My Group Chat Friends Are Madly in Love in Detective Conan

[Career-minded Group Leader / Jinpei Matsuda]

Wait for me. I'll finish writing this story. I haven't written in so long that I'd forgotten about it.

The Taoist Studies Group held its annual mountain-climbing trip.

Who could have expected a sudden downpour and a landslide? All the group members were buried beneath the earth and died.

I was the only one lucky enough to escape. I cried and shouted in helpless fury, “My family, my senior brothers and sisters...”

That furious cry was what brought the System to bind itself to me.

The cold, emotionless System told me that if I completed the missions, I could bring my group members back to life and have one wish granted as well.

What kind of amazing deal was this?

So I asked excitedly, “How many do I have to do?”

The System: “About nineteen thousand missions.”

I fell silent for a long time, thinking that only a ghost would do that many missions.

But the System kindly told me that I could bring one thing from my original world with me when I transmigrated.

After thinking it over, I chose to bundle up my Taoist Studies Group family and bring them along!

I figured a group counted as one thing, so bringing the people in it should count too.

I really am clever!

But...

The System rejected my request. It said my group members could exist in my mind in the form of souls. Every time I completed a side mission, I could revive one person, and afterward the missions could be divided among us.

So...

I worked diligently on my missions, and all fifty people in the group came back to life.

I thought that if we all worked together, we could finish every mission soon and return to our original world.

So I resolved to avoid romance, work hard to complete the missions, and get home as soon as possible.

Then can someone tell me why my senior, Jinpei Matsuda, is looking at me so strangely?

I remember him being pretty sharp-tongued, and a really cool guy, too.

Why is he looking at me with such tenderness?

And what's with, “Yu, you're springtime to everyone else, but winter to me alone”?

What does that even mean?

Things got stranger and stranger after that.

While I was fretting over how to get better at solving cases,

Group Member 2 and that man named Toru Amuro were getting awfully close.

I thought 2 must be doing it so he could help us solve cases more effectively, finish our missions, and get home!

As for that smoldering look, this man's eyes would look devoted even when he gazed at a dog.

While I was worrying about how to get promoted to police superintendent,

Group Member 31 shyly took someone by the hand. “Group Leader, his name is Jin Kurosawa.”

I looked at the silver-haired man standing before me, all 190 centimeters of him, and immediately tried to make excuses:

31 must have found someone to help us maintain peace!

Just look at those muscles, that explosive power...

As the saying goes, when two men work together, the job feels less tiring, right?

But why do I feel like I've seen him somewhere before?

Little Bonus Scene

Group Member: Group Leader, look at that guy with the perm.

Guan Yueyu: What about him?

Group Member: Do you think he's into you?

Guan Yueyu: We're just colleagues.

Group Member: Group Leader, you're such a blockhead!

Guan Yueyu: No, my true love is my career!!!!

An ensemble story, where nobody is just a supporting character. The story will probably be told from the group leader Guan Yueyu's perspective.

I think it's really fun. I've seen other people write ensemble stories set in Detective Conan, and it made me itch to try writing one too.

Theme: A beautiful future.