Miyauchi Hikage didn't know what the other holders of the second batch of diaries were thinking, but he knew that Suzumiya Haruhi would definitely be the most restless one.
Sure enough, less than half an hour after Miyauchi Hikage sent out the diary entry, he received a message from Suzumiya Haruhi.
"I recently found a small town near Sendai that has various urban legends. I feel it's very suitable to make the urban legends of this town into a video series. Do you want to consider it? Anyway, it only takes two hours to take the Shinkansen to Sendai. I plan to ask for leave for a day or two to go there and check the situation first. What do you think?"
Attached below was an introduction image of Morioh Town.
Looking at Suzumiya Haruhi, who was already prepared to buy a ticket, Miyauchi Hikage shook his head and typed a response: "There are still many subjects in Tokyo; there's no need to be in such a hurry to shoot out of town. And what I said is true—it's not safe for a girl to go alone to a place full of urban legends."
"If you really care about it, I can ask people living in Morioh Town online first. If those urban legends are interesting enough, it won't be too late for us to go there this Friday night."
Spending some effort, Miyauchi Hikage temporarily dissuaded Suzumiya Haruhi. After all, it was just waiting for a few more days; she could afford to wait.
Moreover, she vaguely felt that the reading value she intercepted had a high probability of being related to Miyauchi Hikage. Based on this possibility, she was more or less willing to listen to his opinion.
"But speaking of which, it seems that your group hasn't talked much about the topic of Suzumiya Haruhi recently," Miyauchi Hikage seemed to suddenly think of something and turned to look at Shiina Mashiro, who was sitting beside him waving a magic paintbrush to practice.
Shiina Mashiro tilted her head and blinked at Miyauchi Hikage.
"They said Suzumiya Haruhi's ability is uncontrollable, so it's best to keep a distance from her. Utaha also told me to be careful of her."
This explanation sounded reasonable, but Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but frown: "I still feel something is wrong. After all, Suzumiya Haruhi hasn't shown her divine power yet. Shinomiya Kaguya had been instigating Old Fat Kasumi (Kasumigaoka Utaha) to probe Suzumiya Haruhi before. With Shinomiya Kaguya's character, if she didn't find out anything, she definitely wouldn't give up easily."
"The current Suzumiya Haruhi feels like she is being subconsciously ignored by them in your group. Without being reminded, they won't actively think of her existence," Miyauchi Hikage muttered. "Speaking of which, apart from investigating Old Fat Kasumi all the time in the past half month, Suzumiya Haruhi seems to be quite close to Kato Megumi, and she also knows about Kato Megumi's easily ignored presence."
"Come to think of it, except for visiting all the clubs in the week she just transferred, she seemed to be much quieter last week and didn't do anything eye-catching anymore."
"Perhaps in her heart, she just doesn't want to be noticed by you guys, so her power affected her own presence because of this?"
He hadn't thought in this direction before, but now that he noticed it, the more Miyauchi Hikage thought about it, the more he felt it was possible.
Others might not know how much trouble Suzumiya Haruhi could cause, but how could he not know?
Now that this woman was so quiet, it was the biggest abnormality.
Miyauchi Hikage originally wanted to complain a few more words about Suzumiya Haruhi to Shiina Mashiro, but the perception from Name Magic and Wonder of U suddenly made him stop his movements.
He summoned Yellow Temperance to cover his body, making his aura floating like a ghost and his appearance unclear.
His voice also became ethereal, making it impossible to distinguish between male and female: "It seems that a girl with a somewhat extreme personality has received a formidable reward. I have to go and check, lest she does something she regrets."
Hearing Miyauchi Hikage's words, Shiina Mashiro patted Miyauchi Hikage's head in return, telling him to go and come back early.
Miyauchi Hikage nodded, then opened the Eye of Destiny and found the address of that girl.
Although not in the heart of Tokyo, judging from the surrounding environment, it should be a detached house in a very good location.
Living in such a place, the family conditions of this girl named Matsushita Ayami were naturally not bad.
However, when focusing his gaze inside the house, what he saw was a man shouting insults and inflicting violence on a woman.
In addition to ruthlessness, the man's eyes seemed to carry a trace of apprehension, so when he hit that woman, he more or less controlled his voice.
And the woman seemed to have become accustomed to such a life. Facing the man's violence, she didn't resist at all, and was even whispering pleas for the other party's forgiveness.
Miyauchi Hikage didn't care about this pair of resentful spouses.
What he cared about was that in the room of Matsushita Ayami on the second floor of this house, the girl with short black hair was facing a piece of paper in front of her, her eyes looking exceptionally conflicted.
Although the two people downstairs had lowered their voices, for Matsushita Ayami, who had practiced Hamon breathing for a month and a half and even secretly solved a few low-level vengeful spirits, she could clearly hear the man's quarreling and the insults directed at her, his stepdaughter.
So, why did it become like this?
Obviously, when her mother decided to remarry two years ago, their family was quite happy.
It wasn't until the beginning of this year that she found her stepfather's temper at home getting worse and worse. He always took advantage of being drunk to inflict violence on her and her mother. Later, after she obtained the diary and used reading value to learn some tracking skills, she discovered that her stepfather had long kept several mistresses outside and had long been tired of this marriage.
The meaning of her and her mother's existence now was to serve as punching bags for that man to vent his temper.
She had been enduring it until earlier this month. Seeing her bleeding mother during a domestic violence incident, unable to accept it, she relied on the power of Hamon to beat the other party up in return.
She thought the other party would restrain himself after this, and she and her mother's life could return to peace.
But who could have thought that her mother would still be obedient to that man, and even blamed her afterwards for this, telling her to continue to endure like in the past?
Obviously, that man already planned to propose a divorce, and was even secretly planning to transfer the family assets out in advance, leaving the mother and daughter with nothing. Yet her mother was still bitterly trying to keep the other party.
What she got in the end was only more careful and cruel treatment from that man.
Matsushita Ayami had no doubt that if this continued, there would be only one path waiting for her mother.
After obtaining the diary, Matsushita Ayami wanted to know what kind of future she would obtain, but unfortunately, that Mysterious Person seemed to have never noticed her existence and never mentioned her name in the diary.
Until today, Matsushita Ayami received a reward from the diary for the first time, and obtained a piece of paper.
A torn page from the Death Note, accompanied by instructions for using this paper.
Perhaps this was the instruction given to her by the diary?
If that man could really die according to the instructions she gave, perhaps this nightmare could be ended.