In the darkness, looking at the diary in his hand, Miyauchi Hikage felt that the shadow Yuuko had truly run into eight lifetimes of bad luck to encounter such a thing.
Let's turn back time a little.
Before Gojo Satoru arrived, just after Miyauchi Hikage had processed the loan for Kanoe Yuuko, and the shadow Yuuko was being suppressed by Kanoe Yuuko's explosive increase in power.
The shadow Yuuko, through her connection with Kanoe Yuuko, mistakenly believed she had figured out the truth behind her main body's sudden surge in strength, and had already begun searching for Miyauchi Hikage's whereabouts.
Although she indeed did not possess that sudden, powerful surge of her main body, she was, in fact, far more skilled in using her own power, all in order to absorb and counter-devour her main body as soon as possible.
So at that time, she was waiting for an opportunity to escape, while covertly using the polluted spiritual power in the ley line to investigate Miyauchi Hikage's whereabouts.
Although she was a bit surprised that Miyauchi Hikage could actually bypass her control over the school and escape, she still quickly found his location a few hundred meters outside the school through the ley line's perception of abnormal fluctuations.
Then, just as Hiiragi Inori and Kanoe Yuuko were about to join forces to seal her, she first used Kanoe Yukariko's name to attract Kanoe Yuuko's attention.
She was, of course, full of hatred for Kanoe Yukariko, but what she wanted was not simply to kill her, but to torture her with all the torments in the world, and finally kill her after she could no longer extract any negative emotions from her.
Therefore, after discovering Kanoe Yukariko's arrival, and after she had entered the old school building, she took control of her and made her experience her own pain in an illusion.
Only then did she go to the basement with Kanoe Yukariko's appearance, preparing to take Kanoe Kirie's body.
But who would have thought that the original plan would be forced to change twice because of a small diary.
Having made up her mind to first snatch the ownership of the diary and wait until Kanoe Yuuko's power was exhausted before taking revenge, she then chose to detonate the power of the ley line, catching them off guard, and then took the opportunity to escape.
After sensing that Kanoe Yuuko, as expected, did not immediately chase after her because she was worried about the safety of those ordinary people, the shadow Yuuko even felt a rare sense of pleasure.
And this feeling of pleasure lasted until the moment she appeared in front of Miyauchi Hikage.
The only thing that dissatisfied her was that Miyauchi Hikage still maintained that calm attitude at this time.
He even seemed calmer than before.
His appearance really made the shadow Yuuko feel a little displeased.
After all, she could feel a trace of negative emotions from Hiiragi Inori, but Miyauchi Hikage was the only exception.
She really wanted to let this guy enter her illusion and see if he could still be as calm as he was now.
However, now that she had destroyed the ley line, she could no longer use illusions on others.
Unless she could become a special-grade vengeful spirit now.
So, she had no other thoughts right now, only to conveniently get rid of Miyauchi Hikage and take the diary from him.
With this diary, as long as it could provide her with a little help, her strength, which was already much greater than Kanoe Yuuko's main body, would definitely allow her to become a genuine special-grade in a shorter time.
It was just that her luck today was really not good.
Especially when she launched an attack on Miyauchi Hikage, and he took the initiative to take out that diary.
"You want it? Then you should have just asked me for it. Why did you have to resort to violence?"
As Miyauchi Hikage said these incomprehensible words and threw the diary directly to her.
A reminder also seemed to appear in the shadow Yuuko's mind.
["Resistance to one's own debt detected from the diary holder. Activating forced execution mode."]
Following this prompt, the shadow Yuuko then felt eighty percent of the abundant resentment power in her body be drained in just a short instant.
Then, before she could react, that guy Miyauchi Hikage directly stuck a strange talisman she had never seen before onto her.
By the time she regained consciousness, she found that her spirit had already been inexplicably sealed inside that diary.
To this day, all she knew was that she seemed to have inexplicably owed this diary a debt that she had no idea how to repay.
And until she paid off the debt, she seemed to be unable to escape the control of this diary.
She tried various methods, only to find that she could do nothing but think inside the diary.
Was this the main body's conspiracy from the very beginning?
Did she deliberately let her discover this diary, and then use this method to lure her into a trap?
Trapped in the diary, the shadow Yuuko couldn't help but feel a sense of confusion.
It was just that she couldn't perceive any changes in the outside world from within the diary and could only wait for her final judgment in this void.
And in the infirmary, Miyauchi Hikage, the "mastermind" behind all this, actually found it quite novel at this moment.
The ownership of this diary in his hand did indeed belong to Kanoe Yuuko.
But because Kanoe Yuuko had split into two different personalities, the diary was not directly presented to either Kanoe Yuuko when it was issued.
Instead, it landed next to her cenotaph, waiting for one of them to discover its whereabouts.
Under Miyauchi Hikage's guidance, it was Kanoe Yuuko, the main body, who saw the diary first, obtained the corresponding authority, and thus escaped the future of being devoured by the more powerful shadow Yuuko.
But the shadow Yuuko was not immediately judged as a non-diary holder at this point.
Because the diary's shielding mode had no effect on her.
When she realized the change in Kanoe Yuuko and rushed over, she had clearly seen the diary in Kanoe Yuuko's hand.
In other words, she was still qualified to seize the ownership of the diary.
But because she had been apprehensive before, she ultimately chose not to act, and instead only made her move after Miyauchi Hikage had completed the loan procedure for Kanoe Yuuko.
Then something that made Miyauchi Hikage feel even more awkward occurred.
Although when Kanoe Yuuko held the diary, the shadow Yuuko was judged as a threat, automatically triggering the diary's defensive measures.
But when Miyauchi Hikage had set up the strength loan for Kanoe Yuuko, and the shadow Yuuko, who wanted to forcibly take the diary, appeared before him, he discovered that the accounts of these two Kanoe Yuukos were in a state of subtle interoperability.
It was like a point-card-based game.
Where two game characters were created at the same time.
And both characters used the same point card.
Then one of the characters used some method in the game to get their game time into the negative.
In this situation, even if the other character's account had just been registered, they obviously wouldn't be able to log into the game again.
However, it seemed that on the diary's side, Miyauchi Hikage, the "administrator," could directly decide which character would repay the debt.
Or rather, whichever Kanoe Yuuko currently held the diary would have to bear this debt.
So, after knowing this, Miyauchi Hikage, in a spirit of experimentation, handed the diary to the shadow Yuuko.
And then, the shadow Yuuko, who was detected to have a tendency to default and was internally resisting repaying the debt, bore the diary's punishment on behalf of her main body.
Eighty percent of her resentment power was extracted as the first wave of interest for resisting the debt, and then Miyauchi Hikage, the administrator, took the opportunity to use his authority. After confirming that there was no problem with what he was doing, he used a sealing talisman to seal the shadow Yuuko within the diary.
Until she paid off her debt, she could only work for the diary as its "guardian spirit."
It could be said that after swindling under the name of the mysterious person for more than a month, Miyauchi Hikage had finally obtained his first "Horcrux" today.
Although the soul sealed inside was not his.
But Miyauchi Hikage didn't mind.
It was just that Fujimiya Konomi had to suffer a little in the process.
Almost immediately after sealing the shadow Yuuko, Miyauchi Hikage had already thought of the follow-up operation—the shadow Yuuko snatches the diary and flees.
Because the ownership of the diary was placed on the shadow Yuuko under Miyauchi Hikage's management, Kanoe Yuuko's side was temporarily unable to summon the diary back.
Miyauchi Hikage had Yellow Temperance, which could disguise his own expression so as not to reveal any flaws, while at the same time having Yellow Temperance fake a trace of the shadow Yuuko's power to create the illusion that she had escaped and disappeared.
When Gojo Satoru saw that his spirit was weak, it was because he was transferring power to Yellow Temperance to make its disguise of the shadow Yuuko more realistic.
When the other noticed that his physique had become stronger, it was because he had slightly undone some of the seals on his own body.
He had indeed never actually seen those newly awakened supernatural power users.
But these were things that Shinomiya Kaguya and the others had learned from the school after entering the Jujutsu High and had posted in the chat group.
It was clear that Shinomiya Kaguya wanted to use this method to design a set of "artificial awakening processes" for the girls in the group that would be as realistic as possible and would not be noticed by others.
This was to allow the girls in the group who had thoughts of entering the inner world to do so more safely.
Thanks to Shinomiya Kaguya, Miyauchi Hikage had indeed obtained a lot of useful information, and had completed his own artificial awakening process one step faster than her.
And he had indeed just obtained the power of the Card Master template in the last two days, so he was naturally confident in pulling off a perfect disguise.
But Fujimiya Konomi did not have such consummate acting skills.
Under such circumstances, having her faint directly was the best disguise.
And after briefly explaining to Fujimiya Konomi that he needed her to cooperate with an act, and that she might have to be inconvenienced by fainting, she agreed to his request without a second word.
"This might be the only chance I have to know Hikage's secret. Since you've requested it of me, as your older sister, I can only agree."
"But be gentle when you do it. I'm still quite afraid of pain."
Thinking of Fujimiya Konomi's trust in him, Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help but stroke her head in the darkness, nourishing her body with the power of Hamon.
To be honest, the power of Hamon was still a bit more valuable than a certain Dou Di using Dou Qi to nourish a loli's meridians.
In this era of supernatural awakening, to be able to undergo such a "marrow cleansing" from him, even if she didn't awaken supernatural powers, at least maintaining eternal youth and high spirits would not be a problem.
After taking care of Fujimiya Konomi, Miyauchi Hikage slowly padded out two more diary entries, and then also posted a few episodes of the Ultraman Tiga videos he had just gotten yesterday.
Then, he finally tried to open Kanoe Yuuko's diary.
Today's diary had indeed been refreshed.
However, as expected, he could not get reading value from it.
Instead, he was reminded to please hand the diary to its holder, so they could complete the reading.
And then he was ignored by Miyauchi Hikage.
Let the shadow Yuuko read the diary, help her get reading value, and escape early?
He had finally gotten his hands on a quality research subject. How could he just let her go like this?
Feeling that his thoughts were a bit like those of a great demon king, Miyauchi Hikage shook his head.
How could he be a demon king? This fellow, the shadow Yuuko, had only hatred and other negative emotions left in her head.
Unless she could let go of her hatred on her own, or Kanoe Yuuko, as the main body, could resolve the knot in her heart.
Otherwise, if he let her out now, she would not thank him, but would only retaliate against more people with a vengeance.
So, between directly evaporating her with his Pure Yang Body and using her for research, waiting for a chance for her to be reformed, Miyauchi Hikage, who had the virtue of loving life, naturally chose the latter.
Anyway, let's see how much remaining value she has first.
With a thought from Miyauchi Hikage, he slightly loosened the seal on the diary.
Immediately, a line of blood-red text that looked full of resentment appeared in the diary.
[You bastard, what on earth did you do to me!]
Speaking in this form, and constantly trying to break the diary's restraints, it was really becoming more and more like a Horcrux.
"Yuuko, shut up."
With just one sentence from Miyauchi Hikage, the blood-red text in the diary immediately faded.
After a while, Miyauchi Hikage continued to speak softly to the diary, "Look at you. It would have been fine if you had just escaped from the basement. Why did you have to come looking for me? I clearly let you save your life in that patch of woods on the back hill. Why did you still insist on coming here to throw your life away?"
"Originally, this debt should have been repaid by your main body. But you, with your own blind eyes, came crashing into it. Well, in that case, I can only use you to pay off the debt."
"But don't worry, I'm not a bad person."
"My, Miyauchi Hikage's, reputation has always been well-known. As long as you are obedient and cooperate with me to complete your transformation, I will still give you your freedom after your debt is paid off."
Of course, if she was disobedient, then don't blame him for using the diary's administrative privileges to help her "upgrade" again, so that she could never hope to pay off her debt.