Chapter 358 321 – Deafening Silence [BONUS]

"Irina and Xenovia probably haven't found them yet."

"Raynare, don't leak the information for now. Just keep watching them."

After Takumi gave the order, he withdrew his attention.

He was definitely going to make a move, but this time, it wasn't enough to simply wipe the other side out.

"I should also tell Serafall. I've already found the fuse on my end."

"Now I just need to connect the fuse to the powder keg and blow everything up in one go!"

Takumi immediately gathered and summarized the intelligence he had collected, compiled it into a string of magical text, and sent it to Serafall.

After finishing all that, Takumi silently sorted through the authority pathways inside his body, gathered his magic, techniques, and so on, then compiled them into the divine envoy chess pieces.

[Divine Envoy Chess Piece Version 1.01 Update!]

Like he was releasing a game update, Takumi wanted to keep iterating on the functions of his divine envoy chess pieces.

The girls who possessed divine envoy chess pieces could all feel this change.

"This brat is slacking off during class…"

Sensing a string of information coming from the divine envoy chess piece inside her body, Hiratsuka-sensei, who was in the middle of teaching, glanced at him speechlessly.

But she couldn't help being drawn in too, and a sliver of her attention went to checking it.

This update had added the "Jujutsu Kaisen" pathway, along with a number of technique branches.

At a glance, Hiratsuka-sensei immediately took a liking to the Star Rage technique, but she currently had no way to learn it.

Her "experience" wasn't enough, and her potential was a little lacking too.

"Takumi definitely did this on purpose."

Thinking of the way this "experience" was obtained, a bright, alluring blush rose across Hiratsuka-sensei's lovely face.

Takumi's bad taste was practically laid out in the open. It was just like last time when she went to Yukino's house, and the air had been mixed with air freshener and that rich scent.

This guy could clearly use the simplest cleaning spell, but he just refused to. He was doing it on purpose!

And while the girls and teachers were all letting their imaginations run wild, class ended.

"Let's go. We're going to the library!"

Hakari Hanazono eagerly came up to him and very naturally tried to hook her arm around Takumi's.

Karane Inda immediately rushed out and grabbed Hakari's restless little hand.

"We agreed on this before~"

She secretly reminded Hakari, her expression very serious.

This was something they had privately agreed on: they wouldn't start competing in public.

Seeing this, Hakari could only reluctantly let go.

Yuki Nonaka stared directly at them, but she did not come over.

Perhaps noticing that Mio and the others weren't here, Yuki's eyes flickered for a moment before she lowered her head again, as if she were thinking about something.

While she remained silent, Takumi had already left the classroom with Karane and Hakari.

Sitting at her seat, Alisa looked at Hitagi Senjougahara in some surprise when she saw that Hitagi did not move at all.

"You're actually not going after him?"

"Alisa-san, you don't seem as aloof as usual. Are you paying attention to my little movements now?"

Hitagi did not answer Alisa. Instead, she directly asked her a question in return.

In an instant, Alisa fell silent and chose to shut her mouth.

Hitagi also said nothing else. She wasn't close to Alisa.

The two of them were only classmates, not good friends or anything.

What she had just said was also a reminder to Alisa that the two of them were not familiar enough for that.

After speaking, Hitagi also stood up and walked out of the classroom.

But she was not going after Takumi. Instead, she headed toward another classroom.

Hitagi, who had already made it to home base, saw much further ahead than Karane and the others.

What was the point of following him around at school? Being able to "follow" him in bed was the real skill.

In order to increase her influence, Hitagi prepared to go talk with her close friend, Tsubasa Hanekawa.

Meanwhile, Hakari, who had arrived at the library, was in a very cheerful mood.

"I thought about it carefully before coming here. This is the perfect time to find a cookbook."

"I want to make some delicious food and let you try it, Takumi-kun."

As Hakari spoke, she looked at Takumi with an expectant gaze.

Before Takumi could say anything, Karane got worked up.

She immediately raised her head and said in a small voice, "Wh-What a coincidence! I just so happened to want to look into cooking recently too!"

Hakari: "…"

Takumi: "…"

At this moment, silence spoke louder than words. Their deafening silence immediately made Karane cry out in embarrassment.

"I-I'm not doing it for you! I didn't say anything like that!!!"

"But we didn't say anything either…"

Takumi muttered with an expression that almost couldn't hold back a laugh, then changed the subject. "If both of you are looking, then I'll help too."

"No, no, Takumi-kun. Please just look forward to what I make next time. I'll go find the book."

Hakari shook her head repeatedly, and Karane immediately chased after her.

The two searched side by side and soon found the cookbook they had in mind.

"Ngh? What's this? A Collection of Recipes to Capture Your Lover's Stomach…"

"Ah, wait, Karane-san, please let me look too!"

"Don't pull on it! I got it first!!"

…

Watching the two of them love each other and get along so well, Takumi felt very gratified.

At the same time, he found a chair and sat down, then looked at Megumi Kato beside him.

A gentle smile hung on her face as her gaze slowly moved back from Hakari and Karane.

"Takumi-kun, those two are both very cute girls. I didn't expect both of them to be your girlfriends."

Regarding Takumi's two-timing arrangement with the three of them, Megumi merely expressed her feelings.

"Mm. Hakari and Karane are both wonderful girls."

After agreeing with Megumi's opinion, Takumi brought the topic back on track.

"Megumi, I've thought carefully about your situation."

"Your current state is very similar to Schrödinger's cat. Because you aren't being observed, your existence can't be properly defined."

"Because of my status, I can see you, but ordinary people can't. What we need to do now is find a way to pull you down."

"Pull me down?"

Under Megumi's blank gaze, Takumi roughly described the process again.

To put it simply, they would spread her influence and make the concept of "Megumi Kato" known to the public again.

Once enough people knew about her, her existence would be observed, and she would reappear in the public eye.

After that, Takumi would use the power of his divine envoy chess piece to help Megumi anchor the concept of herself, completely eliminating the danger of her presence disappearing.

After listening, Megumi still did not fully understand, but she had grasped the general process.

"But there's one problem. Right now, there's no way for other people to observe me at all. How am I supposed to make them know about me?"

Takumi smiled knowingly at that and replied calmly, "Allow me to introduce myself grandly once again. I am the first-place winner of the 26th Rookie Award from Phoenix Library.

"In the 27th and 28th years, I won second and first place respectively."

"On top of that, I'm currently preparing to open an agency in the industry and start adapting some anime."

"If possible, I'd also like to make a few live-action dramas—with me as the protagonist!"

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