I Have Nothing but Beauty

Tsukimi is obsessed with the idea that beauty is the most important thing in the world.

Even after leaving the slums and joining the Armed Detective Agency.

"Everyone likes me because I'm pretty."

She pursed her lips, dimples appearing in her cheeks, and smiled with innocent sweetness. Tsukimi reached out and let the boyish detective take her slender, pale wrist, then slowly leaned closer to him.

"Do you like me?"

"You definitely like me."

Of course, Tsukimi had felt threatened before. It was because of a certain child of the gods, and at one point she even considered taking up tennis because of him.

But then she discovered that tennis seemed to defy the objective laws of reality. She just couldn't learn to play, so she had to give up in tears.

From then on, Tsukimi became more and more concerned with beauty.

The first thing she did every morning was ask herself three times whether she'd gotten prettier.

In the end, she even went to the Armed Detective Agency's sworn enemy, smiling sweetly as she asked, "Am I pretty?"

The president tried every possible way to correct Tsukimi's distorted outlook, but every attempt failed beneath the girl's innocent gaze.

She merely tilted her head, her tone utterly matter-of-fact, sweet and innocent.

Then Tsukimi fought the Guild, and her ability went out of control, sending her back in time.

In that brief stretch of time, permitted by fate, someone finally told her at the cost of his life that beauty had never been all there was to a person.

He said, "Tsukimi, besides your beauty, you also have the people who love you."

He also said that everyone must stake their life on something at least once.

"I'm fighting for my ideals. This is my fight. Tsukimi, go back to your own time."

And so, when Tsukimi woke from her nightmare, screaming and crying, she realized that it had all happened a very, very long time ago.

Three years, then another three.

A few things to know before reading:

1. Updates are relaxed, and I'll try to post weekly. (I'm a boarding student with a heavy workload.) Usually I'll update weekly or every other week.

2. OOC everywhere, and everyone is made less intelligent. No backlog or outline at the moment. This is a wish-fulfillment Mary Sue romance, so I'll try to make the logic work. If I can't, oh well (what).

3. The female protagonist cares about nothing but her looks. She really is ridiculously obsessed with her face. I'll explain later why she's so fixated on beauty.

4. A group pampering her, all ships welcome; CP undecided. The plot is heavily altered. Waaah, I'm really terrible at writing, and my Chinese isn't great, so I'll try to avoid awkward phrasing.

5. "Three years, then another three" just means a long time. It isn't literally six years.

A friend's story I recommend:

[How Did I, a Player Who Just Wanted to Live a Normal Life, End Up Like This?]

You'd resolved to be an ordinary casual player in the game, but somehow you ended up unlocking all the other routes.

Through hard work, you steer the game toward an anonymous setting, with random drops including the Rainbow Chick Squad / the Seafood Company / the Sword Hanging Pre-Recruits / the Villains of Araki Manor.

Theme: The people who love you don't love you just for your looks.