Lost Lord Ranbu

Ranbu had a dream.

The things in the dream are vague and unreal, and the feeling seems to be floating in the clouds, as if experiencing it personally, but there is no real feeling.

There was a tall man who carried him on his back for a while, and he could only see the back of his head in Luanbu. His short silver hair was raised rebelliously, and his back was strong and broad, supporting him firmly.

This feeling is very strange, like riding a silver wolf.

This Mr. Silver Wolf was taciturn and looked very aggressive, but his temper was unexpectedly good. After carrying him for a while, he was still willing to invite him to dinner.Ranbu never knew what it means to be polite, so he ordered more than a dozen bowls of red bean rice cake soup in one go, and then ate all the bean filling in it, leaving only a few white rice cakes at the bottom of the bowl—the taste of white rice cakes was too bland for him to like .

When he woke up from the dream, he lay on the sofa and smashed his mouth in disorder, as if he could still taste the sweetness of red bean soup.

He didn't lie down for a long time, when he heard some small voices, he sat up.The blanket that was covered by someone who didn't know who was covering him slipped down, and Luanbu reached out to grab a handful, and wrapped the blanket around his body with his backhand, covering his head, only showing a pair of eyes to look around.

Dr. Ali, wearing round glasses and dressed as a scholar, was tiptoeing past the living room. When he saw that Luanbu woke up, he stopped keeping quiet and found a place to sit in the living room with a relaxed expression.

"You're awake."

"Good morning!" Luanbu regained his energy, greeted the owner of the house lively, and then asked, "Do you have rice cake and red bean soup?"

"... rice cake and red bean soup?"

Dr. A Li found that this young man really did not regard himself as an outsider, or in other words, he lacked the common sense of communicating with others, as if he just jumped out of a place isolated from the world.

Under normal circumstances, you should introduce yourself, and then ask the stranger's name, or ask "Where is the person who brought me here?" or something like that?But none of the above situations happened, and he even asked a stranger like him to eat rice cake and red bean soup... In other words, why did he suddenly mention rice cake and red bean soup!

As if seeing the question of the other party, the young man poked his head out from under the blanket, scratched his messy black hair with one hand, squinted his eyes and laughed: "Oh, I dreamed that Mr. Silver Wolf invited me to eat and told me not to waste money." Food, but the essence of rice cake and red bean soup is bean filling, white rice cake is not sweet at all, right?"

But this is indeed a waste of food...

Dr. Ali thought to himself.

Although some can't understand the other party's thinking, Dr. A Li adapts well to this kind of people.As a genius inventor who is keen on experimentation, he is of course well-informed, and his own personality is informal, so he immediately came up with a way to deal with young people.

"I can't get out the rice cake and red bean soup for the time being, but I have some red bean paste buns, do you want to eat?" Dr. A Li asked.

"Okay." Ranpo reluctantly agreed.

Dr. A Li brought him a plate of red bean paste buns, and asked Luanbu to fill his stomach before lunch.

"You're called Luanbu, right?"

Luanbu nodded.

"I'm Alibi Luzhi, you can call me doctor, this is my home. Shinichi and Xiaoai have gone to class, and they can't come back until after school. If you have nowhere to go, you can stay here at ease." Ah Dr. Li paused halfway through his words, his eyes fell on Luanbu's hands, his expression became a little indescribable, "Well... I said, why did you break the bean paste bun?"

"Well?"

Luanbu raised his head with an innocent face, he was still breaking off the red bean paste bun in his hand, he picked out all the red bean paste inside and ate it, leaving only the white skin.There was a mess on the plate, but the culprit took it for granted, his mouth was full of bean paste, and he didn't even have the intention to explain.

Dr. A Li thought of the nonsense that Luanbu said before, and after equating the red bean paste bun with the red bean rice cake soup, he actually understood what the other party wanted to express.

It is precisely because of understanding that we are powerless to refute - the dough is not sweet, the soul of the red bean paste is in the red bean paste, so we do this.

Dr. A Li couldn't help but wonder, is the young man in front of him really an adult?Today's children will not only pick their favorite parts to eat.

But...forget it.

Dr. Ali, who is single and has no plans to get married, likes children very much. He kindly watched Ranbu pick up all the red bean paste and ate it before asking: "Xinyi said that you might live here for a while. Need to wear his clothes, do you want to take a shower?"

Luanbu looked down at the shirt that was wrinkled like pickled vegetables, and it still had a faint smell of rancidity, so he nodded obediently.

Seeing the cooperation of the other party, Dr. A Li couldn't help feeling a little relieved.Before going out in the morning, Xinyi told him that this person had a weird temper, but he wasn't as difficult to get along with as he imagined.

In fact, Kudo Shinichi is right.

Ranpo is easy to get along with, but also very difficult to get along with.

If it suits him, he will accept it no matter what; if it is not what he wants, he will make a fuss no matter what.

She has a perverse personality, and her behavior style is determined entirely by subjective wishes. This should indeed be called an "extreme egoist". This kind of person will probably be hated by others no matter where they go, except for their parents.

However, this kind of characteristic will be different and subtle when placed on Ranpo.

You must know that a genius always has the advantage of being treated differently, and Luanbu is born with the ability to see through everything. No matter how willful he behaves, he will be regarded by others as the perverse side of a genius.

In a place like Yokohama where fish and dragons are mixed, as one of the cadres of the local snake port mafia, against the backdrop of other mafia, Luanbo, who has no special hobbies and is only slightly willful, is already considered a friendly and friendly type.

His subordinates all know what to do so as not to annoy this lord, it's very simple, as long as they uphold the three principles——

Don't worry about what Master Ranpo does during working hours.

Don't let Ranpo-sama's snack reserves dwindle.

Don't ask Lord Ranpo why-how-what.

According to these three laws, Conan's behavior of stepping on thunder by not letting Ranpo sleep last night, breaking the casserole, asking how much one plus one equals, etc., of course cannot make Ranbu happy.

After taking a shower in random steps, he took off the dark formal suit he wore last night, and put on a plaid shirt and a camel sand-proof cape. This attire made him look more like a high school student.

"It's very suitable!" Dr. Ali said.

"Really?" Luanbu took a look at the camel cloak.

"Add a hat and glasses and look like a detective!"

"Oh! Does the doctor know that I want to be a detective?"

"Hahaha, I know a lot of detectives." Dr. A Li couldn't help laughing when he thought of the young detectives of the Detective Boys, "I feel that Luanbu can get along well with them."

Ranpo doesn't like to be compared with other people, so he replied unhappily: "Ordinary detectives are like that, but Ranpo-sama wants to be the world's No.1 detective! The world's No.1 detective is different from a detective."

"That has to be done step by step." Dr. A Li coaxed a few words, then took out the hair dryer and let him dry his hair, while he went to tidy up the clothes that he had changed, intending to send these expensive-looking suits to him. Go to the dry cleaners.

Luanbu wandered aimlessly around the house twice, without stepping into the private area of ​​the master's house, and soon returned to the living room, hugging his legs and retracting on the sofa.

"Doctor, doctor!" shouted in disorderly steps with nothing to do, "It's so boring! The TV is not good, the games are not fun, so there is nothing more interesting?"

"Is that so..." Dr. A Li fell into deep thought.

Apart from TV and games, there is only one entertainment item he can think of, and that is—brain teasers.Although Shinichi always thinks his topic is very cold, but the children of the Boys Detective Corps like to use their brains, so let's do this!

"Then let me test you on the debut question!" Dr. A Li said confidently.

"Ok?"

"It's just an ordinary brain teaser, it won't be too difficult."

Luanbu blinked, and seemed to have some interest, he sat up cross-legged on the sofa: "Okay, I have nothing to do anyway."

"Which home appliance has an elephant installed?"

"refrigerator."

"What's the bird that has a bad relationship with the police?"

"heron."

"There was a murder at home, where was the body placed?"

"bathroom."

"........."

Answer in seconds.

Without any pause, stepping on Dr. Ali's final sound, Luanbu followed closely and gave the correct answer.This is true for three consecutive questions, without even a thought process, which makes people wonder if he peeked at the answer.

"No more?" Luanbu asked.

"I always feel that I don't have any sense of accomplishment in the question." Dr. A Li was hit hard. Although Shinichi mentioned a few words to him, saying that Luanbu's reasoning ability is very strong, he didn't expect this to look like a Children's youth thinking will be so active.

Ranbu quickly lost interest in simple brain teasers, and chirped like a bird: "Doctor, what are you having for lunch? Where are the snacks? No afternoon tea?"

"For lunch, how about having curry rice?"

"Not spicy."

"Then make something sweet!"

Dr. Ali suddenly thought that there were still many mystery novels in the study room, and felt that Ranbu might be interested in them, so he suggested that he go to the study room to read books before the curry rice was ready.

"A speculative novel?"

"Yeah, there are quite a few. Ranpo should be interested in mystery novels, right? After all, the name is also 'Ranpo', and it sounds like a mystery fan." Dr. Ali was talking about the great writer Edogawa Ranpo, since this young man is called Ranpo, he is probably also a fan of Mr. Edogawa.

Ranbu naturally sensed the information inadvertently revealed in these words, a gleam of deep thought flashed in his emerald eyes, then he got off the sofa, nodded and responded: "I'm really interested, then Master Ranbu will go and have a look Bar!"

Conan rejected the expedition invitation of the Boys Detective Team, and returned to Dr. Ali's house with Aihara Ai as soon as school was over. The first thing he did when he entered the door was to ask Dr. Ali: "How is he? Didn't he do anything strange?"

"Are you walking randomly? You are reading in the study." Dr. A Li replied.

"...Reading?"

"Well, it seems that you are very interested in mystery novels, and you have been in the study all afternoon."

"I gonna go see!"

Conan took off his outdoor shoes and ran in hastily, leaving only Aihara Ai and Dr. Ari standing in the entrance. They looked at each other with some helplessness in their eyes.

"Aren't Xiao Ai going to take a look?"

"Not from that organization." The elementary school student with short chestnut hair looked indifferent, as if he was not interested in Luanbu at all.

She arranged the shoes slowly, picked up the schoolbag that Conan had thrown aside, and walked in, bypassing Dr. Ali: "But you still have to pay attention, after all, this man can tell Kudo's identity at a glance, and it's hard to keep my identity secret." ... It is impossible for such a person to remain unknown until now, either from the police or from the other world. Depending on the situation, he should be well protected by a certain force, right?"

"In that case..."

"Well, let's do this first, I will check his information at night, and the rest will be up to Kudo to decide."

When Conan opened the door and entered, Ranpo was sitting cross-legged on a chair in the study room, with a novel spread out in front of him, and a few bags of potato chips for the Detective Boys beside him, making him feel as leisurely as he was at home.

"I said, you guy, you really plan to stay here forever." Conan walked over.

"I'll pay the rent, but I'll have to wait until I find a job." Luanbu replied without raising his head, crunching his potato chips while reading with his eyes down.

Conan reluctantly replied: "The rent is unnecessary..."

"You are a good person."

"... There is no need for a good person card!"

Seeing that Ranbu turned another page of the novel, he didn't pay attention to him at all. Thinking of the conversation last night, Conan finally couldn't help but ask, "What are you reading?"

"Speculative fiction."

When it comes to mystery novels, Conan is definitely like a treasure.

This is what he is interested in, but there are no friends around him to communicate with him, so he can only tell these to his childhood sweethearts.But even so, Xiaolan is not interested in this aspect, and can only accept Amway passively, and it is impossible to communicate with her.

Now a guy whose reasoning ability may be better than his suddenly appears. Although his origin is unknown and his appearance is suspicious, but because he likes to read mystery novels...

Conan leaned forward awkwardly: "Which one are you reading?"

Luanbu turned over the cover and showed him.

"Ah, it's this one." Conan looked at the title of "Black Lizard" for a while, and he suddenly thought of a question, "Speaking of which, you haven't introduced yourself yet, right? It's just a pseudonym..."

"No, who would use a pseudonym?" Ranpo replied unhappily, he liked the name given by his parents very much, and he didn't intend to use a pseudonym under any circumstances, "Master Ranpo is called Ranpo! Edogawa Random steps!"

"……what?"

"Edogawa Ranpo." Ranpo thought he didn't understand, so he repeated his full name, held up the mystery novel in front of him, pointed to the author's name on the cover and said, "Well, it's written in Chinese characters. this."

I saw on the cover of that novel——

The five Chinese characters of "Edogawa Ranpo" are printed under the title of "Black Lizard", and "Father of Japanese Detective Mystery Novels" is also marked on the bottom line.