Both Kyoto Jujutsu High and Tokyo Jujutsu High were facing a shortage of students in this era.
One reason was that there were not many people who could awaken supernatural powers to begin with, and they also had to compete with the supernatural forces of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples, which could be found everywhere in Japan.
However, the main reason was that the situation on the Jujutsu world's side was rather complicated.
Although spiritual power, magical power, or cursed energy were all different manifestations of supernatural power.
But cursed energy, a power that primarily originated from human negative emotions, had a somewhat heretical meaning in the eyes of spirit mediums and onmyoji.
Even though negative energy could be converted into positive energy through a reversed cursed technique, and one could obtain extremely strong healing abilities, this was something that only a very small number of genius Jujutsu Sorcerers could do.
In any case, because of the source of the Jujutsu Sorcerers' power, and the fact that the proportion of supernatural beings in history who had fallen from being a Jujutsu Sorcerer to a curse user was indeed much higher than the proportion of defectors from other supernatural forces.
Even in this era of mysterious resurgence, although a strong individual like Gojo Satoru had appeared, a curse user like Geto Suguru, who wanted to eradicate all non-sorcerers, had also appeared. Therefore, the public opinion environment for Jujutsu Sorcerers in the hidden world had not improved much compared to before.
Miwa Kasumi, as an ordinary person who had not yet awakened an Innate Technique, if it weren't for her considerable talent in kendo and having become the successor of the New Shadow Style, she probably would not have become a Jujutsu Sorcerer, let alone have been exceptionally admitted by Kyoto Jujutsu High.
However, Miwa Kasumi had no opinion on this.
The cursed energy awakened in her body was not much. Even if she switched to being a spirit medium or an onmyoji, she probably wouldn't achieve much, nor would she be able to earn much money to raise and take care of her younger siblings at home.
On the contrary, there were fewer people on the Jujutsu world's side. Continuing to study sword techniques might be more profitable.
In any case, Miwa Kasumi's family situation was no secret in the school. The school would also take care of her with some low-level exorcism missions, allowing her to earn a little money to support her family.
And this kind of out-of-town business trip mission was not dangerous, and also required a person who was more familiar with the surface world and had a more normal personality to carry it out.
Therefore, this mission, which seemed to have a decent amount of profit, had naturally fallen on her.
"The people from Tokyo Jujutsu High probably won't take the initiative to snatch her. After all, we were the first to take a fancy to her. But if there's really some special situation, you shouldn't get into a conflict with them in Tokyo. Just show the style of our Kyoto Jujutsu High and let her make her own choice."
Gakuganji Yoshinobu actually didn't care that much about the so-called Shinomiya family.
After all, the rules of the surface world and the hidden world were completely different. Except for a few who were born as ordinary people or were obsessed with money, supernatural beings rarely cared about how much wealth they had in their hands.
Just like the sword techniques of the New Shadow Style, Miwa Kasumi, whose family conditions were not very good, had not spent too much money to learn it. She had just formed a binding vow with it, which prevented her from casually passing on the sword techniques to others and required her to contribute to the New Shadow Style when necessary.
Although there seemed to be many conspiracy theories circulating in the Jujutsu world, Miwa Kasumi, at any rate, had not felt any problems so far.
And after getting her principal's explanation, Miwa Kasumi didn't think too much, and was even quite looking forward to meeting people from Tokyo Jujutsu High in Tokyo.
After all, Gojo Satoru was a teacher at Tokyo High. If Tokyo High was also interested in that young mistress of the Shinomiya family, then wouldn't she have a chance to meet that Gojo Satoru?
Thinking of this, Miwa Kasumi, who had originally wanted to mention the Sukuna crisis to her principal, instantly changed her mind.
After all, as everyone knew, the relationship between the two Jujutsu Highs in Tokyo and Kyoto was not that harmonious. It would be bad if she were to speak of her worries and some misunderstanding occurred in the middle.
It was better to wait until she went to Tokyo, find a way to take a trip to the Jujutsu High over there, and then tell Gojo Satoru these things in person!
At that time, she might even be able to get his autograph!
Miwa Kasumi, having made this decision in her heart, was even a little delighted.
She was even getting a little impatient.
"Then shall I set off now?"
Looking at this student of his, full of drive, Gakuganji Yoshinobu nodded with satisfaction.
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As Miwa Kasumi, on the first day of obtaining the diary, was about to meet her "senpai," Shinomiya Kaguya, the girls who had woken up had also all seen the diary that the mysterious person had updated last night.
Seeing that the mysterious person had nonchalantly mentioned the commissions that the few of them had received, Shinomiya Kaguya frowned slightly.
So, are these commissions really, as Kasumigaoka Utaha had said, actually all planned by the mysterious person himself?
Or is it that the mysterious person's side can see the commissions they've received through his own diary?
It was just a pity that they were completely ignorant of the situation with the diary in the mysterious person's hands.
In the case of insufficient information, even she would have a hard time guessing that there was actually a mole lurking among them, tipping off the mysterious person.
And looking at the mysterious person's evaluation of those two A+ commissions, Shinomiya Kaguya felt a little regretful.
If the mysterious person could really tell her the truth of that shrine, the Reading Value she would have obtained would probably have been enough for her to directly become the strongest among the girls who had the diary.
And then, relying on this advantage, she could go and complete other high-difficulty commissions to further enhance her strength.
But she could also imagine that if it could be completed so easily, it would not have been rated as an A+ level commission.
"But... new diary holders?" Looking at the beginning of the diary, Shinomiya Kaguya thought for a while, and then with some anticipation, asked Hayasaka Ai.
Although she also knew that such a probability was very small, what if Hayasaka had really also obtained a diary?
However, looking at Hayasaka Ai, who still didn't understand what she had just said, Shinomiya Kaguya regretfully confirmed that she had indeed not obtained a diary.
"A month after obtaining the diary, I've unlocked level 3 permissions. If I continue to unlock permissions like this, I wonder if I can let the people around me also obtain a diary?"
Shinomiya Kaguya had already thought of this idea before.
After all, she had already made up her mind to further delve into the hidden world and use it to obtain the power of the Shinomiya family.
Although she had secretly taught Hayasaka Ai a part of the ripple breathing in private, hoping that this girl who had grown up with her could also continue to walk with her in the future.
But she herself was still a half-baked amateur now, and she didn't have the kind of ability that Miyauchi Hikage had to implant the ripple into others' bodies and forcibly change their breathing rhythm to adapt to it.
Unable to use Reading Value to improve the abilities of others, her teaching was just to let the other party master the rhythm of ripple breathing as much as possible, and then bit by bit, let their own body sense the existence of the ripple.
It was just a pity that this efficiency was still a little too slow. In addition, Hayasaka Ai's work schedule for the whole day was packed, and she simply couldn't find much time to learn Hamon.
To the extent that until now, Hayasaka Ai could only barely feel the existence of the ripple, but could not truly produce new ripples with her own breathing.
I hope level 4 permissions can unlock the ability to give diaries to others, or to be able to use one's own Reading Value to improve the abilities of others.
Or at this time next month, just send the diary directly to Hayasaka Ai's hands.
If that really doesn't work, it's not impossible to send it to Fujiwara Chika.
After all, these two are my only friends now.
Thinking this, Shinomiya Kaguya then looked at the new commissions that had refreshed in her diary.
Besides the A+ level commission whose truth even the mysterious person didn't know, there were two more new commissions.
One was to become the student council president of Shuchi'in Academy.
The other was to have Hayasaka Ai master Hamon.
Regarding the details of the commissions, Shinomiya Kaguya had already researched a lot of useful information last night.
At level 3 permissions, the commission board could refresh up to three commissions per day. If a commission was accepted, a new one would be refreshed the next day.
And the upper limit for accepting commissions was 20. If three commissions could be refreshed every day, one could continuously accept them for a week.
And if one chose not to accept them, they would also be refreshed according to the time based on the commission's level.
D-rank and below commissions would be automatically refreshed every day. C-rank would stay for three days, B-rank for a week, A-rank for a month, and an S-rank commission would exist forever after it was refreshed, unless they took the initiative to abandon it.
It seemed that as long as one accepted the refreshed commissions every day and abandoned those with low rewards, it would be fine.
But it should be noted that accepting a commission was not without a price. Abandoning a commission required accepting a penalty.
And there were also some commissions that had a time limit. If the commission was not completed within the time limit, one would also have to accept a penalty.
As for this penalty mechanism, Shinomiya Kaguya did not ask for the specific situation, only knowing that it would not cause any substantial harm to the body, nor would it deduct Reading Value. It was purely to make everyone try to choose commissions that were within their ability when accepting them.
As long as one did not abandon a large number of commissions in a short period of time, the diary would not give too severe a penalty.
Under normal circumstances, it would generally just be the penalties that might appear after failing a game of truth or dare.
It sounded like there was indeed no danger.
But Shinomiya Kaguya suddenly thought of the situation on Jerry's side.
According to the current view of the girls in the group, Jerry was sent by the mysterious person to confirm their mastery of Hamon and, by the way, to teach them some new knowledge.
However, in order to let them know that this knowledge was not easily obtained, when they made a request to Jerry, he would more or less come up with some tasks that targeted their weaknesses for them to complete.
Like Yukinoshita Yukino, who liked cats but not dogs, being forced to take an extremely wild husky for a walk in the center of Chiba.
And like when she had gone to find Jerry, she had been directly turned into her Little Kaguya state by his ripple.
Shinomiya Kaguya felt that the penalty given by the diary was very likely of this type.
Thinking of that overly萌化 "Little Kaguya" state of hers, she gritted her teeth, determined that she could not expose that weak appearance of hers in front of others again.
However, for these few commissions now, besides the A+ level commission that still had to be hung on the commission board for her to struggle with for a period of time, the remaining two commissions seemed to be acceptable.
Teaching Hayasaka Ai Hamon was something she was going to do anyway.
Becoming the student council president, although this commission would take a longer time, she had carefully looked, and this commission had no time limit.
Although she didn't have many thoughts on becoming the student council president at the moment, for her, as long as she wanted, becoming the student council president of Shuchi'in was a matter of course.
According to the mysterious person, a year later, the male protagonist in her story would become the student council president of Shuchi'in, and then she would have a back-and-forth romantic comedy with him. In the end, because of a stunt operation by that manga artist, it would turn into an abstract farce.
Although the plot of this story made Shinomiya Kaguya very dissatisfied, she could still obtain some intelligence from it.
That male protagonist in her story was an ordinary person, and had even become the student council president as an external student.
Among this, although there was the reason that his grades were the first in the entire school, it was very clear that her intervention should also be in it.
It should be that she had wanted to push him onto the stage and make him her subordinate, which was why she had chosen to let him become the student council president.
It was just that her original plan had gone down, and in the end, not only had she failed to subdue him, but on the contrary, because she was the female protagonist of a romantic comedy, she had completely thrown herself into it.
The Shinomiya Kaguya who had not experienced all of that, and who was still in her "Ice Kaguya" state in most situations at school now, could not imagine how her future self would be changed into that state by him.
In any case, after she had seen the future, it was impossible for it to happen again in this world.
The current Kaguya had already made up her mind to change.
Romantic comedy and all that, she didn't need it.
Her ideal now was not to become some photographer, but to, as a supernatural being, become the person behind the scenes who would rule the Shinomiya family.
Thinking this in her heart, Shinomiya Kaguya, after just a round of contemplation, had made such a judgment.
The mission to have Hayasaka Ai learn Hamon had a time limit of half a month.
Although the time was a bit tight, if she let Hayasaka take a good few days off in these two weeks, and not let her continue to take care of her life, and rest a little more, and have more time to practice Hamon, it should not be a big problem.
As for becoming the student council president of Shuchi'in?
Although there was still a long time before the normal change of term of the student council, this was Shuchi'in, the most elite noble academy in all of Japan.
The students who study here will either enter the financial world or the political world in the future.
Resigning in disgrace, a classic segment of the political arena, it was time to let those guys experience it in advance.
With this thought, Shinomiya Kaguya accepted these two commissions.
In her eyes, she could get these two commissions done in at most two or three weeks. They could be considered very stable, free-point commissions.