Officer Furuya’s Second Shot at Romance

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One-line summary: I inherited my own late husband

CP: Scotland, a hapless second-time-around who has temporarily lost his memories, × Bourbon, raised by little Hagi himself and wondering if he's lost his mind every day

Blurb: Hiro has returned to age twenty-five with no memories, and once again successfully earned the codename Scotland. One day, after finishing a mission with a corpse in his trunk, he goes bang and crashes into a blond man

A: Choose to flee the scene

B: Choose to take the man he has his eye on with him.

Looking him over from every angle, Hiro thinks this man looks remarkably like the photo he treasured before losing his memories. So he decides to stay and look after him, and while doing so, takes him home.

When things get intimate, Hiro, a criminal, carefully tries to confirm the man's identity while frantically keeping his secret identity under wraps.

What? He's a Public Security officer? No big deal. He can take or leave this lousy organization anyway.

What? He's Hiro's childhood friend? Perfect, marriage material.

What? In his first life, Hiro raised him himself, and he thinks of Hiro as a stand-in for the original Hiromitsu Morofushi?

The criminal now known as Hikaru Midorikawa pins Toru Amuro against the wall, forcing him to look at him

“Tell me, do you love me, or him?”

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Officer Furuya thinks he's taken things a little too far.

In this life, he and Hiro are no longer childhood friends. There's a huge age gap between them, and Hiro left him after saying, “Wait for me. I'll bring down that organization, and then I won't die.”

As he grew up, Officer Furuya joined the police academy determined to find that bastard, then went undercover in the organization.

And then he got hit by a criminal named Hikaru Midorikawa, who looks 99 percent like Hiro.

Officer Furuya thinks he needs to find out who this man really is.

Wait, why did he give me the organization's target? This must be a trap.

Wait, why did he take my punishment for me after finding out my real identity? This must be a trap, too.

Is this a trap? Or is the other man really Hiro?

Should I try confessing?

Instead, with a thud, he was pinned against the wall, unable to move.

“Tell me, do you love me, or him?”

Furuya: Shouldn't you be asking yourself, the guy who's lived two lives, lost his memories, and turned into a criminal?!

Reader's guide

· Hiro × Rei. Second life in the original setting, both are stand-ins for themselves, both are each other's first love, and together they take down the Black Organization.

· First life: Rei and Hiro have a purely familial bond until Rei comes of age, with Hiro older and raising him.

· Second life: Two equally matched leads of the same age. Includes slightly unhinged tropes like “I stood in for myself” and “My late husband turned out to be me.” Fundamentally, a lighthearted, sweet little romance.

Theme: Nothing but death can put love on hold