Hong Kong and Black Undercover Ayanokoji's Handbook of Tool Man

it's me and you

Because of my identity, I changed to a private hospital for medical treatment after completing a simple record as a victim.But after all, it is not the relationship between the supernatural beings, and the physical recovery is not as fast as other Hong Kong and black members imagined, and they are often mentioned in the recovery progress.Every time Akutagawa came, he looked at the doctor's report and asked me why I recovered so slowly.

But having said that, Mori Ogai has already approved my sick leave, and I don't know what Akutagawa and the others are anxious about.

Without me, Hong Kong and Heilongjiang would not be able to function.

In addition, I have also handed over the important tasks of the secretariat to "Ichiyo Higuchi" as the commander.

In the end, I still don't think she is suitable to stand on the front line, especially the front line of the militant faction. Even if I have the intention to put people in the guerrillas, she will have a hard time surviving.So, after recovering from the Mori Ogai assassination incident, I transferred her to work in the personnel department and asked her to help me with paperwork.

I thought, it would be better to give full play to her careful personality in the "personnel department". After one or two years of activities, she would have the right to speak in Hong Kong and black.After that, if she wants to transfer to her first choice - "Guerrillas directly under the leader", she can also get a high position of "Deputy Commander" without looking at other people's faces.

But after the work was handed over to her, I heard that because she was too responsible, Chief Mori could always finish things ahead of time, and when he had more time left, he began to lose his mind and often went out to play.Therefore, Higuchi Ichiyo occasionally sighs with emotion, am I being too strict with Chief Mori.

When I was in the office, she saw Chief Sen staying up late in the chief's office almost every day.

After she finished feeling, I felt that I was stricter with her than with the leader.

Because Higuchi Ichiyo itself is not a professional, many skills are just honing his guns.In addition, for the purpose of her entering Hong Kong at the beginning, I will definitely require her to participate in two hours of physical training every day, from close combat to the use of knives.

When the physical training started, she felt sleepy every day when she returned to the office.Now she has begun to adapt, and her energy is getting more and more energetic. Occasionally, she will report to me that when she finds that she can climb a two-meter-high wall with her bare hands, she is so handsome.

I will pour cold water on her, this is the most basic skill.

Judging from these small details, I am indeed much stricter to her than to Mori Ogai.

But in any case, this is a small episode in the hospital.

Because the explosion has been presumed to be "Kijima Masahiro" and no extra clues can be found, it can only be regarded as an accident for Akutagawa and me.I don't think so.

After all, the most important thing is that I had an appointment with Fei Jia before the book signing, but when I asked Akutagawa Ryunosuke to call up the nearby video to see if Fei Jia appeared, Akutagawa said that he did not find the person I mentioned. .

Therefore, this matter may be done by Fei Jia. He used "Oguri Fusutaro" to cover up all the truth, so even Edogawa Ranpo couldn't see the result.

And if it was really Fei Jia who did it to put me in trouble, or to warn me regardless of my safety, I have to think about me, and I need to change my attitude towards Fei Jia, and I can't let him go like this Walk freely in Yokohama.

In other words, with the "Fei Jia" incident, I originally had to deal with the issue of Shi Tong's justice to prevent "that person from dying suddenly" from happening, as well as the "girl collection" plan of Hong Kong black and white. It's going to be frustrating.

But surprisingly, even though I am lazy, I didn't think these things seemed troublesome.

On the contrary, I find it very interesting.

I have to think, is this the so-called "path dependence"?

"Path dependence" refers to the process of making millions of life choices in life. In fact, it refers more to the issue of employment. When a person has become accustomed to a certain field and enters a certain path, he will become dependent.And this dependence will also react on this person's life.

I grew up in the whiteroom, calculating and competing every day.If I'm really at ease, I'm afraid I won't be at ease either.Just like Watson next to Sherlock Holmes, he retired from the military doctor and started his ordinary life, but he became interested in various murders around Holmes, and would not be afraid of falling into the danger caused by the investigation. Fear, resistance.

Just as he is used to the life of wandering on the edge of danger, I am also used to the daily calculation life of Whiteroom. Even though Whiteroom has completely disappeared in name, its education has been deeply engraved in my body In my heart, it has long been indelible.

When I was flipping through the newspaper to see the recent movements of Shidou Masayoshi, Ranpo Edogawa in the next bed was packing his luggage and was taken back to the Butei Club by the president of the Butei Club.

In fact, he could be discharged from the hospital a long time ago. When the hospital announced that he could be discharged, he began to pretend to be sick on the hospital bed, always saying that his body hurts, and the doctor suggested that he stay in the hospital for a few more days of observation.After going back and forth like this three or four times, the president of the Butei Club came to arrest the person himself.

Under the intimidation of the president's eyes, Edogawa Ranpo said that he was actually pretending to be sick.

I don't quite understand why Edogawa pretended to be sick.

Because in fact Edogawa Ranpo was very concerned about the "Kijima Masahiro" case. When the police came to a conclusion, he asked the president of the Butei Club to delay Masahiro Kijima from going to court so quickly.In addition, the meals given by the hospital are definitely not as delicious as outside. Edogawa often comes to eat the food they give me.

Two things Edogawa Rampo likes most: one is "decryption/puzzle solving"; the other is "food/dessert", both of which cannot find the best solution in the hospital.Why did he stay in the hospital all the time?And he was supposed to be in the public hospital originally, but when I heard that I was going to be transferred to another hospital, he was also transferred to the same hospital.

In addition, I expressed doubts about the fact that he jumped down from the stairs. Did Edogawa conclude that "Rashomon" could support us?Because as far as I know, apart from self-defense and offense, Rashomon did not seem to be able to protect others as he was then.

If he didn't know, if he dared to jump down, I can only think that he either predicted the explosion in advance, so he jumped down first, but his expression was not the same, and he also said that he saw the bomb explode It should be at 11 o'clock, an hour before the detonation time; or he concluded that the nitroglycerin in Masahiro Kijima's pocket had expired.But there is no need for him to say to me specifically, "Ayanokōji, come here! Hurry up!"

In the hospital, there were so many conflicts between his behavior and my cognition.

At that time in the bookstore, why did he say that?Why do you want to do that?

Regarding these doubts, Edogawa Ranpo didn't say a word to me, only talking about trivial things.

I was wondering, did he think that I would know sooner or later, just like the "Assassination of Mori Ogai" incident, I would definitely do something, so there is no need to tell me in detail.If that's the case, I probably won't be able to wait for the day he said it.

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"Ayanokōji, goodbye." Edogawa Ranpo, who was stuck at the door, said with a sad face.

I raised my head, and after glancing at his face, I looked at the upright Fukuzawa Yukichi next to him. I thought he might be severely controlled when he returned to the Butei Club, so I didn't want to do that. go back early.After all, he was in charge of him because of Fukuzawa Yukichi, and he had already run away from home twice, although he didn't succeed once.

"Well, there will be a period later." It was inconvenient for me to get up, so I just sat on the hospital bed and bowed.

"Ayanokōji-kun, I will definitely thank you for saving Ranpo this time." Fukuzawa Yukichi had already thanked me at the beginning, and now he is serious again when he leaves thank me.

"you are welcome."

I didn't take my gratitude to Fukuzawa Yukichi to heart.

Buteisha, to me, is just "obtaining information" or "helping with investigations".

These are things that ordinary customers can do with a little money, and I will not exchange "life" for them.In addition, what I really need is "Edogawa's wholehearted use for me", I need Edogawa's "power".However, Edogawa seems to have guessed my true intentions. From the first meeting to the present, he has strictly controlled the intelligence information, and at most he will only give some hints.

So, in the final analysis, Buteisha is actually just a tasteless existence to me.

Fukuzawa Yukichi said again: "Although our positions are different, if you need help, you can say it directly." Fukuzawa Yukichi seemed to see that I didn't take it seriously, so he handed me his business card directly.

"Thank you."

I don't know what to say, so just say thank you.

I put the business card on the table, watched the two of them leave together, and then continued to read the newspaper - the recent suicide news about someone lying on the train.The other party was actually not a big shot, but it just happened that the critics were discussing the high suicide rate in Japan, so this news was brought up.

While I was watching, Ranpo Edogawa knocked on my desk.So I looked up at him.

Edogawa pursed his lips at random, and took out the silver whistle hanging around his neck, hanging the whistle on my neck solemnly like a big man giving an award to an award-winning athlete.

"Are you going to pay me back?"

I looked at this shiny silver whistle, and felt a little inexplicable.

For many people, their memory ability only helps them remember some profound things, and over time, the feelings caused by these things will gradually disappear like froth, leaving only the last "label" ".It's like, when I did this, I felt very happy.

But because of my memory training.I remember everything, as long as I recall what happened at that time, the feeling at that time will also echo in my mind.I remember every moment when this silver whistle shone on the clothes on Edogawa Ranpo's chest.

"I'm just borrowing you for a while." Edogawa Ranpo hung the whistle behind my neck, and said triumphantly, "If you want to ask Ranpo-sama for help, just blow the whistle!"

"..."

To be honest, the whistle was given to him so that when he was bullied at school, he could ask other people for help.Later, after returning to Yokohama, the sound turned into a signal sound of "he saw me and asked me to pay attention to him".

In fact, the whistle does not work at all.

But if he refused, it would be too troublesome to argue with him.

I understood that he gave it back to me.

"I see."

After hearing what I said, Edogawa didn't know what to think, opened his mouth, and showed an angry expression: "If you don't use it, I will definitely be angry, and I won't talk to you in the future."

"I see."

I agreed, but Edogawa Luanbu still didn't move.

"what happened?"

Edogawa Ranpo hesitated for a while, then bent down, leaned closer to my face, and asked in a very low voice that could only be heard by the two of us: "... Ayanokōji, I have been thinking about it for a long time. How about being a Butei Club?"

"us?"

What do you mean by "We will be a Butei club with the president"?

"It's me and you. If I am Holmes, then you are my Watson. How about we live like that from now on?"

Edogawa's eyes sparkled.

"At that time, when we investigate the case, we can go all over the world, and we can eat delicacies from mountains and seas, delicacies from all over the world, isn't it great?"

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