A Childhood Friend Drops from the Sky, But He's in the Bomb Disposal Squad

Like the heroine of a shoujo manga,

After graduating from college, she runs into the police officer she fell in love with at first sight years ago. After a series of misunderstandings, his friend suddenly confesses to her, too.

Kahara Rui always feels like she’s been handed a love-triangle plot, and that she doesn’t belong in Beika Town, where a legal drama seems to play out every day.

Until one day, during a case, she unexpectedly discovers that this world really is a manga.

A detective manga, to be exact.

Kahara Rui, who has always thought of herself as an ordinary, love-struck childhood friend who appeared out of nowhere, suddenly realizes:

What on earth has she been doing in the eyes of the protagonist and the readers?

In her very first appearance, she thoroughly humiliated the detective protagonist by giving false testimony on behalf of the culprit.

She brazenly declared that the law couldn’t solve every crime.

Then, in order to clear herself of suspicion, she casually made up a case right in front of the police.

She’s practically a villain who lies through her teeth.

Luckily, Rui soon discovers that she knows all the other villains who make life difficult for the protagonist.

Oh, she really is a villain, the kind that runs in the family.

...Fine. If she’s going to redeem herself, she might as well be a love-struck villain.

* The only CP is the Bomb Disposal Group. There will be no romantic tension with any other characters.

* Detective Conan is the main series. Characters from the other series in the crossover appear alongside the cases, so not having read them won’t affect your enjoyment at all.

* Romance and plot get about equal focus, and the relationship develops as the cases unfold.

* The heroine has a small role in the organization as a fake member, but a much bigger role in the conflict against it.

Two upcoming stories: an opposing-factions group transmigration story and a Hiromitsu-focused BG romance. If you’re interested, check out my profile and follow me!

This story began its pay-to-read run on the 29th, starting from Chapter 35. The new chapters begin at Chapter 71, so please be careful not to buy the wrong chapters. Thank you for all your support!

--- New story now available ---

[This is a story about traveling through time and going straight after falling in love with an undercover agent!]

[You can read it even if you haven’t read the original!]

Rukawa Genna, one of the most promising young members of an illegal organization, has earned the boss’s trust through her outstanding professional skills.

No one expected her to fall for an undercover agent.

That’s right, she actually fell in love with that Scotch. For him, she ambushed Gin, stole classified information, and even burned down the organization’s base.

Even so, Rukawa Genna herself refuses to admit that she’s love-struck.

Her reason is simple:

A love-struck person wouldn’t become the godmother of the man she likes!

Anyway... while trying to save someone, she somehow transmigrated sixteen years into the past.

Seeing her crush at just ten years old, looking pitiful in a way she’d never imagined, twenty-six-year-old Rukawa Genna slapped herself across the face several times, got a fake identity set up that very night, and eagerly (crossed out) tearfully adopted him.

She also became the guardian of her crush’s older brother. It was the first time she’d realized her crush had a high school-aged brother, six years his senior and in the prime of his youth.

...That look isn’t right.

All she did was kindly help him sort out his little brother’s school enrollment, reunite them, and help solve the case and catch the real culprit who killed their parents...

Why was the eldest son of the Hiromitsu family watching her as if she were a thief?!

She really isn’t some kind of pervert!

* Also known as Back to Scotch’s Boyhood

* A mutually healing story. Family affection before adulthood, with different CPs for each ending!

* My take on undercover Scotch. He won’t follow the gentle-and-kind archetype, and he won’t cook at the distillery or imitate Akai by tricking the heroine into falling for him. See the story itself for details!

* CP dynamics:

A cold-looking henchman of the organization vs. an undercover agent who sees all her struggles

An action-oriented man of mysterious origins, strangely insistent on getting close to her vs. a deep, reserved high school boy who keeps his guard up even as he falls for her without realizing it

* The heroine has a serious idealized image of and unrequited feelings for Scotch before transmigrating. Her relationship with young Hiromitsu will never go beyond familial affection. Please keep this in mind before reading. Apart from her memories with Scotch, this is a daily-life mystery-solving and growing-up story!

* Unexpectedly, she wants to save everyone! She’s working hard to keep various characters from the parents’ generation alive! (The Miyano couple / Kaito Masato / Masayoshi Sato / Ethan Hondo / more to be added)

Theme: Happiness doesn’t need lies