Scotland’s Glorious Soap-Opera Melodrama

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The Case Closed Simulation Game claims that as long as you earn enough “Popularity Highlights” and Impression Points, you can do whatever you want in the Case Closed world.

Transmigrators rubbed their hands together, all declaring they could absolutely claim the title of Most Popular Player in the game. After all...

...what could leave a deeper impression than a sweeping romance with the wildly popular locals?

It was settled!

Bourbon on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; Matsuda on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; and a little teasing of pink-haired Akai on the weekend. Oh, and they couldn't leave out the hardworking little bee, Gin!

Staring at the wildly popular forum thread: [If I join the liquor company and report Bourbon to GIN, then play out a love-hate relationship with him, will I get famous?]

Scotland, dead at the time, nearly choked to death all over again. “Wait, is this right?!”

What on earth are you Fourth Calamities doing?!

Where are your morals? Where is the law? Arrest them, every last one of them!!

Scotland was so terrified he came back to life. He threw on a secret identity and rushed back to Beika Town in the middle of the night.

His goals: infiltrate the ranks of the Fourth Calamities, earn enough “Popularity Highlights,” kick every last Fourth Calamity out, save the world, and protect his childhood friend and his unlucky fellow undercover agents on the good side.

But he underestimated how popular the Fourth Calamities' life-ending scripts were with the locals. As it turned out, everyone loved watching gorgeous, tragic characters star in melodramatic romances.

With no other choice, Scotland came up with a script of his own and staged a story about a substitute turning evil.

As for the other lead in the script...

Scotland (guiltily): “...Sorry, Zero. But this seems to be my only way out.”

*

Amuro had noticed a lot of strange strangers showing up around him lately. They kept saying things like “save him” and “poor thing,” then came over to offer him their sympathy. They even said they could help him escape from his terrible boyfriend.

Amuro: What boyfriend? Who's spreading these rumors?! (gritting his teeth)

But seeing his deceased childhood friend again was the most wonderful surprise in this absurd day.

Until his childhood friend stuffed a thick stack of scripts into his hands.

Amuro: The new Scotland falls in love with Bourbon at first sight? But Bourbon loves someone else and can't get over the previous Scotland, who's dead? He loves him, but he doesn't love him, so they act out a tale of forced possession, love and hate, substitutes, and turning evil??

Meme of an elderly man staring at a phone.

Yet, looking at his childhood friend's guilty, remorseful face, Amuro felt he understood.

His childhood friend, poor, pure, and innocent, must have been victimized first by a cruel life.

Amuro: How can you blame Hiro!! (shouting)

I'll do it, I'll play every role. I'll give you a hundred different faces.*

After all, how could his childhood friend possibly hurt him?

The Fourth Calamities trying to save (romance) Bourbon: (anguished) Wake up! You're the poor little thing who's been tricked and emotionally manipulated by Dark Scotland!

Note:

1. The Fourth Calamities are all morally dubious troublemakers who haven't read the original. The whole story is full of stereotypes and a low sense of morality. It's pretty out there (key point: they're the Fourth Calamities!).

2. There are forum posts, lots of fake scripts, OOC, everyone getting put through the wringer (blame the scripts and the Fourth Calamities), rumors about a tangled mess of imagined relationships, and painfully awkward roleplaying from one script to another.

3. Aside from canon couples, the pairings are Hiromitsu/Morofushi and Rei/Furuya, with no fixed top or bottom; Hagiwara/Matsuda and Hagiwara Kenji/Matsuda Jinpei also have no fixed top or bottom.

4. The good guys are treated kindly! This isn't a story for Black Organization fans, so read with caution.

5. It's probably a silly comedy. Yes, it's pretty out there.

(Character design sheet provided by BS, thanks to the kind creator! * is from the original.)

----The following is a coming-soon story.

"After Being Hated by the Whole Internet, I Became a Crime-Solving Superstar"

[Welcome to the full-dive game Crime Reenactment]

[You will play one of two roles: [Victim] / [Criminal]]

[[Victim]: Find the criminal hiding among the crowd and successfully escape from them]

[[Criminal]: Complete your objective before the countdown ends and survive until the conclusion]

[Please identify your role in this scenario: [Victim] or [Criminal]?]

Jiang Xu woke up and immediately found it interesting.

His mind was completely blank. He remembered only his name and that he was in a dim room.

Most importantly, he was surrounded by a group of thugs carrying weapons.

He was wondering whether he should politely force out a slightly nervous expression to match the dangerous atmosphere.

The thug at the head of the group spoke.

“Number Two, tell us the escape route for the bank robbery.”

Jiang Xu: ...

He glanced down at the weapon in his hand, identical to the others'.

Huh? Am I supposed to take part too?

How about we all escape to the police station next door? (smile)

-

When top-tier star Jiang Xu announced that he was about to star as the male lead in Chasing the Criminal, the public howled in outrage.

[Boycott wooden male actors. His acting is worse than the border collie next door! 😘]

[His face might make me pay to see him on screen, but if I actually watched, I’d want a refund before two hours were up. 👏]

[Don't cast him just because he shares a name with the protagonist, ‘Jiang Xu’! 😅 Leave the top-tier IP Chasing the Criminal and our perfect male lead alone! 😭]

To quell the public backlash, a mysterious person secretly gave Jiang Xu an invite to the closed beta of the full-dive game Crime Reenactment overnight.

“The game is based on Chasing the Criminal. You can try it out ahead of time and get a feel for it.”

But the game equipment malfunctioned. Jiang Xu, who was playing, not only lost his real-world memories, but was also livestreamed the entire time.

The anti-fans were baffled:

Wait, who was it that deceived every NPC, whether playing the victim or the criminal? We didn't know you could act like that!

Now we don't even know where to begin insulting you. 😇

As the livestream grew more popular, everyone was shocked to discover that behind Jiang Xu's perfect ending, one real-life cold case after another was being solved.

Only then did his anti-fans realize: You shouldn't have been a pretty face in showbiz. Solving crimes is your true path to greatness!

Theme: Working together to build a better life