Chapter 171: Two More Chocolates

"Ren, let me take a look."

Fujiwara Chika looked at Ren Amamiya with starry-eyed anticipation.

"Here you go."

Ren Amamiya smiled and handed the Maple Leaf Gold Coin to Fujiwara Chika.

Taking the coin, Fujiwara Chika immediately began examining it.

Weighing it in her hand, the coin felt quite heavy.

She tried flicking it up to let it land on the table; it flipped once and the flower side faced up.

She tried a few more times; the character and the flower each appeared, but the character never came up in consecutive flips.

"Hmm~ is this a magic trick?"

Fujiwara Chika didn't understand.

"The randomness is too great."

Kaguya Sigong directly refuted this guess.

"The angle at which the coin falls is different each time; the flip upon hitting the table often causes different results."

"Just now, when Ren flicked the coin, it all landed in his hand."

"Fujiwara, you can try."

"Mm."

Fujiwara Chika tried again, but the result was still uncontrollable.

Even the height of her hand position and the number of rotations the coin made when flicked were neither fixed nor controllable.

If none of this was a magic trick, it was only natural that the same side wouldn't face up in consecutive occurrences.

"This isn't a magic trick."

Ren Amamiya leaned over and placed his open palm beneath the hand Fujiwara Chika was holding the coin in.

He tapped lightly on the back of her hand with his finger; the coin passed straight through her palm and dropped into Ren Amamiya's open palm.

"???"

"Eh? How did it pass through my palm?"

She looked closely at her own palm; there was absolutely no damage, yet the Maple Leaf Gold Coin had passed right through it.

Fujiwara Chika was certain her eyes hadn't deceived her.

That move just now involved no technique whatsoever.

Her hand had no mechanisms; it was impossible for the coin to pass through her palm and drop directly into Ren Amamiya's open hand below.

And it wasn't a matter of speed or skill.

Rather, the process of the drop just now was very natural, with absolutely no hint of technique.

It was so unnatural, abnormal, and utterly strange that the coin passed through her palm.

"It's just some extraordinary abilities I've obtained."

Ren Amamiya patiently offered an explanation.

"I really can't explain the specifics very well."

"I can only say that besides being a charlatan, the abilities I've mastered are probably just picking locks and breaking into doors."

Although she didn't understand the meaning of these words, stars already sparkled in Fujiwara Chika's eyes.

"Is it a supernatural ability like Kaguya's?"

"So interesting!"

This is probably the emotion ordinary people feel when they see someone with extraordinary abilities.

"I want to get the diary quickly; I want to see what kind of supernatural ability I can obtain."

Ren Amamiya could understand Fujiwara Chika's feelings; Suzuki Sonoko probably felt much the same.

However, this isn't something easy to do.

"We still need to see how things go."

"The method of obtaining the diary needs investigation; this will also be valuable for controlling the sending and receiving of the diary in the future."

Just as he said this, he paused for a moment.

Perhaps the final variable still lies with me.

As the owner and host of the diary, perhaps the distribution of the diary is indeed connected to him in some way.

Whether this connection is subject to his will, however, still needs further examination.

"Click!"

The sound of the door opening rang out again.

"Oh~ you're here too."

Before the person even entered the activity room, the voice had already come through.

Suzuki Sonoko immediately noticed the chocolate placed beside Ren Amamiya.

She pouted slightly, realizing she was a bit late.

Her eyes swept across the people in the room.

Seeing someone she had met before made Suzuki Sonoko's eyes light up.

She skipped over happily.

"Chika, long time no see."

"Sonoko! Are you at this school too?"

The moment she saw Sonoko, Fujiwara Chika was also very surprised.

"You don't know?"

"I thought you transferred to Shuchiin because of me."

Hearing this, Fujiwara Chika felt embarrassed.

"Sorry, I just followed Kaguya."

"Hah?"

Sonoko Suzuki looked at the Big Ice Block in surprise.

"Are you and the Big Ice Block friends?"

"... Come to think of it, you and this Big Ice Block are actually friends."

This was even more shocking than a horror story.

Mainly because Fujiwara Chika was the person she knew who was least difficult to negotiate with; she was cute and her speech never made people dislike her.

Most importantly, she was sincere.

Moreover, Fujiwara Chika was completely a different type of person from Kaguya Shigong.

"Hehe~"

Fujiwara Chika puffed out her chest quite proudly.

This foolish sight made Kaguya Shigong unable to help but hold her forehead.

After Ran Mao Li and Sonoko Suzuki walked in, Nagi Sanzenin, Itsuki Tsunomiya, and Maria had all arrived.

With this, Kaguya Shigong, as the president of the Mystery Research Club, began the discussion for the club's activities.

"Alright, next is about our club's first activity."

"Student Amamiya is the initiator."

"A trip to a small island this weekend."

The topic of travel did spark some interest in Sonoko Suzuki.

"A trip to a small island, going out for a trip on the weekend is nice."

"But, why a trip to a small island?"

"My feeling tells me this trip to a small island will be exciting."

"A feeling, huh."

Sonoko Suzuki was slightly stunned, then immediately realized what was happening.

"Then I have no problem."