After Shiina Mashiro instantly discerned the essence of his Pure Yang Body, Renji Miyauchi had put in considerable effort over the past two days.
Ultimately, he genuinely found a method to suppress the Pure Yang Body's abilities to one-tenth of their original power by covering himself with a modified Ripple Breathing and the Stand ability of Yellow Temperance.
Although evil demons and spirits still dared not approach him in the slightest, according to the intuitive feedback from Shiina Mashiro, he was no longer as radiant as before.
Only within a meter could one perceive the glow emanating from him.
Moreover, the Yellow Temperance rewarded by the system, in addition to its inherent A-rank durability, seemed to have significantly improved in growth potential.
If the Stand ability of Yellow Temperance could truly evolve, it might genuinely be able to completely suppress the Pure Yang Body in the future.
Kasumigaoka-senpai, who had no talent for Ripple Breathing, hadn't even noticed Renji's aura two days prior, and now it was even less likely for her to discover anything.
In Kasumigaoka-senpai's eyes, this junior, dressed in his school uniform, seemed even more inconspicuous than he had been at the autograph session the day before.
She didn't even consider Renji as the Mysterious Person, instead inquiring about Shiina Mashiro's transfer to him.
"You mean Shiina, she came to school this morning with us and her uncle in Japan to complete the transfer procedures."
He looked at Eriri beside him, a look on his face as if the school rumors were true, then quickly composed himself and began talking about the wallet.
"This morning, we found Eriri's wallet on the road. Shiina said she wanted to return the wallet herself. After that, her uncle and I stayed in the principal's office to handle the remaining procedures. Eriri, you should have gotten your wallet back by now, right?"
Eriri nodded. She had already recognized his identity from the surname Miyauchi and, maintaining the demeanor of a young lady, politely expressed her gratitude.
She also couldn't have imagined that the mysterious hacker who had made her so irrationally angry was this rather handsome and refined-looking boy.
Kasumigaoka-senpai then continued to ask how Shiina Mashiro had chosen Toyosaki High School.
"Speaking of which, Shiina's uncle originally intended for Shiina and Mahiru to attend the same school, but my sister, Miyauchi Kazuho, thought Toyosaki High School was also good and strongly recommended it to Shiina, so in the end, Shiina chose Toyosaki High School, which is a bit closer to home."
So it was your sister who recommended it?
Kasumigaoka-senpai was initially somewhat skeptical, but after recalling Shiina Mashiro's naturally airheaded demeanor she had witnessed that day, she thought this possibility seemed quite reasonable.
Perhaps Kazuho simply mentioned it, and that made Shiina Mashiro think of it, so she readily agreed to transfer.
Thinking this, Kasumigaoka-senpai stopped asking further, softly thanked Renji, and then pulled Eriri away to find Shiina Mashiro.
Renji returned to his classroom with a normal expression.
This was the first time he had entered his classroom today, and as soon as he stepped inside, he noticed several people in the class surrounding him with eager eyes.
He looked at Sakakibara Kōichi from afar, who responded with a helpless expression.
Through the power of name magic, Renji actually knew the reason.
It was simply that last night, a male classmate was scrolling through videos and stumbled upon the video he had uploaded, recognizing Sakakibara Kōichi, his classmate.
So, early this morning, this boy ran over to ask Sakakibara Kōichi about the video, which in turn made more people aware of the matter.
In the end, the still-naive Sakakibara Kōichi had no choice but to admit that both the video and its production were Renji's work, and he had only provided a small favor as per Renji's request.
Fortunately, Sakakibara Kōichi hadn't revealed how much money he might earn from the video, otherwise, those adolescents in the class would probably be begging to cling to his leg.
These classmates, whom he had only known for half a month, were truly quick to get familiar.
Even though his self-introduction with Sakakibara Kōichi at the start of the semester had led most of the class to consider isolating them both, now they were actively approaching them, wanting to accept them.
Renji skillfully dealt with these classmates' intentions to film videos with him.
He had already learned how to handle such matters during his time at Asahigaoka, and his tone was relatively tactful.
He temporarily dispelled their notion of getting involved by using the excuse of filming a grand video for the class during the school festival.
However, even so, he could feel the interested gazes of a few truly ordinary girls in the class directed at him.
Renji paid no mind to this.
Shiina Mashiro had already transferred, and if he accompanied his sister to take Shiina Mashiro home a few times after school, these girls would probably get the hint.
In fact, Shiina Mashiro arrived much faster than he had anticipated.
When Shiina Mashiro appeared at the entrance of their classroom at noon that day, it had already caused a stir among the boys.
A beautiful girl, as exquisite as a doll, appearing at the classroom door, always sparked people's imaginations.
A few others were secretly asking if this blonde girl was the rumored Eriri.
"It shouldn't be, I've seen Eriri from afar, she has twin tails, and she seems a bit more petite than this girl."
"Could it be a transfer student? I heard this morning that a very beautiful foreign transfer student transferred to our school, but it seems she's not in our class, but went to Class A downstairs."
While the boys in the class were speculating about why this transfer student had come to their class, Shiina Mashiro simply waved at Renji from the doorway, motioning for him to come out.
Several boys next to Renji, somewhat surprised, pointed to themselves, thinking she was calling them out.
But seeing Renji naturally stand up, take his bento, walk over to Shiina Mashiro, and start chatting with her, the boys in the class immediately changed their expressions towards Renji.
This Renji, they initially thought he was a reclusive mystery enthusiast and a photography buff.
Yet, in a flash, he started dragging another reclusive person from the class and another seemingly unlucky unemployed person to film supernatural videos.
Despite being the first video on a new account, for some unknown reason, it garnered nearly 10,000 views within 12 hours of upload, and the number of followers and comments surged, making everyone envious.
Now, an incredibly beautiful transfer student had even come over to chat with him.
This transfer student's appearance was in no way inferior to that of the rumored lily-loving school beauties.
Who knew that while the boys in the school were still in a wait-and-see state, not yet having figured out the personality of this transfer student, she was already quite intimately heading off to eat bento with this Renji.
Watching the two leave the classroom, they seemed to also feel the complex emotions of the boys in Class G that morning, seeing the two school beauties skip class hand-in-hand.
No, they had to go find out what exactly was going on and what Renji's background was.
Sakakibara Kōichi, on the other hand, was the calmest one.
He had already witnessed his friend's abilities over the weekend.
His claims of enjoying horror movies and wanting to create works like The Shining were merely excuses for him not to engage in unnecessary social interactions with other classmates.
Outside of school, three beautiful girls simultaneously showed affection for him, especially Shiina Mashiro, whose gaze rarely left Renji, which already spoke volumes.
Sakakibara Kōichi had already figured it out at home these past few days: Renji's relationship with Asahigaoka was definitely not simple, and perhaps many videos online were filmed by him.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how a video he filmed in one night and edited for over a day could have such high quality.
However, Sakakibara Kōichi didn't feel deceived.
After all, from their conversations, it was clear that he indeed had his own understanding of mystery and horror works, and at the beginning of the school year, he had proactively befriended Sakakibara Kōichi, who was already being ostracized by the entire class at the time.
These two points alone were enough for Sakakibara Kōichi to decide in his heart to continue working with Renji.
Not to mention that Renji was quite generous; the payment he received for one night of filming was more than his monthly allowance.
Thinking this, Sakakibara Kōichi even began to look forward to the content of their next shoot.
Meanwhile, Renji, amidst the high Return Rate on the way, took Shiina Mashiro and Kazuho, who followed behind Shiina Mashiro, to the rooftop.
"So, what did you come to find me for at noon? You didn't instigate Shiina to come, did you?"
Renji looked at his older sister.
Kazuho, in turn, playfully compared her bento with Renji's.
"Little brother, you live in such a big house, but your bento is clearly bought from a convenience store, isn't it? It's not good to always eat convenience store food."
She showed her bento.
Although not extravagant, it clearly showed the care of its maker, completely unlike the mass-produced bentos from convenience stores.
"So you're flaunting the bento Mahiru made for you in front of me?"
"What do you mean flaunting? I'm just an older sister worried that you're not eating healthy, so I wanted to share some delicious bento with you." Kazuho said this, while also muttering that her little brother was truly clueless.
She was doing this precisely to allow her little brother and Shiina to have more time together, okay?
Otherwise, she wouldn't bear to share Mahiru's delicious bento with her little brother—she had already given all her living expenses to Shiina Mahiru since last week, only keeping some pocket money for herself, letting Shiina Mahiru be fully responsible for her three meals a day.
Renji could, of course, see his older sister's intentions; he was just habitually bickering with her.
He turned to Shiina Mashiro, asking how she felt about school.
Shiina Mashiro shook her head slightly.
"Don't want to go to class, want to draw manga, want to eat Baumkuchen."
This is very Shiina Mashiro.
Renji then pulled out a pre-prepared Baumkuchen from his pocket.
His backpack had long since been enchanted with an Undetectable Extension Charm that only he could use, and he had put many things inside.
Baumkuchen was naturally among them; when Shiina Mashiro called him out of the classroom, he had already taken two and put them in his pocket, and at such a short time, they hadn't been crushed yet.
Seeing the Baumkuchen Renji pulled out, Shiina Mashiro's eyes instantly gleamed, and then, like a hamster, she took the Baumkuchen and began nibbling at it in small bites.
Watching this scene, Kazuho revealed a satisfied expression.
Although she didn't know when her little brother had prepared Baumkuchen again, this Renji really knew what he was doing.
Taking advantage of Shiina Mashiro eating, Renji asked his older sister if Kasumigaoka-senpai and the others had come looking for her and Shiina.
"You ran into them too! They did come over after the first period. Then Kasumigaoka-senpai pulled Shiina and said a bunch of stuff I couldn't understand, and then, inexplicably, asked me about Megumi. After that, Eriri looked a bit angry and left, I don't know what happened."
"Could it be that Kasumigaoka-senpai took a liking to Megumi again, and so Eriri got jealous?" Kazuho made her irresponsible guess.
Disregarding Kazuho's speculation, which might result in a lawyer's letter if someone heard it, Renji roughly understood the specific situation.
Kasumigaoka-senpai must have directly mentioned sensitive keywords related to the diary while chatting with Shiina Mashiro, so under the diary's shielding mechanism, other outsiders certainly couldn't understand what they were talking about at all.
He would know the content of their conversation by simply asking Shiina Mashiro later.
As for Eriri...
She must have been enraged after seeing Katō Megumi, who was currently completely inconspicuous, and felt that his choice of making this seemingly ordinary girl the heroine, while she became the losing dog, was simply too absurd.
This isn't to say Katō Megumi isn't good-looking.
Setting aside her anime appearance for now.
At least by Renji's aesthetic standards, after interacting with Katō Megumi a few times, putting aside her subtle presence, her looks were not much inferior to Kasumigaoka-senpai's and Eriri's.
When the girls went out together on the weekend, Katō Megumi standing with Shiina Mashiro and Mahiru, two exceptionally beautiful girls, didn't seem out of place; there was even a hint of complementarity—
Shiina Mashiro's natural airheadedness, Katō Megumi's calmness, Mahiru's gentleness.
As for Kazuho?
While saying this might make Kazuho feel indignant, Renji had to admit this: The Miyauchi genes are definitely not bad.
He was qualified to be called a "Tokyo handsome guy," and Kazuho's looks would definitely score an 8.5.
But her overly lively personality and somewhat masculine dressing style made her the most out-of-place among the four girls at the time.
It was like how among him and Sakakibara Kōichi, the slovenly looking Itō Kaiji was also the most conspicuous one in the team.
And similar to Itō Kaiji.
Itō Kaiji's demeanor made him seem like a loser, only revealing his true self when facing desperate situations.
Katō Megumi was also like this; before Aki Tomoya set his sights on her, she had never released her charm to the outside world, always maintaining that subtle, ordinary presence.
Despite being a beautiful girl starting at a nine-point rating, due to her overly common personality and demeanor, not only did Eriri not notice her at first glance, but even the boys in their class would rather chat more with Kōka, the tomboy, than pay attention to Katō Megumi, who sat at Kōka's desk.
So, Eriri simply had no idea how she lost.
Thinking this, Renji looked at Shiina Mashiro, who had finished eating the Baumkuchen in her hand.
She, in turn, gave him a longing look, as if to tell him that one Baumkuchen was simply not enough.
"Three at most per day, that's the standard Mahiru set for you. You already ate one this morning, and another just now. If you eat any more, you won't have any for tonight."
End of the chapter
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