The Gamer Chooses Nightmare Mode

Miyazawa Mari got her hands on the newly released romance survival game.

The game was fun and thrilling, and its selling point was its unrestricted range of careers, giving players plenty of freedom. The characters were all gorgeous, too. Because the game was so open-ended, players jokingly called it a second life.

There were all kinds of romantic prospects in the game: handsome students at a technical college, snipers from a mysterious organization, gentle head chefs at Poirot Cafe, and more.

Miyamoto Mari said she wanted them all.

The game began, and following the prompts, Miyazawa Mari chose to become a high school girl.

Game prompt: You came first in your exam, and a classmate confessed to you.

Her classmate had the face of an ordinary passerby, so Miyazawa Mari chose to turn him down.

Game prompt: You died.

Miyazawa Mari: EXM?!!

Unconvinced, Miyazawa Mari restarted. She chose to work the front desk at a dessert shop, but after arguing with the manager, she was poisoned to death. Then she tried being a librarian, only to stumble across the director's unspeakable secret and die again.

The characters she created never survived more than three days, and every time, she found a brand-new way to die.

Good grief. I thought this game was about getting all the handsome men, but is it actually a hundred different ways for the protagonist to die?

No wonder it's called a romance survival game. Anything with the word survival in its name is clearly no joke.

Since she was going to die anyway, Miyazawa Mari turned her attention to the red-highlighted careers marked as extremely dangerous.

High-risk roles: distillery executive, detective, FBI agent, undercover operative, president of the XX Society...

Miyazawa Mari, looking confident: According to the rule that two negatives make a positive, if I choose several high-risk careers, I'll be safe from danger.

From then on, Miyazawa Mari began a life of constantly switching sides.

From then on, the Grim Reaper was always at her side, but she never died again.

Miyazawa Mari: The age of the players is about to begin~

[Congratulations, player! You have summoned SR Scotch Whisky.]

Scotch, who should have been facing death, stared at the player in confusion: ?

[Ability successfully used. Congratulations, player! You have obtained 1 bomb.]

[Congratulations, player! You have unlocked the romance route…]

The romance route had opened, but the progress bar was painfully short.

Miyazawa Mari racked her brains, trying to push the progress bar a little further along, but Bourbon was impossibly hard to win over.

Miyazawa Mari: Maybe... I should take the bad ending route?

Bourbon: …?

Later, after all her secret identities were exposed and everyone learned how she'd been jumping back and forth between the Public Security Bureau, the Organization, and the FBI, Miyazawa Mari cried out: Why is even the bad ending route so hard to get?!!

--- Coming next is the serialized story, "Want Your Fortune Told? No Charge If I'm Wrong." It's a derivative work. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your collection.

Asahina Anri clasped her hands in front of her chest and prayed: I don't care which great deity hears me, just let me transmigrate! Any sports anime or girls' anime will do. Just not a high-risk series. I don't want Detective Conan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Hunter x Hunter, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, or Bungo Stray Dogs. Oh, I wouldn't mind a couple of magical girl series, like the one with Guardian Characters and Clow Cards. Just not Madoka Magica.

The will of a world, which happened to overhear her while passing the time: Are you ordering off a menu or something? Off you go!

That night, Asahina Anri was kicked into another world.

When she woke up, Asahina Anri had gloriously become an elementary schooler. Her world came crashing down: I was just wishing for fun! How did I actually transmigrate?

Still clueless about where she'd transmigrated to, Asahina Anri was sent to elementary school by her parents.

Asahina Anri: Aha, at least I left out the high-risk... series?

Help! Why is my elementary school called Teitan Elementary School? Is it the one I know?

Please, no. Clinging to a sliver of hope, Asahina Anri spotted a familiar-looking detective squad in her class: …

At last, the school day ended. Asahina Anri left the school, which had felt like an eternity, with her backpack on. Before she could meet up with her older sister, who had come to pick her up, a fluffy creature with pink eyes hopped over and blocked her path. It tried to tempt her: Do you want your wish to come true? Hurry and make a contract with me. Become a magical girl!

Looking at the fluffy creature that seemed to have four ears, Asahina Anri's first thought wasn't that it was weird or cute. It was: Isn't that QB?

Asahina Anri's second thought: No contract. Get lost!

Later, Asahina Anri learned she'd transmigrated into nothing but high-risk series. The family next door was named Geto. On a trip to Hokkaido, she ran into the Vongola family on a group outing. Her elementary school class trip to Yokohama was interrupted by a mafia shootout. And there were cases and bombs everywhere...

Asahina Anri: I'm done.

But then again, since she'd already transmigrated, she might as well do something meaningful.

She sincerely believed that some tragedies didn't have to happen.

So when Geto was walking along with Gojo, a little girl ran into him. He caught her just as she was about to fall. He thought she'd give him a cute little thank-you, but instead the girl opened her big eyes, held up a black tarot card covered in mysterious patterns, and said: Big brother, your forehead looks dark. Why don't I tell your fortune?

Geto: …

For a moment, he had no idea what to say.

The next day, Geto ran into his junior, Haibara. Haibara said: Geto-senpai, you'll never guess, I met this really interesting kid. She insisted on telling my fortune.

Geto was silent for a moment. Did the kid say your forehead looked dark?

Haibara: Huh? How did you know, Geto-senpai?

Oda Sakunosuke was eating his favorite spicy curry when a little girl suddenly ran in from outside. She insisted on telling his fortune, saying that his forehead looked dark and that a bloody disaster was sure to befall him…

Completed work: "After Binding a Prompt System, I Successfully Got a Job at the Distillery." Romance, primarily Detective Conan.

Coming soon 1: [Western Crossover] Has Lofiel Completed the Tasks the System Assigned Today? Batfamily child fiction.

Coming soon 2: [Three Kingdoms] Congratulations on Binding the Life Experience App. Historical-inspired romance. If you're interested, check it out in my author page. Kisses!

Reader's Guide

1. The Police Academy group survives.

2. OOC.

3. The female lead is chaotically kind and likes to have fun.

4. It's a romance survival game. The female lead only remembers the survival part, but there is romance, along with plenty of love-triangle drama.

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.