Sakurajima Mai was currently staying in a park near the coastline in Fujisawa City.
When Miyauchi Hikage arrived there by taxi with Yotsuya Miko, she was sitting on the steps by the park, facing the sea, seemingly lost in thought, her mind elsewhere.
From the outside, she looked more mature than on TV, but still very exquisite—a top-tier beautiful girl even without makeup.
Although she had actually left the entertainment industry for a year or two, it was normal for the post-production of various film and television works to drag on for a year or two before being officially broadcast on TV after filming was completed.
Having signed a contract, even if she retired from the industry, she still had to complete the basic publicity work.
So from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, a TV series filmed by Sakurajima Mai in her first year of high school was still being broadcast, and Sakurajima Mai had also participated in these activities at the beginning of this year.
Compared to her on TV, Sakurajima Mai, now a third-year high school student, seemed to have grown a lot in all aspects.
Even though she was forgotten by everyone now and no one would notice whatever she did, she still maintained her decency and hadn't used her ability to do anything bad.
Ignored by the convenience store clerk, she would take the bento and find an opportunity to throw money on the cashier counter.
She just didn't know if the convenience store owners would be puzzled by the extra few thousand yen when reconciling the accounts.
Anyway, if Miyauchi Hikage had obtained this ability, he would probably have gone to snatch lollipops from children on the same day.
Feeling someone approaching, Sakurajima Mai, sitting on the steps, looked back, seemingly to confirm that Miyauchi Hikage and the girl wouldn't bump into her when passing by.
Since the beginning of the Golden Week holiday, she had become accustomed to being bumped into by people who didn't notice her when going out.
She didn't know why, even with the obvious collision sensation, those passersby could still act as if they hadn't seen anything.
Only this time, there seemed to be an accident.
Those two, a man and a woman who didn't seem like a couple, seemed to have noticed her existence.
For her, this was quite a surprising result.
After all, since the beginning of May, fewer and fewer people could notice her.
When the Golden Week holiday just ended and she went to school, many people in the school could still notice her.
But after a week, she completely disappeared from the school.
In order to test her situation, she even adopted the form of changing into a bunny girl outfit to test during the period just after the holiday ended.
But the result was still not ideal.
And as time went on, the traces she left on the internet as a national idol became fewer and fewer.
Even though she retired from the industry, because there would be some previous work requiring her appearance one after another in the past two years, her comment section had always been quite lively.
But now, no one had left a message under her blog for a whole day.
It was as if she had really been forgotten by the whole world, including her mother who had now forgotten the existence of her daughter.
Clearly, this was what she had expected most in her heart after choosing to retire from the industry.
But when she really reached this step alone, Sakurajima Mai still couldn't help but feel a little lonely.
She didn't know what kind of ending she would face if this continued.
Therefore, after sensing that these two people seemed to be able to see her, Sakurajima Mai subconsciously moved aside in other directions, as if making way for someone.
Watching the two people's gazes shift with her moving body, she should have been happy in her heart.
But when the words she wanted to ask came out of her mouth, they turned into somewhat rude words.
"It's really surprising. Is there still someone who can see me at this time?"
For a moment, she had the thought that the ability on her body had automatically faded.
But the boy in front of her, who looked younger than her, reacted by resting his chin on his hand and looking at her carefully.
It wasn't until this time that she noticed that this boy's eyes looked a bit wrong.
It was the first time she had seen a person's eyes could be "brilliant" to this extent.
No, the other party's eyes were really glowing right now!?
"Yotsuya-san, can your eyes see anything?" The boy seemed to be asking the girl beside him.
Then the girl named Yotsuya looked much more nervous, obviously having recognized her identity.
"Sorry, Hikage-kun, I can't see anything."
The person appearing in front of her should be the super famous child star Sakurajima Mai, right?!
No wonder Miyauchi Hikage said those words before.
But she was also telling the truth; she couldn't see any problems with Sakurajima Mai.
There were no traces of cursed energy or spiritual power on her body.
Just a ridiculously beautiful national-level beauty.
However, in Yotsuya Miko's heart, just speaking of looks, the two sisters of the Shiina family and Tohru were not inferior.
But she indeed grew up watching Sakurajima Mai's film and television works. This familiarity made her naturally feel more intimacy when she really saw Sakurajima Mai at this time.
Therefore, at this moment, she was more or less a little excited in her heart.
So, could it be that the person Miyauchi Hikage mentioned who was in the stage of supernatural awakening was this Sakurajima Mai in front of her?
"So, what are you two talking about?" Listening to the words of these two, although Sakurajima Mai felt somewhat baffled, precisely because of these conversations, she seemed to realize something.
It seemed that the identities of these two people were not ordinary.
Miyauchi Hikage nodded to Sakurajima Mai first, and then said to Yotsuya Miko: "Take out your ID and explain the situation to Miss Sakurajima."
Hearing this, Yotsuya Miko hurriedly took out her student ID and handed it to Sakurajima Mai.
This was the identity proof of Jujutsu High and even the entire inner world.
Miyauchi Hikage had this thing, but as an external member of Jujutsu High, strictly speaking, he was still a loose supernatural being with no background.
However, relying on the relationship with the Jujutsu higher-ups, he was about to become a special counselor of Jujutsu High, enjoying privileges higher than ordinary students but lower than formal teachers.
The new ID was estimated to be issued in two days.
Before that, let Yotsuya Miko explain the matters of Jujutsu High to Sakurajima Mai.
"Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College... First-year student?"
Looking at the student ID in her hand, Sakurajima Mai's eyes immediately became strange.
"If you find it troublesome, you can directly abbreviate it as Jujutsu High or Kosen. Our school is a special school specifically responsible for handling supernatural events in Japan. It is also because special spiritual fluctuations were recently sensed in Fujisawa City that we found you, Miss Sakurajima Mai."
Speaking of this, Yotsuya Miko suddenly got stuck.
Because she really didn't know what happened to Sakurajima Mai?
Miyauchi Hikage just took her to ask about the situation of that jujutsu sorcerer, then wandered around Fujisawa City briefly, and brought her here to meet this big star Sakurajima Mai.
Throughout the process, Miyauchi Hikage just asked her if she could see any problems, and then asked her to take out her ID to prove her identity to Sakurajima Mai.
And she really couldn't see anything.
At least there were no traces of cursed energy and spiritual power on the current Sakurajima Mai.
Although the mysterious person mentioned Sakurajima Mai's name in the diary back then, he only mentioned a so-called "Puberty Syndrome," and even Shinomiya Kaguya failed to investigate the situation of this syndrome.
And the first sentence Sakurajima Mai said was also interpreted by Yotsuya Miko as the big star Sakurajima Mai not expecting her identity to be recognized by others here.
After coughing lightly in embarrassment, Yotsuya Miko saw that there was no one else within ten meters around them, and no one else noticed their side.
So she decided to continue asking according to the process.
"So, Miss Sakurajima Mai, have you felt any unusual special circumstances around you recently?"
Regarding this, the expression on Sakurajima Mai's face became slightly unable to hold back.
She had been forgotten by the world for a week, and hadn't spoken to anyone seriously for about ten days.
As a result, a school specifically responsible for handling supernatural events suddenly popped up, which was fine, but this person seemed to not know her current situation?
She didn't doubt the background of this school too much.
After all, she had been forgotten for half a month.
Even if she originally firmly believed that this world was material and those ghosts were made-up stories to scare people, she had resigned herself to fate now.
Since these two people hadn't forgotten her yet, and their performance was indeed unlike ordinary people, what did it matter if she tentatively believed what they said?
Anyway, it wouldn't be worse than the current situation, right?
Sakurajima Mai turned to look at the other boy.
The expression on his face at this time carried a relaxed smile.
As an all-round actress who grew up in the entertainment industry, Sakurajima Mai's personality was naturally very mature.
She could see that among these two people, the one playing the leading role should be this boy with glowing eyes.
So she didn't respond to the girl's inquiry, but turned to look at the boy: "If you don't know my current situation, how did you find me?"
Miyauchi Hikage pointed to his eyes: "Of course, relying on these eyes."
"We are here to help you return to normal, but if you are satisfied with your current life, we will not interfere with your personal choice."
The ability of spiritual vision didn't seem special to talk about, but according to what Miyauchi Hikage saw in his eyes, the other party's current ability was enough to make people below Grade 1 who were not good at perception completely ignore and forget her existence.
Only Yotsuya Miko, with maxed innate spiritual vision, could see the essence clearly, so she could still remember Sakurajima Mai's existence.
And Miyauchi Hikage had many cheats. He didn't know which power on him blocked Sakurajima Mai's ability.
Anyway, even the Eye of Destiny, which could be easily blocked by special methods, could clearly see Sakurajima Mai's situation.
However, compared to Sakurajima Mai's current situation, Miyauchi Hikage standing in front of her cared more about the fact that in the fate he saw, the existence of the male protagonist Azusagawa Sakuta seemed to be missing from her life?
You know, that guy was also a master of manipulating world lines in the story.
The stories later in the novel basically revolved around the plot unfolded by the influence of him and his parallel world selves on the world line.
Now that his figure was lost, Sakurajima Mai seemed to have been alone since the symptoms appeared until now.
He didn't know if this was a deviation in the story plot or some other reason.
Miyauchi Hikage began to feel some bad vibes.
Anyway, these things would require him to research and investigate later.
However, just because Miyauchi Hikage and Yotsuya Miko were not interfered with by Sakurajima Mai's existence didn't mean that others were not affected.
Shiina Mahiru and Miyauchi Hikari, who had always been thinking about Sakurajima Mai when she was a child, had forgotten Sakurajima Mai's existence at this time.
As for Shiina Mashiro, who grew up in Britain and was completely uninterested in these things, she had only seen the name Sakurajima Mai in the diary, and after that, she simply forgot her because the name was not important.
After hearing what Miyauchi Hikage said, Sakurajima Mai's eyes also trembled violently.
She was actually still in a confused period now, feeling that her recent life was indeed a bit lonely, but occasionally she felt that this kind of life didn't seem bad.
Seeing the other party's conflict, Miyauchi Hikage took out his mobile phone to check messages while inviting her to lunch: "It's almost noon. If you don't mind, let's have lunch together at noon, and find a suitable place to talk about your situation after lunch?"
This was approved by Sakurajima Mai.
And at the same time, Miyauchi Hikage's mobile phone did receive several messages.
Except for Miyauchi Hikari treating his account as her photo album, sending one photo after taking it and asking Miyauchi Hikage to help her edit it, the rest of the messages were from Shiina Mashiro and Shinomiya Kaguya respectively.
On the way here, in order to test whether Shinomiya Kaguya had forgotten Sakurajima Mai, he specially sent an inquiry to Shinomiya Kaguya.
Then Shinomiya Kaguya's reaction was a bit interesting.
Because with Shinomiya Kaguya's character, after seeing Sakurajima Mai's name, she would inevitably send someone to investigate and track Sakurajima Mai's situation.
Judging from the reply time, the other party was silent for a long time before giving the answer that she still remembered, and asked him if he had anything to do with Sakurajima Mai.
If Miyauchi Hikage hadn't seen from Shiina Mashiro that Shinomiya Kaguya grumpily stated in the group that she was deducted 2 reading value points by the diary because of a sentence from Miyauchi Hikage to recall Sakurajima Mai's matter, he would have really believed Shinomiya Kaguya's nonsense.
Even because of Shinomiya Kaguya's complaint, the girls in the group also stated that they also received reminders from the diary and restored their memories of Sakurajima Mai, but no reading value was deducted.
It seemed that Shinomiya Kaguya seriously investigated Sakurajima Mai's identity, and might have left some special backhands around Sakurajima Mai.
It was just that the effect of Puberty Syndrome was much stronger than she imagined, so she, who was affected by more power, was deducted two reading value points to restore these memories.
The other girls had no interaction with Sakurajima Mai, and were just curious about the situation of Puberty Syndrome.
So under the reminder of the memory-restored Shinomiya Kaguya, with just a little stimulation from the diary, they could recall Sakurajima Mai's affairs normally without consuming reading value.
Just like in the original work, the male protagonist actually relied on confessing loudly on the playground to attract the attention of all the teachers and students in the school, forcibly instilling his cognition of Sakurajima Mai into others. Plus, Sakurajima Mai's own thoughts might be attached to this, successfully making everyone recall Sakurajima Mai's identity.
So, this could only be considered Shinomiya Kaguya's bad luck. Miyauchi Hikage, who obtained the answer he wanted, could only silently give her a thumbs up in his heart.
He would remember the sacrifice of these two reading value points deeply in his heart.