I loaded the geek game

Following Kamiyagawa's instructions, Suzuhiko-hime was quickly taken from Tsukumō-gō to Jikichi Hospital.

Here, led by Xiao Wu and the foot-selling old woman, they conducted a final physical examination on this beautiful goddess.

Throughout the process, Suzuhiko Hime was very cooperative, remaining like a statue and allowing the two "medical staff" to freely examine and scrutinize her body.

Three days later, early in the morning, Kamiyagawa received a notification message from "Kwaidan Monogatari":

[Come quick! Master Wu is going to show you what a genius discovery looks like! (▽`)]
Well... since the Ghost Stories originally operated using the remains of Omoikane, and after Satoru accepted these remains, the Ghost Stories naturally came under Satoru's control...

When Kamiya arrived at the ward in Jikichi Hospital, what greeted his eyes upon opening the door was—

The silver-haired, ethereal goddess had clearly been waiting for a long time. She was sitting on a swivel chair with her legs crossed, her white-stockinged legs raised high, and the tips of her shiny round-toed leather shoes tapping the air rhythmically.

Wu was wearing a loose white lab coat that was clearly several sizes too big, which billowed slightly as the swivel chair rocked, revealing a black and white dress underneath. A pair of unidentified flat glasses perched on his smooth, white nose, presumably purely decorative and serving no practical purpose.

It's clear that the two new accessories Wu wore were all created using her data projection ability.

This kid... even changed his skin to match the scene...

"Hmph~ Be grateful to Lord Satoru, you little brat!" As Kamiya pushed open the door and entered, Satoru deliberately raised her voice, pointing smugly to the equipment in the corner of the room, "I told you, this is a groundbreaking invention!"

On the wall behind the device, you can see a metal plaque hanging – [Ling Shu Analyzer · Eight Meanings Combined Type 1], with each character flashing with dazzling RGB light pollution.

It seems that Wu even took the time to give this equipment a catchy and somewhat childish name.

No way! Is this guy even doing anything productive?!

Kamiya suppressed the urge to grab Go's ponytail: "Get to the point."

"Tch, how utterly unromantic..." Wu curled her lip, then swung around on a graceful chair and rushed toward the control panel. Her oversized white lab coat billowed behind her like a cat's tail with its fur standing on end. "I've scanned all of Suzuhiko-hime's body data with Eight-Sense Type 1. Take a good look!"

As she pressed the start button, the holographic projection suddenly lit up the dimly lit room.

Suzuhiko-hime's naked 3D model and Kagura Rin's projection floated in the air, emitting a faint, ethereal blue halo. The projection quickly blurred, leaving only the outline of a human figure, with golden data streams representing divine spiritual power flowing within it.

“This is a standard spiritual energy circulation diagram; everything looks normal, which is why you didn’t find anything wrong during your examination. However, if we zoom in on a certain part of Suzuhiko’s body…”

Her fingertips traced lines in the air, instantly magnifying the projection a thousandfold, highlighting a specific corner of Suzuhiko's body at a microscopic level. From this unique perspective, certain unnatural "slits" became apparent—

Like a crack repaired with gold lacquer on a fine piece of porcelain, it creates incongruous ripples when divinity flows through the "crack."

"What is this?" Kamiya's pupils narrowed slightly.

“Seams,” Wu said, drawing out the last syllable. She pushed up the frame of her glasses with her index finger, the lenses reflecting an exaggerated, unreadable data stream effect that gave her an air of extraordinary wisdom. “I spent two days finding three seams inside Suzuhiko’s body.”

"So, what's the conclusion?"

Even now, Kamiya is well aware that he is not omniscient or omnipotent.

Moreover, he has always been a leader who focuses on "results," and when listening to reports, he often focuses on the results.

“So that means…” Wu took off his glasses, which had already completed their mission, and casually tossed them away. The glasses turned into data fragments and disappeared without a trace in mid-air. “There are extremely tiny traces left by the splicing on Suzuhiko-hime’s body. Our goddess is actually a sophisticated ‘fake’!”

"You mean, she's not the real Suzuhiko-hime?"

"That's not entirely accurate. After all, judging from the scan results, this Lady Suzuhiko was indeed born from the Kagura Bell of Ame-no-Mikoto. So I think that before her, there must have been an original Suzuhiko. The first one probably died for some reason, so Ashiya Dōman used the Kagura Bell to create a substitute, which is the current Suzuhiko. But a substitute is still a substitute. Although the Kagura Bell still endowed her with divinity, her behavior logic is more like that of some low-level tsukumogami."

Wu finally gave her conjecture and conclusion.

This conjecture seems to actually be able to explain the source of Suzuhiko's strange "human-machine" feeling.

Wu, you're a genius!
The extremely fine "stitching marks" that could only be seen by magnifying Suzuhiko's body a thousand times... Even Satoru and the foot-selling old woman had not noticed this before.

However, we can't blame them for this; they didn't have any tools like the [Ling Shu Analysis Instrument - Eight Meanings Combined Type 1] available during the previous tests!

“There’s another discovery.” Wu suddenly leaned closer, a sly glint in her red eyes. She quickly brought up a new projection, focusing on Suzuhiko’s chest. Magnified a thousand times, a blank spot where divine power flowed could be clearly seen.

"What is this?"

"I think it's like Ashiya Dōman left some kind of influence deep inside her body after he awakened the second Suzuhiko-hime."

"Left by Ashiya Doman?" Kamiya became alert. "So, he still left a hidden trick on Suzuhiko-hime that we didn't notice?"

“No.” Satoru raised his slender index finger and shook it from side to side. “If you ask me, you guys are all too focused on finding a ‘conspiracy’ on Suzuhiko-hime, which is why you’ve overlooked these things. According to the data I’ve obtained, this place… should be a manifestation of some kind of obsession. Aren’t tsukumogami most prone to being attached to obsessions? Although it’s indeed difficult to discover this using ordinary methods, but… really, this should be your area of ​​expertise!”

Obsession?

Kamiya River suddenly realized.

This is indeed an area that he, as a deity in charge of emotions, can oversee.

Previously, there were rumors about the foot-selling old woman and Kaku... but I never expected that Kamiya himself would also be caught off guard and fall into a trap.

As Wu said, during the previous testing process, they were indeed limited in their thinking to some extent by the preconceived goal of "finding Daoman's backup plan".

"That's amazing. It's good that you were here, Go."

Kamiya praised Kogoro at just the right time.

Although the brat still had an arrogant look on his face, at the same time, the puppy-like emotion of "Hurry up and praise me!" was almost overflowing.

"Hmph~ You know that much! You're just a nobody who can't function without Master Wu~"

Having gained an advantage verbally, Wu lifted his feet off the ground and happily spun around in his swivel chair.

It must be said that Xiao Wu's innovative method of combining divine power with modern technological authority has indeed found details that are difficult to detect by traditional methods.

good good!
Shin-Takamagahara now boasts not only traditional craftsmen, but also pioneering researchers who are the gods of wisdom!
Kamiya's decision to invest in Satoru was absolutely the right one.

Whether in the past or present, Wu has never let him down.

"Now that we've confirmed this is an obsession... then it's time to properly 'listen' to Suzuhiko's feelings." (End of Chapter)