Also known as "I Can't Be Your God, Therapist, Life Coach, Playmate, Best Friend, Closest Stranger, and Worst Enemy All at Once"
Jujutsu Kaisen and Bungo Stray Dogs have released a crossover full-dive game!
Makō pondered for a moment, then finally logged in. Little did he know he'd be the first player, and lucky enough to draw a hidden time period.
Player, feeling a strange sense of déjà vu and a growing sense of dread: ...
In his first life, Makō became the younger brother of a certain Russian.
The player watched as his elder brother babbled away in trilled Russian, then scooped him up and called out to him.
Alyosha.
Alyosha, my soul, my salvation, my sunshine. The words came out as if he had swallowed sin, his tongue pressed to the roof of his mouth before the sound finally fell from his teeth: Alyosha.
The end of my crime and punishment.
Fedya called out to his brother, pure as a lamb.
"Why don't you love me? We are both messengers of God."
Makō, who had been working himself to the bone: ?
In his second life, Makō became the eldest son of the Tsushima family. He resolved to be a good big brother, and even created a secret identity for the job.
Ever since birth, Tsushima Shuji had been certain that he was loved, even if everyone in the world was so irresponsible, so evasive, so subtly complicated.
Until the whole edifice began to crumble.
He came to his senses in the void, delirious with madness. His elder brother had left him alone to face the suffocating, mighty feat of being alive.
Why?
...Why?
…I don't know.
The secret identity, who came rushing over on hands and knees, slowly sank to his knees: .
In his third life, the player wanted something more relaxing, so he was randomly assigned to be some nobleman's son in the Heian era.
He spent every day happily watching the show with his fellow troublemaker, until one day the other guy asked if he wanted to live forever, then opened up his own head.
Makō: ...?
In his fourth life, the player came to terms with everything and took another break.
In his fifth life, Makō started a new game.
...Haha, hey, everyone.
Reader's Notes:
* No secret identities revealed. There will be idealized interpretations and plenty of imagining, and the protagonist will be adored to the max. There will also be plenty of filling in and imagining around the plot.
* When I can't make sense of the official setting, some of the plot in this story will be my own interpretation.
* Written on 2026.8.24
Theme: Love is the source of ideals.