The Mastermind Was Surprisingly Me

I'm Shiina Ichise. I was born with a villain's face, and when I transmigrated, I accidentally crushed someone to death. Now I can only borrow his identity for a little while, and I'm dedicated to doing good deeds to bring him back to life.

So I took in a 'poor orphan' named 'Kurosawa Jin' and became an outstanding police officer.

Thanks to my efforts, the police gradually caught members of the infamous Black Organization.

For some reason, whenever they heard my voice, they looked like they'd seen a ghost. Their eyes went wide, and they obediently surrendered.

I always thought it was because of my powerful personal charm.

Until one day, a man named Gin called me using Jin's voice.

He called me BOSS and said he'd discovered a traitor and needed my orders.

Comments: [??? Holy crap, what an ultimate twist!]

[Wait, weren't we told the BOSS was a bald, potbellied middle-aged man? Who is this handsome NPC who sweeps the streets every day?!]

[Got it! This is the legendary art of disguise! Has anyone else noticed that when Shiina doesn't smile, his bloodlust is even more terrifying than Gin's?!]

[Shiina, the Oscars owe you a statuette.]

Yes, the audience was shocked, and so was I.

After all these years of doing good deeds, it turned out I was the mastermind all along.

I'd never been a villain before, and I fell silent. As the comments flooded in, I decided to play along.

[Year X, Month X, Day X. Sunny]

[I had Gin take a kid named Conan home.]

[Year X, Month X, Day X. Rainy]

[I had Vermouth spruce up the greenery along the street.]

[Year X, Month X, Day X. Cloudy]

[I was honored at the city's awards ceremony. Gin didn't say anything, but I could read the words 'Did a donkey kick you in the head?' in his eyes.]

Under his friend's watchful gaze, Shiina Ichise broke down and started writing another diary entry.

[Year X, Month X, Day X. Rainy]

[Scotland still won't listen to me. Bourbon has ideas of his own, and Vodka once drove me into a telephone pole. I think I'm about to be killed and usurped.]

[In this organization, Gin really is the only one who loves me!]

Scotland, Hiromitsu: ...

Bourbon, Furuya: ?

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Clever, modest, and full of youthful vigor: most people used words like these to describe Officer Shiina.

Back then, no one realized that he would die in his twenties.

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Comments:

[Wait, is this really how things are supposed to go?]

[You can't die, Shiina! I haven't finished drawing my doujinshi yet!]

[Hmm? Looking again, it seems he's alive after all.]

[What did he come back as?]

[Shiina! Shiina changed his secret identity! He went from being the liquor organization's BOSS to being Gin's subordinate!]

[I get it. This is the legendary faked death. The screenwriter gets me. This must be so that... Never mind, I can't make this work.]

[Shiina, son, if Gin finds out, aren't you totally screwed?]

Shiina Ichise: ?

*Gin pairing.

*The scene in the blurb might not appear. Anyway, that's the general idea.

[The cover was commissioned from the amazing artist @GuangguangLiYuanBenDan.]

[Content warnings]

*The protagonist plays dumb while hiding his true abilities and carefully plans every move. Every seemingly unreasonable action has a hidden purpose, so please finish reading before judging.

*The protagonist is a little absent-minded (not stupid!! If you don't understand, you can go straight to Chapter 14). Because of his experiences, he has some unrecognized dark tendencies and a self-destructive streak.

*The protagonist isn't a typical member of the good guys' side. His BOSS secret identity will be exposed later.

*The protagonist aims to turn the liquor organization into a loving, harmonious (x) modern legal organization like the Vongola (Gin: ?).

*Blurb archived 22.7.15

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Coming soon: The Mafia Executive Who Became the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Commissioner

As everyone knows, Kanoe Akinari is an executive in the Port Mafia. But from the day he was sent to Tokyo on a business trip, Kanoe Akinari began getting caught up in cases all the time.

The classic three suspects: a victim, a hat-wearing police officer, and a detective in a blue uniform.

Kanoe: You probably won't believe this, but that old man accused me of being a suspect again.

Dazai Osamu: Really? How did he accuse you?

Kanoe: He asked where I was when the crime took place. I told him I was in the middle of a gang war.

Nakahara Chuuya: ...And then?

Kanoe: Then? Then the fake ID I'd made for my last mission fell out of my pocket. That's when I found out that Hirotsu had apparently made me an identity as a police officer.

Dazai Osamu: I'm sure you hadn't realized you had a fake identity, either.

Kanoe: Well, that's not exactly wrong. I told him that if I'd killed the victim, I'd have slashed up his face and cut off his hands so no one would know who he was. That's why it took me six months to finish that mission.

Nakahara Chuuya: Get a grip. Those things have nothing to do with each other!

Kanoe: They do. They all decided I was dangerous, so they sent me back to that police academy to be reformed.

'So now I'm a real police officer.'

'Don't worry, Mr. Mori! Once I infiltrate the enemy and uncover their secrets, we can use them to threaten them! Getting a license for a business that uses supernatural abilities will be a piece of cake. Even taking over the entire Metropolitan Police Department won't be a problem!'

N years later.

Kanoe Akinari sat in his office, staring at his new business card in silence.

[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Commissioner]

Back then... Was this what he meant by infiltrating the enemy?

*Blurb archived 22.12.14

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