Using the Shinigami’s Eyes to Court Death in the Detective World

I have a pair of Shinigami Eyes that work intermittently. They let me see people’s time of death and their real names.

I’ve relied on my talent and my adoptive mother’s favoritism to get by in the organization and stay alive. I’d decided to coast, freeload off the organization’s budget, and wait to die… Then my unlucky boss called me in and gave me a task: provide backup for some of the organization’s new recruits from the past few years.

I didn’t think it would be a difficult assignment, so I went… until my eyes showed me that every one of them was an undercover agent.

Surrounded by spies, I trembled and hugged myself. This is it! What if my boss is a spy too!? Did they send me here just to get rid of me because I’m not a spy!?

With a 75% chance that they’re undercover… I think this organization is finished. I’d better start thinking about a career change.

1. A comedy. The heroine is a genuine member of the organization, a scientist and researcher. After a long stretch of extreme emotional balancing and back-and-forth, she ultimately ends up with Zero. I’m very happy with the romance in this one, so give it a try.

2. Blurb archived on October 4, with bonus chapters added from time to time.

3. Please don’t discuss other people’s novels under my story, and don’t discuss mine under theirs. Thank you.

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“An Investigation into How to Get Gin to Retire”

When I was ten, a mysterious piece of high-tech equipment claiming to be a Shinigami System came to find me. It told me that in fifteen years, time in this world would fall into disorder and grind to a halt.

I was the chosen Shinigami’s proxy. We had to change everything in the original timeline and do our best to help the world escape the flow of time!

To that end, the System also gave me a skill to save my life: once bound, it would let me briefly rewind time and save myself whenever my life was in danger.

Me: “Wait, whoever this skill is bound to can rewind time whenever my life is in danger, right?”

System: “That’s right!”

I gave it some thought, then turned to look at my new guardian beside me. He had a villain’s face and was looking at me as though I were an idiot.

When Gin’s boss dumped a genius little girl on him and told him to look after her for a week, Gin thought she was less like the artificial intelligence his colleague had described and more like an artificial idiot.

Then he found himself trapped in a time loop, unable to move forward, and the culprit… was this little idiot. Whenever she thought she was in danger, his time rewound.

So Gin had to suppress the urge to kill her and patiently coax her along, even doing things that went against his nature.

Just as Gin was about to get used to it, she came over and said with a serious expression, “Don’t worry. You’ve been so good to me, so I’ll take responsibility and look after you when you’re old.”

Gin: “…”

That’s it. I have to find a way to get rid of her for good!

Theme: Hold fast to your sense of justice and your principles, and use your wits to find a way out of hardship.