current appearance here."
Miyauchi Hikage was pointing at the position of Kanoe Yuuko's eyes in the photo. If you looked closely, you could see her normal pupils, but most of them were covered by the black and lifeless, creepy eyes.
"In other words, this should mean that there might be some problem with your spirit, Yuuko-san, with two forms appearing at the same time, which is why this appearance shows up in the photo."
Hearing Miyauchi Hikage's answer, Kanoe Yuuko seemed a little dissatisfied.
How could that appearance be her?
She had lived at Seikyou Academy for so many years and had never appeared before anyone with that look.
For the students who occasionally saw her at dusk, she had only played some simple pranks and would never use that creepy appearance to scare people.
You should know that she had done a lot of things at Seikyou Academy over the years. A few years ago, she often mixed in with the crowd to participate in the school's physical examination activities, and no one found anything wrong until the end of the examination.
It was just that at the end of each physical examination, a physical examination form with the same numerical values but without a class and name filled in would inexplicably appear.
It was also because of this that she had scared the school doctor for several years in a row.
But just thinking of this, Kanoe Yuuko felt her head become a little dizzy.
It seemed that she could no longer clearly remember how she had done those things back then.
She just felt that she had been living a bit too muddledly in the past one or two years. It seemed like every day she would just walk around the school at dusk and then go back to sleep.
It seemed that a few days ago, there was also a newly enrolled male student who had been sneaking around her house.
If it were in the past, she would have at least come out to tease that boy.
But because she was too tired, she hadn't taken the initiative to come out and scare him. Therefore, after wandering around for a while, he had left the location of the old school building.
On the contrary, after being burned by the strange camera in this boy's hand just now, it seemed to have made her a little more clear-headed.
Originally, Kanoe Yuuko had wanted to ask more about whether her video, when uploaded to the internet, would only show people her unattractive appearance.
If there was a problem with her spirit, she could slowly find a way to solve it in the future, but the photos shown to others absolutely could not be that appearance!
Kanoe Yuuko wanted to say more, but Miyauchi Hikage glanced at the position of the sun.
The sun had already set halfway.
When the sun completely set, he didn't know if this Kanoe Yuuko would revert to her previous semi-transparent and muddled state after some time.
Therefore, Miyauchi Hikage no longer dwelled on the topic of the Camera Obscura capturing the shadow Yuuko on Kanoe Yuuko. After stating that if she was unwilling, he could not post these photos, and even if he did, he would use post-production techniques to restore her current appearance.
For example, directly having Kanoe Kirie wear a wig to play the role of Kanoe Yuuko would also be quite good.
Miyauchi Hikage thought to himself, and then quickly continued to ask the Kanoe Yuuko before him if she still remembered things from before she was alive.
And did she know about the cenotaph on the hillside with her name on it?
This sentence, which had been on her mind as she was wondering if she had been sleeping too much lately, immediately piqued Yuuko's interest.
"My cenotaph?"
She had lived at Seikyou Academy for so long, and she didn't even know this thing existed.
Miyauchi Hikage pointed the way for Kanoe Yuuko. "It's right on that slope. There's a small path in the middle on the way to the top. You can see a stone monument with your name on it after a few minutes' walk from the path."
Hearing this, Kanoe Yuuko's interest was also piqued after a long time.
She couldn't remember, and she didn't want to recall these things.
But she was still a little concerned that someone had commemorated her in this way.
"I don't remember much about my life before, but can you take me to see that stone monument?"
Miyauchi Hikage naturally nodded, and then led Fujimiya Konomi up the mountain.
After just walking for a minute or two, before they even reached the slope, the sun had completely set.
And Kanoe Yuuko's form also quickly became dim and transparent, and her voice became hazy again.
However, she still followed behind Miyauchi Hikage, seemingly determined to see her own monument.
From time to time, he would take out the camera, pretending to use this method to confirm if Kanoe Yuuko was still following him.
This was not a long slope, but Miyauchi Hikage took nearly half as long as the day before yesterday to finally bring Kanoe Yuuko, whose figure was now completely invisible to ordinary people, to her monument.
"This is it. Yuuko-san, do you have any impression of this place?"
Fujimiya Konomi looked at the black-energy-covered Kanoe Yuuko, who was standing in the camera's frame exuding a low pressure, and didn't know what her current situation was.
Because this camera couldn't capture her current expression, and she also didn't know if she was speaking.
Standing behind Miyauchi Hikage, through the lens, she could only see Kanoe Yuuko slowly walking to the monument and reaching out to stroke it.
Although she didn't know who had erected the monument for her, looking at it and its location, Kanoe Yuuko felt that this place seemed somewhat familiar.
However, what she was more concerned about was the exceptionally clean gray diary next to the monument.
Did someone leave it here?
Kanoe Yuuko thought to herself, and at the same time, reached out and picked up the diary.
But almost as soon as she picked up this diary and opened it to see what was written inside, she saw a full page of red warnings suddenly refresh on the diary.
"The diary holder's existence is under serious threat. Considering the holder has just obtained the diary, the advance function will now be activated, temporarily entering emergency mode to ensure the holder's consciousness remains clear for one day. The diary holder is urged to resolve the crisis as soon as possible."
Looking at this line of text, Kanoe Yuuko felt as if a special power was gushing out from the diary in her hand, wandering through her body.
Although it didn't seem to have changed anything.
But she inexplicably felt her mind become much clearer at once, and the feeling of drowsiness that had been starting to set in completely dissipated.
She felt that in recent years, she had probably never been as clear-headed as she was now.
She stared blankly at the stone monument before her with her name on it.
What was going on with this diary that was placed in front of her monument?
She was about to continue checking the text that followed in the diary, but then, a somewhat surprised voice came from Fujimiya Konomi behind her.
She turned her head and found that her eyes met Fujimiya Konomi's in mid-air.
From the other's expression, it seemed that she could see her again.
And Miyauchi Hikage was still holding that camera and filming this location, but his face now also looked a little surprised.
"Yuuko-san, did something happen to you? Your image in the camera seems to have suddenly become normal."
Miyauchi Hikage said, holding the camera, and at the same time, brought up the footage he had just recorded.
Although the diary's shielding function was ineffective against Miyauchi Hikage, it could still work on the camera.
The images captured by the camera or other surveillance equipment were also content that had passed through the diary's rule-like shielding function.
The content in the footage was very simple.
It was just that after the dark and gloomy Yuuko came into contact with her own monument, the black energy on her body dissipated a lot, revealing her original appearance.
Seeing that this camera had not captured the image of her picking up the diary at all, Kanoe Yuuko's eyes were also a little puzzled, and then she looked at the diary in her hand again.
She tried to tell the two of them about the diary in her hand, but it seemed that neither Fujimiya Konomi nor Miyauchi Hikage noticed what she was saying at all.
What was going on with this diary?
Kanoe Yuuko thought.
This diary seemed to have restored a lot of her power, allowing her figure to appear freely before others, and most importantly, it could even make her look beautiful again in that camera.
But it seemed that no one other than her could see the existence of this diary.
She carefully checked the text that followed in the diary.
Those words were no longer reminders, but looked like some diary entries.
The content of the diary was about someone who called himself Voldemort, who explained the situation of this diary and this world in these entries.
To be honest, reading these diary entries made Kanoe Yuuko even more confused.
The ordinary people of the outer world, the supernatural powers of the inner world, the transmigrators from other worlds, the aliens who had infiltrated Earth for unknown purposes, and the diary in her hand, which was a gift from a high-dimensional god.
In addition, there was the decline of the supernatural a hundred years ago, and the resurgence of the supernatural after the new century.
Although Kanoe Yuuko was a ghost who had existed for more than half a century, she had spent all these years in a muddled state. How could she accept so many new things at once, especially in a situation where she couldn't ask the people around her?
So, were the things written in this diary, and the emergency mode that was just activated to remind her that her existence was threatened, true or false?
If the things in this diary were true, then what was threatening her existence?