Lost Lord Ranbu

The words of the port mafia cadres are so unbelievable that they want to send the mafia leader to the top of the power of the entire country in order to print his profile picture on banknotes.

Fukuzawa Yukichi thinks that although Mori Ogai loves power, he really doesn't need to be the prime minister, or the emperor or something... Imagine turning on the TV in the new year and seeing Mori Ogai's face on the TV, and the prime minister reports to the emperor , that scene is too indescribable.

The cadres didn't realize what was wrong with what they said. Just because they didn't want Mori Ogai to fall behind their old rivals, they arranged for them to talk to themselves, and even vowed: "Don't worry, I won't let Mori Ogai fall behind. Mr. Fukuzawa is behind, sooner or later Mr. Mori's portrait will be printed on it!"

...you don't have to be so serious.

Fukuzawa Yukichi thought from the bottom of his heart.

Originally, Fukuzawa Yukichi forgot to ask about the portrait on the [-]-yuan banknote because of the strange logic of the cadre, but the topic was brought up again, and he didn't know what to say.He was very puzzled why his own face was printed on the [-]-dollar banknotes from another world. Thinking of the existence of Dazai and Ranpo, it shouldn't be because "Fukuzawa Yukichi" from another world is the emperor, right?

...This is too scary.

As if seeing Fukuzawa Yukichi's unfinished words, the cadre explained with a smile: "Your Excellency Fukuzawa from another world is a famous educator, so his profile picture was printed on the banknotes—or [-] yuan banknotes." , it is circulated throughout Japan, and Mr. Fukuzawa has a very large audience."

Fukuzawa Yukichi: "..."

If possible, he didn't want to have this kind of meeting at all.

"Oh? It seems that different worlds still have something in common." Edogawa Ranpo thoughtfully, and then grinned at Fukuzawa Yukichi, "It seems that the influence of the president as an educator is still Is it quite big?"

Fukuzawa Yukichi's expression was still very serious: "Ranpo, don't tease me casually, the things in the other world have nothing to do with us."

"I'm just praising you, President."

The Edogawa Ranpo in this world has always been disciplined by Fukuzawa Yukichi, plus Fukuzawa Yukichi's supernatural ability "human beings are not created" can help his members control supernatural abilities, Fukuzawa Yukichi in another world It is not surprising that he is an educator, at least Edogawa Ranpo has guessed it.

Edogawa Ranpo suddenly thought of something, looked at the cadre with a half-smile, and said firmly, "What you found is far from that."

Mafia cadres gave him the same smile back.

Not knowing what charade they were playing, Fukuzawa Yukichi asked, "What's the matter?"

"What else is there to be happy about in this different world?" Edogawa Ranpo began to feel curious, this part was something he didn't know, and he couldn't reason about it. but the joy to share with me—what is it?"

He guessed: "Is it the experience of 'us' in a different world? The president can be an educator, so do other people also have identities that are completely different from our cognition..."

"That's right, this is the source of my happiness!" The cadre smiled brightly like a child.

It's just that in Fukuzawa Yukichi's view, his happiness is probably based on someone's pain, so it's not so friendly.

Ranpo couldn't wait to share the happiness with them: "In those different worlds I went to, everyone is actually a great writer!"

"...What do you mean?" Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't realize it for a while. Is it the kind of "literary hero" he understood?

The cadre's words proved that he was right: "It's the kind of great writer who wrote articles, mostly in modern times, from the Meiji Restoration to the Taisho period."

"Oh? It's a writer, it's really unexpected." Edogawa Ranpo echoed.

Really unexpected.

Fukuzawa Yukichi defines himself as a samurai. Even if he established a detective agency, the prefix is ​​also "armed". As the president, he certainly knows the definition of an armed detective agency.

The Armed Detective Agency was built around Edogawa Ranpo. Investigators are all supernatural beings with force values, responsible for protecting famous detectives and assisting them in their work.Fukuzawa Yukichi really can't imagine his members running to write literary novels one by one, not to mention the Tanizaki brothers and sisters who are still studying, Kunikida is a math teacher...

Edogawa Ranpo asked again: "What about the content? If it's just a literary giant, it wouldn't be mentioned."

I have to say that he really knows himself too well, and he can always point out what the peers haven't finished talking about.

Someone like Edgar Allan Poe is quite suitable to be a writer. His supernatural ability is to draw people into the mystery novels he wrote, and he is an author of mystery novels himself.

So, what about the others?

"That's the point—" The cadre paused slightly, as if he wanted to show off, but couldn't bear the desire to share it with others, so he said it happily within two seconds.

"I found that the novels written by writers with the same name and surname are very interesting! Their respective masterpieces are the names of different abilities. Even if it is not so intuitively expressed, the works are also related to different abilities. Not only that, but also everyone's personality and life experience All of them can be verified, most of them just change the background.”

This is a remarkable discovery.

If you can freely travel through those different worlds, you can completely treat it as a huge library, which stores information about your own world.No matter which force it is, it can quickly find out the target person's supernatural powers, weaknesses, and even his entire life.

Now, even Fukuzawa Yukichi has no reason to say confidently that "a writer from another world has nothing to do with this world".

However, Ranpo did not tell Mori Ogai of this information, let alone Dazai, which proved that he did not want to use the library as a weapon of the port mafia.

Ranpo first studied Dostoevsky specifically because of the crisis facing the port mafia, and then roughly read the books written by characters related to him at the fastest speed, and other writers didn't pay much attention.After all, he would do this just because he found it interesting, not to deal with anyone.I have limited free time and too many books, so I didn't have time to read them all.

"In addition to these, there are also some interesting stories about literary giants." Luanbu waved his hand, "No matter in which world, famous people have no privacy at all. After death, not only unpublished articles, but also diaries and love letters They were all dug out and published by later generations!"

Ranpo was deeply impressed by the swearing quotations of writers, after all, they fit the reality he knew. For example, the "slug" that Osamu Dazai mocked his partner and the "green mackerel" that Nakahara also often talked about were still used. The typesetting person put it on the front and back pages.

Of course, there are also the entangled relationship history of the literary giants, as well as various confusing behaviors. These things are very interesting in the eyes of Ranpo when they are combined with reality.

Although he is indifferent to other people's affairs, Ranpo is still very interested in the stories that the writers of these different worlds love to hear, especially the part of Mori Ogai.

"Wow, that was really hard work. But the writers are gone, and the publishing house can only make money by selling anecdotes about writers." Edogawa Ranpo said while sneaking a glance at Fukuzawa Yukichi , the implied meaning is obvious.

"Hmph..." The cadre showed a narrow smile.

Fukuzawa Yukichi became vigilant.

"It's getting late, let's call it a day." Fukuzawa Yukichi left the topic immediately, just as the refreshments were finished, he coughed twice, "It's time to get off work, walk around."

After finishing speaking, the man in the kimono stood up and hurried out the door. No matter how he looked at his back, he seemed to be running away.

Ranpo Edogawa looked at each other.

"Oh, the president is too thin-skinned, is he afraid that we will talk about the dark history of 'Fukuzawa Yukichi' in another world?" Edogawa grinned wildly and laughed wantonly. "Obviously I have said that they are not the same person, so just treat them as people with the same name and surname, but I still feel ashamed when I talk about these things."

Without considering other people's feelings at all, Edogawa Ranbu propped his chin and thought for a while, then asked: "By the way, do you really have the president's love letter?"

"Well..." The cadre scratched his hair, "At that time, I was not interested in His Excellency Fukuzawa, so I didn't look for it specially, and there were only a few other people included in that book."

There are quite a lot of love letters about Dazai, but they are all empty nonsense, and in the end even lovers think he is perfunctory.

As for such a serious person as Fukuzawa Yukichi, the world pays more attention to the introduction of his contribution to education, and no one would think what kind of situation he is in when he talks about love—anyway, Fukuzawa Yukichi in this world Ji has also been single.

Edogawa Ranpo only pays attention to Fukuzawa Yukichi, and is not very concerned about other people's affairs. After listening to the information about Fukuzawa Yukichi given by his peers, he quickly lost interest in this topic .

He pushed away the chair and stood up: "Didn't you say that you want to observe how the detective agency works? Then start tomorrow. It's really late today, so go back first."

"Okay."

"I eat too much sweet things, I want something salty."

"Mr. Hat will treat us to dinner."

They didn't even discuss where to stay at night, they just agreed to go to the dormitory of the Armed Detective Agency by default, and they also finalized the matters for today's dinner.

When Nakahara Nakaya learned that he had to share the same dormitory with Osamu Dazai of this world at night, his expression changed immediately: "What?! Let me share the same room with this mackerel?"

"Evil, it's too bad, it's really too bad." Dazai Osamu didn't expect his dormitory to be let out just like that, and said with a disgusted face, "Let Chuya go out and find a hotel to sleep by himself ?"

"What did you say? Nakahara looked at him gloomyly, "If it wasn't for protecting Mr. Ranpo, I wouldn't—"

Osamu Dazai snapped back: "I should be the one who said that, if it wasn't for Mr. Ranpo, I wouldn't be staying with the bad-tempered little dwarf."

The two Edogawa Ranpo didn't care whether their relationship was good or bad, they laughed and walked away with their arms around each other.