This Villain Script Is Full of Headcanons

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Recommended upcoming novel: The Zoo of the Armed Detectives (blurb at the very bottom)

[Blurb]

Lu Ren is a good Host, but a Host without a rebellious streak isn't a good Host! So, with his assigned script in hand, he resolutely chose a different path.

Looking over the script he'd been given, Lu Ren made a bunch of edits before settling on his character.

Rather than follow the boring plot to the letter, he'd rather keep dancing on the brink of a System crash.

System 005: "You're out of character! You're supposed to be a friend of the protagonist group. How did you turn into a villain!"

Lu Ren: "But this secret identity is beautiful, strong, and tragic. It makes sense for him to be a villain."

And so, an already troubled script was forced to become a show about a hundred reasons for a villain to fall into darkness.

[Secret Identity One]

The strongest in the jujutsu world, heir to the Zenin clan's Ten Shadows Technique

[Secret Identity Two]

A mafia executive who knows the script and sees the truth at a glance

[Secret Identity Three]

A master of forbidden techniques and a white-haired oddball of the Uchiha clan

[Secret Identity Four]

A prodigious young swordsman with extraordinary skill, but a mutated Upper Rank Four

Do well at the role, and your nine-to-five salary doubles. Do poorly...

After going off script, Lu Ren watched as people kept appearing, claiming to be his best friends or family, and fell into deep thought.

Hey, white-haired strongest, let go of me. I'm really not your spiky-haired student.

And you, president of the detective agency: I'm an executive of the Port Mafia, not your detective.

Even if everyone keeps gathering around and calling me the Second Hokage on the Hokage Rock, I'm really an Uchiha!

And even if we look alike, shouldn't a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps kill demons without hesitation?

The plot had bolted like a runaway horse, beyond saving. Good employee Lu Ren smiled. "There's no plot that can't be brought back on track. They can keep making things up in their heads until it explains everything."

[Content warnings]

There is a System, but his secret identities won't be exposed.

There will be canon-compliant storylines and various alternate-universe settings (for example, Megumi as an adult and Gojo as a teenager after their ages are switched).

He is beautiful, strong, and tragic in all three ways (the alternate-universe versions have it rough, while the canon storyline has plenty of strength).

He and the System use and scheme against each other.

When he plays a villain, he really is a villain, and will sometimes do evil things.

[Upcoming Novel Blurb]

The Zenin clan finally had a child who inherited the Ten Shadows Technique. But before they could even begin to train him properly, they realized there was something very wrong with the boy.

No matter how they trained him, he remained useless at physical combat. He had talent, but he was impossible to develop.

Under the Six Eyes' scrutiny, the boy, forced to endure high-pressure training, was identified as having a "Heavenly Restriction."

The boy traded his physical strength for unparalleled "intelligence," the kind that could see through any truth at a single glance.

"I don't want to be a jujutsu sorcerer. I want to be the greatest detective in the world!" the black-haired boy said childishly. Beside him stood a summoned white Divine Dog that looked like a wolf.

The Six Eyes boy watched the Ten Shadows Technique user, who should have been his equal. When he realized the boy truly just wanted to slack off and waste his talent on becoming a detective, he too fell into deep thought.

Watching the various shikigami being tamed with ease, everyone else fell into deep thought as well. But was there something off about these shikigami?

Just one white Divine Dog that looked like a wolf.

Nue, who loved wrapping himself in bandages and even tried to drown himself.

Two snakes, always together and exceptionally close.

And a Round Deer with an unusual Reverse Cursed Technique.

Those would be strange enough, but why could the ordinary Ten Shadows Technique summon a white tiger with razor-sharp claws?

Besides those, there were the Rabbits who loved sneak attacks, the Toad who liked wearing glasses, the elephant with incredible strength who loved raising animals...

Looking at all the strange shikigami around the boy, everyone couldn't help exclaiming, "This is basically a zoo!"

"My name isn't Zenin. It's Edogawa," said the greatest detective, recognized by everyone.

Rather than exorcise curses, the genius boy preferred solving cases and becoming the world's greatest detective.

Watching the two of them, who were "in cahoots" with the Six Eyes and eating way too many sweets together, their classmates could only sigh.

Theme: Everyone has boundless potential.