The Furuya Family Has an SP

The neighboring novel, "Breaking Through the Dimensional Wall with Detective Conan", is currently being serialized~

Synopsis

My name is Sakura Furuya, and I'm the younger sister of Rei, who is currently missing.

His biological younger sister. ← Please capitalize and bold those words for me.

After all, we don't look alike.

So much so that when Hiro first met me, he suspected we weren't related by blood.

Later, I realized that looking different could be pretty useful. For example...

I pretended to be lovesick and acted like Rei's girlfriend, following him into the Organization, and not a single person there suspected a thing!

As for the boss, that was an accident.

Come on, you can't expect everything in the world to go without a hitch.

*

A certain thousand-faced witch: Since you lied to her, keep lying to her. Don't let her find out how sanctimonious and deceitful you really are. Otherwise, I won't hesitate to kill you.

Bourbon: "You know her?"

"Yes. I've known her much longer than you have."

Bourbon: ...So there really was someone in the world who could say they'd known Sakura much longer than he had.

Still, it was important to find out how they met.

Sakura Furuya, asked about it: I think it was some sort of scam, but I don't know if I was the one deceiving her or if she was deceiving me...

*

A certain silver-haired assassin: There are plenty of people in the Organization who are such good actors that others willingly hand over their whole hearts.

Sakura Furuya: "It'd be even better if you could arrange for Toru to bring it over."

"I can't make him do anything."

"Are you trying to drive a wedge between us?"

Sakura Furuya: Too bad blood ties aren't up to me. Otherwise, Gin, you should try your best to be my big brother in your next life.

*

When I was in college, my advisor recommended a light diet, saying it would keep my senses sharp. I decided to give it a try.

I soon discovered, quite by accident, that the method didn't just work, it worked astonishingly well!

My sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch all became sharper, but so did... my intuition.

I was entrusted to the care of my two missing brothers' fellow classmates, and soon realized that each of those unlucky men seemed to have been handed a script calling for an early death.

After Hagi's crisis, I reviewed what had happened and realized they seemed to have been given not only early-death scripts, but also white-moonlight scripts.

But now that you've fallen into my hands, none of you are going to become anyone's white moonlight.

As that Rei put it: "That's an SP! If I raise it right, it'll definitely give me back a miracle!"

>>>>>>>

Sakura Furuya's musings:

With so many white moonlights, could my brother be some chosen protagonist?

No, with his setup, he seems more like the famously tragic and beautiful second or third male lead. Otherwise, where's the gentle and considerate, or lively and adorable, heroine? He's gone undercover, so he can't exactly find a girl who just drops out of the sky in a criminal organization, can he?

...Actually, I guess he could. Enemies-to-lovers is pretty popular too.

Or maybe this is a boys' love story, and Hiro is the heroine?

But after all these years, I haven't seen the slightest sign of them taking things beyond brotherly affection. Could they be carrying on behind my back while I'm completely oblivious?

Notes:

1. The heroine is essentially chaotic neutral, not a standard good-hearted character, but she's on the good guys' side from beginning to end.

2. There is a romance, but the leads don't get together in the main story. The pairing is with Hagi.

3. This is a everyone-loves-the-heroine story. Feel free to ship her with anyone else, as long as you don't argue about it in my comments.

4. The heroine is a genius, but I'm not, so the limits of her intelligence depend on mine. Please don't insult the characters.

5. It's a slow burn. I hope you'll give it a few chapters before leaving.

Upcoming Story Synopsis

Akiko Sakura dozed off for a little while on the train, and when she woke up, she found she wasn't where she'd started.

No big deal, she's used to this trope by now.

So, what's the mission this time? The understanding big sister or the girl next door... Wait, why are we on a Ferris wheel?!

Even getting to face her white moonlight is no use! Great Detective Conan, are you asking me to provide end-of-life care?

I'm not familiar with this line of work!

"Officer Matsuda, if Hagi could come back to life, but the price was that you wouldn't see me for the next two times, which would you choose?"

The curly-haired officer smiled carelessly at the choice, which sounded utterly unreal, and casually replied to the person in front of him, "I'd choose Hagi."

Hearing the answer she wanted, Akiko Sakura did her best to ignore the faint ache in her heart and slowly curled her lips into a smile. "Good. That's the sensible choice!"

When Akiko Sakura returned to the year Officer Matsuda was twenty-two, the System finally showed up and told her this was her last trip to the Detective Conan world. Besides, she had at least come here at the request of the older Officer Matsuda.

In that case, it wouldn't be unreasonable to collect a little commission from the young Officer Matsuda, would it?

Thinking this, Akiko Sakura did the bravest thing she'd ever done: she rushed to the entrance of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and kissed Officer Matsuda in front of the entire department! Her heart had been pounding so hard it felt ready to leap out of her throat, but before running away, she'd still managed to casually remark, "You need to work on your taste in cigarettes."

But why was Officer Matsuda at my door a week later?!

Eight million gods above, the only reason I'd dared to do that was because I thought that meeting would be our last!

But the first thing Officer Matsuda, now twenty-nine, said as he glared at me was: "I didn't meet you at all when I was twenty-six. So did you lie to me, or did some old creep fool you?"

Synopsis written on October 22, 2023

Notes:

A sweet, short-to-medium-length story with no angst, featuring calm and rational characters.

Theme: You become like those you spend time with.