How to Achieve a Red-Side Victory When Everyone Is on the Black Side

Hosokawa Tsuru recently picked up a new game called Red vs. Black.

The promotional blurb promised an exciting story, gorgeous characters, a high degree of freedom, and a moderate difficulty level. The only strange thing was that no guides for the game could be found online.

When it came time to choose a faction, he picked Red without hesitation.

But his randomly assigned stats were terrible, and he started out as a spy in the distillery, with a pitfall at every turn. He died on average every five minutes, leaving him with one big question mark: This is moderate difficulty???

Then he saw the character relationship chart, and his eyes nearly popped out of his head.

Black: The blond with dark skin, the cat-eyed young man, the distillery's hardest worker, the thousand-faced witch, the organization spy who had infiltrated the FBI...

Red: Hosokawa Tsuru

"So I'm the lone wolf"

"No wonder someone always sabotages my intelligence reports"

"Is it wrong to want to get the Red faction victory ending?"

"The enemies are gods, while my teammates are hopeless"

"It takes fifty reloads to succeed at one mission"

"The distillery's hardest worker and the player's tale of love and resentment"

Driven mad by the hellish difficulty, Hosokawa Tsuru kept getting more like the Black faction than the Black faction itself. He saved at every step, and at last unlocked the SSR ending, [Red Faction Victory]. Delighted, he started a second playthrough. Drawing on his painful experience, this time he chose Black. But why were the handful of distillery screwups who had killed him in hundreds of save files missing from the Black faction now?

And these people seemed to remember the previous playthrough...

[Red Route]: The story of a Red spy who kept switching sides and ended up dying a horrible death.

[Black Route]: How I became the Black Organization's boss while grinding through the game.

And so, let the world turn according to our will.

Notes:

1. In the first playthrough, everyone really is Black. The second playthrough takes place in a normal Detective Conan world. The protagonist is the hapless player who somehow picked the perfect hell difficulty.

2. Everyone has one-sided feelings for the protagonist. Pairings undecided.

Theme: Justice never dies.