But it seed that our background wasn't the only factor exerting influence.
Sonoko couldn't help but think about the situation within the club.
Especially those who had obtained the diary and were already taking strides into the supernatural world.
Even without considering their backgrounds, the power they gained from the diary alone was enough to give them extraordinary influence.
However, mysteries were best kept secret, and they had no interest in showing off.
Thinking about Kaguya's extraordinary abilities and how her maid could travel through space, such things were simply unimaginable in the real world.
But on the surface, Sonoko still waved her hand nonchalantly.
"It's not that bad, not that bad."
"We were just unlucky this ti. Otherwise, we wouldn't have ended up on an island used as a drug dealer's base during a weekend trip."
Yes, this was indeed just bad luck.
They had only planned a short trip to an island hot spring near Tokyo, yet they had stumbled upon a drug cartel's hideout. The odds of such a thing happening were ridiculously low.
Ayako also felt that the biggest issue here was with the tropolitan Police Departnt.
With so many drug dealers and addicts operating near Tokyo, could the tropolitan Police Departnt really have been unaware?
They must have known.
The police would have received intel about this long ago.
Drugs weren't like ordinary contraband. Once they entered the city, they would inevitably attract attention. After all, drugs required both buyers and sellers, and their distribution couldn't be completely concealed.
Even if kept secret initially, word would eventually leak, reaching people who would unknowingly spread it further, until it inevitably reached the ears of the tropolitan Police Departnt.
That ant official agencies were always the first to know about such matters.
However, their focus wasn't just on the dealers; they also needed to track the suppliers.
That required setting traps—hence, delays in action.
Even so, Ayako felt that the tropolitan Police had dragged this out for far too long. So long, in fact, that her sister and her friends managed to take a vacation before the police finally made their move.
But there was no point in saying anything now.
The incident had already happened and was already over. So words were better left unspoken.
"From now on, you might have restrictions on going out~"
Sonoko, however, wasn't at all fazed by her sister's warning.
"Not really, Sister. You're overthinking it."
This ti, their discovery of the drug cartel had only happened because Ren detected the presence of an evil spirit, it was an event determined by divination, a thod beyond normal understanding.
The likelihood of trouble finding them in the future was indeed high.
But the probability of them actually being hard was still quite low.
Not to ntion Ren—even the others were gradually becoming far from ordinary.
The effectiveness of conventional ans against them was diminishing.
And that arrogant brat, Sanzenin, even suggested going to another dinsion to train together.
How could she pass up such an opportunity?
Missing it would be a lifelong regret.
Besides, she hadn't forgotten.
Once she obtained the diary, she could go on a date with Ren.
That was far more important to her than getting the diary itself.
Before Ayako could react, her sister had already wrapped her arms around her.
"Ran, let's go together."
"Aunt Eri's place is pretty far from here. I'll give you a ride back."
Ran, who had always been well taken care of like this, didn't hesitate.
"Sorry to trouble you, Ayako-san."
"No worries, it's on the way."
Ayako knew Ran well and had always liked her.
She was gentle and had a great personality. She was also her sister's childhood friend.
There were no financial interests tying them together.
Their friendship had been pure from the very beginning.
Ayako even thought that if her sister had been a boy, she and Ran might have ended up together.
Unfortunately, her sister was just a tomboy, not an actual guy.
What a pity.
"Ren, Ran and I are heading off first."
Ren?
Because of this, Ayako took a closer look at the boy.
"Let's go, Sister."
"Hey, wait a minute, Sonoko—"
Before she could even read the situation properly, her sister had already pulled her away.
Once Ayako and Sonoko left, the crowd at the port thinned significantly.
Nagi walked toward Ren with Isumi in tow.
She gave a slight bow.
"...Thank you for this ti, Amamiya."
"This was your own wish. There's no need to thank ."
"No, my wish was only part of it. My wish alone wasn't enough."
Nagi understood this all too well. A wish was just an obsession—no matter how strong it was, without the right dium, it was aningless.
This thank you was necessary.
The one-star Dragon Ball embedded within the Vision was the perfect token of gratitude.
Ren didn't refuse and instead turned his gaze toward Aizawa Sakuya, who was standing beside them.
"Your nosy sister, you should think carefully before telling her anything."
"Also, let give you a heads-up, your sister is going to beco a priestess, working mainly as Isumi's assistant."
"This girl?"
Nagi looked up at Sakuya in surprise.
"Isumi actually picked this blabbermouth as her assistant?"
Although she complained about it, deep down, she believed it.
"Who are you calling a blabbermouth?!"
Sakuya wasn't quite sure what was going on, but she did understand that she had just been insulted.
"And who are you, anyway, kid? This is the first ti I've ever seen Nagi act so polite toward soone."
Sakuya was genuinely curious about this high school boy that Nagi had gone out of her way to thank.
It was the first ti she had seen the usually tsundere Nagi bow to a boy without a hint of her usual attitude.
But Ren had no intention of satisfying Sakuya's curiosity.
"Well then, Sanzenin, Saginomiya, see you on Monday."
"Yeah, see you on Monday."
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