How Scotland Became Everyone's Crush

Pre-release: Rules of the Strange Tales of Mihua Town. Click to see the town's famously wholesome local customs.

[Free short-story collection paired with Scotland. Each volume stands alone.]

[Volume One: Can Anko Achieve Redemption? A comedic, twisted-love mystery about saving people through Anko rolls]

[Volume Two: Scotland's Redemption: A collection of suspenseful dialogue stories about a pure-black operative with a little water in his whiskey]

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[Volume X: The Lightless Sea: A dream fic about a pure-black, genuine-stuff operative who loves but cannot have, and takes by force (...). Only half written, because the protagonist's troublemaking personality keeps reminding me of other Detective Conan fanfic protagonists. I'll rewrite it before posting.]

Can Anko Achieve Redemption?

With nothing better to do, Chano Shinnosuke decided to start a mystery Anko thread to lift his spirits.

A translucent panel appeared before Hiromitsu Morofushi. It displayed Shinnosuke's Anko thread.

[Casual Anko. You're the protagonist of a mystery story living in a dangerous environment.]

0L Sencha (OP)

For real, I'm starting a mystery story for fun.

You wake up in the morning with the feeling that something is off. You decide to:

Odd: Write it off as your imagination.

Even: Pay close attention to how you feel. (x

1d6 = 3

Scotland, on a sniper mission, had no time to react to the strange sight before him. His vision blurred, and he was back in his safe house, lying on the tatami mat in his single-occupancy apartment.

Scotland: ?

*Mystery (x. Watch me make stuff up (thumbs up)

*Written as a warm-up to lift my spirits, so it's rather rough.

*The protagonist is a gloomy sort.

*I rolled all the results myself.

Scotland's Redemption

After being given poison, Scotland opened his eyes and was surprised to find that he wasn't dead. He had even shrunk into a boy of about ten.

But he hadn't escaped Absinth's pursuit. Instead, he had been locked up.

Absinth, real name Nanatsuki Shichi, is a priest at a church in Mihua Town and a devout believer.

After witnessing the unbelievable sight of Scotland returning to childhood, he took it as a sign of divine favor.

So, in the basement of that little church:

Nanatsuki Shichi: My son, I sincerely confess to God that today Gin forced me to carry out the organization's mission again, and so on and so forth.

Scotland: ...

Confession after confession, counsel after counsel, persuasion after persuasion.

The priest's pure-white facade was peeled away.

Scotland, who had been working tirelessly to reform a genuine operative, realized that this was a tough corner to turn...

Waiting online: How do I break out successfully and get this guy sent to the gallows? It's urgent!!!

*Inspired by a joke: A roommate is Muslim and can't eat pork, but wants to. So he asks someone else to threaten him, saying, "If you don't eat it, I'll kill you." That way, he isn't breaking his faith.

*The title is a reference to The Shawshank Redemption.

*The main story is an episodic series (?) of Nanatsuki Shichi confessing to the Son of God, Scotland. In short, each installment is a confessional story.

*Absinth: absinthe, a Czech-style bitter spirit. Absinthe with hallucinogenic effects was once called the Green Fairy, and later came to be known as the Green Devil.

The Lightless Sea

Amaretto and Scotch whisky can be mixed to make a Godfather.

Codename agents Amaretto and Scotch can have a happy ending.

As long as undercover agent Hiromitsu Morofushi doesn't exist.

Just as Luciano lies buried beneath the dark sea.

*Amaretto is a sweet liqueur, one of the base spirits in a Godfather cocktail.

*Luciano means "light," and is also the name of the real-life model for the film The Godfather.

Theme: Love is good, but not always good.