I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

Chapter 78 Kasumigaoka Utaha: Let's unite!

Her extreme dissatisfaction with the current situation is evident in every word she writes.

Everyone exchanged bewildered glances, then looked at Kasumigaoka herself, who was peacefully sleeping on the sofa wearing a virtual infiltration device. It was hard to imagine that her consciousness was suffering in the virtual world, and had even spent about a month there.

In reality, less than half an hour has passed. Could there really be such a thing as a "psychic time chamber"...?

"Let's answer her first, otherwise I feel like she'll start going crazy again," Natsukawa Masuzu suggested, arms crossed as if watching a show.

Yukino Yukinoshita temporarily put aside her doubts and picked up her pen to write neat and beautiful characters on the white paper.

"Less than half an hour has passed here since you put on that virtual infiltration device, and apart from being powerless to change the current situation, nothing else has happened. How about you?"

Author: Yukino Yukinoshita.

"Isn't that footnote unnecessary?" Yang Nai couldn't help but complain.

Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly wrote a reply, even giving the impression of being impatient.

"The timeline is so different? It seems that guy was right after all. I don't have to worry about waking up to find myself several years older."

Yukino thought for a moment and decided that instead of waiting for her to answer their questions with endless rambling, it would be more efficient to ask them what they wanted to know and get a complete understanding of the current situation.

After exchanging a few words with Kasumigaoka Utaha, who really wanted to chat with someone, they finally got into a question-and-answer session.

Xue: "Who is that guy? Where are you now?"

Xia: "I can't write it down. Anything related to her will be censored. Even if I give you hints indirectly, it won't work. I'm in her room right now."

"The 'mastermind' is a woman, and judging from Shiyu-chan's complaints earlier, she seems to be treating her quite well." Yang Nai casually concluded, resting her hand on her chin. "She was allowed to play games and write novels during her house arrest, and she was also told about the different flow of time. Obviously, she didn't want her to break down easily."

"Maybe he just wants to enjoy slowly ruining her. A guy who imprisons someone, no matter how you look at it, is a villain who's rotten to the core, right?"

Natsukawa Masuzu never hesitates to make the worst-case scenario, especially when it involves things that have nothing to do with her.

Yuki: "Have you seen Tenkuji-kun? How is he doing?"

Kasumi: "No, but I don't need to worry about his safety... that's what that guy assured me."

Upon seeing this, Yukino Yukinoshita breathed a sigh of relief.

Haruno whistled beside her, teasingly saying, "Are you relieved now? Yukino was really worried about him~"

"..."

Yukino paused, glancing sideways at her older sister with icy coldness in her eyes and speaking in a completely impolite tone.

Instead of wasting time making sarcastic remarks, why not do something that contributes to the current situation? If you really can't think of anything, there's a broom there; you could help clean the house.

This tone not only makes her seem like she's the mistress of the house, but also treats her sister like a servant...

Yukino is getting braver and braver.

Yukino's lips twitched slightly. Before her eyes could sharpen, she took a deep breath to calm herself down and returned to her nonchalant demeanor.

After all, this is not the time for the sisters to confront each other, and she wouldn't speak recklessly like Natsukawa Masuzu—that last remark didn't count; it was just an instinctive teasing of her younger sister.

Besides, even if we shut our mouths, there's nothing we can do that "contributes to the status quo."

At most, it's just analyzing the information provided by Kasumigaoka Utaha, something she's been doing from the very beginning.

“This isn’t just idle talk; I’m also very worried about him.”

After giving that casual reply, Yukinoshita Haruno half-closed her eyes, looking like she couldn't be bothered to talk to anyone anymore.

Yukino sighed and shook her head helplessly, then quickly turned her gaze back to Kasumigaoka Utaha and continued to ask her questions.

"Could you describe some of your experiences in detail? Try to write down as many details as possible; if you can't write them down, you can use symbols or pronouns."

"Alright, but I'm not sure when that girl will be back. If she finds out about the notebook, she'll definitely confiscate it."

Yukino put down her pen for the moment, watching the black words on the white paper gradually increase. Following the high-quality and romantic narrative style, a not-so-complicated experience gradually unfolded in her mind.

After the gaming helmet was activated, she opened and closed her eyes and found herself in the room of the "mastermind".

She was very surprised by the person's true identity. When she tried to negotiate and exchange information, she was decisively rejected. She also learned important information from the other side of the hood, such as that Tenkuji Yu would not have any problems in the trial and that the other party deliberately prevented them from going in to help.

It is said that the other party also mentioned a very important secret about Tenkuji Yu, but it could not be written in the notebook. At most, it could be said that it was a big secret related to the true identity of "God".

Since then, Kasumigaoka Utaha has never received any new information from the Black Mist.

All she knew was that the other person would leave the room except for the three regular meals, and otherwise she would be busy with something on the computer. However, no matter whether Kasumigaoka Utaha peeked or openly went over to look, she couldn't see what was displayed on the screen. Instead, she was mocked by the other person, who told her not to waste her energy doing such a useless thing.

Confined to her room with no way to leave and no way to contact the outside world, Kasumigaoka Utaha could only live a life of endlessly repeating the same cycle of playing games, writing articles, sleeping, doing yoga, and failing to escape.

She couldn't see the date, and the view outside the window was always a bottomless blackness with no sunrise or sunset, so she could only rely on her biological clock to calculate the time, which was about a month.

On such a peaceful day, only today has brought a slight change.

Not long ago, the black curtain left in a panic and hasn't returned for a long time—this is clearly not a routine matter like going downstairs for a meal. Although she didn't know what had happened, Kasumigaoka Utaha still seized the opportunity and tried various escape methods more boldly than usual.

"The internet is still down, the doors and windows can't be opened, and I can't even dig an escape route out of the floor with a spoon. If I try to touch her computer or even smash it, I'll be thrown away by an invisible force... I was desperate, so I came up with the idea of ​​using my laptop to contact you. I didn't have much hope of success."

Kasumigaoka Utaha drew a sighing, shrug emoji.

"Ha, is this what they call 'when heaven closes all doors, man severs all ties'? I was originally planning to just give up and let that guy do whatever he wants if we didn't get any results this time, but I didn't expect that new hope would actually appear."

Yukino Yukinoshita thought for a moment and replied to her like this.

"Understood, thank you for your help. Please give us some time to discuss this, and then we can think together about how to break this current situation."

Kasumigaoka Utaha: "We'd better hurry. I'm as nervous as if I were a spy. If I get caught, I'll be devastated. As for breaking the deadlock... to be honest, I still don't think it's very likely, but what if it works? I hope the notebook can work a miracle for us."

While she was writing this, Yukino Yukinoshita had already put down her pen and turned to discuss it with the others.

"Do you all understand the situation now? Is there anything you don't understand?"

After all, they were all top-performing, intelligent, and quick-witted genius girls... and women. The group shook their heads, indicating that they could completely understand the information that Kasumigaoka Utaha had given them.

Of course, while we understand this, there are still many key points that need to be discussed.

As for the remaining Kasugano Sora... she seemed to have already decided to hand over the matter entirely to her 'girlfriends', and was now stroking Tenkuji Yu's head, dozing off on the sofa with her eyes half-closed.

Asuna Yuuki quietly got up, draped her coat over Asuna's shoulders, and smiled with relief after making sure she hadn't woken her.

"Okay, let me mention a few things that concern me."

Yukino raised her hand, drawing everyone's warm gazes away from the sleeping siblings. Her eyes were calm and rational, clearly indicating that she was thinking about important matters more seriously than anyone else.

She didn't deliberately lower her voice, but maintained the volume she had when she spoke: "First, there's the cover-up, or rather, the information about the trial administrator."

"According to Kasumigaoka Utaha, the other party is a young human woman who needs to eat and is hostile to us from Yu-Yu's perspective. Although she has great power in the trial, she is not a god who can do whatever she wants or is omnipotent."

After all, even Kasumigaoka Utaha hadn't discovered the notebook, which shows that the opponent still had a weakness.

Natsukawa Masuzu suddenly retorted, "Everything else is fine, but how do you know I'm not old?"

Yukinoshita gave her a nonchalant glance.

"Give Kasumigaoka Utaha games to pass the time, and mock her just because she failed to escape, we can judge that she is between sixteen and twenty-five years old, good at using computers, has otaku tendencies, and probably has a bad temper."

"So detailed..." Natsukawa Masuzu was speechless.

Where did this guy come from, this famous detective?

She was too lazy to keep asking about the methods used to deduce the information, since it was just a guess anyway, and no matter how much she scrutinized it, no one on the scene could give her the correct answer.

He shrugged, signaling her to continue.

Yang Nai looked at Kasugano Sora, who was dozing off, and said, "For a specific image, you can just use my sister-chan as a reference."

"Wait, I disagree with what you're saying!"

Yukino frowned, a hint of dissatisfaction flashing in her dark blue eyes, as she tried to explain for Kasugano Sora: "Regardless of Sora's motives, she's been with us the whole time, and she probably knows more than we do. How could it be a conspiracy..."

Yukino crossed her arms, her eyes even colder than Yukino's: "Form, image, reference. Please listen carefully before raising any questions, Yukino."

"..."

Knowing she was in the wrong, Yukino bit her lip and looked away without saying anything more.

"Next, let's talk about the trials." Shifting her gaze from her sister, Yang Nai lightly tapped her elbow, speaking more to herself for informational purposes than sharing it. "We know that Xiao Youyou will not encounter any danger under the protection of the Black Curtain, and will refuse interference from outsiders. Furthermore, there is an extremely exaggerated difference in the flow of time between the trials and reality."

"Then we must confront the question of whether it is really necessary to continue meddling in other people's business, just like the Inuit people who are worried about the safety of penguins in Antarctica and try to bring penguins to the Arctic, and are busy doing useless things here."

The so-called change of fate is something that belongs exclusively to Kasumigaoka Utaha from beginning to end, and has nothing to do with them who are thrown into reality.

If Yuu Tenkuji doesn't encounter danger during the trial, then there's no need for them to go to great lengths to intervene in the trial and risk their own safety to protect him.

Even if it were possible, realistically speaking, apart from Asuna Yuuki, who possesses the power of "will," the others would basically just be there to cheer her on, at most helping to analyze intelligence and act as behind-the-scenes strategists.

The cruel reality, which I had already seen through, remained unchanged even with the additional information provided by Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Given this premise, whatever happened during the trial, or what went wrong that gave Kasumigaoka Utaha the opportunity to ask for help, it has nothing to do with them. It would be better to settle the two people's bodies now, with some people staying to take care of them and others going about their business. It would be more efficient to face reality sooner rather than later.

"What do you guys think? I don't recommend continuing to waste brain cells on this."

Saying this as if it were none of her business, Yukinoshita Haruno raised her eyebrows slightly, observing the expressions of the others with great interest.

Unsurprisingly, no one was swayed by his words.

Asuna Yuuki smiled apologetically, but her gaze was sharp and intense as she looked over: "Miss Haruno, what you said makes a lot of sense. But regardless of whether there is danger or not, regardless of whether we have the power to intervene in this trial, I still want to get to his side as soon as possible and fight alongside him!"

Natsukawa Masaki lightly curled a strand of long hair by her cheek and gave a nonchalant hum: "Do you think we don't understand those principles? We want to follow him wherever we go, hoping to hear his voice every moment, and we want to tie everything about him, including his life, to ourselves... Isn't that the driving force behind our actions?"

Yukino Yukinoshita let out a soft breath, her gaze calmly fixed on Hinano Mukaino: "Sister, please stop asking questions you already know the answer to. If you truly believed what you were saying, you wouldn't be going to all this trouble analyzing these things, would you?"

"...Seriously, this makes my chances of having Xiaoyouyou all to myself even lower."

Yang scratched his head in annoyance, but a helpless smile appeared on his lips.

As expected, Natsukawa Masaki sneered, "As expected, they're up to dirty tricks."

"Put it nicely, this is called an open conspiracy." Yukino Yukino spread her hands, looking completely innocent. "Giving up early is for your own good~ As long as there's one tragic heroine who doesn't get rewarded for her efforts, that's enough. You high school students still have a lot of youth to enjoy, why do you have to cling to this kind of surreal event?"

Asuna Yuuki smiled and shook her head, but her tone left no room for argument: "It's not about blaming the supernatural event, it's about blaming him! I still have many things that he needs to take responsibility for, how can I back down here?"

Natsukawa Masaki immediately turned her head and pointed her gun at her: "It's like I don't need him to take responsibility. According to my guess, before saying goodbye to me, Ayu must have done everything he was supposed to do, completely transforming my body into a shape that can't live without him... If he dares to shirk responsibility, I'll kill him!"

With a slight twitch of her cheek, Asuna Yuuki chuckled twice, then retorted defiantly, "Is that so? I think that's just your imagination."

"Okay, stop arguing."

Before the topic veered off course in an unpredictable direction, Yukino Yukinoshita quickly intervened to stop them.

But for some reason, her slightly tense face flushed pink, and her expression became somewhat unnatural.

"Kasumigaoka-senpai is still waiting for our answer. If we're going to argue, let's wait until Tenkuji-kun wakes up and then argue in front of him."