I'm an International Student, So What? [Crossover]

*The blurb is written in first person, but the story itself is in third person. A short story of over 200,000 characters.

My name is Wen Liang. I'm a student about to study abroad in Japan.

But ever since I left my homeland, my luck has been terrible.

First, I ran into a plane hijacking. Luckily, a short, handsome guy with orange hair took care of the hijackers.

It's just that this nonconformist heartthrob is a bit of a chuuni. While subduing the hijackers, he was reciting poems by Nakahara Chuuya.

A little artsy, but not much.

Then I discovered my neighbors were lunatics.

The weird-banged guy with squinty eyes and the white-haired guy in sunglasses are already in high school, but they still haven't gotten over their chuunibyou. They keep going on about cursed spirits, "I'm the strongest," and rotten oranges, and they love speaking in riddles.

That would have been bad enough, but on my way home from school, I saw those two kicking and punching a monster costume. They even jumped down from a wall, made some weird hand sign at the monster costume, and it went flying with a pew, smashing through the wall.

I get it. Chuunibyou teenagers are filming a tokusatsu show.

I have to say, the monster costume looks pretty realistic. It's nice to touch, too.

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To support myself, I found a job as a waiter in Beika Town.

But Beika Town seems cursed. At least one person dies every day, and the kid in the detective agency upstairs is like the Grim Reaper. Wherever he goes, someone dies.

To stay alive, I decided to move to Yokohama.

Farther away, sure, but safer.

But for some reason, after moving to Yokohama, I kept getting woken up in the middle of the night by firecrackers outside my window.

Every now and then, I'd also see men in black suits walking down the street. Sometimes they'd yell out the names of their moves at their "enemies," then the two sides would fight the air, and after they dispersed, the police would finally arrive.

I get it. It's a low-budget cop movie that needs special effects added in post-production.

But isn't the filming schedule a little too packed? Several scenes a day?

At first, I took detours around them. After a while, I got used to it and even started thinking they were a nuisance.

I casually walked past the actors and headed to work, until someone claiming to be the boss of a Mafia group invited me to join the production, playing the Mafia's hospital. The job came with an annual salary of ten million, plus a mansion, luxury cars, and fine wine.

What am I? Even if you weighed me by the pound, I'm not worth a villa!

A scam, an absolute scam!

A very strange Chinese student studying abroad has arrived in Tokyo, Beika Town, and Yokohama.

He's completely oblivious to anything unusual, believing that everything can be explained by science.

In his mind, so-called supernatural abilities, jujutsu, and even cursed spirits are all "science."

As they watch Special Grade cursed spirits turn into monster costumes, supernatural abilities become acrobatics, and Mafia shootouts become movie sets, everyone questions their sanity and can't help but wonder:

What is he really after?

Could he... be a spy sent by the rabbit??

Reader's note:

1. The protagonist is an ordinary, fragile college student named Wen Liang. He has no superpowers, just the suppression of the real world over the fictional one (?)

2. But in his eyes, everything can be explained by science. He's a concept god of the new age.

3. I've never studied abroad. I've only talked with friends who have, and most of this is just jokes and stereotypes, so please don't take it too seriously. If you feel called out, sorry. I'll do it again next time.

Theme: Science changes the world.