Shinchan: Chaos of Anime Multiverse

Looking at the script Nene stuffed into her hands, Utaha grew a little interested.

She was at least considered a creator herself. Back when she was at Toyonozaki, she often helped school clubs write scripts and such, and her liberal arts grades were always first in her year. She was known at Toyonozaki as a top liberal arts girl.

Just last night, she had written her own light novel until deep into the night. It wouldn't be long before she could finish the first volume of the novel.

She picked up the script and took a look, Utaha suddenly felt a headache.

She couldn't believe her own eyes. Looked again, still couldn't believe it.

'How were these lines even written? Even if it's a realistic setting, isn't this a bit much? This is practically a horror hell composed around the endless theme of family ethics dramas!'

Just a few glances, and Kasumigaoka already felt her brain was being polluted. Even though such a plot had no reference value, it should be quite popular with bored housewives, right?

But for men, this kind of mashup of endless household trivia and melodrama… the damage was too high.

'This junior Nene, if she became a screenwriter for family ethics dramas, might just shoot to fame in one go.'

If we're being honest, could this be considered a kind of source material gathering too?

For boys, there was no doubt that ultra-realistic pretend play was hell. But for girls, it didn't seem so unacceptable.

Next to her, Kazama, Masao, and Bo had already put on the mask of pain. They never expected, even though they were already adults, had gone to different schools, this ultra-realistic pretend play could still chase them down.

Looking at Nene's smiling-but-not-smiling expression, the three of them knew, they couldn't run.

'Damn that Shin-chan… ran off alone to spend time with a girl, leaving us behind here to play ultra-realistic pretend play with Nene!'

Kazama stared at the suspicious Nene, wanting to escape but unable to. 'It's all Shin-chan's fault. Couldn't he just visit by himself?'

Nene clearly had this all planned, knowing they couldn't leave early, so she'd already prepared the script! It's even possible that after so many years apart, she had waited just for this moment!

Just thinking about it was terrifying. This script that Nene prepared for so long, even refined, it must be terrifying.

Eriri was curious too. She leaned toward Kasumigaoka and glanced at the script in her hand.

'What is this thing? Is pretend play nowadays this realistic?'

Eriri had always been protected by her parents, so she hadn't really experienced the dark side of society. If not for meeting that guy Aki Tomoya, her life would've been smooth sailing without any setbacks.

The family conflicts written in the script shocked Eriri quite a bit. Was life really this bitter? Might as well be a puppy.

"Ahem, it's almost lunchtime. What does everyone want to eat? I'll ask the housemaids to prepare in advance."

'Forget it. Let Kasumigaoka accompany Shin-chan's friends to play a little.'

"Sawamura-san, you can just prepare whatever. We're all fine with anything."

"Alright then. I'll go check how lunch prep is going."

Eriri nodded, got up and went to the kitchen, her heart full of anticipation for the alone time with Shin-chan in the afternoon.

"So? Isn't my script amazing?!"

"Rather than amazing, more like terrifying…"

Masao felt like life itself was dark. 'I want to run… but I can't run!'

"Hm?!"

Glared at by Nene with killing intent in her eyes, Masao immediately sat upright.

"N-no, the script really is amazing."

"In that case, you'll play the second male lead!"

"Huh? This second male lead is way too tragic!"

The second male lead's experiences, fired from his company, scammed by a woman, fell into massive debt, and by the end, never recovered. His only purpose was to chat with the male lead and vent his tragic life story.

Some people look at the script, some people should look in the mirror. Masao didn't want to be cast in such a role even in a script.

"What? You have a problem? Don't you think it'd be kind of off if you played the male lead?"

"Or how about this nagging old auntie? I think it suits you too!"

Feeling the strong threat coming from Nene, Masao weighed their combat strength. He realized‍, he wasn't a match for Nene. Rumor has it she had already replaced several of her stuffed rabbit dolls…

"Fine, I'll just be the second male lead…"

"Oh right, Masao, I heard that Ai-chan moved to Japan too. She's also studying at Shuchiin. Maybe next time we can ask her to help prepare props, and we'll play an ultra-super-enhanced version of ultra-realistic pretend play!"

"Ai-chan moved to Japan?!" Hearing that Ai-chan came, Masao's eyes lit up.

Next to him, Kazama shook his head at Masao's expression. 'We're already adults now. Why is Masao still holding out hope for Ai-chan?'

As Shin-chan and Masao's best friend, Kazama felt the need to give him a wake-up call. "Masao, don't get your hopes up. Ai-chan came to Japan for Shin-chan. We even ate bento together a few days ago."

Masao's whole body darkened instantly. That's right, they were already adults. No longer kids. Some things had to be thought through clearly.

For example, during the time Ai-chan studied abroad, many foreign students hit on her. As soon as they got close, they were rejected. Anyone who kept trying was handled completely by her family.

Between adults, there should be proper boundaries. That couldn't be lacking.

"It's just… it's just that we haven't met in a long time. I kind of miss her. After all, we're all friends, right?"

"Yeah, we're all friends."

Shin-chan also nodded. He understood Ai-chan's feelings for him very well. After all, Ai-chan had changed a lot because of him.

But the current Shin-chan still didn't know how to face these feelings. Whether it was Eriri or Ai-chan, for Shin-chan, both were very important people.

Although in this world, Shin-chan hadn't met Nanako, in Eriri's world, Nanako existed.

The age gap between them had become an uncrossable chasm. Nanako never got married, eventually chose to go abroad, and never appeared in Shin-chan's life again.

How old would Nanako be in this world? Could he protect her… without hurting the people around him?

Shin-chan, who had never worried about money or power, at this moment, desired money and power. Maybe he'd always been lucky, but Shin-chan didn't want to leave everything to luck.

Eriri happened to return just then. She didn't hear the conversation about Ai-chan, otherwise, the cute little Eriri would definitely be baring her fangs by now.

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