Compared to the even more twisted sense of imbalance in the shadow Yuuko's heart.
On Kanoe Yuuko's side, she was originally still feeling pain and conflict over her past memories.
This sudden surge of power also caught her completely off guard.
It was a faint reminder in her brain that this seemed to be a special power that the diary she had obtained had temporarily opened for her because it detected that her current situation was very dangerous.
And this power seemed to have a time limit.
To be honest, the original Kanoe Yuuko was still immersed in her painful memories because of the shadow Yuuko's words and was suffering greatly for it.
But when this incomparably turbulent power gushed out from her body, the current Kanoe Yuuko had no mind to dwell on these memories anymore.
Her entire focus was on controlling the power within her body, to prevent herself from losing control and directly destroying the entire old school building.
After all, no matter how watered-down it was, what she possessed now was genuine special-grade power. Destroying an old school building like this was no problem at all.
She did her best to gather this power with her spiritual body and temporarily put aside the memories of her past life.
She was indeed not yet able to let go of everything from the past, but she was certainly unwilling for this other self of hers to arbitrarily vent the hatred in her heart on these innocent people.
However, after meeting the shadow Yuuko before, just by looking at her actions, she could intuitively feel the power gap between the two of them.
Without power, when facing this self, there was simply no way to stop her actions.
The only method Kanoe Yuuko could think of now was to adopt the same plan as the shadow Yuuko—the shadow Yuuko wanted to use herself as the main body to completely absorb her existence, but had failed due to the diary's protection.
So, could she also, through a similar method, on the premise that they were originally one, find a way to absorb a part of the other's power from the shadow Yuuko, thus giving herself the ability to negotiate with her.
Therefore, when the shadow Yuuko reminded her of these painful past events again, she also tried hard to make herself accept this self from the past that she couldn't accept, this self filled with hatred in her heart, and then in reverse, absorb the other's power.
However, after so many years, Kanoe Yuuko found that she seemed to have gotten used to that carefree life of the past, where she didn't have to worry about anything.
Even though that was everything she had experienced in the past, after recalling it again now, the discomfort she felt was even stronger than before she died.
Under such circumstances, how could she possibly bear the weight of the shadow Yuuko, who had endured all this for more than half a century and had also absorbed a large amount of negative emotions to become even stronger.
Let alone taking back power from her, she herself was almost assimilated by her first.
Fortunately, with the help of the diary, she now temporarily possessed a power stronger than this self before her.
With the blessing of this power, Kanoe Yuuko could first put aside the conflict in her heart and face this self before her with all her being.
Kanoe Yuuko thanked the diary from the bottom of her heart for lending her this power, not yet realizing how much debt she had taken on for these ten minutes of power.
She did her best to restrain her power.
In the sixty years she had been a ghost floating in Seikyou Academy, she had long since gotten used to her identity and some of the special powers she had acquired after becoming a spirit. Although this power was lent to her by the diary, she only felt a little awkward when she first started using it.
Except for the beginning when she was still in an emotionally out-of-control state and couldn't control it, after she came to her senses, she could already control herself relatively well.
What she had to do now was to solve the problem of this self before her before this power dissipated.
Looking at the "self" not far away, whose aura was a bit hazy, Kanoe Yuuko walked up to her with a somewhat complicated expression.
If she were to go all out now, with the assistance of the shrine maiden by the shrine, there was indeed a high probability of directly erasing this ugly self.
However, Kanoe Yuuko couldn't bring herself to do it.
The other may no longer be so pure, but in the beginning, she was indeed a part of Kanoe Yuuko's soul that had been split off.
She was the main body of Kanoe Yuuko's soul, and also the side that escaped from reality.
In order to forget the ugly image she had shown before she died, she, who wanted to escape, split off her negative emotions, which became the shadow Yuuko before her.
During this long period of time, she, the main body, had forgotten everything and had spent day after day peacefully in the campus. Whenever she felt tired of it, she would subconsciously split off these negative emotions and pass them on to the shadow Yuuko's side to ensure her own "purity."
And what about the shadow Yuuko's side?
Although the other wanted to devour her, Kanoe Yuuko's heart was only filled with sorrow.
After all, from the very beginning, she was abandoned as the "evil and ugly" part, and could not be perceived by her, who was deliberately avoiding it.
She also had to serve as the emotional trash can for her, the main body, and all the students of Seikyou Academy, bearing the pressure and negative emotions of generation after generation.
For sixty years, Kanoe Yuuko really didn't know how she had endured it.
Therefore, after obtaining a strength greater than the shadow Yuuko's, she only ensured that the shadow Yuuko before her would not do anything dangerous to the others in the basement, and then placed her gaze on Hiiragi Inori around the shrine.
"Miss Shrine Maiden, do you have a way to resolve the hatred in this 'me's' heart?"
Hearing the inquiry from the Kanoe Yuuko who looked "more normal" but whose displayed strength was too excessive, Hiiragi Inori was a little slow to react for a moment.
But she quickly realized the possibility of this situation.
A soul splits into two different individuals, good and evil. The good individual suppresses the evil individual, and then because the evil individual's aura is more conspicuous.
So, for so many years, although Kanoe Yuuko had always exuded the aura of a vengeful spirit, she had never really done anything evil.
If it weren't for the spiritual resurgence, relying on the spiritual power of the ley line and the rumors that had been circulating in Seikyou Academy for decades, Kanoe Yuuko's spirit could probably have maintained this stable state until the ley line here changed—that is, when the old school building was demolished.
Having figured out the change in Kanoe Yuuko's soul, although Hiiragi Inori was still a little strange as to why this normal Kanoe Yuuko could possess such powerful strength, she glanced at the shrine beside her and quickly found a reason for her in her heart.
The Kanoe family was a family of priests and had once worshipped a true god.
To have died tragically in front of this shrine where a god was once worshipped, and to have become a spirit because of a contract signed with the ley line.
Perhaps at this time, her priestess bloodline had also played some role, which was what allowed her to possess such powerful strength.
In the heart of Hiiragi Inori, who had not seen the conflicted and helpless appearance that Kanoe Yuuko had shown in front of the shadow Yuuko, she now believed that it was because she had sensed that her evil self wanted to vent her inner hatred on them that she had appeared before them and rescued them from the illusion.
Thinking of this, Hiiragi Inori looked again at the shadow Yuuko, who also seemed to have been deterred, looked at the resentment on her body, and then shook her head with some helplessness.
"Although our lineage has techniques to purify filth, we don't have a very good method for this kind of situation."
The shadow Yuuko was, after all, a super Grade 1 vengeful spirit, and she also had the consciousness and wisdom of an ordinary person.
Under such circumstances, unless she could figure it out on her own, it seemed that the only way to resolve the hatred in her heart was to find a Zen master to chant sutras for her day and night to guide her to salvation.
But even so, it was not certain whether it would succeed.
Especially for a wronged soul like Kanoe Yuuko.
Without any fault, the villagers, in order to avert disaster, joined with her own sister to offer Kanoe Yuuko as a human sacrifice to a non-existent "god," letting her fend for herself in this basement.
Under such circumstances, as the shadow Yuuko, who was born from Kanoe Yuuko's "evil" side, trying to reform her would probably be much more difficult than trying to reform a special-grade vengeful spirit.
In the history of Zen Buddhism, there have also been monks who failed to reform a vengeful spirit and were eventually led into demonic ways by the spirit.
Therefore, compared to chanting sutras for salvation and reformation, it was clear that physical salvation and reformation were much more efficient.
Hiiragi Inori sighed and told Kanoe Yuuko the method she knew.
So, in the end, the best solution was for her to bear everything the other had endured over the years, only then would it be possible to resolve this hatred?
After hearing this answer, Kanoe Yuuko's expression also looked a bit bitter.
"Then do you have a way to seal 'me'?"
She could not bear her past now, but since she had recalled everything and realized that although avoidance might be useful for a while, she would eventually have to face all this.
Unwilling to eliminate "herself," the only thing she could do now was to seal her away, and then face her after she had made all the preparations.
With the help of that magical diary, she should be able to welcome that day soon.
However, as this thought arose in Kanoe Yuuko's mind.
On the other side, the shadow Yuuko, with her vacant eyes, finally understood all the reasons.
So, all these changes were brought about by that mysterious diary?
Although her main body had recovered her memory with the help of that Miyauchi Hikage and had realized the connection between them.
But she seemed to have overlooked just how close their connection was.
Now, because of that diary, the connection from her side to the main body's side had been unilaterally intercepted.
But the main body's connection to her, or rather, interference, had not been cut off because of this.
This could be seen from the fact that when the main body was in a state of high mental concentration, it could still briefly control her actions.
At the same time, the negative and pessimistic attitudes that arose in the other's heart would also be more easily transmitted to her side.
Therefore, after she had put herself in the position of a shadow for a long time and carefully received the information and negative emotions that Kanoe Yuuko had unconsciously revealed, especially the guilt of the other not wanting to eliminate her, the shadow Yuuko already knew the source of the other's power.
That diary... what was its origin?
The shadow Yuuko didn't need to know.
She only needed to know that her foolish and naive main body would actually want to actively give up such a power, and that her main body had now placed the diary that only the two of them could see in that Miyauchi Hikage's backpack.
In other words, as long as she could find Miyauchi Hikage's whereabouts, she would have a chance to snatch the ownership of that diary from him!
Controlling the fluctuations in her heart to prevent her thoughts from being seen through by her main body or that shrine maiden, the shadow Yuuko patiently waited for an opportunity.
And on Hiiragi Inori's side, after hearing Kanoe Yuuko's thoughts, she immediately said that she could seal the shadow Yuuko in the shrine.
"You originally became like this because of the shrine. The shrine is very suitable as a vessel for the seal. However, if it's for a long time, it will still be easy for 'her' resentment to leak out and affect the nearby ley line again."
Hiiragi Inori felt the turbid ley line under the shrine. Although the ley line itself had a certain self-repair ability, if it was not purified quickly, vengeful spirits and Cursed Spirits would be more likely to breed on this land in the next few months, and the ordinary people living here would also be more likely to suffer some undeserved disasters.
If the shadow Yuuko was sealed here, then she would have to come and check the seal every year or half a year to ensure that it would not loosen.
"A year or half a year?" Kanoe Yuuko nodded, feeling that this time should be enough. She asked Hiiragi Inori to prepare, and she would help control the shadow Yuuko.
According to the diary, as long as she read the diary every day, she could continuously become stronger.
A year later, she should be able to find a way to make this self's hatred dissipate.
And hearing Kanoe Yuuko make such a decisive choice, Hiiragi Inori was a little caught off guard.
However, the strong resentment on the shadow Yuuko could not be concealed, and if it weren't for Kanoe Yuuko's intervention, she might have been lost in the illusion created by her by now.
So after getting Kanoe Yuuko's response, Hiiragi Inori no longer hesitated and prepared to begin the sealing ceremony.
And it was at this moment that the shadow Yuuko finally showed her fangs.
"You clearly have such powerful strength, yet you still can't bear your own past, so you want to seal me away?"
"No problem. I was originally just an ugly remnant soul that you discarded, split from the negative emotions you were unwilling to accept. As the main body, you can of course arrange my fate as you please."
"However, just now, before I came here, I had already prepared a gift for our last enemy. It's just a pity that I won't be able to personally see the scene of her going to hell."
Kanoe Yuuko was slightly taken aback when she heard the shadow Yuuko's words.
"What did you say?"
The shadow Yuuko's mouth split open, looking at Kanoe Yuuko.
"Don't you know who I'm talking about?"
"Do you think that in that patch of woods just now, why did I suddenly leave? It was because that woman who should have died sixty years ago came here, and I was originally planning to use her blood to start our long-overdue path of revenge."