I feel like my writing is really bad. I can't capture the feeling in my head, so I've decided to work on my writing. I won't let my darling Yun Yun be ruined in my hands, QAQ.
The cover is Yun Li holding Xiao Yue! [Commissioning art feels great for a while, but commissioning art all the time feels great all the time.]
What kind of person is a boy built from blood and tears? Perhaps Husheng Yun Li doesn't know, but he'll never forget that night, when a man made an offer to a six-year-old child.
Why is it that when everyone transmigrates, I have to be born as a baby and navigate a world full of master manipulators?! [A certain Fox's anguished cry.jpg]
Whatever. Things have come to this, and as someone forced to become one of the master manipulators, he's still on the road to redeeming himself today.
Shh, don't think what you see is all there is to me...
Scene One:
"Hey, Dazai!" The auburn-haired boy called out to the black-clad youth in front of him, hands in his pockets. "There's something wrong with the corpse, right? Or is that Randou guy the problem?"
Osamu Dazai stopped. His brown eyes slid toward the other boy from the corner of his eye, and he snickered. "I didn't know you were so suspicious, Chuuya." Then he muttered under his breath, "It's not like you have a brain."
"Hey! You insult me at a volume I can hear, then pretend you're talking to yourself?! You're changing the subject, aren't you?!"
"Oh, Chuuya actually caught on. That's my good dog!"
Osamu Dazai turned to look at Nakahara Chuuya. "Do you know Husheng Yun Li?"
"'The Fox's Lament' is the name of his ability. As for what it does... Have you heard of this experiment? Someone blindfolds a volunteer, then simulates the pain of slitting their wrists and the feeling of blood flowing down their arm. In the end... the person really dies! But there's not a single wound on their hands. What a perfect, clean, and refreshing way to die!" Osamu Dazai adjusted his bandages.
"Never mind. I know slugs like you aren't well-read. 'The Fox's Lament' creates an illusion within a certain area, but it affects all five senses. If you believe it's real, then it's real. Of course, if you don't believe it, nothing happens. But who can easily deny their own senses? When truth is false, falsehood is truth..." Osamu Dazai said scornfully.
"So... does it actually exist or not?" Nakahara Chuuya had never seen an ability that was both so useless and so powerful. His curiosity made him overlook Dazai's sarcasm.
"You're so stupid. I already told you that even if the person dies, there are no wounds. Of course it doesn't exist! Well... to be precise, it doesn't exist when used on inanimate objects." He paused. "So the ability was real, the things it created were real, and the words and thoughts were all real. But the person was fake."
Mafia Life:
Dazai and Husheng are on an errand together when they spot a river along the way.
Osamu Dazai: Coward, look at that river. Isn't it beautiful?
Husheng Yun Li: How many times do I have to tell you? I'm not called Coward, you mud freak. The river's nice. What about it?
Osamu Dazai: I really don't want to, but there's no one around. Come on, want to jump in together?
Husheng Yun Li: Tch, I didn't force you... Fine, let's go.
The attendant beside them: ...What do we do?
The two leap from the riverbank.
Husheng Yun Li: Gahaha, didn't see that coming, did you? I only pretended to jump! (Light Yagami's plan is going perfectly.jpg)
Osamu Dazai: It's fine, I caught you. (Light Yagami's plan is going perfectly.jpg)
Splash
Armed Detective Agency Life:
Edogawa Ranpo: Husheng, get me a bottle of ramune!
Husheng Yun Li: Ranpo, you've already had too much today. Watch out for the president! So I'll just have to take care of it for you! (Gulp, gulp, gulp)
Edogawa Ranpo: Husheng! You, you, you! If you wanted to drink it yourself, you didn't have to make an excuse! Damn it, the great Ranpo won't help you next time. Hmph!
Nakajima Atsushi: ...That doesn't sound threatening at all...
Husheng Yun Li: Hmm, okay. Then I'll secretly slip you a bottle!
Nakajima Atsushi: So you really were threatened, huh?!
Content warning: The protagonist is not a good person and can lie low for a long time to get what he wants.
The protagonist gets rather dark and angst-ridden early on, but what's real and what's fake? Some of it is an act, some of it isn't. Who knows? Later on, he'll let loose, hehe.
The protagonist will suffer!!! My darling is a little heartbreaking in this story, sob sob. [P.S. Please don't overthink it. The protagonist is a master manipulator, but that doesn't mean the author is one.]
Don't worry, I won't abandon this story. The author might slack off and disappear for a while, but I'll definitely finish it. The main story and all the extras are already planned out!! It's going to be awesome!!
Theme: Self-redemption and saving yourself.
