Lost Lord Ranbu

When Ranbu was hit by the purple ammunition, for some reason, his body froze in place and he couldn't dodge effectively.

Although relying on Ranbu's motor nerves that belonged to the category of ordinary people, and the number of people who surrounded him tightly, the cadres in the center of the crowd could not completely avoid unexpected attacks.

Fukuzawa Yukichi showed an extremely displeased expression.

He wasn't mad at the port mafia's inefficiency, he was just in self-loathing.

Just when he had the idea of ​​protecting Ranpo, something happened right under his nose, which was a bolt from the blue for Fukuzawa Yukichi, who has been working as a bodyguard all year round.

If it is said that this is all Mori Ogai's arrangement to get rid of Ranpo, blaming these mafia will not help, he can only blame himself for not being cautious enough - as expected, he can't just leave Ranpo alone and turn his attention away a little , people immediately have an accident!

In such a situation, Fukuzawa Yukichi couldn't leave no matter what.

He pushed aside the crowd and walked in. The mafia didn't know whether they were afraid of the martial artist's aura, or they were at a loss for the current situation, but no one dared to stop him, and retreated like an ebb tide.

"Ahem! Where is the smoke coming from? Is it trying to choke people to death? Even the surprise of the entrance ceremony is too much, why not replace it with a salute that can spray out ribbons?" The immature voice of a child came from the never-dispersed pink smoke.

……child?

Fukuzawa Yukichi frowned.

He waved his hand, and the energy from his body dispersed the smoke.

Now, Fukuzawa Yukichi was finally able to see the situation under the smoke clearly, but he didn't understand why this happened at all—it was like magic on the stage. After the smoke cleared, there was only one boy who was not as tall as a human leg.

The dark-haired kid in his school uniform, with a windbreaker cape and a school cap pressed on his head, looks as if he just slipped out of a school assembly.

He obviously didn't like obstacles that would affect his observation of the environment, so he kept covering his mouth and nose, staring at a pair of emerald green eyes with some displeasure.After making sure that the smoke cleared, he removed his hand covering his mouth and nose, and waved his hand out of thin air with a curious expression, as if he was wondering where the wind that drove away the smoke came from.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was shocked.

Because he could already see what he would look like in the future from the immature facial features of the boy, the raised eye ends and long eyelashes—isn't this just a shrunken version of Ranbu?How old is he?eight years old?or smaller?Is that the uniform of an elementary school student?

"...Ranpo?" Fukuzawa Yukichi hesitated, and called out uncertainly, "Are you a random step?"

Fukuzawa Yukichi thinks it is more likely to be caused by a person with supernatural powers than believing that this is Ranpo's illegitimate child.

The boy heard Fukuzawa Yukichi talking to him, and looked at him curiously.

"Uncle, do you know me?" He admitted that he was just walking in disorder, "But I have never seen you, do you know my father?"

Before Fukuzawa Yukichi could answer, the boy took up the conversation by himself.

"I don't know? You should have heard of it... Well, what about my mother? Do you know my mother?" The boy carefully observed the expression on the adult's face, and then showed a disappointed expression, "Well, it seems that you also I don’t know my mother. Sure enough, adults know more than me, so I really can’t guess, is uncle a distant relative of my family?”

Fukuzawa Yukichi hesitated to speak, and finally he could only deny it dryly: "I am not your relative."

He knew very little about Ranpo, he only learned something about Ranpo when he was sixteen or seventeen from Yu Xie Ye, and going back further, even Yu Xie Ye couldn't explain clearly.

When talking about Ranpo with Yosano and him, Fukuzawa Yukichi had guessed that Ranpo might be the child of the Edogawa police officer who cracked many cases that shocked the whole country and was known as "clairvoyance".

Many years ago, the Edogawa couple lived in seclusion and went to the countryside, and they have never heard of them.Later, it was said that the husband and wife died in an accident, leaving behind a child who didn't understand anything, had no relatives and friends, and that child didn't know where he went after he dropped out of the police academy.

This is the end of what Fukuzawa Yukichi can find out. If his guess is correct, that child is Edogawa Ranpo.

Knowing that Ranpo could have walked on the bright road, but stepped into the darkness under the influence of Mori Ogai, Fukuzawa Yukichi's inner complexity can be imagined.The thing has already happened, he can't judge whether it is right or wrong, he can only regret that it was Mori Ogai who met Ranpo, not him.

"Hey! Uncle! Why are you distracted?" The boy boldly tugged on Fukuzawa Yukichi's coat, and chattered like a bean, "Is this Yokohama? I read it in a book , I haven’t been to a big city yet! By the way, how did I get here? What was that puff of smoke just now? Will you send me back?”

"..."

Fukuzawa Yukichi was left speechless by the question.

Because Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't know where Ranpo, who was obviously still in the stage of "primary school student" in front of him, came from, he didn't know what happened to the explosion and smoke just now, and he didn't know how to send him back.

The primary school student Ranpo obviously had the same vision as an adult, he saw Fukuzawa Yukichi's stiffness, and his tone gradually weakened.

"If you are an adult, you must know how to send me back, right?" The immature boy asked again and again with some uncertainty, "Mom said that adults know more than me, so uncle must know how to go back, yes No? I can't play outside for too long, Dad will pick me up today..."

In other words, he didn't seem to be asking, but more like talking to himself.

Fukuzawa Yukichi realized.

Ranpo's genius mind is innate, but under the care of his parents who are also geniuses, he is still young and obviously has not realized how different he is from others.

Although the Ranbo in front of him is only seven or eight years old, what he can see is not only what a seven or eight-year-old child should have.

Therefore, you must not fool him.

Fukuzawa Yukichi organized his language, intending to tell a child the truth and try his best to help him.If it is really because of the relationship between supernatural powers and involves rare time and space aspects, then he has to turn to another cadre of the port mafia who has supernatural powers to nullify.

"Random steps—"

Before Fukuzawa Yukichi finished speaking, the child who asked him for help suddenly let go of his clothes and stopped talking to him.Those cold emerald eyes turned to the men in black suits around him, he reached out and pointed a man out, and ordered: "Give me the phone."

I don't know if it's because of Ranpo's character that he won't be polite to others, or because he has deduced what attitude he should use to face these "future subordinates". His imperative sentence has received good feedback, and the black hand named Without any hesitation, the party respectfully presented the mobile phone.

Luanbu fiddled with the phone for a while, and no one dared to disturb him.

It is impossible for a subordinate's mobile phone to have the contact information of the leader. Ranpo, who is currently only seven years old, obviously did not want to contact Mori Ogai. The most direct information he can obtain is the time and the model of the mobile phone.

Once he knows this, for Ranpo, he can easily judge that there is a high probability that he will not be able to contact his parents. Coupled with Fukuzawa Yukichi's hesitant attitude, he can completely conclude that he will not be able to contact his parents. The conclusion that his parents are no longer alive.

He already knew.

Fukuzawa Yukichi thought to himself.

Ranpo already knew that he had left his parents and the familiar environment, and came to a completely strange world, a future "without his parents" that he didn't want to accept at all, and he didn't even know where the way back was.

He seeks a sense of security from Fukuzawa Yukichi who "knows Edogawa Ranpo".

However, Fukuzawa Yukichi's reaction obviously disappointed him to the extreme.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was silent for a while, but still said frankly: "I'm sorry, I don't know these things, but I will help you."

The immature boy was silent for a while, and suddenly stretched out a hand to firmly grab Fukuzawa Yukichi's clothes.

"Really?" he asked.

Just when Fukuzawa Yukichi was about to promise something more, the boy's mouth was constricted, and tears overflowed from his eyes. The tears overflowed his eyeballs, wet his eyelashes, and fell down in big drops.

"Woo——————"

He began to cry.

Fukuzawa Yukichi sighed.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was simply helpless in this situation.

Apart from work, he has not been in contact with people for a long time, especially children like Ranpo.He didn't know how to deal with the situation at all, so he reached out and touched the boy's head.

"There must be a way to go back."

***

An hour after making his promise to Ranpo, Fukuzawa Yukichi was already thinking about whether he was asking for trouble.

Because this kid cried heart-piercingly for a while, and after he calmed down, he began to make willful demands on others, such as taking him to eat ice cream, to ride the Ferris wheel and so on-it just happened to him (although he was 20 Isn't everything about him years later) enough?

"I don't want to play, I just want to find clues to go home." Luanbu, who just entered the first grade of elementary school, said confidently, "Anyway, uncle doesn't know what happened, how about going up with me to see?"

The reason is so good that it is impossible to refute it.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was worried, so he had to stay by his side anxiously.

Upon hearing the news of Ranpo's accident, Nakahara Chuya and Oda Sakunosuke also rushed to the scene shortly after. They saw with their own eyes that Ranpo's body, mind, and memory had shrunk in all aspects. Oda Sakunosuke still didn't quite understand what happened , the Central Plains was also the first to explode.

"It must be something good done by those bastards!" The orange-haired officer scolded.

Oda Sakunosuke was still squatting and communicating with Ranpo, but when he heard Chuya Nakahara's words, he couldn't help but raise his head: "What do you know? A cadre of Zhongyuan."

"Organization in black." Zhong Yuanzhong also gritted his teeth, "Mr. Ranpo must have eaten the poison researched by that organization by mistake."

Having said that, Oda Sakunosuke seems to have some impression.Because most of Luanbu's mission reports were handled by him, he had a better understanding of the information that only some cadres knew.

"aptx-4869 has side effects and has a certain chance of shrinking the body of an adult to the age of a child." That's what the report said.

Even so, what seems to be wrong?