Lost Lord Ranbu

"This news has been broadcasting recently."

"After all, it was a bank robbery that just happened last week, and the culprit has not been caught yet. Not to mention the loss of [-] million yen, and the death of a bank employee, it is already considered a vicious incident." Hui Yuan mourned. Speaking plainly, he sat down on the sofa in the living room with his laptop in hand.

Conan propped his chin, bored watching the news with Dr. A Li.The surveillance video of the bank robbery was being broadcast on TV, and the elementary school student detectives routinely made a scene analysis.

There were three robbers, wearing hoods, they couldn't see their faces, and they could only roughly distinguish their figures and movements.One is short, one is thin, and one is strong. Judging from the action of the thin man climbing up the counter, he is left-handed.

One of the deceased was a bank teller.

The strange thing is that the deceased did not do anything to provoke the robbers before he was shot. He just raised his hand to indicate harmlessness, and said something similar to "ok, here is the money".

However, these have nothing to do with me. The [-] million yen that was stolen are all new banknotes with consecutive numbers. Using this as a clue, the prisoner should be caught soon.

Conan yawned.

"Where is that person?" Hui Yuanai asked.

"Mr. Ranpo?" Thinking of that wayward man, Conan waved his hands helplessly, "It's still the same, staying in the study, eating snacks and reading books, it's not exactly like a squatting at home who can't find a job Is it... In other words, have you found his information?"

"No."

"Really..." Conan was lost in thought.

It is precisely because no relevant information has been found that this person is even more suspicious.Life will leave some traces, education, driver's license, bank card, etc. are all things that can prove a person's existence, but none of these - the young man named Edogawa Ranpo, he is completely out of thin air. The people who came out couldn't find any past.

The information that Ranpo disclosed last time was not only about the organization in black, but his familiarity with the inner world was enough to make Conan and others vigilant.

Conan guessed that a person like Ranpo is either a military strategist of a criminal group or a wise man protected by the state. There must be a force that will help him deal with the troubles caused by his reasoning talent.If it's just an ordinary person, it's not like leaving no trace.

"Has it been artificially erased?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out."

Conan thought for a while, raised an index finger and said, "Where's his clothes? There should be purchase records."

"Clothing is indeed a high-end product that European princes and nobles would envy, but for private customization like this, the customers are all famous people, and the order information is strictly kept confidential." Hui Yuanai glanced at him, meaning, " If you continue to investigate, you may be targeted by someone."

Conan was silent.

"If you want to know, why don't you just ask Ranpo?" Dr. Ali asked strangely.

"How can this kind of thing be told the truth..." Conan was only halfway through his retort, and suddenly froze.

He thought about what he had observed in the past few days. Although Edogawa Ranpo had a mysterious identity and strange behavior, he seemed to be the type who would "answer well if asked sincerely".

Dr. A Li took the initiative to say: "I don't think it has anything to do with it. Ranpo said before that his father was a criminal policeman, and he almost became a policeman himself..."

"What?!" Both of them looked at him in surprise.

In their cognition, the out-of-character Ranpo has nothing to do with the word police.However, if his father is a criminal police officer, it can indeed explain many things.

"I asked him that he likes reading so much, so his grades should be good, right? Then he told me, 'I wanted to follow my father's path, so I went to the police academy' or something like that, but I was expelled because I exposed the dormitory supervisor's love history... "Dr. Li paused, and then said with some complaints, "You really should have a good chat with him, Luanbu is not a suspicious person, so it's not good to investigate him like this?"

"Exactly." Conan sighed.

Ranpo, who looks forward to his father and has attended the police academy, should be a decent person. As for being expelled from the police academy, it is probably not because of his unclean conduct, but because he can't stand the police's rules and regulations, and he doesn't understand some unspoken rules in society. , so it was rejected.

This kind of thing is too normal for Ranpo, and Conan doesn't find it strange at all.

He even felt a sense of trance, as if he saw the legendary characters appearing in the novel appearing in reality, just like Sherlock Holmes, who was already one step ahead of others before he became separated from the world.

What is certain at the moment is that Luanbu has nothing to do with the Black Clothes Organization, and he hasn't seen any trouble coming to the door after living for a few days, so he should be relieved for the time being, right?

Huiyuan: "Don't check?"

"Well, I won't investigate anymore. Mr. Ranpo is not a prisoner, and he has helped us a lot, and you said it, if you continue to investigate, you may be targeted." Conan stared at the screen on the TV and said, "Anyway , let's stop here."

"That's what you said." Huiyuan closed the computer.

Dr. A Li looked around, made a fist with his right hand and tapped the palm of his left hand, and said happily: "Then, the next step is to help Luanbu find a job!"

"Ah?" The corner of Conan's mouth twitched when he realized it, and a drop of cold sweat dripped from his forehead, "Hey, do we still have to help him find a job?"

"Yeah, it's because I asked you to mess around this morning."

"You dote on him too much, doctor!"

"a ha ha ha……"

Dr. A Li just scratched his head and smiled, but didn't see any rebuttal.

Conan was helpless, but he was the one who found this trouble, so he began to think seriously: "What kind of work can Mr. Ranpo do? Will he be beaten by the society with his character?"

"Didn't Ranpo say that he wanted to be a detective?" Dr. Ali said.

"It's not that easy." Conan waved his hand, "Even a detective has to be famous, so that the client is willing to come to the door."

Even he, before the name Detective Kudo Shinichi came out, he was just an ordinary high school student.If his father hadn't taken him to a few banquets and showed his face in front of those big shots, the police wouldn't even let him in at the scene of the crime.

"Is that so..." Dr. A Li was also a little distressed. He knew quite a few famous figures in the academic world, but he really didn't have any contacts in criminal investigation.

While the three were thinking, Conan received a call.

He listened for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, he nodded repeatedly, and replied obediently with the childish voice of a primary school student: "Okay, I will tell Brother Ranbu!"

After he hung up the phone, Dr. Ali asked, "What's wrong?"

"The opportunity is here!" Conan cheered up.

Before that, he helped the Maori Detective Agency build a promotional website to support customers to make online appointments, and today the business came to the door.However, the client temporarily changed the meeting place and asked to meet at the Columbus Cafe in the afternoon. Mao Lilan planned to go out for dinner together, and wanted to call Luanbu, who had previously met, together, so this phone call came about.

After Conan explained this, Dr. Ali came to a sudden: "As long as you let Ranpo help you participate in this incident, maybe Mr. Mori will let Ranpo stay in the office as an assistant?"

"That's right." Conan nodded.

They didn't think about stealing the business of Maori's office, and they couldn't use Mori Kogoro as a springboard to make others famous.If Luanpo is willing to take a look at it and come up with some key clues to solve the incident, it would be great if he could stay in the Mori Office to help.

Conan was about to go up and call for someone, but just as he jumped off the sofa, he found that Luanbu had gone downstairs by himself.

"Good day!"

He greeted the three people in the living room energetically.

The black-haired young man was holding a collection of poems by Chuya Nakahara in his hands. His hair seemed to be a little long, and it was curled up in a mess. He was barely suppressed by a beret. He was wearing a brown sand-proof cloak. He was about to go out. Dressed up, and even wore a pair of glasses——

By the way, it seems to be my spare glasses, right?

Conan guessed uncertainly.

"Good day." Dr. Ali replied, "Ranbu, did you see the letters in the morning? The ones in the mailbox."

"I threw it away, it's all useless spam." Ranbu replied nonchalantly.

"Can you judge that it is a useless letter without opening it?"

Ranpo didn't answer, but just said "Let's go" to Conan naturally, as if he knew it was time to go out.

Conan was taken aback for a moment, and was about to ask the stupid question "Where are you going?" These days, he should get used to the style of chaotic walking, which is the result, and even "prophet".

Until the two went out, Dr. Ali was still rubbing his chin and thinking, and asked to himself: "Is it based on the postmark and address information?"

"There may also be the material of the envelope, the cutting process, and the smell and traces attached to it... Well, the detective's brain circuit is different from that of ordinary people, so don't get entangled." Huiyuan looked flat, took a sip from his coffee cup, and continued to add "That being said, Mr. Ranpo is somewhat different from other detectives—"

"Mr. Ranpo is not an ordinary person. In terms of reasoning, he is already a genius among geniuses." She considered and commented, "The most terrifying thing is that he himself thinks what he sees is common sense, but he thinks that normal people are common sense. Things are discarded, which leads ordinary people to think that he is abnormal."

Haibara turned on the computer again, raised his head and looked at Dr. Ali.

"Even if Kudo said that he would stop investigating, I'm still a little curious about Mr. Ranpo's past, where he lives, what his job is, and..." Haibara paused slightly, "Why did he say 'supernatural power',' Your world' is a name of unknown meaning."

Dr. A Li looked at her in astonishment, and after a while he asked hesitantly, "Did he really say that?"

"Yeah." Huiyuan nodded, "He must have said something to the doctor, otherwise the doctor would be too unsuspecting of a stranger."

"I just chatted for a while, and I think we should take more care of him..." Dr. Ali sat back on the sofa, recalled it with a teacup in his hand, and narrated with a complicated mood, "Ranbu said that he was in a family in Yokohama before. I work in a big company, but when I was on a business trip, I accidentally got lost, and I didn’t know where to go when I got out of the station. When I met Shinichi, I followed him back, and I stayed until my acquaintances came to pick him up.”

"Lost?" Hui Yuan felt a little absurd.

Combined with what she has observed recently, is it possible that Edogawa Ranpo can still get lost from another world to this world?

Before she had time to think about it, Dr. Ali continued: "As for what you said, I roughly know why Ranpo said that. Ranpo mentioned to me that his parents..."