In Tokyo, the dungeon master

"Is there anything else about the Shirakawa family that you can tell me? You really don't need to be afraid, I'm really not a good... not a bad person."

Shirakawa Manka hesitated, as if to say something but then stopped herself. "Is that really true?"

Mrs. Shirakawa's concern for the main family's affairs has led her to various terrifying suspicions. Perhaps it's some great demon from the dungeon that has escaped its seal and is seeking revenge.

But it was too late. The monster in front of them probably had the ability to see through people's hearts and could always tell where they were hiding something.

The wife hated her own weakness, and while worrying, she said everything she could.

The wife felt like a traitor to her family; she wanted to rebel, but her body betrayed her.

Damn body, move!

Oh, thigh, why don't you run away!

Afterwards, Gu Meng also learned that the Donghai family and its various branch families had few direct descendants, and that the Fengchuan and Baichuan families had only one son per generation for several generations and needed to recruit sons-in-law.

The Donghai family has a history of some bizarre rumors and strange tales, but these were previously considered by the world to be some kind of allegory or pure fabrication.

Historically, the Donghai family's rule was unstable due to various strange actions...

In short, it was all some trivial information. By the time Gu Meng was sure that Bai Chuan Wan Hua couldn't extract anything more, it was already late at night.

The phone rang, and Shirakawa Manka subconsciously looked at Gu Meng.

"Go ahead and answer it, no, that makes me look like a kidnapper."

Gu Meng rolled his eyes. Theoretically, he was already the ancestor of the Shirakawa family. How could the ancestor harm him?

So Shirakawa Manka gently held the phone to her ear, still looking very nervous.

A voice came from the other side: "もしもし, お马さん? (Moxi Moxi, mother?)"

It's her daughter, named Chiyana. She has a nice voice, but it's a bit affected by her tone.

However, it's normal for Japanese girls to have a little bit of skin on their clothes; it's actually quite cute and there's nothing wrong with it.

Of course, his wife's mature and sophisticated voice was even more appealing to Gu Meng.

"...Today, tonight, the house is open to the public... Youda's home is open to the public..."

The mother and daughter exchanged a few words, and Chiyana said that she wouldn't be going home today and wanted to stay at her classmate's house for the night.

The female classmate's name is Suzumiya Ami.

Gu Meng noticed that Mrs. Shirakawa didn't seem to like this classmate very much.

But rather than facing the ghost at home, the wife readily agreed to her daughter not coming home, and then hung up the phone.

This kind of plot feels like something I've seen before in hentai anime and other obscure places.

Tonight, only Gu Meng and his wife, along with a ghost, are at home.

"Alright, you must be tired too, get some rest."

After speaking with Shirakawa Manka, Gu Meng returned to Shirakawa Chiyana's bedroom, closed the door, and began studying how to use the cheat system in this world.

With the foundation from the previous world, I shouldn't be completely clueless this time before accidentally getting the hang of it. I should be able to discover the functions of the cheat system much faster, and with a bit of luck, I should see results within a few days.

In fact, Gu Meng already had a clue about the book concerning Donghai Yixin's uncertain identity—

[Identity: A mysterious figure from the Donghai family, an unexpected presence, a stitched-together experience, a fateful choice, an identity that exists between reality and illusion. This background is still subject to change, but the history confirmed by the original Gu Meng cannot be altered.]

Gu Meng tried to activate the words with his mental energy. He had a feeling that if certain conditions were met, he could open a copy space and take a trip similar to time travel.

What is confirmed in the copy space will, to some extent, replace the true history of this world.

Opening a dungeon when certain conditions are met is probably not the only ability of this book.

Previously, the abilities of the [Ancestral Pen] were mainly divided into three categories:

The ability to instantly corrupt and indelibly destroy extraordinary items and properties can also be used in combat.

This ability absorbs extraordinary items, monster corpses, and various contaminated materials, transforming them into a storage of extremely dark power. This ability is generally performed after a battle, but can also be used in combat when necessary.

Using this power as ink, one can write more useful things; many extinct potion ingredients are obtained this way.

The three abilities were named by Gu Meng as [Darkness·Moment], [Darkness·Extraction], and [Darkness·Creation].

Unfortunately, the quill pen is temporarily unusable; there should still be residual dark power within it that can be used for writing [creation].

Gu Meng has already discovered that this "Book of Ancestors" also wields that extremely dark power, in contrast to the "Pen of Ancestors".

Besides the ability to open dungeons, which Gu Meng has temporarily named "Extreme Darkness World," this book may also have two other abilities.

Tonight is Christmas Eve.

……

Everything went surprisingly smoothly. Chiyuna thought she would be lectured by her mother, but to her surprise, her mother quickly agreed to let her stay at her classmate's house after she called.

There was even a hint in her tone that she hoped he wouldn't go home.

Why is this happening? Will my mother's love disappear?

Does she have something else planned for tonight?

"Chiyana, what's wrong? Does your mother disagree? It's okay, I'll explain to her later."

When Chihana is at someone else's house, she is dignified and well-mannered. Her classmate, Suzumiya Ami, is a very energetic girl with a beautiful face. When she closes her mouth, she is an undisputed beauty with a pair of bright and intelligent eyes, but she has a stubborn streak hidden inside.

"No, my mother agreed to Desuwa, but I always feel like something's off. Do you think I really hurt her feelings?"

"Hmm... I don't know either, after all, I'm not your mother, haha."

Hearing what Suzumiya said, Chiyana couldn't help but purse her lips. Her classmate was really heartless.

But it also effectively dispelled Chiyuna's unease. Things had come to this point, and it was already so late; there was no way she could go home tonight anyway.

Chihana and Ami have a very good relationship, so good that Shirakawa Manka sometimes suspects that they might be in a lesbian relationship.

Not long ago, initiated by Suzumiya Ami, and with the participation of Shirakawa Chihana and members of the school's unconventional club "Far East Magic Nap Club," these students who are passionate about paranormal events held a Hundred Tales ceremony.

Hyakumonogatari is a traditional Japanese folk ritual involving collective ghost stories. The general procedure involves participants lighting one hundred candles in a dark room, extinguishing one candle after each ghost story told, and then checking their face in a mirror before returning to their seats.

According to the rules, only ninety-nine stories can be told, no more, and the last candle must remain lit. If the last candle is extinguished, it will immediately trigger the appearance of monsters or open the gates of the underworld.

This time, Suzumiya Ami directly broke the rules and extinguished the last candle.

Asumi always felt that the ordinary world was too boring and hoped that some supernatural events, aliens, people from other worlds, or superpowered people would appear before her eyes.

As a daughter of the Shirakawa family, Shirakawa Chiyana was instilled with some strange knowledge by her elders when she was young.

She was always interested in these supernatural and ghostly things, but she didn't really believe in them.

Moreover, even if there really were monsters, according to the family, they all disappeared hundreds of years ago.

Legend has it that the direct descendants of the Shirakawa family are born with the ability to "see," which may be called the Shirakawa Eyes, or simply the Byakugan. Four hundred years ago, they produced many great Onmyoji and great priestesses.

Even with this constitution, Shirakawa Chiyana has never seen a ghost.

It is clear that regardless of whether those family legends are true or not, there are no more ghosts in this world.

But this time is different.

The last candle—perhaps she'd been in the dark for too long and was seeing things wrong—made Shirakawa Chiyana feel that something was amiss; the candle flame seemed to have turned a strange color.

After the event, she also found a notebook with a black cover that she couldn't open in the center of the summoning circle drawn by the chuunibyou president on the floor of the Far East Magic Nap Club's activity room.

After asking others without success, driven by a strange surge of blood, she took the book home and told her mother the whole story.

Actually, she had been reflecting on this. Unlike herself, who wasn't afraid of these things, her mother had always been afraid of paranormal events. Even though her mother had never encountered any paranormal events growing up, she was still very afraid of ghosts.

This is normal. Most people in the world have never experienced paranormal events, but that doesn't stop some people from being very afraid.

Now that we know this, it seems we've gone too far; we shouldn't have brought the book home.

What if there really is a ghost in that book?

Although it's most likely just a prank prop, the president of the chuunibyou club has so many random props like this that she might have even forgotten about it after buying it and just left it there for herself to find.

But what if?

That book always felt different; it had a mysterious quality, and I felt a desire to get closer to it.

No, it must just be a misperception. There's no "what if," and saying it out loud would only make people laugh.

Maybe I'm just having a bout of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome)?

After all, in the eyes of outsiders, being keen on participating in paranormal events is just a sign of being a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur).

In short, although it felt very strange at first, Chiyana managed to convince herself.

After all, most people wouldn't believe in such mystical events unless they personally witnessed a demon appearing from its transparent state, like Shirakawa Manka did.