Looking at the commission that suddenly refreshed in front of her, Suzumiya Haruhi's eyes lit up.
So her guess was correct; this Kasumigaoka Utaha really was a holder of the first batch of diaries?
Thinking back to the other party's action of actively approaching her, she was probably also suspected of being a holder of the second batch of diaries.
It was just that the other party probably hadn't confirmed whether she possessed a diary yet. Instead, because of that group chat, she had exposed her own identity, so the diary assigned her such a commission to hide herself.
Although she didn't know why she had to hide herself, Suzumiya Haruhi had a personality that feared the world would not be chaotic enough.
As long as she disguised herself, she could get rewards. This was very appealing to her, as she had only been able to obtain reading value through the diary without any way to use it until now.
As for intercepting the daily commission, she also took a look.
There were no hints, which meant she needed to investigate the other party's daily commissions bit by bit herself.
Fortunately, she knew from the description of her own commission that every diary holder who unlocked the commission function would have a daily commission with very low difficulty that could be completed repeatedly, which served as a guarantee among commission tasks.
In other words, these daily commissions were repetitive.
As long as she kept an eye on Kasumigaoka Utaha and figured out what special and repetitive actions were in her daily schedule, and then tried them out, there would always be a time when she could figure out what the other party's daily commission was.
On Kasumigaoka Utaha's side, she was also somewhat helpless.
She had originally intended to use Sawamura Spencer Eriri to attract Suzumiya Haruhi's attention. Who knew that Kato Megumi, the heroine, would be as responsive as Shiina Mashiro, directly blurting out the name of the original protagonist, Aki Tomoya.
She had no choice but to explain the matter of the Saekano novel following Kato Megumi's words.
However, these words obviously made Suzumiya Haruhi interested in their chat group, and she should also be interested in the mysterious person.
This really counted as going for wool and coming home shorn.
But since it was already like this, she might as well follow the method given by Shinomiya Kaguya to confirm whether Suzumiya Haruhi was a diary holder.
So after that, she kept probing Suzumiya Haruhi from the side.
For example, why did she transfer to Tokyo alone? Did she have any hobbies, such as writing diaries? What would she think if a transmigrator from another world really told her that she was actually a character in an anime?
Unfortunately, Suzumiya Haruhi didn't take the bait at all. She probed for a long time, but apart from making Kato Megumi and Eriri feel a little baffled, it didn't have any effect.
Even Suzumiya Haruhi showed a trace of impatience, which made Kasumigaoka Utaha give up the idea of continuing to probe.
According to Suzumiya Haruhi, her sudden transfer was just a whim. She felt that Kouyouen Academy was too rigid and boring, so after discovering that Toyogasaki promoted a free school style, she actively applied for a transfer, and by the way, she could experience the taste of living alone in Tokyo.
Failing to probe anything from Suzumiya Haruhi, Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't know if Suzumiya Haruhi really didn't understand or was pretending.
In short, a few minutes later, Kato Megumi finished eating first and left the cafeteria early to visit Miyauchi Hikari in the infirmary. Afterward, Suzumiya Haruhi also greeted them and got up to leave.
In the end, Kasumigaoka Utaha only exchanged contact information with Suzumiya Haruhi, and this meeting ended there.
It wasn't until Suzumiya Haruhi's figure disappeared from their sight that Eriri poked Kasumigaoka Utaha's arm grumpily.
"So why do you care so much about that transfer student? I don't remember you being so warm-hearted."
As the once sole school beauty of Toyogasaki Academy, Kasumigaoka Utaha was quite aloof when facing outsiders. The number of people in the entire school who could be treated specially by Kasumigaoka Utaha could be counted on one hand.
"If you knew what she had done, you wouldn't treat her as an ordinary person," Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head and mentioned the name of the middle school Suzumiya Haruhi had attended.
Eriri frowned: "So mysterious. I'm too lazy to investigate these things. Forget it if you don't say it."
At noon today, she was severely tortured by past memories again. She was already feeling bad, and now Kasumigaoka Utaha was acting like a riddler here. As a tsundere, she also had to find a place to treat the "trauma" in her heart properly.
Kasumigaoka Utaha apologized to Eriri again when she stood up: "I used you to confirm some things this noon. I have to apologize to you for this."
"However, think carefully about what I said this noon, and recall what kind of feelings you have for that Aki-kun. Figure out your true inner feelings. Do you think the things of the past can really just pass like this?"
Eriri's footsteps became a little heavy, but in the end, she snorted lightly and left with her head held high.
Kasumigaoka Utaha shrugged and sighed lightly.
Having read the complete version of the novel and knowing from the mysterious person's diary complaints that Eriri had never truly obtained a perfect ending even in the doujin manga and games derived from it—the best result was just reconciling with the male protagonist and starting over.
Starting at the finish line, then choosing to run wildly towards the starting line, and finally, when she realized it, she had already run past the starting line and directly off the track.
The mysterious person's complaint was that she was a born loser. Miyauchi Hikage's answer was that Eriri needed a personality correction punch to repent and actively become Aki Tomoya's bootlicker to have a chance.
Meaning that if Eriri wanted to maintain her current self, there was absolutely no chance.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was tentatively considered a loser sister with Eriri in the original work. Now that she had obtained the diary and walked a completely new future, she indeed didn't want Eriri to struggle in this ending where no future could be seen.
Let Eriri figure out what she thinks of Aki Tomoya first.
A friendship formed in elementary school, but this friendship was terminated by Eriri herself in the third grade of elementary school.
Eriri was obsessed with their friendship back then and wanted to retrieve that emotion after growing up, but she repeatedly pulled back and forth because of her own personality.
Aki Tomoya seemed to be able to communicate normally with Eriri now, but the seven years had made the thorn in his heart deeper. It could be said that Eriri's act of approaching as if nothing had happened would only push him further away.
Kasumigaoka Utaha muttered a few words in her heart, then took out her phone and told the girls in the chat group that her probe of Suzumiya Haruhi failed at noon today.
...
And on the rooftop, after accompanying Shiina Mashiro for lunch, Shiina Mashiro ran to the Art Club for a lunch break, leaving the space on the rooftop to Miyauchi Hikage and Sakakibara Kouichi.
And the question Sakakibara Kouichi asked was simple: were the rumors about Kanoe Yuuko true?
"It's true. I'm even entangled by the evil side of Kanoe Yuuko's soul now," Miyauchi Hikage said something extraordinary with a smile.
The expression on Sakakibara Kouichi's face immediately became strange.
Why did what Miyauchi Hikage said sound so ambiguous?
Miyauchi Hikage waved his hand: "Anyway, don't worry about these details. That guy can't cause any trouble. I'm not an ordinary person now, I can handle her."
After a long silence, Sakakibara Kouichi asked, "So you finally decided to stop being human?"
Sakakibara Kouichi never regarded Miyauchi Hikage as an ordinary person.
How could an ordinary person create such a big company at the age of 16, buy a Western-style house in the center of Tokyo, and then run to film horror videos with unlimited future prospects?
How much money could horror movies make?
The box office of The Shining back then was less than 50 million US dollars, and those Japanese horror movies also had a box office of tens of millions of US dollars.
Miyauchi Hikage did nothing all day, and with his scary financial luck, just standing in a busy street to pick up money, he could pick up more than 100,000 yen a day.
Before, Sakakibara Kouichi thought Miyauchi Hikage really liked horror movies, so he pulled him into the partnership.
But after getting familiar with Miyauchi Hikage's personality, he knew that Miyauchi Hikage liked too many things, and movies were probably just one of his insignificant hobbies.
Coupled with the ghost shadow incident that appeared before, from that time on, Sakakibara Kouichi knew that Miyauchi Hikage had other purposes.
And looking at it now, after experiencing the Kanoe Yuuko incident, Miyauchi Hikage finally achieved his goal?
Facing Sakakibara Kouichi's rhetorical question, Miyauchi Hikage rolled his eyes.
"Do you think I'm not human now?"
"I mean, we have successfully become regulars now. We will be the regular army in the future." Miyauchi Hikage snapped his fingers, and a flame was rubbed out of his hand and quickly dissipated in the air.
This was a small trick researched by combining Hamon breathing with Sun Breathing sword techniques.
It was useless, just making a fire.
But it was indeed a bit stylish in terms of showing off.
Sakakibara Kouichi looked at the move demonstrated by Miyauchi Hikage. Even though he had long been prepared that this world was not simple, his mind was still violently shaken at this time.
"Itou Kaiji probably will be fast too after experiencing the Kanoe Yuuko matter, but given that guy's character, it's probably just a passive skill like 'adversity strong luck'," Miyauchi Hikage patted Sakakibara Kouichi's shoulder. "So you have to work hard. Many people are eyeing your position now."
Sakakibara Kouichi, who was just an ordinary person, heard these things again before he had completely changed his worldview.
After thinking for a long time, he shook his head somewhat dejectedly: "My health has not been good since I was a child. Although I like reading horror novels, I have to admit that I should also professed love for something but feared its reality. If I really come into contact with those things, I'm afraid I will run away too."
No, not only will you not run away, but you will stand more firmly on the side of the anomaly to investigate the truth.
Miyauchi Hikage, who had watched Another, naturally knew what kind of character the boy in front of him had.
Itou Kaiji was a guy who usually felt that his life was cheap so he wandered around, but when he was really in despair, he would be willing to throw everything away to survive and gain more benefits. He belonged to the anti-hero protagonist type.
And Sakakibara Kouichi was the protagonist of a very classic detective story. He was sensitive and strong inside. Even if the classmates around him died one after another, he could investigate the final truth in pain, and finally killed his aunt who had died a year ago with his own hands, ending the calamity of that year.
If he could really awaken to the supernatural and stand on his own, Miyauchi Hikage was willing to have such a potential assistant by his side.
He encouraged him, and then briefly explained the situation of the inner world, including his current relationship with Jujutsu High.
Then he briefly explained the matter of supernatural awakening.
Although ordinary people might awaken abilities in their daily lives, it was obvious that people who had long-term contact with those supernatural existences were also more likely to awaken supernatural abilities.
After telling him these things, Miyauchi Hikage didn't let Sakakibara Kouichi make a decision directly, but asked him to think calmly before making a decision, and stated that no matter what decision he made, he would support him.
Sakakibara Kouichi didn't expect Miyauchi Hikage to value him so much, but he still nodded, indicating that he would consider it carefully.
When he was about to leave, Miyauchi Hikage stopped him again: "If that transfer student finds you and wants to join our team, you can agree to let her come with us to scout locations."
Sakakibara Kouichi was stunned. Looking at Miyauchi Hikage's tone, it seemed that the beautiful transfer student who transferred here today also had an unusual identity?
But he didn't care.
That Suzumiya Haruhi was Miyauchi Hikage's deskmate now. Their relationship should be closer. If she had nothing to do, why would she come to him?
After chatting with Sakakibara Kouichi, nothing else happened that day.
Suzumiya Haruhi attended class honestly. She took the initiative to say a few words to him during the break, but she didn't ask about those horror videos, but about Kasumigaoka Utaha's situation.
Sure enough, after hearing his "warning," Kasumigaoka Utaha became more interested in Suzumiya Haruhi's existence.
Knowing that Kasumigaoka Utaha probed Suzumiya Haruhi in the cafeteria at noon but ended up with nothing, Miyauchi Hikage simply explained to her that he and Kasumigaoka Utaha were just normal friends, and he just helped her with some favors and gave some suggestions.
Looking at Suzumiya Haruhi's thoughtful appearance, Miyauchi Hikage knew that Kasumigaoka Utaha probably failed to probe successfully, and instead made Suzumiya Haruhi suspicious of her.
With her mind on Kasumigaoka Utaha, Suzumiya Haruhi seemed likely to quiet down for a while in the future.