The Master Has a Fourth-Dimensional Pocket

[Main story complete. The extras are in the author's notes at the end of the final chapter. My next book, The Mountain Village's Mouri Is Still Working Hard to Become a Popular Character, is now available for pre-registration. Please add it to your favorites!]

Blurb:

"Hello! I'm a cat-shaped robot from the future! I'll be helping you from now on!"

Full of energy and vitality, the entire "cat" radiated joy and cheer.

But...

Didn't his style seem a little out of place with theirs?!

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A blue cat, 129.3 cm tall and weighing 129.3 kg. When he sees a mouse, he runs at 129.3 km/h. Now that he's raised a difficult child into a dependable adult, he's enjoying a well-earned retirement.

But as a childcare robot, once he finally had time on his hands, he found himself feeling a little lonely.

So he decided to get back to work and become a Saniwa!

He'd heard a Saniwa's job was to lead newly manifested sword warriors in protecting history. In other words, it was basically childcare!

Confident that he already had hands-on experience after raising a certain someone, he clutched his four-dimensional pocket with pride.

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Unfortunately, the sword warriors in his citadel didn't see it that way.

Their Saniwa looked so easy to fool and bully. They had to do their best to protect him!

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Until one day, during a sortie...

"Let's hide first so the enemy doesn't spot us."

"Leave it to me! The stone hat!"

"It'd be nice if we could go straight to the boss."

"Leave it to me! The Anywhere Door!"

"Tch, are we surrounded?"

"Leave it to me! The gorilla's singing!"

???

The sword warriors, unable to stand upright under their own side's magical attacks, couldn't help feeling that something was... off.

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After perfectly dodging all the bloodshed, what was left?

A happy, carefree retirement, of course!

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Reader's Guide:

1. This is mainly a goofy, heartwarming slice-of-life story about a citadel whose Saniwa is a certain childcare robot. Characters may be out of character, so please don't read if that's not your thing.

2. No angst and no pairings throughout. A lighthearted, feel-good story. Come on in!

Pre-registration blurb: The Mountain Village's Mouri Is Still Working Hard to Become a Popular Character

My name is Mouri, and I'm currently the protagonist of an official spin-off manga. My goal is to become a popular character.

[Making Mouri the protagonist? Seriously?]

[Let's go. Might as well watch the guy next door, Kyogoku Makoto, power through everything like a Saiyan.]

[Hey, I'd rather watch Ran. I love looking at beautiful women, hehe~]

Because of the official series' so-called philosophy of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend, every character has their own what-if manga, besides mine.

And every single one of them is more popular than mine.

The manga hasn't even started serialization yet, and my artist has already given up. So, to make sure the manga can proceed smoothly...

I gained self-awareness, and my artist became my personal System, keeping an eye on the forums and making plans to help me become a popular character.

[Get close to other popular characters! Ride their coattails!]

So I tucked a limited-edition Kamen Rider card into my pocket and went to Tokyo to find my canon childhood friend, my one true love, Hiro. I had to make sure readers knew my face.

To that blond-haired, dark-skinned guy: your childhood friend is fine. Next second, mine. There's a term for it: a childhood friend who drops from the sky.

[Beat a popular character and show off what you can do!]

Since I'm Mouri, I come with a high-grades buff and a lucky-charm buff.

So I replaced that blond-haired, dark-skinned guy and became the top student in the police academy.

[Show off your own unique antics!]

When I went undercover with the Public Security group, my goofiness convinced Gin that I could never be a spy, making me the first of the three to receive a codename.

On missions, my built-in unreliable buff got my fellow real villain into trouble, allowing me to stand out.

After they figured out I was an undercover agent and I ran off, the goose I raised held off most of my pursuers.

Ahem. I really wasn't doing all this on purpose for the laughs.

But when I came to my senses...

[Mouri is awesome!]

[Here to catch Mouri's antics again today!]

[My Mouri is the top-tier star of the Detective Conan spin-offs! Go!]

I'd really become a popular character.

Theme: Let your imagination make your dreams take flight