Exorcising My Way into Winning Over My Childhood Friend

(The end! Thank you, dear readers, for your support. See you in Miss Sherlock of Rikkai! Weibo: @Yihehehe) After a bombing case, Matsuda's childhood friend of twelve years suddenly revealed another identity. Having abruptly come face to face with the truth, his firm materialist beliefs shattered into pieces. ++++ A woman born of resentment, a plague doctor who loves studying corpses, portraits of beauties painted on human skin... More and more bizarre things are happening around him, and even his childhood friend, who survived the bombing in secret, gets dragged into it. The source of it all turns out to be the childhood friend he had always thought was gentle and harmless. After learning the truth, Matsuda's naturally curly hair seems to get even more unruly. ++++ Kuriyama Meika is a powerful warrior from another world. Her dream is to open a book cafe and live a peaceful, carefree life. ++++ She has secretly loved her curly-haired childhood friend for years, but never dared to tell him. She had already accepted that her love would come to nothing, but then fate played a joke on her. In her twelfth year of loving Matsuda, Kuriyama Meika appeared at a crime scene in a form that shattered his materialist beliefs. Kuriyama Meika: ...Is it too late to say, “Trust in science”? After Matsuda steps into a new world, he teams up with his childhood friend Kuriyama Meika to exorcise yokai and solve cases. He thinks that'll be the end of it, but then his childhood friend and two fellow graduates who vanished without a trace get caught up in it, too. Is this the darkness of human nature, or the expansion of a secret unknown to the hidden world? Officer Matsuda is once again on the case today, solving mysteries the Conan way and exorcising yokai. This novel is also known as: The Conan-Style Guide to Exorcising Yokai, After Matsuda's Materialist Beliefs Were Shattered... Reading Guide: 1. OOC warning. Many personal headcanons. Please leave if that's not to your taste. 2. The plot and timeline have been changed. 3. The entire police academy group survives. 4. A crossover with Kyoukai no Kanata and Prince of Tennis. You don't need to know either series to enjoy it. There are many personal headcanons. 5. BG romance, happy ending, one-on-one pairing with Jinpei Matsuda. The other characters and the heroine share only familial and friendly bonds, with no love rivals. -------- Divider -------- There's also a short bad-ending Matsuda story, Those Years with Officer Matsuda. Give it a try if you're interested! Here are three upcoming stories: Miss Sherlock of Rikkai, pairing with Sanada Genichiro Is It a Problem That I Hate Rei Furuya?, pairing with Rei Furuya Those Years with Officer Matsuda, pairing with Jinpei Matsuda First up is Miss Sherlock of Rikkai. Here's the blurb: Sakurai Miyose is known as Miss Sherlock of Rikkai, and she's always showing up at crime scenes. Miss Sherlock has her very own Watson: her childhood friend, who grew up with her, is the vice captain of the tennis team and the school's discipline committee member, Sanada. Mr. Watson spends every day worrying that Miss Sherlock has gotten caught up in yet another incident, and that she's late again! “That's utterly lax!” Mr. Watson adjusts his cap and strides into the crime scene with practiced ease to help Miss Sherlock sort out the aftermath. On the first day of high school, Sakurai Miyose is late because she helped the neighbor's kid look for a cat. She sees her childhood friend standing outside the classroom with his arms crossed. “You're not a discipline committee member yet, so don't even think about punishing me!” Sakurai Miyose eyes him like a wary cat. “...” Sanada. According to eyewitness Yukimura, Sanada's face was as dark as it would be if their little seaweed-haired junior had failed every subject. Reading Guide: 1. Pairing: Sakurai Miyose (a cheerful, straightforward puppy) × Sanada 2. A light campus mystery and romance 3. Although Detective Conan is tagged, it barely touches the main plot. 4. Not much tennis match content. Blurb and screenshot updated 2023.10.18 Feel free to add it to your favorites! Theme: Always believe in love and magic