There was quite a lot of information that could be inferred from today's diary, but it still wasn't enough to piece together the other party's full profile.
At times like this, she needed to look back at the earlier entries.
Ignoring the delusions about transmigration, in the first diary, aside from the "kidnapping declaration" and the "two-faced person," the only noteworthy thing was the evaluation of Advanced Nurturing High School at the very beginning.
A vocational school.
Sakayanagi Arisu didn't know whether that evaluation was accurate, but people who habitually used that term to describe a high school were usually from a certain country.
And according to her knowledge, among this year's first-years, there was only one person from that country.
Class D, Wang Meiyu.
From this perspective, it matched her previous deduction: the diary's writer was a Class D student.
However, if she considered the second diary, things became more complicated.
At the beginning of the second entry, the guy claimed to have rich experience with gal games and even boasted about conquering all the girls in the school.
Although he quickly denied himself afterward, his wording still revealed his gender.
He should be male.
But that didn't line up.
Because Wang Meiyu was a girl.
"...Could she be a lesbian?" Sakayanagi Arisu muttered.
There were women who played gal games, and there were also women who liked speaking in a masculine tone.
Maybe Wang Meiyu was that kind of person.
Decision made.
Tomorrow, she would test her.
Whether it was her or not, she would know at a glance.
Satisfied with her reasoning, Sakayanagi Arisu turned off the lights.
See you tomorrow, you slanderous bastard.
...
While the "little princess" had already gone to bed early, Asakusa Toru was still wide awake.
He was waiting for his reward settlement.
He had written so much today. Even if the story index was low, surely he deserved something decent, right?
Just as he was thinking that, the settlement text and sound appeared.
[Today's record completed. Evaluation: 'C.' Drawing reward.]
[Draw successful. Congratulations, you have obtained the item 'Universal Room Key.']
"...I'm about to let out a battle cry." Asakusa Toru froze. "Aaaaaaah—!"
"...Sigh."
After the brief roar came a long sigh.
Honestly, he could understand why some people liked battle cries.
Shouting your emotions out loud was a great way to relieve stress.
It was just that some people did it way too often.
Who knew if they were possessed or had their electricity meter reversed—roaring so much it disturbed others.
Fortunately, the dormitory soundproofing at Advanced Nurturing High School was excellent.
Even yelling like this wouldn't get him reported.
Setting that aside, back to the reward.
Actually, this result wasn't too surprising.
A B-level story index gave an A rating, an A index gave S, and so on. No matter how well he wrote, it wouldn't go beyond that.
But this time, it was C.
"I thought it'd stir up emotions pretty well?" Asakusa Toru frowned. "Did I spoil too much?"
The degree of spoilers was also an important evaluation factor.
From that perspective, maybe he'd stuffed in too much at once.
Or maybe he'd been too explicit.
Looking back at the first two diaries, before the "two-faced person" was exposed, there had been no clear direction. Except for the person herself, others couldn't guess anything.
As for "little sister," that one wasn't hard to figure out, but honestly, her own behavior was basically like using a megaphone to announce she was Horikita Manabu's sister.
This time, though, whether it was "little princess," "ALICE," or "privileged kid," all of it pointed directly to Sakayanagi Arisu.
So the diary judged it as excessive spoilers?
Of course, there was another possibility: the material he copied from Triangle Hatsune had been deemed trash and docked points.
...No matter what, the reward was already settled. Might as well check it.
What landed quietly in his hand was an exquisite pitch-black key card.
No text, no markings.
But its color and texture were surprisingly good.
With a thought, its effect surfaced.
[Name: Universal Room Key]
[Type: Item]
[Effect: Can open any electronic door]
[Note: "Unrestricted access."]
"...Hiss." Asakusa Toru sucked in a cold breath.
How should he put this…
It was definitely useful.
Sure, it was limited to "electronic doors," but once the description included the word "any," things became different.
But…
He couldn't really use it.
In this fully enclosed school, the number of times he'd need this could be counted on one hand.
Unless he planned to sneak into the girls' dorm.
But he'd get caught and expelled the same night.
Did he think the cameras were decorations?
Blocking one or two was fine. Blocking all of them? Dream on.
Besides, getting someone else's room key wasn't even that hard.
The three idiots of Class D—Yamauchi Haruki, Ike Kanji, and Sudou Ken—had once made spare keys without the owner's permission.
Truly worthy of being masterpieces from the Black Room.
To think they'd exploit a loophole like that.
...If he reported this loophole to the school, how much could he get?
"Forget it. I'm not short on money." Shaking his head, Asakusa Toru casually tossed the key card up and down, then put it away.
It might be useless at Advanced Nurturing, but his life didn't end here.
Three years later, it would come in handy.
"Yeah, that's about what a C-rank reward should be." Useful, but not that useful.
Lying on his bed and staring at the ceiling, he muttered:
"In that case, I'll have to adjust my strategy from tomorrow onward."
He'd try once more to see if good content could earn a high rating under low indices.
If not, he'd completely change tactics.
Save the good stuff for high-index days.
Even if it turned out there were no more high-index days, he doubted it.
After all, if indices were based on key plot points, then the end-of-month zero-point incident and the deserted island exam couldn't be lower than A.
It wasn't a big deal.
He'd just be giving up on boring downtime.
"Anyway, time to work out."
White Gym, activate!
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