Lost Lord Ranbu

When Sakunosuke Oda knocked on the door and entered the office, Ranbu was sitting cross-legged on a chair, peeling and eating oranges. He didn't pay attention to the orange strings sticking to his face, and was engrossed in watching the TV show.

The conscientious life assistant put down the documents, and habitually handed over a tissue to the boss to wipe his face.

"Thank you." Luanbu said without raising his head.

Oda Sakunosuke didn't speak, he glanced at the idol group on the screen, three sweet-looking beautiful girls bouncing and singing.

He remembered that this seemed to be a newly debuted idol group called Backstreet Girls. Xingsuke hung up a poster of this girl group at home, so he had some impressions of this idol group.

How to describe it...

This girl group is indeed very popular, but the songs they sing are a bit strange, such as "worship wine", which makes him wonder if he is old and can't keep up with the trend of young people.

When Oda Sakunosuke was still trying to remember, Ranpo suddenly spoke to him: "Hey, Oda Saku, is idol work very profitable?"

"Huh?" Odasaku was at a loss, not knowing why he would ask such a question, but after thinking about it, he replied, "It should be very profitable, after all, he is an artist."

Ranpo was very puzzled and asked: "Can gangsters also debut as idols? Even if they are not gangsters, the 'beautiful girl idol is a transgender' is a scandal after all, so it can be popular like this."

Oda Sakunosuke was silent for a while before saying, "Are these girls transgender?"

"Well, so you don't know?" Ranbu pointed to one of the idols and said, "There are obvious surgical marks on the body, although they can be covered up with makeup and lighting, but the words and deeds in the early works are completely masculine. The focus is on the polar girl line, and it doesn’t matter if you’re a little bit rude occasionally, as long as you’re cute.”

Ranpo spoke in a normal tone about the secret that the entire media hadn't discovered, and didn't regard it as a discovery that would shock the entertainment industry, and finally added with a puzzled face: "Why didn't everyone see it? It's so obvious that I thought that everyone likes this type, last time I saw a few people on the Black Lizard side..."

If it were someone else, they would definitely complain endlessly about transgender girl groups, gangsters debuting as idols, etc., but after listening to Ranpo's analysis, Oda Sakunosuke did not show a shocked or mocking expression at all, just true feelings Sincerely sighed: "It's not easy for everyone to make money."

"Really? I think it might be forced." After eating the oranges, Ranpo wiped his hands and said, "Odasaku should have seen them."

"Ok?"

"Those three younger brothers next to the former boss of the Inujin Group."

"Really?" Oda Sakunosuke thought for a while, but still couldn't connect the idol girl on the screen with the three scar-faced boys in memory, "I remember that the leader of the Inukane Group has changed?"

"Yeah, that bald-headed man was caught in prison not long ago because he shot and killed a city policeman on the street."

"Why?" Oda Sakunosuke was a little surprised.

Ordinary underworld organizations dare not challenge the government. The port mafia dares to fight in the street, but they will not shoot and kill the city police in broad daylight for no reason. disgust and fear.

"It was a subordinate who tampered with the gun. He didn't realize it. He just wanted to take out the gun to intimidate him, but he didn't expect the live ammunition to be fired. When he was arrested, he looked unbelievable. It was so stupid that it made people laugh. .”

"What about his subordinates?"

"Well, I was forced by the new boss to become an idol to earn money."

"..."

Oda Sakunosuke fell silent.

If you make a mistake, you will be punished, let alone this kind of behavior of sending the leader to prison. If this situation were placed in the port mafia, the subordinates who dared to tamper with the boss's weapons would have long been regarded as criminals. The traitor was executed.The punishment methods of other local gangsters in Japan are not fatal, but "finger cutting" is also cruel enough. Looking at the girl in the backstreet, it is far from the finger being cut...

If it were Ango Sakaguchi standing here, he would immediately complain: "Is their boss a devil? Cutting off fingers and being forced to transgender, no matter which method is not very friendly to men...no, it is not very friendly to humans. Bar?"

Oda Sakunosuke, who was stamped "not complaining" by Dazai himself, wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything. It seems that it is not good to comment on other people's lives at will.

Ranpo didn't expect him to express any opinions, so he turned off the video, picked up the leather bag brought by Oda Sakunosuke, took out a stack of documents from it, flipped through it casually, and said, "Going to work again."

Oda Sakunosuke's tone seemed reluctant to listen to Ranbu, but it didn't seem like he was usually lazy and didn't want to work.He himself also felt that it was not good to let Luanbu go out to work. After all, he was lost and found just now, and he sent Luanbu out again before the matter was found out. There is always a bad feeling...

Ranbu flipped through two pages of information and didn't want to continue reading, so he asked his life assistant: "Oda Zuo! What kind of incident must I come forward to deal with this time?"

"Huh?" Oda Sakunosuke came back to his senses and explained the known situation, "A floating corpse was found at the port this morning. The deceased was a female police officer with three bullet holes on her chest. The Metropolitan Police Department suspected that it was us. In retaliation, ask for an explanation."

Ranbu took out a photo from the stack of documents, saw the bluish-white black-haired woman on the photo, his face was expressionless, and he said with a little regret: "It's such a young lady..."

He paused slightly, looked up at Sakunosuke Oda: "What do they want to hear? We didn't do it."

Oda Sakunosuke also felt that it should not have been done by the port mafia.

Port mafia revenge methods are like identification, even the details are very tight.First let the betrayer bite the steps, kick the back of the head to break his jaw, then turn over and shoot three times in the chest.Generally, the face of a traitor executed in this way would be completely destroyed, so that the whole body would not be kept like the woman in the photo.

This incident is obviously not related to the port mafia, it is someone trying to frame someone after killing someone.

This kind of petty fighting has no effect on the port mafia. A single police officer is not enough to be the fuse for a war between the military police and the port mafia, but this crude way of splashing dirty water is quite disgusting.

What makes Oda Sakunosuke strange is that there is no need for cadres to be dispatched for such a small incident, just find a diplomat to go out and make a statement, but this incident fell on Ranpo, and the leader still Tell him to go.

If it is to maintain the reputation of the port mafia... er, does the port mafia, which was originally regarded as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, still have a reputation in the official side?

Ranpo suddenly changed his mind.

"Forget it, let's go and have a look. Master Ranpo will help them find the real culprit." Ranpo looked at his life assistant, pointed to his snack reserve and said, "Oda Zukuo, help me find the real culprit." The shelf life of snacks is shorter than one month, so give them away."

"what?"

"This time it's a business trip, and I won't be back for a while."

"...It's okay." Oda Sakunosuke scratched his hair, and replied vaguely, "It's just going to the port."

"I can't say for sure." He jumped off the chair in disorder, without taking any materials, as leisurely as a primary school student going out for a spring outing, without looking back, he raised his voice and urged his life assistant, "Hurry up and follow after cleaning up!"

Even though he didn't know what Ranpo meant by saying that, Oda Sakunosuke patiently sorted out the snacks, put the ones with a long shelf life in the cabinet for Ranpo, and packed away the ones that would break if they were not eaten within a short time , Maybe Luanbu will still want to eat some on the road.

He tidied up quickly, and as soon as he was done, he picked up the coat hanging on the coat rack by the door, and hurriedly ran out after it.

On the road, I also ran into Atsushi Nakajima and Akutagawa Ryunosuke of the guerrillas arguing, and occasionally heard a few broken sentences such as "Mr.They were all Dazai's disciples, and they would quarrel every now and then in order to get the teacher's approval, and everyone else was no stranger to it.

Oda Sakunosuke glanced at the two of them, turned around and planned to take a detour, and told him seamlessly that the two would fight in five seconds, and then a hole would be opened in the floor of this floor by Rashomon , you may be affected.

——Take the unfinished snacks and give them away.

Just as Oda Sakunosuke turned around, he suddenly remembered what Ranpo said.He looked down at the endless pile of snacks in his arms, hesitated for a second, and walked up to greet the two teenagers.

"You two—"

The two men who were at a standstill turned their heads, and there was a ferocious expression in their eyes that they wanted to tear apart the flesh and blood with their fangs.

Being watched by the "White Death" and "Unintentional Dog" of the port mafia, other people would have been trembling with fear.Oda Sakunosuke didn't feel anything, he had always been slow to see others, and walked over holding snacks and a coat with his usual expression.

Seeing that it was Sakunosuke Oda, Atsushi Nakajima quickly calmed down the emotions aroused by Akutagawa, and called out politely: "Mr. Oda."

Akutagawa still had a straight face as usual, bowing slightly like an old-fashioned gentleman, which was counted as a greeting.

"Nakajima, Akutagawa, do you want some snacks?"

"……what?"

"Don't fight." Oda Sakunosuke dryly advised, then stuffed the snacks in his hands into Atsushi Nakajima's arms, and he was carrying a chaotic coat and a handful of candies in his hands, like He told the children like that, "Two people share the food, don't fight over it."

Akutagawa would not accept such kindness. Since he was picked up by Dazai, he has been like a hedgehog. Whoever touches anyone, especially doesn't like others talking to him in this tone. Now he naturally refuses: "I don't have any interest--"

"It's random snacks. He asked you to eat them." Oda Sakunosuke interrupted him. "They are all foods with a short shelf life. If you don't eat them, they will expire. Don't waste them."

"what?"

"Mr. Ranpo?!"

In the end, the two accepted it obediently.

Oda Sakunosuke didn't know if they got along well in the future, probably they did.