Although the two of them had already concealed their expressions after breaking free from the illusion.
But someone as sharp as Miyauchi Hikage, who had been staring at them with the Eye of Destiny open next to them, could roughly figure out what they had just experienced in the illusion from the unnatural expressions on their faces with just a glance.
Probably some illusions related to himself.
He thought these two girls would go through their original stories again in the illusion. It seemed that the mechanism of this illusion was not as magical as he imagined.
Although they were all illusions unfolded based on their personalities and experiences, they indeed did not come with the ability of "prophecy," and should only be unfolded according to the things they cared about in their hearts.
However, Miyauchi Hikage still felt a bit subtle.
Shinomiya Kaguya was fine.
After all, over the past month, Shinomiya Kaguya had brushed up a lot of presence with him and experienced many things.
It could be said that except for Shiina Mashiro, Shinomiya Kaguya knew his abilities best among the girls holding diaries.
It wasn't too strange for Shinomiya Kaguya to meet him in the illusion.
But was his relationship with Kasumigaoka Utaha that good?
He had known Kasumigaoka Utaha for a longer time, strictly speaking, only meeting her half an hour later than Shiina Mashiro.
It was just that their acquaintance was also due to Shiina Mashiro at the beginning. Later, because Kasumigaoka Utaha's weekly commission refreshed on him, the two really became familiar.
But speaking of it, his communication with Kasumigaoka Utaha was mostly on the creative ideas of works, and recently they just started talking about matters related to Hamon breathing.
He really didn't feel anything special about getting along with Kasumigaoka Utaha. Plus with Shiina Mashiro in between, Miyauchi Hikage didn't feel he had such great charm to win the other party's heart just by chatting with her for a while every week.
However, this was also because Miyauchi Hikage underestimated the influence of her own works on creators like Kasumigaoka Utaha.
In the original work, because of Aki Tomoya's support for her and some plot driving forces, she regarded Aki Tomoya as the person who understood her best. Even when she found it difficult to make a decision, she was prepared to hand over the final ending of the work to Aki Tomoya to decide.
In the end, because the compatibility between the two was not as good as she thought before, she naturally became the losing heroine in the story.
And now, after knowing Miyauchi Hikage, seeing the story of Saekano adjusted by Miyauchi Hikage to be more mass-market, and getting a lot of creative help from Miyauchi Hikage.
When Kasumigaoka Utaha was creating Love Metronome, she had involuntarily leaned the image of the male protagonist she wrote towards Miyauchi Hikage.
Kasumigaoka Utaha had tried more than once to put herself in Miyauchi Hikage's shoes when writing, thinking about how he would react when facing the plot in the novel.
Just this point was destined to make her inner thoughts far more complicated than the attitude she showed to the outside world when treating Miyauchi Hikage.
Even after experiencing that tragic illusion just now, Kasumigaoka Utaha, who came back to her senses now, was thinking, "Although it's embarrassing to subconsciously treat myself as a losing dog in the illusion, it was indeed right to substitute Miyauchi Hikage as the male protagonist in the novel."
If she could fully write out some things from the illusion she just experienced, Love Metronome would inevitably achieve quite excellent results.
It was just that looking at the few points of Reading Value deducted from her, Kasumigaoka Utaha still felt a little heartache.
After all, she had only obtained supernatural power for a few days, unlike Sudou Ayami who had been refreshing commissions related to the Metaverse these days. The commissions in her task bar were basically related to those Grade 1 and 2 Cursed Spirits and vengeful spirits. She couldn't handle these commissions alone with her current ability, nor did she have an identity usable in the Inner World.
So currently, she could only rely on the basic Reading Value income and couldn't farm commissions reasonably to earn more Reading Value like Shinomiya Kaguya and Sudou Ayami.
"Cough cough, anyway, this illusion is indeed a bit powerful. It's just like dreaming; you don't realize you are in an illusion at all." Kasumigaoka Utaha saw that Shinomiya Kaguya didn't successfully break free from the illusion either, and breathed a sigh of relief more or less. As long as she wasn't the only one who almost sank in the illusion.
It seemed that people like Sudou Ayami who could break free from the illusion relying on their own will were still in the minority.
Shinomiya Kaguya didn't respond to Kasumigaoka Utaha.
She hadn't completely recovered yet.
In fact, during the illusion, she felt some sense of incongruity in the middle.
It was just that these incongruities were not strong. At the same time, because that dream was too perfect, she subconsciously was somewhat unwilling to wake up. It could be considered that her subconsciousness wanting to see how far she could go under such development influenced her judgment.
It was just somewhat regrettable.
An illusion was just an illusion after all, not reality.
Shinomiya Kaguya knew better than anyone that she snatched away the roles of many people at once.
Shiina Mashiro and other girls around Miyauchi Hikage didn't appear in the illusion, and even his sister disappeared.
Then her encounter with Miyauchi Hikage obviously followed the path of Nanami Kento, a Grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer who had a good relationship with Miyauchi Hikage. The other party noticed Miyauchi Hikage entangled by vengeful spirits during a mission in Beika Town, solved the trouble for him conveniently, realized Miyauchi Hikage's talent, and established some connections based on this.
"Sure enough, the illusion is still too idealized. Even if reality really develops according to the illusion, I'm afraid I can't do what myself in the illusion did." Shinomiya Kaguya shook her head.
With her personality, even if she noticed Miyauchi Hikage before, she probably wouldn't care too much about him.
After all, who would have thought that a teenager who started by shooting online videos would have even more amazing talent on the path of supernatural beings?
Just awakened as a Grade 1 supernatural being, and reached the level of special-grade in half a month, and the opponent's ability was a mysterious and powerful force like fate.
If she could really predict Miyauchi Hikage's awakening so accurately in advance, then the person awakening the fate ability shouldn't be Miyauchi Hikage but her.
However, this could be considered a consistent style of growing up in a big family.
As the top chaebol in Japan, although the Shinomiya Group would also gamble on some future developments, what their family preferred to do was to directly throw money to acquire the other party's company after those emerging industries clearly showed their potential.
And those people or companies that didn't show potential naturally didn't need to continue paying attention to.
Shinomiya Kaguya pondered her attitude towards those unknown supernatural beings in the future, and then shifted the topic back to their current situation.
"So are we going to continue challenging these illusions now?"
"Although I can feel that my mental power has indeed improved a bit, experiencing such an illusion really consumes energy. The efficiency seems very slow if we keep doing this," Shinomiya Kaguya asked Miyauchi Hikage, wanting to know if he had any other methods.
Of course, the more important reason was that if they kept doing this, in case they couldn't break free from the illusion autonomously all the time, consuming a few points of Reading Value each time, she couldn't afford such expenses now.
And every time they challenged the illusion, a new wave of people wearing skull masks would spawn in the theater to assassinate them.
It was just that because of Miyauchi Hikage's existence, the attacks of these guys were directly killed by Miyauchi Hikage with two or three slashes just as they started, without any accident.
After all, having projected so many things these days, various skills were instilled into Miyauchi Hikage's body. Miyauchi Hikage's swordsmanship level was much more refined than half a month ago.
Even if a special-grade stood in front of him now, he could fight a few rounds with the opponent holding a sword just relying on physique and sword skills.
These miscellaneous soldiers who didn't even count as clones of Hassan of the Hundred Faces were not a problem for Miyauchi Hikage at all.
Regarding this, Miyauchi Hikage shrugged.
"Either I directly tear down this Mirror Theater, then Miss Ichinose's Shadow will probably be difficult to find back, or we do things according to the rules of this theater like you are doing now."
Saying this, his gaze fell on Ichinose Chizuru again.
"But if you really want to talk about a quicker method, I'm afraid only Miss Ichinose can try it."
"This Temporary Palace has a close relationship with Shadow Chizuru. The most important thing is that what Shadow Chizuru wants to do most now is to 'kill' Miss Ichinose. So if Miss Ichinose enters the illusion, she will probably come into contact with more core things in these illusions."
"If Miss Ichinose can break free from the shackles of the illusion, I think even if that Shadow Chizuru wants to kill Miss Ichinose again, she probably won't be able to do it."
"It's just that if you do this, there will probably be great pressure on Miss Ichinose's spirit, and no one knows how much authority Shadow Chizuru has in the illusion."
Several girls' eyes immediately fell on Ichinose Chizuru.
Hearing Miyauchi Hikage's words, Ichinose Chizuru, who had been silent since just now, only hesitated for a few seconds, then nodded to indicate that she had no problem.
After all, she was the one who wanted to find her Shadow at the beginning.
As a result, things happened like this now. As the person opening the way for the girls, she couldn't back down at this time.
So she glanced at her diary.
There were still more than 10 points of Reading Value inside.
Those girls spent at most 3 points of Reading Value at a time.
Even if her situation was a bit special, 10 points of Reading Value should be enough for her to break free from the illusion.
Thinking so, she made a decision.
"Let me try. After all, that guy keeps hiding inside the interface and refuses to come out, only relying on these minions to harass us. If we continue to stay here, I don't know how much time will be wasted by her."
During the conversation, several assassins hiding in the shadows popped up again, and were casually disposed of by Miyauchi Hikage.
However, before Ichinose Chizuru tried, Shinomiya Kaguya went to try again.
After all, she didn't have much resistance to illusions before, but now having experienced it once, although she broke free forcibly using Reading Value, she could be considered experienced.
She also wanted to test if the illusions experienced by a person were exactly the same.
It was just obvious that none of the illusions here were repetitive.
Last time it was the illusion of her successfully subduing Miyauchi Hikage, and this time it became that she was spoiled and raised at home since childhood, and her father raised her personally since childhood.
The relationship of this generation of the Shinomiya family was not as tense as it was now at all; it could be described as brotherly love and respectful.
Although this time it didn't involve matters of the Inner World anymore, speaking of it, this might also be considered a more perfect world.
In the illusion, she almost completely maintained the state of Little Kaguya (Bakaguya). Fortunately, she had become Little Kaguya more than once and had a certain premonition of this state.
So in this illusion, she could feel a strong sense of incongruity all the time. It could be said that the plot fabricated in the illusion had just begun when she realized that there was a problem with such a life, and successfully recovered from the illusion.
It was just a pity that she did successfully break the illusion, but she didn't awaken a Persona because of this.
"However, mental power is still rising. As long as you can realize the problem of the illusion, breaking the illusion is not too difficult."
Shinomiya Kaguya seemed to really have gained a lot of experience. In subsequent attempts, even if she encountered completely different illusions each time, she could basically wake up within five minutes and didn't consume Reading Value anymore.
If she was allowed to farm like this, she would probably farm here until the end of time, experiencing all the illusions in the entire theater.
And such actions also made Kasumigaoka Utaha a little tempted, so she went to try again.
It was just that her efficiency was indeed not as high as Shinomiya Kaguya. Shinomiya Kaguya could solve it once in four or five minutes, while she struggled in the illusion for seven or eight minutes almost every time, and finally couldn't guarantee that she could struggle out of the illusion.
It could be said that if she didn't see Miyauchi Hikage in the illusion, she had more than 70% confidence to break free from the illusion. But if Miyauchi Hikage's figure appeared in the illusion, then the difficulty for her to break free from the illusion would increase exponentially.
Even Kasumigaoka Utaha herself didn't expect that Miyauchi Hikage already had such a status in her heart now.