A Detective Conan Fantasy

I seriously doubt whether the author even had an outline. The protagonist doesn't have a strong desire for revenge, doesn't follow Conan's main storyline, and has now left the Black Organization, so he doesn't have any life-or-death hatred for them. (Don't say the protagonist's massacre of his family is related to the Black Organization; that's absurd, isn't it?)

The book is quite good, but the author is a pretentious, artsy type, which makes me feel very insecure. Most of the pretentious authors I've encountered suffer from this kind of pretentiousness, which is disgusting in various ways. For example, the early parts might resemble a harem story, but the ending might feature a single female lead or no female lead at all.

The forced joining of the brewery was confusing enough, and whether or not I killed anyone in the first mission left me puzzled for over ten chapters. The fact that the first person I killed was Miyano Akemi made it even more confusing. I find it really hard to get used to a protagonist who's either black or red, and whose stance and mindset are so immature... It's probably a bad habit I developed from reading too many web novels on Qidian...

Please give Baymax more screen time! You're practically the only female lead in the Detective Conan books with Baymax in her role. I even rewatched the series just to see her! 😭

Goodness, I'm serious, it's a shame this author isn't writing romance novels; he's such a talented writer.

I only finished reading the epilogue today, and well... I can't say the novel is bad, but its flaws are quite obvious. The author probably enjoys writing, so there's basically no clear outline. The novel interweaves too many unrelated cases from the original work, and the protagonist is just a background character, or in other words, filler. However, its strengths are also clear.

Why? In the end, he didn't take anyone in. He became a monk, living a life of quiet contemplation. And so, he and three others were left with lifelong regret.

The brief introduction to kendo did not work. I guess the original intention was to fight the organization to the death, or to eliminate some things, but this aspect was later downplayed and shifted more towards the plot, no longer playing a significant role in the main storyline.

Hmm, I still don't understand why the protagonist fell for Vermouth. It's so inexplicable. And the protagonist initially "liked" Miyano Akemi, right? Vermouth is one of the culprits who led the protagonist to kill her (and even dragged him into the organization), so it's absurd for him not to hate her and instead fall for her.

Can this book please officially clarify who the female lead is? At least let us know if it's a one-woman or two-woman story. Don't let it end up like a cultivation novel where she takes in Sonoko, Vermouth, Ai, and everyone else!