MTL - Anti-Cheater Strategies - Chapter 11 Teacher and student shackles (11)

“I am not an ordinary detective, but a NEET detective. Searching the whole world to locate the words of the dead.”

The NEET Detective leading the NEETs who gathered in the dark alley – Alice said that.

The perplexing incident that Ayaka and I were wound into during the winter of my first year at high school, and also the malicious drug ‘Angel Fix’ that corroded the city, the mystery was unraveled by the detective girl Alice who doesn’t take even one step out of her room.

“Knowing the truth might destroy the tranquil life of your past, do you wish to know even so?”

Because of my answer, the NEETs who usually do nothing were mobilized to solve the case!

Gu Jin the boss of a top mafia organization was stunned to find that she had suddenly arrived in Magic World. She thought she transmigrated in a novel about Magic, and she became a supporting character who would die protecting the Female lead, and this is all due to her incompetency in magic.Gu Jin laughed 'incompetency?' She can die in every possible way but not due to incompetency.Before transmigration, she was the queen of the mafia world, a strong-willed iron lady.After transmigration, she became a good-for-nothing? She was nothing but a potential mage.She took an oath to become a Heaven Rank Mage.Every colleague of hers despised her until one day they got to know about her potential.Incompetency? She has a special body type which grants her power to have multiple elements while others only had few.Not talented enough? While others were cultivating and having trouble learning alchemy, she cultivated, made formulas of her own, and learned other things too.Is poor? Sorry with her talent in business and alchemy, she had built a business empire of her own and ranks among the top rich individuals!Does she have no supporters? The citizens of Fujio worship her like a god. Her popularity is more than that of the female lead.Has no family? So what! The little boy she adopted is Beast Tamer, the little girl she rescued was a Mystic cultivator.But the drama began when her biological family picked her up. Turns out the Female Lead was the fake daughter and Gu Jin was the real daughter.The Female lead warned her,“Eldest Brother, Second Brother, and Third Sister are too cold, if they ignore you and you feel hurt I will apologize on their behalf, after all, I am their beloved person.”Gu Jin didn't have much hope from her biological family, since the female lead was so lovable... she was sure that they wouldn't love her.However...The Eldest Brother of the family patted Gu Jin's head,“I bought this Star Level Artifact for fun you can have it.”Gu Jin: “...”The Second Brother of the family who had a cold nature chuckled,“Who dares to taunt Gu Jin? I will chop off their finger...I mean I will have a civilized talk with them! ”Gu Jin:“..” The Third Sister of the family secret sneaked into Gu Jin's room every day and claimed to have a headache,“Sister Jin~ Let me sleep with you~ I am having a headache.”Gu Jin: “...” Was the female lead telling her the truth? Why was everything so different?

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