A Thousand Little Tricks to Kill Gin

Fujino was actually quite lost himself. After transmigrating here, with the system by his side, he had treated this whole world like a game.

Everyone was a chess piece, and he was the one placing the pieces, using his foreknowledge of the plot to exploit them...

But later, he gradually came to realize that this was not a game.

Everyone was flesh and blood, people with feelings, people who worried about him and cried for him, not so-called NPCs.

Though fundamentally, he was still playing games with the world.

He had already begun treating the people around him as living, breathing human beings.

Whether it was Mori Ran, whom he had met at the very beginning, or Sonoko, Hiratsuka Shizuka, Conan, Sato Miwako, Ai Haibara, Ooka Momiji, or the Shimo-Kasa Sisters, it was the same for all of them.

And the more he treated them as people, the more he doubted the decision he had made regarding Akemi Miyano...

Guilt, or perhaps some other kind of feeling.

He had not continued using the Soul Puppet to act because he had already come to see Akemi as a person, not some so-called tool.

The same went for no longer collecting souls to raise the Soul Puppet's level.

Raising the Soul Puppet's level would naturally awaken Akemi's original memories. If the day ever came when he had to choose, he did not know what choice he would make.

He feared making a choice, so he chose to avoid it.

Compared to Akemi Miyano, the one he knew was Sister Akemi, a little naïve and sweet. If Sister Akemi became Akemi Miyano again, he did not know how to face her or explain things...

He called himself an old man, but at heart, he was still like a child—indecisive and wavering.

His current