Swords and Blades: An Actor’s Work Journal

Imagawa Nagi, an employee temporarily transferred to the Government Affairs Action Roleplay Division.

His job description is as follows:

Transmigrate.

Transmigrate into a fanfic.

Transmigrate into a dark-and-angsty fanfic that tortures its characters.

Imagawa Nagi: ...

Excuse me, at what point in all of that was he supposed to have a chance of surviving?

[Story One: Tsurumaru]

The honmaru's sortie team found a blood-soaked Tsurumaru at their deployment point. Now they have two choices.

1. Gently bring him back, then demand an explanation from the Government Affairs Department.

2. Forcefully bring him back, then demand an explanation from the Government Affairs Department.

With smiles that were "nuclear-level friendly," the honmaru's residents chose:

3. Violently bring him back, demand a really, really, really big explanation from the Government Affairs Department, and take the opportunity to investigate that honmaru.

Fortunately, this Tsurumaru remembered absolutely nothing, so a full-scale explosion at the Government Affairs Department never actually happened.

Is that really the point?

Shokudaikiri, looking like he wanted to say something but couldn't, pulled the troublemaking swordsmen away.

But his thoughtfulness didn't seem to help much.

The next day, everyone stared at the alarming pool of blood spread across the empty room.

And "Tsurumaru" lay in the middle of it, his chest rising and falling faintly.

[Story Two: Kunihiro]

Because of his seemingly excessive lack of confidence, this honmaru's Kunihiro was despised by his saniwa. He wasn't exactly loved before, but at least he had been inconspicuous, and the saniwa hadn't paid him much attention.

But after Yamanbagiri Chogi from this story arrived, everything changed.

The saniwa forced him to become as confident as Chogi, threatening him with his brothers.

He'd planned to keep forcing himself to go along with it, until the Government Affairs Department extended him an invitation and sent Imagawa Nagi to him.

Chogi: ...

Chogi: Has he changed personalities?

This story's Chogi, who is 58 words more of a grown-up, gave him a skeptical look.

Imagawa Nagi thought he had a point, so to keep his little secret from being exposed, Nagi decided to put on a little spontaneous suicide performance.

Yamanbagiri Chogi: ?

Watching Imagawa Nagi stab himself in the stomach right in front of him, Yamanbagiri Chogi slowly formed a question mark.

[Story Three: Yasusada]

[Story Four: Ishida]

[Story Five: Hasebe]

[Story Six: ?]

*Reader's Guide

1. A slow-burn transmigration story, with a long setup. If it's not your thing, please leave quickly! Take care of your energy!

2. This is not meant to target authors who enjoy writing angsty fanfiction. The plot points mentioned are only here because the story needs them. The focus is on rewriting tragedies, not criticizing bad endings.

3. None of the "original works" in this story exist in real life or have real-life inspirations. They're all made up by the author, so please don't try to match them to anything.

Message: Starting over takes more than just courage.