My name is Nohara Shinnosuke, an ordinary, plain, unremarkable high school student.
I like watching Action Kamen, eating chocolate cookies, and drinking 100% pure juice. My most hated foods are green peppers, carrots, broccoli, onions, and so on.
Right now, I have three best friends, namely Kazama Toru, Bo-chan, and Nobita Nobi.
Shin-chan also has a long-buried secret, in fact, he possesses some memories from another world.
Since infancy, fragments of memories from his past life would often flash through his mind. As his brain gradually developed, those memories slowly merged and revived, and only then did he realize, he had been reincarnated into the anime Shinchan, becoming the protagonist Nohara Shinnosuke.
Whether it was reincarnation, or he had just acquired fragments of memories from another world, even Shin-chan wasn't sure.
Because of that, his name from his past life had already become very blurry, he couldn't recall it at all, and it didn't matter anymore.
After all, in this world, he was forever a carefree five-year-old child, and only needed to enjoy a happy and blissful childhood.
Once he accepted this setting, Shin-Chan began his happy life. In the beginning, this carefree life was indeed quite enjoyable.
But day after day of childhood made Shin-chan, whose mind was already about as mature as an adult's, slowly feel bored and disgusted.
Until one day, a mechanical prompt suddenly echoed in Shin-Chan's mind, breaking his peaceful life.
[Error!]
[Error!]
[Error!]
[System self-check in progress...]
[Self-check complete, retrieving current world...]
[Time-space error, timeline error, time loop detected, multiple parallel timelines present...]
[Processing... erasing and merging parallel universes...]
[Time-space error has been corrected, loading character panel...]
[Character panel loaded successfully. Enjoy your experience!]
After that, the electronic voice completely disappeared. No matter how much Shin-Chan called out, it never responded again.
From that day on, Shin-Chan was shocked to discover that the previously stagnant flow of time had started moving again. He began to grow up. He was no longer stuck as an eternally five-year-old child.
This made Shin-Chan extremely excited. Although childhood was happy, to be honest, even he himself didn't know how long he had already been stuck at five years old. He was long since tired of it.
If he hadn't had memories from a past life, maybe he would've been content to always be a carefree five-year-old child.
But with his memories and nearly adult-like thinking, he always had worries and a deep longing to grow up quickly.
The system had fixed the world's logic, making this no longer a children's cartoon world, but transforming it into a real world.
However, after so many years, the system had only ever loaded a single character panel for him. And one eternally empty quest tab. Even after all these years, no missions had ever appeared.
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"Shin-chan, have you really made up your mind?"
Nohara Misae looked at the Shin-chan in front of her, still a little worried. She didn't understand what the child was thinking. Wasn't staying in Kasukabe good enough? Why insist on going to study at Sobu High?
"Sobu High merged with Shuchiin, and I heard Toyonozaki also merged with them. Are you sure you can handle it?"
The Nohara family's financial situation wasn't bad but not especially good either, solidly middle class. They still had eleven years left on their mortgage.
Sobu High's students were all outstanding academically, with extremely high test deviation values.
And Shuchiin didn't even need to be mentioned, most of its students came from prestigious families, and the rest were genius-level intellects.
Shin-chan got into Sobu High as a specially recruited athlete. In soccer, baseball, boxing, and swimming, he had shown astonishing talent.
It was precisely because of his extraordinary athletic ability that Shin-chan caught Sobu High's attention.
Shin-Chan waved his hand. "Mom, don't worry. I'm already a very mature adult. I'll definitely take good care of myself."
"Besides, Kazama and Bo-chan are both going to Sobu High, of course I have to go too."
It wasn't surprising that Kazama Toru got into Sobu High. As for Bo-chan, although he doesn't talk much, he's actually a hidden genius with excellent grades.
As for Shin-chan's other best friend, Nobita Nobi, he didn't get into Sobu High, he enrolled in an ordinary high school.
When Shin-chan first met him, he'd thought about trying to get some cool gadgets from Doraemon for fun, ideally something to help him go on a date with a curvy big sister.
But strangely, Nobita Nobi didn't have a robot cat named Doraemon by his side. And Nobita Nobi's personality was also a bit different from the one in the anime from Shin-chan's previous life memories.
This world's Nobita Nobi didn't have as many flaws, his grades were average, but he was responsible, kind, honest, and had a close childhood friend named Shizuka Minamoto. He was just an ordinary, happy person.
Misae nodded. Knowing that Kazama and Bo-chan were also going to Sobu High, she and Hiroshi discussed it and agreed to let Shin-chan attend. They even rented him an apartment near the school.
This also meant that Shin-chan would now be living independently away from home, how could Nohara Misae not be worried?
Shin-chan had always been a worrisome child since he was young. Even though he was about to enter high school, he still acted wild and unpredictable. He would probably have a hard time fitting in with the other students.
"All right, honey, just trust Shin-chan."
Beside her, Nohara Hiroshi looked very relaxed. By now, he had already shed the title of "eternal section chief" and had become a department head. Paying for Shin-chan's rent and living expenses wasn't a big deal.
"Shin-chan has to grow up eventually. Even if you made him stay in Kasukabe now, wouldn't he have to move out when he goes to college anyway?"
"We've already rented the place. It's too late to worry now."
Nohara Hiroshi had been voted "most desirable man to marry" for ten consecutive years and had won multiple awards for being the best father. Though he appeared average, he was actually full of good traits.
He had great faith in his son, Shin-chan.
"What, are you afraid Shin-chan will get bullied?"
"That's not it..."
Looking at the Shin-chan in front of her, Misae shook her head. While he might not fit in well with others, there was no way he'd be bullied. At most, he'd just seem out of place.
Today's Shin-chan was no longer a potato-headed little brat. He had inherited Hiroshi's height of 180 cm, and thanks to years of consistent physical training, he now stood at 178 cm tall, already far above the average in Japan.
Setting aside his nonsense and mischievous personality, Shin-chan's looks belonged to the sporty, sunny, handsome type. His only flaw might be his overly thick eyebrows.
His hair was naturally curly like everyone in the Nohara family, and it looked stylish without needing to be styled.
If Shin-chan put effort into grooming himself and opened up a little more, he'd probably be quite popular with girls.
(A/N: All characters appearing in this work are already adults. The world setting has been modified, people start high school at 18.)
[T/N: According to japanese formality, it should Shin-kun or Shinnoske-kun but since we all are accustomed to Shin-chan from childhood, I will using Shin-chan as his nickname here. Hope you all understand.]
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