A-Gin, Our Evil Chat Group Should Disband

Mihara Haruka had a chat group that had been around since elementary school. His best friend A was the first to be dragged in.

Best Friend A had been obsessed with games since childhood and was a hardcore PVP player, especially into various shooter games. His daily routine was either playing games or heading out to play games.

Mihara Haruka: "Bro, how many kills did you get today?"

Best Friend A: "Five."

Mihara Haruka glanced at the one enemy he'd just managed to knife in a panic on his screen and happily reported, "I finally got a kill today!"

Best Friend A: "Pathetic."

...Sumimasen, boss. He's just no good at PVP (tears).

The second to join the group was a friend he'd met in middle school, someone he'd originally befriended in hopes of improving his gaming skills. He hadn't expected this friend to be a different kind of "support."

Best Friend B: "You got scolded by the teacher for your bad grades, so now you're sulking and want to become a shut-in?"

Best Friend B: "You little punk."

Best Friend B: "Turn on voice chat. I'm tutoring you right now."

Best Friend B: "What are you going to do if you don't study at your age? If you don't study now, what will you do in the future?"

Mihara Haruka: "Waaah."

And so Best Friend B became his online, cyber-space tutor.

Damn it!!

This "terrifying" relationship went on for five years, until one day Best Friend B suddenly announced that he was going to find a rich woman to keep him. Feeling he'd let his friend down, he planned to disappear into the vastness of the internet forever.

Mihara Haruka: "?"

...Best Friend B! You traitor!!!

Fortunately, Best Friend C was still there for him.

Best Friend C was a mystery enthusiast, an ordinary high school student (or so he claimed).

Mihara Haruka: "That's great, we're the same age. We'll definitely have so much to talk about!"

Best Friend C: "(Shares a news report about a case) The culprit blah blah blah... The method was pretty interesting, blah blah blah..."

Mihara Haruka: trying hard to keep up.jpg

Best Friend C: "(Shares another case) It hasn't been solved yet. Come solve it with me! Let's stay up till dawn!"

Mihara Haruka: closes eyes. I can't keep going. I really can't.

And yet even this Best Friend C, who loved chasing criminals, was obsessed with mysteries, and occasionally shared angsty teen literature, had disappeared a few days ago...

After Best Friend A went half a month without replying to his messages, even though he kept playing games, Mihara Haruka finally gave up hope. He decided to leave the house and randomly capture a passerby D to pour his heart out to.

"Hey, D, my previous best friends A, B, and C have all abandoned me. Would you be willing to become my Best Friend D? We'll start a whole new friendship!"

Matsuda Jinpei, who'd been grabbed out of nowhere: "..."

Mihara Haruka, belatedly realizing what he'd grabbed: "..."

Mihara Haruka: "Holy crap, a cop."

He turned and ran.

Matsuda Jinpei: "...Why are you running when you see a cop, kid?"

*

And so, after Mihara Haruka wouldn't take no for an answer, Passerby D finally joined the group and was promoted to Best Friend D.

Until one day...

Mihara Haruka had a flash of inspiration and excitedly posted in the group: "Gentlemen! Let's meet up in person!"

Best Friend A, a top assassin for a certain organization: "No."

Best Friend B, an undercover agent for a certain public security agency: "..." He'd been lurking so obviously. Surely he didn't need to reply.

Best Friend C, a certain former high school detective now stuck in the body of an elementary school student: "..." Better not drag the idiot Mihara into this...

Best Friend D, the utterly unremarkable bomb disposal cop Matsuda: "Sure."

Mihara Haruka: "D! D! You really are my best friend!!!"

Best Friend A, Gin, who had been called that more than a hundred times before: "Hmph, idiot Mihara."

*

One day, Mihara Haruka had yet another flash of inspiration and changed the chat group's name to "The Crow Organization."

Best Friends A, B, and C: "Change it back!"

Best Friend D (Matsuda): "Huh?"

Mihara Haruka, aggrieved: "No matter how you look at it, The Crow Organization sounds better than Five Little Crows!!!"

#The five of us are way too powerful!!#

#The Black Organization? What's that? Our chat group is called [Five Crows]#

#Three reds and one black, Best Friend A has something to say#

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