The Death Cheat Who Holds an Expired Conquest Guide

From the start, Xinei Qianxu obtained a strategy book. As a warrior for happy endings, she thought this one was in the bag: all she had to do was breeze through the route to a happy ending.

The Book: ...Unless something unexpected happens.

[In the world of Detective Conan]

As the saying goes, to capture the bandits, capture their leader first. Xinei Qianxu decided to go straight for the source of all the misery and take out the boss of the Black Organization.

Just as she was about to follow the guide and recruit some teammates for a group battle,

she saw a jet-black cursed spirit coiling around Miss Ran, like a reaper who had crawled back to the human world from the deepest depths of hell.

"That's right. Just like those people said, I couldn't accept the death of the great detective, so I cursed my childhood friend and lover."

...This unexpected development is huge! The Reaper Elementary Schooler really became the Reaper???

[In Geto's world]

After reading the guide, Xinei Qianxu was brimming with confidence. All she had to do was charge in shouting about friendship and bonds, and no amount of seasonal depression could stop her!

"You make a good point, but it's time for my shift. You can skimp on everything except the children, and you can be poor in everything except education."

Unmarried and childless, yet raising two kids, the working student gave a wry smile. He took odd jobs everywhere to support his money-devouring little monsters, and the weariness in his eyes only deepened.

Xinei Qianxu: ???

Damn it! All that studying the teen mental health handbook for nothing! What he needs is a rich woman!

[The Shady Boss's Modern AU]

"You mean your achievement last month was watering the money tree at the Demon Slayer Corps Corporation to death?"

The Shady Boss, holding a meeting to lay off the Lower Moons, frowned and asked the silver-haired natural curl beside him, who was picking his nose.

"Boss, times have changed." The natural curl put on a serious face. "This kind of move is what deals a heavy blow to the Demon Slayer Corps, right, Miss Xinei?"

Xinei... Xinei Qianxu decided to forget the guide to the Taisho era and join them in tricking the old geezer who hadn't adjusted to the changing times, then rake in a pile of cash.

[At the Literary Detective Agency]

"That man promised to write with me and become the greatest writer of this era! He couldn't possibly have been lying!" The muddy Stray Dog of No Heart was overcome with emotion.

"Akutagawa, you're so self-centered." Without any explanation, the man who had suddenly left the detective agency had become the leader of the Port Mafia. He spoke coldly to the person who wouldn't stop pestering him.

Putting aside the guide's claim that [the probability of Boss Dazai surviving is absolutely zero] for now, Xinei Qianxu, caught in the vortex of a distorted gravity field, asked with mixed feelings:

"Wait a second. When did you all give up martial arts and take up literature?"

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[In Xinei Qianxu's world]

I was such a fool, really. I only knew to follow the guide, and never realized these were all if routes. The guide was outdated.

I thought this world was the one at fault. They were all sweet and innocent heroes. What could they possibly have done wrong?

I never imagined every last one of them was a liar, telling lies without even blinking.

But luckily... I'm the best liar of them all.

A lighthearted story about redemption, probably with lots of people crushing on each other. No pairing in the main story; the extra-story pairing is undecided.

Core theme: If the world deceives you, believe that happy days will eventually come.