[Normally speaking, since I updated the diary twice last night and have already received today's reward, I should have waited until tomorrow to update again.
But what can I say, I'm just too kind-hearted.
After you all unlocked the request function and the second batch of girls received their diaries, I spent a lot of effort to find out the identities of some of the girls who just got their diaries last night.
However, due to the diary's restrictions, I cannot tell you the identities of the second-batch girls. Your diaries are also most likely mutually exclusive and cannot communicate with each other.
To put it simply, when you take out your diary in front of a second-batch holder, they will be like ordinary people and unable to see it. The reverse is also true. There should be no chance of finding your new partners this way.
Of course, you can also try to find the second-batch holders through deduction.
My suggestion is that you should recently focus the energy you use to find me on finding these second-batch holders instead.
You are all my long-time readers, so this is a kind reminder from me.
After all, at most, I just run my mouth a bit in the diary to get my daily reward. I won't actually appear in front of you and do anything to you.
But the second-batch diary holders are a different story.
Those requests you receive have a chance of being randomly intercepted by them.
And if they can complete these requests before you, they can even get some extra rewards.
If a request that has refreshed on your side suddenly shows as failed before you've even started it or decided whether to accept it, then there's a high probability that it has been snatched by them and completed in advance.
In other words, from now on, you first-batch girls can be seen as one team, and the second-batch girls are another team.
But since you got the diary a month in advance, I'm still more optimistic about you all for now. I hope you won't let me down.]
Around three in the afternoon, a new diary entry from the Mysterious Person was released, instantly attracting the attention of many girls.
After all, the Mysterious Person usually only updated the diary after 8 PM. It was for this reason that the girls in the group were still somewhat suspicious that the Mysterious Person might not have quit his job at all.
Or, as Yukinoshita Yukino analyzed, the Mysterious Person might also be a student around their age, just using the identity of a working adult as a cover.
But in any case, today's diary entry, updated during class time, caught them somewhat off guard.
Especially the content inside. Although it was much shorter than the usual diary entries, it was particularly explosive.
Kasumigaoka Utaha, who had been feeling cheerful about being able to quickly farm Reading Value points, was suddenly not so cheerful anymore.
My request could be intercepted?
What if someone intercepts my request to farm Reading Value points from Miyauchi Hikage?
She paid no attention to the teacher lecturing on the podium, raised her hand to give a heads-up, and walked out of the classroom with her phone.
The teacher on the podium pretended not to have seen anything. After a slight pause, he continued his lesson.
After all, she was the top student in the grade. As long as she didn't actively disrupt the class order, he, as a teacher, could only turn a blind eye.
She walked up to the rooftop with her phone. By now, many people in the group were already talking about this.
Umaru, who usually loved to stir things up the most, was absent.
Because her public persona was that of an excellent student with good character, no matter how much she wanted to talk right now, she couldn't take out her phone to chat during class.
The management at Shinomiya Kaguya's Shuchiin Academy was also very strict, and Kaguya, who was preparing to compete for student council president, would not want any mishaps at this time.
At this moment, everyone in the group seemed a little worried that their requests would be intercepted, leading to failure.
Menma: My current physical condition makes it very difficult to complete those requests, so I've already given up on the ones C-rank and above. I'll just keep some simple D-rank ones.
Bocchi: Ah, I still haven't decided whether to accept this request to create a band. What if someone intercepts this request before I do and poaches the band members I'm still considering!
Kuroneko: I don't think you need to worry about that. One of the requests you received is to form a band with you at the core, and the other is to find a few people from that long list to form a band. Didn't the Mysterious Person already tell you about the band members from your original story? If you're worried, you can just go find them directly.
Bocchi: That seems to be right. But I took a look, even including me, my original band was only worth 13 bucks, right? There are still 2 bucks left. Wouldn't it be a waste not to use those 2 bucks?
Kuroneko: ...You can figure that out yourself. Anyway, there's no way your requests can be intercepted. My requests are also all related to myself, so others probably can't intercept them either.
Saying that, Kuroneko briefly showed the requests she had received.
Besides the request to take care of Jerry, which had already turned gray indicating it was over, the remaining ones were to become a VTuber with 100,000 fans, and the other was to wear her favorite clothes and wait at the entrance of Sobu High for Yukinoshita Yukino after school, and then go to a maid cafe for dinner together.
It was clear that this request had already received Yukinoshita Yukino's consent, which was why Kuroneko dared to post it openly in the group.
Kuroneko: But we don't really know what the situation is with the second-batch diary holders. If we really can't distinguish them using the diary, we can only wait for someone to intercept our requests before we can try to investigate their whereabouts, right?
The current mood in the group was a bit worried about the personalities of the new diary holders.
They, the first-batch girls, had no direct competition among themselves. They were all thinking about changing their futures and becoming better. At the same time, they had the Mysterious Person as a common goal, so their overall relationship was relatively harmonious.
But now, a new batch of girls had arrived. They weren't in the same group, and a competitive relationship had emerged between the two sides.
If a few girls with nasty personalities and some strength appeared on that side, it would probably have a significant impact on their lives.
Kasumi Utako: You can't completely trust the Mysterious Person's words. I think he's just trying to stir up conflict between our two batches of diary holders.
Kasumi Utako: Especially since he mentioned in the diary that we should stop investigating him. I think the reason the Mysterious Person is encouraging us to find those diary holders in this entry, and saying that he can't reveal their information in the diary, is purely to divert our attention.
Kasumi Utako: Maybe the Mysterious Person is over there in their diary right now, egging on those girls to speed up and intercept our requests. He might even be directly giving our information to them.
As the number one anti-Mysterious Person member in the chat group, Kasumigaoka Utaha commented on the Mysterious Person's possible actions without holding back, and called for all the girls to remain united and exchange information in a timely manner.
And these chat records were, a short while later, silently sent to Miyauchi Hikage by a certain lurker in the group.
Looking at Kasumigaoka Utaha's baseless speculations, Miyauchi Hikage sighed slightly.
This Old Hag Kasumi, why is she always targeting me like this?
Although in terms of results, she was indeed quite accurate in her judgment of people.
He had indeed received a reminder from the diary when writing that he should preferably not write information about the other side in either diary, but it was just a reminder, not a restriction.
And after thinking for a while, Miyauchi Hikage felt that since both batches of diaries had this basic setting, he might as well let the two groups of girls attract each other's attention a bit and create a slight sense of competition.
After all, in the diary-themed novels of his previous life, by the time the plot had progressed for a month, it was usually already a group of girls with diaries competing with each other to snatch the male protagonist.
But on his side, because he didn't want to expose his identity, although the girls had quickly gathered together, they had been unable to find any trace of him, and after a long time, they had become less active.
Now that he could get them to be more active internally, Miyauchi Hikage felt it was better than having them all fixated on him.
The moment he finished writing this side's diary, he immediately started to stoke the flames in the second diary, egging on those girls, telling them to transform into NTR-ers and go NTR their "senpais'" requests.
Although he didn't mention the girls' names, he did roughly mention their main areas of activity, allowing those girls to protect their own identities while getting as close as possible to these areas to farm requests.
And the reason Miyauchi Hikage knew that the second-batch holders could NTR their seniors' requests was all thanks to Miwa Kasumi, who had arrived in Tokyo via the Shinkansen in the afternoon.
To be honest, Miyauchi Hikage initially didn't know the difference between the two batches of diaries and could only test things out bit by bit.
But as fate would have it, there was a kind person like Miwa Kasumi who would provide an assist.
On the Shinkansen from Kyoto to Tokyo, she had been holding her diary and thinking of the name Voldemort, so much so that he had sensed her presence the moment she entered his 200-kilometer range.
And after she entered the Tokyo metropolitan area, that perception became even clearer.
The geographical advantage of Toyogasaki Academy was demonstrated at this time. Although it wasn't in the golden central area of Tokyo, it was in the core area just outside it. After arriving in Tokyo, Miwa Kasumi had been almost constantly within a range of 8 to 15 kilometers from him.
And so, he quickly analyzed the girl's identity from the fragments he heard and roughly knew the purpose of her trip to Tokyo.
A Gojo Satoru fangirl, a student at Kyoto Jujutsu High.
With just these two points, Miyauchi Hikage, who had recently finished Jujutsu Kaisen and would occasionally reminisce about the famous memes, already knew who she was.
Miwa Kasumi, a girl who didn't have many appearances but was quite popular. She could be considered one of the few characters in Jujutsu Kaisen whose thinking was close to that of an ordinary person.
Unfortunately, her strength was a bit too weak. Under normal circumstances, she was at the level of a Grade 3 or 4 Sorcerer. Even with Simple Domain, she didn't have any particularly outstanding aspects.
And in the later Shibuya Incident, because of an attack that had no effect, she had even placed a Binding Vow on herself to "never swing a sword again," thereby withdrawing from the battlefield and completely becoming a mascot.
The reason she was able to enter the Jujutsu world, besides having some Jujutsu aptitude herself, was mainly because the Shinkage-ryū school needed to recruit new members to extract their life force.
In short, it was through her constant musings that Miyauchi Hikage not only learned her identity and purpose but also discovered that after she got close to Shuchiin Academy, she had automatically intercepted Shinomiya Kaguya's unaccepted A+ rank request.
And Miyauchi Hikage had also mentioned in the gray diary that they could intercept their seniors' requests, and he had also roughly mentioned the difficulty of those requests, to give Miwa Kasumi a general idea.
As his diary entry was released, Miwa Kasumi, who had been holding her diary the whole time, also noticed the new entry immediately.
Originally, Miwa Kasumi was still thinking that after completing the school's assignment, she was planning to go to that shrine to check the situation.
After all, the request displayed on her side had some information about that shrine, letting her know that this shrine absorbed the souls of many innocent people every year to maintain its existence.
As a Jujutsu Sorcerer with a simple sense of good and evil, it was naturally difficult for her to accept letting this eerie shrine continue to absorb the souls of the innocent.
Now, seeing this new diary entry, she became a little hesitant.
One reason was that she knew her own limits. Even with Simple Domain, at most, she could deal with a relatively weak Grade 2 Cursed Spirit, while an A+ rank request involved at least a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit, which was simply not something she could handle.
Another reason was that she knew from her own diary that she had just gotten it and had not yet unlocked the request function.
The request that had refreshed for her now was stolen from another one of her "senpais."
For Miwa Kasumi, who came from a poor family but had never been greedy in her life, this act of "snatching" someone else's things made her feel a little embarrassed.
So, what should she do now?
Miwa Kasumi, who had never faced such a complex choice, fell into a state of dilemma.