Which Matsuda Jinpei Did I Pick Up Today?

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Thanks to his damnable curiosity, Matsuda Jinpei recited an unknown spell he had found in an unknown book on the night before graduating from the police academy. The next day, after the graduation ceremony, he was on his way back to his room when he stepped through the door to another world.

A grand banquet, a noble king and queen on a dais, a newborn in a cradle, a wizard's robe, and twelve golden plates in front of him.

Matsuda Jinpei, whose knowledge of fairy tales was practically nonexistent, thought long and hard before realizing he had landed in the story of Sleeping Beauty.

That is, until the thirteenth witch, with golden hair and dark skin, made her entrance.

He suddenly realized that the king looked exactly like their class monitor; the queen was a beautiful blonde, perhaps Date's girlfriend, whom he had never managed to meet; the knight captain standing silently in a corner had a pair of beautiful blue cat eyes; and the first wizard, or witch, seated right across from him...

Hagi, why did you turn into Chihaya-san?!

Matsuda Jinpei's eyes widened in shock.

All right, perhaps the door to the dormitory hadn't led to another world, but to a parallel one.

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After a long struggle in the story of Sleeping Beauty, Matsuda Jinpei finally opened the door back home.

When he stepped through, he found that his bedroom had become a vast alchemy lab.

Wait, nobody told him that his parallel-world counterpart would switch places with him! He, no, she, the version of him from the parallel world, hadn't gone straight to report to the Bomb Disposal Unit on a broomstick, had she?!

Matsuda Jinpei could hardly breathe. His face twisted in alarm.

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Even though his childhood friend still had a sour expression and was a master at disarming things, Hagiwara Kenji couldn't shake the feeling that something about his childhood friend was off. Before he could figure out what it was, the bomb in front of him started counting down again.

Well, guess this is where it ends. Hagiwara Kenji thought as he ran.

He regretted not writing a will in advance, and felt terrible for his childhood friend on the other end of the phone... Wait, what just flew past him? Huh, huh?! Why was he flying?!

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When Witch Matsuda arrived in the parallel world, she used magic to figure out what was going on with her counterpart. She also stayed up for two nights straight to master modern technology and become an expert in bomb disposal.

She just hadn't expected that her counterpart in this world would be a police officer, that the king and queen would still be a couple but not yet married, that Furuya Rei would become his friend, or that Knight Captain Morofushi, whom he had only met twice and barely knew, would also enter his public social circle.

Thankfully, Hagiwara Kenji was still her close friend, unchanged.

Oh, and he was just as foolish as ever, too. That hadn't changed either.

[Reader's Guide]

1. This is pseudo-quick transmigration fiction! The situation described in the blurb is just the body swap in the first parallel world~

More worlds are still loading:

→ The scientific magic user in the Sleeping Beauty story [Ongoing]

· A genius onmyoji in the Heian period

· Brandy, who joined the Organization by chance

· A mysterious nekomata from mythology

· A mechanical god after the apocalyptic war of the gods

· ...

2. Everyone is portrayed as friends, and ships are up to the reader. Ship whoever you like, as long as you don't start fights~

3. There are no original characters, but for various reasons there will be a few crossover elements. They only serve to establish the world, so you can read without any trouble if you've seen Detective Conan~

4. This story includes non-typical genderbending (characters in other worlds may be female versions, with the original Matsuda's soul entering a genderbent version of Matsuda; Matsuda himself does not undergo genderbending), and non-typical faction changes (a character will switch from the red to the black side in the third world), among other elements. Feel free to stop reading if they're not for you OvO

Which Matsuda Jinpei will be waiting behind the door today?

Theme: My fate is mine to shape, not heaven's to decide