[Bleach] The Idiot System Keeps Screwing Me Over

[The story is on hiatus. I'll come back to fill in the blanks someday.]

Wakatsuki Chisa wakes up in North Rukongai District 80, a place like hell on earth, with her memories in tatters and the fighting ability of a total weakling.

She thinks she's doomed.

Fortunately, she is bound to a child-rearing System that lets her gain skills and improve her combat strength.

To save herself, she resolutely sets out to adopt children.

--And then falls into a pit.

The kid is like a wild beast cub: young, but stronger than her, and not easy to adopt.

Wakatsuki Chisa climbs out of the pit, looking a mess, and proudly grins as she holds the child she worked so hard to adopt.

Plop, she falls into a second pit.

--The idiotic System digs countless pits, so just as she climbs out of one, she falls into another.

She stumbles into pits of every size and finally manages to raise the kid, but her skills still aren't all unlocked.

Wakatsuki Chisa: "With my current strength, do I really have to worry about not surviving? Idiotic System, you're fired!"

Her confidence proves premature.

A Menos Grande beats her until she's left with barely a sliver of health. Her sense of danger rekindled, she tearfully picks the System back up.

The System resets, and the missions start over.

The second child she painstakingly adopts is gentle, sensible, and always willing to help. Everyone praises him.

Yet the System never pays out the mission rewards.

Wakatsuki Chisa: "How could my second kid not be a good person by any ordinary measure!? Idiotic System, you've tricked me again!"

The second kid draws his Zanpakuto and shows her its Shikai.

Good news: her memories are back.

Bad news: that Zanpakuto is called Kyoka Suigetsu.

Wakatsuki Chisa: "Help! Me! Please! The final boss hasn't been won over by me, and he could stab me in the back at any moment... Wait, the seal's been lifted and my full power is back. I might still be able to save myself?"

[Reader's guide]

1. No romance pairing.

2. There are headcanons, and characters may be out of character.

[Below is the blurb for an upcoming Crossover romance story]

[Crossover] Kusuo Saiki's Detective Romance

Before Kusuko Saiki heads to Tokyo for university, her fortune-teller friend reads her fortune and tells her, "Your destined love is in Beika Town!"

Full of hope and anticipation for a beautiful romance, she boards the Shinkansen to Beika Town.

Someone has planted a bomb on the train, and she nearly gets blown sky-high.

After escaping by the skin of her teeth, she wants to eat something delicious to calm her nerves. Before she can even settle into her seat, she hears a scream from the next table: someone has died of poisoning in the restaurant.

On her third day in Beika Town, a murder takes place at the movie theater she visits.

On her seventh day in Beika Town, she's walking down the street when someone suddenly falls from the building above and lands right in front of her, splashing blood all over her.

Kusuko Saiki: "What happened to my destined love? All I keep running into are murder cases!"

On her Nth day in Beika Town, she's halfway through shopping at a mall when an announcement comes over the PA: there's a bomb in the building, and customers must evacuate immediately.

In the crowd fleeing in panic, a boy with black, medium-length hair, willow-leaf-shaped eyes, and violet irises heads against the flow of people.

Kusuko Saiki meets her destined love and falls for him at first sight.

Her love story begins!

When they meet again, a group of girls is gathered around him. He chats and laughs amid the flowers, enjoying himself.

Her love gets blindsided by youth and ends up with a broken bone.

Kusuko Saiki: "...As expected, love can disappear. No playboys for me! My destined love must be someone else!"

One day, she sees him on television. He rushes into a building to defuse a bomb, only to get taken out by its explosion.

Kusuko "Psychic" Saiki: "--Turn back time!"

Their interrupted bond resumes, and her broken love heals.

A straightforward girl versus a playboy: are they destined to fall for each other at first sight?

Her destined love: "I'm easy to win over."

Kusuko Saiki: "Heh."

Kusuko Saiki: "I'm easy to win over."

Her destined love: "Heh."

[Reader's guide]

1. One-on-one romance. The male lead is Hagiwara.

2. I'll do my best to keep the characters true to the originals. Please forgive me if anyone acts out of character.

Completed stories: anime romance, Fighting Black Crime in the Detective World and Life Is Hard, So This Salted Fish Forges Ahead. Check out the author's profile if you're interested!

Theme: Though life is full of hardships, a new world awaits once you make it through them.