I’m Winning Matsuda’s Attention by Petting Fluffy Things

Advance Preview: The Magician Takes on the Detective Conan Love Rivalry The blurb for I Was Forced to Scrape By in the Detective Conan Love Rivalry is at the end -- Matsuda saves a girl who climbed a tree to rescue a kitten. Her soft hair and clear eyes make Jinpei Matsuda's heart race. But then the girl grabs his arm and says with a pale face, "Drop out! Don't become a police officer!" Matsuda: "..." Later, Matsuda finds a pink envelope at the entrance to his dorm. Zero: "A cute envelope like that must be from a girl!" Hiro: "What an exquisite envelope. That girl must have put a lot of thought into it!" Kenji: "Looks like a love letter to me." He opens the envelope. Written in bold letters on the pink paper are the words: [Your best friend will die in the line of duty, and you'll die too! I advise you and your friend to give up on becoming police officers!] Matsuda crumples the letter and sneers, "So it's a threatening letter, huh? I'll find you and arrest you!" Zero, Hiro, and Kenji: "?" How did watching the excitement turn into becoming the excitement? The three of them say in unison, "The best friend in that letter isn't me, right?" After a series of investigations, Matsuda identifies the suspect. When she strikes again, he twists her arm behind her back and pins her against the wall. His arm presses against her neck. He yanks off her hat and demands coldly, "Why did you write a curse letter?" The next moment, her soft hair spills loose, and the girl he rescued that day looks at him with wide, innocent eyes. Matsuda's heart races again, against his will. The others, who had been watching the fun, stare in surprise at the scene. Zero: "Why are you standing so close?" Matsuda impatiently explains, "Because I'm interrogating her, obviously!" Kenji grins. "Do you have to pin her down to interrogate her?" Hiro says with certainty, "Anyone can tell you're picking on her!" The squad leader rolls up his sleeves, ready to pull them apart. "You can't lay a hand on a girl!" Matsuda: "???" Have you forgotten that she's the suspect who sent the threatening letter? -- Hoshino Tsuki has had a special ability since childhood. If she touches someone's hair, she can see that person's future. After Matsuda rescued her that day, she accidentally touched his hair. She saw the tragic future awaiting him, so she decided to write him a letter to warn him. She never imagined it would be mistaken for a threatening letter, or that she would become a suspect. To make Matsuda believe her, she goes to great lengths to get close to him, trying to touch his hair and tell him everything she has foreseen. But after making prediction after prediction, Hoshino Tsuki sees that the date of Matsuda's friend's death has moved earlier... Matsuda: This girl is really strange. She keeps trying to run her fingers through my hair. -- Reading Guide: 1. OOC warning. Please go easy on me~ 2. There will be quite a few typos. I'll be fixing them regularly! 3. Please don't argue. If you do, then you're right, sob sob~ 4. There are original settings, some of which are there to serve the plot. 5. Please don't offer writing advice~ Below is the blurb for The Magician Takes on the Detective Conan Love Rivalry [Main story told in third person] My name is Wakatsuki Chiyuki. I have a cat-shaped robot from the 22nd century named Doraemon. It often gives me interesting gadgets, and I've used them to become the next generation's magician. After my grandmother was swindled out of her money, I began seeking justice for elderly people who had been deceived. After I helped many elderly people get their money back... Rumors began spreading online. [Warning! Warning! Kaito Kid has stopped stealing jewels and started stealing cash and cell phones!] Me: Is taking back what belongs to you really stealing? But as public opinion gathered steam, the police began to take notice of me. They even mistook me for Kaito Kid. -- The first time I face off against the curly-haired officer. I attack him with the playing cards in my hand, which then turn into pepper powder. The curly-haired officer sneezes and sneers, "What a despicable trick." Later, the curly-haired officer and I get caught up in a serious criminal case. The bomb on the table is set to explode in one minute. With a tiny flashlight in his mouth, the curly-haired officer carefully works to defuse it. "Go on without me." "Do you trust magicians?" I take his hand. When I turn my palm over, an ace of hearts appears in both our hands. "Cut the red wire." After the case is solved... The curly-haired officer looks down at the back of his hand, lost in thought. Can a man's palm really be this soft? -- I accidentally save a young man who was about to take his own life and bring him home. He has gentle catlike eyes, and he's a gentle person too. Until one day... A handsome blond man with dark skin comes looking for me. He points a cold gun muzzle at my forehead. "Where are you hiding my man?" I bind the handsome blond man with dark skin using a rope of blooming roses, a playful smile on my lips. "Let me correct you. He's my man!" "And now, so are you." The handsome blond man, bound by my rose rope, stares at me in shock. His gaze is icy as he asks, "Who are you, really?" -- While the long-haired officer is carefully defusing a bomb... I glide in on a hang glider and stop in front of him. "Just so you know, it's going to explode in thirty seconds. You won't make it," I say, shaking my head regretfully. The officer's lips curve in a composed smile, but his hands never stop moving. "Even if there's only one second left, I won't give up." I smash the glass, rush inside, and throw the bomb that's about to explode into the air. It bursts in the sky, blossoming into brilliant fireworks. The long-haired officer stares at me in shock. When we meet again... He traps me in a cage full of mechanisms. Looking at me through the bars, he says with a gaze full of emotion, "Mr. Phantom Thief, I'll give you one chance to escape. But don't let me catch you next time." -- On a pitch-black moonlit night... Kaito Kid pilots his white hang glider over to me. He sees through my gender at a glance and teases me playfully. "You're a gutsy little girl! You even dare to impersonate me." I turn to leave, but a cold sensation suddenly grips my wrist. I look down to find that cold handcuffs have chained me to Kaito Kid. He looks at me with an elegant smile. "Come with me, Miss Magician." -- From then on, my life changes completely. I realize these gentlemen want to catch me with their own hands. Reading Guide: 1. The heroine never commits a crime. 2. The story and romance get equal focus. 3. OOC warning. The police academy squad belongs to everyone, and the OOC is mine! 4. Don't argue. If you do, then you're right. 5. Includes a girl-disguised-as-a-boy trope. Blurb for I Was Forced to Scrape By in the Detective Conan Love Rivalry: Asano Nana is an ordinary passerby in the world of Detective Conan, a "lucky survivor" who keeps narrowly missing all the cases. After a bombing, she gets bound to the "Live Life to the Fullest and Scrape By System." Every day, she has to choose between an extremely difficult task and an embarrassing task to stay alive. At first, Nana: What kind of paranormal phenomenon is this? Later, Nana: Completing the tasks really does seem to extend my life. To survive, she can only follow the difficult tasks' instructions to uphold justice, catch thieves, and retrieve stolen goods. Why not do the embarrassing tasks? Because she has her pride. -- Late one night, she receives Task 12: Help the older woman next door catch the underwear thief, or meow like a cat in public. Nana hides in the dark and watches. At last, she catches a curly-haired young man wearing sunglasses and lurking suspiciously downstairs from the old woman's apartment. She snaps cold handcuffs around his wrists, but he turns the tables and pins her against the wall. The young man says coldly, "Little girl, that's resisting arrest." At the same time, a System notification pops up: Task failed. Automatically triggering the meow-like-a-cat task. Failure will deduct ten days from your lifespan. Looking at the eleven days she has left, Nana says expressionlessly, "Meow, meow, meow, meow." The curly-haired young man: "...?" -- Task 16: Catch the person who stole and ate the little red cake. Nana singles out the long-haired officer, who has cream at the corner of his mouth. Without a trace of emotion, she slips a rope around the officer's neck. System: Task failed. Please shout, "I want to save the world!" to gain five extra days of life. For those tempting five extra days, Nana fights down her embarrassment and shouts coldly, "I want to save the world!" The elegant long-haired officer looks at me with an amused smile. "Could you untie the rope before you save the world?" -- Task 20: Catch a thief within three seconds, or tell the next person, "You look just like my late great-uncle." Nana freezes for a moment. Three seconds pass. The next moment, a handsome blond man with dark skin pushes open the door. Nana says to him, "You look just like my late great-uncle!" The blond man presses his gun muzzle against Nana's forehead. "Look like what?" Nana tries to make her cold face look sad. "My dear great-uncle, the person I respected most. When I look at you, it's as if I'm seeing him in his youth. Thank you!" The handsome blond man with dark skin gives a laugh and lowers his gun. "Heh." Nana: Stupid System. I almost really died. -- At last, just as Nana has finally saved enough days of life to return to a normal life... The people she tormented before start showing up one after another. The curly-haired officer gives her a knowing smile. "Not going to act cute for me anymore?" The long-haired officer grins. "Thought you wanted to save the world?" The blond, dark-skinned public security officer sneers. "Don't you miss your late great-uncle?" Reading Guide: 1. The heroine is great at fighting. She's been training since childhood! 2. The police academy squad saves the heroine in reverse. 3. The heroine is a cool, unsentimental girl. 4. OOC warning. Please go easy on me, sob sob~ Theme: The future holds endless possibilities