At this moment, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but feel what the Mysterious Person had mentioned in the diary: because this world integrated too many stories, the characters in these stories might also change their respective fates due to interactions with characters from other stories.
Katō Megumi met the girl named Miyauchi Kōka in front of her at school, and then through her, met Kazuho's neighbor, Shiina Mahiru, and then through this connection, interacted with Shiina Mashiro.
Considering that Megumi and Aki Tomoya were originally classmates in the same class, and also classmates of the girl in front of them, with this relationship, Mashiro might really be able to get Tomoya's approval.
Perhaps only Eriri Spencer Sawamura, that other loser, would be difficult to get approval from.
But on second thought... Eriri's side doesn't seem that important, does it?
In the manga, having her as a strong love rival is already enough. Why must another Eriri, who looks like a loser at first glance, be forced in?
She shook her head, feeling that a slightly better-off loser like herself shouldn't be thinking about such things.
Let Mashiro figure it out herself.
Her gaze fell on the girl in front of her, who seemed a bit carefree.
She wondered if this girl, who looked like a junior high student, and her brother, might be characters from other works?
However, after thinking about it, she didn't take this matter to heart.
The other party didn't get the diary, so it's fine to just treat her as an ordinary junior.
Perhaps she could even learn about the movements of Megumi and Mashiro through this seemingly easy-to-talk-to junior?
Keeping this thought in mind, Utaha's attitude towards Kazuho improved significantly.
As for her attitude towards Renji Miyauchi, she was much better than an ordinary reader, but she didn't say much, only simply asked about Renji's class.
After learning that his class had neither Megumi nor Eriri, she gave Renji a polite smile, then signed the "Love Metronome" in Renji's hand, and wished him success in his studies.
It seems that after many days of diary torment, the current Utaha indeed no longer wants to have any scandals with boys, and only wants to focus on her career.
Of course, there was also finding the whereabouts of the Mysterious Person and seeing what their background was.
It's a pity that he was standing in front of Utaha, but she didn't notice any problems, and couldn't even sense his special constitution like Megumi and Mashiro could.
It seems that Utaha probably doesn't have much talent in Ripple Breathing, and completely relies on the so-called reading value to improve.
Thinking this, Renji was also relaxed, no longer needing to pretend.
After thanking the other party with gratitude, the group, who had gained a lot, left the autograph session with several novels signed by Kasumi Shiko herself.
"Senior Kasumigaoka looks quite gentle. She's completely different from the aloof appearance she had when speaking at the entrance ceremony," Kazuho said, flipping through the novel in her hand, still looking quite excited.
She seemed to feel that she had already obtained the secret of Utaha, this excellent student, and when she went back to her hometown for the holidays, she would have one more thing to boast about in front of her juniors and sister.
"Megumi, you really should have gone to say hello to Senior Kasumigaoka. She knew you were also a Toyosaki student, and she even specially found a bookmark, signed her name on it, and asked me to give it to you," Kazuho said, regretfully handing a beautiful bookmark to Megumi, who was standing by.
Megumi took the bookmark with a slight doubt.
There was only one line of text on it.
"I hope you can still be the heroine of your own story."
"Still?"
Why did Senior Kasumigaoka use the word "still" here? Is there some deeper meaning?
Megumi didn't quite understand the meaning of the words on the bookmark, but she carefully kept the gift the other party had given her, and decided that no matter what, she would buy one of Senior's novels as support.
"Alright, we've got the autographs. Next, we just need to buy manga for Mashiro. You guys can give Mashiro advice, I'll go find my two friends first," Renji told the girls about his plan.
After accompanying Mashiro to buy manga, he would have to leave to buy filming equipment, otherwise, there wouldn't be enough time.
But he could still treat everyone to a good meal at a restaurant outside for dinner.
Upon receiving this answer, Mashiro, who had just received Utaha's approval, only hesitated for a moment before nodding to Renji.
But looking at her eyes, if he didn't show up for dinner, the other party might directly ask Kōka to call him.
He accompanied Shiina Mashiro in picking dozens of manga of various styles, piece by piece.
The process of selecting manga was basically all done by Renji alone.
After all, Katō Megumi had not been exposed to two-dimensional culture before meeting Aki Tomoya, and Shiina Mahiru was also unfamiliar with it.
Miyauchi Kazuho seemed to know a lot, but in reality, she was just following him, and only he was a genuine anime expert in this regard.
Relying on his years of experience and Tomoya's careful selection during his years of blogging, the process of searching for manga was relatively quick.
In the end, because the quantity was a bit large, Renji even specially found a staff member and asked them to help package these manga and send them all to Mahiru's home.
After giving Mashiro a reassuring look, he let his sister take the other girls to go shopping elsewhere.
After doing all this, he first found Sakakibara Kōichi in the detective novel section, and then found Itō Kaiji, who was engrossed in reading, under a bookshelf of a gambling manga that was said to be based on the true story of Akagi Shigeru.
After his two generals had returned, Renji continued the unfinished procurement with them.
He basically knew how these items performed and how they felt to use.
It's just that he had previously planned to let Kōichi and Kaiji spend some time familiarizing themselves with the operation of these devices so that he could control them remotely later.
However, time was tight now, so he temporarily skipped these steps.
Later that night, they had dinner at a restaurant opened by a chef who graduated from Tōtsuki Academy.
Of course, he didn't have as much influence as Shinomiya Kaguya to invite a former Tōtsuki Elite Ten to specially prepare dinner for the girls who had the diary.
But even the dishes made by ordinary Tōtsuki graduates were indeed much better than those in regular restaurants.
"Tomorrow after school, I will bring a gift to see you. You can talk to me about anything you want then."
"So, tonight, you should study the manga I bought for you. When I come tomorrow, I will also ask you some questions, do you understand?"
To prevent Shiina Mashiro from staying up all night reading manga, he even set a latest bedtime for her, requiring her to sleep before that time.
After getting Mashiro's consent, Renji then continued to pull his two generals to the deserted mansion in Mihana Town.
The video shooting process was not that complicated; this was just a test video, so no particularly professional equipment was needed.
It has to be said that Itō Kaiji really had some talent in this area.
After Renji gave him a few simple pointers, he grasped the core idea that influencer videos either sell sex or sell ugliness, and fully showed his fear of this mansion, where a murder had once occurred, in front of the camera.
Kōichi calmly recounted the events of the case that had occurred there and complained about Kaiji's actions, which seemed to have a good effect.
Although there was nothing particularly terrifying about the overall presentation, with his control as an experienced artist, the general atmosphere was quite good.
Later, by taking out some classic suspenseful short tunes from his previous life as test videos for exploration, it shouldn't be too difficult for such pioneering videos to gain popularity online.
"Well done, as expected, my judgment was not wrong; you were born for this."
Renji was not stingy with his praise, and then he even gave both of these generals a small reward as a bonus.
After arranging Kaiji's tasks for the next few days and incidentally painting a picture of a Tokyo branch company being intensely prepared, Renji waved goodbye to the two and prepared to go home to write his diary for the day.
Meanwhile, on Kasumigaoka Utaha's side, after failing to catch the Mysterious Person all day, she felt in her heart that Renji was indeed talking nonsense and that the person had never come to her side at all. Feeling somewhat dissatisfied, when she opened her diary for the seventh time tonight, she finally saw today's update.
"A certain Kasumi utako teacher shouldn't still be complaining in her heart that I didn't attend her autograph session today, right?
To be honest, if you really think that way, then I would be heartbroken.
Although considering this is the beginning of the Kasumi utako IF line, I didn't snatch the first autograph spot, but I got more than one signature from Kasumi utako teacher today, oh.
After all, Kasumi utako teacher's works naturally need to be bought in several copies.
One for collection, one for personal use, and another for proselytizing.
It's clear that you spent a lot of thought trying to catch me.
The outfits changed between morning and afternoon, and you said different things to every reader who attended the autograph session. You even hid a secret mark in every signed name.
However, after I used several identities to attend your autograph session, all the tricks you designed were completely seen through by me.
If you want to catch me with this method, you're at least twenty thousand years too early.
But overall, although the things Kasumi utako teacher prepared didn't bring me any special surprises, the other girls who appeared at the autograph session today did make me feel that it was worth the trip.
Tsukimi Eiko, who attended the autograph session in the morning, her ultimate big event, I still can't fully confirm what the situation will be in this world, so let me keep you in suspense for now.
But when the truth is revealed, it will definitely bring a considerable shock to everyone.
The Shiina sisters who appeared in the afternoon also gave me a small surprise.
Perhaps from their appearance, you might think they should be sisters.
But in reality, they are the heroines of two different works.
Different authors, different creation times, different types of works.
Even their character designs are completely different.
One is an innocent genius painter who wants to become a manga artist, and the other is a little girl who puts on a gentle and well-behaved façade, afraid of being abandoned by her parents.
The only thing that can connect them is their similar names.
I didn't expect that two heroines who should have been completely unrelated would become a pair of sisters in this world, and they even live together. Now the plots of these two works are completely broken.
Is it like all Takanashi are relatives, and everyone named Shiina Mahiru are also cousins?
I thought about it again.
There seem to be quite a few characters named Shiina in various works, and even considering the additional condition of blonde hair, it seems a few more targets could be filtered out.
But I'm too lazy to investigate.
@Shinomiya Kaguya, since you like to send your subordinates to investigate so much, then I'll leave this matter to you to help with. I'll just come to you for the data when the time comes."
After the diary update, the chat group became lively again in the evening.
Because Kasumigaoka Utaha had previously revealed Shiina Mashiro, the diary holder who had not joined the chat group.
And from the evening, she had been complaining all day that she hadn't encountered anyone suspicious of being the Mysterious Person at the autograph session, and even kept complaining in the group that the Mysterious Person was a coward who didn't dare to show his face and only knew how to talk big.
Then, after tonight's diary update, Utaha, who had been arrogant all evening, was slapped hard in the face.
The Mysterious Person not only really went to Utaha's autograph session today but also changed identities several times to get signatures.
Otherwise, how could he know that when she was signing at today's autograph session, she deliberately made subtle marks in each signature that were not immediately obvious but could be instantly discovered by her if the Mysterious Person dared to post a picture of the signature in the diary, indicating roughly when he attended her autograph session?
He even knew the difference in her clothing during the morning and afternoon autograph sessions—this was indeed a method she prepared to test whether the Mysterious Person came in the morning or afternoon.
She didn't expect that these tricks would be completely seen through by the other party.
Umaru: "So the Mysterious Person really came today? It's a pity that after I met with NO NAME in the morning and looked around the autograph session for a while without finding any suspicious individuals, I took everyone to the nearby arcade in the afternoon."
Her game competition with Hinata Aoi ultimately ended in her victory.
Therefore, Umaru's mood now seems to be very good, even if she couldn't catch the Mysterious Person, it wouldn't affect her current mood.
Black Cat: "This is the fifth time you've deliberately brought up this topic tonight. This time it's because I couldn't come as I was taking care of Master Uncle Jiraiya at home. When I come next time, the silent one that night will be you."
Since Umaru announced the results of the competition in the group tonight, Aoi had been silent in the group for a long time, only saying "Next time" and letting Umaru talk down to her in the group.
Therefore, Umaru continued to send provocative emojis in the group, looking exceptionally annoying.
It was Yukinoshita Yukino, whose mentality had been tormented by Jiraiya all day, who interrupted Umaru's self-amusement and brought the topic back to the Mysterious Person.
Hachiman: "That is to say, the Mysterious Person indeed possesses a disguise ability that we currently cannot see through. @Kasumi utako , did you really not feel any abnormality at all?"
Kasumi utako: "I was focused on observing every reader who came to the autograph session all day today. I confirmed that I didn't find anyone suspicious of being the Mysterious Person. I can only say that his disguise is indeed very powerful."
Shinomiya Kaguya also spoke at this time.
Kaguya: "I have already obtained the list of all suspicious individuals recorded by the bodyguards near the autograph session today. I am currently comparing them one by one. If there is any news, I will notify everyone."
Kaguya: "However, don't have too much hope for this list. After all, I am not the manager of Akihabara, so I cannot directly mobilize all the surveillance equipment on that street to calculate the information of all personnel entering and exiting Akihabara today."
Kaguya: "Moreover, with the Mysterious Person's caution and disguise, he must have made full preparations before appearing before us."
Kaguya: "To catch the Mysterious Person's tail, we can only wait for the Mysterious Person to make a mistake himself."
Saying this, after a while, Kaguya sent Shiina Mashiro's information to the chat group.
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