I Became a Kōgaku Black Moon by Loading Saves

Hei Ze Ling transmigrates by accident into the game The Miraculous World of Kexue, where he becomes an ordinary college student and binds himself to a text-adventure System.

There's only one thing he's good at: save-scumming.

He can't recite his textbooks from memory? Reload and try again for a month!

The police academy interview seems biased? Reload and make the interviewers grade him again!

As a hardcore grinder, he thinks these features are great. He has to keep grinding. He won't sleep soundly for the rest of his life unless he beats the game.

Hey, hey, being bored is way worse than dying!

Every night, the police academy crew sees a boy who looks like a cold-blooded murderer hunched over his desk, writing furiously in a half-asleep haze. He even memorizes every page of the police academy textbooks, practices hand-to-hand combat, swordsmanship, and all sorts of other things.

The five of them are stunned: "!"

They feel like they're sitting on pins and needles, breaking out in cold sweats!

Under the pressure of their classmate, the academy's biggest workaholic, they all start competing to outdo one another, inspiring the entire police academy to do the same. Their class earns a stellar reputation in the police force.

[Like an old friend]

Six years pass. Even now, thinking back on their classmate still fills them with awe.

Wait, wait, wait! Why does this young junior look so much like that classmate? Even his obsessive work habits make the police academy crew tear up with familiarity...

"Can I ask you something? Do you... have an older brother?"

"...No."

Hagiwara and Matsuda exchange complicated looks.

There once was someone who looked eight-tenths like him. He disappeared many years ago.

[Organization's attack dog]

He's a member of the organization, Gin's attack dog and younger brother.

After a mole's cover is blown, he's ordered to hunt down Scotch.

"Liqueur, you... are you...? I see. Then why did you... save me, a mole?"

"...None of your business."

[Phantom Thief's friend]

During the day, he shares a class with Kuroba Kaito. At night, he's a police officer.

The white-suited magician's cape flaps in the wind as he straightens his hat, looking completely flustered.

"Wait, wait, wait, it's not that I mind, but switching accounts to catch me right now? Isn't that a little harsh, considering we're classmates?"

"Phantom Thief Kid! He's over there!"

"Ah! Crap, help me keep Aoko busy!"

Hei Ze Ling has never been able to figure out what's going on with these NPCs.

At last, he clears the text-adventure missions, only to find himself surrounded by a group of menacing main-story NPCs. W-what do you want?

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He's finished all the missions, so why do these guys still remember him?

Could it be... could it be that they're not NPCs?!

Please add my next novel, How Did I Become Gin's Second Personality?!, to your reading list.

[Third-person narration]

After cultivating for hundreds of millions of years, I, the System, finally traded in enough credits to get a perfectly healthy body from the Main System after serving my 1,314th Host.

That's right, my name is now Kurosawa Jin.

As soon as I took over this body, my superiors and coworkers started bullying and ostracizing me.

They even want me to lead the hunt for Scotch!

I retired from being a corporate drone, only to become one again!?

No way. I'm quitting!

While running away in the middle of a mission, I suddenly realized my body wasn't under my control!

Oh my god, the body's come alive!

Terrified, I rushed to the Main System to find out what was going on, only to learn that a program error had made me attach myself to someone else's body!

And my actual body is still on its way. Who knows when it'll get here!

At that moment, the body I'd possessed slowly spoke. In an icy voice, he asked, "What are you? My second personality?"

I was on the verge of tears. "I'm not a thing."

He curled his lips into a smile, colder than a knife that's spent ten years gutting fish at RT-Mart.

The "second personality," too scared to make a sound, climbed onto the universe-wide Host forum in the middle of the night to ask all the forum's femme fatales, beautiful-but-tragic characters, dark moonlights, and beloved darlings for help:

[L0: Help, help! Yikes! I accidentally took over someone else's body, and he found out! He's a scary, cold-blooded killer! Friends, what should I do now? QAQ]

[Femme Fatale: Threaten him until he does what you say!]

[Hopeless Romantic: Make him fall in love with you.]

I was so grateful that I decided to threaten Gin into falling in love with me!

"Dear Gin-chan, you wouldn't want your coworkers finding out that Scotch got away, would you?"

Theme: Persevere and keep striving to improve yourself.