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Chapter 192 - Chapter 192: I'm Willing to Pay to Have Nanami Kento Be My Tutor

The shadow Yuuko, who had just taken on the debt, was clearly not going to give in so easily.

But there was still plenty of time. After Miyauchi Hikage briefly let her out for some air, he closed the seal again, confining her within the diary.

The next day.

Miyauchi Hikage still woke up very early.

When he got up, it was not yet light.

However, the execution power of the Shinto side was indeed quite high.

After receiving Hiiragi Inori's report, they had mobilized a batch of priests from Tokyo and the surrounding shrines overnight to deal with the ley line issue.

Although they still had to rely on the power of barriers, Miyauchi Hikage, just by taking a quick look with his Eye of Destiny, could also sense that the ley line situation was basically under control.

Of course, this was only the first step.

It was like a building suddenly collapsing.

Preventing the building's collapse from causing damage to the surroundings and cleaning up the ruins after the collapse was troublesome.

But what was even more troublesome was that they needed to rebuild a new building on the original site to restore the normal operation of the ley line.

Watching those priests and shrine maidens gather to discuss and research these issues, Miyauchi Hikage did not go over to join in the excitement.

He just greeted Hiiragi Inori from a distance, and then ran to the back mountain with his camera.

The daytime and sunset scenes were finished, but not much of the night scene was filmed because of the commotion yesterday.

He might as well go and get some more shots while it was still dark.

Then, Miyauchi Hikage saw Kanoe Yuuko's figure again at the cenotaph on the back mountain.

Kanoe Yuuko was now sitting blankly on the stone monument carved with her name.

There were some traces of digging under the stone monument.

Obviously, the only person who could have dug at this monument was Kanoe Yuuko herself.

She was now holding a comb in her hand that looked rather old and was covered in dirt.

This should be the item that Kanoe Yukariko, who was unable to find the basement in the old school building due to the shadow Yuuko's influence and thus could not lay Kanoe Yuuko's remains to rest, had brought as a memorial offering back then.

Seeing Miyauchi Hikage arrive with his camera, Kanoe Yuuko just nodded slightly at him, and then continued to stare blankly.

Miyauchi Hikage didn't say much either, just took some simple shots nearby with his camera.

It wasn't until after he finished filming and was about to leave that Kanoe Yuuko asked him a question.

"Is that girl's body okay?"

Miyauchi Hikage nodded at her.

"No problem, she was just a little frightened. I checked on her when I got up this morning, and she's sleeping quite soundly now."

"That's good," Kanoe Yuuko sighed slightly.

After a somewhat subtle silence, she began to tell Miyauchi Hikage about Kanoe Yukariko's situation.

"Kanoe Kirie has woken up, but Yukariko's situation is not very good. After all, at her age, encountering such a thing must have been quite a shock to her."

It seemed that Kanoe Yuuko hadn't just been staring blankly at the school last night; she must have secretly gone to the hospital to check on Kanoe Yukariko's condition.

Her suddenly coming to talk to him about these things probably didn't mean anything else. She just happened to run into him when she wanted to find someone to vent her inner feelings to.

Miyauchi Hikage could feel the complex emotions in her heart.

Miyauchi Hikage listened patiently to her words, but he only acted as a listener and did not give any response to her thoughts.

After all, with his personality, it was indeed difficult for him to feel much sympathy for Kanoe Yukariko.

He just asked Kanoe Yuuko a question after listening to her explanation.

That was, when his video was finished, did she want to see a complete and true story, or a censored version that omitted the most crucial parts and saved Kanoe Yukariko's last bit of dignity.

Kanoe Yuuko fell silent again.

This choice seemed no easier than letting go of everything and forgiving Kanoe Yukariko.

"I should be releasing this video at the end of Golden Week. If you don't have any other requests, I will release the edited version as I originally explained to Chairman Kanoe."

After saying this, Miyauchi Hikage nodded to Kanoe Yuuko, and then, while it was still dark, he continued to complete the other parts of the filming.

The last one to wake up was Itou Kaiji. He had slept for a full twelve hours and didn't crawl out of bed until eleven in the morning.

When he woke up and saw the priests in the school, he couldn't help but show a curious expression.

After all, he had only learned the truth of this world yesterday. Although the process was not very pleasant, he was still very interested in this world.

If he weren't too embarrassed, Itou Kaiji would have wanted to take a photo with these priests and ask for their autographs.

"Stop looking. If you want, you'll have plenty of opportunities to greet them in the future," Miyauchi Hikage said to Itou Kaiji. "You should go over and sign the paper first, to promise you won't leak what happened yesterday. Konomi and I have already signed."

Miyauchi Hikage had indeed been busy with many things this morning.

Besides filming, he had also taken the awakened Fujimiya Konomi to be questioned by the Shinto side, and the two of them had to sign a confidentiality agreement about the inner world.

Of course, this agreement had no binding force. Or rather, this agreement did have a strong presence before the spiritual resurgence, and it did have a certain binding effect at that time.

After all, at that time, everyone was living a tight life, charging for a whole day and running out of power after two or three minutes of use.

If they didn't keep the secrets of the inner world, those supernatural beings who were all show and no substance would have probably found it difficult to keep even their last sanctuary.

But with the spiritual resurgence, and the rapid increase in the strength of supernatural beings, the binding force of this agreement gradually only applied to those ordinary people without supernatural powers.

It could be said that the reason why this agreement still required supernatural beings to sign was also because the higher-ups of the inner world were also worried that the current spiritual resurgence was just the world's last dying flash.

They had indeed become stronger now.

A Grade 1 supernatural being already had the ability to compete with a fully armed elite army, and those above special-grade were comparable to humanoid nuclear weapons.

Even though the outer world had also been secretly researching other supernatural powers, trying to seize them through modern means.

But for now, this research still had a long way to go.

The technology and supernatural weapons developed in modern times were almost unable to cause any damage to special-grade supernatural beings.

Like a powerhouse of Gojo Satoru's level.

If he really went on a rampage, and the powerhouses of the inner world just stood by and watched, I'm afraid that even the destruction of all of Tokyo would not be able to stop him.

But even so, the inner world was still relatively low-key now.

This was because a part of the higher-ups in the inner world were originally supported by the higher-ups in the outer world, and they might even be related by blood.

During the hundred years of supernatural decline, intermarriage and marrying into families between the higher-ups of the outer and inner worlds were very common.

Another reason was that most of the supernatural beings in the inner world were indeed born and raised during the decline period and had an incredibly deep memory of how bleak the inner world was during that time.

If they made too much noise now, and then suddenly ushered in an even more severe supernatural decline, then their supernatural families would probably find it difficult to continue to exist in the face of the outer world's armies.

In short, this agreement was still being continued, and after Miyauchi Hikage checked the situation on it and confirmed that there was no problem, he signed this agreement together with Fujimiya Konomi.

Then, Miyauchi Hikage had a private chat with Gojo Satoru.

He first briefly demonstrated the Card Master's abilities in front of him, showing that his ability was not just simple teleportation.

"An ability related to fate, and it even derived a teleportation power from this ability," Gojo Satoru, after carefully observing the process of Miyauchi Hikage using teleportation, accurately judged the truth.

Even for someone as strong as Gojo Satoru, he still felt a little emotional about something as ethereal as fate.

And it also seemed quite reasonable.

According to the information that Nanami Kento had passed on to him.

Before this month, apart from having an excellent mind and leading his village to prosperity, Miyauchi Hikage's own physical constitution was not particularly outstanding.

But after interacting with him a few times, Nanami Kento discovered that his luck, especially his financial luck, was ridiculously good.

Picking up money on the street, winning the lottery.

If he did nothing all day and just stood on the streets of Shibuya, he could probably live comfortably for a month just by picking up money.

Now it seemed that the power he had awakened was related to fate, so his previous financial luck was probably just some signs before the ability awakened.

What a practical ability.

Although Gojo Satoru never had to worry about money, what if his luck also worked on other supernatural resources?

No one would refuse a lucky star.

"I remember the god that the Kanoe family used to guard was 'Sakitama,' which is a god related to fate. Although it completely disappeared a hundred years ago, for you to awaken the power of fate here, perhaps this is also some kind of guidance of fate."

As he said this, Gojo Satoru was not surprised at all when he heard that Miyauchi Hikage had no intention of transferring to Jujutsu High.

"Your power is indeed not cursed energy, nor is it spiritual power. If I had to describe it, it's more like the magic power used by those mages, but it's not completely the same."

"Although this power is still very weak now, it has been constantly improving your body and your spirit. With the help of this power, I'm afraid you'll only need a few years to become a special-grade."

"But if you don't want to enroll in Jujutsu High, just with your teleportation ability alone, if it leaks out, there will probably be many forces who will take the initiative to seek you out. If they find out that your ability is actually related to fate, their attitude towards you will probably be even crazier, and they might even make some threats to you. You have to think about this clearly."

Miyauchi Hikage looked at Gojo Satoru.

Many people now knew that he had awakened supernatural powers.

But the only people who really knew the specifics of his ability, besides Konomi, were those few from the Jujutsu world.

Even Itou Kaiji didn't know the specific information about his ability. He probably now thought that the card magic Miyauchi Hikage had shown before was his awakened power.

And Hiiragi Inori, because she had long regarded him as a talent reserved by Jujutsu High, had not asked what ability he had awakened. After all, there were many abilities that allowed one to escape, so it was naturally hard to think of spatial teleportation.

The same was true for the remaining Kanoe Yuuko.

And the few people who knew about his ability were Nanami Kento, Yaga Masamichi, and the Gojo Satoru before him.

These three were staunchly on the side of good and were at odds with the Jujutsu higher-ups. They would not report these things.

It could be said that as long as others didn't know his true ability and thought he was on the same side as Jujutsu High, he wouldn't have to worry about being coveted by others.

And Miyauchi Hikage had no intention of souring his relationship with these people.

"I don't have any strong feelings about becoming a jujutsu sorcerer. Gojo-sensei, you should know my situation. My family's condition is quite good now. To ask me to become a jujutsu sorcerer and eliminate those vengeful spirits, I don't really feel it, and I don't have much motivation. I'd rather spend more time thinking of interesting video content and filming a few more different types of videos."

"But my cooperation with Nanami-sensei has always been quite good. And I'm still very concerned about the situation in the Jujutsu world and the inner world. If Nanami-sensei is willing, I can pay a high tutoring fee to have Nanami-sensei as my tutor."

Hearing this, Gojo Satoru also understood Miyauchi Hikage's intention.

He didn't want to be a jujutsu sorcerer, to be bound by the missions of exorcising Cursed Spirits.

But he also wanted to maintain a friendly relationship with Jujutsu High, so that everyone would think he was a part of the Jujutsu world and wouldn't lay a hand on him.

Although Miyauchi Hikage's idea was a bit greedy, Gojo Satoru felt that it was actually possible to achieve.

Because Miyauchi Hikage's video comment section was basically the largest discussion area for supernatural events in the country, and the authenticity of these supernatural events was relatively high.

And the exorcism of these Cursed Spirits and vengeful spirits had also improved the combat experience of many low-level jujutsu sorcerers. These would all be recorded in their files and could be used to raise their ranks in the future.

So Miyauchi Hikage continuing to film these videos was indeed useful to their Jujutsu world.

And now Nanami Kento had been appointed by Yaga Masamichi to be in charge of this matter, and had been complaining recently about working overtime for free all day for Miyauchi Hikage's videos.

Now that Miyauchi Hikage was offering to pay Nanami Kento tutoring fees, it seemed that everyone's needs could be met.

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