The 2.0 edition of "Saving the Detective Conan World with Shrine Maiden Powers": childhood sweethearts + an alternate demon-hunting storyline
Higurashi Nanari has been able to see demons since she was little. One day, a mechanical voice suddenly speaks in her mind: [Capture 999 demons to exchange for your friends and family not dying in accidents.]
At first, she doesn't believe it, until one accident after another strikes. Her father is sent away on a business assignment and extorted, her grandfather is poisoned, and the father of the spiky-haired nemesis in her class is falsely accused of being a murderer...
Hey, how does he count as a friend or family?!
In any case, Higurashi Nanari sets out on her journey. When she discovers that her older sister has fallen into a world full of demons, she's glad she started taking action. When she learns that her two childhood friends have joined the Mobile Unit and are surrounded by bombs every day, her faith in that voice reaches its peak.
As for later teaming up with a Kansai detective to hunt ghosts, helping a boy whose body has shrunk but whose intelligence remains exceptional banish a demon of misfortune, beating up an invisible monster with the Public Security Bureau, and slaying a spider demon alongside a phantom thief witch, those are stories for another time...
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Matsuda Jinpei has been troubled for more than a decade.
At first, he worried about how to deal with someone who was both his nemesis and his benefactor. Later, he couldn't figure out how he felt about her. Now, he agonizes over how to confess.
It's not as if he hasn't stepped on the gas. It's just that...
"Is it April Fools' Day?"
"Don't bother me, there's a demon!"
"What's love? It only slows down how fast I can draw my sword!"
The curly-haired young man lets out a long sigh. From then on, the ace of the Mobile Unit spends his days defusing bombs at work and hunting demons after work...
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Demon-Hunting Shorts
Sometimes, things are easy and fun, and they don't even know what it means to have an opponent:
"Here it comes? Take this!" The girl swings her sword, and the octopus monster's four legs hit the ground. The curly-haired boy smirks. "Bang, bang, bang!" His two fists hold their own against four hands.
Other times, they're left in a sorry state:
"Run!"
"I can't run anymore, I really can't. Just let it eat me." Higurashi Nanari is as exhausted as a dog that's been run to death.
"It's throwing poop at you!!!"
Matsuda is distracted for a moment, and a red figure streaks past like lightning. But in the end, she can't escape being covered in something "fragrant."
Life is always full of fun.
*Setting: Nanari is the younger sister of Higurashi Kagome from Inuyasha.
Blurb archived on 2025.02.08
Theme: Protecting family, friendship, and love
