Yeah, I'm Just Messing Around

Good news: Karasuma Renya successfully summoned an evil god and scored a deluxe youth-restoration package!

Bad news: The evil god found being a god boring and reincarnated as his heir to experience mortal life!

Even worse news: This old geezer... has a screw loose!!!

Karasuma Renya, the wealthy young master of the Karasuma family, spends his days with a pale, world-weary, handsome face and dark golden, inhuman eyes. His daily activities include, but aren't limited to:

At his coming-of-age ceremony, which caused a sensation in high society, he shaved off his gorgeous hair (it would grow back the next day anyway), dressed himself as a waiter, then shoved the actual waiter into a custom-tailored suit and up to the seat of honor. "There, you're the young master today!" He ignored the banquet spread and slipped out to squat in a cafe, eating pudding.

He crouches in a dark corner, wrapped in a ragged blanket and pretending to be a homeless man, then barks at a bomb-carrying criminal passing by. "Woof! Woof woof woof!" (Afterward, when he's invited in for "tea," he has the nerve to say, "I'm practicing dog language. Is that not allowed?")

Street artist, devil edition. He sets up an easel and claims to "capture the truth of the soul." A certain undercover agent gets painted with a halo of holy light? Congratulations, you're a good person! A passerby who's about to die gets painted as an abstract ghost? He loudly comments, "The composition of your soul... is quite dangerous!"

In the name of "experiencing ordinary people's lives," he's fond of taking any ridiculous part-time job he can find. Serving coffee? Sweeping the streets? Babysitting? Delivering packages? Don't be surprised to find him anywhere.

The Black Organization? That's his full-time nanny and ATM.

Vodka: "Boss! The young master blew up the base firewall like it was a video game!" (Gin's hand trembles slightly as he lights a cigarette.jpg)

Vermouth: (looking at the mission report) "...So you retreated as soon as you ran into the young master?" (Renya snatches the report and angrily criticizes it.) "Gin, dock his performance bonus! It should say, 'Ran into the young master wearing a maid outfit and trying to play with my sniper rifle.' Now that's exciting!"

The mastermind, Karasuma Renya: (smashing yet another antique vase in a secret room) "Quick! Send him money! Don't let this old geezer start putting pudding on credit at the convenience store again!!!"

Faced with the great detective whose eyes are practically popping out of his head, the evil god takes a sip through a pink straw and lands a devastating blow:

"Kudo-kun~ The ultimate boss you've been chasing for hundreds of episodes..." (He waves his phone.) "...just renewed my credit card! The note says, 'Please behave yourself for one day.'??"

His ultimate declaration, written on the first page of his diary:

"When I get bored of this body, I'll fold the Japanese islands into a paper airplane and...

But for now... old geezer! (crossed out) Old sugar daddy! Pay my pudding bill first! It's urgent! Waiting online!"

(P.S. Old geezer = Karasuma Renya, the Black Organization's designated fall guy and investor.)

Renya: Just another day. Don't make a fuss.

[Reading Guide]

◆ A deranged evil god wreaks havoc online: abstract art is his sword, dark humor is his shield, and being a menace for fun is his eternal core.

◆ The Black Organization, at its most pathetic: From assassins to the boss, everyone's been reduced to a nanny, reluctantly paying up and begging the young master to stop causing trouble.

◆ A chronicle of bad guys getting bullied: Gin's murderous aura? Vermouth's charm? The boss's authority? Under the evil god's mental pollution, it all goes out the window. Their eyes popping out of their heads is an everyday occurrence.

◆ Mental pollution warning! This story is the product of the author's madness. It contains copious amounts of performance art, abstract distortion, indiscriminate attacks, and other antics beyond human understanding. Please fasten your seat belts.

◆ Also known as: "Why Has Japan's Biggest Criminal Organization Become a Pudding Supplier?" / "The Evil God Is Trying to Infuriate Old Geezer Again Today"

◆ Meeting him is the ultimate bad luck for everyone.

Theme: Be free, be happy, be fulfilled