How I Survive in Yokohama

Coming soon: "Becoming a Split-Personality Big Shot in a Cyberpunk Comic"

The main pairing is Zhong Ye, with little romance.

My name is Sagonomiya Masajo, a female high school student from Academy City and a part-time researcher. After dying in an accident, I bonded with a revival System and accepted a mission to "build a harmonious society" in Yokohama.

The System lets me draw cards to gain superpowers, such as Railgun and Vector Manipulation. It also comes with secret identities I can transform into, so I can go wild without worrying about a thing.

So I went wild.

System: [Wait, stop right there! Aaah! Quit going wild!!!]

[I said to build a harmonious society, not destroy the place! Let go of Yokohama!!]

Huh? But according to your algorithm, what I'm doing is actually fine. When I've destroyed this place and I'm the only one left...

Wouldn't that count as an indisputably "harmonious" society??!!

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Only after I was revived did I realize things had gone a little wrong.

A certain bandage-wearing man: "I want to know what gave you the strength to fight so hard to stay alive."

A certain hat rack: "I trust you unconditionally."

A certain aspiring novelist: "The stories you tell me are wonderful. Could you tell me another one?"

A certain boss of the Mori: "It's rare to find a collaborator who's so aligned with me in certain respects."

A certain Russian: "A world without ability users and sin. Isn't that what you wanted, too?"

Academy City's Number One: "Tch. What a pain."

Me: "...But that's all in the past! People should look ahead, so stop pestering me!!"

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[Content Warnings]

1. There is very little romance in this story. The female lead has no special abilities and relies entirely on going wild. Her thought process is extremely twisted, and she has neither normal emotions nor a normal way of thinking.

2. The female lead is both a jerk and a loser, and she has a hedonistic criminal streak early on. She's a woman sitting atop a garbage heap, with nonhuman elements (mushrooms).

3. OOC warning: the characters' intelligence is capped at the author's intelligence. [Emphasis] The characters' values do not represent the author's. This is the best I could do with the plot at the time, so please don't read if you can't accept that.

4. The author is [usually] very cute.

P.S. The beautiful character design is by my dear friend Ting Jian.

Original story concept: "Basic Law for Handling Urban Monsters" by Bing Yan

One day, high school student Bai Bozi awakened the bloodline of the ancient Bai Ze and became a demon. Suddenly, the whole world had changed.

During the recent spiritual qi revival, the bloodlines of all kinds of monsters had begun to awaken. People with strange abilities were appearing one after another, many ancient powerhouses had reincarnated, and cultivators were rising up...

The thunderstorm that happens once every fifty years the other night? That was a senior undergoing a tribulation.

The unidentified flying object in a photo circulating on the local forum yesterday morning? It turned out to be a Qingniao delivering a package, accidentally spotted by someone.

And the foreigner she met today, who'd come to visit the city, was actually the Greek sea god Poseidon, attending the first-ever Earth conference on sustainable ocean governance by water deities, held in the city's waters.

The popular haunted house in the suburbs? It really did have an underworld civil servant on the job. It was even the transfer station between the city's underworld and the world of the living!

Mythology is all around me, mythology is right before my eyes!

Bai Bozi, a newly awakened demon, experienced a worldview-shattering shock for the first time.

Then someone came knocking to check her water meter.

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Bai Bozi clutched her head. "Um, I'm a law-abiding citizen! Don't arrest me!"

The civil servant across from her coldly flipped through the booklet in his hands. "Bai Ze, right? You can identify demons and know everything about all things. Then come work for the National Science Bureau tomorrow."

Bai Bozi: "!"

"But I don't know how to do anything."

"You'll learn once we put you to work. Anyway, more and more demons are awakening these days, and we need someone like you who's an encyclopedia!"

"Huh????"

P.S. There's a little mythology in this, but most of it is made up.

Theme: Building a harmonious society starts with me. Putting knowledge into practice, let's work together to create a better future. Even in the darkness, we still follow the light.