A Guide to the Genji Clan’s Reverse Transmigration

My upcoming novel in the same genre, How Could My Classmate Be a Sword Master?, is open for follows. The blurb is at the very bottom~ Blurb for This Novel Hello, my name is Zhu Yu, and I’m an utterly ordinary Sword Master from China. Then one day, after I’d quit Touken Ranbu for ages, I came across my brother’s breathtakingly beautiful face. Unable to resist, I reopened the game that had been gathering dust and prepared to start over, bracing myself for the grind. I slapped an Accelerator Token down in the Forge. Nothing appeared on my phone. Instead, I was completely buried beneath a shower of cherry blossom petals. My attendant, Hizamaru, was still anxiously calling for his big brother, while I calmly stared at the treasured sword of the Minamoto clan standing before me. …Somebody save me, Hizamaru! Don’t wait for your brother! I just summoned him into the real world with one shot!!! - Zhu Yu, much later: Wait, wasn’t Hizamaru the one I liked? Why are you in my bed? Higekiri: Well, we’re brothers, after all. What’s the difference between liking me and liking my little brother? Zhu Yu: … 【Reading Guide】 1. A slice-of-life story with logic out the window. At heart, it’s a light, sweet romance. 2. The main story is told in third person. 3. The Minamoto brothers cross over into the real world in the early part; later, everyone reunites at the citadel (Higekiri → Hizamaru → the whole citadel). 4. The pairing is a Minamoto-brothers sandwich, but some swords have one-sided crushes too, so there’s no betting on pairings (emphasis!). How Could My Classmate Be a Sword Master? On an utterly ordinary day, Japanese high school student Matsuda China received a birthday gift from her wealthy heiress classmate. It was a lavishly remastered, full-dive version of Touken Ranbu. Unable to find her old account details, China decided to start a new account and grind all over again. She cheerfully took on the hellish difficulty setting. Huh? Everyone in the citadel is corrupted right from the start? No problem, let me try my physical therapy technique! Wait, why does everyone keep getting a damage debuff? All right, so corruption can’t be treated with conventional methods. Guess I’ll have to try something unconventional! All in all, aside from the annoying way the game kept forcing the screen to fade to black at certain points because of its content restrictions, China had a pretty good gaming experience. Until one day, after getting every sword to max level, graduating from the game, and stockpiling enough citadel resources to overflow, China, certain she’d beaten the game, grew bored, closed it, and prepared to leave. Her attendant blocked the doorway. “Master, have you grown tired of us and decided to find new replacements?” He stroked her cheek, his gaze dark. “Are we not enough to be your substitutes?” China: …? China (horrified): When did I ever treat you as substitutes?! - After learning that his deceased classmate had a younger sister who attended Teitan High School, Amuro Tooru, now working undercover as a waiter, decided to honor their friendship by looking after the girl he had left behind. At first, everything seemed normal: China was an excellent student, sweet, and obedient. Sure, she had a bad habit of skipping class because she was addicted to video games, and she had an online boyfriend, but it was normal for kids her age to have fun. Then one day, after a Black Organization mission went wrong, “Bourbon” followed a trail of clues and spotted the girl in the surveillance footage. Just a few hours earlier, she had been carrying her schoolbag and politely said goodbye to him at the café. And around her knelt a circle of men, all calling her “Master” in unison. Amuro Tooru: …? Amuro Tooru (horrified): This can’t be right?!! #How Could My Sweet, Obedient Classmate’s Little Sister Possibly Be a Player?!# - A corrupted citadel, long forgotten in a corner by the Government of the Time, was suddenly visited by a human with powerful spiritual energy. She was lively and innocent. They said she had once owned a citadel of her own, but had lost her loyal sword warriors in a time-space disruption, and had ended up here. The Sword Master who had lost her citadel showered them with affection, trying to find comfort in swords of the same type. The Sword Master needed emotional support, and the corrupted swords needed a master who could provide spiritual energy. The two sides hit it off at once. At first, everything was normal. But as they spent more time with their master, the warmth they had never known before made the human-form swords begin to yearn for more. Master, when you raise your head from my arms, your eyes brimming with love… Are you looking at me, or at the sword you lost long ago? Matsuda China, much later: …Is it possible you’re jealous of yourself? Theme: Life is full of surprises