[Detective Conan] Prometheus

Ze Daoheng's occupation: wanted criminal. Gender: male. Age: unknown. Nationality: unknown. A fine man with a five-million-dollar bounty on his head.

This man is shameless, ruthless, vicious, honey-tongued, and utterly brazen. His handsome exterior conceals a rotten core, and his tiny scrap of conscience isn't worth a penny. Anyone who has ever believed his promises is either dead with their legs in the air, or in prison, gnashing their teeth every day as they wait in line for a long sleep. Who could look at that glorious record and not say, "Ugh!"

That said, there are two things about him worth praising. First, he graduated with honors from the biological engineering hellhole and somehow made it to his current level. Truly a role model for us all. Second, he's a cop on the public payroll.

Only two people know this, since most of the others can't talk about it.

That is, until he comes to Tokyo.

What's wrong with Tokyo? Tokyo is great! Everyone in Tokyo welcomes him in their own way: the host city has its own Public Security wolf warrior, an FBI agent of Japanese descent with British roots, a Japanese CIA agent who can host, a seventeen-year-old elementary school detective, an overworked salaryman who goes sniping and plays music after work, a host who deals in intelligence and can defuse bombs, a yakuza boss who likes blowing things up, and a cop who takes him down by instinct, cuffs him, and hands him over with a pair of silver bracelets... Handsome guy, too.

Ze Daoheng is aghast. "I'm a fellow cop!"

Wataru Date grins around a toothpick. "Seriously? I don't believe you."

Ze Daoheng bravely produces his credentials.

Wataru Date takes a look, his eyes sharp. "You moonlighting as a fake-ID guy?"

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The ID is fake, but I'm a real fellow cop! Still don't believe me? Fine, don't. In undercover work, not believing is a good thing... It's the deepest praise of his acting skills and the truest recognition of his professionalism. He's been around for years and only now come to challenge the Crow arc. There's no way he's going to blow it--

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Unfortunately, fate is about to teach him once more how to spell the words "things don't go as planned."

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"Why are you feeling up someone's thigh?"

Kenji Hagiwara gives an innocent smile.

"...Stop touching it and let go. That's not the USB drive you want."

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"Is a 7.62x51mm metal trinket the popular welcome gift in Tokyo?"

Hiromitsu Morofushi is tactful. "Sorry about that. It tends to wander off. Apologies for the trouble."

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"I was wrong, Chief. I shouldn't have written up that script and besmirched your good name."

Rei Furuya raises an eyebrow.

"I still want to live on Earth, so please be merciful and don't publish that sort of thing inside Public Security--"

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"I mean, making a 'delayed-action' bomb out of an air conditioner remote is impressive, but... don't let your hand shake. Whatever you do, don't let your hand shake."

Jinpei Matsuda sighs. "That depends on how sincere you are."

"Have mercy, sir! I'll tell you everything."

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"Did the undercover operation succeed?"

"It did."

"Was it rough?"

"It went smoothly."

"Then why aren't you smiling? Don't you like smiling?"

"You didn't tell me there were cops in Tokyo who specialize in unmasking people. They stripped me of every last piece of clothing."

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^ Ze Daoheng's Japanese name is also Ze Daoheng (Sawa Michikou). He's a garbage person, but a staunchly pro-China young man.

^ No deliberate trash-talking between countries. I mainly chose a protagonist from a Chinese background because it lets me play with jokes. I want to make puns! I want to tell dark jokes!

^ The Police Academy group is the focus, with an even distribution of scenes and big moments.

^ No romance, including any romantic interest. If you think it's gay, that's just straight guys messing around.

^ The blurb is a parody, and the story will have jokes, but everyone is actually a highly professional cop... In short, an antagonistic buddy comedy (seriously).

^ Lots of invented main plot points, original background characters who are real deal, and a protagonist who talks out of his ass and will soon have to eat his words.

^ Happy ending for the good guys.

Theme: Scorn the grace that inspires awe.