Lost Lord Ranbu

"Mr. Ranpo?"

Osamu Dazai's smile froze again.

To be honest, he didn't quite understand how "Edogawa Ranpo" and "Oda Sakunosuke" could be related, but he reacted immediately.If it comes to a character that I haven't figured out, it's naturally that Edogawa Ranpo who was brought back by the president today.

"That Mr. Ranpo in the black coat?"

Oda Sakunosuke nodded.

Osamu Dazai was already convinced that Mr. Ranpo and Sakunosuke Oda came from the same place.

It was not caused by supernatural powers. Originally, he thought it was a ghost, but unexpectedly possessed an entity.Since they are real and have different life experiences, these two people are still very familiar... Could it be a parallel world?

Dazai fell into deep thought.

"Have you already met?"

"Of course!" Osamu Dazai came back to his senses, and smiled at Oda Sakunosuke again, "Speaking of which, I was able to capture Fyodor this time, thanks to Mr. Ranpo. Don't worry, Ranpo Monsieur is safe at the detective agency."

"Detective agency?"

Sakunosuke Oda thought of the portmaffia detective agency that Ranpo established in another world. Could it be that Ranpo in this world did the same thing?

Osamu Dazai took the locator from Oda Sakuyuki's assistant, and showed him the location on it: "This is the place! I'll take you there."

Oda Sakunosuke agreed to the request of his colleagues.

Along the way, Osamu Dazai couldn't relax and kept talking.

Oda Sakunosuke has long been used to him having nothing to say. When drinking in a bar, Dazai can always tell him some of the completed ambush missions as work complaints.

"Odasaku, Odasaku!" Osamu Dazai shouted loudly, and after attracting the attention of Oda Sakunosuke, he said happily, "Actually, I am no longer a port mafia. I changed careers, it’s a serious job! Now I’m working in a detective agency, and I usually help solve some clients’ commissions.”

"Isn't that great?" Oda Sakunosuke responded flatly.

Ranpo wanted to set up a detective agency, and Dazai said that he would play detective games with Ranpo, so after learning that Osamu Dazai of this world also joined the detective agency, Oda Sakunosuke was not very surprised.

"You seem to be doing well."

"Of course, the detective agency is doing good things. There are dormitories to live in, and a stable salary, and the colleagues are all good people!"

For Oda Sakunosuke, the most important message revealed in this passage is that Osamu Dazai broke away from the port mafia and found a serious job.

For Osamu Dazai, it doesn't really matter whether it is black or white.But now, as a member of the Armed Detective Agency, in the eyes of the world, Osamu Dazai probably knows his way back and is on the right track, right?

"That's right, Odasaku!" Osamu Dazai pouted, "How did you meet Ranpo-san? I haven't heard you mention it before."

He is not the kind of person who unilaterally discloses his information without asking for the information to be returned. If you pay a little, of course you have to get back a little.Even if it is really the parallel world I guessed, then I have to figure out where the differences are, at least I need to know the part about Oda Sakunosuke.

"This..."

Oda Sakunosuke felt that those were just trivial things, and there was no need to tell others specifically, but Dazai Osamu couldn't help asking around him like a little bird, so he organized his words and said something casually like telling a story .

Dazai Osamu is a friend of Oda Sakunosuke.

Friendship is not a vigorous relationship for the two of them, it is to maintain a relationship that is deeper than others but does not involve the privacy of both parties.

Therefore, Osamu Dazai only knows that Oda Sakunosuke was a killer in the past, but he doesn't know some of the details.

In fact, no matter whether it is the Oda Sakunosuke in front of you or the Oda Sakunosuke who died four years ago, the lives of the two used to be on the same track, until one of them became Ranpo's life assistant, the life trajectory appeared Forked.

As for the part that Dazai Osamu didn't know, such as the first encounter between Oda Sakunosuke and Edogawa Ranpo, we have to talk about more than ten years ago.

When they first met, Oda Sakunosuke was only 16 years old, and Ranpo was only 15 years old.

However, it is not okay to underestimate them.

At that time, Oda Sakunosuke was already a well-known young killer on the road.Although Ranpo still looks like a fledgling kid, his words and deeds are childish and willful, but he has just joined the port mafia and has been reused by the leader. Obviously, he can be regarded as a big shot in Yokohama.

The matter started when Oda Sakunosuke took over a business order.

Oda Sakunosuke is an honest person. Although he has no expectations for life, he has always been dedicated to his work.

Generally speaking, whatever the employer asks, as long as he can do it, Oda Sakunosuke will obey him unconditionally.

It was the same this time. Oda Sakunosuke complied with the employer's instructions, completed a series of seemingly weird requirements, and finally let the employer tie him up—he didn't figure out what the situation was, and the employer paid the deposit. Said it was part of the plan, so Oda Sakunosuke obediently followed through.

Just after hearing the beginning of the story, Osamu Dazai couldn't help but sigh in amazement: "Oda Tsukuru, what's the matter with you? You did it without understanding anything, did you sell yourself for such a small deposit? What if the family is a human trafficker?"

"No one thought about kidnapping a killer, right? And if it's human trafficking, people like me are at most sold to the arena on the black market, and I can escape by myself." Oda Sakunosuke explained earnestly.

Osamu Dazai: "Okay, okay, and then?"

Oda Sakunosuke's gun was taken away, a hood was put on his head, and his hands and feet were firmly tied to a chair.

Under such circumstances, the killer still had no fluctuations in his mind, and he was even seriously considering whether to ask his employer how to calculate the deal—his employer was the secretary in this office, and his The target of the mission, that is, the president of this club, has fallen from the window of this office and fell to his death.

Then, he heard someone enter the room.

"Mr. Ranpo is the person who came?" Osamu Dazai listened very intently, interjecting from time to time to join in the guesswork of the follow-up plot, "Did Mr. Ranpo save Odasaku?"

"Ah...it's random steps."

In fact, Oda Sakunosuke felt that he didn't need anyone to save him, because he possessed the "seamless" ability to avoid life-threatening dangers. So far, there has been no early warning in the development of the story, so Oda Sakunosuke sat on the chair honestly and didn't mind. move.

The young killer's head was completely covered by a black cloth, and his eyes were completely dark, so he could only use his other senses to identify the person who entered the door.

The man's voice was very lively, and he sounded young.

He also talked a lot, and he kept talking since he entered the door, like a noisy duckling.The topic ranged from complaining about the humid sea breeze in Yokohama to distributing my onigiri to disgusting seagulls, but I missed the point at all.Oda Sakunosuke couldn't remember exactly what he said, anyway, it should be some insignificant and inexplicable words.

Even Sakunosuke Oda couldn't understand it, and the secretary standing in the same office couldn't understand it even more.

This was the scene of the first murder, and the police hadn't arrived yet, so Mr. Secretary immediately tried to drive away the teenager who appeared here on the grounds that "idle people waiting to enter the door will disturb the layout of the scene".

In his opinion, such a young child is probably still in junior high school, not yet experienced in the world, so it is easy to be fooled, and he can be driven away with just a few scares.

It's true if you really want to think so.

The 15-year-old boy was wearing a black student uniform of a country school, and an old-fashioned student cap, and had short, uneven hair that made people wonder about the level of the barber.He even put on a black coat that could almost be dragged to the ground, and he didn't know which adult's clothes he had stolen.

This childish appearance is really not enough in front of the social elite.

The juvenile club came to the door because he made an appointment with the president here to get the documents. It was a letter of approval signed by the president after the personnel participated in the interview, and the government used it to assist minors to work. Necessary props.

"Oh, I just found a good job recently, and I have to get the activity certificate back before signing the contract." The young man looked around, "I think... it should be here!"

"I've helped you find it. Don't come in." Mr. Secretary said to him after he figured out the boy's purpose.

"Eh—?" The boy complained with a drawn out voice.

There are stacks of documents everywhere in the house, and it is impossible to tell what is what. Mr. Secretary insisted that the important documents in the house are arranged in a certain order, and outsiders must not be allowed to touch them.If the boy insisted on walking in, he would call the security guards to come up and drive him out.

"In the end, Luanbu still entered the door."

Oda Sakunosuke recalled.

"How should I put it... This kind of behavior that goes its own way is worthy of Mr. Ranpo." Osamu Dazai spread his hands helplessly, "After all, Mr. Ranpo must have his own plans, he must have discovered something, right? "

"Indeed." Oda Sakunosuke nodded in agreement, "After that, there was a period of random reasoning... Well, that's probably it."

"For example, the murderer is Mr. Secretary. He lured you over by negotiating a reward, and then called the police. It can get rid of the president and leave a sum of money for hiring the killer. The bonus given by the police should be more than the deposit, right? Osamu Dazai couldn't help sighing, "Oda work was really cheap at that time, and the professional level was still very high."

Regarding the ins and outs of the matter, Osamu Dazai has already deduced it from the subjective narrative of Oda Sakunosuke.Although some of the specific details are not clear and there is not enough evidence, since the opening of Oda Sakunosuke was spoiled, there is no suspense at all.

What he is more curious about now is what exactly he did after Luanbu.

"After being exposed by Ranpo, the secretary became angry. He called the security guard and scolded Ranpo severely..." Oda Sakunosuke paused slightly, "Ranpo spoke very succinctly at that time. Sensitive, if you say a few more words, you may be killed by that secretary later."

"So Odasaku is going to do something, right? For Ranpo-san."

"Originally, I had this plan. After all, Luanbu told me the truth about being cheated."

"Then why didn't you kill Mr. Secretary?"

"..."

Even if it wasn't for random steps, the Killer and his party had their own rules.

At that time, Oda Sakunosuke was not as easy to talk about as he is now. What he said about "the mafia that doesn't kill people" was only a rule he set for himself later.

Faced with such a situation of treachery by the employer, the cold-hearted young killer would only choose to rely on the flexibility of his body to break free from the rope, even if he broke his wrist, he would shoot and kill the secretary.

Thinking of his past, Oda Sakunosuke was silent for a moment, and then replied: "Because someone preempted him."

When he was about to forcibly untie the restraints, he heard the sound of a dozen people running in the corridor, as well as the subtle sounds of guns rubbing against clothing and precision metal parts colliding with each other.

It's not the security guards, it's impossible for the security guards to have such good equipment.

"Is it the Port Mafia?" Osamu Dazai raised his eyebrows, "At that time, the previous leader should still be in office, right?"

The Port Mafia, under the previous leadership, acted violently and recklessly.They broke in, raised their guns, and turned the secretary into a hornet's nest.

After the intensive gunfire, only the room was left in a mess.

The focus of Oda Sakunosuke's narration was not on the actions of the mafia, but on Ranpo's reaction: "Ranpo was very angry because his activity certificate was stained with blood and his signature was scrapped, so he took these things out without permission. The subordinates who acted scolded me."

Osamu Dazai: "...Wait, you said you are a subordinate?"

"Ranpo was already a member of the port mafia at that time, and until now..." Oda Sakunosuke finished speaking, and asked belatedly, "Isn't the ranpo in this world the mafia?"

Dazai Osamu: "..."

He probably knew what was wrong.

"No, Mr. Ranpo in this world is just a detective."

"That's really great." Oda Sakunosuke said with emotion sincerely.

He is still willing to stay in the port mafia until now, on the one hand because he is worried about Dazai, and on the other hand because he is worried about walking around.If these two people can turn from darkness to light, Sakunosuke Oda should retire and use his retirement salary to buy a house by the sea and write novels.

The Dazai of this world has escaped from the quagmire. Although he may not be able to find a clear direction in life, at least he is in the light.And Ranpo relied on his talent to become a famous detective. The detective agency in this world should be very successful.

It is not good?

Dazai Osamu misunderstood what he meant, and his expression suddenly became cold: "There is nothing to say, my side is not good at all."

Oda Sakunosuke: "...?"