Where Is the Detective Little Brother?

"I think what happened to Shinichi was my fault."

In a dim basement, manga artist Kudo Seichi was making a public confession to his online followers.

"I had the ability to do something, but I kept my head down and drew manga, shirking my responsibilities.

My biggest mistake was letting those criminal organizations hiding in the shadows survive until now. From the moment Shinichi wanted to become a detective, I knew he would eventually cross paths with them."

"But I was caught up in my fascination with the occult and treated everything like a game, occasionally reporting a few lucky criminals to the police.

Shinichi was hurt because I kept doing nothing."

After a painful reckoning, one high school manga artist unleashed a wave of devastation across the underworld of District 11, all because of that one blow.

"What's gotten into that guy? Wasn't he just a hacker who snitched on people? How is he this dangerous?"

"Shh! I heard, and this is only a rumor, that someone very important to him died at the hands of some terrifying organization."

"What? What does that have to do with us? It's not like we broke the law or committed crimes, right?"

On another front, the shrunken little detective used his bow-tie voice changer to call his family and let them know he was safe.

"Big Bro, it's me. I've been busy investigating cases lately, so I haven't had time to come home.

I'm doing fine. The cases are tricky, but I can handle them, and I haven't been hurt. Don't worry about me. Just focus on being a manga artist."

After hanging up, the little detective wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Thank goodness. He'd fooled him for another day.

As for bringing his big brother in to help? No way! That chuunibyou couldn't tell reality from fantasy and was always saying things like our world was, at its core, a manga.

If he found out his little brother had become a child again, his psychological problems would be beyond help for the rest of his life!

Reader's Guide

1. Mainly Detective Conan, with some fast-paced developments.

2. No CP, no System. The protagonist has absolutely no idea about the plot. The worldbuilding is introduced in Chapter 2, and there is a time-travel element.

3. The police academy group all survive thanks to the butterfly effect.

4. Canon couples remain intact.

5. Lots of original cases.

[Advance Preview] The Empire's Crown Prince Is a Debt Collector

The little prince, who disappeared shortly after his birth eight years ago, has returned. The whole empire is celebrating.

Endless wealth and power, the empire's sole heir, and the boundless affection of the great Emperor. His very existence is enough to make countless people envious.

"The little prince must have suffered so much out there, sob sob. But he went through all the hardship of his life in those eight years, so everything from now on will be sweet. (Envious.)"

"That's right. This might sound harsh, but little kids don't remember much. If he's well cared for, the little prince won't even remember what happened to him out there when he was young."

"And he won't remember that his 'death' back then was actually the result of His Majesty weighing his options, right? What a cold-blooded political monster." (Deleted)

Soon afterward, the Emperor suffered the most serious assassination attempt of his life. The assailant was his own child.

The reason was simple. Not every place was so well-off that it could afford to pick up an abandoned baby and raise him on free meals for over a decade.

The day after his adoptive father found him, he struck a deal with the underground mines on a trash planet. After a course of cheap and effective growth accelerants, long since banned on every planet, the abandoned baby became a youth with the body of a fifteen-year-old: cheap labor with an expected service life of three years.

Later, the youth, whose body did not match his age, fled to the most lawless star region, bearing the charge of murdering his adoptive father, until he was captured by the Emperor himself.

In a room under the highest security, the Emperor bent down and reached out to the wary youth huddled in the corner.

"My dear child, I'm your father. You can trust me a little."

"I know what a father is," the boy said coldly. "A corpse I'm going to kill."

A father and son on opposing sides.

A completely untamed tabby kitten versus a perfect political creature of a father.

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Theme: Only love can sustain the workings of the world and fill it with hope and light.