When the Sand Sculpture Trial Comes to Yokohama

Now that the script of pretending to be a follower has been started, Minan Rinka probably has to stay in Fuyuki City for a few days.Therefore, after sending Matou Kariya home, she bought a set of regular uniforms at a supermarket that was still open late at night in Miyama Town, and replaced them with the Demon Slayer Squad uniforms with the huge character "Mie" written on the back.

At that time, the cashier at the supermarket saw the word "Mie" on Minan Rinhua's back, and gave her several hundred heart palpitation points.

After leaving the supermarket, Minan Rinka was planning to contact Edogawa Ranpo and Yosano Akiko, but before she took out her mobile phone, Ryunosuke Uyuu stopped her...

After hitting the tree, Yusheng Ryunosuke quickly made a judgment, that is, the prey he chose this time was a big mistake, the opponent was a hard bone, the kind he couldn't chew off at all.

But Yusheng Ryunosuke didn't give up.There was a seemingly gentle and harmless smile on his face that he often shows when facing women, and he raised his hands: "Don't be like this, Miss Sister, I don't mean anything malicious. I'm going to a friend nearby There is a party at home, and seeing you alone on the street, I just want to ask if you want to come and join me."

Hearing this, Minan Rinhua was slightly taken aback.

Are you really hesitant?Yusheng Ryunosuke licked his lips and laughed.

"Are you going to have a party?" Minan Linhua wondered, "What's in the party?"

"Well... just get together, drink some drinks, chat, dance and so on..." Yusheng Ryunosuke explained with a smile.

It's really chatting and dancing.It's just that the content of the chat is that he asks the victims how they want to die, and the dancing is dancing in the magic circle drawn by blood.

It doesn't matter if you can't beat Minan Rinka, he can still put medicine in the drink.

Here Usheng Ryunosuke thinks pretty beautifully, while Minan Rinka smiles over there.

"Dancing, right?" Minan Rinka said, "You still dance when you look like you can't turn around alone?"

The smile on Yusheng Ryunosuke's face disappeared immediately.Can you not mention one person?

[System prompt: Yusheng Ryunosuke's palpitation value +300]

"Tch." Seeing that the deception was unsuccessful, Ryunosuke Yu Sheng stood up, clutching his arms, and his face changed.He took a few steps back, turned around and wanted to leave, but was suddenly caught by Minan Rinhua by the collar.

"I think you just want to abduct women." Minan Rinka dragged Ryunosuke Ugyu by the collar, identified the direction, and walked towards the nearest police booth, "Would you like to sneak away? Did I allow you to slip away?" Just slip away..."

[System prompt: Yusheng Ryunosuke's palpitation value +500]

In the end, Rinka Minan dragged Ryunosuke Yusheng to a police booth two streets away, and shoved him to the patrolman sitting in the police booth in the name of harassing women.During this process, Yusheng Ryunosuke's palpitations never stopped...

***

After leaving the small police booth, Minan Rinka finally had time to take out her mobile phone and make a call to the Armed Detective Agency.

It was Doppo Kunikida who answered the phone.After the phone rang twice, he answered it. Obviously, after learning that Minan Rinka was also planning to go to Fuyuki City, he stayed up all night watching the phone until now.

"I have arrived in Fuyuki City, and I plan to contact Edogawa Ranpo and Yosano Akiko." Minan Rinka said, she only has the contact number of the Armed Detective Agency, and there is no individual member's method, "Can you help me?" Contact them? Tell me where they are, and I'll be right there."

"I contacted Mr. Ranpo once at around eight o'clock in the evening. At that time, he told me that they were going to have a meeting with the police on the serial murder case. During the meeting, all mobile phone signals will be blocked." Kunikida Doppo raised his hand and rubbed Rubbing his tired eyes, "It's midnight now? Why are you so anxious to find them?"

Rin Minan hesitated for a few seconds before explaining the reason: "Fuyuki City is no different than other regions. In the next period of time, a battle called the 'Holy Grail War' will start in Fuyuki City."

"Holy Grail War?" Kunikida Doppo was a little surprised, "Is that a war?"

"In terms of scale, I'm afraid it won't reach the level of a war, but it's hard to say how destructive it is." Minan Rinka recalled the insect swarm attack released by Matou Zouken when she first arrived in Fuyuki City, "In Fuyuki City There are many hidden 'magicians' who can use some kind of 'magic'. Their abilities are no worse than those with supernatural powers."

"Is that so?" Kunikida Doppo became alert, "Then the participants of the so-called 'Holy Grail War' are these 'magicians'?"

"It's not just them." Minan Rinka replied, "There are seven magicians participating in the Holy Grail War, and each of them will summon extremely powerful heroic spirits, sign a contract with them and form a team. These seven groups of people will During the Holy Grail War, kill each other, and the last surviving group can win....Moreover, Heroic Spirits are existences that ordinary magicians cannot match."

"So, Fuyuki City in the future will become extremely dangerous." Minan Rinka felt a little headache-after all, according to the standards of the Tokino Government, these are all tasks that the S-class Honmaru should handle. "I suggest that you should start from Get out here."

Kunikida Doppo on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time.

"I understand what you mean. But these have to be discussed after getting in touch with Mr. Ranpo." He whispered, "And Mr. Ranpo will definitely decide..."

……

"Ah? Let me go?" Edogawa Ranpo's squinted eyes almost hung up, and he looked obviously unhappy, "I won't go."

While talking, Edogawa Ranpo sat down on the swivel chair in the police office, lay down on an unknown desk, and began to stuff the snack corn sticks into his mouth.

Minan Rin fell silent for a while.

She worked so hard to come to the Fuyuki City Police Station, and waited for a long time for their meeting to end.Finally, when the two came out, Edogawa Ranpo just listened to a few words, and said willfully that he would never leave, and then expressed his resistance as if he wanted to take root in the police station.

"Mr. Ranpo's way of coping... is still a bit childish." Yosano Akiko stroked her bangs with some headaches, then turned to look at Minan Rinka, "Look at this..."

Minan Rinka stared at Edogawa Ranpo for a while, stretched out her hand, and the corn sticks that he had eaten halfway into her hand came into her hand...

This move of "snatching food with random mouth" can be described as fast.Edogawa Ranpo still had a half-eaten snack in his mouth, and lay there stunned.

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +100]

Edogawa paused for a while, raised his hand and fumbled in his pocket a few times, and found a piece of chocolate.He peeled off the tin foil, opened his mouth wide, and was about to stuff the chocolate into his mouth, when a flower appeared in front of his eyes.The chocolate to the mouth is gone again...

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +150]

"Are you finished?" The detective decided not to be idle, slapped the table and stood up, "Is the chocolate you snatched from my hand delicious?"

Minan Rinhua was taken aback.She just wanted Edogawa Ranpo to talk well, and returned the snacks to him after speaking, but he opened his mouth and asked if the chocolate was good.

So Minan Rinka stuffed the piece of chocolate into her mouth and chewed it a few times: "It's delicious."

Edogawa Ranpo was startled: He was just making a mockery, and Minan Rinka really ate his chocolate?

"Do you really eat it?" For a while, he began to feel sorry for his chocolate.

Minan Rinhua asked back: "Didn't you ask me if the food was good? How would I know if I didn't eat it?"

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +188]

"In short, Fuyuki City in the future will become a battlefield where extremely powerful heroic spirits kill each other. Neither of you have combat abilities, and it's too dangerous to stay here." Minan Rinka said, "I suggest you push Dismiss this case, go back to Yokohama first, and make plans after the Holy Grail War is over."

Edogawa Ranpo's expression was somewhat solemn.

"I will not leave Fuyuki City until this case is resolved." He insisted, "The mission agreed by the Armed Detective Agency must be completed, otherwise it will embarrass the president's face. What's more, in my role of 'super reasoning' Under the circumstances, the murderer will be caught immediately."

Minan Rinka didn't speak immediately.

Anyway, the members of the Armed Detective Agency were also her old acquaintances, and she didn't want any accidents to happen to the members.But she also knew that it was this kind of persistence that made the Armed Detective Agency, a small organization, famous in Yokohama, all the way to the present.

"Okay, I've said everything I need to say, you pay attention to safety, and you can call me if there is an emergency." Minan Rinka left her mobile phone number for the two, "Otherwise, if you lose your detective, Armed detective agencies have no 'detectives', only 'armed'."

"That's...'Armed Society?'" Yosano Akiko thought this name would work.

"You have such a good idea." Minan Rinka shook her head, "It will become 'an illegal armed organization that is running around in Yokohama'..."

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +200]

[System prompt: Yosano Akiko's palpitation value +500]

"By the way, you said that the murderer will be caught soon, right?" Minan Rinka was a little curious, "Have you already got a clue?"

"That's right. We will see the outcome before dawn." Edogawa Ranpo confidently tore open a bag of potato chips, "I have deduced the murderer's next crime location. The SWAT team is now on standby , once the murderer is caught, I will be notified."

"Okay, anyway, I don't have anything else to do, so I'll just wait here with you." Minan Rinka felt that she had to watch the two of them get on the Shinkansen back to Yokohama to feel at ease.

She sat in the Fuyuki City Police Station like this, and waited with Edogawa Ranpo and Yosano Akiko until dawn, and the SWAT team finished work and went home.

The moment they saw the special police team call it a day, both members of the Armed Detective Agency felt palpitated: Where is the agreed murderer?Why didn't anyone be caught?

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +666]

[System prompt: Yosano Akiko's palpitation value +300]

Minan Rinhua was also taken aback at the moment when the palpitation alarm sounded.

The palpitation value exchange system will only calculate the palpitation value caused by Minan Rinka.At this moment, Ranpo Edogawa and Akiko Yosano failed to catch the murderer, but the heart palpitations were assigned to Rinka Minan. What does this mean?

It was because of Xiao Hua's intervention that the two of them failed to catch the murderer!

At that moment, Minan Rinka suddenly realized something.

"I probably know the reason why the SWAT team failed to catch the murderer." She murmured solemnly, "I also know the identity of the murderer."

The other two were taken aback for a moment.Yosano Akiko quickly asked, "Why didn't we catch the murderer?"

Minan Rinhua was silent for a moment: "I seem to have interrupted the murderer's crime process and dragged him to the police booth to write a letter of guarantee..."

The murderer of the serial murder case was interrupted and dragged to the police booth to write a letter of guarantee?

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +233]

[System prompt: Yosano Akiko's palpitation value +310]

***

It wasn't until dawn that Ryunosuke Yusheng finished writing the pledge of "no longer harassing women" in front of the policeman, and came out of the small police booth.

Although there is only one policeman in the police booth, if he wants to, he can still kill the policeman and escape.But Yusheng Ryunosuke would not do such a stupid thing as attacking the police.It is precisely because of his caution that he can still get away with it after repeated crimes, and he has never even become a suspect of the police.

It's just that writing the review book ruined his original killing plan.At this moment, Ryunosuke Yusheng, who was walking home, felt that something was wrong with him.The hunger for an art made of blood made his throat dry and his skin itchy.

But at this time, the single mother whom he regarded as prey should have gotten up, washed and prepared. After a while, she will send her son to school and go to work herself.Before nightfall, he had no way to do anything to the mother and child again.

Thinking of this, Yusheng Ryunosuke couldn't help feeling a little sad.He returned to the small apartment he had rented in a daze, and lay on the bed without even changing his clothes.

An old book in his pocket fell down onto the bed along his body.Yusheng Ryunosuke picked up the book and flipped through it.

This is an old book he found from his old warehouse, which records the method of summoning followers with a magic circle.

After getting this book, every time Ryunosuke Yusheng commits a crime, he will draw this magic circle with the blood of the victim.At times he almost fell into the fancy that by doing so some demon would be conjured up to lift him out of his unenjoyable real life and bring him into a new world of delight.

The interruption of the plan made Yusheng Ryunosuke become impatient.He stared at the page with the magic circle, and quickly made up his mind. He took out the kitchen knife and pointed it at his arm.

The breath of blood gradually permeated.Ryunosuke Yusheng used his own blood to draw a beautiful magic circle on the bedroom floor.

"...full, full, full, full, full, five times in a cycle, but when it is full..." He slowly recited the spell for summoning until he read it to the end, and then forcefully Staring at the magic circle on the ground.

Faintly, Ryunosuke Usei seemed to hear the floor vibrating slightly.

Are you a follower?Is the follower about to appear?

Ryunosuke Yusheng tidied his hair and clothes with great anticipation, straightened his waist, and waited for the arrival of the servant.

In the next second, there was a loud bang from the direction of the apartment door, and the door was kicked open abruptly from the outside.A team of uniformed policemen poured into the small apartment with guns in their hands, aiming their muzzles at Ryunosuke Ubuyuki.

"Don't move, we are the police!" The leading police officer shouted.

Yusheng Ryunosuke was stunned.Dare to feel that the vibration of the floor just now was not the noise when the servant appeared, but the police stepped on it when they went upstairs! ?

[System prompt: Yusheng Ryunosuke's palpitation value +300]

Usheng Ryunosuke was taken away by the police in such a dejected manner.Until he got into the police car, he was still racking his brains to recall whether he acted wrong in the police box and was discovered by the patrolman.

He didn't know that he was exposed because he was following someone who shouldn't be...

After taking Ryunosuke Yusheng away, the police put a seal on the door of his apartment to collect evidence later.

As the door of the apartment was closed, the room was once again plunged into darkness.However, the darkness didn't last long - on the floor of the bedroom, the magic circle drawn with blood suddenly flickered with faint red light.

The vortex formed by lightning floated above the magic circle, and the objects touched by it instantly became scorched black.Soon, a misty white mist spread from the center of the magic circle, and in the mist, a huge figure slowly appeared.

"Dare to ask." The man who appeared in the magic circle closed his eyes tightly, and his voice changed slightly, "The summoner who called me, pursued me, and made me appear in the world with the rank of Caster, is that you..."

While speaking, he opened his protruding eyes, waiting for the answer from the Master——

There was no one around.

For a moment, Caster who was summoned was startled: Where is my Master?Where is my master! ?

[System prompt: Gilles de Lei's palpitation value +999]

[System prompt: Gilles de Lei's palpitation value +999]

[System prompt: Gilles de Lei's palpitation value +999]

***

After learning that the suspect Ryunosuke Usho was captured while drawing a magic circle in his rented apartment, Edogawa Ranpo became happy again.

"I'll just say it." He pressed the hat on his head triumphantly, "This is the speed of a detective!"

Minan Rinka also knew that Edogawa Ranpo was amazing in solving the case.Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly heard the announcement from the palpitation value exchange system.

[System prompt: Gilles de Lei's palpitation value +999]

[System prompt: Gilles de Lei's palpitation value +999]

[System prompt: Gilles de Lei's palpitation value +999]

Gilles de Ray?This is another name I have never heard of, and it is a foreign name.Minan Rin was a little puzzled for a while, and then felt that the name was a little familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere...

Suddenly, she remembered where she had seen the name Gilles de Ray: it was in the book "History of the World I"...

Gilles de Ray was a famous French marshal during the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France. He was born and died in the fifteenth century. It stands to reason that he had been dead for 500 years.

Now that Yusheng Ryunosuke was arrested, his name appeared in the palpitation value exchange system, what does this mean?Of course, it means that this guy was summoned as a heroic spirit, and the master is Ryunosuke Yusheng!

Thinking of the magic circle drawn by Ryunosuke Yusheng when he committed the crime, Minan Rinka's teeth became sore: "Go home at the speed of a famous detective. Let's go..."

"Eh?" Edogawa Ranpo turned around in surprise, "Why did you suddenly become so anxious? Could it be... the murderer who was captured just now has something to do with the 'Holy Grail War'?"

Minan Rinhua held her breath and said, "You are the only one who is smart, right? Are you the only one who can guess? If you are so capable, then guess what I am going to do next? Hehe..."

In the next half an hour, Minan Rinkati walked around Edogawa, ignoring his struggle, and forced him into the Shinkansen back to Yokohama...

[System prompt: Edogawa Ranbu palpitation value +600]

[System prompt: Yosano Akiko's palpitation value +454]

***

Once Ryunosuke Yusheng becomes the master, Edogawa Ranpo and Yosano Akiko who caught him in the trap are likely to suffer revenge.After sending the two of them back to Yokohama, Minan Rinka also breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, Edogawa Ranpo's task is to find the murderer by deduction, and how to catch the murderer is a matter for the Fuyuki City Police.Letting them withdraw at this point would not affect the reputation of the Armed Detective Agency.

After fighting Zouken Matou, Rinka Minan was sure that the magicians in Fuyuki City were not a strong enemy for her.But she has never fought a real heroic spirit, and it is still unclear where the strength of the heroic spirit is.

After dealing with the matter of Edogawa Ranpo and the two of them, Minan Rinka saw that the sky was bright, so she used the teleportation compass to return to Matou House.

Matou Kariya's bedroom is on the second floor.Minan Rinhua went up the stairs, went to his bedroom door and knocked.

Soon, there was a "come in" from the door.Apparently, Kariya Matou couldn't fall asleep after being sent back by Minan Rinka.

Minan Rinka turned the handle and opened the door.As soon as the door opened, she met Kariya Matou who was sitting at the desk in a daze.

The moment he saw Minan Rinka, Matou Kariya felt palpitations.

Can't you feel palpitations?When she left, Minan Rinka was still wearing the dark uniform of the Demon Slayer Squad with the huge character "Mie" written on the back.However, now, she has changed into casual clothes, and upon closer inspection she still looks pretty good, so it's not surprising to be walking on the street.

The point is, he never gave her money!Where did this suit come from?

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +144]

"Berserker, when did you change your clothes?" Kariya Matou asked in a daze.

Minan Rinhua was silent for a moment, and asked, "Did you give me any clothes?"

Matou Kariya instinctively shook his head.

"Then you still have the nerve to ask?" Minan Rinka was not very happy.She felt that the Master Matou Kariya was too incompetent. If she was really a heroic spirit, she would not even have to change her clothes after being summoned. She would only wear the same clothes from the beginning to the end of the Holy Grail War. This is a human being. Are you doing something?

[System prompt: Matou Kariya's palpitation value +180]