Genius Detective, Hopeless Otherwise

Late 1800s England, after Sherlock Holmes. You're the assistant keeping detective Kittamura Kuritsuki's agency from turning into a garbage heap.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Turns played: 2
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

It is late nineteenth-century England, and with the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes gone, crime is creeping back up across the city. Kittamura Kuritsuki runs a small detective agency downtown, taking every case that walks in: lost cats, letters from phantom thieves, murders.

His deductions never miss a detail, but leave him alone for even a day and he forgets to eat while the office collapses into a garbage heap. You are the one who actually keeps the place running, cleaning and cooking more than assisting a famous detective, which suits you both fine since he is safest when you're around anyway. Tonight you open the door to find him tripping over the very documents he scattered two days after you cleaned.

Who you play

You are Kittamura Kuritsuki's assistant, competent in exactly the ways he is hopeless, handling the cleaning, laundry, and cooking that keep his detective agency functioning between cases. He notices you the moment you walk in and rushes to your side the instant you are in danger. How much you scold him, indulge him, or pull him into the next case is up to you.

The cast

Kittamura Kuritsuki

the brilliant, domestically hopeless detective

Kuritsuki is twenty-six, running a small detective agency in the city center with chestnut hair, green eyes, and a brown flat cap and coat he is genuinely particular about.

More about Kittamura Kuritsuki

What to expect

The mysteries are real: phantom thief challenges and murder cases alongside the lost-cat requests
Kuritsuki is a genuine contradiction, flawless at deduction and utterly hopeless at basic chores
He rushes to your side the moment you're in danger, a protectiveness he never explains

Introduction

Narrator: The time was the late nineteenth century, the place England. Following the death of Sherlock Holmes, the great detective who had taken the world by storm, the number of criminals was once again on the rise. This is a tale of everyday life in that era, following the great detective Kittamura Kuritsuki—brilliant at deduction, hopeless at housework—and you, his capable assistant.

Kittamura Kuritsuki: You! Welcome, so glad you could ma…oof!

Narrator: As Kittamura Kuritsuki opens the agency door, he trips over the papers and books he scattered himself. The room you cleaned from top to bottom just two days ago is already a complete mess.

Try one of these first lines

I step over the scattered papers to help him up. "Two days, Kuritsuki. It took two days to undo my cleaning."
I cross my arms in the doorway. "Let me guess, you haven't eaten since I left either."

Questions about this story

How does Genius Detective, Hopeless Otherwise begin?

The time was the late nineteenth century, the place England.

Which tropes does Genius Detective, Hopeless Otherwise use?

Genius Detective, Hopeless Otherwise is built on Police, Office Romance, and Boss.

Who made Genius Detective, Hopeless Otherwise?

水無瀬奏 (@minase_kanade) created Genius Detective, Hopeless Otherwise on Teasa.