It's Hard to Tell Which Side Is Red or Black Today, Too

Blurb One: Kenji Hagiwara fell in love at first sight with someone during an explosion that was supposed to kill him on the spot. No, not someone. A god.

After being rescued from the brink of death by a god, his life somehow began turning surreal. Why was he running into all these people who looked perfectly normal, but had "conqueror" labels floating above their heads?

Also, even though he was very confident in his own charm, even if he couldn't see those conqueror labels above their heads, having so many admirers suddenly appear around him was definitely not normal!

And hey, let go of my fellow rookies!!!

"After Being Saved by the God Who Fell in Love with Me at First Sight, I Ran into Conquerors"

(The most melodramatic title I could think of)

Blurb Two: Kenji Hagiwara, 22 years old, survived an explosion in which he should have been blown to smithereens, then lost his memory.

Calling it amnesia isn't quite accurate. He had simply lost every memory of a certain person. According to the information provided by his friends and family, the person he'd forgotten was his lover. He couldn't hear anyone mention a single thing about his lover, including their name, appearance, or age. The other person hadn't shown up since he lost his memory, either, and he kept forgetting that he even had a lover.

This was probably the price of his survival. After being rescued by a god, he had lost his memories of his lover.

His lover seemed to have been prepared for being forgotten by him. But Kenji Hagiwara couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong, so he began following every clue he could find to uncover the truth.

While searching for the truth, Kenji Hagiwara happened to run into a fellow rookie who had become a police officer after graduation. But the fellow rookie, dressed in a police uniform, revealed a cold, bloodthirsty side no police officer should have. For a moment, Kenji Hagiwara seemed to see a label above his fellow rookie's head:

Rei Furuya. Faction: Black

?!

And that was far from the end of it. Kenji Hagiwara gradually discovered that there seemed to be people from two entirely opposite worlds. The same people in parallel worlds belonged to different factions, and the difference at the source of the tangled, chaotic timelines came down to him: whether Kenji Hagiwara survived the explosion at the age of 22.

Kenji Hagiwara: ...Uh, what?

"After Escaping Death, I Discovered My Death Was Tied to the Fate of the World"

The mysterious lover's whereabouts also seemed to come to light as he searched for the truth. And their true identity was... the very god who had saved him?!

Blurb Three: Seiya Akimoto. His real name doesn't matter. A god-slaying specialist and a hero who saves the universe.

Currently serving as a god on a temporary basis.

Forever 31 years old. During Kenji Hagiwara's university days, Kenji fell in love with him at first sight, and they became lovers. When Kenji Hagiwara reached the destined day of his death, he used Kenji Hagiwara's "love" for him as a substitute for Kenji Hagiwara's death.

That decision also caused the younger generation, whose faction loyalties could go either way between red and black, to split into two possible futures: one red, one black.

Amid all this uncertainty between red and black, there are also conquerors from other worlds. With the factions of the two worlds in such turmoil, what will happen?

Seiya Akimoto, mercenary of the world's will, former FBI ace, former CIA adviser, former senior Public Security official, former Gin, N layers of aliases, Ten Star Seiya: ...So workers aren't allowed to fall in love? Red or black, I'm already a former everything!

Top, with an obvious pairing: Seiya Akimoto tops Kenji Hagiwara. A first-love-is-forever kind of 1v1. (There are so few stories about Kenji, I'm crying.)

A love rivalry among the younger generation, but not in a romantic sense.

Theme: Don't give in to fate