The current Miyauchi Hikari could not have imagined how much color the Shiina Mashiro she was about to meet would add to her future high school life.
Miyauchi Hikage, in any case, was already prepared to go over to his second sister's place in the future to eat melon up close.
And since Miyauchi Hikari couldn't come over tonight, Miyauchi Hikage was naturally too lazy to go home and cook.
He would just find a restaurant to casually deal with it. And just right, after dinner, he could go and look for a place to shoot his video tomorrow.
Actually, Beika Town was a pretty good place.
After all, in the small Beika Town, the one thing it didn't lack was all sorts of murderers and crime scenes.
He could just casually find a place where a murder had once occurred, first briefly introduce to the audience what kind of case had happened here, then mysteriously say that there have been rumors of ghosts in this place recently, and finally go in to explore a bit, and that would be about it.
In his memory, it seemed that not far from his own house, there was an old Western-style house in disrepair that the Junior Detective League had explored as a haunted house, and had ended up encountering a case inside.
This was actually a rather suitable start.
Exploring a mysterious haunted house in Beika Town where an unsolved case once occurred years ago, and which is now deserted.
And then, in the process of exploring the haunted house, discovering traces of someone having lived there, and then bit by bit, finding the secrets in the haunted house.
In the end, the truth comes to light. It turns out that the true culprit of that murder case from many years ago was actually imprisoned in this haunted house, and the reason he was imprisoned here was—
Miyauchi Hikage, who had made cringey short videos for several years, still had some instinct in this regard.
If he could really film it like this, he estimated the view count would take off on the spot.
But it was a pity that after he had investigated a bit, he found that this case had been solved last month and had even been specially featured on the next day's morning news.
If it were before Miyauchi Hikage had arrived, it was possible that many ghosts and vengeful spirits had lived there, but as he had moved into Beika Town with his Pure-Yang Body, that mansion was now just a deserted and empty house with no human presence.
With Sakakibara Kōichi's rather dull personality, it seemed that he wouldn't be able to film any particularly effective videos.
Miyauchi Hikage muttered to himself, but he didn't care too much.
Let's take it slow.
He could first follow the places where Conan had encountered murder cases and start exploring bit by bit, revealing to people this Beika Town with the highest crime rate in all of Tokyo, and then slowly turn to those urban myths.
With the experience of those successful supernatural streamers from his past life, at most it would just take a little more time in the early stages.
Thinking this, Miyauchi Hikage, who was preparing to take a detour to the vicinity of that mansion to investigate after dinner before going back to complete today's diary, heard a pleading voice in a small alley.
"Kaiji-senpai, I'm begging you to help me! I'm in really urgent need of money right now! As long as you help me be my guarantor and sign, that's all! I definitely won't cause you any trouble!"
Instantly, Miyauchi Hikage, who was just about to walk out of this small alley, stopped in his tracks and turned his gaze to the source of the sound.
It looked like the back door of a convenience store.
Two men in store clerk uniforms were chatting there. One of them, a young man who looked quite honest and good-natured, accompanied his words just now with a rather standard 90-degree bow.
And in front of him, another somewhat unkempt young man seemed to be in a difficult position, but his expression was not very firm. It looked as if he was about to nod and agree.
However, before he could respond, Miyauchi Hikage's prompt came from the side first.
"A so-called guarantor means that if the other party can't pay back the money, you'll be the one to pay it. Before you make a decision, you'd better see clearly the numbers on that piece of paper."
Instantly, the expression on the young man who was bowing, who looked quite honest, changed.
He straightened up, wanting to see clearly who on earth was trying to ruin his good deed.
"You bastard! Who's talking to you? Don't you have any manners!"
Miyauchi Hikage scratched his ear and, on the contrary, walked a few steps closer.
"Are you flustered and exasperated now?"
"Do you need me to help you check this guarantee? I have some experience in this area."
He said this, and then looked at the man called "Kaiji."
Why does this Kaiji look like he has the vibe of the God of the New World? (The same actor played both in the movies.)
After obtaining the diary, one could say that Miyauchi Hikage had been constantly battling wits and courage with the female protagonists of various school and idol anime.
It was just that among the female protagonists he had met so far, only Hoshino Ai and Yotsuya Miko had a life-threatening crisis in their future. The lives of the other girls were quite normal.
And among the male anime protagonists he had come into contact with, previously only Conan had to deal with all sorts of messy murder cases all day, and from time to time, he had to risk his life in the main story and the movies.
He hadn't expected to be so lucky today as to run into a guy who treated risking his life as a daily routine just by casually walking through a small alley.
Itou Kaiji.
The male protagonist of Gambling Apocalypse.
The title after being animated was Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor.
From these two names alone, one could tell what kind of personality this guy had.
A gambler, a scoundrel, and someone who could only display his full strength in adversity.
And today, one could say, was the day that changed Itou Kaiji's life.
Perhaps you couldn't see anything now.
If Miyauchi Hikage had not appeared, after signing this guarantee, he would have forgotten about this matter.
It wasn't until a year later that a debt collector would find him with the IOU, telling him to pay off the high-interest loan that the other party had owed for a year and which had been accumulating compound interest.
After that, this good-for-nothing gambler would, under the instigation of the debt collector, head to that cruise ship full of desire and sin, officially beginning his legendary and tragic life.
After recalling Itou Kaiji's story, Miyauchi Hikage prepared to stop him from signing this guarantee.
After all, he felt that instead of letting Itou Kaiji continue to risk his life in casinos all day, it would be better for him to come and film some videos with him.
Thinking about it carefully, this Itou Kaiji's personality was really quite suitable.
High tolerance—Itou Kaiji's life had experienced so many ups and downs, he had been betrayed and sold out several times, and had even lost an ear and had four fingers cut off in a gamble.
Even so, he could still complete a final comeback under a disadvantage. This kind of psychological quality was absolutely top-tier.
The entertainment value was also top-notch—he'd throw when ahead, get reckless with an advantage, cry at a disadvantage, and clutch in a desperate situation.
In terms of personality, he could also be considered a scumbag who hated the rich but had a bottom line.
The biggest problem was that he was a gambling addict.
He was evaluated as someone for whom other ordinary thrills could no longer satisfy him after experiencing life-and-death struggles at the gambling table.
But vengeful spirits and ghosts were a whole other racetrack of things.
Looking for the kind of thrill that hovers between life and death?
Then this place of his is just too suitable!
Looking at the still-useless-looking Itou Kaiji in front of him, Miyauchi Hikage almost blurted out the phrase, "Please, you must join my team!"