Kudo Keeps Pushing the Limits Between Life and Death

[Going premium on September 3. 70% locked chapters] [Recommending a friend's story: The British Detective's Holmes-Inspired Upbringing by Zheer Gen Americano, thanks!] "What kind of ending could possibly be worthy of all the hardships you've endured along the way?" At seventeen, Kudo experienced a complete overhaul of his worldview during cherry blossom season. Like the protagonist of any shonen manga, the detective's sharp instincts and youthful immaturity led to one fatal mistake: someone kicked him back ten years, turning him into an elementary school student. ...An elementary school student named Edogawa. Forced into a shrunken body, Kudo became a child detective and repeatedly tested the limits between life and death, and he loved every minute of it. His experiments included, but weren't limited to, being set on fire, buried in snow, shot at, and hunted down. There was no end to the variety. Dr. Watson once said, "You are the greatest Sherlock Holmes." The Public Security Bureau said, "Watson will always stand shoulder to shoulder with Holmes." Mr. Holmes smiled, his lips curling in a carefree, unrestrained grin. The nth time his blond, dark-skinned friend from Public Security caught him at a crime scene, the detective's ever-effective smile finally stopped working, and he earned himself a hands-on ban. But the detective was still full of energy and unstoppable. No matter how often his friend intervened and tried to stop him, Kudo never gave up. He argued his case and kept dancing all over his friend's nerves right up to the very end. He fell at dawn, his left foot in life, his right foot in death. Swaying unsteadily, he made one last choice... Notes: (1) An alternate universe where Ran doesn't exist. (2) Focuses on Kudo. The entire cast is platonic, no pairings. (3) The author is a new fan, Kudo Shinichi is my one and only, and I have a soft spot for the Scarlet team. (4) Kudo is not a love-crazed maniac, just so you know!!! Next novel in the works: Kudo's Countdown Kudo died on the eve of dawn. When he awoke again, he realized that he seemed to have returned to the past. He was still the high school detective everyone admired, the savior of the Japanese police. Edogawa had never appeared. After testing things out several times, the detective reached a conclusion: he had been reborn. He remembered the battle against the Organization. Even though the good guys had won decisively in the end, they still couldn't change the fact that, in a sense, it was a bad ending. Thinking of all the familiar faces lying in pools of blood, Kudo was filled with regret: he hadn't been able to protect them! So he rolled up his sleeves, picked up a pen, and prepared to rewrite the ending. After countless trips to the Ferris wheel, each time arriving a moment too late and getting caught in the blast from the bomb in car 72, Kudo reached a second conclusion: when he died, every event would return to the beginning. The detective raised the corners of his mouth, picked up his pen once more, and arranged one way after another for himself to die. Tip 1: The curly-haired police officer, who had stopped working on the bomb, stared in surprise at the message sent from his friend's phone. After a moment's hesitation, he calmly picked up a tool and snipped the red wire. White light flashed. Kudo closed his eyes, and the hands of the clock began to turn again. Tip 2: The private number of an FBI agent on the other side of the ocean received a malicious "threat letter." The agent immediately traced it back to its source, all the way to Tokyo, where he met his ex-girlfriend, now scaled down to the size of a child, and her younger sister. The boy wearing black-rimmed glasses grinned. "Surprise, Mr. Akai." Tip 3: The roller coaster roared past, the surrounding tourists gasped, and it plunged into darkness. A click sounded beside him. The detective reached out to steady himself as he rose, and spoke softly: "Don't make a choice you'll regret." "There isn't only one way to solve some problems." Theme: Keep going. Victory is just ahead.