Am I Really the Only Normal One in the Akai Family?

[A cheerful puppy who lives for the moment and thinks she's the greatest in the world x a melancholy kitten willing to sacrifice himself for the public good]

Story blurb

My name is Sera Rina. My parents work for MI6, my eldest brother is an FBI ace sniper, my second brother is a shogi player known as the "Meijin of the Taiko Era," my younger sister is a tough high school detective, and my boyfriend is a police officer in Japan. I'm the only ordinary person in the family, and an ordinary person who won't live long, at that.

At least, that's what I believed throughout the uneventful first half of my life.

I never imagined anyone would set up one trap after another to get their hands on me. They tried everything, from kidnapping me to abducting and locking me away.

I was so moved I could have died. My peaceful, ordinary life had finally found its leading man...

Just kidding!

Seriously, you disgusting creep, stay away from me, okay?

As for why a pervert would target someone ordinary like me, it must be because of the trouble caused by my eldest brother, who came back from the dead, and my ex-boyfriend, who disappeared for seven years before showing up again.

Every day, they're all secretive, plotting something with an elementary school kid, but they never tell me what. I suspect they're trying to blow up the island of Japan. Otherwise, why is it that wherever they go, there's always the same trio: explosions, fires, and dead bodies?

At last, unable to stand being lied to any longer, I ran away from home in a huff with the elementary school kid's girlfriend. (Who the heck knows why an elementary school kid has a high school girlfriend?)

My boyfriend knelt at the door to beg me to come back, wrapped his arms around my leg, and cried, "I won't lie to you again."

I laughed, hands on my hips, until drool ran down my face.

I wiped it away and realized it had all been a dream.

But in reality, I really do have an ex-boyfriend who disappeared for seven years, and an eldest brother who died.

To my surprise, I discovered that my ex-boyfriend, my brother, the elementary school kid, and the creep were all closely connected to a mysterious organization.

Together with Ran, the elementary school kid's girlfriend, I formed a victims' alliance and planned to take the organization to the highest court and bring it down.

Before we could do anything, it suddenly vanished without a trace.

My eldest brother suddenly came back to life. He took a little girl by the hand and told me, "This is our younger sister." Damn it, so he spent all those days being dead because he was busy giving me a little sister. (That's what I thought, a huge bump on my head.)

The elementary school kid disappeared, and Ran cried in the arms of a handsome high school boy. I pretended not to notice. After all, what did Ran do wrong? Who doesn't like high school boys?

Suddenly, I felt a chill down my back. Oh no, my ex-boyfriend heard me!

He's my boyfriend! Hiromitsu flicked me on the forehead.

Fine, I give up. Since you're a little kitty, whatever you say is right.

And so the princess and her little kitty lived happily ever after.

#The heroine is a local nobody, a truly ordinary person.

Coming soon: "365 Days Back in Beika". Watch Hagiwara, a resentful husband with four kids, wait for his wife to come home.

[The free-spirited group heiress who flies all over the world x an Explosives Disposal Unit officer who wants a stable job]

Metropolitan Police Department

With bombings happening one after another lately, the Mobile Unit's Explosives Disposal Team was naturally working overtime.

Hagiwara sat studying how to disarm a new type of bomb. Suddenly, the people watching were distracted by something else.

The quiet office grew noisy.

"Everyone, look outside! A Rolls-Royce Phantom!"

"Wow, whose family member is that? They're so lucky."

"Damn it, don't let me find out which guy got that lucky!"

Downstairs, a beauty in a tight purple spaghetti-strap dress stood beside the car, holding a little girl's hand and waiting for someone.

Hearing the car's name, Hagiwara curiously stood up to look out the window. The moment he saw her, his eyes widened, and his joy was written all over his face.

"Something came up. I'm off work!" He grabbed his jacket and ran downstairs without wasting a second.

"I didn't know Hagiwara was married. Hey, Matsuda, did you know?"

Matsuda replied lazily, "He's not married, but he does have a wife and kids."

"What?!"

Hagiwara fell in love with a free spirit. She was passionate, carefree, and unrestrained. Nothing could make her stay, not even the bonds of love.

So he let her go, believing that one day she'd come back. Luckily, he bet right.

Yuanyuan's Diary

My name is XX. I'm five years old. My mom is a flower farmer, and my dad is Japanese. I go to Class 1-B at Teitan Elementary School. This is my thirty-fifth day in Beika.

I discovered the big seecret my classmate Edogawa Conan is hiding.

He is a bad guy sent by the Little Alien Kingdom to conquer Earth!

I, the great XX, have found out all his evil plans! I must stop him from conquering Earth!

With a nervous heart, Yuanyuan handed Mom the secret information she'd written on paper.

Mom didn't care at all about Yuanyuan's big secret. She ruthlessly said, "Copy each misspelled word ten times."

Yuanyuan burst into tears. That night, she lay under the covers and secretly wrote, Only I am working to save the werld. Yuanyuan is a great heroe.

Her cold-hearted mom lifted the blanket, took out the diary, and forced her to shut down for the night. Even in her sleep, she mumbled, "Yuanyuan, you're amazing."

Conan had been troubled lately. For some reason, the new transfer student kept staring at him. Several times, she nearly noticed something was off and said it out loud, drawing the adults' attention. Luckily, little kids were easy to fool, so he managed to keep his identity secret.

But now Conan was awkwardly cornered by the two ace officers from the Explosives Disposal Unit. A kid's parents weren't so easy to fool.

#Age-gap romance, two years apart

Theme: Ordinary people can have brilliant lives too