A Taisho Novelist's Guide to Getting Back to Work

[Crossovers + Bungo Stray Dogs + Detective Conan + no romance + raising kids + secret identities + happy ending]

When Otoha Kigo was still human, he was plagued by illness.

For the sake of the Otoha family’s port business, a man named Kibutsuji turned him into a demon. Otoha Kigo was sent to the neighboring great nation to search for the Blue Spider Lily.

To his utter surprise, after overcoming countless dangers and finding the Blue Spider Lily, he lost contact with his boss.

Otoha: ...

To stay alive, Otoha Kigo ate the flower and became an ordinary, immortal novelist. After exhausting several centuries’ worth of experiences, he finally hit a wall.

“Could you please stop acting like missing deadlines is something to be proud of, Sensei?”

“I told you, I went out to gather material, Shibuzawa...”

At first, Otoha Kigo really had come to Yokohama to gather material. He just hadn’t expected the unlicensed doctor next door to his temporary lodgings to kill an old friend during a casual chat, then become the owner of one of Yokohama’s iconic buildings.

He also hadn’t expected some flesh he’d separated from himself long ago to form a complete body after another old friend’s series of machinations, let alone that it would establish a link back to Otoha Kigo’s mind.

Even less did he expect that the human-shaped gorilla who had befriended a being named Yayoi Chiki several years earlier would come chasing after him in Yokohama.

Otoha: Yokohama really is a great place.

The Public Security agent using the name Amuro Tooru next saw his missing friend at one of the Organization’s hideouts. The chestnut-haired young man wore the same smile he’d had at the police academy. Sitting behind the bar, he swirled the black square whiskey in his hand and looked up to greet him. “Hello, Burben.”

The unfamiliar feeling made him feel as if he’d fallen into an icy abyss.