Lost Lord Ranbu

Ace will appear here, of course, for Edogawa Ranpo whose body has become smaller for unknown reasons.After all, he was the one who took over the task, and he brought out the people. If something happened to Edogawa Ranpo, Ace had to explain the situation to the leader himself.

Ace, who was about to be held accountable, took his time.

Even if Mori Ogai finds out that he is doing business with the black organization, it’s okay. The port mafia has never been a monopoly of Mori Ogai. Without evidence, the leader can’t disclose what he is doing to the cadres, so what’s the point? What are you worried about?

With this in mind, ace came boldly and confidently.

When ace arrived at the chief's office, there were already many people waiting in the office.Except for Osamu Dazai, who disappeared recently, and Koyo Ozaki, who went to interrogate the prisoners in person, all the cadres of the port mafia have arrived.There was also a silver-haired martial artist with a familiar face standing beside the child with his arms folded.

Ace recognized him. It was Yukichi Fukuzawa, the most prestigious bodyguard in the Yokohama area.

At the beginning, ace had a plan for the powerful warrior, he even carefully prepared a sapphire collar that best suits the silver wolf temperament, and wanted to wear it for him after hiring Fukuzawa Yukichi.

But this lonely silver wolf mercilessly rejected his invitation, and assumed a posture that could not be tamed at all.Due to the opponent's force, ace couldn't use his supernatural ability to control him, and he was worried about it for a while, but he didn't expect this guy to come here in person for Edogawa Ranpo today.

"Your Excellency Silver Wolf, didn't you say that you would not accept employment from the Mafia?" Ace stabbed him deliberately.

"..."

Fukuzawa Yukichi glanced at him coldly, but did not speak.

Instead, the child beside him said, "Who are you?"

"Oh, Edogawa-kun has really become smaller." Ace answered irrelevantly, pretending to be surprised on purpose.He looked at the colleague in front of him who was at odds with him, and said gloatingly, "Is it a supernatural power? Then where did Mr. Dazai go? If he is here, maybe there is a way to solve it."

The child who is very sensitive to other people's malice wrinkled his nose and stared at him unhappily: "What supernatural power? What Dazai-kun? What are you talking about? You are talking about things I don't understand! Adults just like it Show off your knowledge."

Ace, who was choked by the child, not only didn't feel offended, but felt a little funny, thinking: Eight-year-old Edogawa Ranpo is probably a fool who doesn't understand anything. It really needs the accumulation of experience and knowledge.

"Ace." The leader stepped forward and shouted to stop, not letting the topic get out of control, "Let's talk about what happened first."

Ace told the story he made up.

He thought, he can even play with the 28-year-old Edogawa Ranpo in his hands, what can this puny eight-year-old elementary school student in front of him do?As long as the blame is thrown on the black organization, and a few words of accusation against Edogawa for acting without authorization, and some high-sounding words, what can Mori Ogai say?

"...That's how things are." Ace spread his hands, his expression a little helpless, "I didn't expect that the black organization would set up so many traps. After all, Mr. Edogawa's actions were decided by him on the spur of the moment. I thought He has his own plan, isn't it always like this before? As for the medicine of the Black Organization, I don't quite understand it, Mr. Edogawa didn't tell me the relevant information."

Ace's understatement of a few words got rid of the suspicion, and when he got to the bottom of it, it was Luanpo's own responsibility for acting without authorization.

Zhong Yuanzhong, who was listening on the sidelines, was also a little upset, but he didn't know where to refute.

Mr. Ranpo had his own plan, but he didn't tell ace all the information; ace fulfilled his duty as a fellow traveller, he sent his subordinates to protect Ranpo, but was dismissed by Ranpo instead; ace's subordinates were also recruited, and their bodies shrank As a child, accompanied by a severe high fever, he is still in a coma, and there is no way to ask for information.

In this way, ace is indeed the "victim".

but……

I always feel that this guy is uneasy and kind.

Nakahara Chuya frowned and looked at Mori Ogai, wanting to hear the leader's opinion.

"Is that so..." Mori Ogai thought for a moment.

After listening to ace's subjective narration, Mori Ogai did not attack ace because of the mission, but said that he would wait for the relevant personnel to check Ranpo's physical condition, and then he asked ace to play with Ranpo for a while.

"It should be easy for you to play card games with this kid to kill time, right?" Mori Ogai said with a half-smile.

"Of course, as ordered." Ace followed suit.

Soon, ace found that things were not that simple.

One round, two rounds, three rounds.

In order to increase the difficulty, the deck of cards on the table has been changed from one deck to six decks, and the thickness of the four cards stacked together is 320. When shuffling the cards, even an adult's hand cannot hold them.

but--

The opponent didn't give him a chance to come back.

Originally, cards should be the "weapon" that ace is best at, but now every time a card is turned over, the surface of the card seems to be in response to Edogawa Ranpo's words, and there is no mistake.

By the fourth game, ace was a little afraid of the flop.

"Big, big, small, big... Well, you don't need to read the cards below, they are all small." After reporting the cards in a smooth manner, Luanbu said, "Do you want to change a game? A card game or something too easy."

The seven-year-old child obviously didn't know how to keep the face of an adult, and the impatient emotions were all on his face.What's even more frightening is that in order for Ranpo to be accepted by the world smoothly, the parents' deliberate guidance made Ranpo's cognition of the world slightly biased.

From Ranpo's point of view, adults know more than him, and they have their own reasons for doing strange things.It's just that I'm still young, and I still don't understand the adults' intentions, and I will naturally understand when I grow up in the future.

Someone wanted to play a game with him, and Ranpo agreed.

After easily winning three games in a row under different rules, he began to get tired of the too simple guessing game.

The child's heart is full of doubts.

Why don't adults choose a more challenging game?Isn't this a game of reciting the cards?What's so difficult about remembering six decks of cards? Even if the number is doubled, I can still remember it. Did the adults arrange it this way on purpose?Is there any special meaning in it that adults know, but he doesn't?

Ranbu cast doubtful eyes on the chuckling leader, wanting to get feedback from insiders.

"Little Ranpo, do you think it's easy?" Mori Ogai asked with a smile.

"Yeah." Ranbu replied, "I'm a bit tired of playing, can we play puzzle games?"

Luanbu didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said, but the ace who lost miserably in the gambling game sounded completely different.

An adult who has been immersed in casinos for many years can't play with an eight-year-old?

Speaking out will make people laugh to death.

Ace is very clear that his status as a cadre is obtained by relying on his own mind and the power of money.

He was proud, even complacent.

But Edogawa Ranpo was able to easily beat him in the gambling game. What would happen if Edogawa Ranpo went to the casino?That being the case, why didn't Mori Ogai let Edogawa Ranpo go to the casino to make money?If that is the case, will there still be a place among the five major cadres?

Why did Mori Ogai let him play games with Edogawa Ranpo?

This must be beating him!

Mori Ogai's mocking eyes kept reminding himself that his mind was not as good as that of Edogawa Ranpo. The eight-year-old Edogawa Ranpo was already terrifying, let alone the 28-year-old Ranpo.

The leader who owns Edogawa Ranpo sits firmly in a high position and doesn't care about the ridiculous ambition of a trash subordinate.

What are you talking about playing games with the children?

This is obviously using the name of the game to humiliate him with what he is best at!

Ace's face was extremely ugly.

"No puzzle games? Not interested? Well, but I don't want to play cards, and playing chess is boring..." The young child shook his legs and raised his head to ask the silver-haired man who had been standing beside him silently. The man's opinion, "Mr. Fukuzawa thinks so too, right?"

"Then don't play with them." Fukuzawa Yukichi said.

There are some things that only adults understand.

For example--

Mori Ogai is using Ranpo to attack dissident subordinates.

Ranpo is just a child who doesn't understand anything, but Mori Ogai didn't take this into consideration when he used it.He didn't seem to care at all whether the 28-year-old Ranpo was safe, where he went, and how he got back.

Fukuzawa Yukichi thought, according to Mori Ogai's standard of conduct, as long as "Edogawa Ranpo" is for his own use, it doesn't matter how old he is, right?It can be said that the younger ones have better control, which is no different from getting rid of Ranpo. Maybe Ranpo will become what it is now, and it is Mori Ogai's plan.

Fukuzawa Yukichi coldly swept over the smiling Mori Ogai, reached out and patted Ranpo, and repeated again: "Since you think it's boring, then don't play with them, Ranpo can do whatever you want Can."

"Really?" The child became happy, "Then I still want to play puzzle games. I often play this at home. Dad will retell me some incidents he has solved, and let me solve the cases. Those cases are Very interesting, I also want to be a policeman in the future!"

police?

Ranpo Edogawa said he wanted to be a policeman?

The appearance of a mafia cadre dominating others appeared in everyone's mind, and they all looked at the mafia leader in unison.

Sensing the complicated gazes of other people, Mori Ogai's smile remained unchanged.

He has lived with Ranpo for more than ten years, and he is accustomed to Ranpo's jumping thinking. Over the years, Ranpo has said a lot about making him the emperor and prime minister, and he is still afraid that he wants to be the emperor. police?

Tong Yan Wuji.

However, it is still a little unpleasant.

"When you become a policeman, you have to abide by a lot of rules, and after you enter the workplace, you have to watch your boss's face, and you might be bullied. Does Ranpo like being a policeman?" Mori Ogai said deliberately.

Fukuzawa Yukichi glared at him.

Mori Ogai was unmoved, and talked about the current internal structure of the police station and the increasingly corrupt system: "After the incident is resolved, a process report must be written. If the case is involved with internal personnel, there is no way to find out the truth. Even if it is found out, it will not be made public."

"It's so troublesome..." Luanbu thought for a while, then pouted, "Forget it, I only like solving puzzles, forget about the rest!"

If there are too many rules, it will be very uncomfortable. He doesn't even want to stay in school, let alone work under the supervision of others.

"Xiao Ranbu should be able to tell, right? The future work, and who we are." Mori Ou unexpectedly pointed out.

Random steps can certainly be seen.

This is his future work unit. The people standing in front of him are his colleagues, those with good relationships and those with bad relationships. The person who talks to him should be the boss—although he doesn’t look like a good person, he is right. I am pretty good.

Before he could speak, Fukuzawa Yukichi couldn't listen anymore.

Mori Ogai's deliberate deception of children is too much. Ranpo is only eight years old now, and the future is full of uncertainties. How can he limit his development based on the established future?

Luanbu was taken away by Sen Ou, one time is enough.

Fukuzawa Yukichi would never allow this kind of thing to happen in front of him.

"Ranpo doesn't want to be a policeman, then become a detective." Fukuzawa Yukichi took a deep breath and said to Ranpo, "Set up a detective agency by yourself, and solve the commissions you are interested in, and hire others to do the rest. .Trust me, any puzzle you're interested in will come to you."

"Detective?" Ranbu opened his eyes wide.

It seems very handsome.