My Little Brother Is Perfectly Sane

My name is Hanami Saya. I'm 20 years old, and I have a twin younger brother named Gogol. Right now, I'm living around Yokohama to avoid our enemies.

I work at a local detective agency, while Gogol is internationally renowned for his criminal artistry. Although we hardly ever talk in our daily lives, I make a point of visiting Gogol in prison after I arrest him. Everyone says the way my brother and I get along is perfectly normal.

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Gogol has always insisted that he and I are the closest pair of friends and family in the whole world.

If he hadn't fired three shots at me right there and then, saying he was killing me so I could experience the ultimate freedom of life, I might have been more touched.

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Being hunted by my own younger brother had long since become part of my everyday life.

Then one day, my boss at the detective agency told me that if I didn't deal with the situation, I'd be fired.

After a long while thinking it over, I decided to divert the trouble elsewhere.

So I bribed the information broker next door and had him sell my enemies a list of people Gogol considered his friends and family.

I managed to keep my job; Gogol changed the course of his life; and my enemies got to experience the thrill of repeatedly teetering on the edge of life and death:

We all have a bright future ahead of us.

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1. Gogol follows the manga design: white hair and golden eyes, with Saya in the same color scheme.

2. A character-centered, plot-driven story, with a strong focus on family. Saya is the sole protagonist, and Gogol is the male lead.

3. Pairing: Dazai.

4. The author's Weibo: @Yourong

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Coming soon: I Told You, I'm Not the Mastermind

In this world, almost everyone awakens a special ability on the day they come of age.

When Yue Qianying woke up one morning, she discovered that she had awakened...

Bullet comments.

[Is this the legendary big boss Yue Qianying?]

[Yue Bao, my Yue Bao TT]

[Let me recommend my Yue Qianying to everyone: leader of the ability-less, idealist, and crazy mastermind. You won't regret following her!]

Yue Qianying: ...Are you stacking buffs or what?

She skipped class for a whole day and finally figured out where the bullet comments were coming from:

It turned out she was a character in a manga, and not just any character: she was the ultimate mastermind and villainous boss, and had nearly brought down the entire world.

Yue Qianying, who had been a model student for five years straight: Thank you so much.

But now the bullet comments were saying: [Waaah, Bao must have realized she didn't awaken an ability. My heart aches for her.]

[If she had awakened an ability, Yue Bao wouldn't have gone to extremes. This world is trash!]

Yue Qianying: ...How come I don't know I've gone to extremes?

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After that, Yue Qianying realized that the world was getting more and more fantastical.

She went to see a doctor, and the bullet comments said: [Has she already discovered this doctor's double identity, and come here on purpose?]

She glanced at a passerby, and the bullet comments said: [Wow, Yue Bao already knows she can recruit this person as one of her subordinates!]

After she was inexplicably appointed leader of an underground organization, a subordinate asked what her ultimate goal was. The bullet comments said: [Obviously, to overthrow ability supremacy and give the world to the ability-less!]

Looking at the bullet comments these people were posting, Yue Qianying: ...

And after she had anticipated her opponents' moves an innumerable number of times, and everyone agreed that she was unfathomably deep and a master strategist, she looked at the comments flooding the screen with [As expected of Yue Bao!] and at the admiring eyes of her subordinates. Yue Qianying finally gave up:

...Whatever. As long as you're all happy.

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*A delightful story of everyone believing the protagonist has lofty ideals and a deep, scheming mind, leaving her no choice but to reluctantly become the boss. A classic case of people reading far too much into things (.).

*The author's Weibo: @Yourong

Theme: Family ties are precious.