After being thrashed by Tohru, Miyauchi Hikage, who had been slightly arrogant after obtaining Unlimited Blade Works, immediately set his attitude straight.
This world was so dangerous. Tohru was far from the strongest in her world, so what was his mere special-grade power?
Tohru used less than 50% of her strength, and was unarmed, yet she beat him up, who was fighting at full strength except for using the holy sword, relying purely on her stats.
As for why he didn't take out the holy sword, it was because the first layer of the Metaverse couldn't withstand the fully unleashed holy sword, especially since when he held the holy sword, he could copy a trace of subtle divine power through Projection magic.
He probably had to go deeper into the Metaverse to take out the holy sword, otherwise he wouldn't have been beaten so badly by Tohru.
But even if Miyauchi Hikage really brought out the holy sword, with his current stats, even if he could completely copy that god's stats and divine power, he probably wouldn't be a match for Tohru in her prime.
After all, when Tohru attacked the divine realm, she faced all the gods in the divine realm. It was no exaggeration to say that Tohru fought in and out of the divine realm seven times relying on her stats. In the end, she was outnumbered and the wielder of the holy sword found an opening to deal a fierce blow.
But even so, defeated and suppressed by the holy sword, she survived for half a month, holding on until Miyauchi Hikage and the others appeared to save her.
Although it was also because those gods knew Tohru's identity and deliberately didn't kill the dying Tohru, even leaving her a way out to seek help.
Who would have thought that Tohru was so honest? She went to challenge the entire divine realm with the mindset of seeking release, and would rather die than ask her parents for help after defeat.
According to Tohru's estimation, if that god wielding the dragon-slaying holy sword fought to the death with her in her prime, the odds would be about 40-60, with her having a 60% chance of winning.
In other words, even if Miyauchi Hikage could exert the full power of the holy sword, facing Tohru who was not seeking death, he could not be her opponent.
To overcome the mountain that was Tohru, his stats would have to be stacked dozens or even hundreds of times higher.
Fortunately, this female dragon knew how to hold back and didn't hit him in the face. The bruises on his body were just minor injuries. With his current physique, he would fully recover by tomorrow.
"When the progress bar is full next time, I'll get a transformation ability to boost my stats."
Miyauchi Hikage complained.
Transformation was originally the most common trick to boost stats in Japanese anime.
From Dragon Ball to the later Big Three manga, the protagonist teams more or less had powers related to transformation, not to mention those tokusatsu works that used transformation as a selling point.
If he could draw the transformation device of Ultraman or Kamen Rider, or gain the ability to become a Super Saiyan, he would turn the tables directly.
Miyauchi Hikage, who had just been pinned down and beaten by Tohru, thought so.
But before that, he indeed needed Tohru as his sparring partner.
After all, he had only exposed card magic and breathing sword techniques at most at Jujutsu High, and sparring with Zenin Maki was more about honing sword skills and learning from her. His other hidden abilities could only be honed by Tohru, who was stronger and could be considered one of his own.
It was a pity that Tohru had only used her own body to fight for so many years and had no commonly used weapons. Otherwise, Miyauchi Hikage could secretly copy a few weapons and learn from Tohru's combat experience over the years.
Hearing that Miyauchi Hikage planned to come here to spar with her once a week in the future, Tohru's mood also improved.
However, she had consumed a lot of ether in the fight just now. Although there was no problem in replenishing it slowly, she wanted to taste other delicacies of this world more.
Anyway, there was still half an hour before the movie started. Miyauchi Hikage, who relied on Hamon breathing to stop the soreness on his body, could only take her to a nearby burger shop at her request to challenge the highest difficulty there, the "Cosmic Tower Burger" which was fully thirty centimeters high.
And not just one, but three.
Miyauchi Hikage didn't waste this opportunity. He directly filmed the whole process of Tohru eating elegantly with his mobile phone, which could be considered an appetizer for the female big eater video series.
As for Tohru's identity issue, he had already solved it with his hacking skills in the past few days. When the time came, she just needed to use the excuse of losing her ID and passport to apply for a replacement at the relevant place.
And even if he didn't do these things, Miyauchi Hikage believed that Shinomiya Kaguya, who was bent on climbing up, would be very willing to do these things.
When Tohru finished three super-large burgers in half an hour under the shocked gaze of the burger shop waiter and said it was just so-so, Miyauchi Hikage knew that Tohru had successfully taken the first step on the path of becoming an internet celebrity.
And when they returned to the family restaurant with a pile of challenge rewards from the burger shop, Shiina Mahiru's gaze towards Tohru obviously changed. Probably only Miyauchi Hikari, who was naturally insensitive, wouldn't notice anything.
But let's keep these things a secret for now. Anyway, Shiina Mahiru was also practicing Hamon breathing now. It wouldn't be too late to tell her these things after she had a deeper understanding of the inner world.
The subsequent itinerary was that several people watched a movie, and then stopped by the BB Lounge where a certain Tsukimi Eiko worked.
Unfortunately, he didn't pick up a passing Zhuge Liang. He didn't know when the other party would be summoned to this place.
Staying in Shibuya until after ten o'clock in the evening, Miyauchi Hikage sent the girls home.
He had thought about whether they would encounter those messy Ghouls rampaging in Tokyo on their way home, so he secretly took a few looks around with the Eye of Destiny.
The area around him looked quite clean. It seemed that the supernatural beings in the inner world had indeed struck hard against those Ghouls.
So those supernatural existences still had to keep a low profile.
Look at Beika Town. Dozens of high-level vengeful spirits and hundreds or thousands of low-level vengeful spirits were floating around here. This was the result after being cleared by his Pure Yang Body once.
But those vengeful spirits were secretly messing with people's mentality behind their backs, and few would take the initiative to deal with ordinary people. So over time, those supernatural beings were unwilling to come to Beika Town, just keeping an eye on this place to prevent any major incidents.
It would have been fine if these Ghouls had secretly mingled in the crowd, but they attacked people indiscriminately as soon as they appeared in Tokyo, and seemed to have caused some people with status to become food. As a result, public anger was aroused, and the supernatural beings in the entire Tokyo inner world began to investigate.
He didn't know how many Ghouls would escape this pursuit in the end.
Miyauchi Hikage didn't obsess over this aspect.
He had to go back to school tomorrow. After arriving home, he casually wrote a diary entry about "investigating Tohru's whereabouts," and described the Ghouls in the second batch of diaries as bait, and then went to rest.
And in Jujutsu High, Yaga Masamichi, who had been busy outside all day, was currently watching the video and information of Miyauchi Hikage fighting with Zenin Maki this afternoon.
These videos were naturally not as clear as those recorded by Shinomiya Kaguya using the diary, but they could also show Miyauchi Hikage's current strength.
"Is this really the power of 'fate'?"
He knew Gojo Satoru's nature. He was usually unserious, like bragging about someone's talent to boost his own image.
Those people he said had aptitude not inferior to his did indeed have special-grade aptitude, but seriously speaking, there was currently no one who could reach or even approach Gojo Satoru's level.
Originally, he thought Miyauchi Hikage was in the same situation.
The word "fate" was indeed powerful, but as for how powerful it was, it seemed that no strong people had appeared in this aspect, and most appeared as supporters.
After all, in Tokyo, there were still dozens of supernatural beings with divination talent.
And the future seen by these supernatural beings was not absolutely accurate, even for special-grade supernatural beings with divination talent.
Facing ordinary people, they could have an accuracy rate of more than 99%, but as long as it involved supernatural beings, the accuracy of divination plummeted.
When a special-grade diviner faced another special-grade supernatural being, an accuracy rate of 30% was considered good, and there might even be backlash.
However, Miyauchi Hikage's power didn't seem to be divination, but closer to "strong luck."
Earning tens of thousands of yen every day through various means without working, almost never failing in what he did.
Starting a company at 13 to speculate in stocks and venture capital, developing a rural village to the present state in three years, and directly taking out billions of funds to buy a Western-style house in Tokyo.
Including the various supernatural information appearing under his supernatural videos now having an accuracy rate far exceeding other peers, allowing their Jujutsu High's commission completion volume to increase by 30% in the last half month compared to before.
It seemed that everyone around him would develop in a better direction.
Jujutsu High still had some intelligence capabilities, such as the matter between Miyauchi Hikage and Honma Meiko, who was regarded as a treasure by Chichibu Shrine.
Although it didn't mention the connection between Honma Meiko and the ley line, it also mentioned the intelligence that the two were suspected of accidentally passing through a spatial rift during an earthquake that night and missing for two hours before returning.
Of course, this intelligence could only be said to be suspected. After all, no one knew where the two of them went and what they did during those two hours.
But both Jujutsu High and Chichibu Shrine decisively chose to block the information of the two people. Later, it seemed that the Kannon Temple also helped cover up Miyauchi Hikage's traces.
Chichibu Shrine naturally wanted to keep Honma Meiko in Chichibu and not let her be taken away by people from the Association of Shinto Shrines' main office, while Jujutsu High and the Kannon Temple naturally did it for Miyauchi Hikage.
Yaga Masamichi was clear about this.
Nanami Kento had reported to him before that Miyauchi Hikage's constitution was very suitable for practicing Buddhist secret techniques. After his supernatural awakening, his constitution was further enhanced, so it was not surprising that he was favored by those monks.
Originally, he was thinking about whether to personally approach this person with strong luck.
After all, he was indeed curious about how Miyauchi Hikage used the power of fate to complete teleportation after his supernatural awakening.
But the matter of the Ghouls these days was indeed troublesome to deal with.
Those guys really seemed to have come to this world from another Tokyo that was similar but different from this world.
It was just that none of those guys knew how they crossed the world to come here. Instead, after discovering that this world didn't have the original constraints, they directly started to act recklessly.
In just a week, these Ghouls had caused the deaths of hundreds of ordinary people, and because these guys were man-eating existences, the identities of those eaten could not be quickly confirmed.
In short, in order to avoid these Ghouls causing too much turmoil in Tokyo and exposing the existence of the inner world, he, the principal of Jujutsu High, had been working outside these days and had no time to meet Miyauchi Hikage at all.
Fortunately, Shinomiya Kaguya, the new student at Jujutsu High, was indeed ambitious.
Although her own talent wasn't good, she took the initiative to run over and make friends with him as soon as she heard about Miyauchi Hikage, and the result seemed pretty good.
Miyauchi Hikage got an entry pass for Jujutsu High, so he could be considered half a member of the Jujutsu world, and he also revealed some of his strength.
Just this breathing sword technique he just learned from Shinomiya Kaguya was enough to prove Miyauchi Hikage's potential—his ability was fate, but in two or three days, relying on his own physique and new sword techniques, he had already reached Grade 2 strength.
He could see that Miyauchi Hikage's final stop and voluntary surrender was not due to lack of physical strength, but simply because he didn't want to continue exposing more trump cards.
If his ability in fate continued to be exposed, maybe he could directly reach Grade 1 or even higher.
A genius whose potential was no worse than Okkotsu Yuta last year, and even younger and more stunning, but also more dangerous.
Yes, dangerous.
The last person he gave this evaluation to was Gojo Satoru.
Miyauchi Hikage was different from Gojo Satoru. Instead, he was more like Geto Suguru, who was called the "Strongest Duo" with Gojo Satoru back then.
He had to admit that he misjudged Geto Suguru back then, or rather he saw the flaws in Geto Suguru, but because of the more dangerous Gojo Satoru, he lowered his attention to Geto Suguru, allowing him to go astray after encountering a series of extreme events.
Now he saw a trace of Geto Suguru in Miyauchi Hikage, and also felt a danger from him no less than Gojo Satoru back then. Naturally, he also had to guard against him going down a dead end in the dirty place of the Jujutsu world.