Cosplayers Are All Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic

Mizukami Tetsuharu,

an ordinary anime and manga fan.

He enjoys cosplaying characters from anime and manga in his everyday life.

One day, after finishing a series,

he decided the author was a monster,

so he chose to create his own alternate version.

Using himself as the model, he wrote a script where everyone except him

gets a happy ending.

After applying my battle makeup, I ignored the curious stares of those around me and wandered through the convention.

I turned a corner and found myself in a merged world.

Looking at a certain white-haired man teaching a practical combat class,

I slowly wore an expression of utter despair,

gazing up at the sky with dead-fish eyes.

Why did the predetermined probability of having to wear a cosplay costume have to happen to me?

That was the last thought I had before the collision of memories knocked me unconscious.

I reached an agreement with a certain world's consciousness,

and even managed to drag one of my friends into trouble along the way.

I had just managed to get along with Gojo the cat

when my trip to Yokohama a year later made me lose the script and hand out a knife without meaning to.

Under the affectionate gazes of everyone around me,

I looked up at the sky in despair, turning a full 365 degrees.

Here is Mizukami Tetsuharu's script.

Mizukami Tetsuharu,

also known as Gojo Jin, Gojo Satoru's twin brother,

is the darling of the world's laws, its one and only god, and the King beloved by the Slate.

His mother died when he was born, his father when he was six. As a child, he was ostracized for having weak cursed energy,

and later sent to live with his maternal grandparents.

At seven, he went to Yokohama,

where he found a book

and learned that the merging of worlds was unstable.

He also learned that he would be alone in the future,

that the friends around him would gradually die because the plot had gone awry,

and that his younger brother would be sealed away.

Mizukami Tetsuharu knew the book had shown him all this on purpose.

It knew that, as a god, he could not bear to see any world destroyed.

It knew he could not remain indifferent while the world his maternal grandparents cherished was destroyed.

And it knew that, having only just learned what emotions were,

he would not abandon the friends he had yet to meet.

So he became the leader of the Port Mafia ahead of time.

He took in Tsushima Shuji, who had just begun thinking about suicide

and had not yet changed his name to Osamu Dazai,

guiding him toward the light in his heart.

He went to Raibaru Street

and brought the newly born Nakahara Chuuya to the Port Mafia,

letting this child, born of human greed, choose

whether to embrace his humanity or his divinity.

On a trip abroad, he found a young idealist who had yet to grow up.

He met Natsume Soseki and became his close friend, working together to maintain the Three-Part System.

He was both teacher and friend to Fukuzawa Yukichi.

He brought Edogawa Ranpo, who had just lost his home and begun wandering less than two months earlier,

to Fukuzawa Yukichi ahead of time.

He lured Mori Ougai, an underground doctor,

to the Port Mafia and made him his personal physician.

While cleaning up the jujutsu world's mess,

he quietly reformed its rules,

while also battling the rifts in space-time and founding one organization after another.

Every evening, when he fell asleep, his consciousness traveled to various worlds,

protecting their order and safety.

He did all sorts of things,

and in the midst of his hectic life, he learned that the world would become stable if he either completed the laws of the world

or deliberately died once.

Mizukami Tetsuharu fell silent after learning all this.

Then he promptly began making preparations in a great hurry,

blocking out everything connected to the plot

and starting a rough cleanup. At the right moment,

he arranged for everyone who was supposed to die to fake their deaths.

He intercepted the five thousand billion that would have caused the Dragon Head War,

divided it into three equal portions,

and stashed them in three locations.

He used the deaths of five children as leverage to force Oda Sakunosuke to fight Gide,

then had Oda Sakunosuke fake his death at the critical moment.

He sent Osamu Dazai, who had come to question him but never saw him,

to the Armed Detective Agency.

He guided Suguru Geto into defecting,

and used an illusion during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons to protect all the civilians who should have been injured.

He saved Suguru Geto from Gojo Satoru, then used the higher-ups' cover-up and psychological suggestion to hide everything.

Apart from Mori Ougai and Edogawa Ranpo, who vaguely sensed something was wrong,

everyone else was confused,

and thought Mizukami Tetsuharu had changed.

Mizukami Tetsuharu silently endured and suppressed his emotions.

At last, when his close friend learned that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons had been caused by him

and had a huge fight with him, he broke down.

The person who had kept a calm face and acted as if nothing had changed

saw that he had already prepared everything to restore the plot to 99 percent completion, then suddenly decided to be selfish for once.

He added a great many things to the documents and instructions he had prepared long ago,

left behind the Silver Hand token, established Mori Ougai as the Port Mafia's successor,

then leaped,

bringing everything to an end with sleep.

Yes, sleep.

As a god, he could indeed live forever,

but nobody can wake a god who is pretending to sleep.

If he refuses to open his eyes,

what good is being a god?

Theme: Wherever you are, there are always countless warm, welcoming homes.