…So it really was the pink-haired milk-dragon.
Somehow, it felt exactly as expected.
She actually dared to write her real name directly like that. Wasn't she afraid someone else might see it?
Good thing I can set transparent messages.
Picking up his pen again, Toru Asakusa wrote his reply to the message.
[Go to @CH and create an anonymous message board.
Use "mygo" as the keyword.
Tell me the current situation.
Use the code names I wrote earlier.]
A transparent message, a transparent reply.
In essence, it was a private chat.
Unfortunately, he could only send one response under fifty characters, and the other side could probably only leave this single message as well.
That was why he told Anon Chihaya to create that message board.
This way, even without leaving the school, he could still regularly receive updates about the situation through the board.
For now, before Anon saw the reply and created the board, he might as well think about what to do next.
Calling it "playing on her behalf" sounded good, but he couldn't control her body.
All he could do was provide information, analyze strategies, and plan approaches.
Since he couldn't force Anon to follow his instructions, everything he said could only be suggestions.
In a way, this was one of the biggest weaknesses of the diary-style system.
…No.
If he had to be honest—
It wasn't the diary's weakness.
It was his.
The one who couldn't manipulate others with words was himself.
"..."
Time ticked by.
Night quietly descended.
Soon after, dawn arrived.
Refresh.
Refresh.
Refresh.
And then—
He found it.
[mygomygomygomygomygo]
A thread that looked utterly meaningless to outsiders had appeared.
AnonTokyo:
[Um… anyway, here's the current situation!]
AnonTokyo:
[We held a LIVE! We played Haru Hikage! Soyo got angry and stopped coming to practice!]
AnonTokyo:
[And then… I went to check the apartment. I met Mr. Kiyotsugu and talked to him a little. He said something about the "darkness of the Toyokawa family" and then chased me away.]
AnonTokyo:
[But I looked up the name and found the fraud incident! Now I'm even more confused about what to do…]
AnonTokyo:
[So! Please help me!]
AnonTokyo:
[Though… can you really see this post…?]
Of course I can.
The current situation matched what Asakusa had predicted.
Basically, the story had entered the MyGO timeline on the very day the declaration—
"Why did you play Haru Hikage?!"
—was shouted.
Honestly, the diary's standard for determining when a plot "started" was strange.
There didn't seem to be any consistent logic behind it.
But it didn't matter.
Since there was still time, he should first write today's diary (instructions).
Haneoka Girls' Academy
"…Will he really see it?"
Even though she obediently created the anonymous message board on @CH and posted the situation, Anon still couldn't relax.
What if she had been tricked?
After reading the diary for so long, she more or less understood the diary writer's personality.
Compared to yesterday's dramatic declaration, most of the time his tone was playful.
Like the day before yesterday when he said he beat up Tomori—that was obviously just a joke.
What if helping her was also a joke?
Ugh…
Just as Anon was worrying—
Flip—flip—flip—
The diary pages suddenly fluttered open unusually early.
Lines of text rapidly appeared.
[I'm watching.]
[Finished reading.]
[The fraud case has nothing to do with you. Honestly, it barely has anything to do with Toyokawa Sakiko either. It's just that idiot Sakiko being stubborn, insisting on suffering alongside her useless father. When she's riding around in a Maybach someday, she'll finally realize how nice life is.]
[As for the "darkness of the Toyokawa family"—in short, it's just Sakiko's dark forest—cough, never mind. There's no real darkness. It's just the usual power struggles between family factions. Honestly, it's less impressive than real corporate warfare where people pour boiling water on a rival company's money tree.]
[So don't worry about it.]
[You're a high school girl—an underage JK beauty. Adult problems should be left to adults. All you need to do is take advantage of being a minor and throw your emotions around like a proper teenage girl until everyone's so exhausted they give up.]
[While writing this diary I realized I forgot to ask your goal. Sure, the reason you formed the band was vanity, but now that you've come this far, if you ask your heart honestly, you should know what you truly want.]
[Do you want harmony in the band? Or the spotlight of the crowd?]
[Do you want to preserve the band life you can look back on when you're an exhausted office worker someday—so your youth has no regrets?]
[Or do you want to kick those troublesome girls away and stand alone on stage as the only star?]
[Think about it. Then tell me. After that, I'll figure out what to do.]
[But before that—Private Anon Chihaya! Receive your first order!]
[Go follow Toyokawa Sakiko.]
[The stray cat will say she came to play in a band, but ignore that.]
[You can't practice with missing members anyway. Just look at your little Tomori if you doubt it.]
[If nothing unexpected happens, while following Sakiko you'll see a familiar high school girl—a wealthy widow-like lady.]
[Don't panic.]
[Turn on your phone camera.]
[That's exactly what I want.]
The pen paused briefly at the start, but soon began racing across the page again.
Even just watching the words appear one after another, Anon could feel the overflowing freedom behind them.
Just like he said yesterday—
He would write whatever he wanted.
Nothing more, nothing less.
"…Huh."
A small sound escaped the girl's lips.
Her first reaction, unexpectedly, was:
"He really was watching."
Just two short sentences—
Yet she almost imagined someone sitting at a desk somewhere, reading her post with one hand while writing a response with the other.
But that wasn't the important part.
What mattered was his answer.
"..."
Whoa…
"Idiot Sakiko"…
He was talking about Sakiko, right?
That insult was brutally direct.
Even though he always spoke like that in the diary, hearing someone around her get roasted like this for the first time felt strangely awkward.
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