I Faked My Death and Dumped the Strongest, Then Died for Real and Came Back

[The cover changes from time to time. The current cover features the heroine. The sleepwalking arc is over, and I've turned on 80% anti-theft protection. Don't let it pile up, or you'll lose me!]

[Includes a little chasing-his-wife-to-the-crematorium. Any personal tweaks to the setting will be explained in the author's notes, so don't miss them.]

Completed novel: Rejected Three Times by a Pure Love Warrior, I Gave Up and Somehow Won

Coming soon: I Set Up a Fortune-Telling Stall at Tokyo Jujutsu High, paired with Okkotsu

What Should I Do After Becoming Gin's Boss on the Good Side?

-Story blurb-

My name is Uchiha Ai, and I'm a world traveler.

A mishap in the space-time continuum sent me from fighting monsters alongside Sasuke in the Naruto world to the world of Jujutsu, where I met seventeen-year-old 5t5.

This shameless man claimed I was his distant cousin. Bearing the noble name of Uchiha, I thought: I just got here, and I'm penniless. I'll put up with it.

Later, I discovered that being 5t5's cousin was actually great. I had a luxurious mansion spanning 120 mu, endless wealth, and everyone's envious, jealous glares. I had to admit: this is amazing. Forget being your cousin, I'd even be your daughter.

But I barely got to enjoy the good life before the space-time glitch was fixed, and I was back to the hard days of fighting monsters alongside Sasuke, with only a person and a sword to my name.

Ten years passed in a flash. I thought it had all been a dream, but then another glitch hit.

When I returned to the world of Jujutsu, I changed my name and joined an organization called the Port Mafia. I thought we'd each go our separate ways, but after a mission, a certain Six Eyes user set his sights on me again.

5t5 grabbed me by the throat, his eyes reddening. I couldn't tell whether it was sorrow or hatred in them.

"You ugly liar. You awful woman. Disappear again, and I'll kill you."

??? 5t5, do you hear yourself?

Can someone tell me what's going on with the 27-year-old 5t5 in front of me? Why does he look at me like a resentful wife about to stab her cheating husband?

Serious version:

Uchiha Ai is a world traveler. During one of her journeys through a space-time glitch, she briefly met seventeen-year-old Gojo Satoru.

That boy wore a pure white uniform and carried himself with carefree arrogance. His haughty, sky-blue eyes left an indelible mark on Uchiha Ai's long memory.

Later, she never imagined she would meet 27-year-old 5t5 again. Gone was the youthful innocence she remembered. He was still flamboyant, but now he was like a blade sheathed in its scabbard, having learned to hide his sharp edge.

Twenty-seven-year-old 5t5 was like a fine wine kept in a cellar: the longer it aged, the richer it tasted. Uchiha Ai took a small sniff and refused to admit she was drunk.

Only when 5t5 took her hand and slowly lifted the pitch-black blindfold did Uchiha Ai see her reflection in his beautiful eyes. At last, her wandering soul had found a home.

Coming soon: I Set Up a Fortune-Telling Stall at Tokyo Jujutsu High

My name is Fuyushima Natsu, nicknamed the Great Immortal. I'm a first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High.

I have the classic mature beauty's face, but the soul of a goofball.

My jujutsu skills are nothing special, but my ambitions are grand:

I'm going to get my classmates, the special grades, and Okkotsu Yuta.

As for why, I have to mention my cursed technique: divine fortune-telling.

As a steadfast Marxist of the twenty-first century, I set up a stall at Jujutsu High. My services include, but aren't limited to, fortune-telling, bone-reading, face-reading, and so on.

One day, with nothing better to do, I cast a fortune for myself. When I saw the result, I fell right off my chair.

Good heavens, it's an extremely bad omen! A bloody disaster is in my future, and the way to avert it is...

I have to stay inseparable for forty-nine days with a member of the opposite sex who belongs to the Fire element, has had no luck in love, and is... well-endowed and very skilled.

Me: ? I'm a goofball, but I have some dignity. Could you take another look at that last part?

But to save my own life, I steeled myself and went through countless hardships to narrow it down to three Fire-element guys around me.

First candidate: Gojo Satoru

My unreliable teacher. Let's leave the last part aside for now, but unlucky in love...?

There's no such thing. Don't be ridiculous.

Second candidate: Ryomen Sukuna (don't ask how I figured it out)

Even if all three things about him are unknown, I'd rather stay ignorant forever if it means saving my life.

Last candidate: Okkotsu Yuta

Fire element: check

Unlucky in love: check, check

As for... that part...

Hmm, I pushed up my nonexistent glasses and decided I needed to investigate.

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Okkotsu Yuta had been troubled lately.

It was a little embarrassing to admit, but he thought someone had their eye on him. No, not just an eye on him: they were coveting him.

Whenever he went to the bathroom, he could feel a fiery gaze on him.

The pants he hung out to dry on the dorm balcony vanished without a trace.

His medical checkup report had been dug out.

One thing after another. Yuta was scared. Yuta was thoroughly creeped out.

When he asked his classmates for help, all he got were strange looks that seemed to say, "You're really that full of yourself?" Yuta couldn't explain himself.

To protect his chastity, Yuta decided to take action.

Unfortunately, the other person was far too crafty. Honest Yuta couldn't find even the slightest clue.

Until one day...

His classmate Fuyushima-chan, with a face so stunningly cold that she could make anyone's heart flutter as long as she didn't speak, leaned against the bathhouse door, waved the towel in her hand, and winked at him.

"Hey, Okkotsu-kun. Want me to scrub your back?~"

That day, Yuta remembered the terror of being at the mercy of a pervert.

Theme: Home is where the heart finds peace.