Misumi Hatsune.
The illegitimate daughter of Toyokawa Sadaharu and the family butler.
From a bloodline perspective, she was Misumi Uika's older sister with the same mother but different fathers, and also Toyokawa Saki's aunt of similar age. The family situation was rather complicated.
Several years ago, this ordinary world saw the emergence of special abilities such as Stands, magic, and sorcery.
These abilities could awaken in linked fashion through bloodlines.
That is, if A awakened an ability, then B, C, and D who were related to A by blood all had a very small chance to awaken abilities as well.
Back then, Hatsune lived on an island and accidentally awakened a special ability. She was brought back early to the Toyokawa household by the old man. In short, she became part of the darkness of the Toyokawa family.
A huge lie.
The mission Misumi Hatsune received from the old man was: Magical pets from the Yokohama area have arrived in Tokyo. Go investigate what strange purpose they might have.
After all, magical pets were a group of creatures that acted on whim, were temperamental, and had no human moral concepts whatsoever.
If one had to compare them, they were a bit like the weather.
One moment they might be laughing and joking, the next they could cause some earth-shaking event just because it was fun. They were a group of social instability factors that required close attention.
Magical pets from Yokohama plus local magical pets in Tokyo seemed to have done something at a hospital.
Following the clues, Hatsune tracked them to the hospital.
She skillfully checked the hospital's surveillance system.
But strangely, the cameras only captured two magical pets entering the hospital and taking the elevator. After that, all relevant footage was blank.
"Hah. As the saying goes, no evidence, no crime. I did not expect those lowly creatures to understand such a simple principle."
A gray-white Stand silently appeared beside the girl.
It was a tall humanoid figure, its face covered by a black mask resembling a crown. On the exposed skin were light-colored stripes marked with base symbols reading GΔCT.
"I do not recall giving you permission to come out on your own."
Hatsune disliked her ability.
Although it gave her a chance to get close to Saki, she still really hated her Stand.
Arrogant, cold, sharp-tongued, twisted in personality.
A Stand was a manifestation of spiritual power. Hatsune, you undoubtedly have the qualifications to become the darkness of our Toyokawa family. That was what her father said.
But Hatsune did not think her personality was that awful.
"Heh. Have you not noticed yet?"
The gray-white figure mocked her. "This incident is clearly not simple. Those single-celled creatures would not think of erasing evidence.
Also, let me remind you.
There is an old saying: when the mantis stalks the cicada, the oriole is behind. You have already been watched. The other party is just an ordinary high school girl and a cat. Perhaps your actions were a bit too sneaky?
Do you need me to take care of them?"
Hatsune's Stand was White Snake.
It possessed illusion and mental abilities. It could extract others' memories and parts of their power into discs, turn into a mud-like form, and create white acidic fluid that caused others to unconsciously fall into dreams.
The so-called taking care of them naturally meant using illusions to make the ordinary high school girl and the cat fall into a hallucination and forget Misumi Hatsune without realizing it.
"No. That will not be necessary."
Hatsune shook her head and refused.
She could more or less guess the other party's purpose. Her younger sister was now a very popular idol.
And the similarity of their appearances.
Not only Sumimi fans, even the old man would have trouble telling them apart. The resemblance was nearly ninety percent.
"Where are they now?"
"Outside the surveillance room, about twenty meters to the left down the corridor. Heh. Are you going to play your sister again? You are really skilled at it."
Facing her Stand's sarcasm, Hatsune patted her cheeks. Already switched into Uika mode, she spat out a single word.
"Get lost."
Though hard to admit, as an older sister, Misumi Hatsune was extremely proficient at impersonating her younger sister.
Even their handwriting was identical.
They were just Sumimi fans, and the other party was a girl. Just chatting a bit and signing an autograph would be enough. There was no need to use White Snake's illusions on innocent people.
That was what Misumi Hatsune thought.
"Hi."
She was about to start the standard idol-fan greeting routine, but then…
"Yay, hello. Miss Uika of Sumimi. You came to visit me despite being so busy? Hehe, I am kind of touched."
Hatsune froze.
The girl's first sentence completely caught her off guard.
She thought it was a fan, but it turned out to be her sister's close friend? And a beautiful girl holding a cat, with another cat following behind. Even the cats were good-looking.
"I…"
Hatsune was about to explain.
"Have you eaten dinner today? There happen to be a few buns here. They were originally for my cat, but I will make an exception and let you take care of them. Eating dinner time really affects sleep quality."
The smiling girl stuffed the buns into her arms. There was also a box of milk inside.
"Ah… thank you."
Hatsune's mind short-circuited a little.
For my cat. An exception. So in this girl's eyes, her foolish little sister had about the same status as a cat?
She grew curious about the relationship between this girl and her sister.
Growing up in a blended family gave Hatsune keen observational skills. She noticed the girl's clothing looked casual, like someone living in the hospital.
"Are you feeling better?"
She asked tentatively. It could refer to the girl or the girl's family, since she lived in the hospital.
"Yes. I am better. Maybe I can be discharged tomorrow. That is all thanks to Uika."
"Ah… you are welcome."
"Huh? You seem really low-energy today, Uika. Is Sumimi practice too exhausting? You even came specially to visit me. You have worked hard. Do you want to come back to the room and rest a bit?"
The girl with flaxen hair smiled warmly.
"Mm. Sorry to trouble you."
Hatsune nodded helplessly.
"Meow, meow meow."
"Meow meow."
The girl meowed along with the cat.
Her bright, radiant smile made Hatsune think of a ray of morning sunlight. It felt very comforting.
Following behind her, Hatsune examined the girl from head to toe.
Silver hair with a hint of flaxen tone, ice-blue eyes as clear as a lake. At first glance, she thought this would be a difficult girl to get along with.
But the moment she smiled, the sense of distance created by her looks disappeared. She was like an angel, gentle and warm.
"Do you stay here often…?"
Inside the hospital room.
A TV, game cartridges and controllers, a cat bed. The room felt far too lived-in, and Hatsune asked the question without thinking. She quickly realized the flaw in her words.
How was she supposed to patch that up?
Hatsune felt a headache coming on.
But just then…
"Huh, Uika, you are really strange today. Are you too hungry and feeling dizzy? Do not be shy. Hurry up and fill your stomach. This is your favorite filling. My cat likes the same filling as you. A surprise, right?"
Kiyono Inori gave her an out.
"Ah… yeah. Practice was a bit tiring today."
Hatsune was indeed hungry. She opened the box and took a bun. It was a classic mushroom and pork bun. This was the first time she realized her sister liked this filling.
"How is it? This is a Chinese restaurant I just discovered. Want me to take you sometime?"
"Mm… we can try."
Hatsune muttered.
When did her sister make such a friend? She had no idea at all. This was too awkward. It felt like ants were crawling all over her. Luckily, the girl thought she was tired from practice. Otherwise it would have been unbearable.
Hatsune was already planning to find a chance to leave.
"Meow, meow meow?"
Inori-chan. How are you so skilled? You met her for less than five minutes and already tricked a blond beauty into your room. And you even used the buns I carried so hard for Stelle. Is this really appropriate? Are you already stopping at nothing just to start a music party? Inori, you jerk.
Elysia Cat meowed in accusation.
Meow, meow meow.
Oh my dear Elysia, are you not curious? She looks exactly like the Uika we know, but she is not Uika. And while following her, I saw strange mud-like fluid. Does that not sound mysterious? Do you not want to dig out her secret?
Kiyono Inori replied with brief meows.
In fact, she really thought it was Uika at first. Halfway through, she realized something was wrong because Uika would not walk toward her hospital room.
Then she witnessed white mud-like fluid on the ground, which made her think of something bad. This world had monsters. Could this be some kind of slime monster?
She was ready to fight.
But at first glance, Kiyono Inori recognized that this blond girl was not a monster. She was not using any illusion. She really just looked like this.
Instantly, her interest was sparked.
If she was not Uika, then she was definitely Hatsune. Considering the worldline had already changed, Kiyono Inori was curious what had happened to lead Uika and Mana to form Sumimi.
What was the original Hatsune doing?
Although the other party was that crazy Saki-chan fanatic woman, curiosity overcame reason. Kiyono Inori decided to investigate using the Emperor's Scepter CPU.
Emperor's Scepter Firewall.
A program written by Emperor the Second, capable of identifying others' information and effectively intercepting external interference with the Emperor's Scepter.
The cat system could only show a name and a panel, but this thing could calculate entire storylines. Due to limited computing power and full interference, the results might differ slightly from reality.
She was truly curious.
Misumi Hatsune pretended to be her sister and deceived Kiyono Inori. Meanwhile, Kiyono Inori knew she was being deceived and was secretly using the Emperor's Scepter box weapon, wild history edition.
Bad woman versus bad woman.
On the other side.
After finishing the buns, Hatsune felt it was about time. If she stayed longer, she would definitely be exposed. She opened her mouth tentatively.
"Kiyono." This was information she gathered when she entered, from the patient clothes on the rack.
She thought her sister had not known this person for long, otherwise she would have known already. So she used a conservative form of address. Clearly, she underestimated her sister's extroversion.
"Ah, what is it?"
"I still have some things to do tonight. I was just passing by to check on you and ask if you needed anything. Sorry to disturb you, and thank you very much for the hospitality. Let me know if you need anything."
Misumi Hatsune spoke politely.
"So cold, Uika."
Kiyono Inori said jokingly with a smile. "Go be busy. Being busy is good. I do not need anything. I will buy things myself. You and Mana can rest easy."
"Then, sweet dreams."
"Bye-bye."
Hatsune waved and left the room.
Not long after she walked out, the irritating gray-white Stand appeared beside her again.
"Kiyono Inori, Hanazaki Academy High School Division, Class 1-B. Academically far ahead of her entire grade. Your sister's classmate. The eldest daughter of the Kiyono family. Oh, Kiyono. That one from Fukui? That is quite impressive."
White Snake muttered the girl's information to itself.
"I did not tell you to do any of that."
Hatsune frowned. This was the most annoying thing about her Stand. Other people's Stands had no self-awareness.
But hers had independent consciousness and personality, and was very disobedient. Sometimes it scoffed at her orders, sometimes it did strange things on its own.
Knowing each other for less than thirty minutes and already doxxing another girl. What was that about?
"Boring. I am you, and you are me. You just have not realized your true self yet. You clearly wanted to get to know this girl. I just helped speed up the process."
"Shut up. I am devoted to Saki."
Hatsune shouted.
"Heh. Hugging chat logs from years ago and rereading them every day is pretty ugly. Why not learn from your sister? Make more friends. There is no such thing as devotion when it comes to friendship."
White Snake laughed sinisterly.
"You. Get lost."
The phrase chat logs from years ago hit Hatsune's weak spot. With a wave of her hand, White Snake was forcibly recalled.
At the same time, on the other side.
Misumi Hatsune.
Older sister of Misumi Uika. External variable that intruded into the scepter firewall. Information successfully intercepted.
Command: Trace the information. Trace successful.
Conclusion: Abnormal factor detected. Priority scan. Hypothesis: this abnormal factor is a mutated symmetric individual, with severe self-identity displacement between the two individuals.
Command: Mark both individuals for scanning. Scan successful.
Conclusion: Individual A's spiritual aggregate formed a memetic individual B. Priority scan again.
Hypothesis: Individual A shows strong self-suppression traits, while memetic individual B displays the opposite. High-risk information detected: this individual possesses the ability to separate mind and body, and can construct hallucinations through abnormal means.
Warning sent to ID: Niebelungen.
Kiyono Inori was stunned.
Individual A. Memetic individual B.
This should be a Stand user and Stand. As for which one? She thought about Stands that fit mental and illusion traits.
There were actually quite a few.
But linking it with Toyokawa Saki and this world, she thought of the true identity of memetic individual B in just one second.
White Snake.
After customer service Saki was defeated by long-term vegetarianism, her close friend Misumi Hatsune picked up Saki's notebook that had been burned by long-term vegetarianism. The notebook was titled Ave Mujica Project Proposal.
Long-term vegetarianism. I will never forgive you. Misumi Hatsune let out a painful howl.
Four hundred characters omitted.
In summary, Misumi Hatsune severed the fate between Mujica and Mygo, defeated the long-term vegetarian lady who protected the wooden dummy.
What. The. Heck.
Why is my past life DNA overlapping with this scene? Wait. Will this world's future really turn out like this?
I want to become a god. Customer service Saki.
Saki-chan Saki-chan Saki-chan, the most loyal fanatic of god. Misumi Hatsune.
All the elements were here. White Snake plus the world. Would a group of deranged band girls really be able to destroy the world?
Thump thump thump thump.
Kiyono Inori suddenly rammed herself several times with a soft pillow, trying to knock these absurd thoughts out of her head. She ended up startling Elysia Cat, who was charging a gaming phone nearby.
"Meow meow meow."
Hey. Inori-chan, what is wrong? Why did you suddenly give up on yourself? This fairy lady is really worried about you.
Elysia Cat moved closer to her.
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