Lost Lord Ranbu

two hours ago -

The teenager squatted on the street with a sad face.

With bangs across the board and a childish face, this should be a young man studying at school and full of vigor, but he is wearing a dark and depressing black coat, even his throat is tightly covered by the long placket up.

"The lost children are distributed in various regions, and the time of the loss is also different. The place and time are completely irregular. Moreover, the prisoner avoided all monitoring, and no passer-by noticed that the child was crying abnormally. It seems that he is a habitual offender... "The black-clothed and white-haired boy sighed, feeling very distressed at the fact that no information could be collected.

In the past, the intelligence department was responsible for these things. When it was really his turn to do it, he would find that he couldn't do anything well except fight at the forefront.If you go back and report to Mr. Ranpo, you will definitely be blamed.

It's getting late, and Mr. Ranpo is still staying where he is!

Although a piece of bread was left for Mr. Luanbu in the morning, Mr. Luanbu cannot live on such a small amount of rations for a whole day.And they have to find a place to stay at night, they don't care, but Mr. Ranpo will get sick if he sleeps in a cold bridge hole!

Atsushi Nakajima looked at his companion: "Akutagawa, we can't find any more information, let's go back and tell Mr. Ranpo."

With a sullen face, Akutagawa suppressed the urge to smash the flyer on Atsushi Nakajima's face, and cursed through gritted teeth: "Trash!"

When the two of them came out, they not only shouldered the heavy responsibility of finding information, but also were responsible for earning some change for daily use.

Mr. Ranpo is right, odd jobs handing out leaflets are good.You can get in touch with more people, get information, and the salary is settled daily, so you can make money quickly with formal means.

However, Atsushi Nakajima was not old enough, and the shopkeeper refused to hire minors, so Akutagawa could only be handed over the job of distributing leaflets on the street.

Akutagawa asked Atsushi Nakajima to go around the city to check for information, while he himself walked the streets and alleys to observe the people passing by in the name of distributing leaflets.Unexpectedly, after most of the day, Atsushi Nakajima didn't gain anything, and he even did a lot of stupid things, such as handing out leaflets for half-price potato chips in convenience stores...

The eyes of the port mafia woe dog grew even more sombre.

Due to the recent unrest in Fuyuki City, the number of pedestrians on the road has been greatly reduced at night.The two of them stood in a relatively remote place, which seemed even more deserted.

Akutagawa casually threw the unfinished leaflets into the trash can, and glanced at the dark sky: "Night has fallen, and the Holy Grail War that Mr. Ranpo said is about to begin. Go back and protect Mr. Ranpo first."

This sentence means that he wants to find clues alone, and he doesn't want Atsushi Nakajima to come and get in the way.

Atsushi Nakajima has no problem with such an arrangement.

The two of them have different personalities, and unless they are required to perform collaborative tasks, they usually don't get together when they have nothing to do.Even if the two were both members of the guerrilla unit directly under the leader, they would still act separately from the two teams.Now Akutagawa's proposal to split up is exactly what he wants.

However, Atsushi Nakajima doesn't think that Akutagawa, who has been beaten many times by Mr. Dazai for losing information, can find more clues than him.

"Then I'll go back first, please do your best." Nakajima Atsushi stood up and patted the hem of his clothes, planning to buy some hot food for Mr. Ranpo on the way back.

Just as the two of them parted ways, a silver eagle flew from nowhere, circled above their heads for a while, and then flew down towards them with a high-pitched cry.

As soon as Akutagawa frowned, he immediately wanted to activate his supernatural power and use Rashomon to cut the weird eagle into several pieces, but Atsushi Nakajima stopped him.

"It seems that they are here to deliver a message... looking for us?"

Atsushi Nakajima stretched out his arm, and the eagle landed on it.

It is even more strange under close observation. This eagle is actually made of silver thread, more like a handicraft placed in a window cabinet, but its majestic demeanor is no different from ordinary creatures.

Atsushi Nakajima noticed that the eagle claw was tied with a note, and his expression changed after he took it off and read it, and he was worried and helpless.

He told Akutagawa the content of the message: "Mr. Ranpo went to Einzbern Castle alone, and he told us to follow the familiar to find him after work."

"Mr. Ranpo has his own opinion, you can go." Akutagawa put his hands back into his pockets and looked somewhere expressionless. He obviously thought that his work was not over yet—of course, he was not pointing to handing out leaflets, but collecting leaflets. Child missing intelligence work.

"Do you know where Einzbern Castle is?" Atsushi Nakajima asked.

Akutagawa looked at him like an idiot, and after two seconds, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket: "Contact by mobile phone."

Atsushi Nakajima: "..."

He was stunned for two seconds, and tentatively asked: "After changing the world, can our mobile phones still be used?"

Akutagawa: "..."

The situation reached a stalemate.

As long as you take out your mobile phone and call each other, you can verify it, but neither of you wants to do it.They are always like this, no matter who is right, there will always be another party who will not be convinced, so they tacitly don't verify it at this time.

Atsushi Nakajima didn't expect Akutagawa's answer anymore, he looked at the familiar on his arm.The magician's alchemy product, the Silver Eagle, flapped its wings and flew up, hovering above its head, guiding them in the direction.

"Then I'll go find Mr. Ranpo first...huh?"

When Atsushi Nakajima raised his head, something unexpected happened.

A little girl with twin tails buried her head and rushed forward, hitting her like a small cannonball.

With Atsushi Nakajima's reaction, he naturally wouldn't be easily knocked over. He quickly moved to one side and supported the little girl who bumped into him.The golden pocket watch in the girl's hand fell to the ground. She stared at the two men in black in panic with her blue eyes.

"Please be careful, don't run around in the street." Nakajima Atsushi kindly helped her pick up the pocket watch.

The girl immediately snatched back her things and held them tightly in her hands.After doing this, she seemed to feel that she was a little rude again. She calmed down and wanted to thank the boy in black in front of her.But when she lowered her eyes, the girl's expression became flustered again.

Atsushi Nakajima noticed the pocket watch.

On the dial, the pointer spins fast as if broken.

Then, it suddenly stopped in one direction——

Atsushi Nakajima raised his eyes.

An orange-haired young man was humming a song, with a cynical smile on his face, holding two little boys by his left hand and walking past them.

The pointer on the dial followed their positions, slowly moving from one end to the other, and then spun wildly.

The girl with twin ponytails gasped.

"You're so good, I'll reward you when I get back!" Nakajima Atsushi heard the orange-haired youth praise the little boy, and the little boy followed him across the road without crying or fussing.

If it weren't for the malice that was almost overflowing from the young man, Atsushi Nakajima would think that he really just took his brother out shopping.

He understands.

He has seen this kind of malice in many people.

There is an indelible smell of blood on his body, he thinks he is superior to others, and is different from all human beings in this world, the eyes of the hunter——

This man's disguise is terrible!

Atsushi Nakajima stretched out his hand suddenly, and grabbed Akutagawa's clothes.

He grasped the cloth blade extending from the jacket in his hand, and forcibly drew a bloodstain as deep as the bone.

Under Akutagawa's displeased gaze, Atsushi Nakajima shook his head slowly but firmly at him.Akutagawa glanced at the man unwillingly, and the black coat transformed into a black beast slowly sneaked into the shadow.Only then did Atsushi Nakajima stop, and the supernatural power of the Moon Beast quickly healed the wound on his palm.

Atsushi Nakajima discovered the anomaly, so Akutagawa would naturally be able to as well.

Perhaps in front of ordinary people, there is nothing wrong with the orange-haired young man's disguise, but for those who are used to walking in the dark, just his vaguely attractive and mutually repelling, dangerous and crazy aura is enough to prove his strength It's abnormal.

It wasn't until the orange-haired youth left his sight that Atsushi Nakajima explained to Akutagawa: "Sorry, since Mr. Ranpo said that to solve this case, he must find the missing child, and he cannot be killed directly."

Akutagawa snorted and looked at him contemptuously, as if saying, "Do you think I don't know? Of course I have considered this."

"Don't worry about it."

After dropping these words, Akutagawa used Rashomon to borrow strength from the wall, jumped up the tall building silently, and followed the orange-haired youth.

Atsushi Nakajima looked at the girl with twintails.

The pocket watch in the girl's hand is obviously a prop for tracking, probably something like the "magic" that Mr. Ranpo said.

Atsushi Nakajima asked tentatively, "Are you following him too?"

The girl was still staring at his healed palm, and it was only when Atsushi Nakajima asked her that she remembered her original intention.

"You are also a magician!" Mistakenly thinking that the other party was also a magician, the girl hurriedly explained the situation to Atsushi Nakajima, "The man just now was the prisoner in the news, Qin Yin must have been captured by him!"

Atsushi Nakajima learned her name from the girl's simple narrative—Rin Tosaka, the daughter of the Tosaka family who dug up the natural gas pipeline and caused the courtyard to explode two days ago.

Because of the sudden disappearance of his good friend Qinyin, Tohsaka Rin came back from a foreign city by car alone, and also used the pocket watch given by his father to find the culprit in the missing child case.While tracking, he accidentally bumped into Atsushi Nakajima, and that's how what happened just now happened.

"Leave it to us, don't worry, my companion has already gone to track it down." Atsushi Nakajima comforted her and said, "Should I send you back to the Tohsaka House? Your father will be worried if you are alone outside. ?”

Rin Tohsaka seemed to have realized this, and asked in horror: "Wait, the magicians who are still staying in Fuyuki City during this period of time... you are not participants in the Holy Grail War, are you?"

"Eh?"

"Oops, it's over—"

Rin Tohsaka, who is usually very shrewd but always gets disconnected in unexpected situations, covered his head in pain.

If the person in front of her is a competitor of her father, wouldn't she be kidnapped as a hostage?

She doesn't want to hold her father back!

And Nakajima Atsushi has already learned something from the girl's few words.

Tohsaka Rin's father was indeed one of the participants in the Holy Grail War, and the explosion at Tohsaka House was to cover up the battle.Moreover, for the safety of his wife and daughter, Tohsaka Rin was sent out of Fuyuki City by her father before, but in order to rescue her friend, she secretly ran back alone.

"I'm not a contestant." The boy said sincerely.

His clear eyes will make people trust him involuntarily, but when he announced his name, Tohsaka Rin became more vigilant.

"You still said that you are not a contestant! They are all called by this name!"

Probably because the attitude shown by the other party was too soft, and he didn't mean to catch her to threaten his father, Rin Tohsaka gradually became more courageous.

She put her waist in her waist, her tone was firm.

"Atsushi Nakajima, you are the native heroic spirit of Japan!!!"