Playing an NPC in a Red-and-Black Faction Game

This is a placeholder. There are only a few chapters of the main story, and I’ll fill it in when I have time. [Preorder: After the True-Believer Gets a Love-Brain Script, please add it to your favorites!] The Red-and-Black Faction Full-Dive Game [Hot Forum Thread: Post 1: Quick question: Is that distillery NPC with the codename Petrus really an NPC... Post 2: You ran into him, OP? Post 1 replies: I’m seriously about to cry! This NPC is nothing like an NPC. He noticed I like houttuynia, then tested me in Chinese and picked up on my Sichuan accent. He deduced I wasn’t a local Japanese person, and then the System warned me for breaking character and ruled that I was playing passively... My account was gone just like that! Post 5: One more victim for the alliance of the aggrieved, orz. Post 18: I seriously don’t get why an NPC is so perceptive. It’s infuriating!!!! In normal games, aren’t NPCs supposed to be brainless mannequins following preset scripts? Post 19: Answer: This isn’t a normal game. It’s a full-dive Detective Conan game, so, you know. Post 39: The “you-know-who” NPC spotted a flaw in my cover again. My account turned into a beam of white light on the spot and ascended. Post 40: Don’t ask. I’ve already made eight new accounts. Post 41: I don’t get it. Did Gosho deliberately tell the game company to make the game like this?! Post 42: Damn you, Gosho, sob sob. Post 78: Brothers, we have to fight back. We can’t let them bully us like this! There are more of us players. Charge! Everyone chimed in. Miyazawa Kanade realized he was inside a simulation game featuring the Red and Black factions. What he didn’t know was that he was gradually becoming a legendary NPC on the game’s forum, with the rating: [Extremely vicious, extremely unhinged] Miyazawa Kanade, a low-ranking member of the distillery, had a dream that the organization was so thoroughly infiltrated by undercover agents that it was riddled with holes! In the end, the organization was taken down, and he was the only one left standing in front of its empty headquarters, staring blankly. Was he really the only person in the organization who wasn’t an undercover agent? How ridiculous was that?! Miyazawa Kanade woke with a start. Just when Miyazawa Kanade thought it had only been a nightmare, he seemed to have... gotten younger. Miyazawa Kanade: Don’t tell me I’ve been reborn?! That won’t do. He couldn’t end up like he had in the dream. While the organization wasn’t as deeply infiltrated yet, he had to find all the undercover agents! But something about this world... seemed a little off. The distillery. As everyone knows, Petrus is a rather neurotic codename agent. You have to be extremely careful on missions with him, and that goes for Gin too. Even when Petrus was still a low-ranking member, he once said something shocking: “Big Brother Gin, are you an undercover agent?” Petrus went on, “Vodka, what do you think? Your big brother is the kind of workaholic who’d sacrifice everything for the job. That’s a character trait you only ever see in Public Security agents. Can you even understand him?” Vodka fell silent: ... If you want to die, don’t drag me into it! # New recruits reporting for duty at the distillery Petrus, passing by: “You’re undercover agents, aren’t you?” Players: ...?! How does he know? Bourbon, passing nearby and jumping in fright: How does he know!? Chianti, who had brought the recruits in, kicked him. “Get lost!!!” # Reading notes: 1. Wish-fulfillment story. 2. I’ll do my best to keep everyone in character. Theme: Live well and earn an honest living.