Hearing this, Shiina Mahiru couldn't help but open her mouth slightly, as if she hadn't considered such a possibility before.
Renji Miyauchi continued.
"But I can see that Mashiro's attitude is very firm."
"So, after I discussed it with Kazuho, I volunteered to temporarily become Mashiro's assistant, helping her connect with manga magazines and providing some ideas and inspiration for manga creation."
Miyauchi Kazuho heard her younger brother suddenly mention her name.
She cast a questioning look at her younger brother.
Had they discussed it? Hadn't he always made his own decisions and acted directly?
But seeing her younger brother's confident attitude, Kazuho scratched her ear and simply acquiesced.
"And Mashiro has already agreed, so I might often bother you here in the future, please forgive me."
"Also, if your family puts any pressure on you, please notify me immediately, and I will help think of a solution."
After Renji finished speaking, Mahiru, having processed the information, quickly nodded at Renji.
"Although I can't help much with manga, other aspects are fine. In any case, please guide me more in the future, Renji."
She really didn't know what the adults were thinking.
But to be honest, she still envied her cousin's personality of not needing to think about anything and being able to fully commit once a decision was made.
Although she couldn't be that carefree, if possible, she still hoped her cousin could always follow her own ideas.
Unlike Renji, who smoothly made a pinky promise with Shiina Mashiro and also gained a lot of favorability from Shiina Mahiru, with the four of them happily gathering to eat hot pot.
Kaguya Shinomiya's weekend was not so smooth.
She went to see Jiraiya on the weekend, but the result was not ideal.
She originally thought that with her own ability and the financial resources of the Shinomiya House (corrected from Four Palaces House), she could at least get some information about the Mysterious Person from Jiraiya.
Who would have thought that Jiraiya, who seemed to be just a mischievous little mouse, was extremely tight-lipped about the Mysterious Person, and even though she carefully prepared several gifts, she couldn't get anything useful from him.
Even when she tried to lure Jiraiya to the Shinomiya House, Jiraiya showed great resistance.
The result was that under her persistent questioning, Jiraiya, who was too lazy to answer so many things, somehow used some ability from Ripple Breathing and directly induced her "Little Kaguya" form, which usually only appeared when she was sleep-deprived.
And after she turned into Little Kaguya, that hateful mouse even deliberately made her do some silly poses and actions and took pictures of all her embarrassing moments.
Don't look at how she was still able to chat normally with the other girls in the chat group last night, but in reality, she was already grinding her teeth in anger and helplessness.
Even though a day had passed, Kaguya still felt a little depressed recalling the setback she experienced with Jiraiya.
There was no breakthrough with Jiraiya. Before finding a way to freely control her forms, further contact with Jiraiya would only make her the other party's breakthrough point.
"So why did that author have to add such an inexplicable setting to me..." she grumbled through gritted teeth. None of the other girls with a diary had such a strange setting.
Even Hoshino Ai, created by the same author as her, didn't have such treatment.
She exhaled slightly, calming herself down.
As a daughter of the Shinomiya House, she had to pay attention to etiquette.
Thinking that she had already set a meeting time with her father, she had to let him see the power she now possessed to gain more authority within the Shinomiya House from him.
Since the path with Jiraiya was temporarily blocked, then she would continue to investigate the whereabouts of the Mysterious Person.
"Hayasaka, how is your investigation going?"
She inquired of her maid.
Ai Hayasaka, who had been working overtime since yesterday, tiredly handed her young lady a list that hadn't been fully organized yet.
"This is the expedited list of personnel that has been investigated, but because the intensity and scope of this investigation are very large, several young masters from the main family have come to inquire about the situation here."
Hearing Hayasaka's reply, Kaguya was not surprised.
Her brothers were all cunning, and she had no intention of hiding anything from them.
Her affairs had probably already been transmitted to her brothers and even her father through various channels.
This likely included her recent dealings with supernatural powers.
Since the main family had no further reaction, and Hayasaka had organized this list, it meant that they were probably still observing, wanting to see what kind of commotion she could stir up.
"Don't worry about these things. If the main family asks, just say these are my instructions and tell them to come to me."
Kaguya took the list and began to examine it.
The bodyguards of the Shinomiya House were indeed capable.
She hadn't told Hayasaka the names of the girls who attended Kasumigaoka Utaha's autograph session, and on this list, those girls were also included in the suspicious list by the bodyguards due to their relatively strange behavior.
There was no need to mention the girls who had been investigated before; her focus was on the girls whose real identities were exposed yesterday, especially those named by the Mysterious Person in the diary.
That is, Shiina Mashiro, the suddenly appearing diary holder, and Tsukimi Eiko, who had always been an obscure presence in the group.
There was no need to say much about Mashiro; she had already found out about this new generation oil painter, who was somewhat famous worldwide, last night.
How she embarked on her artistic career, why she returned to Japan, and her relatives and friends in Japan were all laid out on Kaguya's desk.
This naturally included Miyauchi Kazuho who went to pick up Mashiro.
However, perhaps because Kazuho's demeanor was too reserved, Kaguya, after simply learning that Kazuho was a student at Toyosaki Academy, did not intend to learn more.
Consequently, when she saw Renji Miyauchi's name, who bore a seven-point resemblance to Kazuho on the suspicious list and noted by Hayasaka as a video blogger, Kaguya quickly dismissed the information after confirming their identities—
After all, who would have thought that the Mysterious Person would appear so openly with his real identity next to another diary holder?
After nearly two hours of research, Kaguya marked about ten potential disguised identities of the Mysterious Person for priority investigation, instructing Hayasaka to focus on these individuals and to quickly re-filter the suspicious individuals from yesterday's autograph session.
"Alright, that's enough for today. After you arrange these matters, get some rest early."
Although it wasn't yet 10 PM, having turned into Little Kaguya multiple times in just one or two weeks made her particularly sensitive to her sleep time.
She had to maintain at least 8 hours of high-quality sleep every day, not allowing her body to feel even a trace of fatigue, so that if she had to deal with Jiraiya again next time, she wouldn't be induced into the Little Kaguya form.
Probably.
Kaguya intended to rest, but for Hayasaka, her day was not over yet.
After finishing her tasks for Kaguya, she still had to report Kaguya's affairs to the main family in detail.
Fortunately, the current Young Lady Kaguya had undergone many changes, and reporting these things, which she herself was unclear about, somewhat alleviated her guilt.
And after completing her report to the main family, she habitually clicked on the rustic video bloggers she followed, using this internet junk to accompany her to sleep.
However, tonight, the account she had just followed updated a new "Haunted House Exploration" video, which piqued her interest.
So this was the guy who said he was going to film a horror video. I didn't expect him to release his first work so quickly. I wonder about the quality of a video made in such a short time.
Hopefully, it will let her sleep well.
In a sense, the Golden Rule skill was indeed a bit eerie.
As long as it was related to money, it would definitely work.
And to be honest, it didn't seem to be entirely a passive skill.
Just like when Renji was editing a video, he would occasionally suddenly feel if a certain part would achieve a better effect if edited this way?
This feeling was somewhat like the Felix Felicis in Harry Potter, which was said to enhance luck, but in reality, it subtly boosted a person's social, reaction, and perception abilities, while also allowing them to make the most accurate judgments in various choices.
A video that originally required three or four days to complete was finished by the skilled Renji in just two days, and the quality of the finished product looked quite good.
Actually, in the case from Detective Conan, the case itself was not very complicated; it was simply a mother covering up her son's crime from years ago by keeping him in the underground, preventing him from leaving.
And the son's painful wails, when heard at night, gradually led to the rumors of a haunted house.
This story entirely relied on visuals and music to become a childhood nightmare for many.
Fortunately, Itō Kaiji's timid expression when he heard the ghost stories circulating about this haunted house was indeed very well-protrayed.
Coupled with the classic Conan background music he had prepared in advance, Renji felt that his video should give the audience a surprise.
And after releasing the video, Renji, wanting to further observe the effect of the Golden Rule, naturally did not choose any promotional methods.
He used an account he had prepared earlier that had little attention, and even the video title didn't use any eye-catching keywords.
Then, when he woke up the next day, he found that his uploaded video already had thousands of views, and all aspects of the data looked very good.
Without any promotional means, achieving such results in one night was already enough to pop champagne.
"The Golden Rule's ability indeed took effect," Renji observed, looking at the rapidly increasing follower count and the supportive comments below, while also keenly catching a slightly regretful reply from 12 AM last night.
"Can't sleep after watching the video, but I have to get up for work at five."
The username ID was "Smith A. Hayasaka," which seemed like just a rather chūnibyō foreign name.
But Renji, who had watched Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, quickly realized that this was one of Ai Hayasaka's common aliases.
Hopefully, Miss Hayasaka won't transform into a Little Hayasaka form this morning.
After liking the comment, Renji quickly washed up, sent the video's results to Itō Kaiji and Sakakibara Kōichi, and then planned to pick up Shiina Mashiro.
After confirming their collaboration, Mashiro naturally decided to attend Toyosaki High School.
Today, he and Kōka would accompany Mashiro and Shiina Mahiru's father to Toyosaki High School to handle the transfer procedures.
This was actually just a formality.
With Mashiro's talent, she would be very welcome wherever she wanted to study, especially at a high school like Toyosaki, which was newly established and lacked nothing but talent.
Even if she was drawing manga now, what if she suddenly wanted to paint oil paintings again?
Downstairs in the apartment building, Renji met Shiina Mahiru's father.
A rather thin middle-aged man.
The Shiina family's financial situation was naturally quite good. Although far from being a conglomerate, the family business did have some scale.
Otherwise, Mashiro wouldn't have grown up in London, and Mahiru wouldn't have been raised by the family's servants since childhood.
This man, named Shiina Asahi, had a relatively calm demeanor and gave off a gentle impression.
Within this gentleness, the man's eyes seemed to carry a hint of guilt.
Before his transmigration, Renji had only briefly seen this work, which was unfortunately animated by P9, and only knew that Mahiru had probably never experienced parental love since childhood, which was why she had become the way she was now.
Anyway, from Mahiru's somewhat awkward demeanor when facing her father, it was clear that she didn't have much of a good impression of him.
It was only because it concerned her cousin, Mashiro, that she reluctantly came over to greet her father.
Watching Mahiru treat her friends better than her own father, Asahi showed no sign of disappointment.
His gaze lingered more on Renji.
At this moment, Mashiro was showing Renji the clothes her cousin had picked out for her, seemingly wanting Renji to evaluate whether the outfit looked good.
Although they were neighbors, his brother's daughter had only returned to Japan a few days ago, yet her relationship with a boy was already so close?
Even his own daughter seemed able to chat with this boy.
Even regarding Mashiro's matters, his daughter first told the boy, then the girl next to the boy who was likely a twin, and only finally thought to explain it to him, her father.
"Father, you just need to take Mashiro to complete the transfer procedures. They will help take care of Mashiro at school."
In response, although Asahi still wanted to say something, he could only nod.
He knew his daughter still held a significant grudge against him, and such a matter clearly couldn't be resolved in a short time.
Just right, he could also observe the boy's character on the way.
After parting with Mahiru, seeing Mashiro tightly clutching Kazuho's sleeve while her gaze remained on Renji, Asahi proactively asked Renji how he had met Mashiro.
And Renji once again used the excuse of "helping Shiina Mashiro draw manga" as his reply.
Drawing manga...
End of the chapter
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