When a True Believer Becomes a Popular Manga Character: Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic

[Please read the content warnings before starting! Make sure you read the warnings in the blurb!] [Pairing: Matsuda Jinpei. Respect everyone’s preferences. If this isn’t for you, perhaps we’ll meet again in another book. Science-mystery-world main plot, beware of a bad ending. The happy ending comes with the worlds’ merger in the finale.] [Check out my original upcoming novel: Who Exactly Is Your Husband?!] Blurb: After a car accident, Naruhodo Kaoru unexpectedly gets bound to a manga forum. The System tells him to become a manga character according to a randomly drawn identity card. If he can raise his popularity on the forum to 100%, he’ll be resurrected in the real world. However He looks at the cards he drew: [Cannon Fodder] [Police Academy Cadet] [Killer in a Dark Organization], and falls into a long silence... So he’s an undercover agent on the bad-guy side who dies after three chapters, right? To stay alive, Naruhodo Kaoru has no choice but to force his way into the protagonist’s group and put on a two-front performance to save his own skin By day, he’s a brilliant rising star in the police force, delicate and gentle, and known alongside the top blond cadet as one of the academy’s two star pupils. Before even graduating, he becomes an exceptionally appointed advisor to the First Investigative Division, excelling in everything but hand-to-hand combat. He has used his own body to shield a bomb-disposal officer from a fatal bullet, and sacrificed his future to secure one for his fellow cadets. But at night The young man, blending perfectly into the darkness, wears a black suit and sits in the back of a Porsche. “The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is planning to transfer the target. Everything will proceed as you wish... GIN.” He jumps back and forth between the Red and Black sides to rack up popularity, thinking he’s mysterious and powerful and will soon become a fan-favorite bona fide villain. But: [Kaoru grew up in the Organization and never knew love, and now he’s trying to save Hiromitsu, sob! This is peak tragic, powerful beauty.] [In that New Year’s photo, Kaoru’s the only one standing in the shadows... Is it because his life has already been ruined, so he doesn’t dare get close to happiness?] [Stop twisting the knife, guys. I can’t even imagine how devastated the police academy crew will be when they learn the truth.] Naruhodo Kaoru: ? Wait, is this what his script is supposed to be like? * Naruhodo Kaoru, the wildly popular tragic, beautiful, and powerful supporting character in the Detective O South remake, is a member of the police academy crew and an Organization mole in the police force. On the day he finally completes his mission, he fakes his death in a fire so dark and devastating that he can escape. His new mission is to keep an eye on three newly codenamed Whiskey agents. But the moment he gets out of the car, he locks eyes with someone familiar. [The more you resemble him in the darkness, the less likely you are to be him... This is so cruel.] Kaoru: Stop twisting the knife and help me out! Bourbon and Scotch look like they’re about to lose it... Content warnings: 1. The protagonist’s only goal is to work the forum. Missions for both the Red and Black sides are just tools, but he’ll carry them out seriously. So he’s a watered-down, gray-area version of Vermouth! 2. The protagonist’s real surname is currently Naruhodo. Amamiya Kaoru is his police academy secret identity, and Glenlivet is his distillery secret identity. 3. The protagonist uses a self-destruct strategy. He’s not a typical Naruhodo, and his background is dark and complicated. His ruthlessness is about two-thirds of Chinami’s. 4. Everyone has a one-way crush on the protagonist. The relationships are a tangled web, and this is pure wish fulfillment. 5. This crossover is 90% Detective Conan and 10% Detective Conan x Ace Attorney throughout. 6. Out of character moments are inevitable, and the timeline will be adjusted as the plot requires. Best not to overthink it. 7. This is not a sweet romance. There will be both fake-outs and real angst, but the finale has a happy ending. 8. A product of indulging my personal tastes, like a TVB police drama. If it makes you uncomfortable, please click the X in the top right and move on. Maybe we’ll meet again in another book. 9. I’m not good at writing romance. The early parts are pretty messy, so run if you can’t stand that. 10. The heavy damage-and-injury scenes before the VIP chapters are due to the original outline. They won’t be as frequent later, but they’ll still happen, so proceed with caution. [Check out my new novel: After Saving the World in a Jujutsu RPG, I Became Corrupted] Good news: Asamiya Rin has transmigrated. Bad news: He’s ended up in the Jujutsu RPG he’d completed every achievement in and escaped from by faking his death, while still in a level-zero starter account. Even worse: ...His landing point is the middle of a battle involving a [Main Story NPC], and his first-year junior looks like they’re about to die of fright. A few years have passed, and the jujutsu world has changed dramatically. The rebellious white-haired boy has become the strongest, the frivolous young master has become head of the Zenin family, and both younger sisters have become jujutsu sorcerers. Everything seems to be going well... Except for all those trembling hands desperate to clasp his. “Have we met somewhere before?” they ask urgently. “You look so much like...” What are they babbling about? Copying it into PDD doesn’t work either. This is a brand-new starter account from O Treasure, purchased for 9.9! Isn’t this supposed to be a parallel world? Asamiya Rin thinks with a blank expression. * Soon, news that the Special Grade sorcerer known as [Zenin Shinrin], [the original successor to the position of Jujutsu High principal] and [a legendary enforcer of the jujutsu world] may have come back to life rocks the jujutsu world. Once, at the age of just twenty, he died in battle, becoming a thorn in everyone’s heart. No remains. Cause of death unknown. Killer unknown. All that remained were shattered blades and an empty grave. Rin, who’s completely forgotten the game’s plot, takes it in stride: All the people he knew back then are big shots now, so he’ll just latch onto them and lie flat while they carry him! Come on, all players, let’s stick together! If we win, we get a share of the credit, and if we lose, it has nothing to do with us! (Peach O Black.jpg) But... Why does this seem to be going in a strange direction? Chains in the lightless dark, fellow cadets transformed into cursed spirits, eyes filled with secret desires... Asamiya Rin is so terrified that he spends all night digging through the script, until he finally finds the death record for his previous account buried among tens of thousands of lines of developer data. Asamiya Rin: … “This is the world’s way of atoning to you.” The next moment, the System chimes Excessive corruption detected in the world’s perception of the player’s identity. Resetting settings! [Player: Zenin Shinrin Cursed Technique: Water Manipulation (Special Grade) Faction: Curse User Support Teammate: Ryomen Sukuna] Asamiya Rin: “…Pfft, ” What the hell, wait?! ...This garbage game looks like it’s about to end. He needs to restart! Is there still time to start over?! Theme: Walk side by side, and we’ll eventually reach a place bathed in sunlight.